Individual players aren’t the issue, aside from the truly crap ones - the issues run deep in the fact we haven’t tactically or structurally evolved even slightly in 2 years or more. If anything we’re going backwards.
It all started to turn to **** when Milan beat us at SJP. It was a tactical ****show and we’ve never really recovered. The League Cup debacle as well, when Popes stupidity cost us a chance - yet here we are with Pope still costing us goals, kicking like he’s blind, because Howe will not go for quality over plodding loyalty.
We missed a huge opportunity in messing up the Emery appointment, but the time has come to change up the manager.