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Aye they have.

Didn’t realise Van Hecke had the same turn of pace as Fabi Schar seeing professional athletes run like they are in treacle will never not amuse me.

Directly involved in the equaliser mind.

If it is, it’s never enforced.

Some random Turkish team want us to pay up tripps contract so they can have him.

It is smart because teams like Arsenal and city who push super high and leave space in behind rely on the counter press which commits loads of fouls, it’s one of those where the rule book is behind the tactical evolution. Disrupting teams transitions via fouls should be mandatory yellow imo.

From a footballing perspective I’m happy with this, I’m sick of teams like Arsenal and city who make so many technical fouls in midfield and get away with it.

This is looking really bad for Arsenal mind, no out ball at all.

A much needed pick me up from our own shitshow

All jokes aside, Arsenal winning here is probably better for us

Hayden gonna be all over those Arsenal spaces later.

[x] Doubt.

Just be happy you don’t have to listen to Andy Townsend.

Yeah I think we are between two ways of doing things and it’s causing a lot of the issues we are experiencing. 70m for Guehi ffs the 3 of them need to get fucking real. He says coaching is his preferred activity yes, but I’m not getting the impression he’d be thrilled with having players bought for him, he reiterated a few times yesterday he doesn’t want players which aren’t right etc and to be clear when he says aren’t right he means HE thinks aren’t right. Imo in a DOF led approach the first thing which needs to in place is the long term planning, how are we going to play? It has to be consistent regardless of the manager in this PSR era massive seize turnover simply isn’t possible so the plan must be long term and the club needs a DNA an identify. When it comes recruitment I believe the head coach needs to be clear about the positions he wants to focus on and the attributes of the players for said position, I don’t think the head coach should be vetoing players mind, ultimately the head coach will always have a more short term view than the club should have and this the DOF’ job is to provide that long term balance for things. as things stand I don’t think we have this.

The conte effect

Absolutely all of what you’ve said is true however it does appear we are now reaching a stage whereby cracks have emerged in the model. If your Eddie Howe you must feel a type of way about your decreasing influence, he’s a human and nobody likes to have that removed. In terms of this coaching first comment, coaching can only take you far unfortunately imagine trying to coax top 4 on that alone, it isn’t happening I’m afraid.

I absolutely loathe to say this mind and I’m sure I’m going to get stick for this but maybe, just maybe Howe isn’t the right manager for a DOF led recruitment strategy. Not advocating for him to go or anything like that but to me it’s crystal clear they have a lot to figure out because what has transpired this window is absolutely unacceptable.

As I ponder this more it’s actually quite telling that everything positive that’s occured = MG/AS Anything negative. = anyone else Ashworth Mitchell, Eales etc.

I mean I see a bucket load of contradictions tbh, I’m not overly keen on Eales and I think you’ve summed up his achievements perfectly but we are seeing some revisions to history. AS didn’t want the job as CEO YAR told her she could do it and she declined, she appointed eales. I’m not speaking negatively of AS because she’s been an absolute force of nature for the club but at the same time the PSR issues we’ve run in to happened under her watch. I think you’ve summed it up perfectly mind it’s an absolute shambles from top to bottom and these noises are sadly predictable.

He certainly is, that being said they hired him to do the ceo job, and you can’t have too many chefs. Also I doubt mad Daz has an allies in the press pack.

To be very frank I think I’ll piece this together myself, most reporting on us are client journalists pushing certain agendas. Caulkin in particular.

Discuss away like, for me having. DOF is absolutely essential mind but of course it has to be done properly. The problem we have is Eddie had a lot of say (which isn’t a problem in itself) but now we’ve had to revert to the original plan and it’s obviously causing issues. The mad sums offered for Guehi imo were definitely an olive branch to show him they back him, I don’t for one moment believe Mitchell picks Guehi and says right then 70m let’s go. If he has then we need a competent DOF yesterday.

Aye it’s not a great look but at the same time it’s Mitchell is Howes superior and was hired to be a member of the board of directors, in business terms the manager wouldn’t be privy to such things either. Now obviously our football club isn’t a normal business case and Eddie has been absolutely fundamental in our growth and has definitely been involved to a point previously which is above his actual job title. it does feel to me as we are stuck between models and we are struggling as a result of that, let Eddie call all the shots or stick with our model and fully embrace it.

I read it and in not going to lie, I kinda hold all 3 of them responsible mind, not going to divvy up the blame but I think they’ve all agreed to go and chase Guehi to the ends of the earth mind.

Ps this forum would be a lot better if we could cut out the personal insults and keep our replies to the content of other posters mind.