Ruthless: Trapattoni replaced Foley with McShane

The Fulham defender said: 'Anybody would be down when you get that news. You would be inhuman not to feel some sort of remorse about it.

'We're a very tight squad and so that makes this even tougher because we've been together for a long time and we are really close. It's one of our friends in there who has been let go and it's difficult to take.

'Stuff like this does bring you closer together because you kind of realise how fragile the whole thing is. Something like this can change the dynamics of things, but we are a really really close team and we all get on so well together.'

Trapattoni gave his players a day off in Montecatini yesterday after a comfortable work-out and 5-0 win over a Tuscan Select XI on Tuesday evening.

The majority of the group played golf at a nearby course, while some took in the sights in the sunshine in the Tuscany countryside.

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