Greedyfly

This echoes my thoughts on him. Not sure a good performance against a championship team has actually changed my mind but he displayed the attributes, or potential, of a good striker.

Please let it be this.

This sums the game up, not just Djenepo. No idea why our defence keeps changing and Djenepo isn't a ****ing left back. Mind you, neither is Vest. Generally nice going forwards. Awful at the back.

I found it a bit hit and miss in terms of consistency too. Sure there's everything you could want on there football wise but the streams wouldn't always work 90mins.

Not sure if this is a typo, I've misunderstood or what but no, he hasn't. Moi = 701 mins Sims = 136 this season and 509 in total. Stats according to fotmob.

My God this a thousand times. We are so bloody pedestrian at times it's criminal. We've needed pace in midfield since forever and it wouldn't go amiss up front also.

He has no end product because uh, he's produced nothing (0 goals and assists). Those stats are also bull**** when you consider that he's been successful with exactly half of his dribbling attempts (stats I've already produced). It's that simple. And if you think otherwise, you're the one severely lacking in intelligence. Also, 'playing as well as he ever has', is hardly ****ing high praise is it. I guess some people are impressed with mediocrity.

Lol probably saying the same thing then. TO be honest I'd rather have Boufal than either and then Armstrong. The rest though are just so embarrassingly poor it's not worth arguing about.

This is basically it, yeah. But I have to say Redmond gets more of a free ticket than most and has never produced anything to suggest he's a competent Prem midfielder.

More mess. Redmond doesn't actually have any pace. He's actually not that rapid. He also doesn't drag players out of position because they know he'll run down a blind alley. The only reason he's ever gotten a look in is because he's English. If he was foreign he would have been left out in the rain after his dismal performances with Norwich. Funny how Boufal was never afforded this kind of patience or loyalty. Also this isn't advocating the inclusion of JWP either, who's also average. To be fair both are average prem players and we are a below average team so we're getting exactly what we deserve but lets not actually pretend either are any good, we've been doing that for years and with little to show for it.

He does indeed. There's actual substance to what he says as opposed to 'keep ball' and 'pass it'.

Some do. Which is when his dribbling and wing play stats are also **** you have to probably conclude that really, he's a bit ****.

Well I am glad you asked... He's played a rather pathetic 22 key passes (not xGs passes that is, still working on that) in 14 games, has a 50% shots on target ratio (a massive 5), and for all his 'pace' and 'trickery' has a HUGE 53% conversion of dribbles. The guy is bog average. Plain and simple. Oh and of course the two statistics all the sympathisers want to seemingly overlook; 0 goals and 0 assists.

It's almost as if they see it as a challenge or achievement. Still, I'm happy that useless twot has gone. Some of the names doing the rounds though...eeesh. see statement above

Be a lad and bring Mitchell with ya.

That's exactly what will happen. It's the same pattern as last season

Likewise. Usually a pretty apt website depending on who has written the article.

Not a surprising read is it, but a sadistically funny one!

https://www.football365.com/news/f365-says-time-is-ticking-for-mark-hughes-to-make-history

Just gonna leave this here... https://www.football365.com/news/f365s-early-loser-mark-hughes-on-the-brink-of-history

A stick?

Leicester was pretty toss as was Everton. So I stand by the comment that Swansea essentially kept us up by being more crap than we were just at the right time. We won’t keep getting that fortunate. And it was no more nightmarish than anyone else. Also, are we to pretend he has had a ‘nightmare’ start this season? He’s now a shi* manager doing a shi* job. And the names being bandied about would be shi* appointments too. If anyone (and I’ve seen Bruce being mentioned today to go along with all the other dinosaurs which is depressing) from our management board are seriously considering any of them then it shows how out of touch they are and how much we are no longer a progressive thinking club.

Don't agree with you on the other thread but right with you on this one. Swansea kept us up.

It's 11 games in, we're not even in the bottom 3 and there is some absolute dross in this league in which we only have to beat three. It should be plausible to appoint someone with a longer term view, whilst maintaining our Prem status, and we should be looking at just about anyone else other than BFS/Bruce/WGS/Moyes who 'may' keep us up but then would expect a ****ing contract next year - and here we are again having the same conversation in 2019. It should be pointed out that all of those names above have been on the dwindle for some time. They also aren't the only people in management who have the ability to motivate, and thinking so is blinkered (and lead to this current **** heap)...in fact I'd say it was a bloody prerequisite of being a manager.

BFS is precisely Mark Hughes in a different suit and a dinosaur from a different age. He might well have been a handy manager back in his Bolton days but football has moved on. This appointment would do nothing for our image or long term fortunes, and anyone thinking otherwise is also stuck in the 90’s. As for throwaway comments: Everton weren't facing relegation when he took over. They were 6 points above the bottom 3 having spent a sackful and were a formation change away from being competent in a bog standard league (they had just pumped West Ham 4-0). They'd also just played 14 games. Are we really not seeing the similarities between us and Sunderland. Stop appointing ****, out of work dinosaurs and try something a bit different. It might well backfire but I think in the long term it's for the best.