toontownman

Rafa is coming home baby... to Chorley FC.

Dummett will lead us to the promised land. And likely back up from the Championship too. Great performance at the weekend for someone out so long. It was a mistake to leave him on when he was clearly gassed. Every Lewis instead of Almiron would have made more sense.

Got heartbreak written all over this one. Is Kounde actually injured? See it's still reported Man City, Liverpool and Chelsea are fighting over buying him. They wont be letting both go, arguably will they let either go when they will be two points behind Real if they win their game in hand? If they are selling one, surely its Kounde for far more money? Both will likely fetch similar fee's in the summer too, if not more. Fingers crossed our offers are much more serious than the ones for Kounde.

Hard to tell with CM/DM. We have been linked with quite a few to be fair, just zero concrete bids reported. Certainly far more CM links than Left Back or Wingers. I feel like the rumours of us having a big marquee target in mind could be true. Could be they are waiting to be convinced to come by us getting the other targets in? Or we could just not be that arsed about getting a CM. lol PEA sent back to Arsenal from AFCON. He will be assessed by Arsenal club staff for recovery from Covid and the Heart Lesions found in the subsequent scan. If he gets fit again quickly those rumours might pick back up. Hopefully he is on the mend. Scary sounding stuff though.

He is flogging Lascelles and Schar tbh. "Not sure what you are laughing about Jonjo, you and Longstaff are next"

Chelsea the new club interested. Not sure if thats Reims/the agent trying to force the bids or us making him seem like a better buy with bigger clubs in for him!

Best choice would be to drop them both and put Fernandez in. He seems to be the only calm and rational CB we have.

Brett Emerton, manager of the National League North side, said "It would be nice to finally get him over the line, enough is enough."

Think there is lots in the pipeline but the sewage pipeline is blocked, currently the sewage is backing up into the house.

So Jones to Everton then. Rafa to replace him bahaha.

We either pay them what we want or move on. We can't be faffing around right now.

Another win. This time on the road. Still 5 points off Liverpool Feds in first but a game in hand.

As predicted he has played out of his skin for the new manager. Makes him look average again. We are probably starting to see the usual gradual decline into laziness. Desperately need to sign a DM so we can drop shelvey and play willock or almiron through the middle as AM, where they are most effective.

Guess rafas sacking means the end the longstaff exit talk. Maybe we can loan him somewhere. Scared we somehow don't seem to be worried about getting a couple of CMs in. Hopefully it will happen, it's just not been highlighted in the press as much as other positions.

He combined ok with trippier but it was like he was supposed to come inside and open up space for trippier. He works hard and gets stuck in but he comes across like a shitter but pacier Matt Ritchie. Think alot of it is to do with his role, whatever that is, probably not aided by the shite central midfield we have.

People are getting naturally and understandably jumpy given our predicament and how much staying up means to our swift progress as a club. I just can't see changing managers helping the situation at all regardless of who they bring in. While there are mistakes like keeping Dummett on a full game when he wasn't fit enough, It's the players letting Howe down imo. For the owners to put so much faith in Howe they have to give him the season at least, if not next year in the championship. He is still building "his team" and ethos admist unhelpful comments from leaders in the squad like Hayden about players not going to leave if they are pushed. The core of this club is rotten and needs gutting and replacing. It takes time in most new jobs though regardless of the industry. It was widely accepted he had an uphill battle with some saying impossible when he took over. This transfer window was and is everything and it's not his fault if we don't get what is needed in. I'm gutted we haven't shown the earlier progress continue in an offensive nature. The limitations and attitude of our spine has beaten any renewed confidence along with wretched refereeing/var. If we replace the midfield and central defence with leadership and quality, we still have a chance. It's a very awkward place to be buying players when it looks more likely we go down.

Just bring him in to help sort out the defence lol Denmark coach is odds on favourite. Why would he give up the world cup opportunity? Lampard and Rooney odds on behind! Reckon they are mad enough to do a Rooney/Big Dunc. Combo. Lampard would also jump on it. Might do enough this year with manager bounce to keep them up but would be rancid long term.

Fuck. Next week is going to be fun.

We are good at dragging teams to our level. It will be a shite game. They will still be all over us.

Poor rafa. Poor decision to go there to begin with. Be shocked if he isn't back here this time next season.

Fuck.

He wasn't alone today, especially in the first half. Everyone was over thinking everything when we had the ball. Any chance to attack quickly was ruined by dallying then passing sideways, backwards or simply passing to the opposition. I'm glad we played through trippier and Fraser, although the latter seems to have lost the ability to beat a man. We still rely too much ASM doing something magical. He left Dummett exposed pretty much all game and while Joe did a good job covering ground, he should have to.

Can we just join the Saudi league instead?

Just can't believe it's the same player that looked like fulfilling potential and pushing for and England call up under rafa. He is an absolute shambles and liability. He has lost his head. In a team we have needed our leaders to step up, players like him and Hayden have fallen to pieces, hidden or made things worse.

Find threads for half of our squad and repost. Ironic Benitez will probably end up managing them in the Championship.