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37 minutes ago, Delphinho123 said:

I’d have hoped we wouldn’t be looking to replace them all but we are. Ings isn’t a starter and the other two have had poor seasons. 

I think your hoping for Champions League performance at a mid-table club!

Unless you can pay the PL Premium for performance, every player is a gamble.  How much did Chelsea pay for Lukaku and see how that went

If you can come in, with less than 48 hours at the club, get thrown on unexpectedly after 10 minutes and hold your own against a high press, high tempo Leeds team you have a chance.

Thought he did great all those factors considered 

22 minutes ago, Tom13 said:

He cut back one ball to someone I can't remember. Kamara maybe?

Anyway, it was a really intelligent cutback into feet. Impressed.

Ings, who took a touch too many!

Leeds are a horrible, horrible side, referee was shite, Kamara was excellent and although the defence had some wobbles, nobody can say they didn’t all put it on the line when they needed to!

6 minutes ago, Tayls said:

I appreciate the detail you have gone into for your post, but with the squad of players we have we are going absolutely nowhere… consistency is our main issue and many of those players are not up to performing well every week. We need changes and we need to get rid of those types of players. If not, we will forever be stuck in this loop

No players are up to performing every week at the Premier Leagues current pace, it’s why we and others are where we are compared to the elite.

City, Liverpool and others effectively have two teams and interchange based on stats.  Our second string is not to that level, hence the drop off.

I see the hangover continues with the lack of optimism!

Prediction, we will be buying players this window, but not £30/40m bracket, we will buy players that mirror Emery’s energy, pressing and technical ability and can be moulded into a team, not a bunch of individuals

4 minutes ago, jim said:

Ah, So the plan was to go one up then hold on for 84 mins against semi pro 4th division players

Do you want me to answer such a bone question?

2 minutes ago, jim said:

We should have been out of sight by then against 4th division semi pro players

Who reached the 5th round last year and see this as their cup final?

I agree the finishing was the problem, that is a skills issue and explains why Emery is now trying to find attacking wide players.

The bloke isn’t stupid, he knows what needs doing 

2 minutes ago, Delphinho123 said:

Im aware it did sound contradictory. My point is that you run the risk. 9/10 we win that game because they’re levels below us, but every now and again you will come unstuck. Today we risked it and we got punished. If Martinez, Mings, Konsa and Digne start that game today, we win. Not because they’re all brilliant, but because they play together regularly. 

And we play again Friday and those will be starting. 

In the Premier League,  any drop off in tempo/energy shows massively.  We should have been able to rest players with 10 internationals against Stevenage

3 minutes ago, jim said:

Whose job is it to prepare the team? This was a 4th division side. 

Genuinely don’t start pedalling this crap again, the team was set up, organised and with a plan.

What you cannot account for is absolute 101 stupidity on the edge of your own box 

10 minutes ago, jim said:

If we’d lost to a low Orem team or even Championship I’d say fair do’s players aren’t good enough but this was a 4th division team.

I like Emery but he shoulders a large portion of the blame. Can’t  have it both ways.

Yep, I clearly saw Emery tell donk to do the flick on the edge of the D then Rugby tackle the striker

21 minutes ago, Pissflaps said:

I think your giving the fans overall too much credit.. the patience nowadays isn't there. Make no mistake if they is a start of a bad run the pressure will be on Emery just as it was every other fired previous manager.

If that happens then we don’t deserve anything good, we are not entitled and whilst I covet the memory’s of 81/82, they mean sod all now.

We have an excellent manager, now we build.  There will be bumps in the road but important we stick behind him and the team

38 minutes ago, Delphinho123 said:

It’s this sort of arrogance that cost us our place in the next round. 

At any level of football, if you play a back 5 who’ve never started together, you’re going to get punished. 9 times out of 10 we win that game with the team we picked today but you run the risk of losing if you take chances with the team selection. 

Emery will have learnt a lot today, which is the only positive I can take. He rolled the dice with his team selection and I’m afraid it backfired. 

Your whole post is a contradiction, how can you say if you play a back five who have never played together you will get punished, then in the same sentence say 9 times out of 10 you win?  Which is it?

It didn’t backfire, there was a school boy error that changed the game, top class players make those mistakes less often than average players, but you are bonkers if you think they don’t happen at all.  Are you hitting yourself with a spruce and wailing as you post? 

29 minutes ago, Farlz said:

We all know Emery is a serious tactiction. We can't praise him when he gets the players to perform a masterclass and then give him no blame when he instructs what he did today. It was very obvious what he wanted us to do and quite frankly, it was a shambles. 

Absolutely no one is hounding him out or some nonsense, just saying it how it is and today Emery and the players all massively flopped. 

It wasn’t a shambles was it, we controlled the game until someone had a brain fart.

What we didn’t do was take chances, that’s what cost us the game 

19 minutes ago, Pinebro said:

Yes it should but you always risk  bad results when you don't pick your strongest team.

We are  not in Europe. We are in a mid table no man's land in the league.

There was no reason not playing our strongest XI

Apart from Leeds on Friday, risk of injuries,  existing niggles and knocks and the fact again, that we put out a team of internationals that rightly for 85 minutes nullified a league 2 side.

Again, Deondoncker committed a cardinal sin of not checking his shoulder 5 yards outside his own box! 

6 minutes ago, Pinebro said:

This is what can happen when you disrespect cups and don't field your  strongest team.

We will never win another trophy if we don't take cups seriously.

The team should have been enough to beat Stevenage, it was suicidal stupidity that cost us

Was too lightweight and decision making was as poor, still very much a work in progress despite the goal (simple tap in)

Love the fact that all of the links, whether second division in Spain or Korean u19 player of the year have trekkers, pace and more importantly energy.

No more Ollie Watkins single man press, we will be busy on and off the ball and for me that will be most important thing!

34 minutes ago, thabucks said:

https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2023/01/05/aston-villa-transfer-news-emery-to-rival-chelsea-spurs-for-53m-star/

What a crap article, in short, Villa want to buy him but Villa recognise it’s not best use of available budget.

is that it, contradicts their own headline 

Spurs think they are bigger than they are, soulless ground with crap fans who only sing when they are winning.

proper Manager, give him the keys, he knows what we need and where to get it.  Awesome structure and tactics.

Only downside was McGinn’s hammy and Dougie’s knee.  Hoping nothing serious

Get a grip, Emery showing there is no favouritism and picking on form/readiness.  
Not Gerrards playing the same team even when they are too ball bagged to tie their own laces 

Are we still looking at the “icing on the cake” type players rather than the main ingredients?

Personally think we are still missing a midfielder and a centre  half before we start polishing our forward line 

8 hours ago, Demitri_C said:

The high line was realkt scary yesterday.  If nunez wasnt such a donkey we really could have been thumped.  Think thats something we need to work on vs spurs. Kane and son will have a absolute field day of we defend like that

Kane won’t, he has no pace