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When these sort of stories come out it doesn't usually end up with the manager staying for too much longer. Just got to hope when we do pull the plug that we have a replacement ready and lined up. Don't want someone totally inexperienced like Selles taking charge at all

And he's our top scorer

Only positive after the game will be we only have to play them once before the end of the season

I don't disagree tbh. If he loses the West Ham game that's 100% it for me. Assuming we lose against Man City

A Spanish Steve Wigley. Just what we need

Time to revisit this...? Tella doing well this season bodes well. Smallbone as well. Maybe blood in a few of the decent young players we've got like Payne, Ballard, Simeu ? I reckon we'd romp the league tbh

Actually I'd argue he'd be the best placed to turn it around, which he did the season he replaced Hughes and the 9-0 season. Of course, you could make the argument (which I agree with) that the current predicament is his fault but he has dug us out of holes before. This is one we shouldn't really be in.

I like Dyche and Burnley shouldn't have sacked him but his style would be a total mismatch for our players. In reality, whoever we bring in will be a long term manager.

Whoever fucked up us not buying a striker. A decent striker and I reckon we have 4, maybe 5 points more than we currently do.

Tactically against the big teams we've done OK, we've gone in with a plan, take the two Man City games last season for example. It's the West Ham and Bournemouth where realistically we need 6 points that I'm concerned about

Thinking about it this morning and I'm starting to lean more and more towards making a change. You look at the team and we are far better than where we should be. No point making a change before Man City since going into that game rudderless would be suicide, and you never know, putting pressure on Ralph may actually see a reaction. Lose that heavily or lose the West Ham and I think at that point there's no option for the board.

For those who have more knowledge than me, who in Europe has had a track record of developing young players? That'll be Ralph's eventual successor

Getting Leicester regularly into Europe and winning the FA Cup for them suggests otherwise.

Without Pickford we win that game IMO. And with a clinical striker (not Ralph's fault we didn't sign one!)

Agree with this completely.

No thanks. He would be a downgrade on Ralph.

Oh I thought I put this in the Everton thread lol. Going mad

I put this in the Everton thread but I'll put it here - personally I'd stick with him for now. The major issue isn't how we played (we didn't deserve to lose) - we didn't sign a striker. That's not his fault. But, if we do carry on losing, no matter how unlucky we've been (and I think we have been unlucky), it does get harder and harder to say that not making a change wouldn't be the right thing to do.

I'd 100% take Rafa if he would come here. How Everton fans treated him was a disgrace. I'd also take Brendan Rodgers. Things have obviously got stale at Leicester but you can't overlook what he achieved with them before.

If you can get someone better in fine, but the fundamental issue we didn't sign a striker and sacking the manager will not change that major major problem. We didn't play badly today and we didn't deserve to lose. Losing to shite like Everton is demoralising and I think if we lose against West Ham (assuming we will lose next weekend) it would be very hard to me to say that we shouldn't make a change. That's my view anyway.

At least the others are Sunday 2pm, that's still alright imo

One of our best performances was the home game against them last season, need that today. A clean sheet would be nice as well. Blitz them right from kick off, score early on, ruin their gameplan, make them try and attack us and we'll go on and win comfortably

Yup. Diallo I can kind of understand, although AMN surely has to start now ahead of him. Ely hasn't started the season well and if he plays tomorrow I'll be dismayed for sure, there are far better options in the team.

Nope. I'm heading up the day before and staying the weekend. In theory you could get the coach up on Saturday morning but it's 5 hours long...

https://www.grandoldteam.com/2022/09/30/southampton-v-everton-5/ Lots to unpack in this... Turkish would agree with him on our fanbase