My personal opinion is that should we continue on a poor run, keep sliding down the table and our PL place is in real danger with about 10 games left, thoughts might turn to a change of manager.
At present, a change is not on the radar.

I don't and have said as much on here a couple of times. Notwithstanding his appointment at Everton I don't think he would look at our group and want to manage them.

With regard to Vieira I'd defy any manager to get goals consistently from the players we have. It was absolutely criminal we didn't get a better attacking option in January.

As I've also said before this reminds me of Roy's last season when he was constantly criticized for using one bang average player over another average player.

There's been a lot of chat about Eze but he has never looked a no10 or midfield player IMO. He looks an out and out left sided attacker. Perhaps PV could have used him there Saturday but by the same token he may have wanted to use him as an impact sub given how limited his bench is.

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Just for my own amusement if nothing else CC - one of my fondest memories of what was an unhappy time in my youth was my uncles taking me to the Den at every available opportunity as an albeit futile attempt at conversion. One of them used to consistently, and constantly, scream the phrase 'What do you do all week?' at his own team when the simplest mistakes were made.

Still makes me laugh but I have always maintained that he had a point.

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

Context Willo is everything. £100m over FOUR windows is not great in PL terms for clubs outside the big 6/7. Fulham spent that in one window on a previous occasion they came up and went straight down again.

Last summer (2022) alone:
- W Ham spent £160m (nett £147m)
- Forest £141m (nett £135m)
- Wolves £123m (nett £71m)

We had gone several years before then, as you well know, spending virtually nothing and allowing a mature squad to age to crisis point in Summer 2021 when we spent the grand total of £66m.

Our current 5 year nett spend places us 16th in the table of current PL members. Of those below us two (Bournemouth and Brentford) are clubs with only 2 or 3 years in the PL and the other two are clubs who are further along the development road than us, namely Leicester and Brigh...

I'm 'fanboying' some of your posts this morning TL and like this one again.

I honestly must of missed where the criticisms of Mateta came from previously so somewhat 'stood up' for him however he was beyond awful vs Brighton. At one point he actually knocked over Webster, completely outmuscling him, retained the ball and made some ground. ST holder next to me said 'why doesn't he do that more often' and I suggested I think he just lacks the coordination to physically achieve what he mentally intends the majority of the time.

Edouard I'd argue still looks lacking in confidence/assurance of his position more than disinterested to me. Still better than Mateta but I don't think Ayew is a bad shout at all. The only argument there is his lack of goals but in current company not an issue. He'd at least win/retain the ball more often and God forbid we might actually start building something constituting attacks from open play.

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

No, we have spent 132.4M Euros since 4th July 2021, PVs 1st day, with 14 players in, at a deficit of 127.2m euros

“That’s a joke son, I say, that’s a joke.” “Nice boy, but he’s sharp as a throw pillow.” “He’s so dumb he thinks a Mexican border pays rent” “ “Son… I say, son, some people are so narrow minded they can look through a keyhole with both eyes.”__ Forhorn Leghorn