Convict Colony

Pelligrino wasn't even rated in the top 50 coaches in the world last jan, although a couple of people on that list no longer look good, cough cough koeman, mark sampson !! https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/fourfourtwos-50-best-football-managers-world-2017

No one runs away from a money pit for too long

Good managers improve players.....

ironic

That had me chuckling and unlike the team you delivered a great performance in your write up :-)

Yeah Branfoot showed how well that worked. Is football about running backwards and stopping goals or going forwards and scoring them ? They are both right but when you lean too much one way you negate the other and for the last season and a bit we have leaned too much on the defensive side as new managers in a league try to keep it tight to not put themselves under pressure. The area Puel failed at was once we were over the hump of the season was not dropping a gear and opening this baby up to see what we could do. Poch and Koeman were more open to going forward as the first line of defence in my opinion. Where we are at now is a manager who likes predictability on his players so he can play formations and set up the team specifically. The issue is that those players cannot breakdown what the opposition is doing to stop us quickly enough to create/scores goals enough, so do we stick (and hope it works out) or twist and add Boufal into the mix knowing he is unpredictable but that will mess up the dynamic of how the other team sets up and create more space/chances for him and others.

Boufal walking into the dressing room

hahahahahahhahahahaha doddislegend

Again with this, how may of those appearances were subs !!!!

I agree whole heartedly, this stinks of fearing loss than trying to win, that is not a winning mentality.

No one is complaining about our position we are complaining about the **** poor style this manager has brought which is exactly the same goal shy boring approach as Puel.

Maybe he gets fined if we have too many players in the other half.

Both Puel and Pellegrino have got us playing uninspiring, goal shy football that values retaining possession in our half or the centre of the pitch over positive pressing, fast transition football of poch which I think everyone else preferred as it was a style we liked, appreciated and the players enjoyed. Les needs to sort out being cheap with managers and try and get one that is actually in a job, he got lucky with Poch.

you know it makes sense #ziyechwatch

Come on D it's too early to bait that hook yet

Pelligrino has not improved us from last season. That is 100% on him as he has at least a better midfielder in Lemina than Puel had.

Am onboard with you monk. #ziyechwatch

Hakim Ziyech ran the show tonight v Sparta Rotterdam

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Boufal only had 12 sub appearances in the pl last year according to whoscored, it was even funnier that he was rated better than tadic.

27 appearances is a good stat to support narrative but I would wager about 20 of them has been as a sub. Boufal offers in my opinion more direct goal threat than redmond and tracks back more than him, my opinion of course but if we pick Redmond, long and tadic up front again then to quote the great philosopher Kenny powers I'm ****ing out !!

Sounds like you know these anti flair player threads well. The point is not about the player it is about the type of player that offers something different to the ones who presently cannot score or assist a goal against an under 7s team that continually are not being given much of a chance. We cannot after all the games this season and about the last 5 home games of last continue the current approach. We buy these flair players for what they can bring offensively to the team not their defensive contribution. As someone has said elsewhere we have 2 rocks in DM so surely we can risk having a player who might lose the ball a lot, make a bad pass but is trying to beat men and go directly towards the goal, when he loses the ball let the the ray donavans clean up after him.

Sounds like the Mane thread, how did that one turn out again ?