Smirking_Saint

We cant even keep hold of the ball.... Pish

Yeah, lets play gazza

Unfortunately yours havn't managed to make it out of the youth league mate

This really, and lets be honest, we have played Utd, Arsenal and City, hardly teams Id expect him to be chucked in against

Hi Deppo, stay of the beer weekdays mate

The becks one, from a beer point of view tastes exactly like becks. Unfortunately, it tastes exactly like becks Cobra is a good drop but less readily available

Perhaps, but from what I saw last year he wasnt good enough

Lack of options or not he isnt good enough, wasnt last year amd certainly isnt this. Needs to go on loan

Morgan is our best player, by a mile. I talk to a lot of professional coaches from a range of professional clubs and all agree that he really should be at a top top team. In fact, other than Matic he is the best DM in the prem. But our poor form isnt down to him being missing. Atleast not due to just him. As I said before, I think the fact we lost him, JWP and Cork has caused us issues by moving players around and effecting other departments. For example dissrupting the back four and front four by moving both Davis and Toby. We are still dominating possession, and creating over 10 chances a game. Pretty good stats against top four teams and all with our best player, a midfielder, missing. Our problem is taking those chances. Pellè just isnt composed enough, he seems to want to smash the leather off the ball. Long just doesnt seem to have a goalscoring touch. Manè is just manè (personally think he has talent) and tadic is miles off the boil. Thats our issue, and its all down to confidence

He really isnt good enough to make any real contribution for us right now tbh

Can only imagine that they just arent good enough. As good as Pellè's all round play is, he is struggling for form infront of goal right now, but Ive noticed he has always lacked composure.

Yeah, dunno why I said city lol Yes Villa

It was an injury that could have happened against any team, chelsea have their stock of midfield machines and Arsenal arent afraid to put the boot in.

We wont replace him IMO, the only one close what be the belgian tielmens or however you spell it at Anderlecht. But we wont get him. We could only hope he wont go, but short of a miraculous end to the season and ending up in CL places (doable) then I think he is off. Still, of course we miss him, but we are still keeping possession and creating good chances as well as defending ok. So Id argue that HE isnt the main issue. Its more likely to be the swapping around of the side (davis playing deeper etc, toby in midfield) a d the fact that Pellè just isnt clinical enough as well as the other attacking players.

And what level do we need him to be at compared at what we have ? He has made one stupid mistake, the Villa one, and it could have been a damn sight worse. Blaming him for the backpass is moronic, and I couldnt care less what professionals on the soccer saturday panel commented. He was stiched up by fonte, I wouldnt of expected him to cone flying put and realistically if he did and got it wrong you would no doubt be the first to comment. He came out, faced up and looked big, RVP did a good job squeezing it in. The cross I think he could've done better but ultimately it was a good cross and good movement that did it. He isnt the finished article, and at 10m he was probably overpriced but he isnt as bad as the boo boys like yourself make out.

If anything I wish Toby had done more really, if he had time to half spin around to get his strong foot in the way he had time to effectively block it

Quite simply whatever Burnley want, whats the cost of relegation for them ? As that 6 months could effectively help stave that off

This

Ive said for a while we have an over reliance on Pelle. Good player but out of form and snatching at shots, a sign he is low on confidence. Its not quite clicking right now but we arent a million miles away, stats wise still dominating games. Need a win to get our heads up. Thankfully january is close and we have players returning from injury. A top 4 finish was always highly unlikely.

Said it all in 3 words CB Scary they let him loose at the keyboard

Not working ?

We might have to find somewhere with no itv reception

Ill give em a gander, tonights choice is saints we depression fuelled ranting or X factor Its a genuine toughie

Jesus christ we have some utter planks as fans

Not far off the money duck, I wrote the movement bit about Pellè after the villa game. Why a bloke so far in a defenders pocket just kept doing as he was doing is beyond me, if it were me ? Id of dragged em out wide, deep and made them make a decision. I didnt understate what MoPo did, he was brilliant. At the time he got slagged off for having no plan B. I think people now realise it wasnt him, it was a lack of options.