Ronaldo

I don’t think many said that. It was more targeted at the style of play as happened at Bournemouth.

Weirdly his best football by far was all in that first 9 months.

Beat me to it, tad strong.

I think I’d rather finish 17th with Eddie.

Why?

But nothing at what wingers are supposed to do - chip in with goals aside.

Agreed we can’t keep sliding down the table.

He’s an outstanding footballer and you’ve only got to use your eyes to see that. Since coming back from injury this season his figures have been outstanding and his figures overall are outstanding. I really don’t know why this discussion is being had.

Good post.

Pretty much agree with that except Wilson top 6. He doesn’t get a game for any legit top 6 team.

That’s the modern forward, though. Target men basically doesn’t exist at top level football anymore.

We’re in agreement on he can still improve. That’s not what was said at first and you know it.

Wilson in for Isak makes Longstaff for Tonali almost tolerable.

We know the issue with our CBs is players running at them - and that includes Sven to an extent. Weirdly it basically was never allowed to happen in 22-23. Seems to happen all the time now and it’s one of the issues with not having someone holding and being so poor at killing the game / retaining the ball in safe areas of the field.

0.57. I think we can all agree he’s demonstrably brilliant at his job. Figures and what we see on the pitch. Any implication he’s part of the problem is bullshit.

His stats are far better than 1 in 2. Not sure what your deal is with Isak, recently - I don’t know whether it’s a defence of Eddie or what. Just tell it like it is, it went tits up.

‘The players aren’t up for it against the smaller teams’ is a lazy comment from lazy pundits who have no ability or inclination to address tactics beyond ‘he was standing off him’. We’re just a better side off the ball than on it and obviously a much better side at home. These issues away from SJP have been going on for 18 months. I genuinely thought Shearer and Given were embarrassing, tbh.

There’s not a lot of nuance in ‘should get his act together and start taking his chances’. It implies something that isn’t true. It’s a fucking Donald Trump statement.

Agree with this.

Even the most ardent Eddie lovers last season admitted (rightly) he needed a good start to this one. There’s a lot of head in the sand stuff going on. Thankfully some smart, balanced opinions too.

Is this really how much we’re on Eddie’s dick, boys? Going after our best player.

Not really, that’s the opinion of a clown and you know it is. The criticism of Eddie, who currently I don’t want to get sacked, is completely legitimate. Isak’s been mostly brilliant from his first game to today’s game. He’s doing his job.

The poster said he should ‘get his act together’. He stands out a country mile as our best player, gave one of the best forward performances I’ve ever seen in our colours on Wednesday, scored again today, and without him we’d have easily finished bottom half last season (and God knows where we’d be this campaign). Get his act together. Have a word.

And by your own admission he deserves criticism, so I’m not sure what your point is. It’s not a high bar either, is it. Bobby had a poor side for 2 seasons, Rafa a Championship one. And Isak isn’t 12th after 15 games.

But you acknowledge we’ve gone backwards since spending a lot of money from that summer onwards?