Holymoly

Clearly posting for lols

It's like watching Torres, but at least he seemed to care. And he wonders why he's not in the English squad

Sterling is the biggest example of the ineptitude of our transfer policy. A player that believed the misguided hype of the Liverpool and City lovers of the media who only came to us for the money and has spent it all on cigars. Wanker of the highest order. Stop picking him the huge knob that he is with his adolescent leg tattoo.

Get Sterling out of my club.

Happy for Cucu, he's playing well and he's had a lot of stick during his time here.

Surprise, still fannying about at the back. If you mix up the goal kicks long and short surely it would be more effective.

We really are desperately thin on the ground. Fingers crossed.

Watching Welsh rugby is enough to make you slit your wrists. The WRU is run by individuals sponsored by the amateur game. Consequently all the money goes to grass roots and the guts have been ripped out of the professional teams. We're now seeing the last of the blue chip players retiring and having to rely on kids. Sound familiar?

Possibly. It wouldn't be for too long though until James injures himself again

Complacency followed by shooting yourself in the foot. /Sigh

Why do we fanny about with our goal kicks?

I think Maatsen and Hall are our Get Out Of Jail Free cards viz a viz FFP (or whatever its called now). I believe Hall is on an agreement to buy and Maatsen is enjoying his time in Germany so will probably be keen to make his move permanent as well. Who can blame either?

Players out Chukwuemeka Badiashile Chilwell Colwill Gallagher (illness) Fofana James Lavia Nkunku Ugochukwu What is the effing point of our medical department? Maybe we need to be ruthless and tell the players to sack any personal medical staff they have as it seems they are not meshing with the club at all. I can see a bench full of kids on Monday night.

The bottom line is that he is not a born winner, neither is he an innovator, two things I believe the club both needs and deserves. Maybe the board just decided that he was the man to see us through the redevelopment of the stadium project in the manner he did at Spuds. A manager that got on with what he was given without complaining too much. While I am exasperated with his approach I don't see what is to be gained by getting rid of him now nor do I see anyone presently waiting in the wings to take over and turn the ship around. It's just a shame that there isn't a cadre of experienced players in the squad capable of sorting this out internally. We were told two years ago that we should brace ourselves for a period of rebuilding and I guess that is what we are living through, it's just frustrating that we can't see a clear path ahead notwithstanding we have seen four managers of varying outlooks come and go without appearing to move foward in any meaningful way.

I wonder how long it will be before we begin to look forward to games again?

The last time I remember such a serious disconnect between manager and fans was obviously the FSW but you know what, at least he won us a trophy and at the time we thought 3rd position was a travesty.

How low we've sunk that people find positives from this performance. The light at the end of the tunnel is barely a pinprick.

Very interesting insight.

You could argue that none of the players we ended up selling for good money have made any impression at their new clubs. Havertz, Mount, Kovacic, Koulibaly, Pulisic, RLC...total £230m. Ka-ching! Thank you very much.

I'm really starting to get wound up by the media rubbing its hands in glee over the idea that we need to find £100m or else fall foul of PSR and that we'll have to sell the likes of Conor Gallagher at a huge discount and probably still won't make it. Bollocks Lewis Hall is on an obligation to buy at Newcastle and Ian Maatsen is really liked by Dortmund and so will end up probably signing full time too so surely we are at least 2/3 of the way to £100m already before you even start thinking about the likes of Zyech, Lukaku, Broja or Arrizabalaga. Just getting those wages off the books will have a huge effect on profitability next year as well. Personally I don't think we are in any danger of being forced to sell players we would rather keep. We have such a stock of players surplus to requirement we have plenty of options. Of course the problem we will have is the lack of funds moving forward to plug holes like a striker. Gone are the days of the £100m signing while we languish in midtable and out of Europe. That said I don't see too many of the current squad being up to the task of a Champions League semi final any time soon anyway so we need to seriously re-evaluate the structure of the squad and prioritise a little experience.

The manager (I refuse to speak his name now) will tear a strip off Gallagher in the morning. He didn't play for penalties.

Well that's all the first team squad off the bench. Nothing else left.

Playing for penalties half way through the second half is a bit negative I feel.