Kanji

Actually thought same. Lascelles seems to be having a word with him as he’s got such a different attitude. Could be some Rafa man management in that too.

Always had most confidence in the partnership in defense between Ritchie and Yedlin and yet last 2 matches they seem very poor via either one covering 2 men or not marking. Clark ball watching on their first goal was infuriating!

Nah, think that’s too simply put. Needs a full match but has to be with Merino.

Why did Joselu do that?

Nobody in the world stops that effort if it's on target This.

Well done by Darlow on the one he came out for - had the Rondon shot gone in, not a human being can save that one.

Lejeune doing FKs

1-3. Ayoze, Merino, Joselu

Happy to see Darlow in, hopefully when called upon he'll make some great saves and command the box better than Elliot has.

HTL let's go! Need 3 massive points tonight.

to Darlow, Mbemba, Merino, Ayoze

Fucking Joselu survives

Should be dropping Ritchie, Joselu, Manquillo at minimum IMO.

Elliot Yedlin Lejeune Clark Mbemba Hayden Merino Murphy Ayoze Ritchie Mitro or Elliot Yedlin Lejeune Clark Gamez Hayden Merino Murphy Ayoze Ritchie Gayle

He's out man.

Sean, he is not smiling because we've lost 4 matches in a row mate.

No exclusivity yet, you're not mistaken, as far as I've read. PCP wouldn't be upset if Ashley was talking to other groups too, it's absolutely normal business to do that.

You could have saved 5m on Joselu and kept Murphy, who was probably better. We flogged plenty of players,have plenty on loan and released and had many leave for free,surley we made a few quid. Was the cash from promotion not that much? How the f*** is a club with gates 2 times plus, not generating enough to compete with Brighton and Huddersfield. I thought it was fairly obvious that Ashley's cronies (Barnes now) who control the cash are only spending literally what we have sitting in the account and we're not utilizing any cash facilities (like a line of credit or loan from a bank) to pay for transfers or structure deals that include payments of fees in installments. Rafa's annoyance is that he's forced to only spend money that is in the account, and the TV money comes in installments throughout a season. Without looking at their respective cash situations, can only assume Brighton and Huddersfield used some sort of cash facility (Line of Credit? Loan?) and paid for transfers with that or scheduled to pay them later via installments with interest or etc to the selling club. They went above and beyond and are spending and doing whatever it takes to be successful ASAP and Ashley has instructed Barnes to go bare bones, spend only what we have in the accounts and don't go over that. We're not able to compete with Brighton and Huddersfield in the transfer markets right now because those clubs are doing whatever it takes to spend money (even money that is months away) to sign players and will pay agents, etc to get s*** done. We're not and it's costing us. To boil it down, if we get 100m for TV deal paid 4x in a season, we're only spending whatever installment is wired into our account. Brighton and Huddersfield are spending that 100m up front by obtaining and paying for financing to make sure they get it done.

We're not scoring the 1 or 2 chances we create a game because our strikers are on the whole, just not simply good enough. The ones that are getting more time on the pitch are not performing, they should be dropped for whoever else is on the bench who can try and shake things up and maybe play into some decent form.

Would even throw Ayoze as the main striker and buff up central midfield with Shelvey to be honest. Merino slightly more advanced.

Agree Conjo

Wow Mole.

Elliot, Yedlin, Lejeune, Clark, Gamez/Mbemba, Hayden, Merino, Ayoze, Murphy, Ritchie, Mitro would be my 11 in a 4-2-3-1

We could do with a win tomorrow, like, it’s been a depressing few weeks supporting this club with all this fucking losing