Manuel Pellegrini is not a ranter or raver, nor will anything have escaped into the public domain as to what he may or may not have said during the half time break on Wednesday night.
There have been some ludicrous suggestions touted publicly this morning that he turned the air blue and left the squad in no doubt of his feelings.
Well, given that the only people in the dressing room were the players, himself and chosen members of his backroom staff nobody with half a brain is going to swallow that one.
It’s not his style, methodology or within his football compass – Pellegrini is not Ian Holloway or Harry Redknapp so I think we can assume that, whilst making his feelings known, he did so in his normal laid back manner.
One thing I am going to be very interested to see is the squad for tomorrow and whether Nathan Holland gets included as he will no doubt have taken a big confidence knock given the result after making a fine opening to the game
He was the one threat in the opening stages from all I’ve been told and seen and that his call up should end in such a dramatic defeat is seriously bad luck for the lad.
Pellegrini can do him big favour by including him in the squad for Bournemouth to demonstrate that the Oxford experience is not going to affect his immediate future .
There’s a lot of Felipe Anderson about the fella at times so hopefully the baby won’t be thrown out with the bath water.
Your right Hugh, Pellegrini should not make him a scapegoat. If he’s not included in the squad and on the bench I feel it will not only send a message to Holland but the U23’s team as well. They are playing superbly at the moment and need to see a path of their progress.
How do they stay motivated if they see Holland dumped back into the U23’s when senior so called pro’s have let the club down again.
Both Holland and Coventry should be on the bench instead of Sanchez and Snodgrass .
I would like Pellegrini to have some balls and send a message out to the whole club by dropping underperforming players.