Blue Armour

Winstanley spotted sniffing around the Brighton locker room.

Yup, very obvious now from his comments he's at war with the directors and the board (rightfully) I dont agree with the way he's going about it though, i.e. by dropping points through bonehead moves. Fans deserve better. And yeah, a manager at loggerheads with the board. Never a good sign. Winning a single CWC trophy doesn't give you much room for argument.

Only a little less than Fofana.

That Maresca doesn't have a clue about prioritizing matches, and how to setup a team for multiple fixtures. It was a dumb move to mess up the lineup against Brentford. IMO, Maresca should have easily won the game against Brentford, maybe played on the counter and soak up pressure against Bayern with a more defensive setup, to at least get a draw against the best team in the group, in an away game. Instead he threw away both games. Against Man Utd, he threw away the game with his substitutions.

3 games, and the group of Tosin, Chalobah and Fofana have been awful., with each of them making mistake. If Maresca wants to reduce that points gap, he better try something different with his backline. Bring back Josh Acheampong or Hato to play in the CB role. The other 3 are squad level. Tosin keeps backing off from the attacker in every 1 on 1, Chalobah can get caught napping on occasion, and Fofana is always knackered, unable to keep up with pacy attackers.

It's clear that both the club and Maresca are in disagreement. He wanted a CB this summer after the Colwill injury. The club tells him that he can use the fantastic Badiashile and Fofana after they repair their legs at the shop.

Long contracts are biting them in the butt No wonder they can't move Sterling and a bunch of others Injury crock Fofana is also going to join their dungeon squad. No way does it look like they'll get anywhere close to 70mill for Fofana again. 7 year contact and he's barely featured in 3 seasons. What a joke.

Not sure how many people noticed Fofana starting to limp towards the end of the game. He's likely not going to shake off that injury liability tag, and the club would be sensible to allow him his preferred move to Marseille. I think he's the main reason the club won't go in for a quality experienced CB to pair with Colwill. Fofana is still first choice, in their heads.

7 goals conceded in a week, in 3 games. I bet the board's solution will be to bring in another couple of no-name wingers to compensate.

Not admitting to his mistake in the post match. Just going on about how Old Trafford away is tough for any club. As if we were facing off against Ferguson's United. "The reason we removed Pedro & Estavao, is because they attack with 5 players always, and we defend with 4. We can defend with 4, when its 11 v 11. But 11 v 10, we need width and a back 5." Sure, but why not change anything for 30 mins after they went down to 10 men. Mahlo was apparently brought on for Garnacho because, Garnacho was tired, lol.

They probably saw that Garnacho was getting booed by the Stretford end, and decided to protect the BlueCo baby.

Does that include the league cup?

He was limping at the end of the game too. BlueCo masterclass. Wonder what kind of transfer fee they'll get. Fofana has a lousy attitude too. Guy has been itching for a move to Marseille for a while now.

All the weak links in the squad exposing each other. Injury to Colwill exposing how rubbish the rest of the CBs are, brain fart by Sanchez exposing Maresca’s tactical incompetence., injury to Delap showing how poor some of the attacking options are.

Not going to get any decent transfer at this rate.