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So, let me get this straight. You sack the best manager you’ve had since Brian Clough - a man who practically rebuilt the club from the training ground up, made average players look like world-beaters, and gave the fans something to actually believe in again. And who do you bring in? A man who...

You said he won Bundesliga player of the year twice in a row. He didn't. Kane won it last season.

Players who improve us? I think we've got to start talking about Elliot Anderson to be honest. The man is a machine. Pressing, energy, box to box, ball progression. When he doesn't play for Forest you see the drop off in quality and energy. Same as when he got taken off for England U21's...

Nico Paz really does look like a sensational talent. Spurs even made a late move for him at the end of the window, but you get the sense Madrid see him as a long-term project and will integrate him into their first team in the next few seasons. It’s no surprise big clubs are circling already -...

I'd say there are only a few world class players in today's game.

Two times in a row? Florian Wirtz did not win the Bundesliga player of the year last season. Harry Kane did. I've heard this a few times on this forum. It's absolute nonsense.

These 2 strike the ball so well. Unbelievable standard.

That would be ideal. Pep deserves to leave the Club when he's taken us back to the top of the Mountain again.

This is why we need to enjoy Rayan Cherki for what he is. His football is joyous - full of risk, imagination and that street learned instinct you just don’t see much of anymore in today's game. He plays like a kid still trying to nutmeg his mates with a tennis ball on his local boggy park, not...

I get what you’re saying, and there’s definitely truth in it – street football bred a different kind of player. When you’re learning the game with 20 lads chasing a tennis ball down a hill, you’re developing instincts and creativity that you just can’t replicate in an academy drill. That sort of...

That has something to do with the lack of quality worldwide. I couldn't name a better midfield player than David Silva in world football right now. Back then you had Iniesta, Xavi, Modric, Mata, Ozil and many more. There's a clear lack of quality in the market to buy from today. If you're...

Exactly. Cherki was as good as PSG's forwards in their league last season. Ait Nouri is proven to be one of the best LB's in the league at Wolves and Reijnders was the best midfielder in Serie A last season. Donnarumma has won the lot.

Spot on about needing world class players, but truth is there just aren’t many around these days. When we signed Aguero, Silva and Yaya, genuine top class talents were more available and affordable. Now the market’s thin, and the few who are at that level either cost insane money or are locked...

Honestly, I think Paqueta has been massively hard done by in all of this. The way the FA have handled the charges against him has been an absolute shambles. You can see the toll it’s taken on him during that time. He’s had to carry on playing with this weight on his shoulders, constantly under...

I’ll admit, it always felt like a bit of a strange appointment, but managers just don’t get a fair crack anymore. How’s anyone supposed to build something meaningful if they’re out the door after a few games? Football feels so impatient these days.

I get the frustration, we are all frustrated. We’ve been spoiled with success, so it’s natural to expect that every season we go out and win the lot. That’s the bar this manager and this team have set. But let’s not kid ourselves - the off-field situation has had a massive impact on the club...

What comes with winning, inevitably, is entitlement. When you’ve been at the top for as long as we have, it’s easy to slip into the mindset that every season has to be flawless, that anything less than perfection is somehow failure. But football, like all sport doesn’t work like that. It goes in...

Antonio Silva, Van Der Ven, Olise, Akliouche.

I get that when results shift, people start putting pieces together and trying to build a bigger story out of them, but sometimes that process can lead us into seeing shadows where there aren’t any. A stray comment from Rodri, a careful line in Khaldoon’s statement, a slight change in transfer...

And why are we playing bad? Enlighten me...