Bravo was essential to what you see before you today, obviously the levels of quality and consistency were lacking but in fundamentally cemented the foundation to how pep wanted to play, ballsy as fuck
Nolito the same, an introduction to high press that served its purpose to the squad; this evolution was about example and playing proverbial chess, which is the whole philosophy of what we see today, a mechanism of a system, that can be the wrong part of the engine but the engineer upgrades the part…
These weren’t bad recruits, far from it, just not long term solutions to the well oiled machine..
As for Phillips, who knows, 99% said the same about Grealish with a season under his belt, how did that pan out?
Believe in the model as it’s the envy of world football!