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By my reckoning we've managed that three times out of 24 matches this season. Utterly awful. #PellegrinoOut

If we win this, still need to get #PellegrinoOut trending.

Like selling no one in the summer and signing Hoedt and Lemina, you mean?

She wrote off £33 million of loans FFS.

Looks pathetic.

I have a feeling it will be a draw too. Hopefully the replay is a chance for a new manager to take a look at some players.

Yeah, we definitely would have finished top 4. No doubt about it. None at all.

Don't forget Adama Traore.

She wrote off tens of millions of debt so Christ knows what you're banging on about. She clearly wanted to sell up because when no longer wanted, or could, own a football club but suggestions she was drawing money out of the business before the sale are backed up by absolutely no evidence but are countered by a bunch of verifiable public information to the contrary.

Good post. I have reservations about the new owner but the OP is too reductive. The current predicament is due to a bad managerial appointment. As Bearsy says, at the start of the season we took a stand with VD and added some good signings. The only area of the squad which still looked thin was striker but if we had upgraded our manager, having sacked the previous one, we could well have had another good season. The new owner may be a disaster but half a season of a bad manager is not evidence in that respect.

Basically, we've made a mistake with a managerial appointment. Ridiculous to start making valedictory pronouncements. As all historians know, perspective is key.

He did look good to begin with. Played in wins at Old Trafford and the Emirates. When we had our dire run under Korean he got hooked off early a couple of times and he had a poor game against Sheff United in our cup defeat, getting sent off towards the end. Then he got injured and has barely been seen since. I'm guessing he's still not fully fit given the way he hasn't had a look in at all.

Pedro is 30 and Willian is 29 so maybe the idea is to integrate Barkley with a view to replacing those over a couple of years.

Eh? Pied played right back and was one of our best players on the night. If McQueen wants game time he needs to show he is better than Bertrand or Tadic/Boufal/Redmond, which he hasn't done.

To be clear, I'm not including Gardos or Bednarek in that as they are clearly viewed as sub-standard by management.

We have one decent CB, one average one and one below average one. Pretty poor.

Does he fancy going into management?

Tadic is a good left winger. He's a poor central player. **** knows why the manager can't see that. Boufal, or even the boo-boys favourite, Redmond, would be better in Tadic's current position.

Austin is out for quite a while.

The issue, as was clear at the time, is that half the defence pushed up and half stayed back, which was why there was such a complete absence of defenders challenging the second ball once Benteke won the header. **** defending. No point whingeing about an off side decision that comes down to, literally, an inch or two. And the tackle by Long looked needless and like a foul in real time.

No, he wouldn't.

Yeah, he was pretty much the only positive.

If he's not gone by the Watford game then a proper course of action will be the only chance of saving the season.

Agreed.