James

Absolutely. Would rather see Sims/McQ or Hesketh on over Redmond every game.

We've got to spend the Virgil cash wisely but we can't allow Pellegrino to be the one to spend it.

Pellegrino confirms Austin will be out "for a long time". Oh dear.

It seems we caught City on an "off" day - they had a bit of a wobble (be their standards) when they played against us and then West Ham. We credited the narrow defeat to some sort of tactical inspiration by Pell because it came immediately after the 4-1 against Everton. Yes, we had some players out today but we are going to sell Van Dijk so it was still our first choice CB pairing out there today.

Exactly. Reminds me of when we had Jason Euell and he got dogs abuse for being total s*it when he was our highest earner. He didn't care a jot about us and it showed whereas players like Bennett (who was equally awful) got support because you could tell he was trying but just wasn't very good.

Probably because he has been consistently awful all season. I'm struggling to think of any positive contribution he's made except for the run against Huddersfield. The other players you've listed have all turned in decent performances at some point this season. Redmond's terrible attitude on the pitch doesn't help him - his first reaction is to mouth off to someone else. Also, Forster gets his fair share of ironic cheering from the fans so its hardly unique treatment.

He literally set up one of the Spurs goals from the edge of their penalty area. There were some shocking performances out there but that was a dreadful mistake to make.

He's been on the verge of making the mistake he made today all season. Terribly limited player.

That may be right but the whole "fans who wanted Puel out are getting what they deserved" is tiresome and wrong. Nobody asked for Pellegrino to be inflicted upon us.

That may be right but the whole "fans who wanted Puel out are getting what they deserved" is tiresome and wrong. Nobody asked for Pellegrino to be inflicted upon us.

Says everything about the quality of the manager/coaching when you set up as defensively as we did at the start and still concede 5 goals.

Those two mistakes by Lloris will have bought Pellegrino more time. It was an awful performance but can't see us sacking Pell until after Palace at home at the earliest.

This is what he will say.

But, I presume nobody said they wanted relegation which is ultimately what Pellegrino will bring us.

Not really sure that this is a time for the Puel in/out camps to be scoring points off each other. Whatever happened last year, nobody asked for an incompetent manager like Pellegrino to be appointed.

It is relatively easy to play when you're 5-1 down against a team playing at walking pace.

Just hope that a couple of goalkeeping mistake goals don't blind our board to how bad this has been.

Nice to see Shane taking the limelight off Redmond by setting them up with a top quality defensive header. Laughable how many basic mistakes we've made today. We are seriously lucky its only 5.

**** me how did Long not get that. Jesus.

Ah JWP on - that will make all the difference here.

The equivalent of having to chip it over a bag of spuds. Awful.

6/7-1 and surely he has to go?

There it is 5-1 with half an hour left....

I agree that we certainly won't under Pellegrino. We might under a new manager with the "new manager bounce".

Decent strike that from Boufal. Kind of funny that we score the second Redmond goes off.