Given our poor midfield pairings, it isn't a surprise tbh. Losing the likes of Sissoko, Mascherano, Alonso and replacing them with Poulsen and Meireles (who doesn't even play there anymore.. :S ) Wonder if there's any proof that Roy was a choice made by the players (read Carragher and maybe Gerrard) as opposed to a Pellegrini. I know we were given the manager should have English experience reason, given the technical ability of both managers in question, it should have been a simple decision, unless the players didn't want another foreigner. IF this is true, I dont care who it is, they need to go.