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Ricardo is having a shocker by his standards today.

I remember those heady olden days when we’d put in 1, maybe 2 crosses in a game.

Close to being sacked? Gerrimin! Nothing shows more ambition than appointing a recently sacked manager.

And yet he also loves standing off players allowing them far too much time to cross or progress into the area. A strange combo that makes him a defensive asset and a defensive liability often within a matter of seconds of the same game.

Dreadful distribution? You wait until you see more ‘Begoball™️’ in action. He’s old school with his kicking.

He’s always at the games in the pre match warm up tbf. Replaced Stevie Bauser in that role.

Marcal is in the last year of his contract. Presumably James’s option to buy on his loan this season is linked to promotion. Otherwise it would’ve been an obligation. So James won’t be here!

EVERY Championship team I’ve seen us play this season has better centre forwards than we have.

Not sure I’ve worked it out from this thread but I think people are saying that the accounts mentioned are both loyal fans and not happy clappers. Or bots. Let’s have more confirmations just to doubly confirm for the OP 🤣🤣😂😂

Would be interesting see if his stats back this up. For me a passenger with almost no influence on the game. Disagree that he had more touches on the ball than Soumare. He barely touched it - Boro absolutely dominated us and in part it was because our number 10 was having to do so much dirty work to cover back. James and Winks had to do all the heavy lifting. I often agree with Pipes but on this occasion I don’t see it. On Saturday I’d move James backwards and put Ayew or BDCR in the 10 role.

A good manager can see hard work can’t hide a poor footballer and will get rid of both as soon as they can. Daka will leave at the end of this season and Skipp will find a home in League One (maybe with us.)

Rarely there these days. Supposedly has a more hands on role now he’s taken over Whelan’s position but doesn’t turn up for games. If he can’t be arsed how can he expect the fans to.

Interesting to see that Top’s more hands on role as CEO doesn’t result in him being bothered to watch the team. AGAIN. At least for Cifuentes’ sake it means he can’t do a Marinakis. You actually have to attend a match to make a leaving early statement Top!

We create almost nothing, we don’t look like scoring goals and can’t keep clean sheets. It’s a Yes from me!

He contributed almost nothing other than holding a position on a pitch. Like a mobile football training cone. He’s a central midfielder who avoids the ball either on purpose or because his reading of the game always puts him in the wrong place at the wrong time. He’s the Anti-Ngolo Kante!

I’d play Mavididi in the 9 role on Saturday. Given up on Daka, Carrenza and Ayew in that role.

Onfield spectator again today. Barely touches the ball. Doesn’t influence the game. James had to put in so much leg work to cover for him. Just holds a position whilst the game goes on around him.

Fair play to the lad. He came and gave his boots to my boy as a memento at the end of the game to cheer him up. Ultra rare adidas ‘blue circle’ edition too. 🦊💙

Even the poppy sellers outside are affected by PSR. They’ve just scammed me with a 2024 badge after I donated for Remembrance Day. Be warned!

Things went wrong when we stopped signing leaders to replace those leaving/retiring including big Wes yes. Huth, Morgan. Kasper, Fuchsy. Those key roles have been replaced by players who don’t lead. Look at our senior pros - Verstergaard, Faes, Winks, Ayew, Reid even Riccy. None of them are particularly strong willed and none are true inspiring leaders. Players like Vesty and Faes are so caught up with their own self that they don’t provide the inspiration that a leader needs. It’s a real failure in recruitment.

Driven out of Falkirk in a taxi. Brussell is a fraud.

The alarming issue with me that makes things different with Cifuentes than it was with RVN and Cooper is that he’s generally playing all of the obvious best creative players. Cooper dropped Fatawu, Mavididi, Ricardo, ELK even Vardy at times. RVN dropped Winks, Buonanotte, Mavididi. They were players that we could say would come in and improve the side if only we had a manager that understood their talents. Step forward Cifuentes who has generally selected the better FORWARD thinking players at his disposal. Two of his signings have been two of our best players in those key attacking roles too! Look at his bench today. Without an ill Monga the only players with a semblance of creativity were Silko, Bobby Reid and Ayew and none of them are particularly going to frighten the opposition. Maybe playing Reid would’ve prevented Soumare’s disasterclass but based on Reid’s anonymous performance v Swansea (and in his LCFC career in general) he wasn’t likely to create that much. Either way, not playing Reid isn’t like when Cooper wasn’t playing Fatawu or RVN was ignoring Buonanotte. Cifuentes rightly gets criticised for his omission of Nelson and Aluko but they are more defensive options and not so much attacking game changers - after that, criticising him for not playing 17 year Page or 16 year old Evans is a bit of a stretch. So he generally selects our best creative talent but can’t get them to perform and this reflects very badly on the squad quality but also on his ability to motivate, cajole, encourage or inspire this team. He’s basically like an informed fan. He can select the best creative team and he can call out the failures in our games eloquently after the game but like most of us fans, when it comes to the crunch, he’s not shown he’s able to manage a group of professional footballers to change their mindset and play even to the levels of this league never mind the Premier League level that many of our players think they should be at. It looks like we have a poor manager (at least for the type of mentality we have in the squad) managing a very poor side at the moment. I don’t think he’ll get the time to be able to bomb out the bad eggs and bring in the type of player that he might be able to manage better and prove everyone wrong, which is a shame because he’s a more likeable manager than the last two!

I wouldn’t play either and I don’t agree he’s better than Soumare.

Bumped this thread to seeing as Skipp’s lack of game time appears to have enhanced his reputation. Have a read of his exploits to remind yourselves lads…

That last paragraph also describes Skipp ffs.