Dr Jinx

We are actually the worst team in the league. I knew we were bad but I always sort of thought there were a few just a little bit worse, not this season though.

That’s simply not to shit on the players who are going to be playing against Leeds. He’s not stupid. He repeatedly said it in the press conference too about the most important players being the ones already there.. trust me, he’ll replace every single one of them given time. Once Thursday afternoon passed by with no major progress, they’ll have backed off.. if they can agree a few deals after the weekend would be way better to bed them in before the next game rather then the mayhem of the Leeds match?

Players like Lingard and Dele Alli are icing on the cake type players, they are not going to cover the cracks of having Shelvey and Longstaff sauntering around the pitch aimlessly. We need to be looking at players who can protect the defence

Strange that a player of that quality would be available on loan, his contract runs out in 2023 so maybe would be a better idea hoy a bid in. West Ham were linked with him a few weeks back, the price was £14m, so probably 30 for us..

I mean the claim that she violated an agreement, i can't remember one instance where she criticised him. Saying she couldn't wait to get rid of the SD signage would be impossible to link to a personal criticism, she said the training ground needed an upgrade, again stating facts, not a personal criticism. I think it's a case of him being butt hurt over the way the removal of the signs was teased on social media, as yes it does paint SD for being an eyesore, but again, not a personal criticism so impossible to prove.

Seems spurious. She's gone out of her way to thank him for helping the takeover to go through.

Lingard looked good at West Ham when Declan Rice was cleaning up everything in the midfield and playing simple passes through the middle for him to run onto. We have nothing like that here.

Aside from the new signings, every single player in the side minus Wilson and ASM needs to be cut loose. Its like having black mould on your walls and only painting over a bit of it.. it still remains and will spread quickly.

It’s mental that literally nothing has happened this week

The more the season goes on the more it seems like Steve Bruce sabotaged us from pre season. It’s not just one or two players, it’s the whole squad.. whoever is playing, we’re running on fumes from 70 mins. So what can Howe do about it, he has no chance to rest players before building up their fitness.. players are literally limping from one week to the next. Lascelles running in treacle last week, he was never that slow before, clumsy yes but never that slow. So what is it? a) unreported covid outbreak in pre season? Players with long covid symptoms. b) vaccines did something to them c) trained so badly in pre season it’s affected them for the whole season. d) they’ve downed tools knowing they are eventually going to be replaced with a core of the players happy to take us down as it might extend their careers here (far fetched but not impossible) e) Eddie Howe isn’t much better than Steve Bruce? ?‍♂️

Jesus Christ man, have a word with yourself. Eddie Howe is not a pfm, he’s falling back on England based players because nobody wants to deal with us in this window. The playing side of the club are in a shambles and most of the players who could be truly regarded as upgrades won’t come right now because of the league table, the ones that are here seem happy with extending their careers here if we go down. Cant think of a harder job in football right now.

I’d be happy enough to have Dummett at LB if he could stay fit. He’s way better than Lewis or Ritchie. The issue is that he’ll play a few games and then be out for months, so if Targett is basically a Dummett who can stay fit then I have no issue with that.

He supports West Ham iirc, that’s the move he wants, they just don’t seem to have the money right now. If they finish top 4 that will change obviously. He waits I reckon.

When Abramovich bought Chelsea, he hired Kenyon from Man Utd within 3 months. Knocked a chunk off their share price and ended up pinching several deals they had worked on. It was a fairly solid short to medium term move. The consortium should have done this earlier, not necessarily Kenyon but at least he would have had the experience of a similar project and would be far more used to negotiating with other clubs than our highly inexperienced current setup is. The comments Emery made are probably accurate, there may not be a clear objective/vision right now, or at least it’s not being communicated as well as it could. I don’t think it’s a case of egos at work that they haven’t been decisive here, but just that the threat of relegation is stifling everything and that in itself is making relegation all the more serious. We need to catch a break.

He was at least a foot onside.

I suspect Federico being available has also strengthened the negotiations from our side, I mean having to get the deal done before Leeds. They are on a clock too.. they’ll have to replace him so the pressure is on them too.

Sevilla are literally going for the league, only 4/5 points off Madrid.. if I was them I wouldn’t sell either, or if I was I’d be making sure I got what I wanted from the deal. We will keep haggling until time is against us, which it almost is by now. Everything else that’s popped up over the course this month is agents trying to drive up interest in their underperforming overpaid dickheads. We’re stupid to fall for it

Not after the last game.

The team have consistently fallen apart from around 70 minutes all season. The fitness and conditioning is so poor, Willock is another example of that. Looks overweight compared to last year, slower, lethargic, clumsy on the ball. If we assume this is down to how Steve Bruce prepared them for the season, how can we undo all of that mid season?

Good shout on Carvalho, superb player. Ah if Woodgate wasn’t made of glass.. what could have been. Selling him at the time seemed like such a step backwards but he wouldn’t have played all that much. We just never replaced him

Rio is probably the closest in terms of style to a VVD but I’d rather have a Terry or a Vidic. Or actually going back a bit further, none were as good as Jaap Stam or Tony Adams

I agree but there’s few teams out there that have talent that can compare to someone like that, he’s going to be making mistakes at a whole bunch of clubs and essentially, well hypothetically, if he’s making regular errors, he’s not the same player all of a sudden, he’s not invincible, he gets slagged off by the pundits and the confidence drops. We can see that with Harry Maguire, who is a beast of a player. He’s let mistakes into his game because he’s playing in a crap underperforming team and over a 2 year period, his stock has dropped significantly because of this. Move him to City or Chelsea and he’s a different player imho.

Every single one of them have negative points, you take VVD out of Liverpool and stick him in Man Utd defence and he’ll look half the player all of a sudden. It’s about playing style, how they compliment those around them etc. Bringing in Botman and Carlos is a massive risk because nobody has any idea how they will play together, communicate etc. That goes for whoever we bring in. What we know though is what we currently have we cannot continue with which is why a gamble is perfectly fine in this instance.

Whacked out of it on goofballs this lad

The issue with just giving up on this season, which is ludicrous by the way, we're a win from being out of the bottom 3.. well the issue is building a side to get out of the championship and then having to rebuild again the following season. They have to go for broke, they'll get most of the transfer money back when these players leave in the summer if it's a worst case scenario.