Dark Munster

Hate to burst the bubble, but relegation will probably be a financial disaster and slippery slope, given the invisible man from China who owns us. If Markus (R.I.P.) were still in charge I would be more confident of a quick return if we were to go down (although of course it would be very unlikely we'd be in this mess).

Exactly this. And on top of that the fans were not united in Puel going. Unlike the clown, where 95% of us knew he was out of his depth months ago.

It's all been explained 100 times already. Two word summary: Mane and Pelle.

The sale to Gao didn't relegate us, it's the mind-numbing incompetence and catalogue of disastrous decisions by Reed and co. over the last 2 seasons that did that. Plenty of time to blame Kat/Gao if we do a Coventry in a few years time.

Thanks Glenda for rubbing it in. You're right though, and I'm sure Claude is already licking his lips at hammering another nail in our coffin on Thursday.

I think he'd rather syphon off a lump of the £100m+ Sky PL money if we don't get relegated.

I agree, and I was one of those who've been vociferous that sacking Puel was a big mistake (especially without someone better lined up). Having said that, there was at least a mitigating factor: he had (allegedly) lost the dressing room. There are no such excuses for keeping the clown until only 8 ****ing matches left. If Lowe had done that with Wigley he'd have been rightly crucified by the fans.

This in spades. And to answer the OP's question, yes indeed, not sacking the clown months ago surely has to be the worst decision ever (which of course goes hand in hand with the buffoon Reed having more or less unchecked control over footballing matters, with him somehow thinking/hoping he'd unearthed another Poch based merely on superficial similarities, and refusing to back down from that disastrous mistake until too late). Disagree with OP's number 2 on the list. Yes Saggy was our worst manager (or maybe joint worst along with the clown), and certainly our most despicable one ever. But when he was appointed it didn't seem a bad choice, based on his experience and relative success. He was an-ex Skate of course, but he had broken all ties with them given his bust up with Mad Milan, so it had seemed we had put one over the Skates ( until the bastard gave the thumbs up to Milan after the 4-1 Krap Nottarf cataclysm).

Not complete bollocks, 290 all out. Useful 75 n.o. by Berg.

Champions last year, only fifth this year. My heart bleeds for them.

Unfair to extrapolate from those last few meaningless matches: long season already over (extra Euro and cup games), and key injuries.

5 years with no relegation clause, maybe? Wouldn't put it past Les ****ing Reed.

Had Puel stayed, I do not doubt that we would not be in a relegation battle.

I beg to differ. The clown would've have dragged them down from a top 10 level team to relegation candidates. Evidence? Us.

Yes, another brilliant move by Leslie ****ing Reed. As others have mentioned, instead we can play Bertrand as the third CB. Then bring in Targett at LB. Oh wait, he's out on loan too.

Fortunately we have Romanian international Gardos as a back up if one of them gets injured/suspended. Oh.

I've seen something this year. The clown has been sacked. Granted, the West Ham match was awful, but at least we have an experienced manager who potentially can see the massive mistakes of that formation and make the needed changes. Things are bad, but it's not over yet. Unlike if the clown were still in charge.

True, but selling him without a replacement (and loaning out Gallagher for the whole season) when we were already short up front was criminal.

The same Sterling who scored the winner against us earlier in the season?

Come on Spurs!

Can see Leicester and Bournemouth losing against our rivals, and then doing their best to beat us.

£30 million for Mane: a bargain at double that price. Nice one Les. Reasons to be unhappy if Liverpool win the tie: 1) Citeh won't have a CL to distract them before our final match against them 2) VVD 3) Lovren 4) Lallana

If Tadic is on the right and Redmond is on the left again, I shall weep.

Is Gardos worse? If not, why has he been loaned out? Rhetorical question of course, it's on par with loaning out Gallagher without a recall, not to mention not bringing in a striker who can score, an experienced VVD/Fonte replacement, not sacking the clown months ago, etc. etc.