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This but Cartwright or Baybrooke or Choudhury or the cleaning lady instead of Skipp.

Best team atmosphere - the whole squad apparently despite getting bent over every week.

When Nelson started whilst Vestergaard was injured Coady went and did an interview with the media saying he joined us to play games and that he's always ready. Word is that he wasn't happy being lower in the pecking order than a youth player and was putting pressure on Maresca to start him at the expense of Nelson.

How is playing with Coady going go help Nelson's development? Coady threw a fit last season when Nelson was ahead of him in the pecking order, he only cares for himself.

Okoli's ok, probably the best of a bad bunch but he does have the tendency to pass the ball straight to the opposition and isn't great in the air. The amount of green stats for him is a bit misleading, this is Van Dijk for example. the important thing for a defender is the percentage success of aerials, tackles, number of errors and whether they lose the ball in dangerous positions, not the total number of tackles, interceptions etc.

Here's a comparison between Nelson and our other centre backs. Importantly he wins the vast majority of his tackles, something that only Okoli is good for and he's the only one to not make any errors this season. Frankly him starting will be a breath of fresh air next season and it's a sign of the state the club are in that we loaned out our only defender who isn't error prone (arguably our best centre back as well). Ben Nelson Wout Faes Vestergaard Okoli Coady Souttar

The West Ham squad is good. Bowen, Alvarez, Kudos, Paqueta is a solid spine that a good manager could get a strong run of results out of.

To think we were obsessed with signing Potter for years... Awful awful manager.

We've crumbled as a club so quickly that you're delayed by about 4 years. We're no longer bottling champions league places, we currently can't score a goal at this level. It's not about being able to compete with the big boys any more, we can no longer compete with Nottingham Forest, Brentford, Brighton, Wolves, Bournemouth, Fulham etc. despite our wage bill being as high or in some cases even higher than theirs. Many of those clubs are historically smaller than us and typically sit in the championship or lower. The list of clubs that we are not going to be able to compete on the pitch with is growing every season, Ipswich, Burnley and Sheffield United are all run more competently than we are and are at a similar level, soon they will have outgrown us. I think if anyone needs to be realistic it's yourself, even the mention of top four and 15/16 reeks of delusion. That era is gone now, PL midtable mediocrity is now a dream that is unattainable for us for the foreseeable future. You might even go a step further and say that the club's position in the football pyramid is irrelevant as the club is going to be struggling to keep its head above water financially over the next few years and might go back into administration.

What tactical set up can you possibly employ with this squad of players? Can't play possession because we don't have enough quality, can't press because our midfielders/forwards don't have the energy, can't sit deep because all our centre backs are prone to error, can't counter attack because we only have one fast forward in Mavididi. We have a nightmare squad, even with tactical genius Enzo we would struggle based on our games against Leeds and Ipswich last season.

Why does it matter if Ruud was justified in freezing Winks out for not staying 1 day a week? Winks needs to be shifted even if he lived 1 minute away from Seagrave, he's a mediocre player on ridiculous wages which we cannot afford. I support him getting frozen out for that reason alone.

Liam Delap's overrated because he looks nice carrying the ball. He only has 2 more goals from open play than Vardy and 1 less assist. I'd bet on even this version of Vardy to get more over the rest of the season, sadly his finishing has been wank which is the only reason he hasn't had more up to now.

It goes hand in hand really. Football is a competitive sports where margins matter, the players need to be fully committed in order for us to compete. Sadly a lot of these players don't give their all, they drift off in games, lose their heads when they concede etc. We need a team that has something to prove and are ready to put everything they've got on the line. We need to build around our academy and stop buying washed PL players who's careers are trending downwards.

Good news, now do Faes, Kristiansen, Skipp, Coady, Soumare, Reid and Ayew. The clear out needs to start now.

I would invest our entire summer budget in paying off the losses to get these players out of the door.

We have taken out large loans from a predatory bank against the next 10 years of Premier League income, which we will not be competing in regularly. He also hasn't 'covered off our losses' he has written off some of our debts owed to King Power (i.e. himself) and converted it into equity i.e. the club is now worth more due to less debt so his ownership of the club is worth more should he be looking to sell. It's not unlikely that we sell Seagrave in the next few seasons and potentially have to go into administration due to being crippled by the loans and the dodgy sponsor going bust and not paying out.

We lose our best players all the time and replace them with worse but more experienced players! It's literally a staple of this crappy ownership that every time something goes wrong it's because the squad is too young, lacks leadership etc and they go out and buy experienced 'leaders' who had to take the step down because they're not good enough. I can definitely see us going for 'championship ready' players in the summer.

Our fans are referencing Sheffield United but what about Luton?

The thing is that if he showed some intention to clear out the muck, then no matter the results I would back him fully. What happened to the manager that benched Faes on his first game? We need a manager who treats these players like the dogmuck they are rather than giving them unwavering support whilst they put in record breaking poor performances.

He averaged less than a point a game with Aberdeen most recently who are one of the better clubs in Scotland. He'd get nothing out of this mess.

What squad? Even Pep, Klopp, Emery, Iraola, Arne Slot wouldnt stay up with this squad. Fans, Vestergaard, Okoli, Coady as centre back options is unmanageable.

We will struggle to sell Hermansen in the summer. Decent shot stopper but can't command a box for the life of him.

"We were in league one" is the perfect slogan for KPFC.

Imagine being Monga and getting asked to train with a Premier league first team as a 15 year old then comjng up against the players in person and realising they're all shit.

Winks is a championship player on PL wages. He also lost his form in the latter end of last season, who knows if we will get the same performance level out of him again. If there's a market for him we should get rid at the earliest opportunity.