unmartillo wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 11:06 pm Seems simple to me. Play like that every week, I'm happy whether we win or lose.

Simply we cannot do it when he only trusts 13/14 players. We will pay the piper on sunday (again)

Lopetegui? Wouldn’t be on my list, but I don’t think you can measure him based on his time at Wolves. They were a car crash and he kept them up. Not much different to Moyes when he came back. Who knows how he’d set up with a better squad. It would also be at least in the same ballpark as Moyes in te...

I think they are two different points. Is Moyes doing well against the level of spend? Yes. Would he do better and would the team play better if we spent more? I’m not convinced. When he has had more depth, he has barely used it. Would a few more players getting 20 minutes here and there make much o...

Watched Man City a few times this season, and I genuinely struggle to see what he will offer them. I don't see where he fits there. He also seems to be too undisciplined to be a Pep type of player. He is undoubtably very good for us when he is on it, but for Man City? I don't see it. For me he slot...

Personally I don't think whether we are in Europe or not (unless Champions League) will have much impact on our ability to attract players Conference League and Europa League is unlikely ti be a sway for the best players we can aim for, and then for the players in the level below that playing in Pr...

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...