Roberto De Zerbi *OFFICIAL*

[billyiddo]

I wish he would too, but I'm not sure these players are fit enough for that. Sometimes, you reach a conclusion and you see everything through that lense, but I the lack of movement has been a huge problem all season. The lack of passing ability hasn't helped but if you look at the games, we hardly ever pass it to a moving player which, in turn, makes it even more difficult for them to beat their man.

We're slow and static, which leads to more backwards and sideways passing. It also gives the impression that the players are lazy when, in fact, they might be unfit.

I wouldn't bet the house on it, but it's a feeling I've had all season.

The attacking/creative players available this season are really poor/non-existent - when will people realise this is what has forced our hand wrt attacking play more than anything else?

 

[DTA]

Yeah this guy may be the right long term manager, I don’t know.

But I really don’t think he is the right short term manager.

It’s another fúck up by agent VV and the Nepo babies.

Now some will say we were in decline for a while and there is an argument to be made for that

But Our decline since Levy was unceremoniously ousted has been biblical.

 

[Mikey10]

Maybe it really hurt? Maybe it was knowing he wouldn't be able to contribute to the next 6 games that really upset him?

Tbh I don’t really care what it was. It was not the reaction of the kind of leader needed in our situation. Making continued excuses for these players over two years has partly got us to this point. I’ve given up now on 90% of them.

 

[SubZero]

Tbh I don’t really care what it was. It was not the reaction of the kind of leader needed in our situation. Making continued excuses for these players over two years has partly got us to this point. I’m given up on 90% of them.

Sometimes it looks like captains are chosen as some kind of honorary title. To me, a captain has a distinct role, both communicative and motivational. I don't care if someone is the most senior or has been at the club the longest, or even if he's nowhere near the best player in the team, as long as he's one of the most consistent. It certainly helps if a senior player has the required attributes, but that's not a must for me. I am also opposed to having strikers and keepers as captains, but that's a discussion for another time.

Summed up, I see the captain as an extension of the manager on the pitch.

 

[Mikey10]

Sometimes it looks like captains are chosen as some kind of honorary title. To me, a captain has a distinct role, both communicative and motivational. I don't care if someone is the most senior or has been in the club the longest. It certainly helps if a senior player has the required attributes, but that's not a must for me. I am also opposed to having strikers and keepers as captains, but that's a discussion for another time.

I always thought Romero was a terrible choice.

He has prioritised his international responsibilities over his club ones since the day her arrived; he is unreliable and temperamental; he offers little in leadership on the pitch; and he vastly overrates his own ability.

Another I’ll be very glad to see gone come the summer.

 

[SubZero]

I always thought Romero was a terrible choice.

He has prioritised his international responsibilities over his club ones since the day her arrived; he is unreliable and temperamental; he offers little in leadership on the pitch; and he vastly overrates his own ability.

Another I’ll be very glad to see gone come the summer.

Add to that, he's enjoying very little respect from the referees, not one or two, but most of them.

 

[Glenda's Legs]

I always thought Romero was a terrible choice.

He has prioritised his international responsibilities over his club ones since the day her arrived; he is unreliable and temperamental; he offers little in leadership on the pitch; and he vastly overrates his own ability.

Another I’ll be very glad to see gone come the summer.

But, but he did the huddle in front of our fans in Bilbao…. (In fairness that was actually a good move).

 

[SissokoWasGood (BoL)]

Nah.
Not tough for me.
Tough is finding fault with those tears...

My saying tough was that it’s ’tough’ to criticise those tears. But I see the underlying point Deano is making.