With the exception of Liverpool and city the 3rd and 4th spot are still well within our abilities, I think we are jumping the gun slightly in the Poch our views, we need to factor the current downward levels into a longer term view, it’s frustrating definitely but we need to stabilise and I think Poch can do this and I still think we have a decent squad capable of top 4
How? How exactly is that you see the stabilising can be done within the present set up? What are the thoughts and suggestions in support of that?
Sorry, he’s shown nothing in his career other than being able to organise a team in a 451 get men behind the ball and try to exploit set pieces.
My views are simple and based on what Poch has achieved over 5 seasons with a good squad but one that has overachieved and that’s down to the management of those players, this is a bump in the road, yes it could be more and could be terminal but I think Poch deserves more time to correct any issues, the season is a couple months in and at the beginning of the season positivity was all around the club. Poch has a great record with us over many seasons and for this reason I still think he can turn this around. Finally the infighting and issues and dramas in the dressing room we can’t really have an informed view on due to rumours and ITK, the performances have been substandard and last nights was wholly unacceptable but let’s not jump overboard yet
Consider the empty blather of the transfer windows, lasting weeks and then months, in which hardly any one of the rumoured moves, player-signings, supposed departures, etc., ever amount to anything. People following it hour by hour, day by day, week after week, must eventually go mad trying to fathom what on earth is going on or might happen. Football writing and football reporting is thick with rumours with very little substance. Look at the denial Chris Eriksen has had to issue today. And Pochettino likewise. 'Lost the backing of the team' is one of those sweeping generalisations that makes an assertion but offers next to no hard fact.
You never know. Look at Hugh Grant. While Liz Hurley might not be the most stunning woman on the planet she is certainly a HUGE step up on the crack ho he got caught with. The only possible advantage she may have had over Liz was lack of teeth but the rest???
We've leaked goals for about a year now. The CB pairing and the CM partnership have ran their course and then some. Split the CB's and drop the CM's and I think our spine wouldnt look so weak. Come next summer, we can replace them.
The point is once you give in and get rid of our best manager in 40 years because a few malcontents have the hump, then they will keep doing it to the next manager, and the next. A lot of players are going next summer anyway. Choose the manager, the players will know who’s in charge and he’ll feel more indebted to Levy for backing him.
Well if you base your assumptions on the idea that we have over achieved I guess that's the foundation for why we differ. Whilst I fully think that several CL campaigns in a row is a big achievement, I very much doubt that it has in fact been literally an over achievement to get there in each of those seasons. The quality of the squad in the past combined with results in clubs that would/should compete for top 4 leads me to assume that this idea of over achievement is fiction.
Oh come on - we were 3 down on agg at halftime and Poch threw the dice, he had to, but that was more in hope than being astute - we were lucky and so was Poch.
So many posts about our transfer activity over the last few years re-write history. Ndombélé had a whole pre-season with us. We could have spent more on Lo Celso and got him earlier but that wouldn't have made him any less on holiday after the Copa America. Similarly, Sessegnon wouldn't have stopped being injured.
Well, quite. But the sentiment seems to be that the 4 players you mentioned are performing poorly because they can't be bothered. At least those 3 will put a shift in even if they perform poorly.
