Dan

I'm not totally convinced by him but I think he's got the shortest rap sheet of our centre halves by a mile this season. Deserves a run of games for me.

And possibly a more reliable finisher.

His movement is good but he's just annoyingly lacking. Can't hold onto the ball and can't be relied on to finish.

We're still on one avoided defeat without Ndidi.

Not good is he.

The standard Old Trafford officiating display. Nothing new there. You shouldn't need VAR to see that - bordering on unprofessional. But it was coming. Once again we implode without Ndidi on the pitch. Our most key outfield player - we've avoided defeat ONCE all season without him on the pitch.

That's absolutely appalling officiating. Total cowardice.

The most laughable institution ever created.

We've been bizarrely solid. It's hard to tell if it's because of us or them. I'm genuinely amazed how bad they are, were Walsall any worse than this?

Soumare is still not very good, he's just playing in a worse team. Soumare has not played in a good team since 2021, which looks like the exception rather than the rule. If we can dupe someone else to view him in the same way the kids on Twitter do, we should be able to get good money.

I don't think he could've done worse than any of the 'care'takers we've had in the last couple of years.

Vardy is a bit of an elephant in the room here I think because he's been a part of this decline too - a decline where the squad has had very questionable mentality. Not blaming him as such but I agree that he isn't really a leader.

I like these threads. They often aren't unpopular opinions but it does always seem to deliver some quite niche shouts and topics. Mine is that Kante was good.

I keep banging on about this but it's zero standards from the top. Everyone's got a free reign to take the piss. Faes sums it up to me - supposedly in tears of happiness when he joined the club yet has somehow simultaneously managed to both be crap for two and a half years yet legitimise the idea he's above us. There's zero respect for this club from virtually anyone at it. The owner, the directors, and in turn, the players, managers, fans etc... just a total depressing mess.

1,300 disappointing. That's just going to look crap rather than statement like.

The double whammy of being a stupid club who overpays is that we have no grasp of the market and just assume everyone else is as dumb as us.

Perez was bought very much on a whim as well. Remember at the time thinking it was an overpayment and I can about tolerate it if he isn't our right winger signing. Sure enough. Just a really poor few decisions again.

It took him I think 18 months to score a goal that actually added any points if it wasn't taken away. I'm not even buying this out of position argument too. He was crap.

2022/23 was mental really. I don't think you'll ever see a club get this much wrong in one season. Like I think if you had ranked every single day of that year from the most to least suitable to sack Rodgers, we might have sacked him on quite literally the worst possible day. It was a generational level fumble.

It can only be the curse of Wycombe Wanderers. From the day we lost to them in the FA Cup, Essandoh gate, we ended up going through a seriously bleak period. We dropped out of the top flight in 2004 and wouldn't make it again for a long time. August 2013, we draw Wycombe in the League Cup. We reverse the game by beating them 1-2 with a last minute winner, ironically. We go on to have what's got to be our best ever era. July 2021, we play Wycombe in pre-season, lose the game and the rest since.... And there's a very real chance we play them in the league next season.

Missing out on the top 4 was not what's finished us. It is simply mismanagement and we'd have found our way here anyway. But not making the Champions League did speed up the process. I really don't agree with people who seem to think if we'd made it just the one time we'd still be good. We ultimately would still have exactly the same people in charge.

Right this has reminded me of one of mine - Weale wasn't 'that' bad, he just happened to make two huge clangers that happened to be away at Forest and away at Derby. Might be an age thing blurring my memory on him and obviously Schmeichel was a monumental upgrade but I don't remember him being that terrible. Certainly nothing like Ward level bad. * Possibility I was kind to him because he came on a free transfer from Bristol City.

To be honest this probably would've been unpopular a few years ago, maybe less so now, but I think King Power without the appointment of Nigel Pearson would've been largely a disaster.

It really is astounding that you can win our first FA Cup and come out of it probably a net negative. One of those that you'll never really get unless you followed it closely.