Totally ambivalent about this.
He's been gone quite a while now. He came back a different player from Euro 2016.
Thanks for your service, good luck for the future.
Next...
Its not the accuracy of his statements that is at issue, its everything he has left out.
And attendance or not does not validate or invalidate statements about how sh*t, dull and toothless we are currently.
Spin is under "S" in the same book.
Whoopee. Cue all the comments about how Puel is great, rotation is great, how we will go up the table.
This wasnt papering over the cracks. Not at all. No siree...
If you consider league position as the only way to measure progress, yes.
Looking back it seems to me we improved our position on the back of profiteering from our decent players, at the cost of any long term strategy and ambition
If youi say so, pal. All comes to nothing if we get relegated.
As soon as we lose EPL TV revenue all that pretty book balancing will soon come undone.
Or maybe we cut all salaries by 50% and expect the same level of motivation....