We look a million miles away from a trophy in the way we're playing this calendar year. And, yes, I know how silly that sounds when we got so close to the CL. You take out Toby and Eriksen from this side and there are huge question marks everywhere.I don't think we're that far away from trophies personally, I think Kane leaves in 2021 years if we don't win anything, he'll be at his peak then and that will be his last big contact.
Losing Kane would be a blow but the manager is far more important to anyone else at the club IMO
You can't just switch on inspiration and belief like a tap, though. If you could, every team would have it.I think it's hide time the manager and the players just got on with it.
We've a great squad, they're all paid very handsomely.
Stop the blame culture, regroup and hit it hard.
It's all been to do with our attitude imo.
We look a million miles away from a trophy in the way we're playing this calendar year. And, yes, I know how silly that sounds when we got so close to the CL. You take out Toby and Eriksen from this side and there are huge question marks everywhere.
We still would have a core of excellent players with good age profiles - Ndombele, Lo Ceslo, Sessegnon, Winks, Foyth, Dele, Son, Kane, Lucas -
but as to how competitive we'll be, we don't know how any of the new signings adapt yet.
The future's very uncertain at the moment, for me. It could go many ways.
Agree with you, If it came down to it, i would also take lucien favre in a second, also julian nagelsmann would be a interesting candidate for the future, not so much the now ( he only just went to RB Lipzig)
Yes, but if you look at how the team is playing, we've only won three away matches in 2019, and one of those was Moura's Miracle of Amsterdam, we're giving a ridiculous amount of chances per game. At the moment we don't look like a competitive team at the elite level.We don't really do we?, last season Semi Final of the league cup and Final of the CL, the seasons prior to that we had two semi final appearances in the FA Cup, unless you mean the league then you're 100% right but that will take time - I don't expect us to challenge this season anyway - if you're reaching semi's constantly that normally suggests that you're getting close.
...and following on from this, it's why I get so annoyed with Pundits/Media etc saying that players and Coach might/should move on if we don't win something.I think it's hide time the manager and the players just got on with it.
We've a great squad, they're all paid very handsomely.
Stop the blame culture, regroup and hit it hard.
It's all been to do with our attitude imo.
Yes, but if you look at how the team is playing, we've only won three away matches in 2019, and one of those was Moura's Miracle of Amsterdam, we're giving a ridiculous amount of chances per game. At the moment we don't look like a competitive team at the elite level.
Our general play has been dire since at least last Christmas. We've slowly regressed over the last two years. The lucky CL run papered over some cracks. But our style is so laborious and static. Our players look like they don't know what the plan is. It's awful and turgid.
Palace was an outlier.
Combine that with bizarre decisions like playing Sanchez at RB.
Sure, anything can happen in knockout football, but the huge majority of cups have been won by the financially dominant teams in the last decade. That's no coincidence. At the moment, we're not looking competitive. It might change if Poch can rally the troops and get our big players back into form, but it's not a given at the moment.You don't have to play well to win k.o matches that's the point, you just need to stay in games and produce moments. Last season you rightly said that we didn't play well over a sustained period but the remit of winning a knock out tie isn't necessarily outplaying your opponent, it's by staying in the match. Look at the CL matches last season, we were outplayed for the majority of the City and Ajax ties yet we still got through, we outplayed Liverpool in the final but we lost.
The concern is valid though because we're in danger of coasting and turning up at 60% knowing that we are capable of moments which leads to complacency, Poch's biggest challenge is to get us playing as a unit again.
Sure, anything can happen in knockout football, but the huge majority of cups have been won by the financially dominant teams in the last decade. That's no coincidence. At the moment, we're not looking competitive. It might change if Poch can rally the troops and get our big players back into form, but it's not a given at the moment.
Very interesting take on where it is going wrong ...
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It could be that some people have nothing to say, unless they're moaning.Sorry if it came across as like a massive conspiracy or something.
Firstly I mean like it's pretty obvious the ValenciaYids ITK sources are part of a faction which is unimpressed with Poch's current direction of travel. There's nothing conspiratorial or necessarily wrong about this. They give their ITK in good faith and Val passes it on. And many people are of the same mind as them in any case. Not necessarily "stirring up shit" as expressing an increasingly common and exasperated view.
Recently - and I mean in the last couple of weeks - there's been a sudden rash of posters on SC who have been members for over a decade, yet have less than a hundred posts. So you have to ask why such posters who have been pretty much silent since Redknapp have suddenly decided that right now is clearly the most worrying period in the club' history and have swarmed to SC to post about it. Now they could be old opposition troll accounts sticking the boot in? I don't know. It's just been an observable phenomenon recently.
You can't just switch on inspiration and belief like a tap, though. If you could, every team would have it.
But the hard work comes from belief and being inspired by a vision. Players used to be evangelical about Poch and they would run for him all day, but they've done that for years and missed out on glory. It's natural that some of them are questioning things. You also add to that we have more players who are older and carry niggles and injuries. All of it adds up to why Poch was screaming for a total clear out in the summer. He saw the way the wind was blowing.Before that comes hard work though, and we're not seeing anywhere near enough of that.
Not talking about inspiration, I'm taking about sheer effort. You don't need to have an abundance of belief for that.
Belief will come again once we put the real work in and our quality shines through.
It's down to attidude at the end of the day.
Yep, two seasons ago MoPo's slogan was "belief" and the players were fully behind his philosophy but I think he shot himself in the foot by some silly comments in his press Conference.But the hard work comes from belief and being inspired by a vision. Players used to be evangelical about Poch and they would run for him all day, but they've done that for years and missed out on glory. It's natural that some of them are questioning things. You also add to that we have more players who are older and carry niggles and injuries. All of it adds up to why Poch was screaming for a total clear out in the summer. He saw the way the wind was blowing.