Jimmy Dixon

His record is 4th, 7th, 5th. Two UCL qualifications and one league cup. Looking unlikely he'll deliver anything like that this season. But you have to let it play out.

It's a big risk to replace a manager with a track record of delivering. I remember people wanting Ruben Amorim to replace Howe before he got the Man Utd job.

Yeah it's bad. Doesn't erase all of the good stuff from history though.

Winning the league cup and finishing top 7 three seasons in a row certainly entitles him to a lot more time, IMO.

He's earned the right to a lot more time. This is the most difficult period since he got the job though.

Far too slow and tentative in and out of possession again. It's become the norm.

Woltemade is a class player, but his lack of pace is a problem in this formation. Everyone talks about our big 3 in midfield, but I thought thee who started against Spurs looked far better balanced than our first choice 3 have done for a while now.

When you play the top 4 sides, you need them to miss a chance or two. If three of their 4 shots on target go in, you've got no chance.

It's not difficult to point to a success story at another club and say, "we should have signed him." That's a ridiculous use of hindsight. Why didn't Liverpool sign him before he went to Bournemouth, if it's that easy? Would have saved them a lot of money.

He's advocating for greater squad depth, but the trade-off is less individual quality. OK, squad depth is good, but do we qualify for the UCL or win the cup last season with less quality in the first 11? I don't think so.

If we'd spent smaller transfer fees over a longer period of time, I don't believe we'd have qualified for the UCL or won the cup this season. You talk about signing cheaper, hidden gems as if it isn't massively difficult or inheritaly risky.

So you would rather we'd been able to buy more players in the past 18 months but had not qualified for the UCL or won the cup?

The outcomes appear to be that we've won a trophy and qualified for the UCL twice. You're critising decisions that have brought tangible success.

Oh, right, I had no idea prone meant face down. Just thought it meant you'd been knacked.

This is what you would see if you they'd just give you a good kicking in a ballroom and you were lying prone on the floor.

Will they need to change their formation to accommodate him? I imagine you covered that in the video. I should probably watch it.

Had to read that a few times before I understood he hadn't done a 10k in 7 minutes. Bravo, young man!

I don't dabble in supposition or idle speculation. I deal in cold, hard facts.

That's a no then

I didn't deny anything. I asked if he'd ever publicly stated that.

Has he ever actually stated this? Either way, it's not an unreasonable policy.

Younger players like Cordero have been signed from overseas. Minteh, too. It's just going to take a while for us to feel the benefits. Very difficult to identify a low price under the radar signing who can be a first team option straight away

Howe was pivotal in the signings of Bruno, Tonali, Botman, and Isak, so I find it difficult to believe he has closed off the possibility of overseas signings.

I don't believe that restriction exists. Just an unfounded thing people like to trot out.

Ideally, we'd get a left footer, but I don't see many around who are good enough that we can realistically buy.

I'd be all for McAtee. We need to stick to these younger, unproven players. We've had good success with Hall, Livramento, Gordon, and Botman. We're just not geared up yet to compete with the cartel for established stars.

Somebody makes up a completely false piece of information, and then people go on about how terrible this pretend thing is. It's so tedious.

I didn't mean they deserved it. I think they just used up all their 9 lives getting to the final.

I felt like Inter had that coming. They've had an amazing campaign to reach the final, but they relied heavily on their keeper.

Not sure that's fair. Thought he did well defensively for the most part against Chelsea and Arsenal.