GwladysPhil
Player Valuation: £35m
They shown a stat just before he took it where he's missed like 3 out of 4 peno's - he should not have taken it.
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They shown a stat just before he took it where he's missed like 3 out of 4 peno's - he should not have taken it.
Darth Toffeeman
Player Valuation: £40m
I think he is weak link. City possess some of the best talent in the league, and he isn't of that calibre.
evertonarntwe
Player Valuation: £35m
of course not his mistake was woeful, but if Liverpool win the league pickford isn't to blame, they've had a ridiculous amount of good fortune throughout the season
The binman chronicles
Player Valuation: £80m
I like him, I like the football we are playing, however yesterday we were so far forward that when we lost the ball we could have easily been cut to shreds. I know it is high risk/reward play but we need to be more clinical in our finishing to get away with it.
davids
Player Valuation: £70m
I'd image Frank like anyone else sensible will be waiting for the season to end to make his informed decision.Nice run of form at the moment,but as we saw earlier in the season things can change.
Did you just use 'Frank' and 'sensible' in the same sentence?
You did didn't you? lollollol
Tez
Player Valuation: £8m
We're on a great run of form and there's some really encouraging signs from the team and the manager. Finally beginning to land hits on the top six too which is a big sign of an improved mentality.
There was also a middle quarter of the season when the team were in relegation form and could not defend to save their lives.
This season was always going to be one of change and transition. It's important not to be knee-jerk both negatively and positively.
You've all been wrong at different points so stop being hysterical and just give it some time if we're not in danger of being relegated. You can't change something that has been mismanaged for four to five years in one year.
If Silva isn't good enough to make that change then we still wouldn't know for sure from this season alone.
There was also a middle quarter of the season when the team were in relegation form and could not defend to save their lives.
This season was always going to be one of change and transition. It's important not to be knee-jerk both negatively and positively.
You've all been wrong at different points so stop being hysterical and just give it some time if we're not in danger of being relegated. You can't change something that has been mismanaged for four to five years in one year.
If Silva isn't good enough to make that change then we still wouldn't know for sure from this season alone.
I doubt they were fluke wins. If Chelsea played the 2nd half like they played the 1st half and we still won then that would have been a fluke win. West Ham and Arsenal were fully deserved with better football than the opponents. That is why we are all on a bit of a buzz because they were deserved wins whereas if they were fluke wins we would still have heavy reservations to where we are heading. Those last few games have shown what this team is capable of when settled and understanding each other so bodes well and gives us that hope that has been missing for a while.
Tez
Player Valuation: £8m
I meant recruitment wise to be fair. I'm not suggesting that we haven't had some good results in that time.
We've had two 11th place, one 7th place and one 8th place finishes in those four years. Not disastrous but no progress was made and we recruited a lot of players, many of whom represented poor value and now we need to get rid of.
After Martinez's first season if you had been told that we'd be in Europe once in the following five years and we'd make a wholly show of ourselves in it due to a lopsided squad, would you have described that as mismanaged?
Gwladysstreetlad
Player Valuation: £50m
I remain unconvinced about Silva but I'm delighted with this little run. While it has been encouraging it's not enough for me to simply dismiss our atrocious form not so long ago. I just hope that he proves me completely and utterly wrong and that my fears are misplaced.
When the Sky 4 clubs start dropping out of the top 4 they have to include them somehow so its now become the 'big six'.
Barnfred 55
Player Valuation: £80m
Agree with all of the above. Pretty much sums up my feelings. That last gasp derby goal seems to have cost us a damn sight more than just the single point.
Looking back, the Newcastle game seems to be the fulcrum on which our season changed. Had we won that game, which we should have done by a large margin, I'm pretty sure we'd have gone into the next difficult run of games with a completely different attitude. However, Watford probably played at the very top of their game and then we had City and Spurs. The annoying thing is that we played so well in the derby, against a team who were flying at the time, and there was absolutely no reason for the lack of confidence that followed. The week before we had put in another excellent display at Chelsea.
So, as you say, the dual worry is that we became so bereft of confidence, and that it then took so long to turn it around. To counter that, when we are playing well you know we're good enough to give anybody in the league a game. And I don't mean just survive against them, but to cause them damage too. In that spell in the Autumn, at times we opened up United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool, away from home, in a way we've rarely seen before other than that first season under Martinez. All we have been missing is a top goal scorer. That gives me a lot of hope that the nucleus of this team (especially if we can bring in Gomes and Zouma in the summer) gives us a very sound base on which to build next season. I believe that Silva has done enough to earn himself second year at the helm.
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