Relegation Thread 25-26


The quality of the league in general has gone up - us included- but means things are increasingly tight and each game on a knife edge.

In reality our general performances against Brighton/palace/West Ham could have seen us drop points whilst we could and should have got something from Leeds and spurs. I don’t think we have played that well all season.

My main worry is that we miss Branthwaite a lot - Keane has been tidy enough tbf to him but JB brings our whole defence up a level and we look vulnerable without him.

Grealish and Ndiaye should mean we stay out of trouble but I think we have a dreadfully unbalanced squad. Full backs are a mess, I don’t think our midfield three are the best and less said about the strikers the better.

Be interesting to see how get on next few games as at the moment a couple of losses/wins really puts a different spin on everything.

The fact that it’s being talked about though highlights to me that our summer recruitment in general was awful. Needed a few more short term fixes in key positions for me rather than £50 million plus for ‘potential’ stars in dibbling and Aznou.
 

In fairness everybody needs to realise - if they somehow don't already - that the monumental cock-up of the summer transfer window has cost us the entire season. It's merely a point of getting 40 points. It became apparent incredibly quickly, but let's hope things don't go from bad to worse yet.
 
MikeH72 said:
I know but multiple people are in this thread today claiming that we will definitely be spending in January.
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Kinnear will Roll out the “Careful and thoughtful loans” line and leave us with the usual weird signings, AKA a 16 year old keeper and a loan from Chelsea or Man UTD.
 
I don't think "we'll be fine" is really kidding anyone is it? Second lowest scorers in the league. We'd be mad not to look at a forward in January. Every game is going to be on a knife edge for the foreseeable.

West Ham play Burnley at home next Saturday. So could potentially be one point behind us by this time next week.

We have not had a "good start'.
 

Other than Wolves, this season will be incredibly tight and you’ll need at least 40 points. Forrest will pull themselves together and the promoted teams aren’t as woeful as last season. It’s around now when you start to see that split were even if you get a win you don’t move up far unless you are mid table. We’ve been sliding downwards since game week 3 and need to start moving up again.
 
Bryan+ said:
Kinnear will Roll out the “Careful and thoughtful loans” line and leave us with the usual weird signings, AKA a 16 year old keeper and a loan from Chelsea or Man UTD.
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I just think he’ll go totally AWOL during the month of January, if we’re lucky we will scavenge a loan on deadline day for a player that the manager will just refuse to use, and then we’ll start getting drip fed the “we tried our best but the value we were looking for wasn’t there, January is a tough window” spiel.
 
frank_da_tank said:
We have sleep walked into a relegation battle if we lose tomorrow

The new stadium and grealish has masked the reality
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I think we'll finish 12-15th.
But they've absolutely thrown away the momentum from last year and a really decent set of fixtures to start season.
No reason we couldn't be where Bournemouth/Sunderland are.
Entirely self inflicted.
 
pedro789 said:
I think we'll finish 12-15th.
But they've absolutely thrown away the momentum from last year and a really decent set of fixtures to start season.
No reason we couldn't be where Bournemouth/Sunderland are.
Entirely self inflicted.
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You say that but our team is pretty crap isnt it

Pickford
Grealish
Ndieye

Thats literally it
 

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