Sandrotastico

lol

Better tonight, got involved more and made a tackle I believe, saying that he was hardly great against the 10 men - some are talking like he's Zidane. Still needs to get in the box more often and with more conviction to score goals - or just decide to play as a dm. He feels like a luxury but I really hope he becomes that goalscoring 10 type we all crave.

Chuffed with that - fully deserved, even with the worst refereeing I've ever seen. Shocking all day.

Absolute waste of a shirt.

Still think he has a lot to prove - Really like him on the ball and other than a lack of pace he has the raw attributes to succeed. My biggest issue is a lack of desire and fight to take the game by the scruff of the neck, kick a defender back, hold off a challenge and yes...win a fucking header. Toughen up and show a little more bravery and he could be a real player, if EH can figure how where the hell he plays. As it stands, he's too lightweight, soft and rarely in the game - that's not everyone's fault but his own. If you can break even I'd reinvest 5% of the money in Danny Welbeck of DCL and you'll probably see more presence.

Very very good. Great movement in midfield and more control in general. Elanga, Willock and Ramsey very good!

Got to say, watching that you sometimes forget he's human. As ever he's so professional and a credit to the club. He looked almost in tears towards the end of that presser today. Like Keegan you can tell he's fell in love with the club and what it means - While I'm sure that's no reason to keep someone, it would be hard to find someone who is as invested, emotionally and mentally. Really hope he can find a way to get through this season and we get our shit together in the summer in terms of freshening things up and padding out the squad with better depth. I also hope he can evolve his own style to be. a little more varied and find the headspace to feel refreshed himself. He looks shattered.

Game has gone! fucking joke. Was loving that.

lol love this.

Some strike by an amazing player - would love a player like him, athletic, tough as boots, a team player and technically better than anything we have.

Dean Henderson going on like he won the world cup - lol

Think he did the running of about 4 players yesterday - he has been off the boil but he looks absolutely shot and at times, unsure what the hell he's doing. He should be told to focus on what he does best and that (to me) is a ball winning disciplined DM, not someone that over commits and leaves us in the shit, probably due to his frustration to try and make things happen. If he wants to go, then I'd sell - but there are 5-6 that should be sold before him. IMO

Neither of ours are pure strikers though, from what I see. I believe Wissa played most of his career as a wide left forward and Woltemade, well yeah - god knows. But I agree.

Talking of rebuilds For me - Keep Pope - backup if he wants to be. Tino - If we can. Hall Botman Thaiw Burn Bruno Miley Tonali - if we can. Barnes All the rest can go for me if suitable money comes in... Sadly that includes 4 we just bought, which highlights the poor summer we had. It's a big big job ahead.

Wise words!

Anyway - I hope he figures it out. Just hope he looks wider than only himself to fix what needs work - he looks wrecked of late.

True - maybe that could have been worded better. I guess I find it baffling that we are the test case. Nothing seems to evolve or change - if anything the football has gone backwards. The approach clashes with where we are aiming to be. Much of our approach is outfighting and out running the opposition, but when you run out of fight and run out of steam, you find there's very little football happening. Clearly, as is usually the case the club is still suffering from a jobs for the boys approach, rather than an elite, who is best for the job. I agee with the post above, for all Mitchells problems, a scouting framework and vision was not one - he called out 3-4 of the issues we have discussed for 5 years on here. Scouting, British tax, Academy, the death of every young hopeful and why we have a nephew of the manager, a forner assistent academy coach buying our playings. It's well and good when you're winning and finding gems like Bruno but it's open forum to question when the ideas run out and youve spent 200m on a reserve team.

and city....under pep Pepijn Lijnders (2025–present): Appointed as assistant manager in June 2025. Kolo Touré (2025–present): Joined the coaching staff in June 2025. Juanma Lillo (2020–2022, 2023–2025): Served two successful periods as assistant. Inigo Dominguez (2023–2025): Assistant coach. Enzo Maresca (2020–2021, 2022–2023): Coached under Guardiola before moving to Leicester City.

Some digging to back my earlier post... Not much changes - a former under 23 coach at Burnley is hardly a proven record to manage a team of internationals aspiring to be no 1. A nephew who is head scout or an academy (assistant) coach? Which do you excel at and why should be be charitable to find out while proven DOF's are forced out. Horses for courses, but it's hardly elite - Eddie s an elite manager and true professional I believe, but he needs a system of excellence around him rather than yes men. He's working harder and harder and not smarter.

He won a header!?

Has he been let down by those above or his own failings to mix up those around him - he's had more control than most managers in terms of the top to bottom structure of the club. He also spent 250m on not very much alongside his nephew. He's not been keen on listening to a DOF nor bringing in new ideas from those coaches he had in L2 of English football. Even Pep refreshes his coaches, especially when they have been found out. He's also too loyal to players and it's all catching up on us. It's stale and that's partly on him. I hope he turns it round, but he's had a fair support.

Steve Holland - not intented as a pop at Howe, moreso the team around him.

And a good coach?

far too many are soft as fuck if we're being honest - some look half arsed and need to step up the effort.

Just in from the match - our approach, tactics and formation, let alone the subs all screamed "I'm running out of ideas" and my playbook is empty. Let's just try school boy football of anyone, anywhere. Some of the players really don't help him either when they are bottling 50-50's. The front three were atrocious first halve and we must be one the easiest teams to cut through due to our lack of discipline, naivty and general lack of controling that round object. Piss poor, but it could have been any home game this season - they tend to all play out the same and nothing looks to be changing - we're banging our head off the very same wall.