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Burtonblue
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Defence is still our undoing.
Teams score as soon as they have a pop at goal.
I have always said a good keeper and two centre backs is what's needed and at the moment we have neither of these.
If ever there was a time we needed Kompany this is it. Pray he's back soon.
Teams score as soon as they have a pop at goal.
I have always said a good keeper and two centre backs is what's needed and at the moment we have neither of these.
If ever there was a time we needed Kompany this is it. Pray he's back soon.
Sorry to be picky but Celtic didn't beat us
The Celtic game is an anomoly – the two games against them were cup finals for them... stoked by the old 'Scotland v England' shite! Fair play to them, they were bang up for it, we didn't know what the fuck was going on... but look at the way they played against Borrusia Monchengladbach and Barca - and the difference in the crowd.
chesterbells
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Hahaha thanks for that. Needed a lift. Spurs will rape us
Rape?
Needless
Shadz69
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Anyone think GazBaz is dyeing his hair? I'm sure he had a few greys when he left.
Bill
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bingo.We wouldn't have been beaten 4-0 if Fernandinho and Gundogan were playing. Very easy to say that but when your transfer strategy has been so poor over three-five years, when you lose two of your star men it has a massive effect.
Defence is still our undoing.
Teams score as soon as they have a pop at goal.
I have always said a good keeper and two centre backs is what's needed and at the moment we have neither of these.
If ever there was a time we needed Kompany this is it. Pray he's back soon.
The shots-to-goals ratio against us must be shocking reading... and I would love the old Vinnie back, but sadly I just can't see it - the lad's made of glass!
We a complete new back four and goalie sadly, but if we're honest we're lacking all over the park!
Rape?
Needless
Dry bum better?
Millwallawayveteran1988
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Fans aren't managers because we're irrational, over reactive, and seldom can see the bigger picture. We beat West Ham and everyone is in love with Zaba's rebirth as a CM and crying for the same tactics in the next match. Then we get thumped by Everton and how could the manager not see that the midfield was too old and why couldn't he change shape to combat them? We aren't good at this and we won't be. I am struggling to cope with Bravo as much as many of you and maybe the manager will need to make a call there, but appeals to what a fan would do in this situation are not going to produce much in the way of a sensible approach to anything. It would be overreactive and incoherent. And even then fans label you the tinkerman and go bananas that if the manager would just play a settled XI everything would be different.
Just look at the increase in quality in all of the managers who have left us and all of the players who have left us. Whenever a player is injured, he improves massively in the eyes of our fans. Now, if we just had Joe, Nasri, and Mangala, everything would be different! Forget that we suffered from all of the same problems last season with those players and that plenty of fans had problems with each of those players in different ways.
It's really, really hard to take a long view after a day like today. But we won't get anywhere as a club overreacting to today either. It is not an exaggeration to say that Pep could lose every match for the rest of the season and he'd still be the most successful manager in world football. As fans, we need to back him, even during a tough spell. This season clearly doesn't seem like it's going to produce what we would have wanted but there's nobody I'd rather have turning the squad over. I keep coming back to this point. The core group here essentially quit on everyone's re-favorite, Mancini. Dressing room unrest, absolutely dire performances that everyone conveniently forgets. We sacked him, brought in Pellegrini. The same exact thing happens. Now, we go and get the undisputed best manager in the game and he suffers the same problems with largely the same group. Can we maybe put to rest the idea that the Managers were the problem? If anything, I have a lot more respect for both Roberto and Pellegrini today because I feel like this season is proving that there really wasn't much they could have done.
There is something in that but we have had 4 years and 8 transfer windows to sort this out and have utterly failed. The fact we are still hoping for one last hurrah from Toure sums it up. The obsession to be the uk's answer to Barca has cost us dearly. We look a long way off challenging for anything currently as we will have at least 6 players leaving at the end of the season meaning another load of new players to bed in.
We must make sure we "bed in" Sane and Jesus for the rest of this season because we cannot risk those not being up to speed for next season, even if that means we miss out this year.