TeaMen Tom

Two goals - that alone made it a good match. However they deserved all 3 points.

Mavididi letting a seaon of frustration out today.

Atlanta has money to spend, they need a striker and teams begin training in the next week or two.

Good question. Maybe he wants to check out the USA and/or get paid more than he's likely to make in England. Atlanta, based on their history, would have no problem selling him, but if he doesn't move to the Premier League now, he may never have another chance.

He may not be the best manager in the world but this club has total crap on its bench. No one he could have turned to was going to make a difference. Outside of Facundo, who on the bench tonight has Premier League quality?

I don't think so. He's just awful. Can Cannon come back next month? I think any warm body would be an upgrade on Daka at this point.

Stolarczyk was the biggest positive. I thought Vestergaard and Coady were OK. Biggest issue to me was our central MF not being able to hold onto the ball and allow a little possession. Just constant giveaways plus no real threat for a counter attack. Daka sucks (nothing new there). The rest is just the talent gap between the clubs, which is ginormous. Justin with his usual breakdown that results in a goal didn't help either. Ayew takes a lot of crap on here, but I thought he was solid tonight. He at least wasn't coughing up the ball all night to the degree that several of his teammates were.

Even down 2-nil I didn't think it was a horrible performance. They overextended looking for the equalizer and got caught on the 2nd goal. But the way it ended - wow. Really excited for what Ruud can do with the squad moving forward. The energy is shifting, lol.

My favorite football player ever. Hope he remains a Fox for a few more years.

I guess this is a statement about how Tops wants things. No more just stay in the league - he wants to build a proper club to get it back to where they were before everything went south with Rogers. Just have a plan B in mind for when Ruud moves on because it will happen (maybe even in mid-season) if he's successful. That said, really looking forward to what he can do with this club. They've got enough talent to move up the table a few spots.

Ruudie can't fail! And if he succeeds he'll be on to the first big club that comes sniffing.

Oh I agree with that. Cooper still had to go - and soon. But you would hope they'd have been more pragmatic about it - assuming reports of not having reached out to anyone specific are accurate.

If they did sack Cooper without having a replacement lined up it smacks of the 'ready, fire, aim' approach this club has had in recent years. Long term it just doesn't work.

Football can be such a cruel game. Gotta make the most out of wins like this one.

My guess is there’s a lot of unhappy players on the squad currently.

They haven’t been able to get control of the ball at all. Cooper is so f—ing stubborn.

I watched the Atalanta game. I thought Arsenal was playing just to get a point. My guess is they'll get their 3 goals in the first half and put it on cruise control after that. We'll give up a 4th due to some stupid giveaway by Faes or Justin.

I thought this was a certain L so getting a point is somewhat of a bonus. Mavididi MOTM. The rest......The play not to lose mentality of the manager eventually filters down to the players and that's how you underachieve - i.e. get relegated.

What’s Puell doing these days? Even he would be an improvement.

Wish we could call off the hiring of this manager.

I mentioned Sargent a couple of weeks back. I read somewhere in our press though that Norwich has placed a ridiculous value on him and scared off Bournemouth , which is where he was linked.

I'm guessing he's been available to them since the window opened but he was about the 10th choice because the price tag was so high. 9 strikeouts later, here we are. Giddyup. I suppose the good news is he's got talent.

In one of those Amazon docs when Mourinho was at Spurs, I remember him praising Winks the same way.

How about Josh Sargent at Norwich? Figured in both their goals yesterday, only 24. 16 goals in Championship last season. Also rumored to be available.

Well let's see, they've got less talent than they finished the season with and you would figure that moving to the Premier League would require a talent upgrade. Daka is still on the roster, Vardy is hurt and there are no proven goal scorers in line to step in. And there's no AM on the roster and a points deduction is coming. And Ward looks to be one injury away from being GK1. Other than that.....