Just have to hope this Board have a plan in place, because the writing’s been on the wall for weeks now.

Actually they’ve probably been preparing to extend Maresca’s contract.

We’re so screwed.

6 minutes ago, Dr. Socrates said:

Just have to hope this Board have a plan in place, because the writing’s been on the wall for weeks now.

Actually they’ve probably been preparing to extend Maresca’s contract.

We’re so screwed.

Yup. Could only bring a caretaker in now anyways.

I still think their priority is the club world cup. I reckon their hope is Maresca gets us out of the group. That will be enough cash in the bonus.

However all 3 group sides will be significantly better than Ipswich and Leiga. So they may want to rethink who manages the team there.

10 minutes ago, Dr. Socrates said:

Just have to hope this Board have a plan in place, because the writing’s been on the wall for weeks now.

Actually they’ve probably been preparing to extend Maresca’s contract.

We’re so screwed.

This is their plan...

HERE WE GO

Maresca said: “Probably not (disrespecting) the competition, but probably the other team tonight, because I think we respect the competition all season, probably tonight, as I said, because of the first result, 0-3, so you can manage in the wrong way the result, so for sure Reece is right.”

Hopefully very soon Nico and Cole can start to score goals because they are very important for us.

“In this moment the one that is scoring more goals for us is Cucu, and that means a good thing because he’s not the one that has to score goals.

“Nico has been more than two months out, so the idea to play with him is to continue to build a little bit the physical condition for him, so the idea was for him 45 minutes, we planned already that, and for Cole, he had a small problem before the international break, so again, for him it was to use him 45 minutes, one hour, and then just to give them a little bit tempo and improve that and be better Sunday on the game.”

Apparently the Legia manager mentioned how the stadium is not the loudest so they knew they could take advantage of that, or something along those lines. Our support is definitely not great at the best of times.

Not sure how to make sense of this. We got through, nobody will remember the result past tomorrow. But the opposition is pretty poor, losing at home doesn't leave a good taste with anyone. Palmer just can't buy a goal right now, still think he'd be better rested instead of almost 60 minutes on the field in a match like this. Nuknku and Jackson, what's the point of them playing, or playing together?

8 hours ago, axman2526 said:

Well of course, our man @nonotnowjim would never let such a crime go unnoticed.

Actually Jim where are you? He has started Nico again Jim. Come on we need our fix of Jim vs UB.

can't do the midnight kick offs....If i would have stayed up, it would not have been a good friday.

The only positive of the night. Such a classy bunch 🙂

Only 29,027 attended the match. Our lowest home attendance since 2013 when Benitez was coach.

Fans are voting on their feet.

7 hours ago, timetowaste said:

Yeah he doesn't rate the manager

I don't think there is a manager in the history of football who has lost the faith and belief of his own players as obviously and as completely as Maresca has. This cannot continue. HE HAS TO BE SACKED NOW!

11 hours ago, bluedave said:

I really don't understand what it is that Nkunku does. A baffling player.

That's his role. He's a Baffler. He's there to confuse the opposition into thinking he's a good player. Very important role. Not widely used in the modern game. Unfortunately we seem to have more than one Baffler on the pitch.

We’ve signed 16 midfielders (yes 16) and we had 2 RBs playing in midfield.