13 minutes ago, petre ispirescu said:

Of all those chances, only Jackson's (Mudryk's through ball) was a decent one. Others were half chances. Villa had bigger ones and should have easily been ahead at HT if not for Sanchez's wonder saves. Digne and Zaniolo's volleys are goals any other day. 

Stop fooling yourself we were the better team before the red card. We were not. 

Digne volley was going over. The other one was a top save. 

If you don't think the Sterling and Jackson's header were good chances, then you are free to believe that.

4 minutes ago, 2211 said:

This part made me laugh but I know exactly what you mean unfortunately.

I have more emotion and slightly more expectation if a team I don’t even support was through on goal against a team I hate like Liverpool or Arsenal.

Like you I genuinely don’t expect us to score at the moment no matter how clean through on goal our player is.

I watch other matches and am puzzled why other teams can score 2 or more goals in the same match, sometimes even in the same half, yet we make scoring a goal look like an art form that only the most elite players could possibly manage.

It's not just scoring goals that we stuggle with, we don't even test the keeper. Sanchez had to pull off 2 world class saves from a Villa side that played a really sh*t game of football. Villa were so bad today that pretty much any side in the league would have scored a few goals against them, but we never really tested Martinez at all. 

17 minutes ago, just said:

You keep banging on and on and on that we haven't brought in any top class young talent. They're all rubbish according to you. And yet I never read any posts from you that names the actual "top young talent" we should have signed. Follow up mate, give us the benefit of your inside knowledge.

Not sure it requires much inside knowledge,  i think you could have asked anyone to name 100 top young players this time last season and even if you didn't get get 100 names off all of em you definitely wouldn't have gotten Jackson, Mudryk, Madueke or any of the other bums we've signed.

For me a young player is under 25

Top under 25 players I'd have expected to have been linked with if we're spending a billion are players like Leao, Wirtz, Gavi, Pedri, Musiala, Napoli winger who's name I can't spell with a K, Oshenheim, Martinelli, Saliba, Camavinga, Saka, Haaland, Mbappe, Vinicus, Rodrygo, Tonali, Bellingham, Tchoumeni, Lautoro Martinez, Valerde, Bastoni, Ousmane Dembele, Muani, Vlahovic etc

Quality young players that have performed at the highest level and have sky high ceilings.

Could probably Google twice as many and think oh yeah. Him

They're top young players and yeah they're not all obtainable and most are already at top clubs but if you say we're spending a billion on young talents I expect some top young talents even if we have to pay through the nose.

Not us signing a guy who was considered one of the worst players in La Liga last season till the last month,  a guy with a handful of goals in 4 years in Ukranine and a injury prone guy that was struggling in a average Dutch league team.

We spent top young talent money and got a bunch of prospects that would be squad players at Bournmouth. 

Edited September 24, 20232 yr by Whats_The_Mata?

1 hour ago, BewareoftheDrog said:

Creating maybe but not good enough to finish. Check out our next 9 games. I honestly can't see where a win's coming from. Don't like to be pessimistic but we're up sh*t creek without a paddle. Or a boat.Yes. This is why we’re not scoring

Yes. Decision making. Confidence. Wrong personell. I don’t know. But this is not Pochettinos fault:

Edited September 24, 20232 yr by Cfc91

To be honest I'm drained mentally but the only thing I want to say is what a joy it would be if I can get Boehly tied up Kunta style and whip him on his bare bottom 100 times. 

Ah I can only wish. 

To think I once laughed at United and Arsenal's Americans. 

1 billion worth of the "brightest young talents" wouldn't have us in a relegation battle. Let me just put it like that.
Its not what we've bought whatsoever.

7 minutes ago, Cfc91 said:

Yes. Decision making. Confidence. Wrong personell. I don’t know. But this is not Pochettinos fault:

Wasn't Sterling offside anyway?

1 minute ago, axman2526 said:

Wasn't Sterling offside anyway?

No. Flag came, yes. Replay showed it was not.

1 hour ago, Scott Harris said:

Won't make a single bit of difference. The players just aren't good enough. Gambled on players with barely any experience and it's blowing up in their faces. 

Totally agree. What we are seeing now is the result of totally shambolic owners. It actually seems to get worse with every manager. We have been navigated into a situation where relegation seems like the most likely conclusion. Could be this season but if not give them a couple more disastrous transfer windows and they will find a way.

1 hour ago, carrickblue said:

we need leaders and battlers to survive this season - I don't see any in that team. when push comes to shove I reckon Burnley and Sheffield United have a better chance of staving off relegation than our young, inexperienced misfits

I agree completely.  A lot on here wouldn’t have been born the last time we went down so have no idea, or get the sense, of what a relegation season feels like.  To avoid it you need experienced leaders who would get stuck in on which we have none.  I’m fully expecting Burnley to turn us over for their first win of the season.  You need goals to win matches and where we have precisely no natural finishers, anywhere in the squad, when your best chance of scoring is with Stirling who is a 1 goal in 6 chances player, you know you’re in trouble…..  

Thats not me being negative, that’s just the reality from someone who has seen it, and been there, all before….

 

 

 

 

1 minute ago, Chris Gundleton said:

I agree completely.  A lot on here wouldn’t have been born the last time we went down so have no idea, or get the sense, of what a relegation season feels like.  To avoid it you need experienced leaders who would get stuck in on which we have none.  I’m fully expecting Burnley to turn us over for their first win of the season.  You need goals to win matches and where we have precisely no natural finishers, anywhere in the squad, when your best chance of scoring is with Stirling who is a 1 goal in 6 chances player, you know you’re in trouble…..  

Thats not me being negative, that’s just the reality from someone who has seen it, and been there, all before….

 

 

 

 

Agreed. There don't seem to be leaders in this team who will motivate the rest when we need it. Conor at least looks like he tries and ironically we were trying to offload him anyway.

21 minutes ago, Whats_The_Mata? said:

Not sure it requires much inside knowledge,  i think you could have asked anyone to name 100 top young players this time last season and even if you didn't get get 100 names off all of em you definitely wouldn't have gotten Jackson, Mudryk, Madueke or any of the other bums we've signed.

For me a young player is under 25

Top under 25 players I'd have expected to have been linked with if we're spending a billion are players like Leao, Wirtz, Gavi, Pedri, Musiala, Napoli winger who's name I can't spell with a K, Oshenheim, Martinelli, Saliba, Camavinga, Saka, Haaland, Mbappe, Vinicus, Rodrygo, Tonali, Bellingham, Tchoumeni, Lautoro Martinez, Valerde, Bastoni, Ousmane Dembele, Muani, Vlahovic etc

Quality young players that have performed at the highest level and have sky high ceilings.

Could probably Google twice as many and think oh yeah. Him

They're top young players and yeah they're not all obtainable and most are already at top clubs but if you say we're spending a billion on young talents I expect some top young talents even if we have to pay through the nose.

Not us signing a guy who was considered one of the worst players in La Liga last season till the last month,  a guy with a handful of goals in 4 years in Ukranine and a injury prone guy that was struggling in a average Dutch league team.

We spent top young talent money and got a bunch of prospects that would be squad players at Bournmouth. 

Yes, and that`s why Boehly has to go. Better sooner than later. He and his clearlake friends are ruining the team. They are clueless. Absolutely hopeless.

14 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Wasn't Sterling offside anyway?

He was flagged offside but replays showed the fullback at the end of the pitch was playing him on

16 minutes ago, Cfc91 said:

No. Flag came, yes. Replay showed it was not.

Well add that to another big chance that I I not list before the red card. Should have been 4 goals up.

Sterling did not show up and we lost, as I called. I have been banging the Sterling is rubbish drum since before he came here. No surprise he was rubbish again.

18 minutes ago, Whats_The_Mata? said:

Not sure it requires much inside knowledge,  i think you could have asked anyone to name 100 top young players this time last season and even if you didn't get get 100 names off all of em you definitely wouldn't have gotten Jackson, Mudryk, Madueke or any of the other bums we've signed.

For me a young player is under 25

Top under 25 players I'd have expected to have been linked with if we're spending a billion are players like Leao, Wirtz, Gavi, Pedri, Musiala, Napoli winger who's name I can't spell with a K, Oshenheim, Martinelli, Saliba, Camavinga, Saka, Haaland, Mbappe, Vinicus, Rodrygo, Tonali, Bellingham, Tchoumeni, Lautoro Martinez, Valerde, Bastoni, Ousmane Dembele, Muani, Vlahovic etc

Quality young players that have performed at the highest level and have sky high ceilings.

Could probably Google twice as many and think oh yeah. Him

They're top young players and yeah they're not all obtainable and most are already at top clubs but if you say we're spending a billion on young talents I expect some top young talents even if we have to pay through the nose.

Not us signing a guy who was considered one of the worst players in La Liga last season till the last month,  a guy with a handful of goals in 4 years in Ukranine and a injury prone guy that was struggling in a average Dutch league team.

We spent top young talent money and got a bunch of prospects that would be squad players at Bournmouth. 

Oh, I thought you might have had some names that were realistically obtainable, their respective clubs were prepared to sell and would have wanted to come. Why don't we build a time machine and go back to snap up a 16 year old Pele, Maradona and Cruyff.

And some of those you name checked are not proven at the highest level Leao, Vlahovic, Dembele ? You really certain they are gonna be the bomb in the EPL? I'm not. And two years ago most people were laughing at the suggestion of Martinelli becoming a top class player. 

And going by your profile you've been a member of the forum since 2012, so why weren't you jumping up and down on here in 2019 telling everyone it was a huge mistake in letting Musiala go to Bayern.

In the land of hindsight everyone has 20/20 vision.

15 minutes ago, grantb said:

Come off it, 6 games into the season after the disaster we had last season.  The results haven't been great, granted, but in what world is changing to a new coach going to help, and if we did then who?

Other than goals scored we are performing (statistically) in the top 6/7.

Our luck has been awful in terms of injuries and we have hit the woodwork and been offside more than any other team in the league.

We narrowly lost to villa who since Emry came in have been 3rd best in the league, and had Gusto not been sent of ridiculously would have likely got a result.

Show some patience. 

Todd's love for statistics has gotten us into trouble in the first place. If games were decided on statistics alone then we wouldn't have won any of our 2 CL titles. 

18 minutes ago, Cfc91 said:

No. Flag came, yes. Replay showed it was not.

I'm sure they would have found a way to draw the line to show he was offside 🙂 

5 minutes ago, just said:

Oh, I thought you might have had some names that were realistically obtainable, their respective clubs were prepared to sell and would have wanted to come. Why don't we build a time machine and go back to snap up a 16 year old Pele, Maradona and Cruyff.

And some of those you name checked are not proven at the highest level Leao, Vlahovic, Dembele ? You really certain they are gonna be the bomb in the EPL? I'm not. And two years ago most people were laughing at the suggestion of Martinelli becoming a top class player. 

And going by your profile you've been a member of the forum since 2012, so why weren't you jumping up and down on here in 2019 telling everyone it was a huge mistake in letting Musiala go to Bayern.

In the land of hindsight everyone has 20/20 vision.

I've read a few of your posts and i honestly can't tell if you're actually that much of an idiot or if you're some strange Bohely supporting parody account.

But just incase it is the former you really should be aware there are very very few things that can't be financed in football with one billion pounds.  Signing a few proven quality players definitely isn't one of them.

Even most clubs in the Saudi league have better players than us and it didn't cost them billions.

Edited September 24, 20232 yr by Whats_The_Mata?

1 minute ago, just said:

Oh, I thought you might have had some names that were realistically obtainable, their respective clubs were prepared to sell and would have wanted to come. Why don't we build a time machine and go back to snap up a 16 year old Pele, Maradona and Cruyff.

And some of those you name checked are not proven at the highest level Leao, Vlahovic, Dembele ? You really certain they are gonna be the bomb in the EPL? I'm not. And two years ago most people were laughing at the suggestion of Martinelli becoming a top class player. 

And going by your profile you've been a member of the forum since 2012, so why weren't you jumping up and down on here in 2019 telling everyone it was a huge mistake in letting Musiala go to Bayern.

In the land of hindsight everyone has 20/20 vision.

To be honest ... most of the players we sign I have never even heard about. Pretty sure he has a point. 

Understat has the XG score at 1.20 vs 1.13 in our "favour" today. A point dropped by bad finishing basically ... 

 

1 minute ago, Sexyfootball said:

Understat has the XG score at 1.20 vs 1.13 in our "favour" today. A point dropped by bad finishing basically ... 

 

I liked the time when football was a simple game where you try to score and stop the opposition from scoring. It's not about the xG but the player at the end of those chances. It doesn't matter if you xG is 50 if Sterling is at the end of those chances but with Halaand you'll probably need only 1.

39 minutes ago, Cfc91 said:

Yes. Decision making. Confidence. Wrong personell. I don’t know. But this is not Pochettinos fault:

But how come we are having the same problems with a squad which is almost a new one. Do players suddenly forget how to play and coaches forget how to coach when they sign for us.

10 minutes ago, reparto corse said:

To be honest ... most of the players we sign I have never even heard about. Pretty sure he has a point. 

Drogba, Poyet, Ramires, Azpi, Ivanovich.

Not exactly household names were they? 

4 minutes ago, Nick05 said:

But how come we are having the same problems with a squad which is almost a new one. Do players suddenly forget how to play and coaches forget how to coach when they sign for us.

In fairness most of the terrible young players we've signed never knew how to play.

I get Sterling not being at his best but Jackson, Broja, Madueke, Mudryk and Palmer have never shown consistent quality or the ability to get goals.

It isn't players forgetting to play we've bought a lot of players that can't play and have never been goal scorers and we're hoping they'll learn but that's all it is Pure hope.

Edited September 24, 20232 yr by Whats_The_Mata?

2 minutes ago, just said:

Drogba, Poyet, Ramires, Azpi, Ivanovich.

Not exactly household names were they? 

Agree (except for Ramires who was well known when we signed him).

But the difference is under Roman we managed to actually sign the right players (most of the time).