Are you worried?

[Chip Butty 111]

We get nearly everyone fit and somehow go to pot. So many poor individual performances all over the pitch. We have lost our mojo completely, last season playing the high line brilliantly for a long time..this season we get a corner and the opposition score ! Everything looks pedestrian, predictable and short of ideas. Chelsea will get top four and I'd imagine we'll be around 7th. We could do with a couple of new faces in January.

[ChicagoLion]

Not worried, just coming to the realisation that we are some way off where we were a year ago.
We look like a mid table team that can play some great stuff but lacks consistency and intensity at both ends of the pitch.

[Demitri_C]

Not worried, just coming to the realisation that we are some way off where we were a year ago.
We look like a mid table team that can play some great stuff but lacks consistency and intensity at both ends of the pitch.

I think thats a reality of the situation and something we  need to reluctantly accept.

[PaulWinch again]

Christ I’m not thrilled with direction of travel - there are obvious, and clear, things to fix - but consigning us to being a mid table side now is a bit bloody defeatist and over the top.

[Aldridge Villa]

I am to a degree. A year ago tomorrow we won at Spurs when we were playing very very well.Our performances 2024 to date have been in the main , and I emphasise in the main , miles off from where we were in the autumn of 2023.

[Ads]

No, as Kamara will hopefully be back (again) soon. We've conceded a tonne of goals since February. I wonder why.

[SoccerHQ]

Not worried, just coming to the realisation that we are some way off where we were a year ago.
We look like a mid table team that can play some great stuff but lacks consistency and intensity at both ends of the pitch.

Someone on here made a great reference that this is our 96/97 to follow 95/96 the other week.

That wasn't a bad season but ultimately we went out of all the cups very early so just finishing 5th was actually seen as underachievement and it was referenced on the end of season review.

I'd actually be o.k with 6th as Europa league is a competition we can challenge to win if we take it seriously.

A problem though is the eye watering prices we're charging now means a section of our fanbase will think we should be making CL pretty much every season otherwise why the endless increases and fleecing of loyal fans so that creates its own expectations and then shorter patience when we hit poor runs of form as we are now.

I think this is the most difficult time of Unai's spell as when we've lost a couple of games previously we've generally been playing well and you felt a good run was around the corner. Now we're chucking in some really disappointing halves so hard to be confident we'll beat Brentford at home which is critical game now.

[Chip Butty 111]

The daft thing is, after tonight's result at the Etihad, if we hadn't conceded in the last seconds against Bournemouth and scored the penalty and won today...we'd be in second place now. It's a strange season so far...

[LeonW]

Concerns are:

• To my mind, the performance levels of everyone bar Digne, Tielemans and Duran (in moments) has dropped from last season.
• Our attacking set up has suddenly become based around Rodgers which is problematic in the sense that he’s still relatively raw and learning at this level, it’s impacting the speed at which we’re getting the ball forward. And if he’s negated, it seems we don’t seem to have an alternative.
• Relying on Bogarde and philogean to be serious alternatives is looking like a big mistake as neither are remotely ready yet for this level.
• We cannot defend and seem to have no ability to change that.

[ChicagoLion]

Christ I’m not thrilled with direction of travel - there are obvious, and clear, things to fix - but consigning us to being a mid table side now is a bit bloody defeatist and over the top.

I said we look like a mid table team, it’s not defeatist, it's the reality of where we are and how we are playing.

[Beard82]

Concerns are:

• To my mind, the performance levels of everyone bar Digne, Tielemans and Duran (in moments) has dropped from last season.
• Our attacking set up has suddenly become based around Rodgers which is problematic in the sense that he’s still relatively raw and learning at this level, it’s impacting the speed at which we’re getting the ball forward. And if he’s negated, it seems we don’t seem to have an alternative.
• Relying on Bogarde and philogean to be serious alternatives is looking like a big mistake as neither are remotely ready yet for this level.
• We cannot defend and seem to have no ability to change that.

I think this is a fair summary.  I think Onana has been fine since he came in too tbh.

[Goldenballs]

Won just five of our last 16 Premier League games

[PaulWinch again]

Christ I’m not thrilled with direction of travel - there are obvious, and clear, things to fix - but consigning us to being a mid table side now is a bit bloody defeatist and over the top.

I said we look like a mid table team, it’s not defeatist, it's the reality of where we are and how we are playing.

I was more referring to Demetri’s reference to reluctant acceptance.

[ChicagoLion]

Christ I’m not thrilled with direction of travel - there are obvious, and clear, things to fix - but consigning us to being a mid table side now is a bit bloody defeatist and over the top.

I said we look like a mid table team, it’s not defeatist, it's the reality of where we are and how we are playing.

I was more referring to Demetri’s reference to reluctant acceptance.

Ok,sorry, because I think we are on the same page regarding the problem starts with the midfield.

[PaulWinch again]

Christ I’m not thrilled with direction of travel - there are obvious, and clear, things to fix - but consigning us to being a mid table side now is a bit bloody defeatist and over the top.

I said we look like a mid table team, it’s not defeatist, it's the reality of where we are and how we are playing.

I was more referring to Demetri’s reference to reluctant acceptance.

Ok,sorry, because I think we are on the same page regarding the problem starts with the midfield.

Yep absolutely, we fix that and I think we see a totally different team.