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pretty good summary. It's really difficult to establish causality in football, because of the number of variables involved and the fact everything is changing all the time (form, mood, confidence, the opposition and their take on you). Agreed, some of these players who left played extremely well under Tuchel, but the last memory is the one that sticks. Heh, I did not think Kai was particularly impressive (aside from his aerial game) today until our players gave up at which point it was just too easy for him and others. I do think Poch is a bit too much of a yes-man and likely not going to be strong enough to demand the changes the squad needs for next season, so yeah he probably needs to go unless it is to bring a third yes-man in, which wouldn't surprise me one bit. Maybe next season Lavia, Carney, and Nkunku will be remain healthy and fit for the entire season, which will help the next manager (and make him look like a genius), or maybe they won't. Or, maybe they are also not all that great given that we hardly saw them on the pitch this season.

Those players performed well under Tuchel here. It's simple. We had a decent manager and a decent team. Clownlake comes along. Gets rid of the decent manager. Brings in a couple of novices. Ruins the team standings. Next season gets rid of the team. Now we have a mediocre manager (still better than Potter, though.), and a clueless squad of individuals

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Thank goodness for our 6-0 win with Mourinho & Hazard.

They won't. No money left.

As much as I detest Clownlake's methods, and even if our transfer budget is limited to comply with the league's spending rules, they have one chance this coming window to make a few smart experienced signings to really shake up things on the pitch. This stupid experiment of developing a squad with 90% under-25 players has to stop.

I guess it is a good thing we haven’t played at the Bridge the last two games. Couldn’t be us!

sack Poch, this is beyond embarassing, and fuck the players too, useless lot.

utterly embarassing, what a shit team, useless lot, have some fucking dignity and just remove yourselves from the club.

Had a clear cut chance from inside the box and, as usual, sent it wide. Fuck Poch! 🙂

Atrocious tonight. Likes of him, Moises and Connor didn’t land a glove on any of the Arsenal midfielders. Thank fuck this season’s nearly over. This guy needs a reality check. As do most of the squad.

Yes, I know your opinion is factual and mine is just an opinion. 🙄

Odegaard created 8 chances tonight. 8. Alone. What the fuck were our midfielders doing? Nobody even tried to get close to him at all.

I give you data points supporting my arguments while you give me largely data / fact free opinion.

And he would won both games if not let down by attackers.

There is no chance of that happening because the club already noticed that some of these players are WAY below the quality required at this level. It's not going to be the same squad. Wanna bet? I don't give a shit about Poch. Don't think he's a great manager either, but it's naive to think it's all down to him. I can't think of any more clear cut chances than the ones Jackson has been missing, for example. 🤷‍♂️

I would be very interested with the excuses you would come up with if they do get a proper manager, hopefully next season, and the about-turn you would make on most of these players you are ever slating while ever deflecting from Poch’s mismanagement. Here is a clue… we got rid of many players last season who miraculously have started playing to a standard we never saw from them while they were here. Maybe it’s the pitch at their new clubs making the difference.

Solanke won't come back to us, he's still pissed as to why he was loaned out to Vitesse by us all those years ago. Saddest part is, Solanke runs rings around every other attacker at the club other than Palmer....that's how far we've fallen in attack since Hazard departed for his Spanish vacation!

No point getting to the Final/Semi Final of domestic cups if you're going to put rubbish performances like that and not win the trophy. Liverpool were there for the taking and there was enough there to trouble City as well. Progress isn't measured by scoring more goals or getting to cup finals, it's about whether the team has progressed and developed over the course of the season and as of right now, there's only 2 first team players that have actually developed under Poch, Palmer & Gusto. Caicedo was better at Brighton, Enzo didn't look this bad at Benfica, Gallagher will still run around like a mad man regardless of the manager and Jackson is just bang average, his Spanish club must be delighted that they got 30+ million for a raw player like him.

easy now... 😅

Nonsense. There is no excuse for these players to play like shit... none. Replace the manager and all is solved. Wish football was that easy. We should prob start recruiting in the lower leagues and spend more on the manager given that that's all that matters.

Nonsense. The first half our players played better than Arsenal and showed their quality. We were let down by the first two goals that showed Poch is not organizing the team AT ALL. It was heads down from us and confidence up with Arsenal from there. It has mostly been our defense letting us down with a lack of organization and pressing as well as second half malaises. ALL DOWN TO POCH!!

Bournemouth wanted Jackson before us. Can we swap him for Solanke?

How about glass is half full look? They can do this and see progress compared to last season. EFL Cup: 3rd round --> final FA Cup: 3rd round --> semi final Premier League: 44 points --> 47 points with 6 games in hand. 38 goals vs 61 scored already. There's gonna be also improvement on table 3,4,5 positions. Poch can show this stats and say I'm doing great and promise another improvement next season. Maybe Cup title and top5? Plus there is a injuries excuse which is pretty valid. Our expected back 4: Chilwell, Colwill, Fofana, James. Noone was available for majority of season. Never played together. Missing part in MF Lavia also out full season. And same with Nkunku in attack.