Steve black has proved pretty fucking successful in his career as well as in his talking and speech stuff. I'm not going to sit here and give any benefit of the doubt to these spineless little losers we have as our players.
Will agree, 1 hour long speech doesn't make sense either
Given up on Sissoko?
No. I actually wouldn't be opposed to playing him next to a Capoue style DCM who was excellent at Toulouse with Moussa. Someone who's big, quick and can cover correctly, then sure would be great. But in this form and team I don't see how he works.
Honestly the team should basically be set up like this (when fit) if we could ever make the right moves, which again, is not likely ever to happen.
GK: New GK or Krul
RB: Janmaat
CB1: New CB
CB2: Mbemba
LB: New LB
CM1: New CM
CM2: New CM
ACM: Wijnaldum / Perez / De Jong
LW: New LW or Perez
CF: Mitrovic / New CF
RW: New RW or Perez
4-3-3 with Wijnaldum playing in the #10 role and nothing else (shame, as I was hoping he'd be able to be a proper CM) and we need 2 genuine wingers with pace who actually play the wing and can cross the fucking ball.
We need to fix the spine + add wingers, man. We have no width or threat or ability to create and take advantage of our CF or the Attacking Midfielders getting balls into the box.
GK, CB1, CM1, LB, LW, RW. All need to basically be signed. Tall order.
Sign Charlie Austin, fork out a shed for Shelvey, sign a CB to replace Colo who isn't slow and weak as piss, and replace the cunt in Goal and we're probably saving relegation. It actually is that simple.
I f***ing miss Freddie Shepherd ffs. I'm glad Sir John sold to Ashley. For all the brilliant things he did in the past, I'll forever be grateful for - ESP every thing I've read from the Keegan books, but f***ing can't stomach he sold the club to Ashley. Hindsight I'm sure...but still.