It's not the price you pay for winning 4 on the trot.Every team we play waits. They don’t give us the space in the final third & then wait to use their speed when they can exploit our weaknesses.
Every team we play has pace. We have none, or the players that do like Haaland, are given no space to run into.
Does Pep see Lewis as Philip Lahm 2.0? I don’t get it.
Feels like we just rock up to every match without analysing what the opposition will do.
Anyway, we know our squad is small, missing players of the quality and bedrock of the last few seasons - stones, Foden, ake, Akanji, rodri, coupled with the ageing drop off of Walker, Gundo, Kev and Bernardo. That’s a huge hole. But I suppose this is the price we pay for winning 4 on the trot.
And being honest, if offered this situation after winning 4, I would have taken it in a heart beat. Nobody has done it before, and I’d be surprised if any team does so again in the next few decades, and I’ve got to remember that. A new, different cycle will begin.
Not blaming anyone at the moment. Buying 4 or 5 top class players to take over from some of the above last season or this was never going to happen. Top class players don’t sign to sit on the bench and wait their turn. Another reason no team has ever won 4.
Things don’t taste good right now, but we’ve had so much honey over the years and that taste will come back.
what he did do was indirectly call out the problem - he mentioned a lack of two defensive midfielders, and 3 missing centre backs......he knows Lewid and Gundo dont work - he knows he wants his 4 centre halvess back at the back (dropping walker for either Stones or akanji)Pep thinks we played good. Fuck me
Kev was fine. He was part of our better attacking moves throughout the game.Anyone want to talk about KDB's performance or lack there of?
SOME shots ????He doesn't talk bollocks. We have been unlucky with some shots being missed.
If we rely on KdB in midfield to create chances, we need to put some runners around him to protect him. He can't be expected to tear about like he used too.I thought he was ok. Laid one on a plate for Erl. He’s the least of our problems at the moment
His failure to be able to run is HUGE problem....he aint covering any ground and he is also losing possession every gameKev was fine. He was part of our better attacking moves throughout the game.
We’d lose to Rochdale’s under 11’s blind walking football team at the minute.Madrid in the playoffs and dippers in the next phase apparently
20 seconds would be enough. He`d start with Dias and the rest would shit themselves into submission.I'd put Andy Morrison in the dressing room and lock the door for an hour.
Got manage his fitness carefully.His failure to be able to run is HUGE problem....he aint covering any ground and he is also losing possession every game
It’s a fair question to ask how many defeats can a gaffer take before the sack gets mentioned.Yep that's it!
The greatest manager ever to manage in England is praying for the sack. Do you not remember the trophies his won, the style we did it and the way he's revolutionised English football?
Honestly, some people have no respect.
I was going to wait until the thread doesn’t get a hundred posts per minute. But fuck it.
Some of you should fuck off and support someone else, and I say support lightly. Even camel gob has just said it right. It’s great when it’s going well, but when it’s not you dig in.
A complete **** in the match day thread said Haaland is rubbish. We didn’t do the treble without him. The previous Haaland we had, it was just nice to win.
Some of you need to get your minges turned back into cock and balls and man the fuck up. You are a disgrace!!!
But it was always going to catch up. Anyone with a brain could see what would happen with a few injuries, absolutely 0 mitigations in place. We needed a right back, a rodri replacement and a back up striker in the summer, everyone knew that yet we decided not too.It's only the last 2 months that the recruitment seems bad.
Was anyone really questioning the club during 4 titles wins in a row?
Kdb is done imo, think he has been for a while. He looks like an old man out there (fitness wise) think football has caught up with his bodyAnyone want to talk about KDB's performance or lack there of?
we need a IV and induced comaIts all just character building for our younger fans :)
Lot of surgery needed but we’ll be back. Feels a lot like peps first season again, hopefully next season will be like his second again…