Smirking_Saint

Usually Id agree with the whole ‘Try to save money here, so we can spend there sentiment’ But with the club looking over its shoulder at relegation and already halfway through a very (on paper) favourable group of fixtures I can’t help but feel we’d of been better off getting the frontline recruitment sorted earlier even if it cost us extra A further 9 points has now alluded us that this mythical forward could of helped us achieve

There will be a transfer commitee so to speak and rightly so I absolutely do not want 1 man to decide how we spend our allotted budget, especially if that man may or may not be here in 6 months

I genuinely have no idea how Reed got hounded out but Semmens gets away with things relatively unscathed His whole history is just soundbites that are either absolute shite or completely contradictory

Havn’t you just been throwing your toys out the pram because of a podcast you don’t like ? Odd one you mate

“We need a small tight squad” Proceeds to bring back a guy that couldn’t wait to leave and put the boot into us 👍🏻

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Bednarek is a better defender than Lyanco, he is actually not an awful defender Unfortunately he is a bellend and reports say he was a disruptive influence under Ralph… so makes little sense to recall I assume ABK injury is more serious then we first thought

Exactly this………. which is why Id pick Che over him Che is much better in the build up phase than Broja, occupies defenders better, not sure how you believe Broja is more physical either Broja has better composure.. that’s basically it really He really is, other than a purple patch a very average striker imho and I think Chelsea will regret not taking WHU’s 30m offer because he isn’t worth it

Signing a relegation rivals best Striker that effectively sent them down wasn’t horrendous business imo

I don’t really understand the furore around Jackson, he is quite obviously an extra wide attacker and unlikely to be our striker option because if we can see he isn’t a No.9 it I seriously doubt anyone at the club has looked at his as a striking option considering his skillset

Im not sure how enthusiastic I am about it really but for the right fee it dhould work

Ahh but you’re more than happy to pass comment ? I think the views are diverse enough, Steve and Glenn provide a consistent and generally spot on insight around the club and they have usually someone with good journalistic insight, I don’t see any need to change that… perhaps they could have a guest speaker but as someone that has done podcasts in the past that isn’t always a good addition and tends to cause editing issues if the guest isn’t au fait with audio recording etc As for the OPs post, I commented online that it was one of my favourite episodes.. you have to remember that it is a snapshot in time of the general feeling around the club.. an FA cup win, that in essence was scrappy and somewhat gifted did little to bouy my enthusiasm for our primary concern… relegation The panel were right to question the performances and NJs ability and Tanswell/Sheldons piece on SR and the changes was very interesting and welcomed Come the end of the season I expect all of us would welcome humble pie in tge form of an all beating NJ masterclass but again the podcast is to bring the panels opinions to bare, not to bring fake optimism… Im sure there’s plenty of happy clappy stuff you can listen to instead

I suppose we’re in an odd place, we’re bottom of the table so it immediately makes our negotiating position difficult, any top level proven striker is unlikely to want to come here without significant recompense and likely break clauses in the contract, as suggested too just agreeing a fee is probably more difficult too as clubs know our position This is why we needed to sort this is the summer and Semmens blase about not overspending in that window has come back to bite him

Embarrassed about voicing an opinion ? Absolutely not, its easy to sit on a fence and then come out with an I told you so Embarassing would be to come out and portray the lie that you believed all along that you knew it would come good. We’re certainly going in the right direction but there is a LOT of football still to play I stick to my initial assessment, tactically we were inept against our first 3 premier league opponents under Jones. A 3 at the back long ball game doesn’t suit and as a ‘club’ we’re suited to a more aggressive press.. unsurprisingly we’ve picked up since Jones changed his tactical approach Im more than happy to be wrong about him, but we needed a big improvement on the Forest game, over the moon we got one and long mag it continue Sign a decent striker and work on our set piece defence and we should be ok

Probably plenty of reasons why he doesn’t train with the firsts Outside of Borges stats Im not hugely aware of him but apparently he is very technically gifted but not particularly quick

Yup… and although Im no financial intelligentsia (Im an Engineer) I imagine that Chelsea’s new ‘offer everyone 7/8 yr contracts, is their way of overcoming FFP rules… its an odd system anyway, its only really calculated after the 3/4 year period I think… not sure whether this amortisation actually reduces any spend they may need towards the end of the period ?

Secret scout is very reliable, seems like you have some sort of weird personal agenda around a bloke you don’t know

Was talking to a man city supporting mate of mine and apparantly Pep doesn’t massively rate Borges who still doesn’t train with the first team so there moght be legs to this At the end of the day like Lavia, City have a great many talents ln the books and the upcoming change in loan rules means that they’ll need to sell instead of loaning these guys out so structuring deals much like Livramento and Lavia is sensible

Credit where credit is due, we look a different team since half time in thr Palace game.. more pressing, less long ball and much less 5 at the back Players look up for it all of a sudden, he is making positive changes when needed.. I didn’t fundamentally agree with him changing the winning side today but we got the job done If we get a striker and he can sort out our terrible defence of set pieces then we’re on to something I have absolutely no qualms in being proved wrong

Maybe… I do hope he does because sacking a manager every 6 months is ridiculous, but from the outside it looks to me like the players are starting to let him down Ive got zero love for Boehly/Chelsea these days anyway, from the Tuchel sacking to hoovering up every ounce of anyone remotely showing talent

This is all well and good until if becomes more evident that he’s lost the changing room… owners can have long term vision but 500m pounds worth of players won’t be as willing to wait it out

Its not really a coincidence that our last 3 keepers have been poor as well as a shaky defence infront of them.. I agree Baz has had a poor season but GKs are only really as good as what infront of them and we’re absolutely terrible defensively and have been for years

Not quite sure how impressed Im going to be signing a CB, from a rival equally shit defensively but here we are

I’ve not really kept up with the whole thread, so apologies if I go over any old ground I’m not really sure if there is a solution to keep us away from the championship. I think that the damage is done even if we act now to remove Jones. We already looked a slideshow on confidence, unfortunately now we look a side short of ideas as well Either way, I do not see a successful future at any level with Joan, still at the helm, at first, I couldn’t blame him, after all he has taken a job. He thought that he could do for a significant pay rise. The real issue is why we hired him in the first place. as far as being successful, his concerned, we are a club built on the foundations of high pressing, this began under Pochettino, and the majority of managers since I’ve had fundamentals that lie within this philosophy, for this reason, I found it bonkers that we went to a manager with a technical skill set so at odds with these fundamentals. Ralph had his issues, he tinkered too much, but I do think he’s early high pressing tactics were the correct ones, of course they were high risk, but they tended to be higher award. The downfall is the squad size and we did go away into addressing that over the last couple of years. I think if it was me, I will go back to her back for a look to go back to utilising those tactics. Sign a striker, we now have Orsic, and probably look to bring in a defensive midfielder that can cover for Romeo Lavia, ultimately, I don’t think there’s a lot more that can be achieved right now, I’m not convinced that this club needed a complete revolution, especially not in January. It did need however, the correct appointment, that could reinspire and tweak the areas of concern.. effectively staving off relegation, and allowing us if necessary to carry out a hard reset in the summer

If thats all you think we’re complaining about then you’re well out of touch