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Given we play with an orthodox right winger I'm not sure we do need Tino overlapping tbh. That being said his output hasn't been good enough going forward generally and he doesn't really suit inverting in to midfield either. Our squad planning/recruitment had been left wanting recently tbh.

I thought he was fine, only gripe I had was his end profuct which is fine as it's a trade off between that and his defensive work.

He was never really poor at right back imo, defensively one Vs one he's one of the best in the league. It's the end product which needs work. We need 2 fullbacks in the next 2 windows, we can't expect Tino and Hall to play every minute, fullbacks cover so much ground and have to be rotated.

We actually ask too much of our midfield imo. Our defence is beyond slow, most of them would lose a foot race at sports day honestly. This causes us to drop off which means our midfield has to cover even more ground as we can't compress the space. Add in our transitional nature and we basically flog our midfield. It's probably why we've adopted more of a deeper block with less high pressing, but we are awful at playing out from the back so we struggle to exert any form of control over the game. We've always been at our best when pressing really high and getting tight and squeezing the space but one ball over the top undoes that.

I don't disagree but practically how do you achieve that if the player wants to play every minute for his country?

No he absolutely isn't but he's also not going to stand for not refusing a call up imo. This issue is probably compounded by us not being a traditional "big club" he probably thinks he starts skipping games for them he wont be getting called up. Us being where we are presents unique problems imo.

We panicked because we resolutly refused to move on and ended up getting absolutely rinsed. Having a valuation for a player and moving on when a club demands double isn't panicking, it's good business. Only mugs pay double.

He left because he's a transfer guy who wasn't allowed to do transfers Any professional at that level would also leave. He is indeed still a cunt though.

Wrong thread

We had to look elsewhere long before that, we left it to the last minute. We knew Isak was going long before he actually did.

It was a last minutes panic buy, Brentford played us to perfection.

He's tidy on the ball but that's about it so far. Really surprised by both how slow and easy he is to push off the ball though..

Your point about international breaks is interesting, but I truly believe our players have a lot of influence and players like Bruno are extremely proud and want to play every game from Brazil. I don't see refusing that going down well at all. Tino playing in a kids tournament this summer makes no sense however and I will never understand how we allowed that. I've been saying for awhile we have structural issues which are really painful to fix and these are really showing themselves ATM. We really need Eddie to turnaround because on the football side this is his show entirely.

#wait

Nah mate, why do that when you can let Eddie have his input on who his boss is, because having his nephew in a senior position isn't enough Safety smiley.

I love Eddie. We all do but we just don't do the things that made us fall for him. The high press is none existent we are just passive and we seem to be playing within ourselves all the time. The technical standard is absolutely diabolical we have no ability to retain or control games so we just end up looking like a bunch of amateurs.

They paid like 14m for Kayode as well. Imagine having him rotating with Tino? Someone young hungry powerful.

Because we refuse to Nees, we never want to let go. We have a massive problem now, we've been found out and we can't really play to our strengths because we don't actually have many. How do you rebuilt that exactly?

He's long since finished and we've known that but we've hung on to him. Culture at the club from top to bottom isn't good enough. We keep people around because they are deemed good eggs. We are small time truth be told

Let down those fans who've made the effort to yo all the way down to London on a fucking Sunday, they should be ashamed of themselves.

Get on to your agent kiddo, your wasting your time here.

We strike me as a team whom the players run the show honestly. We look half assed, disorganised and lack any sort of hunger.

Does Ramsey realise we are losing? We've given up?

We've created fuck all. It's been another disgraceful performance and it's massively concerning.

He's been really poor today tbh.