2025/26 Season

[Harv]

Play them both, stick Wirtz behind them. Forget Salah and Gakpo, get Frimpong and kerkes overlapping. You know, the blatantly obvious set up that someone at the club must have had in mind when they spent all that money.

Will never happen until it's too late. Slots shown they're his two favourites and he will play them over everyone else. Its going to be to his own detriment in the end.

Ekitike - Isak
-----Wirtz-----

It's such an obvious formation change to get the best out of those 3 and Slot just wont do it. Instead like a typical stubborn know-it-all Dutch prick, he'll stick with what he thinks is best.

From what I hear of Hughes' ruthlessness, Slot wont get much more of a leash if we keep producing **** like this. Which sounds absurd considering we won the league, but in reality we got out of jail over and over again in the second half of the season once teams worked us out. Its doesn't look like he has any clue on how to correct it either.

[Exiled_red]

Our form dropped after Isak came into the team. Id be building the front around Ekitike, with maybe Wirtz and Frimpong starting wide.

The midfield and Defence need to get closer together though.

The performances were poor before but the results were better, Isak has started the last 3 PL games and while he isn't the sole reason, it feels like dropping a reasonably in form Ekitike for another out of form player in Isak is at least part of the problem: there aren't enough players offering enough at the moment.

[Kenneth]

We shouldn't be dropping one for the other, they should both be starting imo. They're the players that will win us games, work backwards from there. Okay, I'll stop repeating myself now.

[Kenneth]

Will never happen until it's too late. Slots shown they're his two favourites and he will play them over everyone else. Its going to be to his own detriment in the end.

Ekitike - Isak
-----Wirtz-----

It's such an obvious formation change to get the best out of those 3 and Slot just wont do it. Instead like a typical stubborn know-it-all Dutch prick, he'll stick with what he thinks is best.

From what I hear of Hughes' ruthlessness, Slot wont get much more of a leash if we keep producing **** like this. Which sounds absurd considering we won the league, but in reality we got out of jail over and over again in the second half of the season once teams worked us out. Its doesn't look like he has any clue on how to correct it either.

Edwards and fsg expect returns on the huge investment made, no doubt. They're looking at winning the PL and CL, and not in a 'wouldn't it be nice' kind of way. The money was spent to consolidate our success and the club's valuation, and if he ****s it up he'll be gone in the summer imo.

[RichC]

Edwards and fsg expect returns on the huge investment made, no doubt. They're looking at winning the PL and CL, and not in a 'wouldn't it be nice' kind of way. The money was spent to consolidate our success and the club's valuation, and if he ****s it up he'll be gone in the summer imo.

If there's not an inkling of a challenge then yeah I tihnk you're right.

The Jota stuff will give some leeway to the players and manager but that won't last forever.

What I found bizarre this season is the pragmatic approach in how we played seems to have gone completely out of the window, we go 1 down it's panic stations throw on as many attacking players as possible in no particular formation which seems to get an equaliser but also leaves us all over the place in defending the opposition from grabbing another.

Time for some harsh decisions with favourites that need dropping and having to earn their place back.

[vlahka]

If he wants to keep playing gakpo every game he needs to tell him to ****ing pass to kerkez when he does an overlap. I saw at least 5 times when kerkez ran forward, totally free, and then looks frustrated that gakpo just once again cut in and ignored him.

[kingfunk]

Kin’ell if this form sticks he’ll be gone by February… if we lose midweek it be the first time since 1953.

[vlahka]

If he sticks with the same ****ty tactics hes been doing since the first game of the season, we're definitely losing. I havent even decided if I'm going to bother watching it or not. I havent enjoyed anything this season and thats a lot of hours wasted. I've got movies and tv shows to catch up on!

[BigChief]

Play them both, stick Wirtz behind them. Forget Salah and Gakpo, get Frimpong and kerkes overlapping. You know, the blatantly obvious set up that someone at the club must have had in mind when they spent all that money.

It's smacking us in the face when you put it that way.

[RoadEnd]

Should have spent the Isak money on a proper replacement for Diaz and kept the change for next January/summer.

[BobTheCharmer]

Should have spent the Isak money on a proper replacement for Diaz and kept the change for next January/summer.

Should have got geuhi in first. Not leave it u till the last minute. He would have made a huge difference.

[kingfunk]

Should have got geuhi in first. Not leave it u till the last minute. He would have made a huge difference.

Wasn’t possible without massively overpaying for a player with 12 months left on his contract.

[Doc_Piptorious]

Should have got geuhi in first. Not leave it u till the last minute. He would have made a huge difference.

To be fair that deal looked done and dusted until Glasnar had his hissy fit.

The player had agreed terms, had done his medical in full, the clubs had agreed the fee and the delay was apparantly down to the player wanting to see the club through the play off rounds of the Conference league.

[Exiled_red]

If he wants to keep playing gakpo every game he needs to tell him to ****ing pass to kerkez when he does an overlap. I saw at least 5 times when kerkez ran forward, totally free, and then looks frustrated that gakpo just once again cut in and ignored him.

I posted something similar, he's not got to use him all the time but at least sometimes so that it's not so predictable what we will do if nothing else.

[vlahka]

Just so you all dont forget, we'd be doing really well if we still had Nat. Did you know west brom havent conceded from a set piece while hes been on the field? We let the greatest english defender in modern times leave for nothing.