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3-5-2 does not work as we don't have midfielders to provide the cover. CBs so easily beaten in the air. Kilman, Todiba and Aguerd don't work as a unit. AWB has forgotten his defensive duties. If you keep on conceding goals you will always lose. Chelsea threaded the ball right though WHU midfield. We did not see that with WHU. At least Marshall harries and presses, but didn't see that from Fullkrug. It is back to basics and Potter is on borrowed time.
I find it hard to believe that we do anything in training that bears any relationship to what happens in a real competitive match. They seemed to think the scratchy performances we had in that ridiculous summer series indicated that we were firing on all cylinders. There may have been a lot of bonding on a personal level but there’s little evidence of bonding on a team level.
Every Chelsea player seemed to know where they should be at any given time and what they should be doing. We seemed to be surprised when we had the ball and stood around looking to decide whether to go sideways or backwards.
Are we stuck with the manager, and in a position where we cannot buy anyone?
I actually think the owners will react as this is as bad as I have seen since Sullivan has been here.
A lot of clubs appear to identify a manager they want and go and get them even if they have to pay to activate their release.
Potter has made us worse at this point despite having so long and a summer window to improve things. My view remains the same as after Sunderland, new dominant centre back and a dynamic midfielder, but who would sign for us now?
To enable us to get a new manager.
It's money spent by the club.
So I've answered your question.
Will you answer mine?
If money was no object, who would be your top 3 manager targets
Not just these 2 games but his 20 PL games have offered less points than his predecessor…
The football hasn’t been great to say the least.
I wonder what the owners are thinking right now….
Top 3 - Pep, Enrique or Alonso.
You have to be prepared to get the best you can realistically get. Sometimes that means going to a club & saying ‘your gaffer…how much do you want?’ This is particularly vital when you know you won’t be giving them much of a budget to spend.
We never do that. We look at the unemployed market & pick what we feel is the best option. We did it with Grant, Sam, Bilic, Moyes, Pellegrini, Moyes (again), Lopetegui & now Potter.
It has all been said but our midfield is essentially non existent, not creative nor protective, unable to effectively press and very pedestrian in possession - in other words, no redeeming feature whatsoever and our forwards inevitably get pulled too deep in order to see something of the ball.
Combine all that with an inability to defend set pieces and a keeper whose confidence must be totally shot and you have to fear for us, at least in the short term
It is going to be a long season
I cannot see, in our current state, any way we turn this around. It is very rare a side starts a season losing 2 out of 2 & in the manner we have, & goes on to have a good season. We have two away games now before the international break. Lose those & I think we could be changing manager in those two weeks.
The fact we are a week from the window closing & have had since June to sign a CM, is inexcusable. I would argue we should have signed a CM above Diouf & Hermansen. As far as I am concerned Areola & Emerson were ‘ok’ enough to ensure we sorted midfield out before anything else.
We need to look at the long term future. We cannot fix the number of positions that need fixing, what we can do, is build a young generation of players to come in for the following season regardless of the league we end up in. We need a total rebuild and we have youngsters who absolutely can be the building blocks of that.
We cannot afford to spend any more time on players who simply are not good enough, that ship has sailed for the last 24 months, they are simply not improving and instead are going backwards, we need radical change not just tinkering at the edges, their needs to be an acceptance that money was wasted and mistakes made which more money cannot or will not be able to fix.