Dr Jinx

Makes sure Almiron is even more wasted than normal too. Possibly because he’s been utter dogshit since he joined and even those who gave him minutiae of a chance are sick of him lumbering about doing f*** all and wasting a shirt. Yep I wanted him to do well. Made excuses for his poor form but it’s clear to see now that he’ll never be a good player, not in this league. He doesn’t have the pace or the mentality to worry any team.

I still can’t get my head around his transfer fee. He’s about as lethargic as the rest of the team (Almiron aside) now and going through the motions. Can really say it about almost all of Bruce’s signings.. they’ve looked ok in the first game and then once the coaching sets in, it’s a sharp decline.

Dust ourselves down ✅ We’ve defended well, in the first half at least ✅ Missing our best player ✅ It’s just finding that balance ✅

Here comes the silage heap now in a moment!

They need a few more goals, 4, 5, 6.. anything less and he’ll trot out the “we were right in it up until the last 10 minutes I thought”

They’re a bunch of cowards. Zero leadership going on at this club from top to bottom.

Only a matter of time now. Let’s hope the reason Ashley hasn’t pulled the plug is because there’s an imminent change happening and they’ll want to negotiate with their own choice etc.. I think if he had info that this takeover debacle was to drag on another 6 months he’d move on trying to protect his asset. Don’t forget, it’s a 120m profit he’s going to make on this club. That’s what he cares about

He’s not getting sacked. At least not until late March when the damage will have been done. The only way we can stay up is if the club sanctions a few transfers, particularly in central midfield.. and of course getting ASM back in the land of the living

The silage heap gone yet?

Already done a few pages back!

Almost as cringey as the Twitter handles referencing MBS

Yes but are either likely to accept a short term deal? The rest, which it’s terrifying to say probably are on a par with Bruce when it comes to ability/results. What would be the point. The club can only sack him if they have a viable replacement who will take a 7 month contract. In a different reality we sack him and get a capable manager in, this to me would signal something positive on the takeover front.

Would hardly say Howe was "exposed" like. Well he relegated a team. It’s not really what you want as a managers most recent accomplishment. I do think he’s a good coach but he needs a job to build up his confidence. This shit heap would ruin him

Howe, Farke and Thomas Frank are the three obvious candidates. Aye the Brentford manager looks like he’s an up and coming. There’s no way the club would be paying compensation to anyone though so it will be someone unemployed and hopefully willing to accept a short term contract

British managers available, Hughes, Howe, McLeish, Martin O’Neill, Nigel Pearson, Pardew, Pulis. All exposed over the last number of seasons. Ex Everton manager Marco Silva could be an option. He was doing quite well there for a time, just not quickly enough for their new owners.

Right so if he gets sacked, who replaces him? Realistic answers..

He sounds like he’s asking to be put out of his misery

He knows he’s utter wank at this level. Just waiting for his pay off. This may well be his last PL job. He doesn’t give a rats arse about this club, or any other club he’s managed. He thought he’d go out and earn his stripes and the Man Utd job would come calling. It never did and he’s not really given a shit about his work ever since. Football management is such a weird industry where blatant goons can earn such large sums of money. Entertainment (music, movies) is the only other gig to rival it.

We already knew the arbitration proceedings had commenced. All parties can settle this at any point before that though. Whatever he means by “the matter” is what’s key here. He may not be specifically referring to arbitration but rather the whole takeover debacle. De Marco will have an open dialogue with the PL’s legal team and will be letting them know how strong a case they are building and what follow up claims will happen if the PL are to continue dragging this out. There will be a point (which might have happened already) where the PL chief counsel knocks on Masters door and instructs him to let this through.

There’s no way a British manager should be even mentioned in replacing this cunt. None of them are good enough. A good few better than Bruce but it’s a very low bar.

Which one is Simon Bird

I’m not at all concerned by the supposed loss as the whole thing stinks anyway. What’s more concerning is that he’s taking up a squad place. They should try and do a swap loan deal, send him to Leicester and we get Slimani for 6 months (which is when his contract expires btw)

It won’t be like before. Too much riding on it now. If things don’t pick up by end of this month he’ll be gone.

There has to be something iffy with the deal. Did Hoffenheim need a big fee to balance the books on paper after maybe having a surplus elsewhere they shouldn’t have? There is just no way any scout could watch him and persuade Mike Ashley to part with 40 million quid. Not a chance.

I thought having Wilson taking the heat might bring out some form but he just doesn’t have it. Not in this league, too slow, not sharp enough, zero ambition to score regularly. It’s quite frustrating because he seems to have the tools which would make it work for him but he can’t seem to piece it together. I don’t know if that’s because he’s not fit, he obviously was doing something right in Germany. I don’t dislike him, he always puts a shift in but he’s just not effective. I think it’s time to move him on.. a better manager might get more from him but I’m really just looking for reasons/excuses. It didn’t work out.