Pizy

Literally what the FUCK is that from Chalobah? WTF

There carving through us effortlessly. We very well could’ve conceded 3 by now. All down that side where Gusto is playing.

Caicedo needs to be WAY more careful and disciplined. You don’t have to lunge for EVERY ball!

What’s he looking at for so long?! Clear fucking pen!

No idea. Interim of some sort. The whole fanbase will be enraged if we start drifting further and further away from top 4 and rightly so.

This team is an utter embarrassment. At every level from the top down.

This could very well be the week Maresca is sacked. If we lose this and City he’s surely gone.

Welp. That’s an automatic loss against City if it wasn’t already.

Just our luck btw that we play Bournemouth the very last game before the January window opens when by all reports Semenyo will be going to City within the first week. So he’ll of course want to put in one last top performance in what is likely his send off match.

If we lose this I think things will start to get really toxic amongst the fans. Going from looking like Arse’s closest competitor to midtable and a million miles away from the top 3 within the span of a month. Maresca will be on a serious hot seat.

I agree, but now that we’ve put this structure in place it’s going to be super hard to bin it. You sign a player and put them on £200k+ (or much more in Osimhen’s case) and then you’d surely have all these players who we signed recently on “cheap” wages questioning why they aren’t on similar. Like if a top new signing is put on £200k per week players like Caicedo, Palmer, Cucu etc will quite rightly tell the club that they deserve that too. Then our wage bill explodes again. Now, you can say “who gives a shit, it’s not my money” and in the past we would all agree. But with PSR and whatever else combined with our tiny stadium and match day revenue I don’t think we really could do away with this wage structure and comply. Under the current circumstances we’re kind of locked in to either buying kids and praying they turn out like Palmer or Estevão or we buy good but not great senior players like your João Pedro’s, Pedro Neto’s, Garnacho’s etc who won’t demand top wages but are also not the very top level we need.

Much as I hate it, from their POV I can understand it. At least for players over a certain age. They want to avoid another Sterling situation at all costs where we’re stuck with deadweight for years because no other club can afford his mammoth wages. Limiting ourselves wage wise on players 25 and under is silly, though.

Wouldn’t shock me at all if we are forced to make a massive sale soon because of their dogshit planning and running of the club. If Madrid or Barca decide they want Caicedo there’s no chance he passes up that chance. And even apart from the shocking decisions they make with so many of our signings, they’re just as incompetent in regards to off the pitch stuff. They’ve been in charge of the club for YEARS now and we STILL have no FOS sponsor. One of the biggest, most successful, most famous clubs in the world playing in the best league in the world and we have been unable to attract a main sponsor. Literally, how is that possible? Likewise, there has been ZERO progress or update on what the fuck we’re doing with the stadium plans. We’ve watched as potential plan after potential plan has evaporated with not a peep from the owners. Every one of our rival big clubs either have shiny new stadiums, are in the process of building them, or are talking about expanding their current ones which are already much bigger than ours. Even clubs with a fraction of our stature have gotten beautiful new stadiums. All of this combined with this dreadful, idiotic “youth only” transfer policy, PLUS the strict wage structure means that we are going to be stuck in this same place for the foreseeable future. Battling for 4th/5th/6th every season whilst watching clubs we used to compete with or dominate leave us miles in the dust.

I was dead wrong about Delap. For the tiny price (by today’s standards) that we paid for him I figured there was basically zero downside and we may even get ourselves a bargain. Was under no delusions that he’d be prolific or anything but that he’d at least get us 12-15 PL goals like Nico Jackson did from his sheer determination and aggression. But he looks completely out of his depth in this team. Looks like he was at his level at Ipswich where there’s zero expectation on the team. Joao Pedro is a decent player but is nowhere close to a top level forward. He’s the sort of player who if you are Man City or Arse you’d see as a super sub or rotation option for a genuinely world class forward. We now enter yet another summer with a massive gaping hole up top and basically no obvious solutions out there. Not that these jokers up top would spend what’s necessary on a proven striker anyways.

I’ve been as harsh on Maresca as anyone else here but for me that result wasn’t on him. At least not even close to the majority of it. We looked outstanding in the first half and continued to look comfortable up until the hour or so mark well into the second half. We were creating good scenario after good scenario in both flanks, we allowed nothing at all from their midfield who have been great lately, and Sanchez had nothing at all to do. Trev and Badiashile swept up any little minuscule opportunities Villa had on the break. We were toying with them and should’ve been multiple goals up. You could even see multiple Villa players getting super frustrated and annoyed because they couldn’t get a sniff. And then yet again we gift the other team a goal and collapsed afterwards. This for me is all on the mentality of the players themselves and not the manager. We have a team full of mentally weak babies with only a few exceptions.

I mean seriously, what incentive is there to watch the rest of the season? We are now TEN FUCKING POINTS behind 3rd at Christmas time. That is completely outrageous considering we were right in the mix near the top at one point. So why watch? How can we enjoy these matches in any way knowing that the absolute maximum we can get is 4th? To still be this far off being even in the mix near the top years into this ownership with the money spent is disgraceful.

Fucking jokers. More shocking defending from Badiashile and Gusto. We’re now effectively totally locked out of the top 3 after this. It’s 4th or 5th place trophy yet again.

Can’t get the ball ever since the Villa subs. Our players suddenly look super frustrated now.

A clinical side would be 3-0 up right now and seeing the game out. Now we may very well go on to lose this after a Villa have done NOTHING all game.

Oh look, yet ANOTHER self inflicted goal. Totally dominate the game and then shoot oursleves in the foot.

João Pedro has been completely marked out of the game. Feels like he hasn’t touched the ball all match.

We dominated the midfield and roasted them on both flanks all half. Really just need to keep up the instensity and get Palmer in the ball more.

This has been one of our best attacking performances in a while in terms of chance creation but we can’t fucking score.

Everyone around us winning. Massive pressure on us to win now.

Senesi would make a whole lot of sense. Right age for a CB signing because he’s highly experienced and wouldn’t cause issues once Colwill gets back. Would theoretically be “cheap” because I think his contract runs out soon. Was super impressed with him when we played him a couple of weeks ago. Would Bournemouth sell their 2 best players in January and torpedo their season, though?