28 Dec 2025 20:06:04
Just had a longish conversation with a fellow ST holder who says he has been told that EM will be sacked if we lose on Tuesday.
I personally think it’s just noise. I think EM will be our manager until the end of the season. I also believe his future at the club will be decided by the owners/SD’s at the usual end of season review.
29 Dec 2025 13:32:32
Arsenal stuck by Arteta through very lean times Tom when the majority of their fans wanted him out, now look at them. Man U sticking with Amorim and starting to pick up, Liverpool stuck with Slot and starting to pick up, we need a period of stability and are in the top 5 of the toughest league in the world and patience is needed, give him until the end of the season and then evaluate which is what clubs with a proper plan tend to do.
Ignore fans calling for a new gaffer as those same fans will soon turn on the new coach and we go through the same motions all over again.
29 Dec 2025 14:19:01
RPD, I agree. I hope EM is our manager for years to come for the obvious reasons.
29 Dec 2025 15:47:43
Is that how long pep is staying at Man City Tom?
29 Dec 2025 16:58:02
Not sure what Pep has got to do with anything but he is leaving City in the summer so I assume EM will be mentioned for the job but the bigger rumour is EM to Juve.
Either wouldn’t be a bad job for an “idiot” or “clown. ”.
29 Dec 2025 18:00:26
Rom
I'm sure you know that many people get jobs where they are out of their depth.
29 Dec 2025 18:24:14
I suppose it could be argued that we all give our opinions even when we are not qualified to give an opinion.
EM is qualified to be a coach. At the moment he is deemed as a successful coach by some and not bye others.
There are some who just want him sacked without even suggesting an available alternative.
If he is to leave, the end of the season would seem to me to be a good time on lots of levels.
29 Dec 2025 20:24:45
Tom
No matter how many suggestions we make, it's not in our hands so it really does not matter who we would want, it's all down to the owners and SD's.
29 Dec 2025 20:31:17
Bill, exactly and the chances of them making me happy are close to zero if they do it now and about 20% if they decided to do it in the summer.
30 Dec 2025 09:13:34
Says a lot about our ownership and leadership then Tom.
30 Dec 2025 10:05:27
I think it says more about fickle fans and how impossible it is to make all football fans happy.
My view and main focus is on supporting the club, manager and players as often as I possibly can.
30 Dec 2025 11:08:40
He better off sacked. He wants to leave anyway. His tactics don’t work, we’re being found out with these eatupid inverted full backs. We’re getting caught out out wide. Our wingers need help over lapping runs ect.
Garnacho and Neto are always two or three on one. It’s pathetic. If we lose the ball we’re screwed. Cucurella is in midfield, challobah had to come across then we’re left with one maybe two defenders left to mark 4 attackers.
30 Dec 2025 12:01:51
I may well be wrong but I actually think there are some supporters who are so desperate to see the back of EM, they want us to lose.
30 Dec 2025 15:01:52
Never Tom, not sure where you got that assumption from, I have not read anything like that on here.
30 Dec 2025 15:53:52
Bill, I have this season and twice last season. It’s probably me but I think that some just want EM gone at any cost.
30 Dec 2025 18:55:02
I said I would rather watch us lose 5-4 than watch some of the boring football we have endured recently.
That being if we score 4 its at least entertaining every game. At the minute we are lucky to score one or two if we manage to bore the pants off the opposition first. And sneak behind their low block. All so boring and slow
Would I want then beaten so someone gets the sack no. I just want he to actually entertain us.
30 Dec 2025 21:40:12
I didn’t find that first half very entertaining and it finished 2-2. I was far happier with our second half controlled performance and that finished
0-0. I know what half I preferred.
30 Dec 2025 21:56:24
Tom
There is absolutely no pint in controlling possession if you can't win a game.
30 Dec 2025 22:12:38
Tomb you prefer a 0-0 draw over a 2-2 draw. Suppose it says the difference in our personalities.
You like a good old bore fest 0-0 and I want to be entertained with goals with a 2-2.
No wonder you keep beating the bore. Sorry I ment drum from merasca.
30 Dec 2025 22:23:36
Bill, I got shouted down about my preference for winning over performance. My position hasn’t changed.
As I’ve said before, three champions league finals, two git outplayed and won the other we were the better side and lost. I know what games made me happy.
30 Dec 2025 22:34:28
Definitely won't argue with that Tom.
30 Dec 2025 22:52:05
From a Chelsea prospective I can’t believe anyone enjoyed or was entertained by that first half performance.
Give me a boring win any day of the week.
30 Dec 2025 23:53:50
You never said boring win. You said a 0-0 over a 2-2.
31 Dec 2025 05:10:28
I preferred the second half 0-0 display rather than the first half 2-2 sh#t show.
I will also take any boring win over any entertaining draw or loss. Hence my Champions League response to the post from Bill.
31 Dec 2025 20:53:44
yeh problem is tom pal. we're not winning anymore. with everything that's come out today its been made clear as day maresca is gone. shame we can't be rid of the idiot directors and eghbali.
31 Dec 2025 22:01:15
My last comments of 2025- I don’t care what anyone thinks.
Maresca is nowhere near a top class coach and never will be- the Pep Lite possession football is boring and stifles our creative players. However, I do have some sympathy for him being overseen by the two Muppets and when he goes I do worry about who might be appointed. No top class manager would want to work under the present setup. So, Sanchez has improved: really. He has obviously been instructed to hoof the ball upfield or throw it out because he has two left feet.
He has no composure or positional sense and flaps around like a half-dead fish on a trawler and when we concede he tries to blame everyone else. Watch the replays of the goals we conceded against Bournemouth yesterday. Garnacho, Gittens, Pedro and Delap are poor signings and wouldn’t start for any top team. The one positive is Estavou but if Maresca stays he be ruined and Palmer will be off.
01 Jan 2026 00:46:44
Sounds like I owe my mate a drink. Good info and dismissed by me.