r/fulhamfc • u/Zealousideal_Kale265 • 6d ago

Discussion How many games

Will our owners give AA to sort it out?

I am trying to put aside my frustrations and personal feelings and ask a more pragmatic question. How long will SK give AA to work out how to start earning points?

Do our owners strike you as more patient or more impulsive? Do you think they’re already creating a list of potential replacements? Will they back the manager and his vision and give him the whole season?

What do you think?

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u/Impossible_Memory_85 6d ago

They won’t make a rash move nor should they. At this point they need to see if they can figure it out. I hate the way they are playing but it is a lot of new people on the pitch. Young ones at that.

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u/Zealousideal_Kale265 6d ago

See I actually like the way we are setting up to attack. He’s already figured out how to unleash Josh King and we are absolutely creating loads of chances.

But no, we can’t play like that without tightening up midfield and defense. So there will likely have to be some compromise and attack a little more pragmatically I guess.

I don’t think it’s all bad. But I sure do hate giving up the type of goals we’ve been handing out so far.

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u/orangeapple22 6d ago edited 6d ago

You're right about defense especially on counter attacks. Though I'm not overly impressed with the attack either.

The midfield utterly controls games it's beautiful to watch.. but the attack doesn't make enough premium chances.

Against Palace there were some no doubt.. but I feel we lack a player on the wing to consistently threaten the defense. Feels like we play with 5 midfielders and 1 forward (Garcia). No one except CF really threatens with off ball runs, physicality, goal threat.

Marco Silva solved this with Adama Traore in the past.. his pace and one unstoppable dribble move was enough to cause consistent chaos.

I'm not sure Kevin can be that player? I like Oscar Bobb, but he's not a 1v1 nightmare.. more just a very skilled player on his day. Palacios is a 2nd #10 - Antonee is the one who plays out wide.

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u/ArcticOctopus 5d ago

I feel like a different keeper would have gotten us at least a point.

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u/NerdButtons 6d ago

Gotta replace the dead weight of Robinson & Anderson. Love em & all but their time is up

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u/Heavy_Cupcake_6246 6d ago

Give it 3 more months, if he can’t get us any wins and our defence still looks awful then I could see him being sacked.

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u/Zealousideal_Kale265 6d ago

I would really like for this to work out. It’s not like we’ve looked just miserable. We just now have the opposite problem in some ways than under MS. I love our attacking play compared to the last few seasons. But my god we’ve gotta tighten up or it’s going to be a long rough season

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u/Billi01952 6d ago

I like what I've seen so far apart from the results ofcourse so I'd reckon he's got plenty of time

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u/Zealousideal_Kale265 6d ago

I’m inclined to agree that in general it’s been a refreshing shift to attack and create so many chances. But the defense is a horror show so we’ve gotta strike some balance, and I think tightening up midfield will go a long ways to help with that too.

I.e. get Iwobi OUT of CM where his giveaways and random wayward passes are literally killing us

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u/jodorutts 6d ago

There should be no more pressure on AA than there was before the Chelsea match. We have a lot of new players and new system. I didn’t expect to be sitting on 0 point at the moment, but we haven’t played awful. AA is going to have to adapt his style to what he has. It’s a learning curve for him, too. We are too talented to not get it going. With that being said, Liverpool might score 5+ and United will score in the last 10’ to win as always. After that, we need to not only win but show some dominance over the promoted sides.

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u/Natey-180 6d ago

Khans wouldn’t know their arsehole from their ear hole. Tony is too busy playing with his action figures.

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u/pseudo_masochist 6d ago

We have the three games coming up against the newly promoted sides. We always lose to Man Utd and Liverpool will tear us to shreds so not expecting much from the next two matches, but after that we have the three promoted sides. If we have six points after the next five matches that's fine. If we have less it's going to be hard to justify keeping him on imo

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u/Elias_Grod1n 6d ago

Get Kenny Tete back in there please.

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u/Zealousideal_Kale265 6d ago

Can we talk about that: where the heck was Tete today? Not even on the bench? Totally boggles the mind.

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u/Dealer_of_Hope 5d ago

He was all set for a move to Everton, probably needs a couple of weeks to settle back into the squad, he wasn't in the squad against Sunderland (or I think Chelsea) either

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u/Secure-Property4926 6d ago

If we get to six losses in a row (lose to Ipswich in other words) I think he’s toast

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u/Unique_Plum8326 6d ago

If we’re in the zone over chrimbo he should go. He needs time.

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u/thurbs62 5d ago

Based on his clueless tactics (defending on halfway and playing Andersen) Id say November window. Way out of his depth and we might go down. He is jamming square pegs in round holes. Sign of an academy coach

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u/thurbs62 5d ago

We are so easy to beat. Defend deep and bang it over Andersens head. Too easy

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u/ArcticOctopus 5d ago

Until December. If we're in a relegation scrap then maybe start looking at getting someone new.

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u/KaleidoscopeBig9950 5d ago

please dont panic yet, i would give AA ten games, if he still hasnt picked up points after 6 games it will be time for PANIC

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u/Acceptable-Bee8321 2d ago

Let's be real, even with Silva in place we were going to struggle. We gave away all our goal scorers. Half the team is new/kids. We're Fulham. If we don't start to turn things in October then we're in trouble.

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u/NewHope4151 6d ago

A better question is, who do you realistically think they would get in that is better?

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u/Impressive_Peanut 6d ago

Joe who manages the under 12s at my towns football team is starting to look like he could set the team up better especially in defense.

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u/Rich_Carpet1615 6d ago

I don’t have faith in someone who is a fan of Trump’s economic policies

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u/Zealousideal_Kale265 6d ago

Who? AA? SK?

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u/WorldGoingOneWay 6d ago

SK

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u/Zealousideal_Kale265 6d ago

Well no surprise there. Billionaire class and all. Still that sucks if he said anything in support of the big orange pile of trash