Replace him with the guy who struggled and created at least one of the goals that knocked us out of the FA Cup on Wednesday night? How about the Championship player who has had mistakes in his game, given the fact he came up from the Championship ...
Like I said before.....Ryan Mason, a youth player introduced to the team which had Kane, Dier, Lloris, Davies as older heads is somehow going to get more of a tune out of these players than an experienced coach??
Brilliant ?
Not bothered about CL football then?
There are so many things to consider. I think the simplistic version is two choices, however I don't think it's as simple as it seems and I really don't trust Levy to get this right.
Like we have a chance anyway.
They weren't at it under Poch at the end and they certainly aren't at it now. I'[ve said this before, more than once, there's a very long list of very good footballers at our club. On their day. The trouble is, far too many of them don't have 'their day' often enough or anywhere near it.
I mean, it’s really not that surprising is it? See if he improves by summer then if we haven’t, get someone who might not come mid season. As mentioned in a previous post there are clauses in his contract supposedly so firing him if we don’t qualify for CL and don’t win a cup will be cheaper no doubt. I don’t particularly like it, but it kind of feels like we are passing the point of no return for the season. And there’s still a slim chance he may turn it around.
One of those being vs west ham who will be well up for their cup final. Can’t see us avoiding defeat against them. If anything it was against them it all went wrong.
They weren't at it under Poch at the end and they certainly aren't at it now. I'[ve said this before, more than once, there's a very long list of very good footballers at our club. On their day. The trouble is, far too many of them don't have 'their day' often enough or anywhere near it.
This cannot be just the managers fault and by that I mean any manager, not just Mourinho. There needs to be a ruthless culling. So i've looked at it along the lines of who or where do we most urgently need upgrading or changing.
For me and for a variety of reasons, we need rid of Sissoko, Winks, Lamela, Toby, Sanchez, Dier, Moura and Lo Celso. You could probably add Davies and Aurier. There are some who people want rid of who I think deserve a little longer, such as Bergwijn, Doherty and Dele, just to see if the new manager can get them going again.
So, the ones i'd get rid of first, would be Sissoko, Toby, Lamela, Sanchez and maybe Lo Celso, that's five, we'd be doing well to sell four or five so I think that's perhaps an optimistic number. That would leave the rest, Winks, Dier, Moura who either buck their ideas up or they are next out the door. We can move them on when the process allows it. Winks and Dier are still at the stage of their careers where we can get use out of them, I'm not sure we can afford to lose them just yet, when so many other players need moving on.
The trouble is, I think i'm being a bit fanciful............it doesn't work like that, it's going to be the work of several transfer windows, you cannot just get rid of 10 players and sign the same number of replacements, it's always going to be a gradual process so we might see two or three go and one or two come in, it's going to have to be judiciously and shrewdly done, age will play a big part in it.
If I were being ultra harsh, i'd say Sissoko, Lamela and Sanchez either don't offer enough, aren't consistent enough or aren't regularly fit enough, we cannot carry these any more, tough decisions need to be made and for me, they should be the first casualties. And that's without taking into consideration those who are the fag end of their careers, such as Toby and possibly Hugo.
Fuck me, all i meant to do was press the agree button
