LDN Blue

If he learns English he'll be perfect. I saw Ferriera was translating Carlo/Clement's orders. Hopefully that'll be Paulo's main role now

precisely FB!

Meh, it happens. Tensions were running high..

Ah yes! I'd forgotten about that one, will be looking out for it. Which newspapers do you actually recommend/bother to read? After they had the ball to publish the Wiki Leaks Cables, I've taken a liking to The Guardian.

Cech Ivanovic - Luiz - Terry - Cole Mikel Essien - Lampard Anelka -------------------------------- Malouda Torres

Do you think so FB? I think he'll be hidden away from mainstream history, cast out by society. Look at the news now, all mention of the Wiki Leaks has been removed, no-one cares anymore.

I understand that, but there are some very good points in this thread. Personally I'm split tbh. The club/players are at a stage where we border on the line of "transitional" or "re-building" soon the age of Drogba, Lampard, Terry, A Cole & Anelka will take their toll and most will contemplate leaving/retiring. We then need to carefully think about the future of the club. This stage is where you find your long-term managers, the ones who will build their own team with the players they see fit to sell, buy & promote. Mourinho years were fun where we won trophies yearly, now the honeymoon period is over, it's time to think long term. If the board want Carlo, then by all means, give Carlo his chance to build. But if they want stability the must stick with him for as long as possible. Even if it's at the risk of a season or 2 without a trophy, as long as their is significant progress in this time it's fine.

Read the points first..

Just to put things in perspective.. Football League 2 Burton have 8 games in hand

The sooner we win the cup the sooner we can get stability. I really want our next coach to adopt the Total Football ideology at the club. Would certainly allow us to function with a good size squad with keeping the wage bill down.

Certainly better than those who named McEachran.. JMac.

Just realised.. No Sturridge, Kakuta or Van Aanholt. Will be the same standard team. No youth, other than 23 yo Luiz.

Haha no thanks! But like I said, your points are well presented. If Carlo is sacked, it must be done after the final game of the season so the new manager can assess the players he has (including the youth) so he can sell the oldies and promote the youth, and also buy players only in areas we need and younger than 25. This is the only way the wage bill will be dropped. I'd like a manager who knows Total Football. Someone like Pep Guardiola. But no the man himself.

That's true. We lacked some spark today, Josh's composure could've helped us with that.

You guys are actually making some good points here.. Please stop spamming them with the emoticons though

There is nothing Josh could have done to break down that defence in the role that Carlo puts him. He is played as a deep lying midfielder, and there was a 5-man defensive unit holding firm. What was he supposed to do? Regardless of age, he lacks experience to make such a difference.

I still see 3rd being an option for us. City have played all their games, we have 1 in hand. I know it's to United, but they're still inconsistent and are probably bound to slip up more than us.(City)

We become a laughing stock for the opposition when we produce such things like this

I've always accepted honest defeat, Liverpool away, Sunderland at home & even Birmingham away. Today was the tale of 2 sh*t teams. One won by the luck of a terrible lapse in defeat, that's my honest view. I don't think they were better, except in their 5-man defence which stood against all our attacks and reduced us from shooting at distance. The midfield belonged to us, and our defence was tight 80% of the game. I don't deny their victory, I'm simply saying we're both awful. We should learn from it. My honest view.

Exactly. This was a really dull game, and spoilt by the Torres-media hype. I find the result in the past already.

I guess.. But it'd be nice for us to design our own one too

I'm ashamed though, this banner is an exact replica :\

Well said.

Ramires must be injured, if he did not make the bench. Anelka was brilliant vs Sunderland, that's why.

I still maintain, Mikel is pivotal. He wasn't as good today because of that atrocious booking he got in the 30th second of the match! So he had to play as risk free as possible, which meant he couldn't commit as much.