Tomo

For me it comes down to one question. Is the coach setting up the team to give it the best chance of results? An example of a manager doing just that would be Conceicao against Arsenal, for me he set up Porto up phenomenally and held no blame for their elimination. Poch however is literally playing to half this squads weaknesses, and ironically the few times he has set up correctly (Villa in the cup, Arsenal and Liverpool at home) just shines the light on it even more.

In matches where Colwill played 45 mins or more we've conceded 1.22 goals, in matches he hasn't we've averaged 3.18.

He's never been that good. Classic case of what people did with Emerson and Baba Rahman where the desperation for his competition to be dropped has led people to see things that aren't even there. You can bang on about Sanchez's bozo moments until the cows come home but Petro going too far the other way and booting it upfield even when simple passes are on (which in turn means the pressure is coming back at us) is everybit as destructive, if not more so.

The one thing I will credit Poch for is he hasn't lost the dressing room (although it could be argued that makes the results even worse), he has the players battling for him. However tactically my word this is worse than Lampard, guess we've now got the chaos ball many were moaning at Sarri and Tuchel for not playing.

Maybe under Poch but if/when we finally have a modern/possesion based manager it will be a Lavia/Enzo/Caicedo three with Conor (if he's still here) used appropriately as the horses for courses option.

So this sticker was planted inside the stadium by someone who was in there due to paying those same people on the poster a kings ransom for a ticket, most probably added to their coffers with some half time beers/food and very possibly went to the megastore before/after the game to give them even more money. That'll show em!

Fair enough. Usually I'd be happy with that but in this case we really need the first trophy of this new ownership no matter how it comes or what it is.

The thing is most of our UCL squad people think we were mad to get rid of were playing for us in the first half of the 12th place season, the collapse before the world cup is as bad as anything we've seen since. We may have fuked the rebuild (for me well too young and too fast) but if we hypothetically still had the bulk of that squad i don't think we'd be doing much better, especially without TT and Rudi, the former squeezed every last bit of juice out of that squad as a collective.

Even factoring out the FFP situation it's hard to get excited about any potential signing while Pochettino is our manager, he simply isn't coaching or profiling these players even close to adequately. While it's unlikely we'll be troubling City anytime soon most of these players aren't close to as bad as they're being made to look. The fucked up thing is looking at our fixtures i can see us making the conference league (even moreso if 8th will be enough for it) which will dupe the board into Poch is making progress when in reality no sustainable step forward is happening until we get in a coach who's methods are inline with the modern game.

Who could have guessed it wasn't he that was the problem but playing him as an auxiliary winger?

Who coached a grand total of 3 players in this squad for double figure number of games.

Then all the more reason to stay the hell away from a manager who only focuses on here and now. Poch is a dinosaur in the present day but Mou got to that point while Poch was flavour of the month modern manager. This bunch need a micro manager who obsesses over every detail.

Winning mentality only works if you actually win. Nothing about Jose's career of late suggests we will win anything under him unless we stumble into the conference league (which we should win under any manager).