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What do we do in January? We need to either spend £100m or spend £0. unless Ruud can pull of some miracle and bring in a loan player like Lindelof and a few cheap workhorses in defence I’m worried about giving him any money if this is how we setup. Sleepwalking back into financial issues if we spent big and go down.

Massive question marks over Ruud already. Hes walked into a baptism of fire, but January won’t save us, if he can’t get the players doing the very basics what’s the point in giving him money. We are bad, but I refuse to believe these players cannot do the basics to even league 1 level. I don’t care how bad Iversen must be in training, we’ve managed to find the only manager in the top flights of Europe who would play Ward.

Saw this on the wolves forum thought it deserved a chuckle over here too

Defenders to look at in January (Send back Edouard) LOAN - Victor Lindelof - Contract expiring in summer, not featured much this season, he needs to put himself in the shop window for the summer, if we stay up and he does well we can get him free. SIGN - Reinildo (Atl Madrid Left Back) - Experienced, low wages, free in summer so will likely come cheap if we can agree a deal, really solid both defensively and offensively, can play CB so perfect for back 3. Likely 10m or less, give him a relegation clause. Maybe (depends on situation) SIGN - Chancel Mbemba (CB Marseille) Deal up in summer, wants to leave Marseille, prem experience with Newcastle, Champs league experience with Porto, would be a cheap CB who is strong and athletic. Only concern is he has fallen out with Marseille over something quite trivial which between him and the club has spiralled, he missed a medical on return from international duty, was fined wages that he felt was unfair, filed a complain with the LFP, LFP ruled in Chancels favour after hearing the evidence, the club refused to to pay, he's been thrown in the reserves and is desperate to leave. Chancel is in the wrong for missing the examination, however the closer details are hard to find, and the LFP have ruled in his favour. Players to look at/contact to sign on a free in summer if we stay up Devyn Rensch - RB Ajax Yarek Gasiorowski - LB Valencia

Honking performance, today’s performance roughly aligns to where I expected us to be if Cooper stayed on. Not quite sure how much blame Ruud can take for today as the job he’s taken on is monumental but we were tactically abysmal today. Add in absolutely zero desire or care from the players and you end up 4-0 down. Everyone is to blame for that, we need signings in Jan.

To be honest, todays match is a natural progression of where I expected us to be if Cooper stayed, genuinely zero improvement today relative to his last game. Absolutely awful from everyone involved. Not sure how much responsibility Ruud takes for this but we’ve been tactically abysmal today. We need a MASSIVE January.

We didn’t mean it Steve

Someone needs to do a documentary on the "rise and fall of the Belgium national team" how is he a first-team starter? Just 10 years ago we were talking about how they were going to have a golden generation, good grief.

3-1, much improved 2nd half, Bilal made me look a complete idiot and I couldn't be happier about it. Defensively we were rocky, but we would have conceded 5 just a couple of weeks ago, players would have dribbled through us. Take that start 100%, gives us a small bit of breathing room to the bottom 3 on paper again, now we need a strong week of drills.

Mate I'm furious, i've sent him 32 messages he's ignoring me

Have we got another manager sacked?

HOLD THE BACK PAGES!!! DAKA IS A STRIKER AGAIN!!! THE RUUD REVOLUTION IS UPON US!!!

Bilal is well up to speed in this game, what a baller

We've been under constant pressure today, can't stress enough how confident I am that if this game was 2 week ago we would be 4-0 down by now, there's no way we would have kept this pressure at bay.

I hate you

NOBODY @ ME DON'T YOU DARE

Vesty has had a great game today IMO.

Oh god, ruud no

Defensively as a deep block we have improved massively, under cooper they would have dribbled the ball into the box and be 4-1 up.

Don't spoil it im 2 mins behind

Yep and i'm not ignoring those moments, he got back to help Kristiansen out around the 47th and got a good slide in to stop the attack, moments later he then fell asleep and let 2 drift past him, he's been one of our better players in a very poor overall performance, all that happened was live during the game I commented that he looks nowhere near up to speed because of the sloppy pass and sluggish foul he gave away moments later, it was just a live response reaction as I've seen him make multiple sloppy attempts at passes/tackles. I'm glad he's throwing himself about and others need to do it more.

Yes, because he's not up to speed with the flow of the game in my opinion, as are most of the players.

I simply picked him out in that moment because he made a really sloppy pass and followed it up with a clumsy foul. He's not up to speed, I said it. His performance has been a 5/10 just like 90% of the squad today, just because there are some 3/10's doesn't mean he's suddenly playing well. Again, I just said it in that moment because he made 2 errors in quick succession.

I picked him out in that moment because he made a really poor sluggish pass, then followed it up with a really clumsy foul, a few minutes later let 2 players drift past him like he wasn't even there. Plenty of players to moan about, sure, I just mentioned him. I don't see the point in "rounding up" a players performance because they are the best of a bad bunch.

I haven't ignored the good things he has done. He's been okay in a really poor performance overall, but he's been sluggish on multiple occasions.