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Murphy Is a great example of how effective players putting up actual numbers is like, he's a horrible example to use to the contrary The likelyhood of Ndiaye ever having a better season in this league than Murphy did last year is slim. His end product is nowhere near - Howe spotted it from the start which is why he always stuck with him.

Yeah I wasn't clear in my post, I like Ndiaye, and I'd love someone like Maxi back in the squad despite his poor numbers. Our transfer strategy gets shit on though because people ignore all of our great transfers and focus on the (necessary) PSR induced falloff, and last summer, which looks really poor so far. Hopefully we'll see some more from atleast a couple of Elanga, Woltemade & Ramsey next season.

We're trying to find a winger of the calibre of someone like Mbuemo & Semenyo, not Ndiaye. We failed massively with Elanga, but fawning over every half decent player midtable sides have bought for good value is silly. We've brought in young players like Hall, Thiaw, Minteh, Botman (pre-injuries) and Livramento for great value, we nearly got Khusanov, a young Ekitike, Trafford etc. Last summer was really bad, we completely shit the bed after recovering from our PSR issues but our hit rate before Mitchell arrived was very good, pretty much everyone we signed increased in value.

I like Ndiaye but he has less than 10 goal contributions this season, he's hardly shown himself to be the absolute dead cert winger we need. Those are Harvey Barnes having a very bad season numbers.

I think we've been shit I agree. I just think it's been the same for most of the league as the physicality has been hard to deal with. I trust Howe to come up with a proper plan given a non-turbulent pre-season, but even this year could have been entirely different if we'd gotten the rub of the green in a couple more games. I completely understand why some people think we need a change, but I think the idea Howe cannot turn this around is emotional given the last few defeats and the pattern of throwing games away.

Do you genuinely believe that a top keeper doesn't have us with 6 more points this season?

For all the talk of it being impossible for him to ever recover from this season, we're still only 6 points behind 6th placed Chelsea Everyone has been caught out by the aggression and physicality this season. First step will be to bring in a non-meme keeper who has a better save percentage than like 50% or whatever daft it is for our 2.

I think they did a bad job but they were working outside of their remit. I get the last part, I just don't understand why we're at that point yet, rather than giving him another chance with a (hopefully) stable backroom.

We've been absolutely shite for most of the season and I think Howe's made a lot of mistakes. It's the effort te present the least charitable takes possible at all times I cannot understand. You have to ignore a massive, half season ending injury in order to present the most bad faith take regarding Howe and Wissa, which people do. You have to ignore Mitchell leaving in order to call Howe shite in the transfer market, which people do etc.

The entire summer where Mitchell left and Andy Howe had to take over?

What's the point of people ignoring all context of what actually happened in order to stick the knife into Howe? Alongside the fact that, as pointed out, we actually tried for about half a dozen other strikers, Wissa was instantly injured for half of the season after he signed which is actually the most likely reason he's been a massive waste of money.

You sound really hard like and don't in any way come across like a total whopper.

So did you know we'd finish top 5 last year too then after our bad period? I don't know what your opinion was so it's an honest question? If not then all that's happened here is you've told us he's finished when it's going bad and been (potentially) right exactly once. And if he keeps his job there's a very good chance you'll be wrong again. Unless of course you were right back then? If you think it's time to change then fair enough, but Howe has made an absolute mug out of large sections of our fan base atleast 2 times now.

So what is it that you've sussed? The obvious stuff right infront of you, such as him having a shite season and obviously struggling to steer it back on course, or have you got a record or clairvoyance like telling us all he was going to turn around and get us into the Champions League twice? During his bad run last year were you wanting him gone, or did you tell us he'd finish the season in the top 5? Genuinely curious sussed you have it?

I hope he doesn't but I still think he needs to be given a proper pre-season to sort it out.

They could also come in and be worse? He's earned the right to try and sort it out with a proper pre-season.

Aye I bet you saw him keeping us up and finishing 4th the next season coming for a while too. You've got it all sussed like.

Why are we acting like it's fantasy stuff that Howe could have a good season next year?

Short memories like. The shit show in the summer ended up with a group obviously out of thier depth trying to salvage the window and they did a poor job. Nobody wants Howe 'spending money', we need a proper system sorted out for the summer regardless of who's in charge.

No reason at all he needs to be done here like It's been a shite season and it looks like it will end that way, see how he gets on next year.

That's what it feels like Elanga should be doing every time.

He was performing better than any of the other options after him, Gordon included. His minutes were slashed to incorporate Wissa who has been shite, and everyone has suffered because of it. I understand why Wissa came in, as that was the plan all along, but it never worked out and Woltemade's form has never recovered either. The idea that Woltemade was dropped because he was performing shite up front just isn't true.

This isn't true though. He went from being a permanent starter to being rotated and then shoved into midfield. His run of proper games stopped around about the Chelsea game.

About 20 of those happen every weekend ffs

Have I been Frank Chippa'd?