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Arch and a glare from Marcelo Bielsa. How did that feel? His eyes boring into the back he aired. It's been glares for about a month and a half now. It's a slightly tense atmosphere in the

press room at the moment. And I think if you'll excuse the language, he's a bit sick of

our shit at the minute. Part of the problem I think has been that since the end of December,

and particularly since Neketia leaving and going back to Arsenal. It's just kind of been issue after issue that he's had to deal with and had to speak about

and kind of been pressed on repeatedly.

So Neketia going left the vacancy for a centre forward,

which obviously took quite a while to fill in January.

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