wally

Marina is excellent at getting good fees for our players but not so good in the buying and other aspects of her job.

He's not in the same league as a primetime Terry or Gallas, but I'd rate him as good as any current CB below VVD. I'd also rate Christensen at that level too.

Rudi has been our best player since the turn of year and deserves a significant pay rise, but the club shouldn't be held to ransom with threats to leave if he doesn't get what he wants. Talk of 200 k a week is just stupid money, but so are the wages for the rather average Chilwell and and few others. It's a difficult decision to make by the club though! Another one on the horizon is what to do with Kante and Pulisic. As good as they both are, what use are they when they are constantly getting injured? We can get by without Kante, but a fit and in form Pulisic is the only player we have with skills to actually run at defenders and skin them. Been such a disappointing signing.

You say it's a "work in progress" but I haven't seen the slightest bit of difference to anything he's tried to do since his first match in charge. We don't win big matches like Liverpool did tonight. We don't crush teams like City do. There's very little swagger, style, flair or excitement with us. Everything is an ultra safety first pragmatic grind. Cheer when a goal goes in and we win the game, but far too much in-between is zzzz. Jose mark 2. With our resources we should be capable of more than this.

Predictable eh? It"s easy to bury your head in the sand and think everything is fine when things are going our way and we scratch out results, like we repeatedly have done under TT. We still have only half a good team and getting away with it at the moment. In my opinion we still look a long way off from an in form City and Liverpool. We won't be near them come the fag end of the season because we'll drop too many points with too many 0-0 1-1 and one goal defeats. Make a note of this and come back at the end of the season and see how right I am.

Hello! I hate to be negative with my first post but I have to be honest and say I do not enjoy the majority of the football being played under TT. Far too mch is dependant on us keeping clean sheets game after game. This is not sustainable and we will not win the title playing like this. We've got to be braver and ditch this extremely negative back 5. Also, serious questions need to be asked about the productivity of Mount, Ziyech, CHO, Werner, Havertz, and when he's fit, Pulisic. Apart from the occasional flash of quality from Havertz, there's no real improvement in any of them since TT arrived. Still seeing the same slow, disjointed play with passes not being played when the should be played and endless misplaced passes. It's like they've never played together before. If we carry on playing like this I can see another season of us struggling for 4th and I wouldn't be surprised at all if we drop 5 points in the next two games.