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Definitely what happened, Carlos was fine and the physio came on and ruptured his Achilles with his heavy hands.

He’s quietly having a pretty good start to the season

The game is five days before the mid season break so I don’t think this is really an issue this season

Thought he had a good game last night, definitely seems to be getting his head up more. Weight of pass for the Ings chance that hit the post was perfect

He definitely was involved, he arrived before any of our signings that summer

Martinez, Watkins and Cash have all been better signings than Buendia IMO

He was obviously referring to the Chelsea goal

Great post, I’m probably in the camp of being less concerned than you currently but if we don’t start the season strongly my optimism will quickly fade as will so many others. Unfortunately those that are ‘concerned by Gerrard’ are getting put in the same bracket as one poster that has openly declared his hatred for him as a person prior to a ball being kicked under his management. His borderline psychotic spamming of all threads is rendering the forum borderline unreadable and meaning a lot of the nuanced debate/conversation is being lost. One of the latest gems being that he forced Bailey to play last season when he knew that he wasn’t fit. I’m not in love with the system and some of the selections, I’d definitely have gone with Martinez as captain. I really hope we start to see some flexibility in selection should the need arise, fingers crossed

All part of the conspiracy to get Gerrard the Liverpool job no doubt

I think it was probably more that we couldn’t get the Bissouma deal over the line

Thanks for clarifying that

Two different games from two years ago, what a strange theory that those incidents have ‘sealed his exit’ I appreciate not your theory

Saw it last night and this was very much my reaction

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Sarr was substituted after 64 minutes when Everton were 2-1 up?

Fair enough, I’m not trying to downplay your memory of that time but I don’t recall that at all, certainly until after the Palace game.

You remember it very differently to me, until we pulled out those last four results this place was still toxic despite better performances against Sheffield Utd, Chelsea, Newcastle, Wolves and Liverpool. Camaraderie might have come after the Arsenal game but even after we gave up the lead at Everton this was a very negative environment.

Don’t forget that he was only hired as part of a plan with Purslow to ensure he gets the Liverpool job , still the weirdest thing I’ve read on here. At least other critics of Gerrard (and the decision to hire him) are relatively open minded. You’ve taken this stance right from the start and now seem determined to negatively spam the forum most evenings across a number of threads, although you do seem to have gone quiet about how awful Digne is…

Really like his all round effort, touch and vision. His finishing has surprised me a lot this season, missed a lot of straightforward chances. Tonight and the Spurs game particularly but just in general he’s not proven to be a clinical as I was anticipating. Good player though

But that wasn’t the shape we lined up with, unless you thought he’d play as one of the two up top or in the hole in place of Coutinho?

I was convinced he would start for us at Watford first game of the season, not surprised he’s impressing and I just really hope he gets a chance next season. He would have been a great option off the bench on Wednesday night

Pretty selective use of stats there including a win at League 1 Charlton. I think Smith is doing a decent job at Norwich but they did also just have a six game losing run where they didn’t score a goal for over nine hours. I would love it if just once a manager thread didn’t get derailed from the start by people who didn’t like the initial appointment. The conspiracy theory about the club engineering the Liverpool job for Gerrard is amazingly weird.

With all due respect I can’t fathom how you’ve failed to see our team shape since Gerrard came in. Maybe spend less time in the Steven Gerrard thread insulting him whilst the matches are going on? We’ve been inconsistent with our use of the ball but our shape on and off the ball has been the clearest change since he took over

I actually think he's been progressively getting better since half time of the Southampton debacle. I'm really hoping his form continues to improve as he's starting to have a real impact for us. I'd disagree with the notion that he gives it away so often because he's always trying incisive/risky balls. 2 or 3 times a half he surrenders possession inexplicably just by taking a poor touch or taking his eye off the ball, he really needs to cut this out. It's so frustrating and puts us immediately on the back foot.

I’m really struggling to see how anyone could find the last few weeks ‘very concerning’. We had a bad result against Brentford, the only really bad result in terms of pre match expectations since Gerrard took over. Losing to Chelsea and United in the manner we did shouldn’t be cause for concern