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Wonder if Spurs offered him a deal and Kane asked him to personally re-join as manager?

Feel like Frank is better suited as a coach, to help young players. He hasn't really shown any tactical ability to switch things up when his team concedes a goal or two.

The funny part is, we're 15 points from bottom and about 15 points from where I thought we would be at this point in the season (around 50-55 points). In hindsight, we probably shouldn't have signed any players in January (other than the 2 defensive additions), could have ended the season with the same deadwood and started fresh next season. Now we have a massive first team squad and every club out there will ask for cheap loan deals as they know we have to clear out players.

Feel like he'll stay at Spuds (to get the goalscoring record in PL) or if he really wants trophies to finish off his career then Bayern Munich would be perfect.

You got it the other way around mate. He won the PL with Blackburn then moved to Newcastle. Would have been part of Fergie's golden years as well if things went to plan...but he rejected them in favor of Newcastle.

It's a shame he wasn't given a proper go at Chelsea, he's much more suited to the CM role when compared to RLC & Gallagher. It's good that he's at Brighton but the fact that we let one of our better academy CM's leave for peanuts (think it was 8 million)....when the midfield has been a massive cause for concern for the past few seasons is quite worrying. We're stuck with RLC as no-one will come close to his 120k a week paycheck and that's part of the problem here for whoever takes over...too much deadwood in the first team squad.

That's on Lampard now, if he can't motivate the players to get even a point out of the rest of the season, then his chances of managing a decent club are all but over for the next few years. Remember that he was "given" the Derby county job as a favor from Uncle Harry, and he's been given this role till end of the season due to his legend status...but at some point, you have to wonder whether Lamps is actually cut out to be a manager...

I wouldn't say we were badly run, we had the target of winning trophies under Roman and that's what the club achieved through various top level managers and some very good players representing us over the years. The fact that it's been a number of seasons since Hazard left us and not a single attacker can replicate what he brought to our attack....that's the biggest concern. We keep signing shiny new toys but they don't work because every single player we've bought is a system player, not one has the actual individual brilliance to beat their opponent and get a goal for themselves. Changing ownership was never going to be easy and the club got it all wrong the minute they decided that Potter was the man to lead the club forward. There were rumors that Tuchel did something with the backroom staff which led to his sacking from Chelsea but it's a shame that we couldn't get a top level manager in to lead the first season under new ownership.

Agree with your points, just feel personally that Carney could be a solid squad player moving forward and he also ticks the HG box for the PL criteria. Feel like we'll need to hang onto 1-2 of the HG players purely out of necessity to make up a 25 man squad. Not sure if the rules have been relaxed on that but I do recall it was 17 foreign players + 8 HG players for the PL squad and in the past we had the luxury of having some of the squad players classified as U21 (e.g. CHO, RLC, Mount, Abraham, Reece). Kovacic will likely have to be sold, same as Gallagher & Chalobah to recoup whatever funds we can get. Wonder if Maatsen gets sold as well as he won't want to stick around as 3rd choice LB behind Cucurella over here. RLC - I don't see him taking a wage cut to leave the club, maybe if Palace are interested, seemed to like it over there CHO - similar to RLC, no-one's going to pay him 120k a week to be bang average, maybe a mid-table side gives him a go for a low transfer fee Pulisic & Ziyech - anything in the 10-15 million range and we should sell immediately Aubameyang - there will be a few teams out there that need a backup striker Lukaku - we can only hope someone comes in for him Havertz - wonder if Bayern Munich are keen to bring him back to the Bundesliga as I just don't see where he fits, he's not a #9, he's not a #10 and he's definitely not a winger

Shame that this will end up as a training drill for their attack.

Alli & Barkley were supposed to be England's next #10 to be that goalscorer/creator from midfield, shame they both had zero footballing IQ. If Poch does get the role, will be interesting to see how he sets the teams up and gets them motivated. Between James/Gusto, Fofana, Badiashile, Colwill, Chilwell, Enzo, Carney, Mount (if he chooses to stay), Mudryk, Broja, Madueke...there's quite a bit of talent in there.

If Ziyech is the most creative attacker, then serious questions need to be asked as to why the club thought it was a good idea to spend 35+ million on Sterling, 30+ on Madueke and 70+ million on Mudryk....then there was the 15+ million on 5 months of Felix who hasn't been able to create more than 1-2 goals in his time here. You don't just sign players for the sake of it, this was the chance to build a squad but now we're stuck with players no-one else wants and we're likely getting a manager who will have to work with what he's got as there is every chance FFP comes to bite us without UCL money next season. Compare us to Newcastle and they are absolutely flying....Bruno G was a class signing and their big name signing is actually looking the goods up front (Isak).

I just don't get how we have become allergic to scoring goals, especially at home. Like how are the players not motivated to put in a decent shift at their home ground? Teams know they don't have to beat us anymore, they just turn up and make sure to run around the pitch and our players give up. All this talk of players saying "we have to do better" but not a single player in the first team can say that they put in a 8/10 performance on the pitch and this has been going on since December or earlier than that.

Other than Badiashile (when he was given an actual run in the side with Potter) and Enzo.....we didn't need any other players in January. Felix will go down as a flop (no wonder why United/Arsenal didn't agree to pay 15+ million for a 5 month loan), Mudryk has looked out of sorts and Madueke can barely get a seat on the bench....so much for "100 million worth of attacking talent". I also question why Lampard was brought to the club for like 8 to 10 games, is this like a farewell tour for him? Might as well have kept Potter till end of the season and negotiated a lower payout based on performance. I can only imagine what Arsenal, City and United are going to do to us....will be very surprised if it's not 10-0 aggregate against us after those 3 games.

That's going to be the biggest problem for Mason, wherever he goes. He needs to add consistent goals/assists to his game to take that next step. As for the contract length, I'd be surprised if it's more than 3 years in length as Mason would be better off proving himself in the next 2 years and then negotiate a better deal or hit the open market and get a move elsewhere (whereas Reece will have his fair share of injuries due to the body build...so the 6+1 deal makes perfect sense for his future).

I don't think that's the case, just seems like they're trying to delay the process (possibly hoping that we can get a win on the board and then they'll be able to announce it as good news heading into next season).

That went out the window when they kept Potter beyond January for some reason. Just look at Villa, they got their manager changed, got a good manager in Emery and they're absolutely flying at the moment.

When you look at the other signings we've made, how many actually need a roadmap? Enzo will continue to get better with a good partner next to him, Madueke is still raw but he's got the dribbling ability to be an interesting option, Fofana & Badiashile should continue to develop at CB. Mudryk is the high profile signing that looks like an absolute flop at the moment and there is no end in sight. If we can clear off the likes of Ziyech, Pulisic, even Havertz (hopefully we can convince Bayern), that would be a huge help in rebuilding the attack.

They were keen on Chelsea as well but Roman preferred Boehly's bid for some reason. Imagine if they get United and invest heavily whilst we continue our slide from top 4 to mid-table.

https://www.whoscored.com/Players/65901/Show/Keylor-Navas He's been pretty average at Forest. If we need a GK, better to get a long term option in at the end of the season and not have to worry for the next 5+ years.

Was Pochettino available at that point in time? From memory the club wanted to follow a new strategy and they decided to back Potter in....I don't think anyone expected him to fail that badly to a point where players actually looked lost on the pitch not knowing what to do. If that was Roman in charge, he very likely would have been told to go in January to at least give a new manager the chance to work with the players and build something (like what Emery has done with Villa).

Don't see him "improving" our midfield that much. If we're really doing a rebuild, might be better off going after Lavia or Ugarte, let them build a partnership with Enzo for the next 5+ years.

Bayern's recruitment was fine, they wanted another attacker, they got Mane. They wanted another quality player, they got Cancelo from Man City. They needed another CB, they got De Ligt from Juventus. Their attack without Lewa is still better than anyone in the Bundesliga (Sane, Gnabry, Muller, Mane, Musiala, Coman), they're just not clicking as a team. For once, it is refreshing to see Bayern Munich not walk the league, they could of easily kept Nagelsmann but decided that Tuchel would lift the UCL Trophy with them and Pep made them look bang average.

I doubt Alonso would be interested, he has barely started his career at Leverkusen Kompany would be the same as Potter, he'd jump at the chance.

Wonder how much they're willing to pay for him though