RedArmy

Because any time we got a good CB we sold them to a big club.

BBD must have thought his agent was winding him up when he told him a premier league club was in for him. We’re playing with 10 men every week with that cart horse jogging about on the left wing.

Say it every week and I’ll say it again. Stephens Bednarek BBD Archer Do not belong in the premier league.

Yep. Clear to anyone with a set of eyes that our cbs should be ABK and THB

Our inability to sign a fucking goalscorer will send us straight back down.

He was barely good enough for the championship. Slow on his feet and slow in the brain.

Shoehorn playing everyone onside. Gimp

Fucking shit penalty

Because he’s a carthorse

Where else would a winger be playing?

We let him go because he’s a hotheaded luxury player that doesn’t naturally suit any position in the formations that Martin favours (433 and 352)

There’s no way we let Alcaraz go because we don’t use a 10 only to change to a formation that needs a 10 a couple of weeks later.

Hard to know with Burnley whether it was a financial or football decision. You’d expect Kompany to know whether he’s good enough for this level though. I think he’ll be a top CB but he needs to adjust to the speed of the PL quickly.

Djimi Traore won the champions league, what’s your point? It doesn’t suddenly make Bednarek or Stephens good enough for this league. If they were good enough we wouldn’t be playing 5 at the back in the first place.

This isn’t 2012 with a squad full of very obvious talent but a few players letting them down along with a manager that wasn’t quite ready and possibly feeling the effects of a chairman that wanted him out. That was an easy fix. This is a clusterfuck of a squad devoid of the talent required to compete at this level, a manager that’s out of his depth and suicidal tactics to boot.

Bednarek, Stephens, Smallbone, Aribo, Arma and BBD are nothing other than Championship players. Downes and THB I think can do a job in this league but they’re not quite there yet. THB needs to adjust to the speed of this league quickly. Downes was excellent at Newcastle but he’s struggled since. And still some unknowns with some of the other new signings. The only established Premier League talent this squad has got is Ramsdale who’s been here less than a week and KWP who isn’t playing in his preferred position.

I think the performances and tactics have been woeful but you’d struggle to find a manager in world football that would keep this squad up. It’s a championship squad with no goal threat.

Championship squad, championship tactics, championship manager.

Fuck off Martin this system is shit

Still persisting with that shit system

Put that formation in the bin and then we can talk.

But it was mostly peaceful. Sadiq Khan said it was a spectacular celebration. https://x.com/SadiqKhan/status/1827766697987617081

I’m not enjoying this either but there isn’t a system in world football that could turn this squad into one that wins more games than it loses in the premier league.

Looks like it would do well in the Championship

Would be a waste of money when we don’t have any attacking players or tactics.