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Vestergaard got away with that as well

Vestergaard

Are once, it won't be a complete overreaction. Still well in our hands but pretty understandable if people start panicking

This should be pinned anytime somebody goes off on one about tactics. Modern football has become so obsessed with tactics they seem to forget that the manager's main job is to lead the team through motivation, culture etc. but it's the players perform that wins the games most of the time. It's only when you get to a Man City or Liverpool level that it's really going to play out in a big way. Exactly as you said, it's those subtle tweaks that gain you the 1% needed to change a game in your favour.

. I thought that until he decided to give Hamza the armband, straight after being charged for drink driving (yet another black mark on his record)? Realise he probably didn't have the luxury of dropping him but that was such a disappointing message, which is a real shame since it had probably been his biggest selling point; what he was doing to the culture of the club. Even Brenda dropped players for being complete tools which says a lot.

Definitely. And given Mavididi has been largely awful for weeks, all the more reason to shift the sides of the full back moving into midfield. If you're not going to adapt your shape in a meaningful way, at least flip the mirror image

Said it in the week but he's jaded. Never gets a rest so hopefully a few weeks rest will sort it

Justin had him on toast, when we were actually organised

And the blatant red card they should have got. I think stopping the play when there player had been kicked on the foot and then not doing it when Winks was kicked in the head showed that he doesn't understand the laws

He is a clown but not sure you can say he's on the Tele considering the pen he gave us

Ah, I came on to moan and instead an equaliser is spoiled. At least I can moan about that I guess

Yeah, definitely struggling with a knock

Why did we kick the ball back? They kicked it out for their own player after they had played on and been penned in

He's always been better on the left. I don't understand where this narrative has come from

Now we have the full context, Faes has been a truly dreadful signing. Tipped us over the edge financially, whilst giving Brenda an excuse to not pick Soyuncu who would have done a much better job

No Iheanacho on the bench is stupid. Won't change the system which means it's impossible to get Cannon and Daka on the pitch in their preferred positions, let alone their best role. Might as well have 8 subs

The nonsense is the amount they spent before they sold him, especially in the championship. 3 years they lingered there for as well at a time when fees and wages essentially were less (even moreso in the championship). That'll be the one that annoys me the most

Less commercial income than Leeds . That alone is reason for new owners. They haven't hired anyone with basic commercial acumen.

Exactly, it was all there for us to capitalise on and we screwed it

It goes back to the title winning season and the abject commercial failures. During the run in of that season they would have had tonnes of interest for short term sponsorship and should have lapped it up. Then in the CL season, it was another to chance to get some big sponsorships in, grow commercial partners, expand the stadium etc but they completely fluffed that. That's one of the biggest things that's held us back as we then managed to assemble a talented squad with tonnes of re-sell value and we really could have changed the narrative for the club. Clearly Vichai was a good businessman but I think this highlights how lucky he was with the dodgy workings in Thailand to grow his empire as the club can't be so commercially inept with a great business person at its helm.

I think it's all there for him, it's just about getting it to properly click. Decision making has let him down at times but as @Sol thewall Bamba says, it's just a case of whether he can really grab hold of a game. It's not like he's a player that leaves you exasperated because they constantly make the wrong choice, it's just about squeezing that little bit more out of his game. His attitude and work rate seem first class

He's just so slow. And I don't necessarily mean straight line speed but more that he's so cumbersome and slow off the mark. If you look at how Tielemans was, for all his lack of pace, at his best that was never an issue as he was still sharp into challenges, moving the ball. Second his form dipped, his lack of speed was woefully exposed. Doyle's like that and without working really hard on that aspect, he's going to struggle to make it at the top level

Exactly this. Heart always wanted the FA Cup but my head knew how important CL qualification would have been (especially 2 years on the spin). Don't get promoted this year and I think we're back to square one

Change the system? It's what good managers do; adapt. That's purely to the question you and others have posed as the reality is he'd feature anyway because of injuries. Should have been dropped for his off the field antics really.

Jaded is the word. Same for Winks. Barely had a break and they doing a lot of the running in the team