Sad for Jürgen's time with us to peter out like this. Our forwards all ran out of form at once for whatever reason. And Jürgen's run out of gas and hasn't been able to lift them one for one more push. Was strange to see us more or less give up (Diaz maybe the exception) after their second went in. Very similar to what happened agsinst Atalanta, just seemed resigned to our fate.
Some interesting questions for the new manager re players. We don't need a clearout, although you can understand the knee jerking on here after that. But there are tough questions about all 3 forwards that played tonight, especially Mo n Nunez. If we get a big offer for Mo, I think I'd take it. Nunez could still be a good player for us but he's clearly not there yet and we can't rely on just hoping he will come good, so we need to bring a finisher even if he stays.
The defence I think need a kick up the arse more than anything. I think Jürgen has tolerated too many bad habits there for quite a long time now. Trent has been indulged for me, have thought this for 2 or 3 seasons. You think it'll be ok, cos he's so good going forward etc, and we can get away with just one iffy defender. But the problem is that when one defender is allowed to treat defending as optional, that casualness starts to spread. I think we have good players across our defence, the new man just needs to get a bit less tolerant of slackness.
In midfield we need 1 top class CM so we're not over-reliant on Mac. He was very good all season for me, until the last month when his form troughed. Our poor form coincided with his, we just didn't have another midfield general who could step up.
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