honeybradger

Rumours is we've missed the window to register him.

I just cant see how Evans would be worse than Carranza, he actually has some ability with the ball at his feet. When he comes back from the world cup he needs to come straight in.

The West Brom game comes to mind where Faes threw himself to the floor, the one where Vestergaard and Kristiansen got bullied off the ball as well. You just dont get the feeling that Nelson has those moments in his game.

He actually did some decent work defensively but he just goes into hiding when we have the ball.

Daka is miles ahead ability wise and Daka is Daka. Daka is frustrating to watch, Carranza is just depressing, just lacking any sort of quality.

When every consecutive manager we bring in gets lablelled the "worst we ever had" maybe it's not just the manager, maybe our squad really is that bad.

Would we? Things had gone South towards the end of Maresca's time with us an he had a far better squad. Maybe a better manager doesnt even contemplate the likes of Carranza and Ayew but I just cant even imagine what a decent starting XI would look like for us.

He just gets defending in a way our other centrebacks dont. Really hope he's in the picture from the start with our next manager.

Needed to sub off Ayew, how did he last the whole game.

You could see it coming a mile off

This is going to be a leicester all timer when we concede

At least he's only on loan.

This squad is really bad to be honest. If he integrates Aluko, Nelson and Monga into the squad (and later hopefully Page and Evans) and gets rid of a few more of the high earners in January I will be happy even if we dont go up. The priority has to be on fixing this squad long term and reducing the wage bill.

He's had a very solid first half, gotten pretty much everything right that has come his way.

Page almost scored a screamer, good save

Evans apparently unavailable for the u17 world cup game today as he's sick.

As i think year of the fox said it's best that he left when he did as he was starting to get some of the blame for our performances on the pitch. It's better that he's not stuck with us with these other rotters tarnishing his time here by association.

Guy on twitter who has been right regarding lineup leaks every time he has come out with them this season. Edit: not got it 100% right every time, said Ayew was starting at the weekend but the rest of the lineup was right.

Allegedly rolling the dice with a 352 and Nelson at centreback. Will at least be a bit more interesting.

You asked why people 'assume' Aluko is a competent left back, it's because that was his main position last season where based off those performances he started making the first team bench as our backup left back. Cifuentes might not see it that way and but Aluko is definitely a viable option in that position, he can also play right back to a good level as well so no harm starting him there for the u21s.

I understand the frustration with Vestergaard slowing the ball down too much but i still think he's a better centreback partner than Faes. Faes is just too erratic which wont help Nelson find his footing in the team.

Add Danny Simpson into this team and we would complain he doesnt offer enough going forwards yet we won the league with him (obviously Simpson is far better defensively than Kristiansen). Sometimes players who arent great indivually can be part of a good team and the inverse can happen and great players can be part of a bad team. He's always been poor, if he was actually an important part of Bologna's success that season they would have made a serious effort to keep him.

Why speak on subjects you dont know about? Aluko made his professional debut for us at left back and played most of last season in the u21s at left back. He was also originally scouted for our youth teams as a left back. It's only this season where he has been moved out to the right.

He was brilliant against Hull and put a proper shift in then it seems that because he tried his best and we still lost that he's just thrown in the towel. We really needed to shift him in the summer, it's frustrating because he can play well but his mentality and tendency to crumble under pressure is just pathetic.

Have you seen Hermansen at West Ham? He's turned into Danny Ward, no chance he starts over Stolarczyk on current form. Mcateer similarly has been dreadful for Ipswich, Fatawu hasnt been at his best but his worst is still miles ahead of Mcateer has been this season. As I said to the other commenter Justin had to go as well, he was really bad last season. He might be a bit better than Thomas (which is debatable after his level for us last year) but to get the money we got for him was very good.