Ok our squad isnt the best on paper.
You'd have to be the most optimistic fan on earth to look at our squad and go "yeah, thats a top 6 squad all day long".
It isnt, there are to many average players who wouldn't get near the better Championship squads 1st 11s.
Players who nobody else really wants from a higher level, otherwise they wouldn't be here, money talks, with 1 or 2 exceptions the players who have been here 2 3 4 years are here because nobody wanted to take them.
However!!!!!
The man that matters most is the bespectacled Argentinian in the dugout.
Read a quote today from France international goalkeeper and Marseille captain Steve Mandanda, “he made almost everyone in this group of players progress”.
And that is what we have to believe in.
That Marcelo Bielsa can somehow find that extra 20% from every player in that squad.
When he arrived there was a theory that he was being appointed with the main aim of improving what was mainly here.
That is clearly the hope.
We are relying on this eccentric, respected, astute, obsessive, legendary coach to squeeze more out of the core of the squad then his predecessors managed.
I have doubts about that in all honesty, not sure it is possible with some of them.
But then Thomas Christiansen, despite what has been said since.
He had that squad in and around the playoffs during his entire spell in charge.
If TC can do it then Bielsa definitely has a chance.
Our squad isnt the best on paper . . . Luckily football isnt played on paper.
In Marcelo We Trust
