An Away Move

Fatawu’s final ball is 70% a bad idea.

Our best youth prospect too. Alves - told and made to feel that he was part of the first team’s plans. Now not on the bench nor developing on loan. The latter linked to the former.

Mate. Are you his wife? Cooper cost us the points today.

Coady rusty as ****. Yeah. Let’s chuck him on and invite the opposition on to us. Definitely on Cooper as much as Coady.

Crystal Palace not all that and struggling with confidence were going to have to chase the game. We needed attacking outlets not such negative tactics. Cooper cost us the points today. Complete lack of courage.

Cooper lacks tactical nous and worst of all any courage. Get rid.

Cooper has no faith in his players. They’re better than he thinks. Negative bastard.

Offside not given because a player is played onside by an attempted block?

Ok. Humble pie time for all of us slagging of Cooper for playing N’didi as a 10.

It’s clear that Cooper does not trust in the squad’s ability to win Premier League games over 90 minutes. It sends the wrong message to the players. Enzo was all about control and playing percentage football. Both look defensive first, but one trusts in the ability of talent and the other does not.

Bilal, Buonanotte, & Alves are more effective in the 10 position than N’didi. What is Cooper’s rationale? I thought the 10 becomes the second striker when a FB gets the chance to attack.

I was a big supporter of Soumaré. I thought he played really well in the Charity Shield game against Man City. However I cannot stand watching him jog after nearby players with attacking intentions. It’s like he’s in a fog and has no urgency to defend. At all. He badly needs a shot of Vardy’s aggression and a download to the brain, Matrix style, about the importance of being a team player. Get him gone and certainly off our bench so Alves can have a chance of minutes.

Does this mean that fans of other clubs, (a) Will like us all the more because we ****ed over the Premier League? (b) Will hate us all the more because we cheated and got away with it and they’d LOVED to have done the same?

Any English club that tries this on deserves a couple of bad seasons and Division 1. Let's see how this model works for them then.

Tragic. Life is so easy to take for granted when you’re well. Savour each day. May he RIP.

It’s so obvious that we aren’t good enough defensively to play defensively for 70m and then have a go. This team can cause problems for most teams if we respect them less.

You need to go to Specsavers mate.

Can someone explain to me the rationale for playing N’didi, a converted DM, in the 10 position, whilst Alves who’s been playing attacking midfield since he was 8 years old makes sense because ‘experience’? Do you agree that N’didi playing there works better?

At the end of last season Alves was included in part of the trophy lifting and pre-season the club via its socials have featured him. It’s clear that the mood music was, ‘You’re in our first team plans’. Loan moves may have even been turned down for all we know. Then Cooper comes in and buys three players ‘with experience’ to play ahead of Alves. Let’s say we don’t have problem with that. Even with him picking Soumare over Alves for a place on the bench after Alves’ bright performance from the bench in his last game. The issue is therefore with the DOF. He should be giving Cooper a direction to develop Alves with chances. This makes, not only development sense, but also financial sense. Alves is being managed badly IMO. I’m beginning to think he should leave to further his career. If he does it would be because of criminal mismanagement by the club.

Soumare over Alves is abuse.

I want him based on his chant alone.

What am I missing? I thought he ‘was one for the future’ and looked decent whenever he played for us.

Maybe he’s decided to stay and fight for his place.

I think we just don’t know. The point is we need to take a risk and see. All three are young talented lads. The clubs were Buonanotte and Bilal were at before took a risk and played them when they were youngsters. We seemingly daren’t. It’s not like Alves and Nelson are new to the game of football!

I don’t think this is the case with Alves and Nelson. I believe they are good enough. They’re not being given minutes because they don’t have enough minutes. It’s stupidly conservative and ridiculous. If we’re buying players this year to play ahead of them when we have massive financial issues you have to question whether there is any route into the first team for them. We’re holding them back.