http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...tml?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490 if true, who can blame him
Clearly. If you don't think the squad could have been better utilised between Stoke at home to Palace at home, like the way we've seen the past 3 games, then fair enough. No ones blameless for the position we find ourselves in imo.
If you don't think the owners are more to blame than anyone else, then there's really no hope for you, or this conversation.
After we stuck by him through injury I'd hope he'd reconsider. But the writing is on the wall, players aren't going to want to come here in the mess we are in, not good ones anyway. We're going to have to use the "well we are in the Premier League" line on some ****ter players in the hopes they join us.
Interesting claim considering you've completely sidestepped the point and gone off down a different road. The owners are irrelevant to Phelans management of the players we have so I'm not sure why you brought them up.
More battling displays into January such as we've just been witness to and some unlikely points picked up along the way then it's an entirely different picture.
Leicester had a way, way better squad than we have now. They had one that had just absolutely breezed to the Championship title, with Mahrez, Vardy, Drinkwater, Morgan et al. Almost the team that won the title the following year. They had Ulloa in and out of their team. Imagine Ulloa being in our squad. He'd start every game without question.
Vardy was absolutely ****e that season, Mahrez was almost unrecognisable from the player he is now, Morgan is a ****ing donkey. Most the Leicester team just transformed overnight, most of them are back to their usual selves now.
Top post! Post of the day. He knows the Championship and below. He is best placed to slow down the inevitable sump we know is coming. Give him a taste of EPL too so he knows whats to come
I can't see us getting anything from teams in the top half, even Bournemouth are playing well this season. So Man City isn't a likely source of points and I'm guessing our rivals will cruelly have easier ties they could nab points from. It's not totally unfeasible that by the time the window opens we could be five or six points adrift of 17th. Palace play an out of sorts Watford and Burnley host Boro on boxing day, both winnable games for them. When we play Everton on the Friday, the following day Burnley play Sunderland, Swansea play Bournemouth and Leicester play West Ham. Wins for any of those teams (barring west ham maybe) would see us majorly falling behind unless we somehow pick up points in the next two. Yes, Leicester did it, but they had notably better players than we have now. I think the way we played today was fantastic and if we go down playing like that then I'll not complain, but I think we have to accept that the gulf in class is simply too much for a squad of our quality. I'm more concerned that if we do go down, what little quality we have will be picked off and we'll have to essentially rebuild our squad up from nothing.
What a joke MOTD is.... not a mention of how well we played, stopped West Ham from playing, scathing of what we already know, more about whats wrong with West Ham. And something no one picked up on until this programme, the referee actually shaking his head then changing his mind over the penalty decision. But as Phelan said we should have been out of sight buy then.
