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Kone has 4 goals from 2.5 xG - don’t think he can classed as an unabated success yet

Individual quality will bail us out but the individual quality in Fatawu, James, Monga and Ramsey won't be here next season - then we might drop

We've appointed 2 managers already in a job under the Thais ever. Even one of those was the man they seemingly forced out to make way for ****ing Paulo Sousa in the first place. Not that they've even paid any attention to any managers, you can only draw up a managerial shortlist AFTER you've sacked the incumbent. If we do sack Marti they'll go to transfermarkt out of work coaches and try and contact the 5 or 6 they've heard of, get told to **** off by 4 and appoint Gary O'Neil

I remember a few turning their noses up at Tarkowski

This is cathartic, hope it finishes that lying toerag’s career off in Britain. The man is a c unt.

Which is still huge progress from where they have finished - we're 18th for xGD with Opta's model . Their squad is pretty poor but Stephan is a good manager he won the league cup and had Rennes qualify for the Champions League. He got Strasbourg into Europe for the first time in years too.

Stephan is doing well 20th 18th (Cifuentes arrived part way through 15th Currently 9th He's been very good in France and certainly a better appointment than Marti would have been. Rudkin has never heard of him though despite him being Rennes' manager when we played them

At QPR, first season he went 12-7-10 Second season 13-14-18 At Hammarby 1.87 ppg first season Second season 1.47 That doesn't suggest he just needs time, averages almost half point a game worse off in his second season.

In the 3rd percentile for tackles.

Daka Mavididi Fatawu James Winks Aluko Okoli Vestergaard Nelson Pereira Stol Let's see some width and rotation out wide, we know the wingers can score and our strikers can't. So we should try and get them in better goalscoring positions. Our conventional fullbacks offer nothing aside from Pereira so we might as well try WBs

Donuts

Justin-Lee Collins and Rufus Hound were ubiquitous on TV for a time too

I don’t understand why our loans were sorted so late - we could have maxed out our quota by the 1st of August so weren’t scraping the barrel for Carranza. Although I guess somebody will come along and make some excuses for the club like usual. Guiu wouldn’t have been unrealistic if we acted early.

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Frey got 8 goals for QPR last season. Dykes got 8 the season before. 22-23 his strikers did well at Hammarby, at Aalborg you guessed it 8 goals. Style of play isolates the strikers, they have 3.1 xG between them, even Wednesday’s forwards have almost double.

And however many million? The manager is extremely important in a rebuild and Cifuentes’ teams don’t score enough because the style of play is too blunt. Giving him 2 years will be 2 wasted years. Good managers hit the ground running.

He needs 5 games, no 10, 12, 15, 20, 25, actually give him the season. No standards mean the fanbase are fine with their own redlines crossed time and time again. We’re genuinely an incredibly lenient fanbase and some on here think we’re Ultras Sur for expecting a frisson of competence. Staggeringly few managers in the modern game start badly and turn it around - citing Ferguson or O’Neil examples are extreme survivorship bias cases.

Yes he’s better but the point is he’s an average championship forward historically. Even if we had a 1 in 3 championship striker they wouldn’t score because we don’t create anything resembling a chance

You could make allowances for the “it’s the same shit squad” argument if he’d done his utmost to play the younger hungrier players. He hasn’t. He’s sided with Faes, Vestergaard, Winks, Ayew, Reid, Thomas, Choudhury

Cifuentes strikers have never scored. Mediocre players like McBurnie are scoring because they’re getting chances - our forwards aren’t because our attacks are so laboured and slow.

Ramsey pearolled one at home 1st half

Doesn’t matter if we had Vardy, Ulloa, Nugent, Heskey etc - we don’t create any chances

Wednesday - 2 corners against an unfit team down to 10. Birmingham at home, well taken Fatawu goal (not quite a worldie) and a Pereira goal. That’s it.

Even if we drew 1-1 it’s a shit result, not in isolation but on the fact we just don’t win games because we don’t create any good chances - ever really

Come on just give 20 more halves bro, can’t judge a manager on 7.5 winless games, have to give him 8 or 9