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Yep. I do think that Pulis will be a lot better than Irvine at getting the best out of the incredibly limited first-team we have, and sticking Claudio Yacob in is a masterstroke from TP which always eluded Irvine, but all the same, this for me finally destroys the myth of the "top-half squad". I don't doubt that the players we acquired last summer have pedigree. Scott Sinclair and Nicolas Anelka had pedigree, too. They also had attitude problems a mile wide, and didn't give a toss about playing for our team.

The crucial thing now is to buy well this window.