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Roundly booed and deemed not good enough by fans. A squad not fit for purpose in the premier league which isn’t their fault.

The both shouldn’t be on the pitch. Or at the club for that matter.

This is where we’re at Ayew and Bobby Reid as the undroppable starters of a slow turgid strike force. The same formation, we’ll concede and struggle to score. Another loss. It’s just rinse and repeat.

And after all of that Bacundo is still - The 2nd highest scorer (joint with Ayew) - The 2nd highest assister (joint with Ayew) - 3rd for XA - Joint 2nd for XG - Top for both number of chance created and big chances created! And 3rd highest for tackles per 90. His stats speak for themselves.

You love a sausage, no euphemism intended.

Why you’d think you take Evan’s and Edouard as they might be needed if Daka gets injured.

Neither are we.

Which is probably what we should be doing too.

BEK and Fatawu? Worth remembering Cooper wanted premier league experience and was keen on Skipp!! No doubt restructuring is needed and I’m certain an organised competent DOF would decide what does and doesn’t work and make required changes.

Agent knows we’re doomed and wants to avoid his client taking a wage cut. They know will reject reasonable offers for him come summer. If we have any chance of staying up it’s a fully fit Wilf.

Filbert Street. The success we’ve had at the KP have brought many fond memories that are up there with the best. But the KP is soulless compared to Filbert Street.

They also mix it up with five at the back based on who they play.

This. If the club had got the right players in (sold the right players) based on a consistent style and approach it shouldn’t matter who the manager is. For example you don’t appoint Cooper and you don’t sign Coady (he wasn’t an Enzo signing !) if the club is insistent on a modern possession based approach. Our recruitment is so inconsistent and changing with each manager. What’s the long term strategy and plan!

Should never have appointed Cooper in the first place. He was the first and yet another mistake the board have made this year. Can people stop with the nonsense revisionism.

But Facundo is Sh*t apparently

You’d think we’d at least try five at the back to see if that shores us up defensively. Clearly we’re stuck with the same players who took us down. Do something differently. Haven’t bothered watching. Moyes has like expected got them motivated and organised. They’ll stay up.

Straight out of the clubs handbook. Be seen to bid on an exciting player at the very last minute but bid a silly £1m above a bid already rejected. Obviously they know it will be rejected. But at least we tried. Like Sensi. One can hope we get players in but we fck around too much too late.

The kiss of death for a Brazilian target.

Managers have clearly been giving a bigger say on whom we sign or the profile of player we sign in recent years, Ruud hinted about his own network. The recruitment process is managed by others and ultimately signed off by the DOF not by the manager. Long term planning and strategy wouldn’t have been anything to do with a manager in a job for two months. Steve Cooper’s insistence on premier league experience appears to have left us with average players and likely no room to spend with the threat of relegation. Skipp being one of the follys. We mostly predicted this is how it’ll play out, Ruud seemed confident but clearly now frustrated. In fairness to him he has shown some fight in the light of the BS he has had to make do with.

It’ll rise even further, he also allegedly doesn’t have a great attitude. They’d be insane to not cash in and sell Watkins. Good position in league and Europe.

Exactly, there is a reason he isn't getting picked (two managers) and due to our own incompetence and foresight in planning we're stuck with a player who is completely useless and i'd rather throw Evans in the mix than to give him any game time. Whether Akpom is the answer as a back up or the 2nd striker up top, i'm not sure it is, but he's better than Edouard IMO. Our issue is we have 6 days to get players through the door in a difficult window to sign anyone other than players not wanted and then those players are expensive too. And player's that you want that will make a difference, not sure I have any trust that we've planned that far ahead and are within our clearly small budget.

I love that he did this in Spanish, most of the squad wouldn't have had a clue what was being said, so kind of private but also Facundo certainly would have understood clearly. It makes sense the individual that leaked it clearly got this wrong. I like the fact he challenges our players and sounds like he is straight to the point. I'm not fully there with Ruud and his selections but real authority seemed to be lacking in recent years, so more for it.

Or as a wing back in a five..