Sulberto21

With Wolves people have to understand their agent parked the players there a season early in the championship and they grew together and then were gelled enough to play well in the Premier League. Mendes that's his name.

Philips didn't want to come. Aside from kidnapping him and all that. Philips has made the right choice. Promotion (pending) and Qatari money jobs a good un.

Smith mentioned its a committee and he has the final say on it. We had 5/6 choices for every position we signed in but we ended up with in most positions the 6/7th choice. This is second hand information. This is why I said when we won promotion we should get rid of smith. He will be our biggest limiting factor. I'm a potentially good footballer Aston villa have made a big bid for me and its been accepted by the club. Dean Smith? Who? Didn't he manage Derby? No that's Jim Smith. No i don't want to sign for them. Change Dean Smith for Rafa Benitez then I bet the 1st 2nd 3rd choice players would have come. If Rafa Benitez was managing the exact same players we stay up comfortably.

Going to be World Class. When I spoke to Idrissa Gueye and Jordan Ayew in that season they said the pace of the league was unbelievable and it was a shock. Once they were up to speed they actually said it improved their game. Douglas Luiz struggled with the speed of the league without looking totally overwhelmed. When we go down we need to hold on to him maybe a loan move initially depending on how long we're down there.

El Ghazi was our most threatening player in the first half. Although I think he is better suited to impact play as Trezeguet is more energetic in his off the ball work.

"based on what? Our players have looked awful most of the year. They lack the physical requirements and technical ability to succeed at this level." DCJonah you replied with that to a comment I made i was unable to reply to in the match thread. Technical ability can be improved on the training field. I have seen enough instances of our players having ok technical abilities. Our problem is off the ball. Physically we have not improved. What has our management team got in place for this.? Its on Smith's head. Today the obvious change was Hourihane or Mcginn off move Grealish inside and Samatta outside to at least pressure their full back. Samatta is a very intelligent player who knows how to do a job. There have been instances where our off the ball work has improved but we do it for one or two games and revert to the passive ball watching hoofball that we have endured all season. That's on Smith. It's like when the players ignore smith's tactics and whatever it is he is trying to implement they suddenly improve their game.

This squad with the right manager should survive one season in the Premier league.

In the Premier league next season with Bielsa and Qatari money (possibly) whilst we're toying in the championship. You won't be mocking them then.

The second biggest mistake in keeping Smith at the start of the season is not having an experienced number 2 in. Yes Terry was a world class defender captain kit wearing extraordinaire but he is more inexperienced than Smith at management and coaching.

16% ball possession in the second half.

I would have done it the day we got promoted. I saw this coming. I wanted Bielsa long before Bruce or Smith came in. Imagine Bielsa with these players. We definitely wouldn't be struggling. Poor hoofball poor management poor tactics. The change was Mcginn or Hourihane for Samatta move Grealish inside and Samatta wide.

Fine tuning it for the championship.

that passage of play (46"15) is exactly the problem with Villa. Grealish gets a foot in but Hourihane is on his heels and too far away to take advantage. He should have been closer.

Nòooooooooooooo .

Our fitness has not improved. Same with our physical strength.

Right some observations. Mcginn is getting between the lines but the one guy who can get it to him is being bypassed. Douglas Luiz has the ability to pass between the lines and has done it everytime he has received it, but is not being utilised enough. AEG can be a decent Premier league player if he works harder off the ball. We don't know how to press the ball together either one does it or two do it we need to press as a whole team. That's one of the reasons why teams pass through us. Davis knows how to press so does Grealish but AEG doesn't.

Douglas Luiz is such a good passer of the ball.

Grealish will be at home at Old Trafford it's probably quieter.

If Roger Schmidt was willing and able to come and build something I would have done it during the lockdown. The day we got promoted I said we should get rid of Dean Smith as he is our biggest limiting factor.

How does one catch it properly? He didn't fumble it he used the entire pitch available to settle himself then was barged over the line by a team-mate. End result was we didn't concede officially.

Hocus pocus in the business sense.

I would love for him to stay though. He is going to get better with better players around him. If we stay up we have to buy 2 very good players and 1/2 World class level players to have any chance of him staying. If the Newcastle take over is finalised then they are looking to buy Koulibaly for starters. Then we should look to get the Qataris to invest in us as they hate the Saudis and will do anything to see them fail..

Yeah I agree with that. He's realised they're.......

Ball was perfect. Unless of course the defenders magically disappeared. Anything less then the guy next to Davis cuts it out. Samatta scores. However he is one of The problems with our team. In the first half we had a very good press on our left side McGinn was telling AEG to move forward to cut out their left but AEG Continued to ball watch and they were able to get out. This resulted in a little argument between the two. Had AEG moved forward then I think we could have got a positive situation for ourselves. This happened more than once.

only if he scuffed it he would have scored. Or done what Aguero does and aimed for the roof of the net. But then Davis would be a 60 million player .