I honestly don't think anyone can turn it around. Most of the players have already checked out.
Dyche kicking arse or Redknapp cuddling them will make no difference
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Dyche kicking arse or Redknapp cuddling them will make no difference
He's not a long term manager, but he is capable, on a pure tactical/common sense ethic of sorting this mess out.
Someone else did raise an issue though that is valid. He's publicly slagged a lot of players off over the last year or 2.
Not beyond the realms of belief they'd be twatty enough to hold a grudge.
And absolutely nailed on that if they didn't see/read him slagging them off, they'll be made aware of it by rivals and the media (the same, aren't they?)
have you ever seen our players check out like this before. I don’t think I have.
Problem is I bet it didn’t predict we would lose to palace, forest, West Ham and draw with Burnley and Liverpool.
You’d be as well looking at some tarot cards to predict the future!
They did last season too. Only bothered to show up in Europa.
It's been a while, but I remember most of them checking out after Conte got fired, but not nearly to the same extent.
I'm not even sure they all have.
They were still trying to fight for Tudor at Anfield (came back from behind) , vs Atletico at home and first half vs Forest. It's more like their confidence is so fragile they just collapse under pressure. There's also a lot of anger and blame getting dished out by Vicario, Romero and VdV every time a goal goes in.
It doesn't predict anything, you predict what you think the results will be and see who gets relegated
Sadly , I think you're probably right
At this point mate I think relegation might be BETTER in the longer term than escape. As you point out that Vicario Romero VDV finger pointing is a cancer.
I sat down two months ago and went game by game and I could NOT work out how we'd stay up. Nothing has changed. When I reconciled myself to relegation I went through three years of games and worked out who has the most fingerprints as players ( beyond the coaches) on the failure to take points. As this is the truest metric in football. In this order in totality its. Vicario, Porro, Romero, Van De Ven, Bentancur, Bissouma, Udogie, Spence, Sarr,Danso, Richarlison, Bergvall, Maddison, Dragusin, Solanke, Grey, Tel, Odobert, RKM, Kudus,
People need to put aside their favorites. Put aside the Richarlison worldie Micky super sprint. Romero's line breaking pass. football know-how at the club is minimal. This most basic metric needs to be part of how we simply assess the fit for purpose as an EPL squad these guys are. Get them.out in the order of performance culpablility.
From an earlier post, it said that all the players have a religation clause in their contracts that provides for a wage cut. Does anyone know if that is mandatory or can the club select players to keep their current wages?
How much do we owe on them though ?
No I haven't mate. It's shocking
We're doomed,doomed !!
I think this right. It was the teams below us last season that saved us and kept us essentially suffering another season
They are in shock.
We need to find someone who can ignite something in the players for our remaining games. And to give them some much needed resilience.
I don't buy into the notion that the other 3 teams have all got collectively better players. It's a fallacy.
Not going to be easy but it is far from impossible.
We have to hope they lose all of theirs.
Oh I thought he was older sir some reason. I still don't think he'll ever be the same player he was. He was already very injury prone before this. Hope I'm very wrong.
I think he'll stay, no one is going to pay money for him and the wages, coming off that injury I don't think. So at least that's good news.
Do any switched-on and informed people out there know how many of the teams around us have loads of players going off on international duty . I reckon WHAM will have a few . What about Forest and Leeds ?
I’m assuming we’ll be the most affected . It’’ll only compound our task if the other clubs will have a core of first-team players who’ll get R and R and time to work in training ( not to mention the injury risks and jet-lag they’ll avoid ) .
Anybody know , offhand ?
I’m assuming we’ll be the most affected . It’’ll only compound our task if the other clubs will have a core of first-team players who’ll get R and R and time to work in training ( not to mention the injury risks and jet-lag they’ll avoid ) .
Anybody know , offhand ?
All have plenty called up.
That’s a relief , thank you .
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