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Reply | All three promoted teams in the bottom three
at 20:44 26 Dec 2024
Leicester should stay up. They were champions last season and even their 2nd and 3rd choice strikers are better than anyone we've got.
Apart from our position in it, the Premier League is the most exciting and competitive it's been since 2015/16. It would be great to see Forest do a Leicester and win the league.
We can only dream of one day being up there with the likes of Bournemouth. |
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Thread | 12 substitutes today
at 20:26 26 Dec 2024
I think that's the first time I've seen 12 substitutes play in a league game at St Mary's. Has it happened there before?
Theirs were better than ours. They could even bring on a top class sub goalkeeper. |
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Reply | Frustrating
at 19:50 26 Dec 2024
I agree, Grumpy, I didn't get back from the game until much later so I didn't see your post before I posted mine, which is almost identical to yours.
We so, so badly needed a goalscoring centre forward this season and we still do. [Post edited 26 Dec 19:51]
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Reply | At last Tall Paul gets a start.
at 19:38 26 Dec 2024
The difference between the 2 teams today was that only one had a goalscoring striker: Jarrod Bowen. We had a lot more chances, but chances don't win games. Give Bowen 2 chances and he'll score a goal; give Onuachu 4 and he won't.
Playing a season in the Premier League without a goalscoring striker means you don't win games. We created so many chances today, it was frustrating to see we had nobody capable of finishing them, but I guess we already knew that.. [Post edited 26 Dec 19:44]
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Reply | Merry Christmas
at 12:52 25 Dec 2024
Merry Christmas. The game tomorrow should be the highlight. I'm looking forward to it. |
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Reply | Up Front
at 12:38 25 Dec 2024
Rômulo from Göztepe would be good. He's scoring a a lot more goals there than Matsuki and Juan. I think Matsuki and Juan are the ones we can bring back in January as they are on loan from us. Rômulo is on loan from a Brazilian club. His loan contract in Turkey doesn't expire until June, but I guess we should take priority. We probably won't though. Maybe we could swap a couple of our current so-called strikers for him.
Sport Republic are proving brilliant owners for Göztepe. They're having the best season in their history.
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Reply | Ivan Jurić
at 15:20 23 Dec 2024
I agree. We've already seen that when we stop the stupid passing at the back and play Ramsdale rather than McCarthy in goal, we can compete at this level. Of course, to get the goals we really need, we must get a centre forward in January.
Merry Christmas and a Very Happy New Year [Post edited 23 Dec 15:21]
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Reply | Up Front
at 15:16 23 Dec 2024
"Anyone got any thoughts on who we might be able to get?"
Ayoub El Kaabi |
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Reply | Gardening leave for Russell Martin
at 17:01 22 Dec 2024
Gardening leave for Alex McCarthy would be a good idea before he is released at the end of his contract. We'd have lost 2 or 3 - nil today, if he'd been in goal. He's cost us so many games over the years; I never want to see him play for us again. |
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Reply | Ramsdale & KWP back against Fulham
at 16:14 22 Dec 2024
Ramsdale for McCarthy and Juric for Martin = clean sheet.
I'm very happy with that. We've got rid of Martin and his stupid passing at the back, but we also need to make sure that we get rid of McCarthy asap so he can't do any more damage here in future. I already get the impression that Juric is such a sensible manager that he wouldn't pick him anyway. |
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Reply | Previous Premier League Experience As A Manager
at 20:55 21 Dec 2024
Results suggest it's not a good thing to have. Sir Alex Ferguson had none when he went to Man United, Guardiola had none when he went to Man City and Klopp and Slot had none when they went to Liverpool. You're more likely to find it at the bottom teams than at the top ones. The more Premier League clubs they manage, the worse they seem to get. [Post edited 21 Dec 21:01]
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Reply | Ivan Jurić
at 09:13 21 Dec 2024
There is always going to be a bit of cynicism after what's happened with our managers in recent years, but this time I feel more optimistic than I did when the last 2 were appointed.
I'm sure Jurić will get a great welcome from our fans. |
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Reply | Ivan Jurić
at 21:42 20 Dec 2024
Maybe he could get a Roma player here on loan until the end of the season.
Jurić had some top class players at Roma: Dybala, Cristante, Ndicka, Koné, Pellegrini, Saelemakers, Dovbyk and El Sharaawy. At the beginning of this season Roma were ranked by UEFA as the 5th best team in Europe, just behind Liverpool. He's going to have a bit of a shock when he sees the level of our squad.
UEFA club coefficient ranking
As of 29 August 2024
Rank Club Points
3 Bayern Munich 114.000
4 Liverpool 102.000
5 Roma 93.000
6 Paris Saint-Germain 91.000
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Reply | Ivan Jurić
at 11:43 20 Dec 2024
It was reported a while back that we couldn't afford to pay compensation for a manager currently in work so I guess SR looked at the pool of unemployed managers and decided that Jurić was the pick of the bunch.
Under the circumstances, we could have done a lot worse.
With regard to the Club's finances, I really hope they can wait longer before selling Dibling, as his value is only going to increase with time. Selling a player who might one day be worth £100 mill for £25 mill in January, would not be sensible unless the Club is desperate for any money they can get asap. [Post edited 22 Dec 10:23]
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Reply | Ivan Jurić
at 11:00 20 Dec 2024
I agree. My first post was a bit of a knee jerk reaction to the news. I've watched a lot of Serie A (on TV) in recent years and I quite liked his Torino team. We wouldn't have got an equivalent English manager of his calibre. |
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Reply | Ivan Jurić
at 10:45 20 Dec 2024
Kjetil Knutsen would have been my choice. He's someone who could have taken a club like ours, stuck with us for many years and given us the greatest spell in our history, as he's proved with his current club. BUT, he's turned down offers from bigger clubs than ours so we probably couldn't have got him here. I wouldn't be surprised to see him as Brighton's next manager though, as they've tried to get him in the past.
Jurić is a far less ambitious appointment. He has a record of avoiding relegation in Italy, which I guess is all SR were looking for. Anyway, I really hope it works out for him here. [Post edited 20 Dec 11:32]
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Reply | Ivan Jurić
at 10:10 20 Dec 2024
Yes, he would be as he knows he'd struggle to get another job in Serie A after his recent failure.
"On 18 September 2024, Jurić became the new head coach of Roma, following the sacking of Daniele De Rossi after earning just three points in the first four games of the season. Jurić failed to turn the team's fortunes and was regularly criticized for his management style and poor results; he was eventually dismissed on 10 November 2024, after a 2–3 home loss to Bologna that left Roma 20th in the Europa League table and only four points ahead of the relegation zone in Serie A."
To be fair, some of the other names we were linked with, could have been worse. The very fact that Roma appointed him in the first place suggests that he had a good reputation. So, let's hope things work out for him here. [Post edited 22 Dec 10:23]
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