Flasher

What's the norm?

I'm still in the keep him until the end of season camp, to really see how this all plays out, but to your point, although the focus on him is this season for obvious reasons, the reality is we have a body of evidence from last season too. The football we played last season was also slow. Any press and urgency you could argue came from players either continuing habits or players like Diaz and even Darwin who just play that way. He also showed that he doesn't trust many players. As a result we've lost young talent that actually we've needed this season. Plus the other teams in the league stank the place out and so we coasted. I don't look back at last season and think to myself, Slot was a genius. I liked how he moved Grav and allowed Salah freedom and it made sense, but it was also quite stale at times. All that said, so much change and injuries and tragedy this first half of the season, so I'd like to see where we are in May then I'll decide personally on whether I want Slot or not. I'm 50/50 currently.

I know, but they'll be completely different games. Don't be surprised if we look much better than we did today.

It's a complete loss of any idea isn't it. At that point the players have no clue what they are supposed to be doing, just all getting in each other's way.

I know what you mean, but neither team will play like Leeds just did.

The 11 we finished with was an absolute s*** show. Chaotic. Not having Frimpong still on the pitch was ridiculous.

Frimpong's pace and amount of running has been phenomenal

Are we the most lightweight team in the prem? Virg looks like a dad playing with kids tonight.

As Wirtz got a hangover?

Anyone signing for City now, or thinking about it, knows Pep won't be there very long so they will be having major doubts, not to mention the other 115 elephants in the room

Wolves same number of shots on target as us...

That was about Ibiza

Well we're not going to tell everyone we're going to be busy, are we

Agree. Suarez was pure chaos. Nothing about Ekitike is like that.

Mascherano is who you are looking for, and the type we need, imo.

He's a 10 being asked to play a 6 or 8, which he hasn't got the legs or stamina for.

I'd prefer Slot to think about the game for more than 30 seconds at a time to be honest. In that moment it may have made sense, but what about the rest of the match and how we played from the there?

Our team just doesn't have any legs in midfield aside from Dom, and it's killing us. None of them can press with purpose and teams just walk right through us. He's started to pack the midfield, as he should, but that has made us so narrow and we don't look like scoring at all. 11 v 11 last night I just couldn't see us scoring. We have to get a proper mobile beast of a 6, and we need pace in the front wide positions desperately.

Great 3 points, we were s***

Amazing. Wingback has got to be the worst position ever invented in football. It's certainly the worst position to play.

Of course it would he alright, unless he chooses any of the teams we hate Changing who you support is the issue.

Salah wants to be the big cheese, our summer signings were a move away from that in the longer term.

Guehi is definitely leaving, just a case of when. The manager only has 6 months left, he'll be moving on to better things also. Palace will want the money. The race to sign him may mean they can command a bigger asking price in Jan than what we agreed in the summer tbh, wouldn't be surprised at all.

You lost me at Upamecano. He's Konate v2

Exactly. Just win the game in front of you.