Pamplemousse

I agree, but a weak bench. Also shows how much the players have let themselves down this season.

No Eriksen is massive. He is the one who really makes them tick.

That’s the team I would’ve gone along with, although probably Long playing as he had a good game last weekend. Obviously if he’s ill then Gabbiadini is the obvious replacement. No Sims on the bench.

Interesting. I wonder if that’s a message from MP to the board - get a bloody striker in

IF he and Les Reed can put aside their differences and work together, then he’d be by number one choice. I think though his bridges may have been burnt.

AND a cup final... Anyhow, Puel has managed to prove that I was right all along. If others believe that I keep going on about him then fine, I promise that from this point onwards, I won’t mention his name again. Likewise others should as well. On reflection, I’m struggling to think of a better person to take over than Marco Silva, so get him in, but we should all be very concerned about what happens when things start going wrong.

I definitely agree with this.

I don’t believe I’ve ever said that.

If he gets the team to attack then we will do OK. I think his loyalty is a concern though, and the way he handled things after Everton came in for him was dreadful.

Yes, capitulated. Their form over ten games is worse than ours!

If he gets the team to attack and gives them their confidence and belief back, then fine, we’ll do well. My worry is that doesn’t tend to stick around very long, isn’t very loyal, and completely lost the dressing room at Watford. I just don’t think he’d be a good fit for us at all. The way Watford capitulated after Everton came in for him is a massive concern. If he can’t even motivate himself, how can he motivate the players?

I’d argue Duckhunter posts more about Puel than I do.

Finally some common sense in this thread. No doubt you’ll be attacked for ‘trolling’ though

Puel wins on aggregate

Go on, go and reply to everyone else who doesn’t want him. I’m not the only saying it. Or can’t you read? Are they trolling too?

Posting an unpopular opinion isn’t trolling. If you’re unwilling to debate then that says more about your lack of intelligence than it does mine.

I don’t hate him, but he’s taken one club down and been sacked from another. He isn’t a good football manager. Our board already decided that thankfully in the summer, so no chance of us going for him.

Sack Pellegrino by all means. But let’s not forget that our own dreadful manager tactically outwitted Silva in the first half. We really don’t want someone like him at the club.

Having taken Hull down last season, he was taking Watford down too. And yet our moronic fans want this fraud to take over, having just been taught a lesson in management by Claude Puel. If he comes in, relegation would be guaranteed.

Reed definitely has more power now than he ever did, but he's always had a major influence.

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/8374982.Reed_to_be_kingmaker/ Wrong again

Puel's the one and only manager we'll ever have who has won one of the big 5 domestic leagues and reached the last four of the Champions League. It is rather amusing to see him prove a lot of people wrong, although slightly painful as I don't really like Leicester. Won't be long before one of the big six comes in for him, or a major European club.

Difficult to predict really. Man Utd v Liverpool is guaranteed, and I'd be surprised if Bournemouth v Spurs and Stoke v Man City weren't chosen either. There are European games the week before so MNF game is possible. All of our games are away in March as well, against teams around us, so for the relegation battle, it is possible a couple of our games could be moved.

I must have missed Leicester in the semi-finals... It's odd that you keep running with this, Puel just schooled forum favourite Silva and Leicester fans think Puel is the dog's ********. You just need to let it go mate, he's gone on to bigger and better things, unfortunately for us.

March fixtures should be announced next week on Thursday https://www.premierleague.com/news/419687