As much as tonight is a disgrace and a capitulation that a lot of people have said was coming - I still cannot envision any possible scenario where the owners sack their chosen manager after 2 poor league results and a CL playoff battering. Maybe I’m wrong. I just can’t see it.
I honestly can’t believe how bad Diomande has been this season. It’s like he’s a different player. I know not everyone is a massive fan of him, but he is so much better than he’s shown this season.
If we sack Martin 4 weeks after promising a total rebuild of the club from top to bottom, which we all knew would take time - what lunatic would want to manage us after that? Not saying do or don’t, but I’d be very worried about how the club would be seen by prospective managers.
Can fully understand people not supporting Martin, he hasn’t shown anything so far to make people back him. But there seems to be a wave of revisionism that Clement and Barry were both brilliant and never should have left, which is completely demented.
Gio was mostly an utter disaster. Shat the bed vs them in Feb 22 and I’d have sacked him on the spot. The euro run was incredible and his football was perfectly suited to it. It never would have worked domestically and we actually should have sacked him much earlier than we did.
Why are people obsessed with the past? Goldson not good enough, Kent not good enough, Morelos not good enough. Doesn’t matter how good / bad our team is currently
Are we really doing this thing again where fans think you just have to decide to sell a player and a random club appears and pays you the asking price. Obviously we’d have sold players if anybody had bid for them. They haven’t, so getting them out on loan is better than nothing.
My favourite ever player. An unbelievable player. I’m of an age where I’ve been lucky enough to see Laudrup, Gazza, Coisty, Albertz live but I was pretty young - Barry is the player I have most enjoyed watching at Ibrox when I started to really understand the games.
Would be absolutely thrilled if we somehow shift out Dessers and replace him with Miovski. Not saying Miovski is a world beater, he’s not - but as a replacement for Dessers I’d be absolutely delighted.
Has anyone else actually seen this interview where Gassama says it’s pronounced “Cassam” - or has Tom commentator just misunderstood and everyone’s just ran with it?
Rothwell starting the 2nd half might be the most unacceptable thing Martin has done, in a long list of ridiculous and unacceptable things. The issue is, he’s got this idea that this guy is the key to how he wants to play - he’s bought him for that reason so he’ll never come out.
He’s already at the Beale stage of wild panic and throwing shit at the wall and hoping something sticks. Bizarre formation changes, demented subs - it’s spiralled well out of control and I can’t believe how quickly it’s happened.
I have wanted Tav phased out for years and I still do think he is a massive issue at the club, but there’s no possible way he’s a worse option than Aarons right now.