I find it interesting how the tone has changed since the Man City links resurfaced. Things he is being pulled up now which have always been part of his game but went unmentioned. The stats also paint a picture of a player being asked to do more. More passes per game than last season. More through ba...

Zman39 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:01 pm People seem to forget how often disappeared Di Canio disappeared in away games

And those were the ones he bothered to turn up for!

Pining for something that you've never really had.... is a rather tragic look. While I agree that the football purist revisionism about the club tends to grate, for me the side is a worse watch now than a couple of seasons ago. We have some better individuals who are match winners but the team isn'...

Was speaking to a colleague yesterday who has a close link into the squad and I mentioned the rumour on here. His response was “that suggests there was some doubt about whether he’d stay”. Sounds like it may have been decided a long time ago.

DusseldorfHammer wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 2:12 pm If the club is looking for a change, the current contractual situation of the next head coach/manager should not be a factor.

It shouldn’t and yet…

I see why people want Potter, but he isn’t for me. I find his football really dull and his teams don’t trouble the opposition goal enough. He earned his stripes though. Fonseca Is an interesting one. Gut feel it wouldn’t work but it would certainly be a breath of fresh air in terms of style. Worth t...

I know this isn’t the point of your post, but it’s also worth highlighting the transfer windows during their managerial terms where no funds were made available when we had the chance to push on You’d almost think that the board are trying to slow our managers’ successes when we are in a promising ...

Yeah but there is a reason 99% of clubs, owners, pundits, journos, players, fans etc would choose De Zerbi over Moyes. And its not because 99% are all wrong and some West Ham fans are right. Moyes has done wonders but De Zerbi is clearly a better coach and tactician, hence everyone in football laud...

I think we have crossed the tipping point. I just hope the club moves quickly in the next appointment and backs him. Sullivan isn't usually too bad in terms of financial support for a new manager so it is just the nagging doubt as to whether someone of the right quality will work with him. But we ne...

Indeed mate, and while I've been offering an honest opinion you seem to have it in your mind that I'm trying to score internet points/have some sort of agenda/haven't criticised other players enough that you've deemed worse offenders than JWP. So I'll leave it there. Not at all mate, my post was a ...

the pink palermo wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:34 pm Perhaps it may now sink in.

When your four CBs each have defensive frailties to the extent ours do, you play a low block.

When you dont, you lose.

We’ve conceded in the last 13 PP. Not sure it matters what type of block we deploy when it is made of ice on a hot day!

A decent few to be fair. When I say recently, I mean the last 3-4 months, not the last couple of weeks. His set pieces have been under his normal high standard. He's also been subbed a few times lately, where before Moyes would always leave him on for the full ninety, which is probably an indicator...

'stone hammer wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:11 pm Yep I'll give him that, further up the pitch seems to be his best position. Great at pressing.



Might as well pack up and go home then

I think it's fair to point and say he's not been great lately.

Who has been consistently good recently? Short list sadly.

Johnny Byrne's Boots wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:34 pm ^^^^Hardly £85M stats...

In the role he’ll play for Man City he will be. In the role for us not so much.

Genuine question: Is he better than Flynn Downes? 13 goal contributions, near 90% pass completion, 2.3 combined tackles and interceptions per match. Yes he really is. Does Downes have 13 goal contributions in his career? Too many on here waiting for him to have a lean spell so they can yell “SEE, I...

He's really not the player I hoped he was. Take away the set pieces (which he largely has, recently) and you're left with very little. Not even close to Noble for me. I think we saw the best of his open play early in the season. Interceptions made higher up the pitch and first time passes to releas...

I genuinely thought we played really well up until a point. Antonio, Mavropanos and Paqueta being idiots isn’t on the manager today imo.. It isn’t. So many brain farts this season though especially at the back. I don’t think Moyes has got a handle on it. 13th league match in a row where we’ve conce...

The squad size has to be in some part his responsibility as well. The degree to which it his responsibility only he and Sullivan know, but at least a degree of the state of the squad has to be his responsibility. Done forget that when we had our last Europa run he admitted that he declined to use t...

Somehow there are still misconceptions around him, I guess because he is Brazilian. He isn’t and never will be what some on here want him to be. That has bugger all to do with tactics or the manager and everything to do with people forming a view they refuse to deviate from. See just about any other...

steps wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 6:59 pm How in god’s name is that a penalty?

Because it is Manchester United and they were losing.

Shocking decision.