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Of course he is playing the same formation, tactics, whatever because it is not the problem. Your solution is to just throw sh!t on the wall until it sticks and by doing that you risk braking what isn't broken and making things worse. Well it can get worse. We have an abysmal keeper who doesn't save anything that isn't hit straight at him, that alone is a massive problem that Puel can't fix, we can't go in goal and do Forster's job for him can he? It doesn't take our opponents many chances before they score and it affects our tactics as we will try to prevent them from having chances at all costs, hence boring, safety first dross. What ****!ng difference will playing 4-2-3-1, 4-4-2, 2-1-3-5-3-2-4-5-4-4 or anything else make? Tactics aren't everything and numbers denoting fixed positions in a fluid game like football mean next to nothing. Our defending as a team is top 4 standard (at least is was when Van Dijk was playing), our attacking as a team is among the best outside the top 6, our goalkeeping and our finishing are among the worst in the league, if not the absolute worst. And there is nothing any manager can do about it, we need better players, blame Reed if you want someone to blame. If there is anyone on the coaching staff who should be questioned it's Watson for Forster's alarming collapse in form, never been his biggest fan but he was never anywhere near as bad as this. Oh, and the clown who put the two smallest players in the wall was Forster, setting the wall is his responsibility.

Irrelevant. Why is the concept of a release clause so difficult to understand? All it means is that he will not cost more than 35 million euros, it says nothing about how much he would actually cost. He is having quite a poor season anyway, very talented but very raw. Prone to making daft challenges. Prefer Söyüncü from Freiburg.

We want a Russian island loaded with oil & gas? Ambitious!

And here is the original "source". https://twitter.com/skysperts Yeah...

I figured you had come to the conclusion that he is a poor goal scorer just by looking at his goals per game record. Pretty much everyone who has come to to the same conclusion has done the same. Just looking at his goals per game record paint a false picture because a lot of his games have been second half sub appearances. He has averaged 41 mins per game this season, 33 last season and 54 the season before. This season he has 0.58 goals per 90 mins, 0.82 last season and 0.74 the season before, consistently above the equivalent of 1 in 2. And he scored 15 league goals in 2014/15.

Nonsense.

That is not true at all, the quality of the average chance conceded varies significantly. https://twitter.com/11tegen11/status/812948253259993088 According to this, the chances Swansea concede are on average of higher quality than anyone else, so Fabianski would have the lowest save % if the quality of finishing faced was even and all the goalkeepers in the league were as good as each other. The chances we concede are on average the third lowest in quality, so Forster should have a high save %. Even if we are unlucky and have disproportionately faced higher quality finishing, there is no way Forster should have a worse save % than every other keeper. The stats say he has been abysmal and the eye test says he has been abysmal, it is safe to say he hasn't been very good.

If we were to make a change then Roger Schmidt (I wanted him before he went to Leverkusen when Poch left) or Emery, decent chance neither will be at their current clubs in the summer. Don't think Nagelsmann, Hasenhüttl, Favre or Dardai would be interested. Definitely not anyone from these islands.

I'd describe him more as a pre-injury JRod really. Largely played on the right for Sampdoria the same way JRod played on the left before his injury but has been mostly used as a CF at Napoli. Great left foot although very one footed. His goalscoring record is underrated as it doesn't look to good on a goals per game basis, but that overlooks the fact that he has rarely played 90 mins for Napoli, usually being a sub as he had Higuain and now Mertens scoring a goal a game. His goals from open play per minute played is good. A loan deal that becomes permanent automatic after a number of games sounds good to me, if he impresses he becomes ours, if not he plays clause triggering number of games -1.

And your point is?

Yes, it is that simple. We create a decent number of chances and are very good at preventing the other team from creating chances themselves. Our forwards can't hit a barn door and our keeper is as useful as a lamp post. Our problem has nothing to do with Puel or tactics and everything to do with the fact that some of our players are just not very good. The quality of our squad has steadily deteriorated in the last 2 summer windows and this is on Reed. By the way, how does removing a forward and adding another CB help us score more goals? And who would be the third CB, Stephens? We would score more goals putting Stephens in the team? That makes no sense. Throwing sh!t on the wall and hoping it sticks has never been a solution to anything, especially when you risk fixing what isn't broken and making things worse. There is no solution to this other than nicking Kat's wallet and buying new toys.

https://twitter.com/11tegen11/status/820322806156169216 Yeah, this kind of thing tends to happen more often when your goalkeeper and forwards are sh!t.

Five actually, but at least one has to be from the AFC, so there are loads of australians there. Makes sense that they might be interested in Yoshi, I can't think of a better AFC CB.

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From wikipedia: On 23 April 2016, it was announced that Sakho was being investigated by UEFA for violating an anti-doping rule, after he was tested on 17 March following a Europa League game against Manchester United. The club, along with Sakho, agreed that while UEFA were investigating, he would not be available for team selection. Five days later, after testing positive for a fat-burner, UEFA punished him with a 30-day ban from all European football, which FIFA extended to cover all world football. On 28 May 2016, the ban expired after the substance was found to not be in the banned substance list. On 8 July 2016, the case was dismissed by UEFA.

He's rubbish. Even Utrecht fans don't think he's anywhere near good enough for us. Janssen is far better and look how he has done at Spurs.

We have cloned Killer!

Yay, need more clues. Age? Nationality? League?

When your goalkeeper lets in any shot on target that isn't hit straight at him, then your biggest concern will be to ensure the other team don't take any shots even if that means that you will create fewer chances yourself, more so when you know your players would have missed most of them anyway.

Vulnerable to what? Supporters throwing their toys out of the pram? Connection with the supporters means nothing in terms of whether or not he keeps his job, they are just there to cough up the money and STFU. What Les thinks is all that matters, supporters don't and should not have any influence.

I'd argue we need two, our midfield lacks so much athleticism. And a goalkeeper. And a right back. And Fonte will need replacing. Anyway even if we decide Puel is not the man for us, we will probably keep him until the end of the season while searching for a new coach to take over in the summer, a bit like we did with Adkins where the decision to sack him was taken long before we actually pulled the trigger. That way we can ensure the next guy is the best we can possibly get. And what Rowett and De Boer have done to earn this job I have no idea, why are they being suggested?

In easily. Forster is making his best impersonation of a lamp post and the others defend well as a team but are ultimately mostly limited footballers, Puel can't do much better with what he has got, Les has got to bring better players so if anyone, he is the one to blame. Rotation is necessary, players can't play this many games no matter how much they are paid. It is time the idiots understood this. We had two fewer rest days than WBA and it showed, VVD was running on fumes at the end. We have played more games than anyone in the league. The possession for possession's sake isn't to attack, we are doing it to defend without wasting too much energy, if we have the ball the other team can't hurt us. It works but isn't being reflected as it should in the GA column because Forster doesn't save anything. Can't see what Puel can do about that other than ask Les for a new keeper. Mané was our attack and before him Lallana. Until Boufal gets fully up to speed or we buy new players this is how it is going to be. Fans complained that Pochettino didn't have a plan B and Koeman hoofed it to Pellè, usually when teams marked Lallana and Mané out of the game. No different here, we just don't have the quality and this is made worse by the fact that because of the number of games Puel is having very little time to work tactical drills, most training sessions are just for physical recovery. At last I couldn't give less of a sh!t about how he comes across in interviews, in fact I don't even see the point of them. Our fans are mostly mouth breathing idiots anyway, so the less they are told and the less influence they have on how the club is run the better.

I've heard this too, apparently he doesn't hang the medal on his neck either. Still waves it in peoples' faces though.

You can't just say that and leave it there, we are humans and have rights. Tell us more.