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It's takes some going to use a loss, away at Arsenal, as further evidence that Eddie can't turn it around. We played well, and with a better front 3 we take something out of the game, imo.

And he acknowledges that and say he owns that decision. Has to set it right in the summer.

Wissa was the Wilson replacement. He's not worked out at all. Considering how good he was at Brentford, it's been hugely disappointing. Considering we had to overpay for him as well. And the Isak argument isn't exactly weak, he was arguably the best striker in Europe, it boils down to, would we have more or less points if we adequately replaced him?

His replacements hasn't really worked out have they. We didn't expect to have to replace him, and the more suitable players moved elsewhere. We gambled on Woltemade.

I would say after this summer window.

Might be something in that. His cameo's have looked better recently.

I mean.. we are closer to 7th than 18th.

He wanted numerous players that we didn't get. And I'm pretty sure it's more complicated process than what you're making out. PIF have a process driven approach to any decisions that are made. Hence the snail like pace.

Transfer windows are very important. It locks your squad in for the forthcoming season, our struggles are due to it. We have had no capable strikers and terrible goalkeeping performances. The summer we overspent on mediocrity, poor identifying of players, bad planning all those things. All those things aren't solely on Howe- There has been a lot of chaos behind the scenes. He has tried his best and come up short, now needs to fix those holes in our squad. Hopefully we are more prepared this time.

This is a great post. Totally agree about looking for reasons to justify their views by twisting reality and difficult circumstances to form an unflattering narrative around Howe. It's all rather ugly. Wish some people would look into the facts more.

I don't think anyone wanted to play for Almiron, except Bruno F. Almiron was playing for the sack at the end. The players all had a spring in their step and more fight when he left. Their form is tailing off now - certainly performances, and if Carrick gets the gig permanently they will regret that next season. Purple patch from a new manager bounce isn't the way for forward. Case in point us with Glenn Roeder.

The summer has been explained to death. If you think our backroom team was stable, and we had a normal pre-season than salut.

If Chelsea had stayed patient with anyone of their successful managers in recent years such as Tuchel, they wouldn't be as shit as they are now. Same with Spurs and Poch. Those teams have spent years under performing due to appointments which hasn't worked out. Not many hit the ground running.

I don't necessarily agree with that but for argument sake, sure, the others were far from first choice. With either Trafford/Mamardashvili and Ekitike, we have much better season imo.

Neither was Ekiteke, Sesko, Cunha, Szoboslai, Pedro, Olise who he has all tried to sign. It's such a lazy narrative at this point. Any top team is full of athletes. It's literally the modern game now. But you need the quality as well.

Who is the next best momentum manager around, can we bring them in? We need momentum. Totally daft.

If people stay patient we can find out for ourselves. But a bad appointment can set us back how many seasons?

'Momentum' isn't 3 and a half seasons.

Boggles my mind that he doesn't get more support on here. Or some benefit of the doubt. You would think he has earned that much at least. Some can't even be arsed to even respect him anymore.

'Faux outrage' the thread

Tried to. They didn't sign.

How many times does the summer need to be explained? It was a fuck up. Yes Howe owns that. He wanted many other players in those positions Mamardashvili, Trafford, Ekitike, Sesko, Mbeumo, list goes on and on. That convo has been done to death. The players that were signed, it was them or no one. Do you think he's happy with those players right now? Considering he has changed his favoured 11 so many times, it suggests not.

I don't agree with literally any of that. Every manager has teams which will under perform at some point, it's not something that is unique to us or Howe. To say Howe is a momentum manager after 4 seasons of exceeding expectations, is quite extraordinary and disrespectful. Considering you don't want him to continue after this season, you don't have a clue whether or not, he can turn it around. Can you let me know who the next momentum manager is out there, so we ensure at least another season of success?

Well yeah, i agree and hope it's that way. But his dismissal would set a weird precedent. He undoubtedly deserves much more time and opportunity to fix the team so whoever succeeds him, no matter how well they do in their time here, it could be across many seasons and seeing us lift many cups, it will only take one prolonged stretch of poor results to lead us to run them out of town. There is no patience or nuance to any bad form, on this forum at least, wanting results yesterday.

Results don't tend to follow anyone if there is a poor selection of keepers and strikers available.