All the extra unnecessary credit that Fraudiola gets also annoys me. He buys incredibly expensive players and when they play well he gets credit for improving them. As if they were not going to get better in their previous teams. In Foden's case the pundits often refer to how clever his 'nurturing' was, and how mistaken other people were saying he should have gone on loan. Fact is that Foden is a special talent and he could easily have been playing in the PL a couple of seasons before he started to at Citeh. Whether he is better now having not had those PL games (but with the special Fraudiola training) compared to the level he would have been at is arguable. It is most certainly not a foregone conclusion that he is better having stayed at Citeh. But there's this mystique about Fraudiola that probably wouldn't be there if he had to manage, say, Burnley. But surely (1) the bestest manager ever could manage any team and (2) the bestest manager ever plus one of the biggest budgets ever might have won a few Champions Leagues?
