Ronaldo

Rafa finishing 10th with the team that lost 10 times in the Championship was bloody impressive mind.

Fair play to him. Showed a lot of class today. It sickens me that the position he was picked out in 3 times is exactly what we need with Isak but it barely ever happens.

Never been a massive fan but he’s varied between a hindrance and being completely invisible recently.

No one is advocating his sacking to be fair. Not even close.

Ten Hag doesn’t have a plan A, to be fair.

First one he took over halfway through the season - and won the FA Cup. Hardly a free hit.

No team with any ambition has ever given a manager a free hit for 2 years

I think the biggest things for me are the midfield are far too easily played through, we’re incapable of slowing down a game and taking control / concentrating on possession without descending into a mess and conceding, and creatively it’s the same cut inside and overlap every time that’s become stale and predictable. It’s staggering to me we made little effort to sign players in the summer to improve us technically - especially in midfield and RW. I concede Tonali is a significant technical improvement on Longstaff but that’s not a high bar.

The bad results are only half the story. I just feel like bigger questions are being asked of us this season and he doesn’t have the answers. It’s beyond his experience. I don’t really know where we go from here but I desperately hope he can turn it around, for the sake of our season and because I love the guy. I’m not remotely confident that will happen, unfortunately.

Could forgive him for ringing his agent on the way down the tunnel. Deserves far better.

Gordon gets goals and assists. It’s en vogue for attackers to do as such.

We lose every time he doesn’t play though.

Completely agree with this.

Emery had a load of injury issues start of the season to be fair.

Nothing we don’t know about him. He’s a very limited footballer who scores goals when he gets chances. He got one chance today and missed it.

No I don’t think we are, currently, but it’s headed that way.

I think a lot of it, for me anyway, is being conscious of the ownership. I want Howe to get years here and I want us to continue spending big but both in tandem aren’t possible when we’re clearly going backwards.

He makes bad decisions all the time. I really don’t think it would be hard to replace him.

100%. Reality is in the middle.

I’m not defending it but it’s long way back for Eddie if we lose to them. Injuries mitigate but failing in 4 competitions and the season being over by January is tough to defend. We spent a lot of money in the summer to go so far backwards.

There isn’t nearly enough ability on the ball in midfield to get the best out of him. It’s awful to watch.

I knew you were exactly wrong as usual.

Not from when Emery got the job, to be fair.

I completely understand the reluctance of some to criticise but it’s not rocket science is it. We’re 2 completely different teams home and away and it screams of being unable to find a way to play when we can’t pin a team back.