JimJams

Poundland Grealish enters the fray.

Can't believe he's missed that.

So sensitive.

Vestegaard Summer of 2023.

I think there's a degree of the rest of the team and probably the tactics that aren't helping either Mav or Fats at the attacking end. Fats had Wilf pre injury running as an inside overlap meaning he had a player drawing defenders to either receive the ball or open up space for Fats to come inside. Since Wilfs injury whoever plays does not do that. Nobody does that for Mav on the left. KDH doesn't provide those runs like Wilf. That may be by design, so Mav has the space to move into, but the problem I have is that where Mav picks the ball up, he's too far wide imo. If he beats his man, he's still not generally in a threatening position. He's in a better position for a lay off or he's in position to have another man to beat, but rarely is he in a decent position to shoot, nor cross for the striker. He's generally not gaining much from going past a player. If you can give him the ball whilst on the move, driving into the box, he'll be so much more of a threat. At present he's often getting the ball closer to the sideline on a standing start against a reset defence.

C'mon, tell us, when are you ever happy?

Hmmm...

Now, let's just pretend they've scored so we go for another.

Unlucky KDH, thought that was comfortably wide at first.

It's not like Faes doesn't have experience though is it? That was just shite.

That was shit from Yunus on first glance, but the replay you see it bobbling like a mother fxxker before he hits it.

Fck yeah!

Well there's only 3, Hull Leeds and M'Boro, so no not so far, but it's slim pickings innit.

We haven't failed to score since November 11th.

Lessons in moaning. Whoever the manager picks, it's wrong.

OH MY!!!

Wellity...

Yep. If we need favours, we don't deserve top spot.

We'll have Soumare and Kristiansen back because we won't be able to shift them and we can't afford to bring new players in.

I'm not sure the points you put forward do anything but back up what I said. We gambled because instead of selling off assets we tried to keep them with improved terms/wages to the point that our wage to turnover was one of the highest in the league. We had terrible windows because we changed the model, or at least the model just wasn't as effective because it only takes one or two signings for big money to go wrong for it to completely hamper your ability to improve the squad in following transfer periods. We gambled by changing what worked on the assumption that the current system wouldn't work at the level we were aspiring to be at. And tbf I think most people would expect that change. You don't expect that we could continue to unearth million pound gems on the regular that would be ready to compete at the top end of the Premier League so we spend more on supposedly more proven players and put our manager on an inflated contract to stave off potential interest and it collapsed. We could have sold the likes of Maddison, Tielemans, Soyuncu after great seasons and put that money back into the squad and tried to improve that way, but had we done that and ended with the same result, people would have said it was due to selling our best players when we should have broken the wage structure etc to keep them and the club would have been pilloried for selling our best players and lacking ambition. So we gambled on a change of philosophy, and fxxked up.

Said it before, we gambled on establishing ourselves in the money spots (European places) and it didn't pay off. Question is, would you rather gamble it and risk losing out or not take the chance at all and play safe?

You might be right, I think we'd have struggled with the lack of space given the other 22 players on the pitch.

That's that then.

Awesome, play over the allotted time, goal scored.

I reckon next season we'll finish above Man City at least. Cos they'll get 200 points deducted you'd assume.