Kanj

Does Havertz not count?

think it was more to do with our insane energy drink cup run last season + CL mate.

want salford city or harrowgate at home

I'd play the same starting 11 as we did versus Palace but I'd 100% have Joelinton, Willock and Hall on the left side to deal with Mo. I'd have Gordon, Bruno, Tino on the ride side to deal with Diaz. Tonali central in the holding role.

this is the match you do that mad back 5/3 thing or whatever he did when we beat spurs last few times

Guys act like this doesn’t happen in football or a manger doesn’t have some tough times. Or players don’t put it in the back of the nyettttt every time they play. We’re not consistent, we haven’t signed a single first team starter in 2 windows, our DOF left in that period, a new one came in, and our asset managers also have left. We’re hiring a new CEO now. Lots of noise around the club. Tons to sort out. YOU don’t get consistency all the time when you’re chopping and changing key players in an organization, and it applies to board, corporate, scouting, coaching.

There is a major issue with short term ism in football. I do not want that to be our club. Unless we’re flirting with bottom 14th place it’s really hard to blame Eddie for all of the worlds problems when we haven’t made a single major signing in 2 transfer windows to improve our starting 11. Is he deserving of criticism? Yes. All of those involved with the club need some of it. We seem to have lost the momentum this summer when we should have pushed on. But good, it’s time we all grew up a bit. Shit Halle s man. And anyone sitting here spending time arguing otherwise need to chill. I’m backing Eddie who deserves all of that whilst we have armchair experts on the internet (me included) thinking we have all the solutions. Fuck knows how to solve it. I assume the experts at our club will sort it out. Players need to be held accountable too. and for the millionth fucking time, it’s not always the manager, if we lose it always seems to be his and only his fault but if we win it’s a toss up between the individual player or him. Perhaps it’s both, perhaps it’s execution of the plan? Context matters. Patience too. Fearing exits of our gems when we don’t make Europe misses the key point, those gems are failing us and they aren’t executing. As adult humans with brains here surely you can see that part too?

Cunha as a 10 would be perfect for Tonali and Bruno. Often plays first time, loves left channel, and is a ball carrier who has an eye for pass and goal.

Miss this talented cunt

It’s ok, we’ll figure it out.

I’ve always been dumbfounded by our lack of simply taking pops at goal like

Got a busy few months anyway

Im sure they are told if they feel any pain they need to come off

Issue is that city began all of that before the current rules came into play. They also did that in LIBOR low interest rate world. They did all that when infrastructure was far cheaper than it is now. Simply can not compare it apples to apples anymore. No deal now compares to even caciedo and Enzo or coutinho and our Bruno. It’s what I’ve been trying to say about business side here for ages. Cost of doing biz is radically different now v pre 2020 and that’s equity credit and debt markets.

no issue at all mate. Thanks for the apology. I’m with you too. Super frustrated as we aren’t able to kick on. Inevitably we have differing opinions and approaches on how to kick on and thats 100% fair. Nobody will have the same approach.

Nixon has been scouting him since his Ajax days apparently. Think the club see him as the future captain.

Because Arma tried to flick the ball and missed. He is deemed to have been off. lol. Fuck off football. @Conjo this is the shit I get super annoyed with mate. Brighton prob will score and win this now.

But I take your points mate, I really do and I get it. Just a weird and shit situation we are in and it sucks. Really is anti competitive and not fun.

I’m not living in cloud cuckoo land. The commercial income thing doesn’t have to be all related party though. So that’s a knock I always have had with current corporate team. and like I’ve said before and you ignored, we’re really not in a sellers market anymore given the cost of debt and capital. It’s why all these fees have died off unless you’re a sovereign, o wait.

Longstaff def getting 0

you’re prob right. While I know we are one of the most fouled teams I feel like we get fucked by flash points a lot and it feels a lot like injustice.

I’m sure both Mitchell and Howe don’t want Marcus.

Did you har har har when Wilson didn’t get a penalty? Or when we don’t get blatant fouls in the middle of the pitch? That change momentum or run of play. Do you sit rooting against us then? You clearly don’t watch any other sports then. See LeBron James. Patrick Mahomes. And don’t even say it doesn’t apply to football. Bias in referees sadly happens far too often in sports. Remember the dog awful thread we got here? Posting that fucking screen is hilarious. Jsut saw Liverpool get two pens this very week. to you.

probably because Botman, lascelles were hurt and needed a free CB. Lloyd playing awful corner coverage worse than Laurent Charvet wasn’t in anyone’s consideration there.

I don’t want to be Brentford or Brighton. I assume most dont want it either. Our owners don’t want that either. I don’t want to be a team who signs a million regens and funds more regens to sell off. And when life is good keep selling off. When the fans clap off a 7th or 15th season the same. When the manager is made to be poached. Good biz model. Not my pref. I do not give a single fuck about the fee or wages. I want the players to perform. If they do the rest will work itself out. On pitch success will help yield the business returns. And no, it’s not that. It has never been about that. It’s still a revenue issue. And it’s beyond our control now. Should we sell better yes. But this whole notion of selling of selling isak to fund a squad rebuild is so fucking insane to me. It’s so easier said than done. Everyone here arm chairing player trading. It’s an issue for every club. People tend to trade their youth or middling middle ground players who they either acquired for cheap or free. Big money signings don’t generally get big money moves becuase they are pins for the growth of the internal ambitions. Coutinho at 8.5m to Liverpool to what he left for was once in generation stuff. Caciedo same. Enzo same.