Paninistickers

Fans so reactionary. He's been beyond garbage in all but the tiniest fragments of games in his time with us. Slow, weak and anonymous 99.9% of the time However, yesterday, he did well. One swallow making a summer tho....

I'm bemused how slow we play when the games are at 0-0 and we are seemingly cruising (when, ofc, we aren't) The urgency and tempo forced upon us at Swansea second half and from 60 mins yesterday is how possession football should be played. Free kicks, throw ins, roll outs from keeper all done within a nano second. The winning goal was actually a masterclass. Faes, Vesty to each other (which the crowd hate) even went backwards 10 yards before we then pinged it through midfield. Clearly not sustainable all game. But the players can allow themselves lulls. But we don't seem to do that at all. Cifuentues set up is all so painfully slow. I don't think there's much more most of the players need to do other than just up the tempo

League one team. Utter garbage. Middlesbrough too. Absolute shite the other night. lots of twists to come as those doing well just aren't that good.

We were largely shit. But that winner was delicious. Proper tasty.

His confidence is absolutely shattered. Playing under three dreadful managers, a club that's lost its mojo, a critical crowd and the 20m price tag around his neck. It ain't a great recipe. I'm not expecting a transformation, but I don't think we've seen anything near his best. I watched him at Spurs. He was tidy. Wasn't out his depth. Never 20m mind you. But the player we are seeing isn't the same lad at Norwich or Spurs.

Largely agree. Just felt his position was 10 yards further up the pitch than normal and it suited him better. A position he played v Villa and Palace last season with as you rightly say, reasonable effectiveness. This holding role isn't his thing.

Yeah but how many games in that 51 has he started? 10? Most his sub appearances are a 10min desperate hail Mary when the game has usually long gone

I'm sure it was him he gave an extraordinary dance as a strictly contestant

Well, I thought, a bit like Daka, that was steady today. Green shoots of confidence. Instead of playing that horrific sitting role, he and JJ played in advance of Winks just sitting. And it suited him better. I know we scored after he'd gone off - but that was as much to do with Norwich capitulating as anything else. he can be pleased with his input

I think that's unfair. He worries teams. That's a positive. And as others said today, he came short several times to link up play and helped zip the move along. He needs confidence, a defined role and a bit of luck

He was OK. He's honest and keeps the centre halves cautious. First half was kinda a 6/10 but second half faded. Whether people like it or not, we won at Swansea in our best performance this season and we won today - both with him starting. He's likeable. We need to cling on to anything likeable right now

The game killer is on. Bob. Down to 9 men

Why have a pop at him? For me he's been a (relative) breath of fresh air. He's come niey short a few times. Nearly disposed the keeper twice. Couple of neat 1-2s and the rest, yup, is falling over. But he keeps the center halves honest. Carranza doesn't do anything. At all. It's either Daka being Daka or nothing. That's yer choice.

First time in weeks we've played 11 men, now down to 10 with Thomas

Thomas

No Thomas. No Bob. No Carranza. Means we are fielding 11 professional players. Baby steps.

Eh? The post you are replying to outlines the death and destruction Cheney (and Rumsfeld) gleefully caused. For all their faults, Trump/Vance don't appear to enjoy war and death

First rule of managing a poor team. Take some pressure off the players and give them basic tasks, metrics, little targets and the pressure of the result itself off their shoulders.

He struggling for form and confidence. Our support doesn't do ourselves any favours by demanding zero errors from our players. Stephy can do it. Back him. Garbage like Thomas and BdcR and Carranza couldn't do a fcking thing if their confidence was sky high and everything went their way.. Calling out the bad players is different to calling out good/decent players are who just happen to be playing bad

Just a personal view, but I suspect KP have always flown by the seat of their pants. Maxing out lines of credit way before we were part of the empire. That's how they roll. Borrow borrow borrow and hope one the the bets pays off. The clue is in their desperate, unquenchable thirst for hard cash. Right back to the Mahrez and Maguire deals. They desperately needed that cash, as, just a guess, they don't have nearly as much in readies as we all think. They are gamblers. And, at last, the roulette wheel is about to stop. And the ball ain't sitting in the right colour.

This is correct. It's invoice finance, not a loan. There isn't a repayment plan. Just the money we would've got from Chelsea or the PL in, say, June 2027 goes straight to Macquarie, it us. The problem with that, as I and others have said all along, is that the parachute money we were die this season and next, bad already gone. We spent it ages ago. The parachute money goes to Macquarie. The only way out of this cycle is to get promoted again and Macquirie will happily pay us two years PL + parachute money again, immediately. But, No promotion = No Macquirie= No money. Unless we sell players. And at this moment, who do we sell exactly to finance a 40m wage bill (taking into account some big earners like Daka and winks leaving) and the running costs of seagrave. We are on the brink. Next July there's no money+ other than player sales. None from the PL, none from Macquirie. Just gambling on selling Fatawu and Monga and Nelson and Stolarcyk for 40m ish

As you say, he did everything right. Life went into slow motion. As a viewer you could see the move building, the cross l, Castange's position and then as life seemed to stop, willing him to do exactly what he did - hit the sweet spot. Soon as it left his foot, I thought 'that fcker's in' ...... ....sighs

One of those players where you could call it before he played a single second if football. Same as that dreadful Brazilian winger. Same as Luke Thomas. Same as Danny Ward. You can just tell. Edit. Ryan Bennett too

I don't think that moment is talked about enough. It was close to being an extraordinary moment in our history. Being totally mullered for 80 mins after tactically leaving our best players out in Barnes and Madders in order to go at it in the last 10. And it almost worked. Sliding doors moment.

Fair. In that Newcastle away game I think we played a back 9!