Match Day Thread Union SG v NUFC (CL2)

Hi Roly

 

Lose this and pressure cranks up.

 

Another disaster potentially.. Can't lose this one..


Can they?

 

Think we lose again. We just look a bit shot. And ****. We have the feel of a club that doesn’t really know where it wants to go and is too reliant on memories. The truly elite players will - like Isak - start to get a bit fed up and given how hard we’re being carried by the likes of Tonali, it’s an uncertain season ahead.

Victims of a fairly shambolic recruitment strategy overseen by a manager trying to do too much.

 

Mitchell is going to end up being proven right in the end I think.

 

What, right to refuse Isak an improved contract and make him go on strike to force a move away?

 

He’d have always gone mate. Qualifying for the CL and adding Ramsdale, Elanga and Ramsey to your squad? The players can see it even if some of this board can’t.

 

We don't even know that it's speculation. I'm still convinced he's right about recruitment regardless though.

Tbf I've always said this I'm not winding... Look at Brighton Palace and Bournemouths.. It's better

 

Bournemouth lost 4 of their back 5 and replaced them with ease. Palace look like they know exactly what they’re doing. We look amateurish. You can’t run an elite club with the head coach calling all the shots, an absent CEO and so on.

We just don’t excite in any way. We’re so vanilla. The PL want us to stay there and so do the media. So, seemingly, do many fans.

 

It's a football match, I'll watch it on TV on Wednesday

 

We don’t have an absent ceo. we have a new one. The absent sporting director was sacked and new one is imminent (Forest).

You lot did this **** last year with Howe calling for his head. You were told wait for Brentford in cup and see what happens and it turned around perfectly.

Playing 4-3–3 without a recognised striker or left winger kind of ****s things up a bit, and when he changes it up you moan like **** about being vanilla and boring.

grow a ****ing set of balls and a spine and dig in or **** off and tune into watch QPR every Saturday.

 

It's impossible to argue with this.... What we're are seeing is a poor side after a disasterous transfer strategy over the summer. They've provided huge amounts of money to sign players that haven't improved the side in any way whatsoever. I think we've done an Everton at this point... Big fees for players that aren't great and psr will become an issue.

Things probably won't get any better and might need a freshen up, but it'll go on and on for a prolonged period because Howes got a year of credit.

We've been here before and he's turned thimgs around, so we have to hope he can... We'll only replace him Gareth Southgate or Scott Parker.

 

We aren't a poor side but I think Howe is scarred by the last champions league season and is overcompensating this time round. Rotation is fine but it needs to be controlled. He needs to settle on his starting 11 so they get familiar and then use the subs to prevent fatigue. Howe needs the international break to hopefully get Ramsey and Wissa back and get the season up and running.

 

Wissa - starting 11 injured
Hall - starting 11 but had been injured for ages
Botman - starting 11 but has been injured for ages
Burn/Schar - no longer starting 11 but are part of the best defense we've ever had
Gordon - starting 11 but banned for 3 games out of 6

Nothing to do with rotation. Main rotation was against league 1 opposition and rightly so

 

It's results.. He's got to get more wins and everything else is immaterial.

 

Yes and no.
Thiaw and Elanga were brought in and should be 1st choices. Schar cant play 2 games a week and due to concussion protocols looks like Thiaw has took rhe opportunity.

Elanga only seems to get 45 mins at the moment. Hopefully this is just bedding in period but he needs to be starting more.