The College Dropout

Fantastic atmosphere.

Been watching the City game 10 minutes. Seen about 5 chances (some for Huddersfield). There will be goals here eventually. Nice game. Don't have Aguero, KDB or Otamendi in my FF which a lot of people seem to have. Hoping for a Sane goal and Huddersfield to score.

We can’t cope with injuries and suspensions. In midfield I think Shelvey and Ritchie need to taken out but Who would come in? Likewise in defence Lejeune and Manquillo need dropping. It’s only upfront where we have limited options. Mitro needs a start.

Few players in their prime in that team. A pretty old side. On one hand... anyone could do better than Unsy. But you look at that defence, it's old as fuck. Midfield, zero character. Actually have some decent options outwide on paper but it's been a long time since Miralles or Lennon played well. Luqman is young. Slow 10's and no strikers. If the new man will be given significant funds then I can see Dyche or Silva joining. But if I were either of them I would wait until the summer. See how high they can finish with their teams.

Fair. Although i've seen our signings as players to simply keep us up rather than pushing up the league. Down to transfer restrictions rather than Rafa's mentality.

Unless a Man Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal type team I don't enjoy teams being so pathetic. Unless they're playing us.

what is this based on?

We play wba Tuesday. Not much will have changed in a week. Scared of a new manager bounce. They didn't even beat West Ham at home.

We've got a lot of our rivals at home to go. Everton, Brighton, Swansea, (Burnley), Leicester, Southampton, Huddersfield, West Brom. You would like to think there are at least 14 points there. You would like to think we could pick up another 12 points from the remaining 17 odd games. Which would get us 40 points and probably not in prolonged danger of going down. When you start thinking "well we can get to 38 points if results go our way", then we're in massive danger. At the moment, i'm not there yet. We do need to stop the rot asap though.

Really wish we caught WBA & Everton in recent weeks.

Perhaps. That was a strange one tbh. We were looking solid. I think he dropped a massive rick against Liverpool but Elliot made a good save 1v1 but seemingly Rafa dropped him for that. Then Lejeune went on to drop his own clanger against Southampton. Now we have them playing together and they look awful. Lascelles seems way less error prone then them both in terms of clangers. And seems to organise the defence much better - a real leader, a calming influence. Yesterday was the first time in a long time we've looked a shambles defensively. Need to go back to being tough to beat. Starting with midfielders that can run and provide protection.

Not sure why he hasn't been playing considering Shane Long has been playing lots of games for them Injured?

These have given up. Unsworth needs to go asap. Bring Pardew in or something, these are absolutely dead. It's Carver-esque out there. Everyone stopped playing except you know... the Southampton players.

Shouldn't be a guaranteed starter if we only play with 2 cm's. Sometimes we'll need the legs of Merino & Hayden.

Boufal very honest there. Situation like that I can understand him taking a fall.

Aye there’s seemingly an aversion to calling it as you see it on here.

Cleverley and Doucore ran rings around him and Diame.

Among the many errors for the 3rd... his was probably the worst. No mans land. Only 1 player to pick up.. doesn't pick him up. He and Lejeune are awful together.

Willing to give him time but let's be honest.... he looks.. bad at defending.

LB, CB, CM i'd have him somewhere starting.

He looks a professional football in terms of general skill/ability. But in practice, defending, attacking, his pap. Defending is absolutely awful. Ineffective in attack.

Btw watford looked a canny team.

Would say Barcelona is even more "touristy" than anything in the PL. Think Man U and certainly Liverpool would sell out their stadiums every week without tourists. Barca wouldn't. Saw them against Valencia a few years back, 80% full tops.

Been awful for some time now

Does he look a good defender? Someone that senses danger and stops it from developing?