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Djenepo in today's training pics. Couldn't see Boufal or Bertrand but they were in yesterday's pics. Looks like a full squad is pretty much available, minus Redmond. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

To be fair, Saint-Maximin does have a touch of the old Adama Traores about him: great ability, dribbling, speed, but hopeless end product. Someone decent will take a punt on him if he becomes available and see if they can't harness all that potential. I'd have him at Saints in a heartbeat. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Set up for him to redeem himself against us... Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Didn't have to be a football genius or David Moyes to predict all West Ham would have to do to easily beat us was put Haller and Antonio up top and hit them direct. Pace, power, aerial strength - all the qualities we lack defensively. Newcastle will do the same with Saint-Maximan and Joelinton/Carroll. Hasenhuttl has performed miracles keeping this team up - if he does. We've got some shocking players. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

That's an absolute howler from McCarthy. Didn't even look arsed about it. We look like conceding every turn over. Nothing here for us today - too brittle. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Poor clearance from Prowse, Bednarek slow to react to Bowen's run. A minute after we faced a 3 on 1 counter from our own corner. Sloppy. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

The kissing disease? I knew we were headed for trouble when players stopped celebrating goals with just a firm handshake and a nod... Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Ramsey didn't go backwards - he was just massively over-promoted. At no stage during his brief flirtation with the first team did he look remotely close to the required level. Slow full backs don't tend to last long in the PL. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

He looks heavier than he did at the start of the season - got outpaced by Eric Dier a month ago, which was pretty worrying. Because if he's not fast, doesn't get into goalscoring positions and absolutely doesn't score, what have we bought? Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

The former. Stones was hyped as a ball playing centre back who will be amazing "when he learns how to defend". Not only has he never learned how to defend, his ball playing ability was massively overrated in the first place and every other side in the league - including us - has at least one centre back who can knock the ball around equally as well. Barkley just doesn't have a brain. No amount of coaching can help that. It takes him five touches before he realises the move was crying out for a one touch pass. And then he'll try and dribble it... Honestly - watch him closely. It's agony trying to implore him to make a quick and decisive decision. Only for him to make the wrong decision anyway, 20 seconds too late. What did Everton make on the pair of them? £80m? Great business. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

I think I read somewhere Celtic had a wage ceiling of £35k. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

I quite like him. It's like stream of consciousness beat poetry. Just a jumble of short unconnected sentences devoid of any semblance of edge. "Big fan of Redmond. What he's been doing. Technical. Is that a bird? High quality. Bundesliga. I had the lasagne. Food is good. These fans are making a noise. Singing. Chris Wilder. What a great job. Tactical. So talented. Orange juice." He's been doing punditry for years yet I don't know a single thing about him or one opinion that he holds. He's the ultimate enigma. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Some of our performances this season have made me want to take up heroin. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

If they've got any sense they'll play big Haller up top with Antonio supporting and just hoof it. We won't be able to cope with their power and pace, and we won't be able to win the ball high up the pitch while their defenders fiddle around with it on the edge of their box. If the Shammers try and make it a football match, I'd back us to take the points. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

How was it so close? Villa were terrible, but our decision making and final ball were pathetic. Great endeavour and workrate - particularly down the right, where Prowse and Armstrong were machines. Credit to Djenepo. Never gives up. Box of tricks. The composure of a startled kitten on an ice rink. Classic Saints winger. A word about Obafemi - the last three or four times he's come on, he's just jogged around like Charlie Austin. You can't replace a hard runner like Long as sub and then half-arse about. I don't think he's going to make it. He hasn't got good enough attributes to compensate for he evident lack of application. The other results fell nicely for us today as well - 34 points feels like a relatively comfortable place to be. COYS Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Played quite well so far. Poor finishing and decision making has prevented us killing the game off. Villa growing in confidence and Grealish becoming more influential... No way this finishes 1-0. We need a second at least or we'll be dropping points again. All those tactical fouls on Grealish will mount up in the second half and we'll have players on yellow cards who can't get near him. At least we look miles better than against Burnley. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

We're going to have a problem in midfield. Smallbone is as lightweight little Jake Hesketh and doesn't do anything on the defensive side. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Who else are we going to play? Adams literally offers nothing. And Obafemi has been extremely disappointing since his "breakthrough" goal at Chelsea. It'd be great if we had better options than Long, but we haven't. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Doubt we'll go three at the back again having had such an upturn in results with a back four. Probable xi: McCarthy; Valery, Stephens, Bednarek, Bertrand; Hojbjerg, Prowse; Armstrong, Djenepo; Long, Ings. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Playing all their games away from home too. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Prowse, Boufal, Walker-Peters and Long were the only ones I couldn't make out from the training pictures yesterday (apart from Redmond, obviously). Although I thought I read somewhere else that Boufal was fine. So who knows? Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

The goal line technology has an inbuilt margin of error. I believe the offside technology has too (much bigger), but our league - in its infinite wisdom - has chosen to disregard such things as grey areas and accept as empirical fact that a freeze frame indicating someone is offside by 1cm is beyond reproach. IFAB have already given guidance that the VAR technology is NOT to be treated the same as goal line tech as it doesn't have the same consistent level of accuracy, therefore "clear and obvious" mistakes - not a marginal line call forensically pored over for five minutes with rulers and protractors - are the only decisions that should be overturned. So I'd argue it's not the law that's at fault. It's our referees ignoring the guidance from the law-makers and misusing a technology whose limitations they either don't understand or are too incompetent to consider. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Unlucky? Reina and terrible finishing are the only reason Spurs didn't score 10. Villa played well going forward - Samatta is a decent handful at centre forward, and Grealish is obviously a class act. But Spurs looked like scoring every time they turned the ball over. They're not a bad side at all, and capable of beating the worst home team in the league if we play like we did recently against Burnley and Wolves. But if we're going to stay up, it's an absolute banker for us. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Ings and Djenepo were in yesterday's recovery training pictures. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Or they could beat the worst home team in the league and suddenly we're right in the mire again (with our only creative players injured for months). Norwich are gone, but Villa and West Ham aren't absolutely awful. They're both more than capable of winning a couple more games than we do between now and May. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk