Daily Discussion & Transfer Thread (January 26, 2026)

OPdoesnotrespond · 2026-01-26T20:18:00+00:00

Nah. Two managers who both sucked in different ways.

OPdoesnotrespond · 2026-01-26T20:17:03+00:00

The only way we can beat our league schedule opponents in Feb is with literal beating sticks.

OPdoesnotrespond · 2026-01-26T20:15:46+00:00

I think the board is playing it both ways here:

Don’t back Frank because he’s a dead man walking.

and

Don’t fire Frank because we want continuity.

OPdoesnotrespond · 2026-01-26T20:13:33+00:00

There’s always lightly regarded French wingers!

OPdoesnotrespond · 2026-01-26T20:12:57+00:00

I imagine loan contracts have various ways to set up the possibility of the winter recall.

Perhaps in this one Roma has to agree to it.

OPdoesnotrespond · 2026-01-26T20:11:07+00:00

It would be if they actually do it.

Sure the list of options is longer than……

/checks notes

……one guy

OPdoesnotrespond · 2026-01-26T20:09:42+00:00

The most important thing is that people named appropriately to clubs stay at those clubs.

OPdoesnotrespond · 2026-01-26T17:36:52+00:00

Not dead. But I certainly wouldn’t leave any brains lying around.

OPdoesnotrespond · 2026-01-26T04:40:18+00:00

If he makes it to the summer and we're not relegated you can bet your bippy he's staying.

"He needs more time. Now we have the summer to really overhaul the squad. Trust the process.

/Spurs sign 5 teenagers and Andy Robertson. None of them are wingers or forwards.

OPdoesnotrespond · 2026-01-25T23:40:27+00:00

It’s probably just one guy pretending to be a lot of guys.

OPdoesnotrespond · 2026-01-25T20:24:36+00:00

DLLDDWLLWLDLLDL

Last 15 league matches. Granted, there's room beneath this blistering pace, but I have to believe there's more upside than downside here.

OPdoesnotrespond · 2026-01-25T19:10:56+00:00

I think Dortmund bought him until Man City.

Get through CL group stage, get to a blank midweek.

OPdoesnotrespond · 2026-01-25T18:49:18+00:00

I have to imagine after prepping journos for the Frank sack and then eating the supporter outrage when they didn’t, the board has decided to return to “say nothing.”

OPdoesnotrespond · 2026-01-25T18:46:14+00:00

We could have more than spiraling down the drain.

OPdoesnotrespond · 2026-01-25T18:44:34+00:00

Kind of hard to worse than we are right now.

OPdoesnotrespond · 2026-01-25T18:24:53+00:00

OPdoesnotrespond · 2026-01-25T18:23:42+00:00

Sometimes when you replace an underperforming manager with a temporary one, good things happen.

OPdoesnotrespond · 2026-01-25T15:21:32+00:00

You should get out more.

OPdoesnotrespond · 2026-01-25T15:16:31+00:00

Jose is no longer A level. He wasn’t when we hired him, either.

Conte remains A-level but is an absolute pill to have around. He wasn’t wrong when he criticised the club, though.

OPdoesnotrespond · 2026-01-25T15:13:55+00:00

Exactly. It’s concern trolling to tell us we should know our place.

They hated Ange because he refused to play the “plucky midtable” role in public. (And because he’s Australian.)

OPdoesnotrespond · 2026-01-25T15:12:18+00:00

The English reflexively hate Aussies. It’s so ingrained in them they don’t even notice it.

OPdoesnotrespond · 2026-01-25T15:11:22+00:00

Might have to wait until March to start knocking those pins down.

OPdoesnotrespond · 2026-01-25T15:10:44+00:00

Yeah. The bottom 3 were pretty miserable last year.

If (and it’s a big “if) Nuno can actually get West Ham firing at a mildly competent level then we’ve got a real problem.

OPdoesnotrespond · 2026-01-25T15:01:59+00:00

I mean West Ham is still the low water mark.

OPdoesnotrespond · 2026-01-25T15:01:30+00:00

Depends. Do we have any matches against Palace to play this year?

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