honeybradger

BCDR is not the answer either, 5 wins in 18 starts. Not much difference between the senior pros and youngsters in terms of quality, just when the youngsters have a bad game they are written off completely whereas the senior pros are always one good game away from being labelled too good for this league. Bizarre fan base really.

You have 2 wins in your last 5, we have 2 wins in our last 10. You are still heavy favourites.

It's been inevitable since the Southampton 3-4 game. Just accept it and enjoy Jordan James whilst he's still here.

Good pass from Nelson between the lines as well.

Braybrooke today 5 tackles 1 interception 1 assist 1 dribble 94 passes 91% success rate He's becoming a complete and dominant midfielder at Chesterfield.

Brighton fans still seem to like him.

He may do but he is currently struggling in league 2 as a 24 year old. It may be because he's struggling t to return from injury and he manages to turn it around with enough game time but in my opinion he's not worth the gamble and we should cut loose.

More likely to get a decent sell on from selling to Stuttgart? Crystal Palace and Newcastle might price him out of a move in the future and screw us over.

We're actually playing well, hopefully not a repeat of the Southampton game.

Thought that was in

Our luck with loans is so incredibly bad.

Natural goal scorer, once he's gotten enough minutes in his legs he's going to be scoring loads with all the chances he gets.

Why does this narrative that Winks has been hard done by persist? Over the last 2 years he has done nothing to differentiate himself from those bad players and managers so why is he treated differently? It's almost like you're allowed to pick on players like Daka, Okoli etc or managers like Cifuentes because they can't play or manage better if they tried, but Winks is allowed to sulk and play terribly because he can be a good player if he chose to be. It should be the reverse, he should be maligned more because he is actively not applying himself.

Conspiracy theory: The club want to re-sign Winks Winks has realised he is not going to earn as much elsewhere after looking around in January. The club has released a story that Winks was extended automatically in 2023 to avoid backlash from fans when he's still here next season.

We have played Jordan Ayew regularly this season. Popov can only prove himself at the level he's playing at and can't be worse than Ayew.

Couldn't help but laugh when I imagined Daka at the end of this cross. A missed shot is better than no shots at least which is what we get with Winks.

If you genuinely think Scholes, Beckham, Kante, Xavi, Modric would get outplayed by a midfield of Sam Field and Kenny McClean then you're out of your mind. All of them proven at champions league level, the gap between them and Winks who hasn't even proven himself at Premier League level is huge. Forget world class midfielders, if we had a Premier proven midfielder like Tielemans or Dewsbury Hall or Elliot Andersen or Bruno guimaraes instead of Winks we would be far better off.

We can't play high press football because our attack and midfield have no legs. We can't play defensive football because our full backs let their men get past them too easily, our midfield doesn't track runners and our cente backs are error prone. We can't counterattack because we have no ball carriers in midfield and our attackers are useless. The only option we have with the squad is this turgid possession football that doesn't quite work, because it's what we recruited players for. No manager we bring in can change that.

Let's wait until we win a game after his sacking to decide whether we should have sacked him sooner. If this form continues you could argue he turned water into wine by getting any wins from this lot.

That's the issue, we have collected a team of players based on on-paper "pedigree" rather than footballing ability and attitude. Can they actually perform any better than what they are providing? I am not so sure. Okoli for example was "proven" in Series A but Atalanta fans were laughing at us for buying him for £13mil without the slightest consideration that he might be worth the fee. Surely any business valued in the 100s of millions should be able to do the basic due diligence on fan sentiment around a player when scouting. It took me 2 minutes looking online at the response to the transfer to know how it was going to work out. It is just staggerlingly amateur, the sheer incompetence at this club is just incomprehensible. It's gotten to the point where if you picked a random FoxesTalk user to run the club over the last 5 years they wouldn't have done any worse, they certainly wouldn't have signed Jordan Ayew or Oliver Skipp.

What is he supposed to be exactly? Not a winger, not a midfielder, not a striker.

Hopefully this isn't a false dawn but if he's proving to be starter quality at league one level already at 17 then that's very exciting for us.

Not watching the Northampton game but apparently Evans almost set up a goal and wiped a player out in the first 10 minutes. At least he's not going missing.

Winks, out of everyone in our squad, is the epitome of overpaid and unbothered. We have been suffering as a club from players who have talent but do not apply themselves to use it. As the highest paid player at the club who has also put in such minimal effort on the pitch and in training sessions that he has been booted by two managers, Winks is essentially the figurehead for players who have let the club down. That's why he gets so much vitriol. As a fan of Winks you would surely argue that he has the ability to be a low end Premier League/high end championship level player. Yet for the last 2 seasons he hasn't been tracking runners or committing to tackles and generally has been playing to a lower championship/league one standard That isn't on the managers that's on him choosing to not play to the best of his potential. He's not like Wout Faes either who can't help that he can't concentrate for a full game, Winks has shown that he can perform to a high level over 90 minutes. He just actively chooses to not exert himself as he clocked out a while ago. As I said before, hopefully we get to benefit from his newfound commitment and stay up but when it gets to the summer it should be "goodbye and good riddance". We cannot persist with players who pick and choose whether they want to show up or not.

As mentioned above he has worked under some top class managers at Spurs before coming to us and fallen out with most of them (Mourinho, Nuno, Conte). He's not some connoisseur of good managers, just a mardy arse who can't seem to get along with people and lacks fight and desire when the going gets tough. If he keeps us up then that's a positive on his record here, but he has otherwise been disgraceful and unbothered. Considering he was brought in to bring us back to the Premier League and we are sat in the relegation zone having won 3 games in 17 when he starts he has been a complete failure here. Irrespective of how he plays out the rest of the season get him gone in the summer. Otherwise we will certainly go down next season with him comfortable on a new overpaid contract.