Harry

I would agree with that summary. I actually think we do have most of the payers we need to be a decent PL side but at minimum they need to do the basics properly, something that has been lacking in the last two games. The good results we have had so far this season are not flukes, we played well. There will be huge pressure on Smith to deliver given the investment by the owners and performances like this will not help him.

Super lazy journalism from the Mail today. Why on earth would we want Romero? It’s just Man U’s media pussies doing their usual.

Much as I like him I’m not sure he is a PL player.

Waste of the loan fee. At least now we can look at better options.

Thread can now be locked....yay!

Poch or Rafa? Any suggested alternative to Smith needs to be realistic and gettable. So it looks like Big Sam then. a

Why could he not get us back up? I am fascinated by all the revisionist history on this thread recently which you could sum up as Smith has always been a poor manger who has no been found out. For the record I am not saying that we should not sack him, who’s next is what concerns me.

And your gettable dream replacement is.........

Just to be clear you are saying he fluked promotion last season and has always been a poor manager who has now been found out in the PL? He gets no credit last season for the ‘ridiculous run of form’ or for ‘scraping through the playoffs’?

So that prompts the ‘who then’ question either right now or next season which tends to generate totally unrealistic suggestions.

Just posted this on Twitter: The question is do we sack Smith now accepting that he seems totally out of his depth in the PL and we are performing worse than the capability of the team. There is a slim chance a new manager could save us BUT if we are relegated Smith would be the best shout to get us up #avfc

Love Mings to bits but sadly he is not a PL player. He looks totally out of his depth.

Absolute beast with the speed and turning circle of a supertanker.

Top pro who worked so hard for us. I wish him well.