King Kante

Don't tell Enzo M that, playing for draws in the most boring fashion and playing down to the ability of the other side and still struggling is his forte.

Mate, until people realise Caicedo is a 6 and not a 4 (or a 4/6 combined) and Enzo is a luxury hybrid 8/10, we are always going to get overrun in CM.

You guys do realise this guy was still playing barefoot at 15-16 with no real footballing education or even formal education? Yeah, he is at fault here. Not the Diet Pep guy who sent him on against a sh*house Brazilian team just after he had lost his starting position when chasing the game.

Sanchez is a big problem but Diet Pep is a much bigger problem. Before he goes we cannot even discuss individual players. If you want to look at a proper manager, just look at Conte (who gets clowned) he literally turned Victor Moses into a PL team of the year player by playing to his strengths. Yet, Diet Pep had Palmer move 10-20 yards up the pitch to play sideways and backwards - so that we keep possession better - and Sanchez is the biggest problem. Literally 1984 shit.

At Sunday league this is an argument. At elite level it is not. Literally, you're acting like every boy/man at top level has not had to graft to make them stand above 100,000's of boys' to allow them to earn £10,000's+ a week. You do know that youth football is absolutely cut throat? Every year there are 100,000's of 13-17 year old boys in various academies - across the world in total - who get told they sold their childhood chasing a dream and now won't make it, right? Yet, those boys that do make it, don't know how to graft? OK. It is definitely that and not that since 7 years old they've been told to follow the manager's/coaches instructions......Literally only guys like Jackson - who I actually stand up for (owing to his footballing education - see how he was still playing barefoot at 15/16 - who have an argument ) Hence, why I asked you if you felt bringing him on 2-1 down in that situation was a good idea? Either way, it is clear you think the players are them problem because they do not know how to graft. Maybe you're right, but it just doesn't seem logical to me.

I really don't like Sanchez, like you I see him for what he is - a middle of the road keeper (at best-) However, anyone who takes this squad and has them playing OAP walking football tactics - despite being one of the youngest squads in Europe - has significantly more to answer for.

It is simple. It was actually an amalgamation of things. First, we had Poch and his gung ho approach, with no tactics, then Diet Pep with his possession obsessed approach. In the middle, we actually hit the nivarna, where we had a young squad using their enthusiasm and nativity in a way that wasn't necessarily that easy to fathom e.g. see PSG.

Keeper is a problem, however Diet Pep is a much larger one by 100x's.

Football is a team game, the overall strategy is given by the manager. Blaming individuals only works when they do something that is clearly not apart of the strategy. That aside, who actually beings on Jackson in a situation like he did? I mean do you need day to day with Jackson and still not know sending him on in a game where you're chasing - just after he has lost his starting position - in a game against a sh*thouse Brazilian team is a bad idea? Honestly, people that don't see Diet Pep is 99.99% of the problem is deluded.

OK, mate so you don't understand how predictable tactics - especially when they're so passive - equate to other teams being able to predict what you're going to do. Got it. Blame the players.

Really, players have to take the blame when the instruction are pass sideways and backwards the whole time. Literally, tell me what Enzo's strategy is apart from keep possession and how he provides a platform for our most creative players to play to their strengths?

Got dominated by Kiraren McKenna with Ipswich. Really a surprise?

Was Palmer allowed to play his game?

Because he wants to move the ball forward and not just pass sideways and backwards.

I don't blame the players. Literally this manager is the one that thought taking Palmer away from the final third to the middle third to play sideways and backwards passing was a good idea. Anyone defending the manager or blaming individual players needs to get a grip.