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I start to wonder whether Eddie has lost the dressing room

No way we will lose this match right? It’s a relegation fighter team in Championship. No way. We are struggling but no way we will lose this game

Howe will start the strongest eleven available. I fully expect Willock to start.

It doesn’t really that matter who the owner is to a youngster at 16 or 17. If that means more first team minutes and higher chance to break out, they probably welcome that. And Ollie Harrison left us after the takeover. Just a few months ago.

It’s for both, keeping your core players fresh for the remaining games, and give experience to the youngsters so they can really step up when needed. It’s simple long-term squad planning. It’s something Howe should have done regularly, not just this season, not just during injury crisis. And as I said, the problem probably stems deeper than just the manager. It’s the club as a whole. A very simple question, why would Bobby Clark get a guaranteed first team develop path in Liverpool, by that time a ECL winner, but not something similar here? Surely the competition in Liverpool is much more intensive and Bobby should get his chance here for long? People always say the youngsters aren’t good enough so we shouldn’t play. You reap what you sow. If they can only getting minutes when they are as good as Owen at 18, or Miley at 17, then those late bloomers really should go elsewhere. We simply will not “develop” them. We just give minutes to the best eleven.

We all know Howe won’t play any youngsters in the final. A proper excuse is Liverpools youth are much better than ours so Klopp can use them but we can’t. and then last week I just know we let go a 16 years old young kid midfielder to Chelsea who just made the bench for their first team squad and last night Bobby Clark, who left us 2 year ago, was shining for Liverpool. fucking hell. I ain’t targeting Howe, I I am targeting probably the club as a whole, for many years, that we did not do enough for protecting, developing and giving youngsters promise to stay in our club. Bobby Clark made the right decision, and this final would just encourage the upcoming Bobby Clark to do the same

Not that I want him to go, I want him to continue tbh, but people should understand that we are very likely to finish around 10-15 this season. I really ain’t sure what PIF would do by then.

it’s hilarious to me as apparently Ashworth didn’t tell him about the garden leave clause, hence such silly response. He might really be told that just pay 5m compensation and he could have Dan immediately Probably a trap setting up by Ashworth lol

I would rather him sitting out three more games.

Sounds like it will be compensation + 6-12months garden leave

Fucking hell. So we let go a youth international midfielder to Chelsea for nothing, good enough to sit on their bench, and then agreed to pay Chelsea 28m for a similar player that the manager has no interest or no trust to play even when we are having injury crisis Jesus fucking christ

Yea unreasonably low. We should ask for at least 30m.

FA Cup 3 days later?

Exactly the type of game that we should give our tired legs a rest which we all know Eddie won’t. Same starting eleven again, including Burn

Bro seriously we won’t be getting top7 finish this season if we continue like this. Look at the schedule - I genuinely expect us to finish around 9-10. Some would accept a top 10 finish, some would not. And, as some has suggested, PIF might regard this as a failure and decide to sack Howe. It’s really not that remote. No matter what, Howe need to sort the defence out asap.

Hall?

To be fair if we do appoint a new Director, say Edwards, he might have his own preference / connection of manager. This might really affect Howe’s position

Considering it’s Luton Forest and Bournemouth, with two of them our home game, it’s fucking poor. No question for that.

Oh come on Bournemouth is a good side, a point would be an acceptable result, we rarely get good results against them anyway My prediction for tomorrows posts here

Is this the third game that Burn got subbed by Tino after fucked up?

Dub should be able to save that

Might as well give Joe White a try. Sub Miggy off.

WTF Miggy. Even I can shoot better than that

he is not the same player after injury

Burn again