punkiller1981

Agreed for such a key position you need to be prepared to go all out on making sure you get the right player and to a certain extent we have had Barkley essentially on a years very well paid trial. I’m not convinced it’s worked, don’t know if long Covid had anything to do with it but I think we need to spend big here or on a left winger and move Jack inside

Couldn’t agree more about MON piss poor players on huge money ran us into the ground and blew a comfortable 4th place finish. Comparing him to what smith and his team have done is a pointless comparison in my opinion. Smith has taken a championship shambles to mid table premier league in 28 months.

We are not I promise you. I dip into other clubs forums to amuse myself occasionally. If you want to see hard to please take a look at the Spurs “fighting cock” forum they are 95% delusional with the odd fan that realises they are not a big club and are on the decline after over achieving by virtue of getting lucky that a world class striker came through there youth team. We on hear I think for the most part are fairly balanced and objective in comparison. FWIW i think smith is doing a really good job and we have progressed beyond belief from where we were when he joined us. I think next season will be interest to see if he and the club can get us kicking on from this year or if we slip backwards. If we skip then it’s time I think to look at if smith is our best option.

I think we need Tammy we also need a better winger and 2 midfielders although not Phillip billing as someone suggested. Add into that axel from united for £7 million that would make a decent start to getting depth in the squad. bear in mind with Ollie he could get injured burn out or lose form. If that happens we would be down to Davies and Wesley, neither of which are good enough to carry the burden of running the front line.

My only worry though is for next season will we beat Liverpool ? Maybe but history tells us we don’t very often. Will we beat Leicester away? Maybe but not very often do we do that. Will we beat arsenal bad as they are twice ? Possible but highly unlikely so on that basis the likes of WBA Sheffield united, Newcastle, Burnley, Leeds , Brighton have to be beaten otherwise the start of the season looks like what it probably was which is an anomaly and we will be back fighting relegation again. I think the is a huge amount of work to do over the summer player wise. I think early season results made us look further along the journey than we are but I feel our fall off since Christmas is more realistically our true level currently. I think we need a new midfield completely and a winger. That’s a big ask over one summer and given we have just bought Samson I’m not sure we will spend much more on midfielders which I think would be a huge mistake.

Already said it in here but I can’t have mings was unlucky for the own goal he should have been across to the guy before he got in the box. The reason he was in more or less the centre of the goal when he got the touch was poor positioning and it happens to often with mings where he backs off rather than closing the man quickly

On the baggies second goal was I the only one wondering why mings backed off for so long and let the guy get 8 yards from goal before pressing him. I don’t see that goal as unlucky I see it as poor defending

I think it’s the lack ideas and creativity that annoys people and the slow build up play and poor decision making with poor movement thrown in for good measure

**** unbelievable being beaten by a championship team. We are so slow with our build up and the technique of nearly all our players is desperate

I assume your joking? Taking someone out studs first at the knee normally gets you a red

Next seasons Sheffield united

Should be a good competition with our “big 6” being made up of a team that’s probably going to finish 7/8th and another who will probably finish 11th with Leicester who are better and more sensible run than Spurs and arsenal don’t get a look in despite actually winning some trophies

Decent keeper in my view. No problem with him as no 2 to emi

I would yes

Agree with this, I think you only need to look at the bucs in the NBA to see Wes gets it and understands building a structurally sound sports organisation means keeping your best assets at almost any cost (see the bucs highest paid player can’t remember his name but the Greek sounding guy) while knowing that adding assets to your best assets. They know it costs big money but long term also adds big value.

I don’t see what Newcastle getting new wealthy owners has to do with anything. They would still have the ffp issue like we have. We have very wealthy owners with more money than lots of teams but we are still constrained.

Might be thinking above our station but I feel we are moving beyond players like Buendia. I just don’t see him making us a great deal better in the premier league. Excellent championship player not convinced as a prem player

Can’t agree with this statement. Why buy back ups at all we need to be buying players that are challenging for the shirt otherwise how are they pushing the incumbent shirt holder to improve. The top teams have completion not an 11 then some shit that they use in emergencies.

I think we need to stop saying stuff like that! We won our first 5/6 games of the season. Do you honestly think we will beat Liverpool next season or arsenal twice? If do this I’d have accepted 12 shit then we may as well give up

Another disgusting performance. Without Jack we are the worst side in this league. I think we need a whole new midfield and two wide men in the summer. I’m thinking £300 million should do it. on the game, why are we not playing with a left winger I thought shit as both are we would have played el ghazi or trez but seems the is nobody out there. Just a thought but if we had Connor still could we not play him on the left for decent delivery

I’m sure we are the only team that can give away a penalty for a ball that’s going harmlessly for a goal kick

Trez literally does everything wrong. I can’t get my head around it how he manages it

He has he had to clear a ball into touch or anywhere up the pitch basically anything other than what he did with it

What a disgusting half of football

Barkley is a liability we can’t afford