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One thing that is universally damaging in dressing rooms, on training fields and within matches is the covert or overt sense that teammates feel that they don't belong here, that they are above this.

Relegation can easily engender this sense of entitlement, as can missing out on a prospective transfer.

Brady (say) :'Club turned down £15m Premier offer for me after brilliant Euros. They only paid £7m for me....'

Olsson (say): 'Club turned down £3.5m Premier offer for me. I've only got a year left on my contract. I'll engineer my next move now'

Klose (say): ' we're losing, but I'll do something that shows I'm much better than this level'

Tettey (say): 'I'll run around and show the crowd how busy I am, I could play at a much higher level (even though I would help the team more by standing still). I don't need to work on my passing technique at my age'

Alex Neil (say): 'Why don't they want it like I do? Why doesn't it hurt them enough?'

Players will have to now show on the pitch that these feelings - which other sport in the dressing room will be attributing to them - are not fair....

Alex Neil will have to find an answer to his own question and quickly...it is not rhetorical.

Posted By: MIKEWALKER, Nov 1, 11:14:10