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Alot of fans were ridiculing Ndidi and saying how much better off we'd be without him. He's missed 6 PL games, we've lost all 6, conceding 16 goals. Winks and Soumare are a revolving door midfield and Coady and Vesty are like traffic cones.

Relegated

Barnes has got the same amount of goals as Gordon in half the minutes. The Geordies should be grateful we had to sell, 35M was a steal.

The issue I have is that Alves has been on the subs bench the last few PL games, yet wasn't against championship opposition. 5-2 up after 60 odd mins, it would've been great for him to play 30mins in a dominant team.

With the goals he's scored at Arsenal and today, he looks a very good finisher. Move Okoli to RB, JJ as our RW, Facundo as our CAM and Bilal as our LW.

But I thought our new 100M training ground would be instrumental in developing and keeping the best young talent around.

Well he did run the ball out just like Schlupp. With Abdul injured, you would've hoped Mavs stood up and took some of our attacking responsibilities, but he's done the opposite. Gone into his shell and rarely comes out.

Was great when we first got him, but has progressively got worse and worse. He's finished and needs to be taken out the team, just like Ward. If we have no other options, I'd rather play a CB like Okoli in there.

Can't fault the starting eleven, although I had reservations on Ayew and Thomas. The problems come with Ruuds subs, taking off Bilal for Facundo, when surely they should've played together to give us the best chance of scoring. Mavs, goal apart, was horrid and yet he played 90mins. Disappointing.

The next 18 months is going to be a really transformative period for the club, with 13 players out of contract, costing 700k/week in wages. Let's hope Rudkin doesn't fuch this up.

Yes, but only if they take Ward in exchange.

Just another overpaid layabout added to our ever increasing list.

I think 36 points would see us safe, that means we need 22 from 19 games, including 2 home games against Southampton and Ipswich. Win those and its 16pts from 17 games. It's more them doable, but we need existing players like Mavs and Daka to step up, as well as getting a decent RB.

Today is the blueprint in how we need to play. I think Ruud didn't pick Bilal and Facundo together because he believed they were too similar, but today proved when they do play together, our possession and attacking play is much better. The knock effect being we also don't concede so many shots against us.

He put more dangerous crosses in the box in 10mins, then JJ has done all season. Agreed we need a new RB, but Hamza has atleast shown there may be an alternative to JJ.

Played the 4×back to back champions off the park for large parts of the 2nd half. I think we can take positives from that despite the result.

We've done it again

People take the piss out of Ndidi's age, but seriously we need to do a age test for Skipp, looks and plays like a 40yr old.

I can't believe Dawson is still here after the Brentford debacle, should've been sacked on the spot. I had some early hope with Ruud, but he's surrounded by the same rubbish as Cooper, employing the same rubbish tactics.

The problem is even if we do spend, are we going to get any quality. We spent 80M in the summer and the team looks worse. The whole clubs rotten, from top (no pun intended) to bottom. I welcomed relegation last time if it meant we reset and rebuilt, but we've done neither.

That's why he keeps getting dropped. A winger that refuses to take on the full back and can't cross, what use is he?

Another absolute useless performance. Well done recruitment team 🖕

He needs his own staff. I seen him chatting at length to Dawson and thought, what would that twat be telling him. Dawson showed he was completely clueless with his selection and tactics against Brentford. Then when I saw the 2nd half subs, it was no surprise.

Absolutely. I know lots of people who wanted to get to games after our title success and the subsequent years. They couldn't and now, either most of the youngsters have lost interest or it's just too expensive. The lack of foresight at the club is staggering

Usyk is a generational talent, cleaned up the cruiserweight and then stepped up to heavyweight, where its land of the giants, and beat everyone of note. P4P great.