Ramón Rodríguez Verdejo (AKA Monchi)

[Demitri_C]

You haave really fucked this up monchi. You and damien have done  terrible jobs this season

[Nev]

Wankers. Glad they had to sit and watch it.

Any other role, you'd be booted.

[ozzjim]

He needs to get his fucking act together because as things stand, we've got a significantly weaker squad than we had at the start of the window.

It's not good enough.

Anyone defending Monchi right now needs to re-watch that game. We have just played a premier league game, a derby game, with:

1 centre back out of sorts.

A spanish second division right back making his debut. Replaced at half time by the player caught in headlights filling in for our best midfield player...

Our best midfielder at centre half, which cost us both the ball and a number of chances to them.

Our break out star on his knees with no alternative but to keep running him into the ground, clearly not up to being the talisman twice a week, as our league form post CL games clearly shows. He's knackered.

Tielemens at holding mid, where he always looks slightly uneasy, and detracts from our ability further forward.

And now... our 1 striker left also injured.

It is a fucking mess. The team is not right, the squad is bloody light years from last season.

Unai has his hands tied. We're heading back to mid table mediocrity or worse long term under this bloke making transfer calls.

[Demitri_C]

Great post ozz. That's nail on head

I honestly  would consider  sacking monchi in summer if he does not fix this in next few days.

How you letting carlos  and duran go with no fucking replacement ? Then knowing mings is also injured yet you have to make our wonderful manager gamble and put kamara at cb. You let dougie go and get two players  who are out in loan which dont benefit us this season at all.

You really are a clown monchi

[itbrvilla]

The team and the squad a weaker than when he arrived.

[villa for life]

Rogers, the one transfer successful buy, was personally chosen by Unai, wasn’t he?

[TopDeck113]

The lack of a defence is a dereliction of somebody's duty.

[pauliewalnuts]

He strikes me as a little too keen on his own publicity and image, and the wheeler dealer thing selling Philogene and Archer twice over plus signing some kids for the future.

What about now? The state of the squad is absolutely disgraceful, just as we've qualified for the last 16 of the Champions League. Absolutely pissed away the opportunity here.

And signing Marcus Fucking Rashford is not going to fix that.

[PhilVill]

Does Rashford play centre back?

[ozzjim]

The other issue I have. We didn't sign a player last summer, having made the top 4, that genuinely improved the starting 11.

[pauliewalnuts]

What I don't get - if this was (pre Duran sale) about money, why did we spend Ł85m on two players of the type which were nothing like the priority requirement?

[Demitri_C]

The other issue I have. We didn't sign a player last summer, having made the top 4, that genuinely improved the starting 11.

I said countless times  in the summer that we look weaker than last season when window shut. I said selling diaby and luiz in same window and not ralaly replacing them would be a disaster  and here we are. Onana hasnt shown why he is a 50m player. Maatsen hasnt looked great for the 40m we paid either. The best signing has looked to be barkley  and thats saying something.

Just a very poor recruitment window and now getying rashford in shows to continue that.

[pauliewalnuts]

Getting Rashford in at the last moment is the sort of shit, desperate "look, we are trying" thing Arsenal would do, from the later Wenger years onwards.

[LukeJames]

Everything with him seems a bit chaotic with him at the moment, like there's no joined up thinking at all. The Rashford thing is just desperate but leaving us with one fit CB is fucking stupid.

[ozzjim]

Agreed Paulie.

Barkley was our best signing in the summer, only one that brings balance to the side in midfield, but also that drive from deep.

Newcaslte have had their struggles, but Gordon, Isak, Tonali, Botman and Guimares would each be our best player if they arrived tomorrow (short of Kamara - not signed by Monchi). We just have not bought the quality in you need to to stay where we were, and are now paying for it on the pitch.