12 Oct 2026 18:57:34
I was not impressed by Tielemans nor Santos being bought. I said sell Martinez, not least for his flag waving at the World Cup. Bruno as well, whose contract only runs until June 2027, clearly doesn't look interested. I said sell whilst we could to get decent money, but no, there are those who just cannot be apart from him. Now we will get a low fee, when we could have had £100m or even £60m in summer.
Yoro, gets in the France team, plays well but the mastermind Carrick doesn't want him apparently, plays him at right back because the club didn't realise that Dalot is awful whilst watching him for years. Carrick wants to sell Yoro whilst playing the now aged slow Maguire.
The club must have gone loony because they couldn't see we didn't have a left back, couldn't see we were one injury to Sesko away from disaster.
Nor can the club seemingly see that Carrick doesn't trust youth. Forget the Gabriel stuff, look how he is treating Yoro, Heaven and Lacey. Lacey who didn't even get on at the weekend. Carrick only seemingly trusts mature players whilst the older ones go slow.
Oh tomorrow night I bet they try because they are in the shop window, so a draw wouldn't surprise me, yet it just covers the utter mess of taking an emotional decision with the manager. The mess of SJR letting the Glazers stay, SJR appointing Wilcox and letting him tell the then manager what tactics to play, then sacking him.
What a mess
Can we all agree on one thing. We must never ever ever again put a club ex player, who we liked as a player, in the permanent manager role based on a short term temp contract? Never ever ever again.
12 Oct 2026 20:31:15
Good post RM.
12 Oct 2026 23:09:24
I saw this today.
This season we lost 4 points to injury time equalisers.
2 points to a kamakasi own goal.
1 point stolen on a refereeing error.
The argument is that its fine lines.
The post did mention that we did not deserve those points on balance of play but we were within a min or 2 of having 7 more points.
But i have to say this is some of the worst play we've seen since the end of the ole and carrick era imo, in terms of no team cohesion of any sort and all loosey goosey with no real plan that i can see. Maguire slower than the slow man from slow land at moving the ball.
Dalot getting the ball wide and turning backwards and inside 98.75% of the time. No control in midfield. Slow in recovery runs. Very few tackles made no structured pressure on opponents 95% passive.
A manager under pressure that's fears playing youth and not dropping players for consistent under performance is a major concern.
He must know himself that he had backed a few players he shouldn't have. Continuing to do that is falling into the same trap Amorim fell into whereby he won't make some obvious changes.