Kev The Rat
Player Valuation: £70m
Completely agree. There are those who say we should get behind the manager but I think the pro - Benitez faction are now doing far more damage to morale by backing this busted flush to the hilt.
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Have a look at our fixtures leading up to Christmas. We are unlikely to have 20 points by New year's day which for me definetely puts us in a relegation battle.
Will we be relegated? I don't think so but don't kid yourself that it can not happen.
ForeverBlue92
Player Valuation: £80m
It is though!
Potter/Brighton have won 1 in 6
Frank/Brentford have won 1 in 5
Neither have had the injury problems we've had to key players
DCL
Richarlison
Doucoure
Mina
Those 4 simply can not be replaced with our current squad and Godfrey is a shell of the player he was (COVID).
Fans just need patience and to accept what we at present - a midtable club that goes on bad runs of form.
Forget looking at the likes of Chelsea/Leicester/RS winning 5 out of 6 we aint that level nowhere near and neither will we be with a new manager.
Its not being a happy clapper its looking at the last 6-7 seasons and seeing a pattern with these players.
Yes the manager has made mistakes so far but every manager does there is no white knight / silver bullet that turns everything perfect overnight and we need to get out of the sack sack sack mentality especially when we are cash strapped FFP speaking to back a new manager adequately enough.
If you want to see positive change sack Marcel Brands / remove Kenwright and thats a start.
hallamblue
Player Valuation: £40m
It was embarrassing listening to Karen Carney figuring out in 5 minutes what it took Benitez a 2 goal deficit to sort out. Her and the commentator said Lage had picked a team to get in between the lines of our rigid 4-4-2 and that once it had started working we needed to change to counteract this. The players clearly didn't know what to do and were arguing with each other. The manager could surely see this, and should have acted straight away, especially after the let-off of the disallowed goal. I've been a defender of Benitez to an extent, but we need a manager who can see what's going on and adjust quickly. Not that we've had one of those for a long time!
This is the problem with our club, the fans expectations is the same as Brighton and Brentford as the barometer of our success
It’s utterly embarrassing
gonetomorrow
Player Valuation: £70m
Were the fans booing the team last night?
Boss Silva
Player Valuation: £6m
Moshiri Will give him time...We are mid table this moment. Not even relegation danger at this moment
little elfin
Player Valuation: £10m
Baines' left foot
Player Valuation: £90m
Sack him and break the back to get Conte or ten Hag in!!!
At half time yeah
Not at full time though because they at least tried in the second half
No one in my section booed them at full time anyway
I was mostly yelling at the ref because we only got to play 2 of the allotted 5 minutes and he just blew anyway
Harryflashman
Player Valuation: £50m
Spurs
City
Brentford
RS
Arsenal
that’s our next 5 . I don’t think we’re in a relegation battle but I also don’t see too many points coming from those games either . So realistically we could find ourselves right down the table by early December. Fortunately you’d hope players will be starting to return from injury but again to put that down to as the solution to all our problems feels a bit like we’re kidding ourselves .
We'll probably be down there once Christmas rolls around tbf
Spurs, City, Brentford, Liverpool and Arsenal all next
Could easily lose all of those with our current squad issues
Hopefully though we get the full squad back and sign a couple of loanees in January, at which point we can grind our way to 40 points and then have as big a rebuild as we can possibly afford to do in the summer
Our form is appalling. He has to go immediately.
It all weirdly can be traced back to that ridiculous decision to rest players in the cup. We lost all momentum and the season has unravelled. We've barely played any good teams yet!!
You would have been screaming for a top manager like Ancelotti to go, so why are you backing this mediocre manager so strongly?
He did change it though, but he's getting zero credit for it, which is kind of my point
If that Gordon header goes in then it's 2-2 and we nick a point. At what point does the change make up for the bad start?
With football supporters the answer seems to be "never" based on how we talk on here
This isn't even a thing unique to Benitez either
All of our previous managers dealt with it as well
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