Dusty

He is absolutely desperate to bring players in isn’t he. I do sympathise with him a bit, the club is an all round mess - he is a part of that but he’s not getting any help either.

I don’t actually think it’s that bad, it’s the first pre season game I’ve seen and I’d expected a lot worse. We’re not creative but we’re not completely incompetent on the ball either. Some players mean the system isn’t perfect and I don’t expect us to do well at the start of the season, but I did expect worse. However, their striker running through on goal and our defenders backing off so that he can get a shot away p1sses me off massively.

We are going to be relegated and they will finish well above us - I think they’ll be alright with it

You say that but most of the players spoke incredibly highly of him, Winks said he was the best manager he’s worked under. I know they’re likely to be positive about their current manager but it always seemed to be that the players really enjoyed playing for him and enjoyed having so much of the ball. It’s definitely more fun than sitting back and defending for 90 minutes anyway.

His name is Golding…

I don’t think this has much about entitlement. Firstly, the things that have gone wrong in the last few years has been around giving older players/players that don’t deserve it, big contracts and then we can’t shift them. I would be very surprised if this is anything shorter than a 3 year contract and for a 31year old that means he’ll have no re-sale value, and for a winger he’ll be at the very end of his career. And I could forgive those things if it meant we were signing a really good player. But we’re signing someone who played 1,400 of minutes for Fulham. So it’s someone who isn’t even good enough to regularly start for Fulham, which I fail to see how is that inspiring. There’s a lot of negatives and not a lot of upside so I think it’s fair that people are disappointed if this is the winger we’re singing. He’s not terrible back up, but he’s not capable of being much better and he’s already 31 so we’re not going to make any money on him either. The only comparable singing in recent years that I can think of is Coady, who’s been disappointing and now doesn’t offer us much at all but we’re stuck with him for at at least 2 more years.

There is a lot of negativity around this signing and I know it gets tiring reading it all, but it’s not like most of us haven’t seen him play. He’s been an average (at best) prem player for 5 years so we’ve been able to see him fairly regularly and I honestly can’t remember ever watching him play and thinking that he’s a good player. He improves the depth but not the starting 11 and he will be on pretty significant wages as I can’t see him taking a pay cut from what he was on at Fulham. I just don’t really see the positives in it, there isn’t loads of negatives either but it’s not going to make a massive difference to survival so I’m not sure on the point of it.

Willing to give everyone a fair crack, but this is shaping up to be a really terrible summer for the club. Losing the manager and KDH, to getting in cooper, a kid that’s never played, a centre back that doesn’t seem to be rated and essentially a worse version of ayoze Perez is making me dread this season. Feels like we’ve significantly regressed from where we were 6 weeks ago.

Fofana is a good player, will go on to be a very good player in the future imo. Didn’t look bad for Burnley either when I saw him. He plays like a modern forward.

Feels like just moaning about nothing really.

Bit ironic as you’ve been the biggest moaner on here

You’re laughably clueless

This makes for such grim reading

Some of you must be older than fossils

Kjetil Knutsen

This is from Sessegnons wiki page under ‘Guinness World Record’. On 27 May 2019, Sessegnon achieved the Guinness World Records title for 'Fastest time to hit both football goal posts and crossbar', doing so in just 7.75 seconds. It’s a yes from me.

I agree with those saying he’s a very likeable character and he clearly loves the club, I also think he’s improved loads this season as previously he didn’t look like a very good league 1/2 player. That said, does anyone really think he’s got what it takes to be a premier league player? You’d probably name 20/30 attacking midfielders/wingers who had a better season than him this year, and probably only 10 or so that would comfortably make the step up into the premier league. As much as I like him I can’t see why we’d keep him if a few decent offers came in. There’s quite a few players in this team that that I like, that seem to be good lads and are not bad players, but probably aren’t worth taking the risk of trying to keep us up when there’s so much at stake. I’d include McAteer, Hamza, Cannon & Coady in that bracket - they’d probably make us £20m in sales and a lot of salary off the books that could be reinvested into players that are more likely to contribute next season, even if it’s loans and free transfers.

As much as I like Coady and he seems like a good guy, can we really rely on him next season if he was deemed not good enough for the championship? Let’s be honest, in this system Vestergaard is better than him but there are obvious questions around him. I think it’s worth trying to keep him and betting two mobile centre backs to play either side of him.

Someone I work with is a Newcastle fan, and he genuinely swears that they are a better team when he plays and says he “makes them tick”. I’m yet to really see it myself but I’d still be surprised if someone who is playing as regularly as he is come to us.

I disagree with most of that in all honesty. All the teams have qualified mangers and coaches and performance analysts who decide how they should play against us, you can’t really believe that none of them thought of pressing us? They decided against it because they thought the best chance was to sit back. And that’s worked for some clubs but not worked for a lot more. We’ struggle in the prem no doubt about it, but they’d definitely be benefits of not having to break down a really low block every single game. Burnley have been found out because they’re a terrible team, there’s next to no prem players in that side at all and it’s the same with Luton and Sheffield and that’s why all 3 are in the relegation zone. Most people on here seem to struggle with being impartial and you either have to hate Enzo or love him. Overall he’s done a decent job, lots of us thought we’d really struggle this year and for 6 months of it, it was a walk in the park. No doubt we’re underperforming at the moment and if we don’t get promoted this year then it will be a failure on his part.

I think a lot of this is fair tbh. I dont think he is a great fit for this squad of players, and the fact he has stuck to his way of playing has really highlighted his stubbornness and the players lack of ability. That said, some of the football he’s got us playing has been fantastic at times, but we’ve really struggled against teams that just sit back, which hopefully won’t happen if we get to the prem.

Nah Leeds didn’t have a shot on target until the 65th minute or something, we were absolutely all over them and should have been 3/4 up before they scored. Then they went on to score two deflected goals. The finishing in our team over the last 10 games has been appalling, if we had an average championship striker we would have won a lot more of the games recently. All our strikers have been detrimental to the side. It’s probably time to give cannon another go but I’m not convinced he’s the long term solution, but he has enough about him to give us a boost over the line.

A quick glance at the league table and we are still top, so I don’t think the bloke can be that bad can he? Personally I think he’s done an extremely good job. He walked into a club that was in a very bad way with lots of unhappy players, out of form players and players who want to leave or are on the verge of contracts expiring. Most of us expected that it would be a slow start and we would struggle to begin with, but we set a record of the most points/wins after 15 games. Most of the players have bought into his idea and it seems like they have a really good connection with him, especially when you see that video of the celebrations the other week. He’s clearly not been perfect and parts of our football this season haven’t been good enough, last night being the worst of the worst. I think he’s still got a way to go and from an untrained eye he seems to make some weird decisions with subs, and the swapping of KDH and Ndidi. But on the whole I would say he’s been pretty tactically sound and done a good job. I also think the squad is very unbalanced and not many of them are really capable of playing his style of football which is why people are complaining and I get those complaints too and the suggestions to switch to a style of play that more of them are comfortable with. But I think it’s important to have an identity and way of playing as it gives the players more confidence and rhythm. United are a good example of when a coach abandons his principles to try and fit the players, and it’s complete chaos, none of them know what to do and everyone watching is asking what kind of team they are. Our recent form is concerning and isn’t acceptable - he has to should his share of the blame, but I’d argue the tactics weren’t the issue in most of the losses and it was more to do with woeful finishing. I think the reality is he’s somewhere in the middle, he looks like a good up and coming coach who needs some fine tuning. If we go up I think he’d be a good coach for us and not sure we’d get better.

F#ck me, we’ve had terrible commentary all season but as soon as it’s two women everyone loses their minds. Get a grip.

We are the worst fan base in the world