Maybe we should buy his replacement in the Lens team and play them both. We are too lightweight with Eze, Schlup and Olise. I would use Eze/Olise as an impact sub and play Hughes in there in the absence of a better alternative

Are you saying Doucoure is the reason? IMOhe has been one of the few shining lights this season. Give him some decent midfield support and you will see what a player we have

That’s back to back shockers at home, but I don't think Vieria is getting anything terribly wrong when it comes to team selection and tactics. If he was playing the goalie upfront and the striker at right-back then fair enough, but otherwise these things are (firstly) a matter of opinion -and opinions are a bit like arseholes, we've all got one- and (secondly) a far smaller part of any particular result than modern football likes to accept.

English football clubs have moved away from Managers whose work should be judged in the long term, to Coaches, who have a ‘Philosophy’. This may variously involve playing with a high line, or a deep block, or a false nine, or maybe even one of the players laying down behind the defensive wall at free kicks, but either way, tactics and team selections seem to have gone from being a method of trying to achieve medium-to-long term targets to being the decisive factor in specific results. Once, it was only ever players that were held responsible for their performances on a match-by-match basis, whilst the manager was assessed over the long term. Now Liverpool vs Man City is somehow Klopp's tactics played out against Guardiolas, the players simply chess pieces.

This seems to suit the clubs (who preach about stability but actually want a ‘panic’ button to press if relegation looms), the players (who take less and less responsibility for their clubs fortunes with every passing year), the ‘Coaches’ themselves (who get work on the basis that they can and will offer an instant fix), and of course the fans (who now need someone to blame, not for the medium to long term fate of their club, but for each and every bad result).

It wasn’t Vieria who gave the ball away for the second goal, and then stood there watching Kane in oceans of space. Clyne and Anderson getting turned inside out like a pair of socks for the third goal has nothing to do with tactics. Should it really be up to the coaching staff to tell Anderson and Guehi not to get lost under a high ball as they both managed to do for the fourth goal? In what set of tactics is that anything other than simply awful play from them?

As for criticisms that the club is unlikely to spend big this January, I can only advise typing the following into a search engine: ‘CPFC Published Accounts’, ‘FFP’, ‘Reality’.

Why use two words when you can use plenty?

How many other clubs, that have been in administration twice in the last 25 years and are in our position of 10 years in the Premier. There are plenty of ex big clubs that would love to be in our position.
It’s no point saying the board should invest more, it’s a business and just pouring in money isn’t viable, as clubs need to be sustainable and we have been down the route of pouring in money and ended up skint.
The issue lies in recruitment, we just don’t appear to be picking up players in Europe that can fit into the first team. Teams like Brentford, Fulham and Brighton seem to do it regularly