Dman

I think that is more to do with how far we have regressed. Neither we’re good enough to nail down a starting position for us and rightly we’re moved on for their own development. Players like Lallana, Morgan etc benefited from us being in the lower leagues and as a result it being less difficult to break in and nail down a starting spot. Even Our current poster boy for the academy struggled to nail down a spot and was nearly sold to Watford. Ballard, doyle etc. will greatly benefit from us being in the championship next season.

I’ll renew and I’m really looking forward to it. Less day trippers (hopefully), no VAR and hopefully a few more wins will make it a much better experience. Im sick of the PL, I’m glad we’re out of it from a fans perspective, if I’m honest. Not expecting the overall price to drop, would imagine it’ll stay the same. They’ll justify it by saying the price per game has dropped given the increase in games.

If we appoint Martin it’ll be a lot of sidewards passes, loads of possession, look tidy but little to no end product, we’ll get hit on the counter and draw / lose as many as we win. It’ll be a disaster. You can only play like City, Barca etc if you have the players and creativity to do so. You don’t get those players in the championship. It does make me a little sad we’re moving towards this possession based approach this season rather than last, because Lavia would have been fucking phenomenal (even better) at it.

Probably had Semmens in the interview room telling him we’re lucky just to be in the championship. What a bunch of cowards we have in senior roles at this club. If we genuinely don’t believe we can offer a project more appealing than Boro, then fuck me, what’s the point. No disrespect to Boro who are a similar sized club to us really, but given we were an established PL club with what should be a huge budget for the championship, we should have other championship managers licking their lips to come here and rebuild for a promotion push ffs.

Because they were working at youth level and were offered a very senior role at a PL men’s club. It’s a no brainier really, huge promotion for them both.

Not a bad shout. Especially if their interest in JWP is genuine.

I’d imagine you’ve seen little to nothing of Middlesbrough or Carrick to make a judgement on his coaching.

I could see a world where he return in some form of coaching capacity, probably not as a player though. Always thought Fonte would make a good manager and would manage us at some point.

Besides the obvious improvement in Playing style, Carrick was also a fantastic, Elite player where Jones was a cart horse at Yeovil. You’re a young player at a club, who will you instantly have more respect for? A mumbling mess from south wales shouting passion and aggression at you, or someone who’s won it all at club level and has a progressive attacking style of play.

Yep, point I was going to make. Alcaraz and Smallbone should be more than sufficient in ‘the 10’. Dack has never been the same player since his ACL injury, as well.

People were saying he has all the attributes to be a world beater. I guess we’ll never know, but has he not suffered a terrible injury, I suspect he’d be leading the line for Chelsea now.

meh, that’s elite level football. Without spending billions it’s impossible to compete, so fair play to them. The thing is, city have spent a fortune of course, but they’ve generally (Haaland aside) brought very, very, very good players who pep has improved and made elite. I like them.

Incredible how our useless pieces of shit are going to be the only fuckers stopping this side win the lot. We deserve relegation for that alone.

City have been absolutely phenomenal in both legs of this semi final. this deserved to be the final, the quality is beyond belief.

Actually forgot all about Larios. Although seeing his name has now brought back memories of how painfully exploited he was against Everton. The poor sod looked like an U16 player.

Yes, that one, well done. The one whose contract would be irrelevant if he wanted to Jack in playing and become a manager.

I wonder if the ‘ex player’ was Adam lallana..?

Agree to disagree I suppose. I think he’s a terrible player, nowhere near the level.

Agreed. Stick my kneck on the line, if we appoint him, it’ll end up a disaster.

What have you seen in him to suggest he’s anything but a load of shit? Genuinely comparative with Carrillo.

Has to be our number 1 choice if he comes up. Throw everything at him, who knows. Feels like we missed the boat though, I think when crooker was here we’d have stood a better chance given their links at the FA. We should have tried for him the summer!

I don’t think it was Beattie. I know for a fact, from the horses mouth, he’s been offering his services to the club for a while (I.e as a coach) but was told he’s not needed.

He’s dire. Can’t run, unfit, has no first touch. All round just a really really poor player. I can’t even recall him winning a header. Especially not as many as he should for his size.

Way outside of our reach now, but it’s clear we need a striker. I’d like for us to look at players performing across European top leagues rather than the championship. Really like the look of Vangelis Pavlidis, currently at AZ Alkmar. Pretty quick for a bigger lad and can finish. would expect to see him in one of europes big leagues fairly soon. Would have had more chance in January, when we wasted £18m on that fucking donkey Paul.

Would fit in very well with our bunch of weak minded cowards then.