He told the Stick to Football podcast: "I felt we (coaching staff) had a very good rapport with the players, but there are always one or two in a squad that leak things because they are unhappy.
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"Being a manager, you play a game Saturday, Wednesday, Saturday, you sack about 14 players every game and the next morning you have to tell them they have another chance.
"There are only a certain amount of times you can say, "I'll give you that game, you've got a chance." In the end, they go sour, we had a big squad with too many players. If you have too many players, they get unhappy."