Rebuild is needed, Pochettino get some thing wrong but the main shithousery is due to players, Trippier and Sanchez almost every game plays like headless chickens, Dele and Eriksen aren't commited enough, Wanyama and Dier are pretty much done. For me we need to rebuild and the player I think we should retain are Lloris (but bring competition If we can), Vert, Alderweireld, Foyth, Rose, Davies, Winks, Skipp, Sissoko, Son, Kane and Moura. Dele remain a doubt for me. Others could all leave.
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Toby is 100 percent gone in the summer.
Poch hasn’t got the best out of the players available though.
Lamela, Eriksen, Dele, Dier, Trippier, Rose, Davies, Wanyama, Sanchez and Lloris have all regressed.
Please.....please go on and try and deny that.
Unless people wanted back up for all them, then I’m afraid their demands last season wouldn’t have changed fuck all......unless they think having Martial but no Toby would have seen us playing better. Oh and the LB from a team that’s been relegated for over three weeks already.
Poch is not playing to the players strengths, and he’s strangled their creativity.
Our tactics are shite mate and despite all his interviews he has not instilled one single ounce of belief into this squad.
We were better when we were underdogs....as the big boy, we are shitters.
Unfortunately I think the same.
At this stage I’d take an overhaul and transition next season.
It’s gone too far for some of the players, and there’s no way back to the form they displayed in 2016.
Shame it’s all crumbled so early, I thought this squad was a long term one.
It’s gone too far for some of the players, and there’s no way back to the form they displayed in 2016.
Shame it’s all crumbled so early, I thought this squad was a long term one.
Poch get the sack? wtf people smoking.
He deserves a pass even if we finished fucking 10th. He has his faults but his hands have been tied with Levy absolutely royally fucking us.
Poch deserves criticsm for 2 things:
1) takes too long to make changes and has his favourites which is clear.
2) being an enabler to Levys bullshit. I can't think of another manager that would have allowed the constant bullshit.
but getting sacked??? hellllll no. jeez.
He deserves a pass even if we finished fucking 10th. He has his faults but his hands have been tied with Levy absolutely royally fucking us.
Poch deserves criticsm for 2 things:
1) takes too long to make changes and has his favourites which is clear.
2) being an enabler to Levys bullshit. I can't think of another manager that would have allowed the constant bullshit.
but getting sacked??? hellllll no. jeez.
Its a weird situation really. A similar collapse in form from any other top 6 manager and only winning the CL would save their job.
But you know, I know, and deep down everyone else on here knows that Poch is not the man responsible for the end of season shit show thats been gradually unfolding before our eyes.
As someone here had put it aptly, we didn't strengthen the roof when the sun was shining.
He's not without his faults, but we will look like the biggest bellends around if we sack him.
I mention McDermott and Steve Hitchin means I'm trying to make it look like I've got connections at the club!?! Christ alive, what I take from that is you have never heard of them before. FWIW McDermott isn't just an Academy Coach, he heads it up, he's a very important part of the club. Hitchin is our Chief Scout, but what he's been scouting for the past 2 seasons I don't know, I guess we'll see what he's about this summer. You have on several occasions made references to me being PR for Spurs it's the very reason I mentioned it, you idiot.
I know exactly what our revenues are, yet another personal dig you made about only a few days ago was that I have a handle on them!!
I'm NOT presenting the fact we have revenues of near £400m as "new" or a sudden flick of a switch ligt bulb revelation, what on earth gives you that impression? I didn't say our period of austerity is over, that term I guess is subjective dependant on who you speak to and what it means given their expectations of what the club spend and how they generate revenue. What I've said is we will remain a self-financing club, NOTHING will change this (unless we are bought by a new regime that does an Abramovic or City), so we will continue to run the club based on the revenue we generate. I haven't even mentioned the Nike deal as good or bad. I haven't even mentioned stadium naming rights, just on the revenue we now can generate now we are in the new stadium. This revenue includes TV, Commercial, Matchday, CL, etc. That's it.
We have debts, I've acknowledged this but the way we are geared shows that we are in excellent fiscal shape (the debt is half the valuation of the assets and our EBITDA which is considered a proxy for cash operating profit, increased from £122m to £159m, 2nd highest in the league only behind Utd the kings of cash, oh and twice as much a Woolwich!!).
Yes, we had the 6th biggest revenue in the league prior to the stadium being built and YES it is likely we will continue to be the 6th highest revenue producer once it's built actually (currently, not from 2018 accounts) we are ahead of Woolwich making us in 5th but that semantics! BUT the gap is down significantly to Chelsea (approx £40m) and Liverpool (£50m) too. There will be fluctuations against these three teams because the CL places are significant as one gets CL rev whilst another doesn't (that could equate to a £100m swing but has become complex to predict given rejigging of how revenues are now shared). But we are now at the same approx revenue levels as these clubs having been £100-£150m off them for decades, huge difference.
To suggest moving away from Old WHL doesn't give us an impact is utter nonsense as match day income rose £26m (57%), we don't receive concessions at Wembley so I've heard (that may be bollocks but it's the word on the streets say it's so) and we had to pay rent of £12-£15m pa + the ticket prices were less at Wembley than WHL. It's not an over-ambitious thing to say that our match day income will be similar to what Woolwich generate now we are back home, that will be £100m pa from a maxed out £45m - That's double and represents CL level of extra revenue generation!
We haven't operated with these revenues before, revenues comparable to these clubs, that's what is different, that is highly significant. We are now swimming in a different pond.
Our revenue has increased across every single metric (In total a massive 81% (£171m) driven by success on the pitch. Most of the increase has come from broadcasting £90m, but also healthy growth in commercial £50m & match day £30m this matchday, so as mentioned above now we are home there will be further increased on matchday to probably take up to £100m. Revenue growth is the highest of the “Big Six”, both in absolute and percentage terms!
Point of fact, you are completely WRONG about wages, yes they rose (21%) BUT we CUT our wages to turnover from 41% to 39%, a full 11% bellow Utd who had previously had the lowest!! This will no doubt show further increase as a number of new contracts were awarded last year, also I've already stated almost certainly key players we want to keep will no doubt have new deals negotiated. The trend of wage increase will continue to be up but inline of our revenue growth, for now, remains to be seen, no doubt once our revenues stabilize/flatline somewhat wage percentage of turnover will no doubt go up. But for now, you couldn’t be any more wrong.
I haven't for a single moment suggested that ENIC doesn't want to make a return on investment, but now you have OF CAUSE THEY DO YOU FUCKING IDIOT! We didn't buy any players because of a number of most likely factors, Poch choices, availability and a new Stadium overrunning and as a consequence costs going through the roof for every day, it's delayed. I've no idea if it's one of these in the singular or the accumulation of all of them together, only Levy and Poch do.
Now Fuck Off!
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I can only assume people have been hitting the crack a little too hard after today's result.
Remember guys, only one rock at a time.
Remember guys, only one rock at a time.
Sessengon and Martial wouldn’t improve this team
3) giving Dele and Eriksen the entitlement to perform however low they want to over the last four years.
4) Abandoning pressing
5) Playing Llorente with zero wingplay
6) Playing Dele CM for a season instead of using Skipp
7) Abandoning KWPs development
8) Using a diamond
9) Playing Eriksen on the halfway line
10) Ruining Davies development to reintroduce Rose who has’nt better bar two games in a year
11) Not integrating Janssen and Llorente over the last 2-3 years
12) Fighting a ref and ending up in the stands at Anfield
Brilliant post, not sure about the slagging of each other but I understand the passion.
Anyway, there are lots of positives, to be where we are in a season like this is amazing, the facts are we will be 4th after this weekend at worst, depending on results of cause but 3rd or 4th is where we will be, beat Everton and its all ok, this was a huge transitional year, as the guy above in the quote stated we are going to be operating on another level, we are about to enter a period of unimaginable success, I feel it coming, Poch had his hands tied with signings, the stadium issues, playing in 3 different grounds for home matches this year and yet we are in a Semi of the CL and whether we finish in the top 4 or not is still in our hands.
The summer will be the moment where we see how things will change, we need to freshen up the squad, get rid of some dead-weight, bring in some magic and go again.
You can't say Dele and Eriksen are shit and also say this. It has to be one or the other.
Sessengon is also shit and the only person who would be dropped for Martial is Son
I think they might have, sammy, but we never got the opportunity.
Martial is just Moura and Sessengon makes Dele look interested
Source mate?!