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Prob still thinks he’s average and Forster has only been poor because of injury/loss of confidence/form etc.

I think Niko Kovac got it

There’s gonna be changes but I wouldn’t just ‘football manager’ an entire squad out of the door, agreed. I personally think they’ve been grossly mismanaged and with a few additions (some enforced, some not), we can still be a top half team competing for the ‘best of the rest’ title.

Get rid of: Reed, Krueger, Wilson, Watson. Replace them with normal human beings with a particular nous at their jobs. I’d love to look for a new manager but Mark Hughes has more than earned his opportunity - 3 year contracts to him and his staff.p Move on Forster, Hoedt, Carillo, Clasie, Davis, Gardos. Attempt to reintegrate Boufal but if he’s a d1ck, get rid and replace with a Mane style player with great pace. Go balls out for Promes. Accept that Cedric and Bertrand will likely fk off, but try and retain them. Reward Alex McCarthy with a new contract and make him number 1. Scour the world for 2 top class centre halves. Look for the players to replace outgoing and don’t ever, ever attempt to go cheap and nasty when it comes to replacing first team players again. Back Hughes, go big, as big as we can whilst blending Bednarek, Sims, Gallagher, McQueen and Reed at intervals. As far as I’m aware, they’ve never let the first team down when they’ve been given opportunities. Squad McCarthy New GK Lewis New LWB McQueen New CB New CB Bednarek Yoshida Stephens Jones New RWB New backup RWB Valery Reed Romeu Hojberg Lemina Tadic JWP Sims Redmond Boufal or NEW AM Promes Long Austin Gabbiadini Gallagher New FWD

We may get rid of Reed, but the oversized suited hobbit will likely stay... in Reeds capacity

They were grossly mismanaged for more than three quarters of a season. Never doubted they care, just needed a proper manager to organise. Oh and Alex McCarthy helped. A lot.

Nice to see their fans behaving as always.

3-1 Leicester.

He’ll be more than that come the end of the season.

Alongside a capable, dominant centre half - not bad. Alongside a slow, cumbersome, error prone Dutch Aaron Martin, not so much. Looked OK alongside Yoshida for latter part of last season, bearing in mind he'd just been thrown in to Prem football. Really don't think he's the worst of the current two - not by a long chalk.

I don't think Alex Neil would be a bad shout and regrettably, Nigel Pearson too. Extra shout outs to Chris Hughton, Mick McCarthy (if available - would never be a 'first choice' but I think we have to look at proven promo experts). Mark Hughes ideally though. Definitely worth a crack... proven Prem manager, though the Champ is a different thing altogether. Adkins for nostalgia reasons... could he do it again? Would he? Actually... where's Billy Davies gone?

Repeated over and over again today "a true gentleman". Have to say, it's a similar kind of feeling for me when Sir Bobby Robson passed. RIP, Ray.

Yes, imagine where we'd have come with a competent goalkeeper... you ****.

Haven’t we done well? Bravo Kat and her team.

Why not? Everyone was convinced he was the best in England not too long back. It was only a loss of form/injury/still carrying an injury/loss of form again/loss of confidence/still injured/loss of form that prevented him from getting back to his very best. Nothing to do with the fact he’s utterly sh1t and always has been. Definitely not.

That is classic. Invest in local teams to gain exposure. Give exposure to rival club in the same league. Genius.

Multiple things at the same time? Ralph can’t even get his head around 5 simple sentences. He’s been struggling for a couple of months now.

Initial impressions are that he’s total sh1te but he’s been playing in the most cowardly, toothless team in the league. Another 5-10 games will prob be a fair amount of time to assess him

They’ll murder us in the air. Antonio, their CBS...

Same myth as “We’ll start scoring if we buy another striker” It’s rubbish. It’s how the team sets up and plays under the guidance of the manager which determines how free flowing the goals are mostly. Obviously, quality of player also plays a part but just playing two strikers without a decent supply line or tactical set up offensively won’t guarantee anything other than stagnant sideways stuff and being light in midfield.

I definitely think Paul Cook said what he said to wind the morons up down the road. Much better second half, more purposeful going forwards and a bit of fluidity back. We won’t stay up on having a miserly defence though - we’re bad back there. I think Stephens with a dominant CB partner would be useful, Hoedt does him no favours at all. Half he time, he’s he wrong side of his man or marking Stephens. Yoshida please. As for Carrillo... absolutely ineffective. It says something when your forward play becomes infinitely more heartening when Shane Long is brought on ... and he’s pretty down on is luck himself. Well done Wigan and good luck for the rest of the season.

Very harsh, I agree. I’d rather Aaron Martin x100. It’s like watching Steven Caulker. 16m for this clown.

Carrillo is like an on pitch version of Pellegrino. Get rid. Hoedt is a 16m Dutch Aaron Martin without basic footballing skills for a centre back. Get rid. Ross Wilson, take a bow.

Christ how smug is Reed?

My WC Squad... I'd use this opportunity to blood for the future tournaments... hard to pick centre-backs though, they're mostly all very, very average. Pickford, Butland, Pope. Bertrand, Sessengon, Walker, Trippier, Stones, Cahill, Smalling, Gomez. Cork (being selecting him since 2012), Wilshere, Alli, Sterling, Lallana, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Dier, Shelvey, Loftus-Cheek. Kane, Vardy, Rashford. Standby: Hart, Heaton, Rose, Maitland-Niles, Jones, Lingard, Sancho, Walcott. Fairly young, dynamic and most of them untainted by previous tournament failures... just let them go out and play! No rigidity, just play, go for it!