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Would have preferred a draw but the good thing about the game was no matter what happened one of them had to lose points which is good for us no matter which way it lands

If Spurs weren't pure scum, you'd almost feel sorry for them, the situation there is as bleak as can be. None of my friends are Spurs fans as I don't socialise with scum, but I imagine they must be pretty depressed - makes our situation look incredibly good. Although I do think there is a possible future in which we slide into something akin to Spurs current situation - an owner with "his own take" on how to run a club, featuring massively long contracts on low money that you renew yearly for a little more every year, so that players are trapped like slaves with no way out, and no hope to win anything stuck in a squad with a few decent players but mostly dross. If we don't start regularly qualifying for CL to up our income I could easily see us end up in a "you must sell to buy" situation and start to slide in that direction (surely the cash that was to be injected to turn the club around is close to dry at this point).

Not an easy team to beat at all these days, got to treat it like another final, Everton under Moyes have always been horrid opponents for us.

Missed the game today as I was taking my 8 month old son to see some friends, couldn't even follow the game as it turns out I get 0 signal there Come back and see we won 2-1, I assume it was a comfortable, smooth win with a meaningless goal by them right at the end? #MarescaForever

Forgot they beat us earlier in the season 2-1 at the bridge on boxing day. Just one of many grim results. I'll be a hopeless, reckless optimist and say we'll win 3-0 and see a real reaction from the players. Reece James with a couple of assists.

A lot of bang average players on this list and not a single leader among them. For every 100 they find 1 Cole Palmer (who may be a 1 season wonder).

Yeah I don't think anything will really get better, unless we see a change in SD and the general vision The best we can hope for is a short term boost from a manager coming in, gets the attackers happy and scoring freely, we get a brief run of wins and feel good factor, before people figure us out again and we go back to being shit This team will only truly become good when we sort out the fundamental structural problems in both the squad and the club as a whole.

Agreed about Carlo. Hard to imagine him really doing anything with this group - he has always thrived at maximising the returns of an established group of experienced pros. Players that fundamentally know how to play the game and how to win, he gets them to their max (no doubt incredibly valuable in the right situation). I just can't see it with our group. Replacing Maresca with Marco Silva would just be groundhog day.

I don't really think we've seen Maresca's football since Wes got injured. We have improved in many areas structurally but the way the players have en masse all individually turned to shit has to be down to something and the best hope is that it is down to Maresca's man management. Maybe he simply doesn't have it when it comes to really being a charismatic leader and man manager, as much as he can coach them on positional play. Seen many times elite support staff try to take on the top job for a few years and it doesn't work out and they go back to being support staff for a top manager. Maresca would be incredible working under a man manager like Carlo for example.

Bring back Tuchel I don't care if he was banging players wives Cheating on his wife with every woman he could find Doing coke left right and centre Just bring him back

Reminder that this team isn't even good in Poland

Its almost like they don't want us to like them anymore

I will not say "I told you so" about Jorgensen I will not I WILL NOT

Maybe Cole was a one season wonder :) It was nice while it lasted

I wasn't gonna watch but I guess I'll check out Acheampong

Its so hard to care about a game against Legia Warszawa These guys aren't even good in Poland And they'll probably beat us.

We should just get both and spend the cash at this point. Bring back Petrovic for GK or go and spend the money on a decent option there too. I am increasingly a big believer in just spending the premium to buy established PL players, and only rarely spending big cash on players otherwise. At this point, we are simply out of time, the club is out of excuses, and they need to put together an XI that can put on a respectable showing against any team in the world - at minimum one that can battle and conceivably take us to pens in a final against the truly elite teams. These two seem like the most realistic PL targets in that regard. Just offer them good money and get it done. Ship out Colwill and other HG players if needed to cover it. Its just worth it., even if Colwill finally comes good in 3 years for a different club. We need CBs that are ready now.

Maresca changed virtually everything about the way we play and with a number of different players. I do not think Poch should get any credit whatsoever for results under Maresca, who had to immediately fix a number of catastrophic and somewhat hilarious flaws that had been drilled into the players (for example, playing a recklessly high line and not dropping off when the opponent had the ball under no pressure, was something he prioritised and worked hard to fix from day 1). They are a mile apart in terms of tactical understanding and Maresca is the far more ruthless of the two, pushing out players like Sterling and Chilwell who had been Poch's darlings but were clearly completely washed up. No doubt better managers than Maresca available but Poch is not one of them. Whether any of them will come here is another question, given the serious structural flaws in the club, its a bit of a poison chalice.

Imo he is far better than Poch, who is likely to blame for many injury problems we are still coping with to this day, after flogging the players to death in training (and reaping no benefits from it, but rather just injuring them all the time and leaving them exhausted for the games). He also finished the season with 63 goals conceded, I think the most we have conceded since 1990 or something. And that was with a far better GK available. Maresca has made plenty of mistakes but its almost impossible to do as badly as Poch who was a total fraud, tactically outdone by every opponent and even the incompetent owners and sporting directors could see he had to go asap and that he was an obvious and embarrassing mistake of a hire.

Feel like Boehly and Egbhali need to have a proper dust up, agree that its not working and find a resolution with either them both selling up or 1 of them selling to the other and a plan to move forward with a new vision. Something major has to change or it will just be groundhog day, changing manager is not enough.

All of the other teams will be saying the same We are all where we are because we've all lost tonnes of points we "shouldn't have"

Wow. Terrible time for them to have this happen, they've got 2 PL games in 3 days. Hope he's alright - has to be something serious, the guy is only 47. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c98gjez5yd7o Newcastle boss Eddie Howe has been admitted to hospital and will miss the club's Premier League fixture with Manchester United on Sunday.

Final game of the season could be a real cup final sort of situation

No real title race and relegation fight this year, but the fight for the various European spots is keeping the league pretty damn interesting. Almost anything could happen from this position.

Oh dear. Probably he had a license from Ecuador but you can only use a foreign license for like a year in the UK I think and then you have to sit and do the test. He's probably been driving without a valid license for like 4 years... No idea how he was even getting insured (or if he was insured). 23 years old and can't get the basics of his life together... Not a good look tbh.