Sean

It's like we think Brighton are Man City

I wanna see Keane kill Souness live on air.

Gonna get behind him 100%, but I just feel so deflated by the way we publicly fucked the Emery thing up. Hopefully I'll start feeling excitement in the coming days but it's not filled me with confidence really.

Went from being made up and excited if it's Emery, to disappointed by the way it leaked and failed, to completely underwhelmed if it's Howe. He has no relevant experience for the challenge here imo. We have to hope he can step up at a much bigger club with much bigger expectations and pressure.

We need a manager that's going to give the whole place a lift, and Emery with his experience of winning would have done that. Howe or Martinez won't lift the city or fanbase. Howe won't inspire potential singings either (Martinez has at least worked with world class players recently). These are both things we need, along with a manager with experience managing big clubs with demanding fans. Experience of winning trophies is also a bonus. Now is the time to re-evaluate and go for a bigger target, not settle for something uninspiring to many. If Howe and Martinez are the alternatives, then go offer Everton whatever it takes for Rafa. Or start the search again from scratch

Well this is a bit embarrassing..

I think we all assumed that the club had told Emery they were going to leak the news yesterday before he took a Champions League game with Villarreal. If not, then that is worrying and not professional in the slightest. Hopefully Balague is taking shite like.

Harry Maguire lol. Putting a hand up for offside (instead of running back straight away) should be a thing of the past at the top level with VAR. If it's offside, it will get called. If it's not offside, you'll look like a complete twat.

My gut feeling is one of relief that it's not Martinez, Lampard et al. And happiness that they have made a good decision and confidence that Emery will do well also.

Does Rafa not always wear a suit?

Nothing in Jones' career history suggests he's a particularly good coach (by PL standards). The new head coach should be free to select his own coaching team. I don't really see much benefit in keeping any of the current team, Jones included. That was my thinking before he became caretaker - his team selections and tactics since then have been absolutely rank so my mind isn't changing.

Worrying times and our fixtures don't look good either. Even spending in January won't guarantee safety if we're as far adrift as it looks possible we could be by then.

I mean, some of the consortiums previous offers included the condition of Rafa being kept on. It's possible Rafa had something to do with selling the place to Staveley. He deserves this and he'd be 4 years ahead of any other manager in terms of a plan and knowing the club and area and fanbase. I can see them trying to move heaven and earth to get him. Whether it happens or not is another matter.

Without trying to sound like John Carver, Pogba hasn't got the heart and took the easy way out.

Benteke could have had 4 already

Wilson has so much fucking quality man!

Shit team selection, shit performance. Just shit all round really.

Our passing is absolutely horrific

Well that feeling lasted an hour or so I guess

You are doing fantastic work - I'd rather you go for one of the other ideas - Bruce is in the past and we should be looking forward to a bright new future. He's not worth a seconds time now (he never was anyway tbh)

Actually being excited before one of our games is a new and very strange feeling

Announce Fonseca

Wahey! It finally happen

This feels like waiting for Christmas as a kid

I'm not fully against Howe but he doesn't inspire me with confidence. I think ideally we should really be going for someone more proven at a range of clubs with expectations rather than someone who did well with one small club. This job will be a very different animal to a Bournemouth. However hearing names like Lampard and Gerrard thrown in the mix scare me a lot more than Howe.