2025/26 David Moyes

Bluewolf said:
Jesus christ this is embarrassing.

I keep saying this. We are in a transitional season.

We are going to have games like yesterday, like united and like Fulham. The team isnt ready for Europe or pushing for the top half of the table.

This season is all about building foundations, not worrying about relegation and looking to push on next season.

So these results this season are expected for me.

Were not going to do anything till we get in two rapid attacking fullbacks and bring in alot more pace. Yesterday watching one of our quickest players in barry getting legged by dan burn shows the absolute lack of pace in this side.

Literally all 4 of their goals yesterday came from having pace.

You could tell how terrified we were of it. If any for their players looked at us we were passing it back as fast as possible.

There was one point where we had the ball on the edge of their box and within 3 lazy presses by their players resulted in us being on the edge of our box.

I honestly dont think our attack and midfield is actually that bad but our defence is a backs against the wall defend for your life in the 18 yard box defence. We'll never be anything more then that if we dont improve on them.
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Transitional seasons are just how underperforming clubs try to justify underperformance. Sunderland aren't trying to use that excuse - they are just approaching every game like they think they can win it.

We should be much better than we actually are but we wasted money and prioritised signing players who don't even play. We shouldn't be losing 4-1 at home and we should have higher standards.
 

kimonthemac_efc said:
Fair enough Rita but I feel Onana's term with us wasn't as good as people make it out to be. He was a superb lad but his playing style just didn't suit what our managers at the time went for. We got a good fee for him and I hope he is enjoying himself at Villa.
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I understood why they went for him, he's a specialist player, a big unit and technical for countering a specific style. The all action bust a gut PL isn't where he shines, but an arm wrestle in midfield and cutting some aerial threat out is. It's about having options.
 
ToffeeTim said:
Transitional seasons are just how underperforming clubs try to justify underperformance. Sunderland aren't trying to use that excuse - they are just approaching every game like they think they can win it.

We should be much better than we actually are but we wasted money and prioritised signing players who don't even play. We shouldn't be losing 4-1 at home and we should have higher standards.
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We were battling relegation for the last 3-4 seasons mate thats where our standard have been.

Sunderland have had a good season so far but lets see where they finish the season.

Most seasons theres a newly promoted side that give it socks first half of the season and then drop like a stone during the second half.

We didnt have the money to bring in top talents to play for us. We already had a small squad last season and we lost 12-14 player in the summer that needed replacing. So we had to take chances on young talent that we can develop.

People need to remember 30m gets you potential now a days. Look at the price for attackers in the summer. You need to be spending 60m minimum now and we quite simple couldn't afford to do that with all of the players we needed to bring in.
 
Knifes to a gunfight. 🥴

Their must be some more of these terms that can be used.

Or atleast have a set limit per page that it can be used..

We need a knew approach and tactical change, on a stagnated, overused 'Term'
 
Missed opportunity.
New owners , new ground , new money , old manager.
He is solid rather than inspired.
Higher level than the previous incumbent, but still far too reserved .
We needed better this season.
Both this week’s performances neatly encapsulate his abilities.
A gritty commendable backs against the wall performance on Monday.
Followed by a dire, abhorrent and embarrassing surrender to a poorly performing team yesterday .
We were slow throughout the game yesterday and totally lacking in urgency or intent, and have been all season.
We never looked like we had the heart to fight back from that dispiriting first minute goal.
At 3-0 it looked like we were more focused on ensuring we didn’t concede a fourth rather than exhibiting any intent to make a fight of it.
He is not what we needed at this point.
But sadly he is what we got .
 

Saint Domingo said:
I’d have taken 6 out of 9 from Fulham United Newcastle. It was a bad performance and they happen to poor teams which we are.

I come back to the same point which i made under Dyche that most of the players aren’t good enough and there’s no pace anywhere in the team.

This team will achieve nothing unless Branthwaite comes into the defence and a Onana replacement is found for midfield.
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Agree on Branthwaite and the lack of pace - really grinds my gears that we haven’t addressed the pace issue which has dogged us for going in for a decade! I thought Onana was just bang average though and we didn’t exactly pull up any trees with him in the team anyway. He might turn out to be the next Zidane but I just didn’t see it with us
 

Eggsyblueskin said:
Followed by a dire, abhorrent and embarrassing surrender to a poorly performing team yesterday .
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drew with Villa
beat m city
beat forrest
beat Fulham
trounced us.

It's pretty clear to me outside of two last kick of the match winners vs rs and arsenal, they've been set up this season to give the CL a run proper.
 

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