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Apart from Sulemana who doesn’t deserve to wear the shirt, I’d say it’s probably our best possible lineup right now. Which speaks volumes because it’s pretty crap.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cz6dwwzn7vdo I doubt he’s off to Spurs

Also, there’s no way spurs are spending a combined £80m on a couple of kids. Both stories are just typical Spurs rumours designed to appease the fans by showing willing; I very much doubt there will be an end product for Spurs here

Sorry, who?

I do understand and largely sympathise with the sentiment but as others have said, playing only kids would be feeding them to lions - grossly unfair on those who’ve done nothing wrong and probably very damaging to their development. Im actually inclined to go the other way and force the senior pros and wantaways to play every second of this shit show in abject misery. We’re having to endure it, so should they

I wonder if he’s being uncharacteristically forthright because he knows we have someone lined up for next season? Easier to be vocal when you know any upset will only last 2 months maximum.

You paint this in a very binary way; just because Juric is terrible doesn’t mean that RM wasn’t and didn’t need removing. Or that Juric should stay. Yes the squad is easily one of (probably the) worst in the league, so relegation irrespective of tactics was probable. But, as Luton demonstrated (and dozens of lower league side in FA Cup history) there is a way to be competitive when you have inferior players. We've had one guy obsessed with passing it endlessly a few yards from our own goal, risky when you’re the better footballing team, utterly mental when you’re not. We kept on losing the ball as predicted and surrendered multiple chances every game. Which at this level we’re ruthlessly converted. RM refused to acknowledge or change. He had to go. Juric is equally obsessed and wedded to a suicidal tactic, albeit a different type. 3 defenders, but man marking so despite the numbers there’s no defensive shape and at times a huge gaping fucking hole in the middle of the defence. Meanwhile the formation doesn’t allow room for your most threatening players playing in their best positions (Fernandes and Dibling) and when you try and shoe horn them in can only do so by not playing a striker at all. Its mental. There are alternatives that would have been better and would still be better. No tactics would change this team from likely relegation to championship challengers but we could have been competitive and not going down as the worst team ever. Playing a back 4, three central midfielders (one being Fernandes getting forward), 2 threatening wide players and a central striker would provide shape, numbers in midfield and a threat. We’d lose more than we’d win, we’d go down, but we’d at least make a game of it. Just because neither of the previous two managers have been able to adopt this simple strategy (except Juric last week when we played better - go figure) doesn’t mean there is no one alive who could. Half the stadium can see this and would manage us better right now, let alone a reserve coach. Literally every single game is pointless right now. We could concede every remaining game 3-0 as it stands right now and probably finish on the same points and better goal difference than if we continue under Juric. The squad isn’t good enough, the recruitment horrific, we’ve not managed to replace Ings in 4+ years or Fonte in over 5. And our bosses seem incapable of identifying anyone other than a lunatic or bonkers formation-obsessed intransigent knobhead as a manager. So yes, relegation was always likely. But this doesn’t absolve Juric of responsibility for being a bonkers formation-obsessed intransigent knobhead. He has to go.

100% this

Don’t actually recall him doing that? I only remember him calling out the fans as being clueless for cheering when we cleared long against Liverpool and Villa. Which demonstrated just how humble and classy he is. Interesting piece, focussing on what spurs did wrong but never once showed the breadth of thinking to consider a) what do you do as a manager when your players continually let you down because they’re not good enough? Persist, lose confidence, get worse, or adapt to protect and grind results? b) what do you do for all the other facets of the game, of which there are many? Or are you so fixated on the starting of every phase at the back that you pick players solely on this and forget about the need to have anyone who can defend, save, tackle, create a chance, score a goal, defend a set piece, attack a set piece etc. (I’m aware we scored plenty last season - I’m being somewhat facetious) Russell sounded good last night from a certain angle but then his football in theory is wonderful. And when you have the better players it can work. But in the real world it’s flawed, and it’s high risk so liable to be badly exposed when you don’t have the best players. So you need to adapt. Which he doesn’t sound like he’s ever going to. Good luck to whichever team next employs him, I’m just glad it’s over for us.

Think you’ve touched a nerve, Fabrice - Turkish has brought back the “pal” response 😂

Game day - who’s buzzing?

For all the talk of laying all the blame at Kraft and cutting Rasmus some slack, wasn’t it Rasmus who personally owned the pursuit of Nathan Jones and our January 2023 transfer window? More than anything it was these two debacles that caused our relegation and current plight. This season has been a shit-show for sure, but SR have miss-managed us from day 1, when Rasmus was very definitely up to his neck in the decision making. Hes a self-inflated moron.