Brighton & Hove Albion (A) | Post Match Thread

People thinking the transition from one of the greatest English teams ever to another great team would be easy and swift are very naive. It's hard to replace Kevin, Gundo and Bernardo. We'll improve gradually. It will take months, maybe a whole season. The second half of the season is likely to be better than the first. Before that the hysterical reactions on here would be in overdrive.

One thing I'm questioning is playing Lewis at RB. Maybe Pep should try Khusa at RB when Gvardiol comes back.
 
AndyP68 said:
Looks like Donnarumma is incoming. Good. We need some hard bastard in the dressing room. Elite keeper, elite DM and elite Striker. Won’t need much more. Our side is now very young too.
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Don't think that a keeper will make much difference on the pitch, but your comment re: the dressing room might be right on the money.

You have to wonder who is the driving force in there? Rodders on the pitch, but somehow I can't imagine him having that slightly intimidating presence to put the steel into everybody.
 
Jesus2020 said:
Pep's style no longer works in the Prem. The Prem is about defending (especially against us) then a attacking with intensity - often on the break. This works better against certain teams also and unfortunately we are one of those teams.Possession football just allows other teams to sit back and defend. Then they attack and we aren't set up to defend. We can have all the control in the world but it means nothing when it means we're toothless on attack and weak at the back.Then when we need a goal possession football just doesn't cut it.
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Pep's tactics work fine. We just aren't seeing them. Whether that's because he has adapted them or we haven't signed the right players, or a combination I'm not sure. Our recruitment looks piss poor though when you see the lack of creativity and defensive vulnerability we still have.

Reijnders and Marmoush were guilty of taking far too many touches. We are a pass and move side. You've got Rodri as the metronome playing balls through the line then some players passing and moving and others running the ball into trouble and losing it.

Hopefully a case of not gelling but the early signs are worrying.
 
hilts said:
Changes everything? , if you're gonna outright make shit up, don't know your facts and cant spot a good player when you see one we will.leave it there.
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Apparently he's a washed up pisshead, not looking like one at Everton, as some who can spot a good player predicted.
 
Kinkladze 1 said:
Mourinho. Would anyone give him a whirl?….
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Wow, that really would be the sign that we'd throw in the towel as far as being at the top table is concerned. He's just been given the push by fucking Fenerbahce!
Now here's something that will outrage everybody. I never hated Klopp. That's the truth. OK, he was a bit of a prat, but I never hated him. And his track record as a manager was good. He stood up to Bayern, in one of the most sycophantic leagues, with one of the most sycophantic presses, in European football. Without the resources that City had. Did well at Liverpool, and would have done much better, except that he had the misfortune to be up against God's own, when God's own was unstoppable. I think he'd do wonders with us. I'd at least think about him…
(Tin hat on).

Edit: just to be clear about something. Pep will not be sacked. He has far too much credit in Abu Dhabi for that, and rightly so. But he is a proud man, with nothing left to prove. He's done it all, at Barca, at Bayern, at the Etihad. If he assesses the situation, and considers that he can get nothing more out of the players at this club, it wouldn't surprise me if he walked, not one bit. If we're not in top four at Christmas, out of the League Cup, and already badly placed in the CL to go through, I imagine he'll assess at that point and think seriously about contacting Khaldoun and the Sheik. Would not surprise me.
 
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Brightwell Bros. said:
It's the most concerned I've been about us since Pep arrived. I think there are caveats and Pep is the best of his generation. But I'm very worried that Pep is blunting players, and I am the biggest happy clapping, Pep should stay forever blue going.
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How do mean blunting? You mean preventing them from showing or reaching their full potential. Stifling them ? If that's so then I can concur with you . For example he certainly stifled Grealish although amazingly got one very good season out of him.
 
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