Possibly

because he was not yet fit enough or not yet defensively or tactically aware enough or not yet happily settled in this country or not yet strong enough or not yet settled into a team structure that Wagner wanted to build or not yet accustomed to the speed of English football or frankly, about a million other perfectly sensible things that one could idly speculate about, but none of us know ...

Posted By: paulg, Feb 7, 12:31:32