Gus Poyet

... it's really important.

I think also, I think obviously when we had, we were speaking with Sim during the week, Adam, he was saying, you know, they had Gus Poyet on obviously, and Gus was suffering with one, they Ramos, so they two points from eight.

And I think what he was saying is that, you know, you can give a lot of positive messaging to players, but sometimes if you're not getting results or a result, suddenly the group does unfortunately start to maybe not so much believe in what is being asked of them by the manager, by the coaching staff.

And by the fact they got something from that game, I will come back to it, the celebrations at the end there, Tonali running to De Zerbi.

And obviously as fans we need to see us winning games as well.

Yeah, and, you know, we were speaking on the channel to Gus Poyet last week.

He, um, called in and he was just saying, "Look, at the end of the day you can play as well as you want and you can see positive signs, but the longer you go-

Yeah

We'll, we'll have him from Brighton." Are, are they set up where that position is, of course it's important, it's the, it's the head coach, but that's, they're, they've got a list of people in a drawer who say, "Well, they would suit exactly how we want to play with the players we've got," and it's, "Right, let's just go down that list and, and appoint them." I mean, i- is that how Brighton works?

I mean, in my lifetime of managers, we've normally upgraded nearly every year, right? I think that we had one headache before, which was Gus Poyet, who was unbelievable, right? Absolutely loved Gus, and I'll never forget the stuff he did for the club.

Um, and when-

League Cup winner with Sunderland, by the way, if Mun said he was-

[laughs]

In fact, that's just unlocked a massive memory because you signed quite a lot.

Then you got Will Buckley, Liam Bridcutt, and Gus Poyet-

Yeah

... is, is Sunderland in, in 2014.

And even Gus Poyet, who was manager at the time, has been saying that he would have a party if they [laughs] managed to win the League Cup or at least that, that was handed down to them.

W- where do you kind of, uh, stand on that? And where do you stand overall on, on the impact it's had on the other four teams?

Yeah.

And then occasionally his eyes would just m- lock with yours and you'd be like, "Fuck." [laughs] Um, like, "Why is he, why is he giving me a black look? What have I done wrong here?" Um, so as much as I enjoyed that, it was quite intimidating sometimes actually doing that.

Um, where like by the time I got to Gus Poyet he was just so nice.

Um-

Best guy ever.

It probably h- helped, I think.

Probably Di Canio took that long to answer questions was when they decided to change it.

So fortunately by the time I got to Gus Poyet and then, uh, some bloke called David Moyes, um, I just sat in with Nick at the end and we didn't even watch the, the, the written stuff.

So that was a lot more of a relaxed environment, just letting Nick take ownership of that and then I'd pop in with a couple of questions at the end.