Froggy

Definitely when they're playing.

All the ones at the top are being phased out or not starting though. Rashford is the only exception. I know Bruno hasn't been great but he has earned that wage. I dread to think of where we would be without him.

25% reduction on all of those except Bruno, Rashford and the new signings for no Champions League, but it's still bad.

Yeah Casemiro is top. I understand why he commanded a big wage when he arrived, but it looks bad now. That's not the worst thing about wages with our players though. Casemiro, Rashford, Mount and Antony are in the top five earners at the club. Sancho is our 8th highest earner. Chelsea are paying half of his wages.

The biggest improvement that was giving us confidence was the chances we are creating. Feels like we weren't creating anything last season apart from Fernandes playing high risk/high reward passes. Our wingers were wildly wasteful. Fernandes has been abysmal this season as well. Not a great sign when your best player, captain and most creative player by far (who's just got a bumper contract), is one of the worst performers on the pitch.

Rashford? We made him our second highest paid player on a contract until 2028.

Fucking hate Rashford like. He's absolutely shite. Honestly Antony is better.

I understand how my comment looks after such a shocking result, but there has been improvement. The issue is that in most metrics we were 15-20th in the league last season, so maybe the improvement still isn't enough. If I ramble a bit here... We were better than City in the Community Shield. Very unlucky to lose but it gave me a lot of hope for the season ahead. We battered Fulham, but only won 1-0 with a late goal. We should have destroyed them. First game though, nothing to worry about. We were extremely unfortunate to lose at Brighton. Finishing issues again. Two goals ruled out for offside, one of them in bizarre circumstances which was very bad luck. But OK, Brighton are a good side. An unlucky away loss can be dealt with as long as we bounce back... Start very well against Liverpool. A 50/50 game. Then the individual mistakes come from Casemiro and the game is gone. A horrid result, but easily put down to individual mistakes and we were arguably the better team until Casemiro threw the game away. Also it's Liverpool. They can do this to anyone, and we can bounce back from it. Easy win against Southampton. Expected. Shouldn't get excited about it. Easy win against Barnsley. Expected. As above. Rashford has 3 goals in 2 games. Good confidence booster. He should kick on from here... Ten Hag inexplicably drops Rashford now. I'm not Rashfords biggest fan, but the game he decides not to start him is when his confidence will be at it's highest? We play extremely well against Palace. Some great football. On the back of the two results above, we were all thinking that the season has started now and we should kick on from here, but again we can't score. Confidence drops after 60 odd minutes, and Palace could have nicked it. Alarm bells a little bit from here. Poor performance against Twente. Another individual mistake, this time from Eriksen. Simply not good enough. Spurs game arguably the worst performance I've ever seen from us. Awful So the positivity and performances are starting to wane. Ten Hag won't get the benefit of the doubt this season. We've seen progress this season, but it's still far too inconsistent. I would say he needs to win both games this week to save his job.

Blaming Ashworth for this start is almost as bad as blaming Mitchell for your transfer window.

Nah. He had a very good first season. Second season was poor, but we had awful injuries and he still managed to win a cup so I think he fully deserved to stay in the job. This season he has pretty much a full squad to choose from, and it's his team. The only starter missing is Shaw. Scary thing is that we have improved in every metric, but we've had two bad defeats against teams we should be able to compete with. It's a results game for him now, and the results aren't good enough. I wonder before the end will he realise that playing Rashford is his biggest mistake.

Do we have to? I would struggle to think of many performances that were worse. Spurs aren't even good. That's the worst bit about it all. It's not like you've been blown away by a top class Liverpool or City. You've been hammered by a team that is distinctly average, and it would have been much, much worse if Son was playing instead of Werner. Last few years the team just has it in them to completely collapse and perform like a league two side.

No I think they would have sold but at a ludicrous asking price. £6b was their figure. Qatar offered £5b and refused to go higher. Bear in mind this is when the club had a market valuation is under £3b. They basically priced everyone out of a full sale because they wanted to keep milking it. Ratcliffe was the better option for them.

Glazers didn't want to sell the whole club. They'd have taken the Qatar offer otherwise. Don't think Ratcliffe could have afforded it either.

Zero chance he's there if we lose the next two.

I think he's in danger now to be honest. He'll either be sacked tomorrow or he'll get the next two games to turn it around. There were such clear patterns of improved play this season too. But the team just has the tendency to collapse and we get a hiding, and it happens too often. He's got the time I thought he deserved, but times up for any excuses. He's in huge trouble.

That's when he gets into it. Ten Hag tends to play Rashford over him and that's going to be his downfall.

Oh Fernandes, sorry. My heads up my arse. It'll be a loser, just like Fernandes.

It'll transfer to Mount.

Anyone who thinks it's a red has never played the game. Simple as that. Bet they're all 300 pounds and bedridden.

Have I? I would say my post history nothing but positive about Howe.

No I didn't.

It's obviously a disgrace of a decision, but Fernandes has been atrocious for weeks so it wouldn't have mattered. Spurs should be out of sight. Van Nistelrooy 11/4 for next manager. Put the house on it.

Trick question. They weren't allowed to play any style.

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