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Absolute c unts. Make no noise all game and then performatively clap the players off in our ‘Kop’. Wasters

It’s like extending a house you plan on leaving in year anyway with how we play shit, ageing dossers who have a year or two left. If it becomes very apparent we’re not going up (a few weeks imo) we have to start playing these players - otherwise we’re doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over again. We’ve raised about £140m from academy grads - the proof of concept is there. If Evans and Nelson leave and flourish elsewhere we‘ll deserve it at this trajectory.

Looking at his career he’s more of an instant impact sort of manager and wanes year on year. I do like like him, he comes across well but I fear he’s a mediocre manger and currently he’s making us worse than the sum of our parts. The main problems are above but that doesn’t mean he should be unsackable. If we do get a deduction we are in relegation trouble and that should be unfathomable.

Penalties are scored about 75-78% of the time

He doesn’t miss one every time he plays ffs. The Millwall chance was 0.04 xG using Opta’s model

C'mon Kneegrave was right there

Everi hopefully

There isn't as much variance in finishing ability long term as you'd expect. Even the very best finishers only overperform xG by about 10% or 20% max. Haaland has 79 non-pen PL goals from 72 non-penalty xG - the quality of chance is much more important than quality of finishing.

A good striker isn’t getting that chance because they’d be in the 6 yard box. We create **** all for anybody, there’s been essentially no 1 v 1s, tap ins or cut backs. Daka basically got 1 in 2 per 90 on the championship last time. He’s barely even had a good chance let alone missed them. At worse is similar levels Carranza has made a career of poacher type finishes. It’s either all of these strikers aren’t cataclysmically shitter than they ever have been (it is possible tbh) or we just aren’t coached well in attack. The strikers aren’t great but historically Cifuentes’ strikers average about 8 goals a season. His first Hammarby was the last time he had forwards do well. If we dropped Kone into this this side (he’s playing partially as support striker/10 anyway), he’d have the same issue of us just not creating much at all.

Yeah I’m a big KP hater but I wasn’t as annoyed as most about this. Would have been a bit more community minded if they’d just charged £5, pay what you want or a donation to Vichai foundation or something

The lack of service is the problem. How many sitters have we missed? Carranza at Swansea when we 3-1 up is about the only one.

Ah - that’s what fbref/capology said

Additionally Klopp and Pep played very, very similar styles of football when they were contesting the title. Both built up from the back, they both pressed high and the both scored lots of counters. Perception is everything in these sorts of arguments. What's always lacking is the acceptance of different managers coach the same style of football to different levels of success. This style of play would work better if Cifuentes wasn't such a mediocre manager. We scored plenty of 1 on 1s and cutbacks playing drudging possession football under Maresca, Cifuenets just doesn't have the ability.

How is it Guardiola's fault worse managers unsuccessfully ape his style of play? It's Russel Martin's fault Russel Martin is a braindead manager. People don't blame McDonalds when a greasy food van serves up a shit burger.

Deal runs out at the end of the season, scores and assists, 6'4 https://fbref.com/en/players/731f1f5a/Steve-Ngoura This guy looks very good stats-wise and isn't starting as many as he should in Argentina, pretty handy in the air too. https://fbref.com/en/players/e76ff509/Jose-Romero Stats juiced by playing in Brazil I think but oh my - probably can't afford and he'd have better offers anyway but you have to try https://fbref.com/en/players/e1426a52/Jose-Manuel-Lopez

Admittedly game state tax but he's looked at his best in midfield and wide areas either at RB or the wide CB when chasing games. In the absence of having no real DM aside from Choudhury (Faes is better technically I think) it is worth trying.

Lots of crap throw ins and corners too. We're second for corners

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I think Ferguson will end up at Hearts on loan. Don't know what he'd cost but he's 21, target man, good all round game (loose passing perhaps) https://fbref.com/en/players/58468842/Nacho-Ferri

It's also the approach. We were shredded away at Preston when we tried to press higher because we were too disjointed and the back line was too slow. Instead of changing the team selection and maintaining the approach, we kept playing a very similar XI and engaged deeper. A less 'talented' but more mobile, transition-y team could work better but Cifuenets doesn't deviate much from his initial approach at all. Daka Mavididi Ramsey Fatawu Choudhury James Aluko Nelson Okoli Ricardo JS

We don't have an Ndidi-like defensive midfielder, even not quite at his peak he was still a fantastic ball winner and our fanbase probably took him for granted. Any combination of Winks, James, Skipp, Soumare is lacking defensively. I think we may end up seeing Choudhury in midfield again (good enough for a 90+ point season at Sheffield Utd last season).

Probably not but we don't compare favourably to Midddlesborough, Cov, Bristol City and Millwall who don't have parachute payments or weren't as good as Enzo's team either. Do we have the 10th best squad or 18th best on xGD? Absolutely not.

Equally, you could choose to read the “25/26 Stat Topic” not click the link, not read the original post, not read the following posts and choose not to post your trite response either.

Stolarcyzk is joint top for most post shot xG prevented too. We should be about 15th and it’s a couple of Fatawu screamers propping us up atm

If we have to be wedded to this shit system (he almost never deviated from 4231 at QPR) then st least play Aluko. Provides the ability to underlap if he’s on the left and provide receiver pace. If he’d played like Thomas has - most would say he’d (Aluko) never make it. Much better carrier too so he can open the game up, Thomas moves and receives the ball like he’s made out of MDF