Brown Nose
Well-Known Member
I think we’d better with Enzo. And better looking, obviously.
Cooper is doing OK, been dealt a bad hand. He’s made some mistakes but that’s to be expected with a new squad and a lot of new players. I have hope he will figure it out but very little that we will be able to survive this season.
I think we'd have started very much like how Southampton have. And how Burnley did last season.
The difference in the PL is massive. You simply cannot get away with playing that style at this level with mediocre players. Both Spurs and Villa high pressed our defenders constantly. Nobody did that in the same way last season.
One example is Hermansen who looks terrified in possession this season when he seemed to have all the time in the world last year.
EM would have added very different players to the squad than Cooper has. But we just don't have the budget to upgrade the defensive players enough to make it work. As I suspect EM realised when he legged it the first chance he got.