Perhaps TM will be converting Adam into a CB to partner Lenihan?

So who in the world are we going to replace him with? TM can't even get a decent defender in so far, good goalkeepers are even harder to come by. We really have to be praying at this point that there is some kind of plan, or else things are going down the...

I'm not sure how anyone is acting as if what's happening right now isn't a complete total farce. Everyone associated with the club understood perfectly that we need 5-6 new players, a brand new defense, and all TM can do is stand there with his hands in his pockets mumbling "Well there I suppose it's a hard job bringing people in." Well it's your job. If you can't, move on and let someone else try. If Venkys are stopping you, be a man like Benitez and tell it how it is. We are less than 4 weeks away from kickoff and we have improved nothing.

It's a signing lacking any and all ambition. We have massive defensive problems, this does nothing to address that. Upfront we already have decent players only problem is Graham is aging - getting in the squad someone two years older not gonna help either. It's a back-up signing when we crucially need strengthening in several positions, and TM and Venkys have given absolutely no clue they have the ability to fill them.

Would it be absurd to ask about Sturridge? I mean his last outing was at West Brom where he failed miserably, he can't have his sights set too high...plus here he would be a guaranteed starter every game. This is if he wants to play football. If he is happy warming the bench with much higher wager at another club for the rest of his career...that would be unfortunate.

Can somebody please print out a list of our results between february and April and staple them to Mowbray's forehead as he considers wasting the summer and waiting for last minute deals? It's fine if he can't pull off supposed miracles in the transfer market, but then resign and go and let's find someone who can. It's 1st of June and I'm already getting sick of this.

Yep hard to believe they were so poor - maybe their poorest game of the season - in Spurs' biggest match in history. Nothing they did worked. But to be fair, Liverpool defended like champions.

Unless all this is a complex 3D chess media game to hide our financial ambitions from our opponents...TM's recent comments have been depressing as hell. Pretty much admitting Venkys arent going to help with anything, only cheap miracle buys will save next season.

So far absolutely no signs that a mass clear-out is coming. In other words, so far no signs of improvement, no signs we have any reason to hope for something better next season. TM must explain the situation.

I was thinking for all Barca's quality...they definitely could have used a Lenihan in defence tonight. ?

Right, thanks for the efforts lads, but from tomorrow we need a massive clearance. Either many of the players go or TM, one or the other.

Happy, now I have a team to root for in the tournament.

Good on Bolton's players but it shouldn't take unpaid wages for people to act. Vulture owners, Venkys included, need to be put on blast long before that. The FA doesn't give a damn about the destruction of football clubs as long as the players are playing and its getting its money, but it will start caring when there's no matches to be played.

Happy for the away fans but where are we pulling these wins out of. Jackyl and Hyde on steroids season.

Football is bizarre really. How did we pull this off now, with nothing to play for?

And owners from hell to top it off.

Does Arsene want a real football challenge?

If he can produce a guarantee tomorrow that there will be a VERY meaty lists of players exiting the day the transfer windows open in the summer, with a very specific list of likely potential replacements, sure, give it another go. But as things stand the most he is able or willing to do is 1-2 changes at most. And undoubtedly we will have to listen to him branding this season a "success." He is happy with 18th- 19th. So unless there is a dramatic change in his philosophy soon, he must go. Voted to leave.

If Tony cares about the fans he will go. We deserve someone who has the ability to improve us next season.

Unfortunately this is also true. We have almost been living in fantasy land the last 1-2 years or so because Venkys haven't done something outrageously stupid, which was the norm until then. TM, as much as all trust is departing from him, is God-send compared to what we had before under Venkys and could very possibly come after. If we were a normal club we should have the freedom to pick a better manager. But there has to be genuine terror at any decision Venkys could take post-TM. We're in a truly shit, shit, shit position.

Has he since been working as our defensive coach?

Enough. Time to go. I have no ill feelings to him and he definitely has been better than the last few, but it is beyond clear he cannot go any further. In the interviews he has made it abundantly clear that he is unwilling to bring significant changes to the squad. He is too loyal/stubborn and doesnt recognize just how much the defence especially needs changing. We are doomed if we dont get him out and bring someone else in to reacess the squad in the remaining games and overhaul the team in the summer. I am completely convinced of that now. TM must go. Now.

well thank God. Looks like we will at least stay up this season. If only we could end the season here and go again...

Everyone seems to be commenting on Liverpool's fans, but is arab royalty oil money really what should be conquering football? PSG and City are specialty projects, not football ambitions. I know all sorts of other bad types own football clubs, but surely there must be a land in the sand somewhere?

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/rovers/news/17488517.rovers-boss-recent-run-shouldnt-overshadow-the-season/ Interviews like this are the most infuriating thing one can read. Focused on what great of a job we did and how much he wants our players to be "enjoying" themselves. It's not gonna happen, but imagine if we had a certain someone with this mentality back to give them a talking: