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Any decent attack will rip this lot to shreds, like. If we go up we need a new 5 there if Krul doesn't return.

9th goal we've let in 16 away games. Awful that. We're in a dreadful league and defend well as a team, to be fair. Still maintain our 4 starting defenders all need replacing.

That's how good our defence is.

Mitrovic missing an easy chance is usually the foretelling of a defeat and/or relegation.

People and Muhammad Ali, man. So fucking tedious.

If that was the case he'd have been out of the team months ago. For who I'm not sure, mind. All of the replacements are far worse at best.

It's not due to the formation at all, like. Rafa's never been one to encourage his full backs to maraud forward. It's due to the fact that Gouffran carries all the threat of Richard E. Grant after a vodka and orange juice.

They've been relentless with it, like. I counted no less than 6 promos during the Pebble Beach Pro-Am yesterday ffs.

A bit being forever.

Yeah, that sounds like veiled criticism of what goes on at our place without the scope for an obvious reference.

We play better against better teams and we're awful to play against away from home. Can comfortably see us getting 5 points or more from Brighton, Huddersfield and Reading away, especially with Gayle back.

This basically sums it up for me. Either way it's moot because if the club's moving in the right direction next season he won't be here. Not because he doesn't have good qualities but because he's all wrong for Rafa. He could barely be more wrong.

I think a lone striker having to be removed at HT and replaced with a winger because he's on a yellow card is the absolute definition of a liability, like. Gouffran is a striker he's just never really been played as one for us. Or at least he was bought as one. Yeah, he was replaced by Atsu. I'm starting to think you're a WUM account of someone else now, like. I think I know who, too.

We were fucking awful, man.

He was on a yellow. There's never any evidence with him that he plays with his head. He's too focused on proving how passionate he is, and when that doesn't work he often dives or pretends to be hurt. Yesterday he put Rafa in a position where he had to take him off. No option but to do that. His only fit striker apart from Murphy and we had to put fucking Gouffran up front for an entire half because Mitrovic can't be relied upon to just play with a bit of nous and restraint.

Striker goes for it nearly every single time the ball is bouncing in between the GK and defender like that, happens in nearly every match at some point. If he had left it, he'd have had people screaming at him for not challenging for the ball and being a lazy cunt. Someone made that daft argument yesterday, too. A grown man can't be risking a sending off half an hour into the game because someone might call him a lazy cunt.

I think a lone striker having to be removed at HT and replaced with a winger because he's on a yellow card is the absolute definition of a liability, like.

No. To be honest I can't think of a game less likely to finish that way than this one.

Pathetic goalkeeping.

I think Rafa's days of working at the biggest clubs are done anyway, tbh. Such is the ego of the modern superstar footballer his style will be unpopular wherever he goes where he isn't the biggest person at the club. Liverpool was a partial exception to this. Obviously it's our gain, hopefully.

That's why he posted it.

Yep. Total wrong fit, same as Real.

Preferred media partner indeed.

Of course it was the reason, man. But the fact fear that our starting striker wouldn't be able to keep his head for 45 minutes against one of the poorest sides in the division outweighed his value on the pitch having just scored for the first time in ages tells you everything you need to know about the manager's faith in him.