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Relaxed and happy players are far more likely to perform at higher levels. How exactly would you like them to take responsibility?

Do non millionaires not have work Christmas Parties?

Calm down guys: The party would have been planned weeks and weeks ago, you don’t just randomly go to Copenhagen after a loss. This is the last chance to go before the winter fixtures really kick in, and the early kick off meant the boys had time to jet off early. As for the sign, it would as others have said been an in joke. A player would have repeatedly said I miss Enzo and the others were having a dog at him. Let the boys relax, as long as they come out fighting on Saturday and show it was the manager, not their own inept performances then I don’t care what they do off the field.

If I thought about it in terms of whose football did I enjoy watching the most, which manager actively had me gripped and looking forwards to next week I’d have to go: 1. Ranieri 2. Rodgers (First 2.5 years) 3. Sven 4. Nigel 5. Shakey 6. Enzo 7. Rodgers final months 8. Puel 9. Cooper 10. Sousa If we are being honest 7-10 was all pretty dire football. Enzo was effective, but not great on the eye, where as Sven was not really effective but, I’ll tell you, I loved watching us play most of the time. In terms of Success 1. Ranieri 2. Rodgers 3. Pearaon 4. Enzo 5. Shakey 6 - 8 Puel, Cooper, Sven 9. Sousa In terms of leaving us in a better place when they left: 1. Ranieri 2. Nigel 3. Enzo 4. Shakey 4. Puel 6. Sven - though an obscene wage Bill Nigel had to fix, but did give us Kasper. 7. Rodgers 8. Cooper 9. Sousa

We could go for a Savage appointment…

Time to pick ourselves up and go again. I would imagine we are without Winks after his injury on Saturday. So that’s no Fatawu, Winks and Ricardo. On the positive side Buonanotte will be available again. Tough game, Brentford are the ultimate Jekyll and Hyde side home and away. They sit top of the Home Table, and bottom of the away table. So going there will be no easy task. - Having said that, their 6 home games have been Crystal Palace, Wolves, Ipswich, Southampton, West Ham and Bournemouth - in terms of a run of fixtures at the start of the season you couldn’t ask for better. With this in mind, I see them potentially down the bottom with us in a scrap come what May. In those home games they’ve conceded 11 goals and scored 18 - so expect goals. As for us, Mads is obviously the shining light this season and in my view the only player nailed on to start. I think it’s time for Faes to step out of the firing line and be given a bit of a wake up call. - If big Jannik is fit he comes in for Faes. We only have 2 fit full backs, unless you count Choudhury and Thomas, and whatever the question I don’t think either of those in the Premier League is the answer. Anyway you look at it, it’s a very poor back four at this level and I see no chance Cooper moves to a three. Midfield wise, Ndidi was poor on Saturday and hopefully Buonanotte comes in for him in that more advanced role, interchanging with El Khannous out wide and in the 10. Skipp will come in for Winks and will get about a bit, looking for a step up from him. With no other options it’s a toss up between Soumare and Ndidi for the other holding role and I think Soumare just about did enough to keep his place. Finally, bring back Mavididi into the XI and although I think we will concede, with MAV, BEK and Buonanotte in the team we do poses a threat and their backline is average at best. Vardy to lead the line, with Patson getting another 30 or so… Vardy can’t do 3 games in a week, so Daka will have to be ready to start mid week. All that leaves us with next to nothing exciting on the bench other than Ayew for a late winner. Regardless of thoughts around the manager, we’ll back the lads and cross our fingers we can get 3 points. 5 as a minimum needed in the next 3 and I’m not confident, but will always be hopeful! Through the good times and the bad, we’ll always back the lads….

To be fair, the refereeing was every bit as bad as Wouts defending. Not saying it would have changed the game, but Madley did get every big decision in the game wrong - including Wilfs yellow. He missed at least 2 really good advantages he could have played and was quick to award free kicks every time their players fell to the floor.

It’s good learning for them, knowing that they have to work harder and despite being highly thought of in a premier league academy, things aren’t going to be handed to them. They'll either come back from this hungrier to get their heads down and succeed or they’ll disappear slowly, but either way it will tell the club and themselves everything about their character. The season still has a long way to go and plenty of games for them to play.

Odds are completely meaningless with something like this. If 5 people in this thread all went in tomorrow and put a tenner on him to be next manager sacked, he’d immediately become the bookies favourite for the sack. It doesn’t mean it’s going to happen or anyone is well informed. Just the bookies playing with odds to maximise their profits.

Imo the three you mentioned are not bad signings, as in they are all decent players and capable of playing at this level, the problem is, they are the wrong players and the wrong positions. With a limited pool of money we brought in players for positions where we are already okay, with some youngsters that can provide cover. Whilst desperately needing a full back or two, and a striker that can take some of the load from Vardy.

Because, at this level, we have an okay squad of players. He was probably the best of an okay squad today. Its not great, and no one is saying he’s a world beater, but he did his job today and we can’t say that about everyone.

That’s 100% people deciding they don’t like him and purely voting on the liveability of players. He did nothing wrong, and won a penalty. That’s surely a solid 6.

😂 not offended, you have to go along way to offend me, but the ball hit the back of the net and that’s all the matters isn’t it?

Well I’m not a compete miserable old codger, we’ll on my way at times. Sometimes though, not every though you have needs to be negative and if it does not every thought needs to be shared.

😂 FFS do you whinge this much about everything in real life or is it just a FoxesTalk thing for you?

Is that a red card? Denial of a clear goal scoring opportunity? No attempt to play the ball?

That’s got to be a penalty this time

Not taking away from how bad we’ve been, and I don’t think it changes the result but Madley has had an absolute stinker here.

The worst thing is, the refs been giving those fouls for Chelsea all afternoon. The way this game has been reffed today, that’s a penalty.

Isn’t that since they took over? They’ve spent more than most, but they do have more silverware than most to show for it, Premier League, FA Cup, Charity Shield. Multiple trips to Europe. Some clubs with more investment that could only dream of what we had going for a while there.

That damage was done way before Cooper arrived, he’s now playing with what’s left of the pieces of the club we aspire to be.

Show her this mate, should warm the cockles and bring the passion right back.

Having just read the article about BC Game going tits up, it wouldn’t actually surprise me now if they sack him in the next few days, to take that decision and that news out of circulation and bring a focus onto the football side of things. Nothing to see here, no dodgy deals before you look over there, we are sacking the manager over here.

I think that would be incredibly short sighted and a shocking decision from the club. Given we’ve just had two weeks off for the international break, if they then pull the trigger after the first game back, in a game we’re realistically expected to lose. It would be make absolutely no sense at all. The three after Chelsea are huge, and we should be looking for a minimum of 4 points from those three to keep us clear.

To be fair, of the 6 permanent signings in the summer 3 had never played in the PL. technically, one of those definitely wasn’t a Cooper signing. But I think it’s a bit of a myth that he only wanted PL experience.