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1qa2ws · 2nd July 2006, 13:05

No manager should ever get the wage Sven got. Why he is so sought after I do not know.

Friendlies are the worst type of games, but he made them even more pointless. Having a look at a player for 45 mins in the wrong position or in a team full of inexperience before dragging him off and then putting another six players on for a second half.

If friendlies are for any purpose they're for trying a new player or two in their proper position alongside regulars or trying a new formation. He learnt nothing from them.

Was he ever going to use Walcott? No. All this 'He's something different, the other teams won't know about him.' They still don't know about him because you didn't play him. The inclusion of Jenas irritates me just as much as there was never any chance of him playing either.

You look at the areas where we are strongest and you have to say that at centre-half we have a lot of depth. Terry, Ferdinand, Campbell, Carragher, King, who didn't make it. We should have been trying out 3 at the back in friendlies.

We all knew it and said at the time that his lack of strikers was a big mistake and so it's proved.

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1qa2ws Gold Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 3,325	Re: Svens press conference. No manager should ever get the wage Sven got. Why he is so sought after I do not know. Friendlies are the worst type of games, but he made them even more pointless. Having a look at a player for 45 mins in the wrong position or in a team full of inexperience before dragging him off and then putting another six players on for a second half. If friendlies are for any purpose they're for trying a new player or two in their proper position alongside regulars or trying a new formation. He learnt nothing from them. Was he ever going to use Walcott? No. All this 'He's something different, the other teams won't know about him.' They still don't know about him because you didn't play him. The inclusion of Jenas irritates me just as much as there was never any chance of him playing either. You look at the areas where we are strongest and you have to say that at centre-half we have a lot of depth. Terry, Ferdinand, Campbell, Carragher, King, who didn't make it. We should have been trying out 3 at the back in friendlies. We all knew it and said at the time that his lack of strikers was a big mistake and so it's proved. __________________ Think differently.