Smallest squad we've had?

[Rowan_Osborn 58]

You think so? Reading had us pinned and exposed our weak defense as a result of our attack. We need to have that balance between both. Wigan were absolutely shithouse! There best player was deciding what number he will be wearing for us in a weeks time. Newcastle forgot that they needed to score and to be honest had there worst game in two seasons.

Reading's goals were not really defensive errors but goalkeeping mistakes, we were on the front foot for most of that game and did well. Wigan and Newcastle were made to look poor by our play and the defence and holding mids prevented Newcastle from attacking, Ben Arfa was hardly mentioned due to the good job Bertrand and Cole did. I agree we need a balance and it will take a while to come, but i don't think people should be so negative this early on, even if we hadn't won our first three games.

[gary gordon 1,777]

Still saying no buy in Januray was ever good is stupid. David Luiz was bought in january, Ivanović was bought in january...

But what did they do in that year? Ivanovic didn't play a single game the year he was bought and 10/11 when we signed Luiz we finished equal 2nd with Man city and 9 points behind united without a single piece of silverware.

[Pacquiao 1,834]

Prices are too inflated in the January transfer window. Besides, when has buying a player in January ever helped anybody?

so is that going to stop us buying players we need? i dont think so. and when has buying a player in January ever helped anybody? where do i start how about Anelka, G.Cahill, Papiss Cisse, Vidic, Evra, Suarez, Mascherano, Walcott, Agger, Jelavic ect ect ect the list goes on and on! Im baffled that you would even think buying a player in January wouldn't help anyone!

[Rowan_Osborn 58]

We will only beat teams by outscoring them this season. Guaranteed. We haven't been able to defend for shit for like 2 seasons now.

I don't think so. We can defend when we need to, as we did against Bayern and Barca. What we need to develop is a balance between the two.

[themightyblue 443]

You think so? Reading had us pinned and exposed our weak defense as a result of our attack. We need to have that balance between both. Wigan were absolutely shithouse! There best player was deciding what number he will be wearing for us in a weeks time. Newcastle forgot that they needed to score and to be honest had there worst game in two seasons.

See once again your looking at it very negatively mate. Reading had a good 25 minute spell, for the other 65 minutes we completely dominated them and had we taken our chances would have been out of sight. And your reasoning for the Newcastle game, surely we could just use the same excuse for the athletico game yesterday. Our tactics were good, we didn't allow Newcastle to get in the game and we were comfortable. Wigan we once again had our chances, Torres had something cleared off the line and should of won a penalty. That was probably our weakest game out of the three and it wasn't great, but we would have lost a game like season. We've definitely improved which is a good sign as the team are still settling

[Rowan_Osborn 58]

Prices are too inflated in the January transfer window. Besides, when has buying a player in January ever helped anybody?

We would of been in the dog house if we hadn't bought Cahill in January last year.

[Bambiny14 25]

We will only beat teams by outscoring them this season. Guaranteed. We haven't been able to defend for shit for like 2 seasons now.

Oh really? What i remember was three good defensive performances (one with a bad goalkeeper error) plus one total failure. Come one people! Stop judging everyone and everything after one really bad, bad performance. RDM as well as the players have a lot of time to think about it and i'm sure next game will not be such horrible.

[gary gordon 1,777]

See once again your looking at it very negatively mate. Reading had a good 25 minute spell, for the other 65 minutes we completely dominated them and had we taken our chances would have been out of sight. And your reasoning for the Newcastle game, surely we could just use the same excuse for the athletico game yesterday. Our tactics were good, we didn't allow Newcastle to get in the game and we were comfortable. Wigan we once again had our chances, Torres had something cleared off the line and should of won a penalty. That was probably our weakest game out of the three and it wasn't great, but we would have lost a game like season. We've definitely improved which is a good sign as the team are still settling

As much as i would love to agree with you I'm still not confident. It's a very long season and even with a bigger side last year, we were stretched to the limit. This season is very risky as an injury to either Torres or Sturridge will see us competing for nothing.

[OneMoSalah 8,883]

I don't think so. We can defend when we need to, as we did against Bayern and Barca. What we need to develop is a balance between the two.

Ok so because we defended like that for 4 games we can automatically do it for a whole season? Doubt it because if we could why couldn't we not do it last night? Or against Reading? Or Man City in the Community Shield? We've been ripped a new arse hole at times and gotten away with it the last few seasons, the defense is faltering. The current team has no balance too.

[Chelsea? 892]

that 4-1 loss seems like a lack of effort to me. I will be really pissed if we play like that for the club world cup.

[gary gordon 1,777]

Ok so because we defended like that for 4 games we can automatically do it for a whole season? Doubt it because if we could why couldn't we not do it last night? Or against Reading? Or Man City in the Community Shield? We've been ripped a new arse hole at times and gotten away with it the last few seasons, the defense is faltering. Team has no balance too.

Couldn't agree more. Would take our defensive style of recent seasons and closing out the league with 3 weeks to go then trying to be a team we can't, It's a massive test that already cost one poor cunt his job, now i fear it will cost another..

[TheCount 146]

People have written of frank every year for the last few years, terry to and ferraria, but every single year they have to eat shit when the big games come alone and everyones little kids cant handle it, excluding last nite that was a disgrace.

The old players have their place and their worth always become apparent, thats not to say ofc we dont need replacements but writing them off is something only a arsenal wenger lover boy would want.

Also the post above is bugged please delete it/ignore cheers.

Ok so because we defended like that for 4 games we can automatically do it for a whole season? Doubt it because if we could why couldn't we not do it last night? Or against Reading? Or Man City in the Community Shield? We've been ripped a new arse hole at times and gotten away with it the last few seasons, the defense is faltering. The current team has no balance too.

To be fair you all wanted this type of football, now your complaining when its goes badly? as mourinho said, you can either play attacking Brazilian style football or you can win.