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BBC News
28-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Recruitment, tactics or quality? Your reasons behind relegation
We asked for you to tell us the key reasons behind Ipswich's relegation from the Premier are some of your comments:Matt: Overall, the quality of the squad was not good enough for the Premier League. There was not enough depth. Our five subtitutes were good League One and Championship players while our opponents had internationals. Injuries to proven playmakers like Wes Burns, Omari Hutchinson, Jaden Philogene, Nathan Broadhead and Chiedozie Ogbene also meant we did not create Too much too soon. A fantastic side with a fantastic leader in Kieran McKenna, but all a year or two too soon. Incredibly proud of the team and manager for performing as well as they have. Finishing 17th was the target, and whie we have fallen short, anyone who has watched the games (and not just the highlights) will see that we have given a good account of Really inept recruitment is what has sunk us. There were a few bright spots in Dara O'Shea and Liam Delap, but we bought a calamitous goalkeeper in Arijanet Muric and then stacked our attack with youngsters from the Championship, while relying on a collection of the old, the sick and the lame in centre The manager decided that we could play like we did in the Championship and it would be all right! Instead we should have been defending for our Essentially, recruitment and an unsettled team. The boys who won two promotions were not really given a chance to prove or to develop themselves. How must some of them have felt having done all the hard work only to be almost sidelined by untested and untried players?
BBC News
14-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Brighton 2-2 Leicester - the fans' verdict
We asked for your views on the 2-2 draw between Brighton and Leicester in the Premier are some of your comments:Brighton fansStuart: One of the worst performances I've seen at the Amex. Dunk was really poor, and I love Hinshelwood, but he's not a right-back - he is constantly out of position. Too many passes on the edge of the box, please just shoot. Leicester deserved the As awful as it was predictable. There weren't many Brighton fans turning up expecting us to win. The squad is ravaged by injuries, Dunk very sadly no longer good enough for this level and a head coach that's just been given a role too big for him. Any talk of Europe has to stop as we should just hope we can finish in the top half. It's been a really underwhelming season. Need it to be over quickly!Anton: See it so many times, great play and clever moves until it gets to the last strike, then it all goes wrong. We have missed a ton of goals season after season which should have been converted. Watching us move the ball with clever calculated passes, great intelligent game play and sometimes an almost second sight, just to be let down in front of fans Brad: Who is this Leicester side?! Couldn't score if our lives depended on it! And yet on Saturday they played like a team that had something to fight for! Let's hope we can now end this season on a bit of a Mavididi our best player - why hasn't the manager used him this season? There's a half decent team in there somewhere but Van Nistelrooy hasn't got a clue what his best team is, nor can he inspire them to fight for the club whose shirt they are A much better performance from the lads and on another day with a different referee we may have won the game. Coady penalty was harsh, Mavididi not given a penalty when his opponent had his hands around the neck/throat and his face. Encouraging signs, but we had them against West Ham too just after Ruud arrived.
BBC News
14-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Nottingham Forest 0-1 Everton - the fans' verdict
We asked for your views on Everton's win at Nottingham Forest in the Premier are some of your comments:Forest fans Al: Slow in thought, play, process, everything. The worst Forest performance I've seen this season. No complaints about the result, Everton did a job on us and actually looked like they were hungrier than Forest looked like a team of strangers. It must have been a record the amount of second balls we didn't even challenge for. Nuno needs to tell them that they're not on the beach yet. Forest looked like the long season has been catching up with them. Elanga, Gibbs-White and Hudson-Odoi were not at their best and an uncharacteristic mistake from Murillo for the goal. They're going to have to dig deep for the rest of the season to keep their coveted league fansPaul: Great result and well deserved, Moyes really has put the belief back in the club. Watching that game, you'd think it was Everton who were third not Forest. We need to add more quality in the final third, if we do that we can really push on next Thoroughly deserved and a really comfortable afternoon of football. Everton never let Forest get going, though I thought they were poor and fear for their Champions League participation after that performance. I will be interested to see what happens to Everton under Moyes next Amazing game from Everton. In the away end for my first ever game - amazing sound and atmosphere from us and we deserved to win. What an end! This is why we love this game and this club.
BBC News
07-04-2025
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- BBC News
The right decision? Fans on Juric's exit
We asked for your views on Southampton parting ways with manager Ivan Juric following confirmation of the club's relegation from the Premier are some of your comments:Maximus: I think it's the right decision; Ivan Juric was brought in to keep us up, so there's no point in keeping him on now that we've been relegated. It gives us more time to find a new manager who will hopefully get us playing a cohesive and adaptable style of play with players who want to be there. If we can get promoted again at first try, and then stay up, so much the The club is a mess, poor signings, players and managers for the past four seasons, penny pinching on decent players and buying too many youngsters. You get what you pay for, this season has proved it. If this continues we will struggle in the Championship next Not his fault. Another bad decision from the top. Huge swing in style to Juric from Martin, players already struggling, not hard to see it go this way. Can only hope Johannes Spors is truly in the driving seat now and can work on implementing a long-term vision which is Southampton owners and management are a disgrace. Relegation is not the manager's fault, it is firmly theirs. Lack of investment, the selling of every decent player they ever had and giving managers an uphill task every time. Without change, nothing will change. Time for the owners to move on and sell their interests to people with I do believe we had a group of players that are better than the results have shown this season. We have had two managers who have diametrically opposite philosophies on how football should be played, so I think the blame for this should fall with the owners but I am very happy to be patient - let them learn from their mistakes and build a club for the future.
BBC News
04-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
'Toothless, passive, hopeless, clueless'
We asked for your views on Chelsea's win over Tottenham in the Premier are some of your comments:GT: Toothless, passive, hopeless, clueless - take your pick. Ange has no excuse because we have all of our players back. That was Our style of play under Ange has been so laborious, sloppy and littered with mistakes. We put up a reasonable effort but you would normally look to a manager to instil more discipline in how we play. Antonio Conte used to drill the side and we got results. That's what is missing. I'm looking forward to the summer and hopefully a new manager. Until then, we Yet another miserable performance. We only showed signs of threat near the end of the game, by which time it was too late. Ange is hanging by his last thread - the Europa League. If he doesn't win that 'trophy in his second year', then I don't see him having a future at Spurs. It was great at the start, but now Ange's reign has to come to an end if we want to improve as a football Poor Ange has been out of his depth all season. He is a one-trick pony and the best managers in the world have worked him out quickly. The players look dispirited. We have no chance of winning another game in Europe and even the Southampton game is a worrying The table doesn't lie - 16 games lost. We are wholly incompetent and clueless, on and off the There's nothing to commend, no desire and no intensity. It's just horrible to watch. Massive changes are required at the club over the summer, but they won't happen. The club is in decline on the football side, and it means nothing to the fans that they are doing well financially.
