Worth a read but geezer doesn't really say anything though...
(Paraphrasing)
- Dier deserved a chance but didn't deliver.
- MS isn't a right back.
...But then goes on to say the issues are tactical without further detail. Aren't the above essentially selection/personnel matters?
You can't select players that aren't available.
Sissoko at right back verged on criminal. We bought him all those years ago as an AM/winger. He really doesn't understand what a FB involves. To give him a contract until he's 33...?
Lamela is the answer to a question no-one can really fathom out.
Son has 2 good games followed by 6 dreadful games.
I'm a Winks supporter but think he may be turning into a Bentaleb/Mason/Carroll clone.
Not having an on-field captain in the mould of Keane/Adams/Mackay
Not replacing Llorente defied any logic (and saying 17 year old Parrott is the stand in, is insane). Can you imagine him against Dunk yesterday?
The Eriksen/Alderweireld/Vertonghen mess will haunt us for years to come.
Buying players that can't get fit/play - Sessegnon, Lo Celso, Janssen, Nkoudou, Njie
I'm starting to have doubts about Ndombele. Runs funny, no stamina and was woeful in the last 2/3 games.
Dier/Wanyama still in the squad?
Dele too worried about his image rights
The list goes on...
We're reaping the benefit of those missed windows when we decided not to re-inforce. If we had, we would now be looking at at least another 6/8 squad players of which 2/3 may have turned up in the way that half the team didn't yesterday.
The whole mess stems back to 2017. It will take us 3 or 4 windows to rebuild. I've always said that don't buy in January, but may have to suspend this for the next few windows.
Anyway, the manager stays and begins the rebuild. No Mourinho, Rafa, Sam, Pardew please.
We need to support our club at this difficult time.