Nabby

What did he tell the mf stay close together and allow Arsenal the freedom of the wings..It's all gone very Steve Bruce " I told them they don't listen ..not my fault "

Yeah , the good times are even further behind that I thought ...

Arsenal pushing for him as lost 2 CM's , says it all really we have gone to embarrassing them at home last season to them easily beating us last night and taking one of our best players , partly as the idiot we got in as a manager won't play him

I blame Purslow more than him tbh .I've no doubt Ings was a Purslow signing .Look at the way Purlsow announced Coutinho signing at player award's he like's getting the big names and this policy has been mostly a disaster. There is absolutely no way for 25mil Digne was the best LB we could get as well.

The first half was players running around working as hard as they could to get ball but with no clear tactic oh how to press or what to do once they got it .It was pointed out time and time again in comms we where set up too narrow and allowing Arsenal to get wide easily , this is tactics you could see the MF all close to each other leaving space wide. When we did get the ball going forward there was no one in the box.This is also not a new thing it why our endless crossing from FB's get's us zero joy. The players where bad last night on ball , they have no confidence from what I can see in themselves or what they are supposed to be doing. This is what happens when you keep losing.

That Suggests are scouting is hopeless and we are in the panic stations on last day footing

For some reason he prefers Ramsey to run around losing the ball

The fact club has said that after SG comments already paints a picture of some issues ...

There are currently 4th ..slightly better than our current position

Those 2 signings would be exp pro's to steady shop. Something is very wrong at the club right now all the way through.

Exactly ..Ten Hag after 2 games was getting analysed and judged ..this plonker is getting away Scot free with being hopeless.

We let contract run down .meanwhile signed others on big salaries which I imagine he wants parity and we have said no ..plus lack of game time.That would be my guess as to why we are where we are with him.

Sad to see him go , not a regular starter and blows hot and cold but has a goal in him. Hope he does well at PSV

Sack now and have a new guy fact City and Arsenal or bring him in against the easier Soton ( though they seem to have hit another winning run they often go on ) and Leicester ...

Isn't their capacity 20k more than ours currently and newer owners who have new owner spending leeway ?

Another possibility , if not mentioned is when you decide to start bringing player 's in on high wages those left who come to end of contracts want parity and we don't want to pay.

We have spunked all the cash on high salaried established players so we can say look we are massive we brought Ings / Carlos /Digne ,that's why we have run out of wiggle room.

We have made decent signings but no one we didn't pay a decent sum for .Alot of other clubs have brought equal or better quality players for less money. Coutinho is a vanity signing for both CP and SG .bring in the big name and it will work ..except after a bright start its hard to put a case for him to be starting games. The transfer policy of bringing in established players on high wages needs instant results which we are not getting so for me ,both SG and CP are in firing line if I'm the owners.In SG case the fact that he went through so many at Ranger's makes me think he is just another Bryan Robson / Steve Bruce type who keeps spending and moving the pieces till something stick's but no tactical nous at all. They brought in 3 players to replace Jack but seemed to have not taken into account actually getting all 3 into the team at once ! Digne - did we scout him , did we have a report on how he would fit in strengths /weakness's or was he just avlaible after falling out with Rafa and SG said I'll take that experienced , well know LB and that will work. From my point of view if you have a system with Full backs bombing forward then need to be pacy and have some ability to go past a player , Digne does not .He can certainly cross but that's not enough with how we play. I think the Sarr transfer was much the same known player is available lets get him. For me CP has got into this mindset of buying players well regarded so we look like a big club.Yes its not working at all and teams are buying better than us because they are not just plucking names. Wasn't it said he didn't want Buendia because he was from Norwich , which if so is a pretty shocking position to take. Liverpool fans don't like him , its well known he brought in Joe Cole purely as it was Joe Cole on big money and was a disaster. He is going the same way here.

If the look on his face Sunday was anything to go by he won't be signing any deal any time soon.The fact we then collapsed when he went off would suggest he was right to be annoyed at being hooked. With one year on his deal he has every right to hold out , clearly the current manager's position is not secure.If he does go add him to Vertout and Gueye who went on to better things from the CM roles.

That argument that Lampard and Gerrard couldn't play together seems apt for Ramsey and McGinn.Both good players but in our system where there is no width and you want them covering the FB's it doesn't work.Both of them need to be in final 3rd to get the best from them instead one is holding back trying to float balls to Dinge the other is running down that same wing. Its a mess of tactics

Poch is certainly an upgrade on SG but you see things like why would he come to us ? It's 4 years since he left Spurs , where he didn't win anything he came 2nd in the league cup , the league and Champs league .Did one season at PSG and was booted out.For us that's a solid record but for the so called big clubs are they all that interested in him ? I would counter he needs a club to rebuild himself as much we need a solid manager who has basics like tactics .

I'm sure ( should we sack SG) the 2-3 year contract we have to pay him off will keep his heating on this winter..and as he just joined he won't reflect on him at all.

We could of spent zero this Summer and we still should be able to manage more than a bobbled shot on target against Bournmouth who are clearly rubbish .Also maybe we haven't spend much as we allowed him Money for the Jan spend as well as wages . If this was 20 games or so in and we were hovering around 10th and not able to compete for a Euro place then yes lack of quality player's is justifiable and not on SG.Only beating 3 teams in 15 games 2 of them relegated now is not good enough. I'll accept the squad isn't good enough for top 6-8 but it shouldn't be near the bottom 3 .

My takeaway from that is CP is backing him as his ass is on the line for it as well..

SG looks the same mistake as Garde in as much as CEO going back to his old club to pick up a former player , all be it SG had a much higher profile as a player than Garde.