Tomaszk

Wolves are a totally different kettle of fish. No one can do what they have without a super agent being heavily involved. They aren't a traditionally run club. Not without a super agent we aren't. If we can find one, no problem. No they weren't. It was Mendes. Yes he would. Mendes would have said that's where you're going, pack your bags. Jorge Mendes has turned it on its head. Wolves happened to be the club lucky enough where that link was made. It wasn't through being good on the pitch prior, or having a good academy, or buying well. It was all Mendes. Without him no Nuno, Neves, Boly, Moutinho etc etc. Would have been great if it was us for sure, don't dispute that. Be great if we could **** Suso off and get a decent agent in so we stopped buying terrible players. You're mistaken if you think this was possible without an agent moving players freely around for a fraction of their actual value.

It's very very easy to not buy shit players.

Yeah I called him a coward then as well. Who says he's a 10? He arrived as a CM from a 442 who played left mid a bit as well. Don't think he was playing as a #10 for Plymouth in league two. He's meant to be a professional footballer and in this squad he is one of the experienced ones who should be leading from the front. Yet in games he hides away, actively selling his teammates down the river as he offers no out ball for them. He wasn't even that bad today tbh. That was very standard Hourihane.

Those options will always get a smile out of me.

He's a monstrous coward mate. Got the ability to play but doesn't want to in case he loses the ball, so he doesn't bother. Huge fan of Westwood here btw. Opposite attitude to Hourihane. Spent his whole villa career being brave and getting on the ball while most players ran the other way, wanting nothing to do with it. Was always clearly a PL player unlike this wally.

Page 1. Turns out a shitty YouTube compilation could be an alarm bell.

I will blame him because he's a coward, which I won't accept in players. There's very little difference at all technically between him and someone like Norwood at Sheffield United. All technique, no size or strength. Norwood is key to that side because he isn't a little fanny who is scared to tackle and scared to get on the ball. He's just as shit against Chelsea and he will be against Coventry unless someone does all the work for him. Passenger in the Championship, passenger in the Premier League. All that coverage he got at the start of the season waving his dick around because he'd "made it" to the premier league. Signed his fat new contract and started retirement seemingly. If any responsibility is placed on his shoulders next season we're in huge trouble and won't be challenging for promotion. Needs someone walking round looking after him or he's getting swept aside by 99.99% of Championship midfielders, you can forget Premier League.

All we heard was how prepared they were. They had two packed lists for if we went up and if we didn't. Wrong choices were made. For £20m we could have signed a striker and winger both better than Wes and Trez.

Suso is a guy we needed in 2006. You don't succeed now by asking agents who to sign. You get mugged. £20m on Wes. Jesus.

Absolutely can't see anything other than relegation. Not sure when it happened but I've been sure we're going down for a fair old time. Possibly the pumping by Leicester at home. Watching us have really good spells in games and not being close to scoring because we didn't have a striker was so demoralising. God knows what it was like to play in, we should be sat on at least 9 more points. Far too much rubbish in the squad. Miracle if we stay up. We need press on with sweeping club changes if we pull it off. Suso can **** right off. Smith should receive a handshake and a fairwell.

Imagine if we'd signed players like Gueye, Veretout and Amavi this summer. Christ. Suso out.

One of the early effects of no crowd.

I don't think it was honestly. You can argue not good if you want, but we were not poor. (It wasn't Luiz who didn't close Willian down btw, couldn't remember. Obviously it was flounder boy Hourihane alongside Targett who let him do what he wanted.) At that time we were playing with the Wes crutch so everything was 10x harder as he just got in the way and cocked up most of what he was involved in. We put in a huge shift and made decent openings just couldn't take any. Luiz was magnificent off the bench that night. Look, we'll probably lose, but we ran them close last time and we have the jump on them fitness wise. If Smith will wake up and move Grealish off the wing we've got a chance. Reece James is taylor made to play well against Jack as well, if anything I'd stick Jack on the right if he's determined to play him up out wide.

They could defintely lose to Brighton.

We worked so hard in the Chelsea away game and deserved something IMO. Worked our balls off and had chances. It was two well finished goals from them and the winner was absolutely crap, Targett and Luiz(?) stood watching Willian cross it in. We could catch them out as everyone has been slow starters so far.

I'll rule it out in a big fat marker pen. Twice.

The only reason he saw him laughing is because the camera was on him again after he'd either been fouled or done something good. He's also probably one of the only players on both sides Keane knows.

Until Grealish I can't think of any meek acceptance whatsoever. Very strange attitude about him leaving I agree. Football more spread out more than ever before and it's only going to get worse. Premier League winners now only lose 1/2/3 games a season. Two draws and two wins in four games is viewed as a disaster for "top teams".

Won't happen but I'd go 352 trying to get it right for the Newcastle game. Steer Konsa Mings Hause Elmo McGinn Nakamba Grealish Targett Davis Samatta This is the shape we need to get Grealish more involved. That's crucial. And it's the only thing that's going to keep us up.

So big that FFP news. What a chance.

Absolutely. I'm sure the manager wasn't happy with the overall performance last night, it wasn't "good" from anyone really. Davis made it easy to be lazy by causing trouble from hopeful punts. Huge missed chance last night.

He had no impact because the team had become accustomed to walloping the ball to Davis who made plenty of nothing long balls. The team lazily continued that when Samatta came on, he's not a player who can hold off two CBs and make something out of a long ball. Samatta off Davis would be great. Samatta with the ball passed into his feet is great as well. I don't blame Samatta for nearly the whole team being too scared to pass the ball forward on the floor.

He talks such a good game. Sounds like Roy Keane half the time, and not just the accent. Talks about commitment and training hard and his journey...then spends huge spells of games running away from the ball, losing soft challenges and shirking responsibility. Popping off hospital passes to whatever unlucky soul is near him before he running away again is a particular pet hate. Last night I noticed him being really reluctant to move whenever he got the ball, it's like he was playing stuck in the mud. Don't know if that's a new habit he's picked up, or I just noticed it more last night. As I said above he's comfortably a worse player now than when he arrived. Darren Bent but plays CM. Can score goals to keep us up but it's very clear when games aren't suited to him. Last night was a pleasant surprise as it was so slow he didn't get swept aside out the game. I would definitely save him for Newcastle, I don't think Chelsea is a good matchup for him.

You don't get a manager like that and hang around in the Championship for long if the team buy into his madness. Blew up last year but don't forget Bielsa took over a fairly ordinary side that came 13th the year before. No players had any experience of winning anything (same as Bielsa for 20 odd years) and their nerve went. They've absolutely dominated nearly every game since he's been there, somehow managed to somehow lose a fair few of them as well. They've been mugged in games they deserved to win more than anyone in the country in the last two years. There's zero chance of them not going up and I'll be very interested in how they get on in the Prem. I'll be stunned if they come back down. Alongside Wolves and Reading years ago as the best team to win promotion from the Championship. Great to see their fans bleating little bitches about the goal last night. I hope sincerely Bielsa has one of his explosive exits soon because it's all him there at the moment. They'll crumble without him.

Two weeks is probably at least five games missed in new money.