Fox says sacking Lambert would be like flicking a coin??

[silhillvilla]

Sorry yes it's an opinion. Just to reiterate I am not knocking Sanchez as I have said previously I like how he holds his position and does a lot of decent "grunt" work. The slowness on the ball  is probably as he has so little options ahead of him. He is aswell still adapting to the pace of the league.

So you've gone from calling him 'a massive part of the problem' to liking him. Make your mind up.

At present he's too slow and a big part of the problem.

So, you don't like him then.

Thought we looked better without him today. Westwood recycled the ball with pace and forwards.

[Monty]

I think we look better with Westwood, but I'd rather have Sanchez in the team than Cleverley.

[silhillvilla]

I think we look better with Westwood, but I'd rather have Sanchez in the team than Cleverley.

Therein lieth the problem because you cannot play Westwood & Sanchez in the same XI
I'm no cleverly fan but I thought that was his best game for us today .

[Monty]

I think you can have Westwood and Sanchez in the same team - it's a fairly classic stopper-passer 2 in the 4-2-3-1 - with Delph further forward, where he plays his best football. They can all do something, apart from Cleverley.

[LeeB]

I think you can have Westwood and Sanchez in the same team - it's a fairly classic stopper-passer 2 in the 4-2-3-1 - with Delph further forward, where he plays his best football. They can all do something, apart from Cleverley.

I've thought that would be the ideal deployment since we signed Sanchez, it seems the best use of each players best attributes.

[Monty]

But obviously it would break the contractual agreement whereby Cleverley has to play at least an hour of every game or United are permitted by international law to invade B6.

[ez]

It's ridiculous. Such a poor record would set alarm bells ringing at any other club. With us we get comments like we're improving and we were excellent. Comments that don't match reality.

[Damo70]

I think you can have Westwood and Sanchez in the same team - it's a fairly classic stopper-passer 2 in the 4-2-3-1 - with Delph further forward, where he plays his best football. They can all do something, apart from Cleverley.

I've thought that would be the ideal deployment since we signed Sanchez, it seems the best use of each players best attributes.

Count me in on that plan too.

[paul_e]

I think you can have Westwood and Sanchez in the same team - it's a fairly classic stopper-passer 2 in the 4-2-3-1 - with Delph further forward, where he plays his best football. They can all do something, apart from Cleverley.

I've thought that would be the ideal deployment since we signed Sanchez, it seems the best use of each players best attributes.

Count me in on that plan too.

Given how obvious it appears to anyone on the outside you have to worry that we've never even tried it.

[DeeBoy1]

Swansea have been consistently successful at replacing managers, both when choosing to make a change and also when being forced to replace managers.  Southampton's success goes back from Koeman and Pochettino  to Adkins, who took them up two divisions and whom they then replaced well at the right time even though to most outsiders and even Southampton fans change wasn't necessary.

Absolutely bang on mate. Especially the last sentence, I remember laughing at them for sacking Adkins and bringing in some random Argentinian fella, in fact I said that would definitely see them relegated at the time. That's what you call a board with their finger on the pulse. I think Fox has got away with murder with this 'flip a coin' comment, I even bought it myself at first, but actually it's bollocks. If you know the game then you know who to bring in to implement whatever strategy you're laying down. If there's no strategy and you're pissing in the wind then yes...it's like flipping a coin. Worrying times, and disappointing as I really thought Fox was the first good thing Lerner had done for a while.

[pauliewalnuts]

I think we look better with Westwood, but I'd rather have Sanchez in the team than Cleverley.

Cleverley really is gash. He's nowhere near as good a player as Sanchez.

[pauliewalnuts]

Seriously, re Cleverley, are we absolutely sure there isn't some "I MUST PLAY' clause going on?

It just seems nuts. Week after week, he starts. Week after week, he looks awful.

[villan from luton]

Much as I like Sanchez, I would have done a better job than him last Sunday at Arsenal, he was awful

[dave.woodhall]

Seriously, re Cleverley, are we absolutely sure there isn't some "I MUST PLAY' clause going on?

It just seems nuts. Week after week, he starts. Week after week, he looks awful.

There can't be. After all, if he didn't play what could they do - demand him back?

[pauliewalnuts]

Seriously, re Cleverley, are we absolutely sure there isn't some "I MUST PLAY' clause going on?

It just seems nuts. Week after week, he starts. Week after week, he looks awful.

There can't be. After all, if he didn't play what could they do - demand him back?

Demand some financial penalty? As laid down in the loan deal?

I honestly don't know, but I can't see any reason for him to start every match. I know the manager is a clueless chancer, but even saying that, I wonder if he's clueless enough to have developed this Cleverley fixation alone.