Maggies

Would be a great back-up keeper signing. The drop off between Pope to Dubravka was huge! Also - interesting that a club which needs to sell by 1st July is throwing around £16m bids

Sky trying to drum up some transfer interest as absolutely nothing else transfer related is happening.

Lewis Hall knee slide in league cup is hard to beat

The problem for the Premier League is just how rich our owners are. Even Reubens as our minority owner are still richer than majority if not all of the other clubs. Our main owner is rich enough to buy every football club in England, many times over. Current rules are too restrictive for ambitious clubs. Even promoted clubs with no parachute payments will struggle. Equally, having no rules will make mean only ourselves and Man City can compete, with rest of the clubs winning the odd trophy. Where do you draw the line? It needs to be a lot more relaxed then where it is currently drawn.

Agreed - Saudi are aiming to host the World Cup in 2034, and everything will be leading up to that moment. Just need to worry less and enjoy the journey as much as possible.

22/23 we also had 3rd worst injury record. Having less football due to not being Europe will help, but there’s something more fundamentally wrong at the club which needs resolved.

Disaster of a season is probably too extreme. But if we do want to win trophies, then every year we’re not in Europe, the revenue gap grows and it becomes harder. Silverstone said it himself. Making seasons like this unacceptable.

Concludes a disaster of a season. If we’re genuinely going to be competing for trophies, seasons like this are unacceptable. Any credit Howe had in the bank from last season is now long gone.

Another Ashworth masterclass! Bloody idiot.

Almiron is so shit

Referees have also got worse with VAR as they don’t make contentious decisions, as they know VAR will sort it out for them. It should work of for offsides and goal line technology. For offsides, I would make it like “umpires call” in cricket where if it’s a close one then onfield decision stands.

I can’t help but having a nagging doubt whether he’s the manager to take us to the next level. Too many injuries since he arrived, poor away performances, defensively sloppy and stubbornness to change obvious problems in our starting xi. However, we are entertaining to watch and finished top 4 last season. In my humble view, I think he has enough credit in the bank to see how the start of next season goes…

Must win game. Failure to qualify for Europe should be our minimum expectation now if we want be serious about competing.

We finished the half strongly. I don’t mind Eddie giving it 5 mins but should be no more than that

Agreed, seemed to pre-empt an inswinging cross from Diallo.

Hopefully sooner than the usual triple sub after 60 minutes shite

Crap today. Poor starting team. Didn’t change early enough. When he did no reason to take Isak off. Killed the momentum and crowd.

Nothing today showed he was leaving. I’m anything, zero goodbyes on lap of honour.

Remember tracking a Mike Ashley flight that went over to Saudi and landed in Dubai… spent hours watching the thing move pixel by pixel. Desperate time indeed.

If Chelsea pip us. We’ll be relying on Man City winning the FA Cup for European football.

The biggest signings we could make are a physio department who can keep our current players fit.

Kraft and Murphy pinned back and not technically competent enough to play out of pressure. Causing midfield to be overran and no support for attackers. Livramento/Hall should have started - this ones on Howe.

Horrendous.