honeybradger

I wouldn't call what Ayew does experienced/savvy. He doesnt pick and choose when to fall over and draw fouls, that's his default and he never switches it up. It's fine in the final minutes when you're leading but when you're drawing/behind at home it completely stifles our momentum in possession. Man City win titles by tactical fouling the opposition, Ayew getting himself fouled when we're in possession benefits the opposition more than it does us. Ayew is like if you take the worst part of Maddison's game and remove all the quality surrounding it.

He did so well for us in the Championship because he always had 2-3 options to pass to because of Maresca's system. Under Cooper every player is isolated and it's impacting Winks more than anyone.

This cant be it because Fatawu barely played today and Ayew stayed on the pitch.

Reminder that Cooper benched him for the first 3 matches of the season by the way. Now he's doing the same to Fatawu.

Was on the bench for our first three games as well.

He's great at winning fouls! Not like Man City are the most successful club in England by slowing down the opposition by fouling them.

VK has been shocking

Buonanotte can play on the wing as well. He's done more to start than Ayew.

He's been good so far this season to be fair to him. Probably the only thing Everton have going for them.

Not just Twitter but on Stoke's forum they're grilling him pretty harshly.

A decent portion of stoke's fanbase seem to have written him off already, hopefully he can turn it around for them once he's got a run of games. Why we thought it was a good idea to sign a youth striker for £7mil when we had 3 senior strikers and no gametime to offer him I wont understand.

I think the Oxford manage worryingly referred to Nelson as depth when the loan was announced. Hopefully the manager gives him a proper look in.

Him and Ben Nelson.

James Justin was benched for large parts of last season and there were none of those threads. The Ricardo Pereira threads arent even necessarily related to James Justin's form, they started before we had even started playing. Most of our fans recognise that Ricardo is a special player, arguably our best. He's far better than Kristiansen and Justin at least, if we want to have the best chance to stay up he should not be on the bench. It's that simple.

The new manager bounce when Cooper is sacked is going to give us all whiplash with Ricardo coming back into the side and both Mavididi and Fatawu playing at the same time.

If it's a choice between Ricardo and Cooper then sayonara Cooper! Hopefully Top and Rudkin make the right choice.

They need to come to terms with the fact that they are relegation fodder this season as well. I dont think we will play many teams away from home this season where we will leave thinking we should have had 3 points.

I fear that it already has, we have to pay Bobby Reid and Ayew's wages for the next 3 years, no chance we are going to be able to offload them. Will Alves isn't even getting on the bench for us, his treatment under Cooper reminds me of O'Riley's under Scott Parker at Fulham. Sadly for him he didn't see the signs during pre season and wasn't smart enough to run down his contract with us like O'Riley did at Fulham.

I dont mind him but I dont see him having much about him either. Not his fault that he costed so much but I feel it's a bit premature to call him excellent and a bargain before we've even won a game with him in the side.

He's a good midfielder for the level of a newly promoted side that expects to lose every game. I'm not so sure that warrants the £20mil price tag.

Fatawu has not been honking. At his worst he's our best defensive grafter on the wing and at his best he wins us points going forwards like Spurs.

I wouldn't say Kasper, Drinkwater and De Laet were PL experienced players before they joined us. The others do show that there is value in PL castoffs though.

Alves wasnt playing in the u21s at 15 years old. He also had that ACL at 17, otherwise i think he would have broken through last season.

We're a football team, we're not going to give him gametime as a charity exercise. Jeremy Monga is one of the best talents we have produced in a long time, he's not a "school kid" he's a potential 8 figure asset that we need to be careful to hold on to. There's a good chance that giving Monga more incentive to stay with us than to move to a big 6 side will benefit us more than it does Monga.

Pathway to first team football mate, not consistent minutes. Give him some some minutes in the league cup and FA cup and assure him that he will be around the matchday squad in 3 or so seasons and he will stay.