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I can understand the frustration with him, but let's sign a LB before sending him anywhere first? 😅 Otherwise we will end up with Cuccu and will then have the manager move Colwill back to LB.

Any manager that puts this roster toe to toe against a far superior side away from home esp in the final moments of the match should be fired same day. Next manager will do exactly the same thing once we face them next season, unless we manage to improve this roster tenfold in the summer, which probably won't happen. For me, it is literally the job of any manager to find a way for the roster he has to be competitive. Jose used to be the master of this and his teams were accused of "parking the bus". In the end I think the main disagreement here is about the quality of the players (the few who have quality lack experience), and the number of available options. Some may think they can play "as equals" against much better sides, which I have a hard time with.

I know folks are tired about the "young squad" bit but it does affect a number of different things, resistance and stamina are certainly among them. https://macro-football.com/other/aging/#:~:text=Ultimately%2C as I have shown,and 29 years of age. Can find quite a bit more on the subject via searches.

Mostly agree. Not sure what Caicedo is tbh and esp not sure we need what he does that bad esp if we improve in the coming years. He's a decent passer for ex, but at this level "decent" isn't quite what we look for for the center of the park. Against Liverpool Caicedo defended well, but that quick transition Kante was a master of was nowhere to be found in our midfield (def not in Caicedo's game). I'm actually curious as to how much insight Poch had into building the squad, or at least the final moves in the transfer market. Or perhaps he's just a yes-man and said everything was fine all the way?

yes and a quite common tale in football. A manager does one good job, some would say he bottled, but I look at the rosters here https://www.skysports.com/football/tottenham-hotspur-vs-liverpool/teams/407101 specifically Spurs roster and have to say it was quite the accomplishment getting there (CL final) to begin with, which was likely the reason he got the offer he got afterwards. So, while it's understandable he received opportunities after the CL final, and after his spell at Spurs, this might be his last shot at a top club (at least for a while) even if it's debatable whether we are a top club at the moment -- only in spending it seems.

Agreed on the C liverpool team bit, but like I stated (and other have too) we DID create chances and more than once even before the C team was on the pitch. Their C team was only really on the pitch in the final moments of the match, when everybody was tired. Although I think Madueke and Mudryk are really far from good enough, I understand the manager when he employs them for their pace and fresher legs... and that's what he had on the bench. 🤷‍♂️ Regarding the WC... I think that term is tossed around way too easily, but truly WC players are typically the ones who can win these kind of matches for you. I think Virgil is in that category and I simply don't see any player in our roster capable of doing that at this time. Diaz was a handful to deal with today for example; that's also a player we don't have and I'm not even talking about quality (perhaps Palmer will get there soon), but characteristics with that short dribbling and quick changes of direction.

This performance at the Carabao cup final won't help him make his case. My take regarding him hasn't changed that much: good roster player, but he can't possibly be starting for us esp as the most attacking CM/CAM. He simply does not have the quality for that, at least not at this level.

Yeah he wasn't terrible, but he's supposed to be our one WC player and tbh he's been well short of that.

Glad to hear you don't read your own posts. Given you don't seem to know how to disagree, good bye. 👋

Yeah the "not reading the rest" does not surprise me one bit.

While I fear our main troubles are not down to the manager choice, in football at this level if you lose you should go. Give a chance to someone else. Regardless whether Poch stays or go, I for one, would be very disappointed if our starting XI isn't much changed come next season.

Awesome post man. Calling people a clown.... really quality post!!! congrats. Yeah Poch should have come on the pitch and held the guy himself because clearly our players couldn't... twice! Once again, congrats for the quality posts, opinions, and for being an overall nice person. 👍

Right but the point, for me at least, is that the one (Diaz has a case too) WC player on the pitch today was playing for Liverpool and won the match.

yeah especially after the a "kid" named Virgil scored the winner (and another goal before marginally disallowed). 🙂

So? a better manager would make Gallagher get a 3rd chance in front of the goal... and then? would he score then? Poch can go and perhaps should go--if you lose you are out. I really don't give a fuck because I think that's not the MAIN problem we have. invite Klopp, after his sabbatical, if he would like to coach these players and he'd say, "thank you, but not thanks!" that will be the case with any of the better managers out there. They want to fight for silverware with WC players and we offer neither. My point isn't that I disagree with you on Poch as a manager, but with the amount of blame he deserves for our troubles.

Fine agree to disagree here. I’m very confident with my opinion that another manager won’t do much with this roster. Honestly we will never find out bc if the club can see what’s going on the roster will be Much! changed come next season.

The advantage always comes from the top players like Virgil did today. We have nothing like him atm, but used to.

Seriously?! 😐 of course he is ! There are a lot of managers better than poch. now not seeing this roster for what it is is a mistake for me.

Change with what? What poch can do if Gallagher gets in front of the goalie twice and takes too long to apply the finish? Replace him with who? madueke will be shit under a better manager too. Same with mudryk.

Madurke is one of the worst players I’ve seen player for Chelsea fc. Mudryk is not good enough to be a Chelsea player. players aren’t good enough I’m afraid. getting a better manager won’t change that.

They have better players a lot of them actually even today. yes less so in extra time. I don’t see anything remotely as good as Virgil or Diaz in our roster but that’s just me. So, it’s hard for me to blame the manager esp considering the poor finishing. mudryk and madurke were shit just like Liverpool kids. Because they are shit.

somewhat true. Diaz is better than any attacker we have. we have nothing like Virgil anywhere on the pitch.

Ditto same complaints about manager Ive heard 1000 times before. You will be proven wrong g soon when poch is replaced with yet another manager who will make no fucking difference whatsoever.

If you wake up to the fact they are a far better team with far better players than it kind of makes sense doesn’t it? did we not create multiple chances one to one? Isn’t that the point of systems and whatnot? Now the finishing is down to player quality little else.

You will be proven wrong very soon.