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What a muppet this bloke is. Please, fuck off.

So chucking on all the strikers and losing any semblance of balance and midfield protection didn't work? I'm shocked.

Ahahahaha what a load of utter shit that is. Fucking coward.

I thought he had some potential but he just looks rubbish. Seemed to have some athleticism about him in that City game but that's disappeared now.

So dreamy on the ball, at times. His balance is great, so hard to stop players that can weave so quickly when dribbling. He could be seriously good, in a couple of years.

He's definitely not putting in his best, like. Compare him now to what he was doing a year ago, he was at least working hard then and seemed to want to get in the box occasionally. He just seems lifeless, now, like he'd rather be anywhere else than on a football pitch.

Haidara's been poor in possession.

Colback has been abomination. His positioning has been even worse than every other aspect of his game.

Henry is definitely my favourite non-NUFC player. Just so fantastic to watch with the ball at his feet. He got 23 assists in 02/03, on top of his 24 goals.

He could play a variety of striking roles, to be honest, he's got a lot in his locker. I have no issue with him playing as the main striker with license to roam, though, as long as the player who's behind him offers goalscoring, physicality and link up play. We'll see if de Jong fits that mould soon enough. For now, I'd start Cisse as lead with Perez floating around him.

Would be a completely different player if there was actual movement around. It's the same as it was with HBA - our players (Perez apart) just watch him and expect to do it all himself. I know this gets said with a lot of players but it's especially true for a lad of Cabella's ilk. It's like Nasri at City, plays plenty out wide but you never see him really take people on in those areas, nor is he left isolated. He always has lots of options to combine with and build attacks. Players like that use their touch and agility to their advantage in tight, final third situations.

An avid fan of Sammy criticising a player for running into trouble too much

Pardew was his bitch for a while, from what I heard. Like he'd just rock up to training and say he just wanted to go to the gym and Pardew let him every time

He's brilliant. I hope he never starts wide again, though, far too good in the middle for that.

We could have done way more, like, shouldn't need to be said. They were rubbish at the back and we barely got in amongst them, no running in behind or real risk-taking. Boring, negative selection was also abysmal.

He's generally a pass and move type, no doubt, looking most dangerous when he pulls inside and pops up in a central pocket. We look better with him as he's probably the best possession player we've got in the side. Gets his head up when on the ball and always tries to move forward with it, building attacks sensibly. Ayoze aside, our best mover off the ball too.

I thought he was turd and his positional play was very sketchy.

Better in the middle, I think, he finds space better.

Back to his shitty best, today. 3 poor performances and results in 4.

Tweaked tactics = looking beaten before the game began. Probably shat himself Sissoko wasn't playing and reverted to type. Utterly insipid.

God, this is awful. No less than the negative knobhead in charge deserves.

How does Gouffran get away with this shit, man? Cabella has never had as ineffective performance as him, even in his mediocre games.

I'm not sure starting out wide really suits Perez, tbh, he seems to be a player at his most comfortable when moving out wide from a central position and then weaving back in to the space opened up. Cabella's a bit different, he seems more adept moving a few metres infield from the flank, picking up spaces inside & starting attacking moves (this'd suit Janmaat's game more too, IMO). The other issue I have is our counter game with de Jong-Cisse together, we've been great recently having at least one of those two spots taken up by a player that can take the ball in transition and carry it up the pitch with speed, I think we'd lose a lot of that 'fret' with a one-paced combination like that.

Mourinho played for the team that his dad managed, then two others and then quit because he wanted to be a manager. The point being, they're lowly teams. There was the whole 'Arsene who?' thing because in terms of being players, they were complete outsiders. On a personal note, I was speaking to a Championship player not long back, some of the things he was telling me about the backwards management really does open your eyes to the living these blokes are stealing. Go on.... Things like taking a 5 day holiday (the whole club) when in the middle of a lengthy losing streak so he can go and pissed abroad with his mates, spending multiple days a week on running (no tactics, set pieces or ball work, just running about), no tactical instruction for games (just a 'motivational' speech pre-game) etc. Worse was his treatment of the players, apparently just tears strips off them all the time and sold a lad that asked if the club could pick him up after an operation because he thought it was a sign he was getting too big for his boots. Basically, he earns an excellent wage to shout at people and make them run around a field for two hours a day.

Mourinho played for the team that his dad managed, then two others and then quit because he wanted to be a manager. The point being, they're lowly teams. There was the whole 'Arsene who?' thing because in terms of being players, they were complete outsiders. I agree on the not needing to be a player thing, there's a lot of turd in the English management ranks, I was just sure those two had played the game at some professional level. On a personal note, I was speaking to a Championship player not long back, some of the things he was telling me about the backwards management really does open your eyes to the living these blokes are stealing.