Chrysalis

So we finally might start using more than a 1/4 of the pitches?

I would either bring him back with no expense spared or the guy Claudio got us, spending big on these guys will pay back with better signings. Whoever currently does negotiations needs to go, as we keep over paying salaries and overly short contracts. The better way to go is lower salaries combined with longer contracts for younger players.

There is only one answer, even if you sell him for 50 million, relegation is worth more then that. It has also been proven the penalty for breaching PSR isnt really much of a deterrent. Logically no matter how much the EPL will want to stick the boot in, they cant exceed the punishment for going into admin.

Manager said its groin issues, who is the source for illness before the game?

According to sky, Ruud said he felt pain in his groin, and interestingly Ruud also said he didnt want to carry on in case it would make it worse. Hopefully it clears up very quickly.

I tried to bring these issues up before, but everyone was so obsessed with Cooper the discussions went nowhere, it seems everyone wanted to plug their ears on it until we got a new manager in.

A competent DoF would have either got rid at a loss or torn up the contract.

How is this guy 2nd choice?

Is he still here?

Never heard about that ban, great news, its long overdue.

Great stuff, was waiting for this, and now found the correct channel to sub to as well.

Thats counter attacking for you Brutally effective when done right.

I click a random part of timeline, and see the big grin again, happy with the win. Watching now to see the thoughts of everyone on the game!!

I asked in another thread, and you delivered in this one, thanks.

Cant see post match interview up anywhere yet, how you guys watch it?

Fair play to Daka I never was expecting him to score from that.

@StriderHiryu Hoping for video on that counter attack masterclass, my type of game. Will admit wasnt expecting Ruud to have us play this way, fair play he did. Also never seen Kristiansen have such a good game for us, some quality balls on counters. Seems to be a counter type player.

Ruud seems to have recognised we aint got the midfield to try and do what were last few games and has gone pure counter first half. Got the early goal out of it but west ham dominating.

Yeah, its a big part of the reason I wouldn't be against Top selling up. As right now it feels like Rudkin is literally part of Top, the two are glued together.

I am going to leave it as I think Faes is more aggressive and a risk taker which leads to more clearances (potentially less goals conceded but we will never know), but cant deny Okoli hasnt made a direct goal conceding error yet, so that definitely goes in his favour, I think most people here see goal conceding errors as a unforgivable sin, whilst I have a more balanced view, so I dont know really between the two players. The team overall has conceded less per game when Okoli is on the pitch as well. Still think everyone needs to look at the bigger picture, try not to just use highlights and pay more attention to the game, because right now, teams are managing to just cut straight through our midfield which means the defenders are under more pressure. Realistically with the amount of play in our 3rd we not going to get much clean sheets. I still rate Vesty, so wouldnt mind seeing Vesty paired up with Okoli.

I am not winding up, I have now found more stats to compare against, which makes the question more interesting. However I have a strong opinion, that you cant just blame goals conceded on defenders, the vast majority of people moaning about it, are just forgetting there is a midfield part of the pitch that the other team has to play through first.

Seems they can be found on the EPL website, I didnt expand but appearances is 13 for Faes and 9 for Okoli Goals conceded is goals conceded for the team by the looks of it. It does show errors leading to goal, which is 0 for Okoli, so for those who want more stats to analyse they are here. Clearances per game miles better for Faes. Its how you want to interpret, do I feel Faes has prevented more than 2 goals? Yes. But yes does make the question of who is the better defender more interesting.

Also curious, if I was a defender but deliberately didnt close down players approaching our goal, would I be seen as a better defender because I wasnt involved in the lead up to the goal? Faes is probably our most aggressive defender in closing opponents down so he is involved more because of that.

I was curious of the stats taking games played into account, I assume you have them then to share?

So who has made more clearances than him out of our defenders then?