Unai Emery

[PeterWithesShin]

Gerrard had the advantage of not having to take over a side that had been managed by someone as shit as Gerrard. And i'll lay a pretty penny that if we do lose the next 2, we'll do a lot fucking better than 28 points from the next 28 which is all that useless twat Gerrard could manage.

[pauliewalnuts]

The other difference between the two is that Emery is not a self-serving toxic ******, which Gerrard was.

[Risso]

Gerrard had the advantage of not having to take over a side that had been managed by someone as shit as Gerrard.

Wellllllll.....

[brontebilly]

The other difference between the two is that Emery is not a self-serving toxic ******, which Gerrard was.

All correct but Gerrard did to be fair identify that our centre backs werent good enough to play out from the back. Let's hope the guy he bought to address that shows his worth soon The club has a big decision to make on Mings contract too. Emery showed his ruthless side with Ings so wouldn't be overly surprised if Mings left in the summer.

[pauliewalnuts]

The other difference between the two is that Emery is not a self-serving toxic ******, which Gerrard was.

All correct but Gerrard did to be fair identify that our centre backs werent good enough to play out from the back. Let's hope the guy he bought to address that shows his worth soon The club has a big decision to make on Mings contract too. Emery showed his ruthless side with Ings so wouldn't be overly surprised if Mings left in the summer.

I wouldn't be at all surprised at that, either.

My hope is that, esp given we've done next to nothing in the recent window, Emery is preparing a fucking bonfire of mediocrity in the summer.

Mings is a fine man and a decent player but no better - too prone to rickets.

[kippaxvilla2]

Not surprising he’s playing badly if he has that.

[Chris Harte]

Gerrard had the advantage of not having to take over a side that had been managed by someone as shit as Gerrard. And i'll lay a pretty penny that if we do lose the next 2, we'll do a lot fucking better than 28 points from the next 28 which is all that useless twat Gerrard could manage.

I'd go with that.

I'm under the impression our former manager had an interesting relationship with Mings. While Mings has (IMO) a rick in him every game and we'll need to replace him in the future if we are to improve to, say regular top 7, right now he's an integral part of our team.

[SoccerHQ]

For all his flaws Mings can talk and push people up.

We were no better at Bournemouth first day when we lost two cheap goals due to Carlos limited grasp of English and Konsa really not being that type of CB.

Could be a good time to cash in on Mings but depends who's interested and it would be nice to sign someone first rather than pay an inflated fee right at the end of the window.

[Chris Harte]

Could be a good time to cash in on Mings but depends who's interested and it would be nice to sign someone first rather than pay an inflated fee right at the end of the window.

If it came to that, wouldn't it be funny if it was Leeds United.

[ROBBO]

what were the managers post match comments?

[CT Villan]

I think Mings could stay as a squad player and we bring in someone consistently better for the 1st XI. That would allow us to get rid of one of the weaker back-ups like Hause or Chambers.

[Toronto Villa]

what were the managers post match comments?

Disappointed to lose. Errors cost goals cost the game. We had enough chances to score and win the game. We have keep developing. That the first goal when he arrived was to stay up and the next having got here with good results was a top ten position which we spurned today. That we won’t stop playing it out from the back because that’s the style he wants to play. They will work on things to improve and learn. He looked gutted.

[Monty]

Virtually every good team I've seen in the last ten years had teething problems settling into the new style. Even Pep's City and Klopp's Liverpool - remember the latter conceding absolute buckets from all that space they'd leave behind them?

It is frustrating when we get pressed at the back into conceding possession close to goal, especially when it's a normally rock-solid player like Kamara doing it. But all that lovely football we've been playing, that's built on not just hoofing it when we get under pressure, and is the main reason we've gone from relegation candidates to annoyed we're not closer to the European spots in a couple of months under Emery.

I know it's annoying but life is full of trade-offs, and if you want the good football sometimes you have to put up with the clangers. I can tell you this - no fecking way I want us going back to the mesozoic hoofball horseshit that's characterised our football for two decades now just because our best midfielder had an off-day.

[ROBBO]

what were the managers post match comments?

Disappointed to lose. Errors cost goals cost the game. We had enough chances to score and win the game. We have keep developing. That the first goal when he arrived was to stay up and the next having got here with good results was a top ten position which we spurned today. That we won’t stop playing it out from the back because that’s the style he wants to play. They will work on things to improve and learn. He looked gutted.

Thanks for the synopsis, I have more faith in this manager than all the others in recent years, He will realise as we do that he hasn't got the quality needed, my only worry is that unless we do have a reasonable second half of the season it will be hard to attract the quality of player he needs.

[PeterWithe]

As good as Unai is, maybe yesterday Rogers was just as good? They seemed to have done their homework very well, they stretched our defence constantly, their press forced mistakes and they got behind us in wide positions at will, beating the offside trap regularly.

And we still should have won.