If the rot continues what happens ?

I would quite happily be the first team to work through a massive drop in form and stick together. Something few if any other teams have done before. Just another record to add, not doing anything drastic when an inevitable drop-off happens.
 
robbieh said:
The only players missing yesterday were
Foden, Kovacic, Stones and Akanji and Ake.

Foden has been in as much a malaise as anyone. Kovacic is a miss I grant you. And Akanji is preferable to Walker and Lewis. Stones and Ake are so injury prone I wouldn't count on them playing enough to halt the slide we are on.
And yes Bobb should be available in the NY.

I admire your confidence. But for me this is a mental thing as much as physical. And not just the players. Other teams have copied and adapted the way we play and so far we are just rinsing and repeating a style that has served us well but is probably past its sell by date.
The purchases of Haaland, Doku, Savinho hinted that Pep and Txiki knew this.
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pretty sure Rodri was missing as well
 
Spurs (A) - Carabao Cup with kids. Very tough game.
Bournemouth (A) - toughish game but should win if we want to win the league
Brighton (A) - very tough game.
Sporting (A) - toughish game but should win if we want to win the CL.
Spurs (H) - bogey fixture.
Liverpool (A) - our hardest game every season
Juventus (A) - very tough game.
Forest (H) - lots of players back. Good win.
Feyenoord (H) - stinking result. Worst of the lot.
Palace (A) - toughish game.

Consider how many difficult games we've played, the fact that 7 of them were away, all the injuries and the relentlessness of our schedule before making any rash judgements.
 
Bluewonder said:
Spurs (A) - Carabao Cup with kids. Very tough game.
Bournemouth (A) - toughish game but should win if we want to win the league
Brighton (A) - very tough game.
Sporting (A) - toughish game but should win if we want to win the CL.
Spurs (H) - bogey fixture.
Liverpool (A) - our hardest game every season
Juventus (A) - very tough game.
Forest (H) - lots of players back. Good win.
Feyenoord (H) - stinking result. Worst of the lot.
Palace (A) - toughish game.

Consider how many difficult games we've played, the fact that 7 of them were away, all the injuries and the relentlessness of our schedule before making any rash judgements.
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People forget this. That's a fucking tough run of games when we were fucking brilliant. We have enough games left against shite to scrape 40 points.

This fucking forum
 
The Christmas schedule is going to be a laugh. If it carries on I can see the "Pep Out" stuff starting, which I think would be a mistake
 
I was just looking back to Pep's first season and we have on paper a very good first 11: Bravo, Zab, Kompany, Stones, Kolarov, Ferdandinho, Silva, KDB, Sane, Sterling and Aguero. We can think back to how bad we were in that season at times despite some very good players in that 11. It stems from the full backs being a long way off what Pep needed and we are seeing exactly the same now. We also had problems with GK and to a lesser extent we are seeing that now with Ederson. For the start of the following season we had 3 new full backs, a new GK and Bernardo with LaPorte joining in Jan and we were transformed. Pep's football doesn't work if the full backs are weak
 
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