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22nd August 2015
12:01pm BST

"It's certainly not the Premier League, but it is striving for that and hopefully one day it will get there. It is still a level down for me, but the level has surprised me," he said. "I think if we were full strength, we could compete against more than half of the Premier League on a one-on-one fixture. That gives an ideal of the level. "I think we would still struggle against the top six sides. But we would be a match for a lot of the teams. That's just trying to get the people back home to gauge the level. So it has surprised me and it is better than I thought."We think Mark Hughes' Stokealona would have a thing or two to say about that. H/t to SkySports
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