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Kolasinac thinks he's playing at the Millennium Stadium

Well he's from one of the most corrupt countries in Europe..

They should have had about fifty yellow cards in the first five minutes they looked shell shocked. Hacking everyone down.

.. He might be ok.

If he goes off here that might be his season. And city's.

Shit. He's just done his achilles.

I swear he was 26 on Football Manager every year for 10 years.

Who do you get in the final?

Genuinely might be the single worst attempt at that ever

A. Walsh and Ormondroyd almost straight away. B. Parker. C. Elliott D. Muzz and shockingly Scowcroft. E. Don't really think any one player springs to mind. F. Howard G. Oakley. H. Vards. Obviously. I. Tielemans. J. Madders. K. KDH.

Apparently he was not invited by Ipswich. They've booked the facilities and had a stadium tour that anyone could go on. However, I highly doubt Ipswich didn't know about it. But it's win win for him isn't it. He either gets to pose at a football club looking like a salt of the earth or they refuse to let him and he gets a lot of media and attention out of pretending to be outraged that he was banned from Ipswich Town.

Not all of them were Russian asset traitors and dogwhistling fascists trying to hoodwink the working class for the sakes of their billionaire sponsors, mind.

As much as I don't love we've adopted a MAGAism, we do need to drain the proverbial swamp. At this point I'd clear out a good 90% of the squad and be having a really good, solid look at some of the staff too. The biggest thing the club needs is a top-down reassessment of our culture. It's the number one thing we miss from the Pearson years, an actual consideration of personalities when we recruit. No Dickheads as Brentford put it. We need this desperately.

The problem with comparing players from other teams is that it completely ignores the very obvious X factor going on at our club right now. The horrific morale, the loss of confidence, the lack of interest, the poor organisation, the abysmal tactics. You could put some world class strikers in the side and they wouldn't just magically make the difference. Hirst and Maswanhise legitimately weren't good enough when we moved them on. You can sneer and laugh at Daka and Ayew all you want but they've achieved things in their career that neither of those two probably will and are almost certainly better footballers on paper. A big part of why Daka and Ayew are so poor is the entire atmosphere and context of what's happening in our squad at the moment and anyone coming in would be impacted by it just the same unless they had Roy Keane levels of confidence and professionalism. I mean look at Julian Carranza. Can manage thirty odd goals in sixty odd games for Union in the MLS but looks like a pub footballer when he rocks up here for Leicester? It's not like the modern MLS is all that different in standards to the Championship either. There's way worse strikers in this league than him scoring goals. We're just cancerous. Whoever turns up here gets smothered by the general smog of our squad.

Iheanacho is an odd one. I was thinking about him the other day. The Iheanacho around the time of covid that got us to the FA cup final? Yeah absolutely. But the Iheanacho we had in the Championship was worse than Daka. He didn't give a shit at all. It was embarrassing and painful to watch and that's when we were decent. Ayoze Perez would be an improvement though. Wouldn't expect him to prolific, his season in the Championship for a dominant Newcastle he scored 9. But still better than what we have. By a slither. Oh and one that most of you DIDN'T want to leave - Tom Cannon? He's got less G+A/90 than both Ayew and Daka this year. Something for you to mull over.

If there's one thing I absolutely cannot abide in an third person action adventure game it's terrible controls. If it doesn't feel smooth to play why would you. The gameplay should be the main point, especially when your game has no story because you designed it as an MMO and just yanked out all the MMO functionality at the death It'll be a big no for me unless they do significant work on it.

Can't miss sitters if you never get in the box.

I mean it'll just be Ayew won't it I don't know who we're trying to kid. Ourselves I guess. Just to find the will to keep going.

Yeah but you're a Forest fan

I think you're probably right. Daka will miss a lot of sitters but Ayew wouldn't have had the chances in the first place and if I remember correctly they've both now missed a penalty this season so he's not even got that going for him. Ayew shouldn't play up front at all. Ideally he wouldn't play full stop but he's probably no worse than Mav on the wing on current form.

Richards is pretty obviously non league standard, League Two level at best or we'd have seen him get at least a few cameos at the end of games.

I don't think we have much choice but to give Mukasa a try at 9. He's played there for Man City in the youth Champions League. Ayew is a complete passenger and Daka just can't be relied on. I don't see what we have to lose. Mukasa is confident, hard working, talented, he can shoot, link up play, I just don't see why not really? It also allows us to get Skipp, JJ and Winks all in the side and the four of them together with Fatawu are probably our best players. I think you swap Mukasa and Daka from today's starting lineup and that's probably about as good as we can actually be?

I'd play Mukasa. He's played there for Man City. He's not rapid but he's faster than Ayew, holds the ball up better, is just as strong, links play well, works hard, is better in front of goal. With JJ, Mav and Fatawu playing off him it's not like he has to do everything himself. Ayew shouldn't get anywhere near the pitch but we just can't rely on Daka to finish. We should be winning this two nil.

Just bare goals mate