Ronaldo

Clock is ticking on that. He’s far too good to be wasted like this. 11 goals thus far tells you just how good he is.

Nothing we don’t know. Like a few of the team he’s a bit out of his depth in that scenario. A lot of mitigating circumstances for him but we just cannot keep the ball.

Awful penalty decision but let’s not pretend we weren’t shit. I’m so fed up of our midfield being absolutely bossed. We cannot see that trio who started there again together this season.

What the fuck is Dan Burn doing?

Gordon looks done. Bit weird after almost a week’s rest.

Dubs and Schar. Schar has already made about 20 interceptions / clearances.

Got to change this midfield. Absolutely dreadful.

State of the way we lost possession there. Disgusting. Fair play Dubs.

10/11. He was shit in 09/10 until mid-season. Looked outrageously good in first half of 10/11 in terms of being difficult to defend against.

Diame had so much more to his game than Tiote who amazed us all in the beginning largely due to the fact he was so much better than the utterly useless Alan Smith.

Imagine leaving the England squad because your Mrs is in a mood. Come on.

We had 38 points after 19 games last season. We’re on 29 this time.

We’ll need 42 points (just about title winning form) in the second half of the season just to equal last season’s points total. 4th isn’t happening now, unfortunately.

He’s clearly being encouraged to bomb forward by the way or he’d be out of the team. Need a midfielder who can protect to drop in but we don’t have one.

The papers are jumping all over silly tweets from our lot about wanting him sacked. Embarrassing.

Wasn’t the same squad. We made a huge profit that summer after going down.

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.