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but it seems every other team is

The reason I was pleased when Silva was appointed was because his sides tended to play a pressing game which means the players have to be fit

However a mixture of our poor recruitment over the years plus the injuries, especially in centre midfield, and the loss of Gueye who was never replaced meant that we never built on Silva's 1st season

The downside of appointing Ancelotti was that he has always worked with very good players and maybe the hard working was never needed
The upside was that he would attract better players
However our players aren't good enough to do that

Player for player I'm not sure we would take one of the Leeds players but they outplayed us because they outrun and outpressed us - there are no excuses for that

We are now only playing one game a week yet we look like we are running in treacle

Anyone who watched the grand final on Friday evening may be surprised that the majority of players on show are on less in a year than most of our players are on in a week yet those guys are seriously fit

Leeds man of the match Philips could hardly find the energy to speak even 5 minutes after the match - thats what I want to see in our players