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I’m not even sure if we’re fit enough for this? Haven’t we covered the least amount of ground so far this season of any team?

No sign that the players have downed tools but we’re clearly not set up right or quite frankly good enough. It’s quite embarrassing really, it’s like a training exercise of attack v defence.

This could be four or five tonight

and there it is! Martinez mistake that.

Is Cash not able to block a cross tonight? He looks completely spent.

Not playing Luiz is criminal. He’d keep possession far better than Ramsey.

Ramsey has been pretty awful so far.

Jason Denayer, Centre Back, is a free agent with Wolves and Leicester interested. No ideas if he’s any good though?

I wonder if Terry will be interested in the Bournemouth job?

So Parker sacked after a poor start. His only win this season being against……….. oh never mind

If we bring someone in within the next month, then it gives them time to settle into the surroundings and then have a mini preseason with the players during the WC. What is it a month or so without a game? Unless things improve dramatically in the next four games (which I doubt), then we should be removing Gerrard after the Southampton game at the latest. Personally, we should be removing him this week.

I don’t want this game to come around to be honest as I’m a little dispirited and disinterested. It has a real air of inevitability about it, whether it be a real thumping or a narrow defeat. A loss is a loss and I expect nothing more from the next two games and that is depressing. We should be able to give anyone a really good game but right now we’re a car crash every single time we go out on the pitch. Right, I know the team below won’t be anywhere near the team we see but it’s what I would go with for damage limitation: Martinez Konsa Chambers Mings Cash Digne Kamara Luiz Buendia Bailey Watkins Subs: Olsen, Augustinsson, Young, Iroegbunam, Ramsey, McGinn, Coutinho, Archer, Ings

Wait, you’re being sold the project tonight? Is he a tea or coffee man?

Poch with no compensation to pay is surely a really attractive proposition for the club right now. I do hope he’s a serious consideration?

Not for me. Southampton are a bit of a nothing club and he hasn’t really pulled up any trees has he? They’ve also took some right hammerings.

Serious question, would the players privately down tools in the next two games and take a good hammering to see him gone? Not saying they will or it’s what I expect, just wondering if they would consider it?

This was always going to be a concern when Craig Butler starts to interfere or go public when Leon isn’t picked. Does he forget the wasted season he had last year? Any discontent needs to be kept private as to helps absolutely nobody, especially Leon and the team.

Renan Lodi now signed on loan, which makes it 18 players in so far. Willy Boly expected to sign from Wolves in the next 24 hours. Certainly not being cautious are they?

We’ve completely stagnated in ten months and there’s been little continuous improvement, so Purslow needs to standby his words.

That fire in Gerrard’s belly seemed to have evaporated in his post match yesterday, which is always a bad sign. It was almost his plea for clemency and wanting his pardon now. I think he knows he can’t turn this around now and is waiting for the axe to fall.

One thing I really didn’t like this summer was the footage of him on holiday somewhere stumbling on a pavement clearly drunk/intoxicated. There is still a certain standard of behaviour surely when you’re in such a high profile position? Yes, have a few if you want but still be capable of walking unaided down the road. You don’t see footage of Klopp, Pep, Conte, etc stumbling around drunk. If they have a few, I bet it’s in the confines of their own home. To me, this just smacks of him being one of the lads still or he just isn’t very bright and wouldn’t understand how this looks/reflects on the club. Big red flag and I wouldn’t have been impressed if I was Purslow. The summer tour should have been time to implement his style of play, his game plan and show the real Gerrard to the players. Losing Beale was a shame, but Gerrard shouldn’t have to depend on one guy. Critchley coming in doesn’t appear to have helped the cause, neither have the the existing coaches in McAllister, Danks, Macphee etc. Has he lost the dressing room? Who knows, but a couple of alarm bells are starting to ring. The captaincy issue was a public disaster, with the only piece of decency coming from the players themselves (Mings and McGinn). The look me in the eye business before the Bournemouth game sounded daft and petty. Three defeats in four now already and against teams where we would have expected to get something. Gerrard is now appearing to be a boy lost. Moving that aside, I was really impressed when we got Gerrard as I thought he was possibly on the road to greatness. A real tenacious winner that would improve our profile, attract some of the best players and finally have us playing attractive/winning football. He’s probably achieved two out of three of those. However, this expensive gamble has ultimately failed and cost the club a small fortune in less than a year. Should Gerrard go this week or in the next month or so, then the millions spent to get him, his team of staff and his players, won’t have been worth it. I wish him well and hope he speaks well of this great club when he’s gone. I think the time is probably right now before he is humiliated into submission.

Honestly, it doesn’t matter if we sign Mbappe this coming week. I can’t see any signing or signings changing the minds of the majority now. You still need a manager in place who knows how to use them. I would still like a couple to come in this week but more so to help the team/group and the next manager.

He has not let us down when called upon.

Shortlist should be in order: Poch Potter Rogers Can’t imagine all three of them would say no. After these three, who else? I’m struggling.

I understand Dwight Yorke is posting his CV in the morning.