Richmondfox

As long as he doesn’t play Soumare then he has made an improvement. I want this to work. I’m sick of idiot managers and donkeys on the pitch. We need to press hard and get the players with talent and speed the ball quickly. JJ, Ayew, Vesti and Faes stunk everything out. Replace them and things start to be less toxic. I’m willing to give Winks if he’s next to Ricardo, who hopefully can get him back on track and focused.

I would prefer a better player to play that role but I doubt we will get anyone. The problem with moving Ayew around is he still plays the same way. Struggles to hold the ball up and actively looks to stop play rather than progress. I can’t see Ayew suddenly bringing players into the game when he wouldn’t all last season.

Hopefully he has an idea and can drill it into the right players. Enzo made Ndidi look like a good player because he had two plays to do. Cooper played him high up expecting him to be the play maker and he would stink out every attack. Cooper and Ruud allowed too many problems and didn’t seem to be able to coach players into being better, working on their skills to our advantage or at least stopping true mistakes. Part of me thinks they didn’t have a clue what was wrong in the first place. What sort of manager would want Ayew falling over on the half way line during a counter attack, JJ running with the ball to stop and pass back or watch Soumare walk around doing nothing positive.

Just seeing our squad pretend to press would be a start.

But then we play the first 10 games with Soumare, Faes, Daka and Ayew to make it more difficult on ourselves.

So they are sneaking him back into the uk on the team bus.

It will be the same shit where the new manager will waste their training time, resources andgames playing the same donkeys that have made the same mistakes constantly. Hopefully whoever it is will have a stats team to analyse rather than just assume the “experience” counts and the ego thinking they will work with his method.

I will support any manager until he plays Soumare in back to back games. Then he has confirmed he knows nothing. At least Enzo was clear and stubborn with the roles he needed people to do otherwise they got binned. Ayew being ok at times is how toxic last season was. Shame the rest of the time he would play the role of a hold up striker on the half way line during a counter attack. 😂

As long as he doesn’t play Soumare, Ayew and Daka for half the season thinking they will suddenly get better and stop doing everything they have failed at.

I agree. He’s just another clogger manager who will fill us up with clogger players. The only way to get rid of him would be to pay him off and we’ll get stuck with the shit players seeing out their contracts. Just like with Cooper and the shit he has left us with. Dyche has found his role and his level and manoeuvres his career well. He is the desperate easy choice for those thinking the long term will sort itself out. Hopefully Top is just stalling, like they did with the duty free and got better rates in the end. Thais don’t like to lose face publicly and can end up cutting off their noses to spite the face.

Things are tough, only the 7th richest Thai business leader on the Forbes billionaire list. Red bull heirs at number 1.

Worst case scenario, and if needs must, put him where the blind donkeys in midfield stand around, at least we might get a forward pass.

If we are stuck with them, these ****ing clowns better work harder than ever to get us up first time. I’m more concerned that we are stuck with Soumare and the new manager plays him. If can’t see Rohl playing him after seeing what he doesn’t do. Thankfully he has a stats background not just cliches about experience.

I agree. I can’t see Dyche developing any of the limited talent we have but filling the team with even more cloggers that we will be stuck with when (if) promoted. The KP donkey sanctuary is already full.

Foreign companies wouldn’t get the contract, they would have to be 51% majority Thai shareholders, which is worked around by hiring proxy shareholders. It seems like a case of hard ball rather than total impending doom for KP. They renewed a contract when things were going well. Now things aren't as flush, the contract isn’t sustainable for KP but AOT don’t care even though something is better than nothing. https://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/business/2025/06/16/aot-forms-task-force-after-king-power-requests-contract-exit/ KP make up 17% of AOTs revenue, 1 billion baht revenue to the ministry of finance who are also shareholders in AOT.

All he needs is another pre season and another manager and he might stop tripping himself up with only the keeper to beat. Didn’t he injure himself last preseason by missing the ball and kicking someone’s foot?

And the cope cycle begins 😂

I think deep down we all know they’ll waste money getting another donkey to keep Ayew company and another Daka to give us 4 years fooling ourselves it’s every other variable at fault apart from him being shit.

But he also chose to play dog shit players that made the same mistakes every well and cost us games. He didn’t actually fix any problems with players and make anyone better. He shuffled the dog shit around.

It would be great to see what numbers Bilal can produce with a midfield that passes the ball forwards, attackers that run into space and can hit the target. We missed KDH, Bilal was doing a lot of the graft that he provided and was then expected to produce at the end of it. He will do well in a team that isn’t full of donkeys.

Shame he hasn’t got any questionable in today’s society social media posts and get HR to put him on a PIP? They shouldn’t be rewarded for failure.

His hold up play was one of the things that stunk out the team. If he controlled the ball, he held onto it for too long, usually in the direction away from goal, ignored simple passes and fell over. He will play exactly the same, shit.

He sent it to a locker further back.

I’ve seen JJ enough times over several managers to come to my own conclusion that he is shit and brain dead at the basics. The negativity isn’t just about being out of position. It’s about running forward with the ball, no one in front to beat, stopping and passing backwards. JJ’s inner monologue could be a loop of “stop the ball, pass back” No convincing and copium can make me believe that most of our squad aren’t shit at their job.

There was nothing adequate about JJ this season. He wasn’t even milquetoast but a genuine liability at the back and a hindrance to any almost every attack he started off.