The Doctor

I'd be looking abroad for young prospects like Bournemouth, Palace and Brighton have all done, but you can't invisage that happening here because Rudkin is inept. sack him and get a new dof at the same time

we're so disorganised that 4-0 would be a positive, I genuinely expect us to shit ourselves against Anges pressing football and lose by 7 or 8

honestly I would say the start of our demise was earlier than that, it was winter 2019 and giving Rodgers a new mega contract that had him being paid more than the real Madrid manager. daft contract to hand out at any time for a club of our size, even more so when he was barely 20 games in charge and still in his honeymoon period. became a huge millstone around our neck

I absolutely do want him out, the best time to correct your mistakes is the moment you can see them to be mistakes and there's clearly no tactical plan, just a desire to lumber us with 600 new signings to fix his ineptness at managing the squad he already has

see the problem is we had a manager doing the exact same thing at the time and didn't sack him. sacking cooper now would be an admission that they made a mistake and this board is all about blaming others for their own cockups

yep. at this point it's obvious that the only way we're getting rid of the jumped up youth coach is if king power sell up

on the flip side, having a competition winner as a manager also won't help things. the point is that there needs to be a plan to make a go at staying up that isn't "a congenital heart condition has felled the entire forest, Everton and Southampton sides just before they could step onto the pitch"

got to ask why we signed him though. we've got Faes, Coady, Souttar on long term contracts, we just renewed Vestergaard, we've got a promising young CB in Nelson. Now, yes Faes is a bombshell and Souttar is a championship player but there is no point spending significant amounts of your budget signing positions you're well stacked in while having basically no depth in centre midfield and having already lost a centre midfielder, unless you're planning to actually move on the players you've already got.

honestly the only thing I like seeing in those highlights is Mads picking up the Kasper trait of absolutely berating his defence for hanging him out to dry. do not understand how it can be this bad. sure we've lost KDH but we've still got 90% of a starting line up that was on course to break readings record until the lack of squad depth in midfield told and we wobbled in Feb/march. all we needed was a kdh replacement and to start adding squad depth in centre mid. instead we've signed a 31 year old on a three year contract, and spent the biggest chunk of our budget on another centre back to go with the 5 we already had...

... do I need to get the "humans aren't captive wolves" banner out again?

I mean Holloway's attacking intent was just "if I put enough strikers on the pitch one of them will score"

bob Bradley come on down!

coady is out for a month

going for 15, because I assume that some of Mavididi and Fatawus speculative cut in and have a cracks will find their way in. No chance we're creating anything else

he's already in saving face mode because he's out of his depth. the spurs game might not turn toxic straight away with the "can't read anything into pre season" crowd but I'd be shocked if come villa a fortnight later there aren't chants for him to be sacked.

assuming daka is injured and vardy still isn't fit for it... what I'd like Mads Ricardo Vestegaard Faes Kristensen Winks Ndidi Golding or Buonnoatte Fatawu Cannon Mavididi Ndidi and Golding/Facundo as dual eights, Ricardo inverting, Kristensen told to just defend what it'll actually be Mads Ricardo Faes Okoli Kristensen Winks Ndidi BDCR Buonnoatte Fatawu Mavididi

small portions of vodka you take to make the spurs game bearable

we did, but let's be honest, that was people panicking about the slump and a few yer da types who think 4-4-2 is still the pinnacle of tactics. Having come up and having seen that we can at least compete with prem teams, things didn't need significant change, instead we've got this nonsense

hope so, I've always wanted to be a prem footballer on massive wages. drop me a DM rudders, can be on the pitch in any position

fat chance, the happy clappers will continue to make excuses, look what his family's done for us etc. not revisionism if different people are saying it. look at the Bournemouth FA cup game, we looked reasonable enough for safety if nothing else.

the positive is that it's over now

1, a misplaced pass from Wilf Ndidi which the spurs keeper picks up and gets counted as a shot out of pity

pretty sure you're supposed to play with your feet in boots. in all seriousness it's gonna be mavididi upfront isn't it?

at a club not run by a nutcase of an owner he probably would, no one can succeed under Boehly

dudes not a bad defender but **** me, he makes Huth look like Xabi Alonso. He's a symptom of the complete lack of plan at the top level and another reason why it's time to put Rudkin in the soar