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Feel like I can always understand us going for players like Sulemana, because just a little bit of improvement on their end product can see you making huge money. Unfortunately he never really showed any signs of doing that, and a £25m~ player making as little of an impact in the Championship is embarrassing. Hopefully we've loaned him to a good league, he performs well and we end up getting £15m or so back. Whether that's the option Ajax included or from elsewhere.

Sulemana to Ajax, suggested that move at the start of the window as a way to hopefully increase his value like Minteh. Says a buy option is included, no idea what it'd be but hopefully around £20m in case he explodes.

Great summary, and completely agree regarding Fernandes. Made Smallbone look like an amateur once he came on the pitch, and he wasn’t even spectacular.

Rightly or wrongly, it's the hope that THB can be/become a good top flight player. We've seen plenty of cases for the fact that Stephens is not.

Yeah, better than him saying that’s what he wants from us at least! It’s a bit of a sad reality but after last season I don’t fear relegation any more, if we go down so be it. Just want to enjoy the matches a little more than today, and I think I will do so with the likes of Fernandes and Dibling being more involved. (bit of positivity after whining for the last hour)

You're a clown.

I was thinking that before the season started, but I'm a bit fed up already. It's just stupidity that's losing us these games, not a gap in quality to the other teams. Pure stupidity. Obviously he gets more time to try and turn it around, but I seriously wouldn't care if we rolled the dice in a couple months if he refuses to change things up.

Well we can't persist with that 5atb after the break, as we weren't even defensively sound with it. Ramsdale Sugawara - THB/Stephens - Bednarek - KWP Ugochukwu - Downes - Fernandes Dibling - Archer - BBD Wouldn't mind if Lallana started as well. Just don't want Smallribo anywhere near the pitch.

Lallana looks way better than what we've got as well, to be fair. There's been some okay attacking play today, but it will never matter with the suicidal football at the other end of the pitch. That's the crux of it.

Two weeks to make some drastic changes otherwise we're truly fucked. Ugochukwu, Fernandes and Dibling should all start the majority moving forward.

Our best player is a kid with about an hour on a professional pitch.

Start looking half decent going forward and pointlessly fuck it up at the back, it's suicide. We're going down without a fight unless something drastic happens in the international break.

I was happy with the job he did last year, but if he continues in this way and refuses to adapt then he shouldn't be here.

Dibling! 433. Let's hope we look better.

How long before we can get Dibling on for Aribo too? A player with attacking talent and a drive to create?

Well the subs have made us better, but haven't changed this shite system.

Switch to a 433, get Fernandes and Archer on and try to attack a football game. Embarrassing stuff.

It's just stupid man, indefensible not to adapt to the new situation.

Yep. We're remarkably predictable. KWP is our only player who has that skill to beat a man.

They bedded in enough on Wednesday for me, showed levels these two aren't capable of.

Smallbone and Aribo really don't offer anything do they? Attacking, defending... anonymous.

Let's just pray we can hold them to the hour mark and bring on some players capable of winning a game? Depressing.

We do not have players good enough to beat these presses on a consistent basis. It's as simple as that. It worked better in the Championship because we had superior players in borderline every game, it's now the complete opposite. I'm really just not seeing it so far this season, was hoping we'd be more flexible but this is drab.

Arma shooting from there when we actually get an overload, useless

Let’s hope we’re still in the game at 65 minutes when it becomes watchable!