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Jones was bad at many things but not picking the obvious best 2 centre backs available and sticking with them was the his worst decision, as well as his general team selection. Bella-Kotchap and DCC are quite clearly the best followed by Salisu if one of them is injured. Then Lavia has to play every game needed a decent back up 6- in January. No one here is the answer. Also Willy in goal some experience and organisation behind a creaky defence. He could have done so much good work on the training ground but it means nothing if you don't play your best defence and have consistency

That Reims Manager with no coaching badges would be a good punt. Nothing to lose, all but down 😂

Give it to Pochy till end of season. I'm sure he doesn't want to see us go down...

I don't really care if the players hate the manager as long as we win games. Players hated Koeman but the win rate was very high. Players really liking Jones is immaterial if we are losing every game.

Have you seen us play with 5 at the back in the last 10 years or do you really think its a good idea when we are bottom of the league? Apart from KWP, none of our defenders can play that system well.

Definitely part of the problem or the main issue. His worst mistake was team selection for this game and the last. Why would you start 2 of our best players v Blackpool instead of a semi final? (Lavia and Bella-Kotchap) Then the constant selection of that numpty, the worst of all our centre backs by a long way, far far worse than Bednerek who I thought did well last night. Its really dumb management. A good manager would have binned him off on loan or sold him this window.

Awful lineup, defensive yet very bad at defending. Jones out

How have we got worse at defending..We are so bad. Best chance of a final for a while and we won't even put up a fight

Thank fk for that, I thought we weren't signing anyone. Makes sense now that its all being done abroad as how I would know we are signing someone has not happened, was really angry logging onto here 😂

Probably 😂

Medical happening this afternoon. All going well a signing will be confirmed late evening or tomorrow morning.

Hate to say it but why are we buying Jackson when we have Tella doing so well on loan? Seems like money would be better spent on other positions.

Brighton was really bad, parts of yesterday were bad (mostly terrible individual errors) and Fulham first half and last 10 minutes were bad. We definitively look better as a team though as the games come thick and fast but could have easily lost or drew that yesterday had certain errors been punished.

If we win the next 2 league games and compete with Newcastle over 2 legs (win or play very well but fall short) will this thread be moved to the muppet show?

Probably why we've pushed to get Alcarez asap then as from reports they're similar players.

We can try him between the sticks in 2 years then when Banzunu is loaned to Norwich and McCarthy has shown he's still not good enough.

No signings will be confirmed until very late tomorrow more likely Wednesday. Looks like that Argentinian player is 100% if he passes a medical seeing as Racing tweeted it! Hopefully more than just him this week.

Yay signing to be confirmed tonight or tomorrow barring any issues with medical

Good asset to have in the squad but should never be "relied upon", unfortunately he was a marquee signing at the time...He'll never be consistent enough to play for a top 8 side, would he have got into our side this season? Most definitely.

Strange game this Morocco v Belgium. Topped off with Boufal looking like the best player on the pitch which contains Kevin De Bruyne

He has already been picked for the world cup or is at least on the standby list but think he's been picked. Chuffed for him.

Lyanco was great but for me MOTM was clearly Mohamed Elyounoussi last ditch goal stopping tackles from rw worked his socks off all game and set up Stu a goal on a plate.

Who probably have triple the budget than we do if not more? And top academy players coming through like Saka and Smith-Rowe. If Arsenal come 2nd this season that's the equivalent of us getting say 8th or even 9th.

Jelle Van Damme. Awesome on the 3rd or 4th football manager game I bought, thought he was going to be mustard. Barely played any games and joined in the season we got relegated. Had an equally unsuccessful loan spell at Werder Bremen and then left permanently after 2 years.

Banzunu KWP-DCC-Salisu-Perraud ------ Lyanco-------- ----JWP-Diallo------ Armstrong---Mo ------Che---------