BlackandWhite

He’s was actually decent under Benitez and played good for his reign, but ever since he got hit with long covid last year he’s been complete dog shit.

We’re so fucked. This squad of players are hopeless in this league. Howe seems like a decent manager, but it’d take a world-class coach to get us out of this mess, and he is far from that calibre.

Personally, I don’t think he’ll prove to be worth that much. I hope you’re right and I am eating my words with a spoon come May (or even next season if he does well in the league below). I don’t think any other team in the league would have happily bid that for him unless they were in a desperate need like we are.

There’s no doubt we’re overpaying for him, but we’re in a desperate situation and we’re fast running out of options. It’s inevitable we were going to be ripped off somehow in this window. Hopefully, he does bang in a few big goals for us and make the fee as worth it as it can be.

Not sure we can be either positive or negative about this one. Kids only just come onto the scene. He could be a flop, just as likely he could be great. It’s a gamble, and I hope it pays off.

Like some others, I suspect he isn’t good enough, though it’s still too early to judge whether that suspicion is correct or not. It’s been a bit hit and miss so far. Today and Leicester being the biggest misses.

It feels like a new low. We wouldn’t even be good enough to have beaten the mackems today. It couldn’t be more humiliating. And to think some on here still think we’re good enough to stay up. We need a lot more than four good players.

What a difference that goal makes, too. Keeps Wycombe four points off them. Had they won, it was looking like only Wigan could catch them, and they’ve loads of games to catch up with; the same things that’s helped screw the mackems in the last few years.

Kevin Phillips isn’t biased at all with his analysis is he. Poor man’s Alan Shearer, just like Sunderland have always been a poor man’s version of us.

Can see us losing by two or three goals here. Almost certain to be at least one dodgy ref decision that goes against us.

Embarrassing. Talks like he’s pissed out of his head even though he isn’t. Not even smart enough to get the right address. I don’t expect anti-vax folk be very good at fact-checking, though.

Bottom (albeit jointly) at Christmas. We all know how that ends 9.5 times out of ten. Not to mention we need to achieve something that’s never been achieved before to stay up; that is to stay up after failing to win any of the opening 14 games. All the signs are against us. It’s extremely likely that we’re down, even with some good additions in January.

I think I saw some folk here talk about us being the ones to win four nil :lol:. A small minority of people of this board are completely oblivious to how shit we are. The worst team in the league right now, being bottom at Christmas (which looks likely now) will prove that.

If we don’t beat Burnley, then we’re most definitely going to be bottom at Christmas, and we all know how rare it is to survive after being in that situation. You'd have to be exceptionally optimistic to think it’s not likely we’re going down now.

Surely even the most optimistic fan on this board can't think it's more likely than not we're staying up if we don't win this.

A solid ten. Premier League delayed the takeover long enough to get what they wanted. We’re so fucked. Even signed ten world-class players in January would probably not be enough to save us.

He obviously done a miraculous job at Bournemouth, but overspending on primma donnas brought them back down to the championship. I am not sure how much of that was down to Howe.

We're nailed on to go down with the current squad, the majority just aren't good enough. Unless we do hire a world-class manager again, or bring in lots of quality in January; it's only going one way. Hell, even bringing in better players in January might not work if we keep being this shit (see West Brom last season).

We're shit right now, but I don't believe we'll ever be 'lose 5-1 to Rotherham' shit.

“True market value” is so widely open to interpretation, too. Who decides “true market value”, how is it assessed, is it assessed the same for everyone, etc. There’s so much to decide what does/doesn’t add/subtract from true market value in the context. Also, what independent market experts will be employed to determine it? It’s such BS. Imagine the firm I work in being offered a €5 million sponsorship deal in the morning, and the firm down the road from us protest and say “You can’t have that; it makes you more rich than us and gives you an advantage”. We’d laugh in their face, and even joke that they can try sue us for securing a better backing than them. Get fucked is what all these clubs shitting their pants at stronger competition can do.

If by some mad lunacy they did end up hiring Bruce, it would be fantastic. Finally, when he’s shat all over one of the biggest clubs in world football, everyone might finally see how bad he is.

Every day that passes I get more and more annoyed that this cunt isn’t gone yet. We need change, and it needs to come fast. Right now we’re on a fast track to relegation, we won’t win another match with Bruce in charge, we don’t have time to fuck around. This indecisiveness and/or time biding is costing us crucial points, and that will include any points from Saturday if he’s still there.

Surely he’s getting the boot after this. He’s got to. It’s very early days, but even still I’d be concerned about the decision-making of our new owners if he’s not binned immediately after this. There hasn’t been a better display of his incompetence as a manager. Every game with him in charge is another step towards championship football again.

The league’s big tv money pot is significantly funded by BEIN from Qatar, which is another country with questionable human rights issue. Yet, they don’t seem to be bothered about them funding the league. Scumbags.

I have to say, they’ve really not disappointed. Their rage, jealousy, and general fewwm is the best part of all this. I am enjoying all their crying the most out of everything so far. Their meltdown couldn’t be more hilarious. 8,000 posts of them fuming .