03 Feb 2018 22:50:16
I find it very difficult to accept the following two scenarios - should they be the case of course!

First scenario being that today’s debacle, and I think I’m being extremely tame in saying that, was a case of him setting the team up to be ultra defensive, almost two banks of five, and hit them on the break. This clearly didn’t work because the players he selected were simply not good enough. We all have players that we bash constantly on here, some deservedly and some just differing opinions. But, can anyone honestly say that Schneiderlin deserves to even be in the squad, let alone a starting place? Same for Williams. How those two are even professional footballers is beyond me. We know Martina is a terrible right back, so he can be almost forgiven for being worse at left back. We buy a £27m striker and he has to sit on the bench behind poor old Oumar, who’s dreadful performance on Wednesday should have sent him straight back to the 23’s. I think what I’m trying to say is that this continuous selection of players - awful players, is continually bringing the same drab performances and bad results. Can Sam not see this? Substituting Wallcot so early was also a poor decision imo. How is he (SA) allowed to get away with this? If the above scenario is the case, he deserves to lose his job for his own performance, never mind blaming the players. If you pick crap players, your team will play crap. Simple.


The second scenario - Sam has been brought in to purely keep us in the premier League. Simple as that, although why give him such a long (ish) contract? By doing this, he has identified the games in which he thinks we don’t really have a chance of getting much out of it and will preserve the better team for games he knows (thinks) we’ll win. That would explain changing a winning team, a team which pressed high up the pitch and played well, taking off Wallcot and playing less than fit/ capable players. Is this what we deserve as a club? Some of us have paid a fortune to go down to London for this match and for it to be treated as a ‘dead rubber’ almost is an insult to the fans and the stature of our club. It’s certainly is not good enough and heads need to roll somewhere for it to be this bad.

Either way, things ain’t good at our great club. Something is seriously wrong for either of the above scenarios to be true and I’m starting to have serious concerns about the direction we are going in, and the hands that the club is in. We should be going to arsenal to scrap, to have a go and to try to win - end of. Regardless of our league position etc etc.

Finally, Tosun. Why do I get the feeling that we’ve bought another dud? An all too familiar pattern is emerging after we buy a player - they play one game, they get dropped to the bench, and than disappear completely (Sandro, Klaassen etc) . It is very worrying how this has happened yet again.

1.) 04 Feb 2018
04 Feb 2018 00:41:04
We don't know if are new player's are bud because they can get on the field lookman scored the winner on loan bad management. good points made.