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If only because he is actually an asset who needs his value protecting, unlike the other muppets

The more you reflect and realise this the more remarkable it is that no one behind the scenes has been sacked. Or that they’ve not even tried to arrest the decline by doing something differently. It’s baffling. As I said in another thread Top and Rudkin make Peter Taylor look like a golden boy.

So maybe not the thread for this, but Middlesbrough have signed Iheanacho on loan. Would you not take him back here? Given the only option behind Vardy is Daka, surely he’s worth a loan… no?

I think we have to accept we’ve seen the greatest period in our history, and now dark days are coming. But it’s been so comically bad that I’m beyond the point of caring really, which is probably the worst thing about all this.

Stolen from Twitter, but very good…

This really is a joke of a football club. Not so long ago we were the example of a model club. We’ve fallen so far and so quickly, and yet Top and Rudkin just seem to be going through the motions.

Lots of reasons to be negative, but I’m not quite sure this is one of them. Assuming we didn’t initiate the discussion?

So we could have made £15m pure profit on Thomas and McAteer and we’ve said no. I am truly struggling to believe that? We’re not that stupid are we?

Exactly, if we let him leave today what is the point? We have half a chance with in in the side, but pretty much no chance without him.

Not enough attention is given to how they have rebuilt to a far inferior squad. I think they’ll be competing for 4th place for a few years at least.

For me if I had to pick one single failing it has been all these assets that left for nothing. This has seriously hampered our ability to reinvest and meant there has been almost no room for error with the signings we have been able to make. I imagine it is also a driver in giving stupid contracts to players because the leverage is with the player (as their agent probably knows we’re desperate). Hence you go from letting a Tielemans go for nothing to giving the likes of BDCR and Ayew silly contracts. It has been a recurring theme over a number of years.

I’m not sure why he hasn’t tried a 352 yet. Theoretically it would improve where we’re weak - ie central defence and having 2 strikers on the field. Perhaps we’d have to sacrifice wingers, but they’ve been crap recently. Actually, other than Daka do we even have another striker in the squad? 🤣

We’re clearly beyond the point where any sacking of a manager is Rudkin, Top et al using it subconsciously or consciously to deflect blame from them.

And yet we’ve been mismanaged to this point. And we all know why. It’s shocking and yet we are sleep walking… no sprinting toward it getting far worse. Why on earth we changed direction in terms of strategy and decision making about selling to reinvest I will never know. IMO we got too big for our boots and thought or gambled on not needing to sell to reinvest. But then you loose the ability to refresh with those who have something to prove, you become stale, you have a series of duff signings and the few quality players you have realise the shows over, they run down contracts and you’re ****ed. Then that culminates in what happened today - where you have one or two decent players, but mostly plodders who either crap or aren’t here for the right reasons. Such poor squad management over a number of years. We used to hark on about Peter Taylor dismantling a successful team. What’s gone on here in the last 5-6 years at a more structural level is far far worse, and should never be forgiven.

He was probably the wrong appointment for a relegation scrap at this stage of his career. This is not on him though, but the person who has built such a poor squad of players over years and years.

Hang on I’ve only just realised how bad these goals were having just seen them in a video. I’m not joking when I say these are the worst goals I’ve seen conceded at any level of football, including my own 5-7 a side experiences. Laughably bad.

As I was almost pitch level and there weren’t many left, it was one of the highlights of my season so far that all the 5 or 6 who did come over would have personally seen me gob off and make certain gestures.

He was abysmal today. No effort or application. Literally jogging around having a strop when dispossessed.

He’s such a limited footballer. A Scandinavian Alan Rogers

I’m home now, and having reflected on this it was men v girls, and that’s probably a disservice to ladies. We didn’t compete at all, players were jogging around have a strop. The only enjoyment I got was sitting 5 rows from the front so the few players that did come over would have seen my gestures at the end. At least Winks apologised, but that was ****ing grim.

Everton are still vulnerable and no Calvert Lewin is massive for them. I’m confident we can get something.

Really strange and probably bullshit?

We’re after Noah Juan

Looks like a wim wim for both parties

I was hoping this thread would be criticising the awful modern take on the post horn gallop. I hate it! Get someone to actually play it from the centre circle with a horn…