Chez

Funnily enough I typed `could be another Puel Mark II situation', but deleted it.

I'm with you L-O-S-S, I think money is tight, but what kind of net spend would prove otherwise? How much do you think we will have to spend, should we not sell Salisu - without some sort of owner cash injection (which I can't see happening, other than a bridging loan to sign a player before we sell another)?

They started brightly, but overall have ben pretty shite. They were terrible at our place. They don't score any goals. Boring as fuck. Very little up front.

to be fair, no one is going to turn this side around in time to do anything against Liverpool. You could drill them all day, all week and it would still nit be enough.

yet he got criticised on here this week for being honest. He's got no chance.

Forster-like contract.

No, he is that bad. I really like some elements of his game the way he positions himself scholes-like to shield the ball, decent first touch and moves the ball quickly, but I watch him closely and he hasnt a clue how to play the position. His positional play is shocking. he provides very little cover to CBs.

I wouldn't be too sure. We have £100m debt, we lost a shed load last year, gonna earn almost the minimum from league position, so its down to player sales. I am sure you don't want Salisu, KWP or JWP to depart. Where else is this money coming from?

no. two.

yeah, we had a few chances, like they did, ,but it wasn't just the goals conceded, it was the number of times they broke and had a man free, which the man with the ball often didn't find. If they had, it could have been much worse. Did we ever catch them on the break? Were we ever one on one with a CB? Were we fuck.

can't see us getting another point. We are relying on others.

Diallo aint up to it. I love Romeu, but he's been terrible, so I can understand why Diallo got a chance, but you are right, he can't be trusted in a 2. Sadly in a 3 he looks lost. One of many positions we need to strengthen. Armstrong is not CM. That leaves us with 2 plus Diallo. Same with left back, we just keep ignoring it because we don't have the funds to upgrade.

we were lucky it was only 2 though IMO.

We really can't. We need every penny of that £12m to buy players, especially as the £10m we might have got if we'd been higher up the league has disappeared.

I honesty don't think they are on the beach. They just are not very good. As a team we don't know what we are doing any more. Fullbacks attack, but no one covers. Midfield loses the ball and leave CBs exposed. The back four don't keep a good line. Players get drawn across, midfield don't track runners leaving defenders overloaded. We have no idea how to defend set pieces. The whole `do nothing and hope someone is offside' failed totally today...the list goes on. It's just ugly in terms of our set up. What makes it worse is that considering how open we are, we create very little. Slightly better today, but Brentford are themselves not the greatest defensive side.

£7m a year and two years on his contract says he doesn't.

He's had a poor season. Took a fucking age to get going, played a few good games. then has been pretty poor again. I like him, but he just hasn't done it. Not sure Ralph has to take the blame for every player not being great.

Stuart Armstrong has been shite.

AA has been rubbish. Nice finish, but everything else shite. Still wouldn't bring Long on. he offers absolutely nothing.

The back four just do not work well together. Fullbacks miles up the pitch, CBs drop deep, players kept onside.

Jesus H. Christ. Diallo you fucking prick. Don't stick you hand up because you think Broja has been fouled, see the danger and do your fucking job. Criminal. I'm sorry, but he just ain't a defensive midfielder. he doesn't have it. Always wrong side, doesn't track runners...

Nice strike. Hopefully he takes some confidence from that.

Any chance someone can mark Toney et al at set pieces?

Agreed. Stuart giving the ball away cheaply and Adam just looking very rusty. My stream is behind so not seen his dissallowed goal yet

I've been impressed with Broja, working hard, causing probems, but fluffed his two chances. JWP battling hard there. There is some effort at least.