honeybradger

4 points behind Norwich, whose fans seemed certain they would be relegated back in November/December. It's ridiculous to suggest that we could be relegated though .

To be fair Ricardo wasnt just any right back at that time, he was a top 3 right back in the PL in 2019 neck and neck with Trent Alexander Arnold and Kyle Walker. He was far too good for us and should have made a £60mil move to PSG that summer. Factoring in the above it was probably still worth persisting with him through injuries, he was our best player as recently as 23/24. It's time to move on now though.

A well run club never signs him. A moderately well run club gets rid of him last summer. A poorly run club moves him on this January. Only our abomination of a club would still have Winks involved at this point.

The two worst run clubs in English league football. 3rd place isn't close either.

Incredible understatement considering we have just lost back to back home games against relegation rivals. Some fans still cant see the wood for the trees, it's February and we are above the relegation zone on goal difference whilst being in relegation form without a manager. After 22/23 we surely cant still be as blinkered as a fan base to see that relegation is not only a possibility, it's more likely than us finishing in the top half of the table. Yet you still have some fans talking about the playoffs.

Agree with everything except for that Steve Cooper was sacked too early. In the summer he was pushing for a £10 million loan for a finished Zaha, and we still signed load of terrible and expensive players for him. If he had made it to the winter transfer window we would have had a 9-12 points deduction this season and more crap players that we would not be able to shift.

If we broke more financial rules then we would just have more Soumares, Dakas, Perezs, Praets, Faes's, Slimanis, Ghezzals etc stinking up the bench or out on loan then leaving for minimal fees. It does matter how much we spend, the club is terrible at recruitment so the only difference would be having expensive crap players or cheaper crap players. We would never have become Champions league regulars.

We got promoted to the top flight the season we were in administration. There's a decent chance we are in league one for the second time in our history next season. If not you can still only see things getting worse for us in the near future.

How on Earth is Rudkin still at the club by the way. Completely bewildering.

It's tragic that even if he was just signing for the U21s I would be annoyed at him blocking Hutchinson's pathway and reducing Otchere's game time. This guy as a first team signing is just a complete piss take from the club. It just keeps on getting exponentially worse the longer these twats are left in charge.

Have you seen Hermansen play in the last year? He has been dreadful.

Stolarczyk wasnt as bad in the PL as Hermansen has been since coming back from injury, there was a clear drop off when Hermansen was rushed back to replace Stolarczyk last season. Hermansen also completely missed a bread and butter save against QPR in the cup, even against weaker opposition he looks miles off it. You didn't notice his height as much when he was more agile but he looks tiny in goal nowadays for West Ham, he cannot cover his corners anymore.

Jakub also had an injury but at least he makes the save more often than not (saves it 67% of the time). Since Hermansen's injury every shot at him has been a coin toss whether it goes in or not (saves it 55% of the time).

If a woman goalkeeper conceded the goals Hermansen has conceded in the last year there would be shouts to reduce the size of the goal. Since his injury he has lost the power in his legs that made him a good shot stopper and now he cant reach the corners of the goal due to his height. If he comes back he almost certainly will not be the same as the last time he was in the championship.

Our results actually improved after he was bombed out the squad. 3 wins in 14 when he's started. 4 wins in 11 with him dropped. Crap either way but fans are quick to forget how disgustingly poor Winks has been for us on the pitch for the last two seasons.

When we think it cant get worse than Daka we sign Ayew. When we think it cant get worse than Soumare we sign Aribo. Just F off King Power, this ownership is no better than if they were actively trying to tank the club.

Not much you can do with this group of players. What else could he do? Start Aluko and Daka maybe but that's not guaranteed to work out either.

The reaction of Atalanta fans to us signing him told us everything. Incredible that the club did not do even the slightest due diligence before signing him.

There's a big gap between Lamine Yamal and Cordova Reid. Would Bobby be in one of these tables even if he was in Sweden, i dont think so. Also I was fine with the Diabate rumour . Looked like he had good movement.

Swansea about to sign Leo Walta for peanuts.

We have won 3 games in 14 when Winks starts. Not matter how bad things have been recently they will almost certainly get worse if he gets involved again.

His sub appearances were for 5 minutes in the Premier League, of course he struggled to do anything in those games.

Since Hermansen's injury he has approximately a 55% save rate at PL level. Worse than Danny Ward for example (although with Ward it was how ridiculous his misses were and the lack of confidence he gave). As a short goal keeper he is massively dependent on his agility to make saves and he appears to have lost that. Jakub gets criticised for palming shots back into danger areas, but currently shots in the corner of the goal are out Hermansen's reach, therefore you have to say that Jakub is currently the better shot stopper. Hermansen's fitness may improve again though, you get the sense that he was rushed back early by both us and West Ham.

Surely youre not still blaming the Winks issue on Van Nistelrooy after him downing tools and getting frozen out under another manager. You can blame Van Nistelrooy for many things but he handled Winks exactly as required and the club should have followed through and removed him that summer as a priority. No one would care about Winks's commuting distance if he showed commitment on the pitch, least of all Van Nistelrooy, the issue is that he had phoned it in long before he was frozen out. It's typical for managers in any field to ask a bit more from workers who are underdelivering, such as starting work earlier, working from the office more, recording their time. Getting Winks to stay at Seagrave was a very valid way to try and change the mindset of a player who was only focused on doing the bare minimum. That didn't work for Winks so he was frozen out, as is fair.

It's the club's fault for signing him. If he needed that ridiculous wage to take a step down to the championship then they should have moved onto the next target. Maybe they thought they were buying a solid premier league midfielder that deserved to be on Prem wages. If he was that level he would be going to a PL level club though. Just another major screw up from the club really.