I cannot fathom how anybody who has actually seen the team setup and play this season can be confident that this manager will have the team safe. The tactics have regressed and the manager is stubbornly picking his favourites each week (regardless of this fabled premier league fitness he keeps using to hold others back from getting anywhere near the team) to the detriment of results.
I watched this manager substitute his starting attacking players to chase the game and then put our best centre back on to enable him to put his starting centre back up front, at best that was utter madness seeing as that’s his masterplan when we are only 10 games in to the season. Is this really the sort of move a top level football manager sees as his best bet to get something from a game he had no interest in winning in the first place?
International footballers and he’s asking them to not have the football in EVERY game while they watch a team without a league win all season jam packed with talent like Jack Stevens, Adam Armstrong, Jan Bednarek, Kyle Walker - peters and a 36 year old Adam Lallana pass it round them in his THIRD season here.
We’ll be fine though apparently