You mean like Foyth?Love to see Poch build a new team with young hungry players.
When people were looking at the fixtures they were saying 3 points against this one. 3 against there! You don’t all of a sudden win games after being on a crap run!! I said this back then and it’s become true!
Just secure cl football for next season. Even if we beat Ajax Wednesday we have no chance vs Barca !
With that said, we really do need to beat Everton. It’s Everton, mid table, nothing to play for Everton. It’s been said before, but if we can’t make top 4 given our run in, we didn’t deserve it. Bad luck counts for some, but somewhere along the line, we shouldn’t have been dropping the points we did. We’ve had tremendous amounts of bad luck with injuries, but come on lads, let’s finish the season on a high note.
I think most people back Levy and Poch, but asking why we didnt bring someone in in Jan, even on loan when Dembele left, is justified. Tielemans for example was available on loan and wouldnt have earned more than Dembele
I reckon he'll be on the bench next Sunday. Its a massive massive game for us
I think we’ll need him to start mate.
And on the bench on Wednesday hopefully.
Probably all wishful thinking but then again I think the club will now be forced to do all they can to wheel him out for Sunday cos its plain to see how utterly awful we are without Son and Kane.
hmmm maybe - I'm not sure I'd risk him on Wednesday though. Sounds bad because its a CL semi, but next Sunday is absolutely huge given the financial difference between finishing 4th and 5th. Obviously a point for Brighton tomorrow would change that....
Rather have our last fixture than Arsenal's or Chelsea's.
Yeah but any edge that gave us is lost if we are missing both son and kane.
We are utter brick without them both.
No I won’t because being too outcome dependent in the short term isn’t the best way to understand long term strategy. What if we signed players and finished 6th? What if we signed players, and sold the ones we still have well below market value, limiting our ability to make moves further down the line?
Not denying our league form has regressed. This team needs rebuilding and peaked in 16/17. But again, I look at the context. And I think back to which players were available that were obvious improvements. And I think now to the ridiculous luck we’ve had with injuries. But we are where we are, we have our plan and our strategy and I back Levy and Poch to keep us progressing over the long term.
Can’t even mark properly in the last minutes from a corner.
I,ll go along with that as well! but..influence how you play matters.Well whilst Dier was awful no doubting that ,Son got the red card that started the downfall and Foyth stuck the final nail in the coffin
No I won’t because being too outcome dependent in the short term isn’t the best way to understand long term strategy. What if we signed players and finished 6th? What if we signed players, and sold the ones we still have well below market value, limiting our ability to make moves further down the line?
Not denying our league form has regressed. This team needs rebuilding and peaked in 16/17. But again, I look at the context. And I think back to which players were available that were obvious improvements. And I think now to the ridiculous luck we’ve had with injuries. But we are where we are, we have our plan and our strategy and I back Levy and Poch to keep us progressing over the long term.
Yes, not getting a point today was massive. We need Kane back next weekend, and take a punt on appealling Son's red card even though its highly unlikely to succeed
I don’t think it matters a jot what was done to any player before they get a red card. What matters is if the action is properly punished. If what son did is deemed a yellow and not a red it’ll be a miracle.Yeah we should appeal and present all the mitigating circumstances and bring up all the technicalities about how it wasn't striking that piece of vermin, but that is all only in the hope they reduce it to a one game ban.
Absolutely no chance they will completely overturn it, purely because they are corrupt clams who all stick together unless they absolutely cannot due to a stonewall clear error.
Its really sad how bad these officials are. The macaron should have taken into account how lerma smashed son off the ball earlier in the game, how lerma wacked son’s back and stood on his fingers, how lerma was only pushed not struck and lastly how lerma massively overreacted by launching himself on the floor and lying in a heap.
It all adds up to anyone with half a brain that the clam was being ultra mischievous with the sole aim of cheating and trying to get son sent off.
With all that taken into account the bellend ref should not have dived into his pocket to get the red card. Instead he should have taken control of the situation by blowing his whistle very hard and pulling both players over for a very stern talking too and then booked both players.
But as has been said many times before these pricks are too obsessed by going by the book, they are incapable of using common sense because they don't understand the game.
As I’ve said before, I think we’re too picky when it comes to signing players.
I,ll go along with that as well! but..influence how you play matters.
a team gains confidence if they do the right things and are playing well together. So..it doesn't inspire when one of your team mates is not passing the baton properly or keeps dropping it.
I don’t think it matters a jot what was done to any player before they get a red card. What matters is if the action is properly punished. If what son did is deemed a yellow and not a red it’ll be a miracle.