The Rise and Fall of Severe

In the glory years of Monchi, Severe had a more extensive starting network than anybody else. They do less business in Germany, say, not non- but less. And I think Monchi has struggled to recapture his magic of old. The market is far more saturated now. Everyone is looking in the same places at the same players. There's quality in that squad, but if you look through it, there's not a huge amount of talent there. This season seemed to really crystallise that if we talked about Severe what six months ago, we'd have said that Monchi was a fraud. It looked like none of the transfers had worked - and they were on