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I take it back - anyone but Bielsa now!!!

Marcelino is being reported in the Spanish press - can’t say I know a lot about him but it would certainly be very different to what we’ve done previously e.g looking very much under our noses with PL experience. This alone is a positive to me as it suggests maybe Thelwell is having more influence?! Anyway, the football hipsters on Twitter seem to like Marcelino and by all accounts what he walked into at Valencia would make our current mess look quite tranquil!

I think Bielsa is exactly what we need… Has an identity Worked with big egos Will work players and get them fit or fuck them off Worked under pressure at massive clubs with massive pressure Mad bastard

Wow - how innovative - surely we’re the first team to ever adopt this model… makes sense really!!!

Exactly, which makes the hesitancy with moving on from Lampard absolutely ridiculous (but hardly surprising). Do it now and the ‘new manager bounce’ would be Arsenal (h) and Liverpool (a) - the time to do it was pre-world cup or after Wolves or after Brighton - we may have 6 more points on the board and thinking very differently - look at Forest - 6 points ahead of us now. We’re sleepwalking into the Championship- better late than never but the longer we leave it, the more teams will creep away.

Unless of course they need money (which it’s being reported they do) but surely the best way to ensure that is promotion so still can’t see this being any more than a rumour.

Same could be said about some of the very winnable games before the summer window closed too. Forest and Villa stand-out.

They’ve just been put under a transfer embargo so can’t see them selling anyone. Decent player though.

Like many, I really wanted Frank to succeed - I obviously want that from every EFC manager but can’t actually show too much bitterness towards Lampard. He’s completely out of his depth and this team is probably the softest of the lot but I still don’t feel any malice towards him. I just hope, whoever it is, is a Thelwell choice and we actually start connecting our thinking with a clear identity - Brighton are the model to follow - they’ve lost Ashworth and got better, they’ve lost Potter and got better - continuity and clear strategy.

He’s no Tony Hibbert…

This may not be 100% correct - after a bit more reading it’s supposedly 4 loans in total with a maximum of 2 domestic so that could mean Coady (domestic) plus 3 more foreign loans (Vinagre, Danjuma and one more).

You know he’s predominantly a winger don’t you? Hopefully, he’ll fill the role/void Richarlison left on the left wing. A goal scoring winger/inside forward is exactly what we need (amongst others).

Presuming this is a loan and Danjuma is a loan, we’d have to either send Vinagre back or sign him permanently as only 2 foreign loans allowed.

Must be - we can’t spin more than one plate at a time… usually struggle with one!

Farhad will have Another One Bites the Dust blasting out again tonight.

Ancelotti will probably be looking for a job soon… not here but we can dream!

Looks a fake account - he may be right but it’s on guess work rather than any knowledge. The fact he’s liked a tweet by a fake Joyce account tells me enough.

Tarkowski and Coady look to be getting less understanding the more they play together.

He’s a liability 100% with his fitness but at least he actually engages with the striker and challenges for headers. He probably won’t last too many 90mins but when we’re only using two or three subs from five as they’re that poor I don’t see it being a waste to get our strongest defender on the pitch.

We never really had a chance with this one as the owner is just shipping him between 2 of his clubs.

If we can’t sell him this month we may as well play him until he breaks - he’s off on a free in the summer so we’re not getting anything for him anyway. When on the pitch, he’s our best centre back - he’s crap because he’s never on the pitch!

Dyche-ball… 4-4-2 (maybe 4-4-1-1) Pickford Godfrey Mina Tarkowski Mykolenko Gray Gueye Onana McNeil Iwobi DCL I’m not endorsing Dyche as our next manager should Frank go but this in a simple direct system would bring us more points than currently. I still think Moyes will be our next manager but can definitely see us going for Dyche should he not become available. For the record, I’d want Ange Postecoglou as our next manager but I don’t think we’ve got a chance in the current predicament.

Moffi won’t be a toffee then!