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Even with Pep in charge, we will still lose the next two away to Spurs and United. Hopefully we have somebody lined up and can get them in place before the Palace game

Only Spurs left to play and thats one game against every one in league. Halfway point and only 18 points. Simply not good enough

Because we had huge amounts of creativity in both of those games. Most of it was spent defending

He was dropped against City and also against Arsenal just 3 days ago.... Just trying to find a fall guy. The whole team was s**** tonight, but sure lets single out Davis

Convenient player comparisons. Sure VVD, Cedric, Bertrand, Lemina, Romeu and Tadic are better than Morgan, Simpson, Fuchs, Iborra, Ndidi and Albrighton. Our squads are very similar in quality

Along way to go before winning me over. Bournemouth will be the true litmus test. And for gods sake, leave Long at home. Such a poor player

Player recruitment has been poor the last 2 years but we still have a very good squad. A good manager would have us top half this season easy with those players at their disposal. Unfortunately we dont have a good manager and that cant be hard for the board to see

Speaks volumes that some of the players look as if they couldnt care less. They have given up on the manager and for the most part i dont blame them. The system we play is so restrictive and just smothers any creative spark. To mention one player in particular, Bertrand looks completely uninterested and somebody who is trying to avoid injury ahead of a january transfer. Worrying times

Hes done a great job. Could see someone taking chance on him in the Championship maybe. Came on as sub in the 6-3 i remember

Nail.on.the.head

Theres certainly similarities. Well done for trying to lighten the mood on here.

All good in principle, but MP fails to recognise that with a keeper that concedes probably 30% of the shots he faces (would love to see the stats on this), we will still likely concede no matter how well we are set up defensively

So hard to watch saints at the moment. Just dont understand our approach. Going forward we are too slow. No pressing when defending and just happy to offer space all round the pitch. Its like we're saving energy for a rainy day. Sort it out MP!!! Watching motd2 and pundits are finally realising how negative and toothless we are. Jenas also questioning Forster for the goal which is good to see. Needs to be dropped.

Honestly think the club are taking the **** when they post those midweek videos of shooting practice

Can see Lemina starting on the bench on saturday. Still not quite 100% fit and clocked up plenty of airmiles the last few days. Would like to see Hojbjerg given a chance but hasnt even made the squad recently. Stephens to play DM again?

One we were linked with....Yann Karamoh signed for Inter on a two year loan with an option to buy

Can we do a loan for Vietto tomorrow? Atletico maybe taking it to the end of the spanish window to see if they can get a permanent deal for him. If not then they will look to loan him

Was good against a poor Brighton side and motd were raving about him....yet last week he struggled vs Arsenal and was bullied by Giroud for the winner. Jurys out

Jack Rose is managed by 73 management (Le Tiss and Benali). Probably helped him get a contract

http://sqwk.at/VanDijks Good article on possible replacements should we let VVD leave. Dont know enough about Vestergaard but a 6"7 international who can play a bit sounds promising

Nothing to do with the fact we were abysmal going forward the last 11/12 games of the season? Take out Chelsea away which was a goalfest, we conceded 8 in our last 11 games (including 5 clean sheets). All of which alongside a young CB in Stephens.

Disagree. Had a very good season and needs to be rewarded with a regular start alongside VVD. Cant see Wimmer or Gibson being any kind of upgrade

This. He is excellent in this role for Northern Ireland because hes a more creative player than he is a defensive one. Tackling isnt one of his strengths

It hasnt got its weekly mention yet..... What was the point in us signing Caceres if we arent going to play him Yoshi and Stephens excellent again

So frustrating. If the two penalty decisions had been reversed, no doubt they would spend 5-10 minutes on motd2 tonight talking about how a poor refereeing decision has cost Spurs slim title chances. Because it was us, nobody cares