Whitey Grandad

Did Kat choose which players to buy, pick the team and tell them how to play?

The five years bit is just to increase their value when they’re sold. It doesn’t mean that we expect them to be here that long. VVD was on a five year contract and look what happened to him.

I don’t agree that the lack of a goalscorer was the problem. It was the awful, dire turgid football that we had to endure.

Nobody likes to hear ‘I told you so’ But you told us so.

Indeed, but they all have to play as a unit.

Absolutely this. This clown of a manager is unfit for purpose. We should get our money back.

It depends if they are on relegation clauses.

This is the crux of it. It’s a piece of **** for two centre halves to take the ball off a single centre forward. It’s what my dad used to call two-ing him, one makes the challenge and the other picks up the loose ball.

Better late than never

As they said on MOTD, “It’s all possession football with no goal at the end of it”

I was taking it as a given that we would have new management.

Normally the chairman, possibly in consultation with the owners.

Saturday matches, 3 o’clock kickoffs, proper football.

This is down to more than one person.

I’ll do it for £1.5m I couldn’t do any worse.

Another clean sheet. For the opposition.

But then their second string will be playing for a place in the final.

We used to be known as a side that played attractive attacking football. Nobody would pay to watch us these days except for the chronically dedicated.

In other words 'throw money down the drain'.

There was a reference to a Pep Guardiola quote last night during the Man City game. Something along the lines of 'The object of the game is to get the ball into the other team's net. How you do it is not important [so let me do it my way, or something]' I came upon this exhaustive exhamination of Bielsa'sfootballing philosophy: http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/share-download-fm-17-tactics/363445-revolutionary-marcelo-el-loco-bielsas-3-3-3-1-a.html

It takes a lot of practice to get that wrong.

No, he had plenty of opportunities to change his style and philosophy. When you realise you’re heading in the wrong direction the first thing you do is change course.

Me too.

From The Times this morning: "Josh Sims, making his first league start since November 2016, was right when he said that this squad were too talented to go down, but that only makes their malaise under Mauricio Pellegrino all the more perplexing. They were beyond awful in the first half on Saturday. Too many players are underperforming but the biggest issue is the game plan, or lack of it. Why are a team containing sprightly, attack-minded players such as Nathan Redmond and Dusan Tadic making a concerted effort to build up slowly? Pellegrino has made them ponderous. Too often the holding midfielders, Mario Lemina and Oriol Romeu, are playing the ball backwards and sideways rather than advancing. There was a drastic improvement in the second half, as if the players’ leash had been taken off. Pellegrino said that his players “must use the second half as a reference for the future” but it is hard to imagine that happening when they have not put together a consistently good 90 minutes since defeating Everton 4-1 in November."

You don’t buy a Premier League club in order to make money. You buy it for prestige.