Marvin said:
LoveCity said:
Pellegrini in August:
"I said from the beginning my teams never play with names, they play with performance."
He's simply being a man of his word. More ruthless coaches would have dropped Joe by now. But Joe can bounce back if his mentality is strong.
I'd have kept him in the team for 2-3 more games in the hope that the media focus would move somewhere else
As the long as Hart keeps making mistakes, especially ones which cost us games, he will be under the media spotlight. On top of that he's England's number 1, so there will always be media interest in him.
Dropping Hart isn't a knee jerk reaction to one bad game or a couple of mistakes. Nor is it a reaction to sensationalism in the press.
He's lost his place because of a season long decline in his performances added to a series of costly schoolboy errors, in which he has cost the team valuable points.
We've kept faith with him and kept him in the firing line long enough, and it clearly hasn't worked. He's continued to regress and the only option open to us right now is to drop him.