pretty much

"I've been there when the road was paved and I've been here today when it's pretty much paved for the next generation."

In fact, ever since that 2024 winter of discontent, news conferences, articles and the narrative of pretty much every game they have played has been dominated by what had gone so badly wrong before.

"It looks as though Christian is ringing up pretty much every team owner at the moment," said Cowell.

"It has been a solid start, rather than like the last time we went up, under Marcelo Bielsa in 2020, and it was a goal bonanza at both ends pretty much every game," he added.

"We are just in a better place coming from about eight, nine months ago in Australia when we were feeling pretty low as a side. I think from that we're pretty much chalk and cheese."