Convict Colony

To be honest i like ralph he seems a good manager who knows how we can win games. I dont like our team quality, we've been on a shoestring budget for years. I think of hughes and then how happy the players and we were when he came in and we had a manager who had a clear plan, coaching etc. I think ralph can deliver but without picking on specific players when our goalkeepers and CBs make mistakes regularly and our no. 10s dont create many opportunities for the strikers we will always be crap - we all know redmond hasnt been fit for purpose since he won player of the year i think under puel. I like our wing backs, centre midfield and our strikers are just passable (they each have different strengths) but could be improved

Someone come up with some no.10s we could sign to feed the strikers better, I know nothing aside from the english dude at PSV whose right up our street, may scroll around the eredevisie/bundesliga tomorrow for some gems. edit Noni Madueke is the guy from PSV and also Sinsterra from Feyenoord (playing tonight v Marseille) are good eredevise ones.

The reason i gave forwards names is to effect the argument that it is the goalscoring from the forwards and the quality of chances that they get given from our no.10s that is one of our major problems offensively. JWP is having a bumper season no doubt (4 freekicks) but him and Rom in midfield is not a problem, its the no.10's, maybe a striker and another CB.

We need an assist machine who scores some goals to replace armstrong/moi/redmond/djnepo/tella etc etc

We could have benezma, mbappe or haaland up top but they would all struggle to get 10-15 goals a season with the chances our team provides.

Checked Ralphs last season at RB Leipzig. Top scorer was Werner with 13, with the rest of the goals spread around, maybe Ralphs system is the problem along with our quality.

Mate it's default by now but MLG is like a fact checker, he gets it right 90% of the time and has his fingers in lots of pies.

I'd watched the mane hatrick game before I wrote this and saw the forwards passing quickly and effectively together to give each other chances.

While we have Redmond/Moi/S Armstrong/Djnepo etc etc etc as our pool to choose from as our 10's and our CBs make a mistake pretty much every game it doesnt matter what happens. We will still rely on individual acts of brilliance or opposition mistakes as unfortunately our pattern of play isnt working.

Fair enough

hahahaha you were too fast before i noticed the error

Give Roger Schmidt currently at PSV a go - leaving PSV on a free at the end of this season as they couldnt agree a contract extension, currently has them 2nd just behind Ajax and we can steal a few of their players as well. Managed at RB Salzburg, Leverkesun etc so knows our style and we've talked about him before on here.

Tadic the assist machine could get the Ralph team about 5 places higher himself. Our no.10s are a problem. Also why leave out van dijk, Fonte and Jay rod.

I give Ralph the first 10 games of the new season assuming this is his first summer where we actually have money to spend and we get some no.10s and someone to replace simple jack

Think we can skip Caleta-Carr rumours, am watching Feyenoord v Marseille and he sold the goalkeeper short with his back pass, goal feyenoord. Both sides have done some terrible defending.

Such a pessimist bro, do you see us getting calvert-lewin and sarr.

This. There is no way we can be happy with our goalkeepers performance over the last 4 yrs. The no.2 is just a nice way to phrase it but whoever we buy better be between the sticks on day 1.

No richardilson ?