jonny1403

The Dubravka haters should be embarrassed after tonight. 

1 hour ago, Whitley mag said:

All those players were scouted heavily by Nickson I get the impression his influence has waned considerably at this point.

Not sure why you think that when we spent £55m on Tonali in the summer.

2 hours ago, Dava1892 said:

Joe Willock 

Manchester City (h) - 13/01

 

Jacob Murphy

Aston Villa (a) - 30/01

Harvey Barnes

Aston Villa (a) - 30/01

Elliott Anderson

Aston Villa (a) - 30/01

 

Matt Targett

Nottingham Forest (a) - 10/02

Nick Pope

April 2024

 

Sandro Tonali

August 2024

 

Javier Manquillo

TBC

 

Jamaal Lascelles

TBC

 

Quite worrying this with only one player expected back within the coming weeks.

 

An earlier return for 1 or 2 could be massive, more so a boost before the Mackems.

 

I hope the expected returns don’t hinder doing business in the Jan window too much.

 

 

 

 

On the plus side that’s only two PL games until the majority come back and relieve the pressure.

19 hours ago, Lush Vlad said:

Barely done anything wrong? He’s been a bit better of late. But he was wank his first three games. Then he was much improved for a bit, 2-3 games was it? But today he was glued to his line again and reverted back to being glued to his line. 
 

You like pointing out that Trippier has been at fault for 8 goals. Rightly so. But Dubs was shit for 2 at Everton, 2, possibly 3 against Spurs and the second against Milan. 
 

But other than that. He’s barely done anything wrong  

As if you are blaming the Milan goal and two Spurs goals hit from approx 3 yards out on Dubs man  

The more I think about it the more crazy it is that across the FA cup, league cup and Champions League we haven't been given a single 'easy' tie in which you could consider resting a couple of players. 

18 hours ago, buzza said:

I suppose I could have been a bit lighter on him...

But you know what, bit sick of being overly woke to satisfy others, said it how I felt it after the match! 

If he's old enough to play then he can (and some on the forum) probably take some critisism of parts of his game that need to improve.

 

... tin hat prepared

I don't think the word 'woke' means what you think it means...

4 hours ago, Pilko said:

Shameful that he didn't start today quite frankly. 

He. Was. Injured.

5 minutes ago, Ketsbaia said:

Damn, so that really was just some flukey form. Enough to con us into thinking he was something else. But he's just average.

Or he’s been rushed back from injury and isn’t quite right like a lot of our players? Don’t be so short sighted man.

10 minutes ago, Bellis80 said:

Walking off not looking while someone else takes a free kick. Get fucked you prick.

Embarassing. 

8 minutes ago, Decky said:

 

For the 100th time my arse.  Only mention of it I can see was briefly in the prematch thread an hour ago and that wasn't official either. 

It has been mentioned multiple times. Do your research before spouting off at the manager 

2 minutes ago, Decky said:

This game would be totally different if we started Livramento over Burn. They're getting through us constantly down there. If that persists its down to Howe. Tino didn't deserve to be dropped to begin with. 

He’s carrying an injury ffs. For the 100th time.

9 minutes ago, Ben said:

It's a gamble but I'm taking out Solanke and putting Nkunku in, his goal record is crackers so I'm banking on him starting after a few sub appearances 

Why do that and not just wait until

after Solanke plays Fulham at home?

2 hours ago, Ketsbaia said:

Immediate names that come to mind are Almiron, Wilson, Burn, Dubravka. Got confidence in none of them, looking forward.

 

Gonna ease off Trippier a bit, considering something is definitely up with him.

 

Today, gotta say Longstaff + Bruno were poor. 

What has Burn done wrong ffs  And Dubravka for that matter.

2 minutes ago, HaydnNUFC said:

 

He has 6 PL assists since he signed for the club in January 2019. 6 assists in 5 years, man.

It's a good point but he was a millimetre away from getting an assist today.

9 minutes ago, TheBrownBottle said:

‘Below average intelligence’, ‘thick’

 

You need to stop throwing the abuse about for me.

 

Part of the reason for so many players being missing could well be the manager failing to make changes to a style of play which is likely to cause burnouts and injuries when you’re playing two games per week for months.  That doesn’t mean he should be sacked or under pressure, but it would be hoped that next season - if we’re in Europe - the lessons will be learned. 

He’s completely right though. You’d have to be incredibly thick to be calling for the managers head at this stage.

4 minutes ago, captainhaircut said:

Considering how beneficial it would be from an FFP perspective, he should be the first one out the door in the summer. 

Ffs here we go…

It was a clear offside like…

1 hour ago, SUPERTOON said:

Late calls to be made on Schar and Joelinton 

 

 

 

No need to play Schar. Let him rest for Forest. We can manage with Lascelles/Botman/Burn at CB for one game.

6 hours ago, r0cafella said:

I reckon two (mainly because it’s what the athletic mentioned). 
 

Philips and David. 

Doubt we'll go for Philips now that Miley has emerged. We have other fires to put out.

9 minutes ago, WideopenMag said:

Yes yes and Livromento is a full back but has filled In further up the pitch in emergency situations.

And Livramento is 2 years older and has two seasons of first team football under his belt. They aren't the same player.

11 minutes ago, Rod said:

Oh fuck off man!  It's not ridiculous at all.  The blokes been shite for ages.

Three bad games, get a grip man you’re embarrassing.

1 minute ago, Amir_9 said:

 

This is such a typical response to be honest, the first part of my comment clearly shows I rate him and what he's done for us thus far, he is elite, but you can't look at the level of mistakes he's made recently as well as his age and not think by start of next season him being 34 its time to have him as a squad player rather than a guaranteed starter.

It's shortsighted in the extreme and typical in its own of the way this forum reacts. If he's still playing shite in February I'll take your point, but to say 'the decline has begun' with regard to one of, if not our best player after three poor performances is nothing other than reactionary bullshit.

Just now, Amir_9 said:

Let's get one thing clear - he is an elite player that has played his part in our transformation and been at the forefront of it to get it to this very point

 

However I am not sure he has much left in the tank to consistently be able to bring that level of performance consistently and the decline is starting to show. I think it would be in our best benefit to start phasing him out slowly by end of the season and have him as a squad member rather than a guaranteed starter.

He has had three bad games. Get a grip.

1 minute ago, Tsunami said:

Can’t see how we win this. They’ve put a really strong team out. We’re going to have to score first and hope for some luck.

 

Lads…it’s Chelsea.

1 hour ago, Beth said:

Isak, Willock, JoeL and Murphy were all brought back too soon, and we are paying the price for it now.

Isak and Murphy I'll give you. Joelinton played like 7 games in a row before he was injured again