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If we've blown £30m on Walcott, we've been absolutely mugged. We only sold Mane for about £35m. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Well deserved point, at least. We didn't even park the bus and went relatively toe to toe with United. McCarthy was perfectly competent - saved the ones you'd expect a keeper to save, came and caught the crosses you'd expect a keeper to catch. What a difference it makes. I doubt he's the long term solution, but he did his job today. Stephens was gutsy out of position at right back against much faster wingers, but I don't fancy him getting isolated 1 v 1 against Zaha against Palace. We need a proper RB, I think. All the defence did well, though. McQueen is a very decent all round football, in my opinion. Hoedt had his best game. But for me Hojbjerg was again the outstanding player. So much drive and energy. How has he played so little? If he doesn't start against Palace, Pellegrino should be sacked regardless of the result. We're obviously not going to score many with Long up front, and Gabbiadini seems like he's off, so reinforcements are desperately needed at that end of the pitch asap. Anyway, a good result. And more importantly, a team performance where everyone at least gave it everything. Onwards. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

H/t 0-0. Not been too bad. Defence doesn't exactly look watertight, but we're in the game - and not even by parking the bus. Of course we again almost conceded from our own corner - there's a real problem with the mobility of the likes of Romeu against quick counter attacks. Boufal, Hojbjerg, Long playing pretty well. Hoedt has looked decent, but marks thin air an awful lot when the ball is crossed in. Can't see us scoring, though. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Sturridge is injured again. Sessegnon is off to Spurs (for more than we'd ever pay in any case). West Ham were supposed to be all over Mawson - and they'd be welcome to him. He's not even an upgrade on Stephens. We won't sign any of them. This is just the club's mouthpiece selling a puff piece on Les' behalf to try and appease the disillusioned supporters still gullible enough to believe that the powers that be have the foggiest idea what they're playing at. I think we'll sign Walcott and a really underwhelming squad player, Elia type of loan, and that'll be the Van Dijk funds "reinvested". Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Well, obviously. More a none too subtle dig at how easily the club can burn through the "war chest" on total crap (replace the above examples with Redmond, McCarthy, Gardos and Long if you can't work it out) and have nothing to show for it. There's no way we're "reinvesting" £75m. It'll be in the 30s, which as shown doesn't get you much, especially given our extremely mixed record in the transfer market in recent years. There's no room for errors. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Josh Murphy. Young Norwich substitute winger. £11m Wayne Hennessy. Crystal Palace reserve keeper. £4m Mihai Balasa. Young Steaua Bucharest centre back. £6m Daryl Murphy. Experienced Irish striker. £12m. Every penny of the REAL transfer fee reinvested. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Implying that we couldn't buy reinforcements without selling first? How have we managed to sell all our best players for huge profits over the past few years, replaced them with cheap knock offs, and ended up with not only a garbage squad, but barely a penny to show for our wonderful strategy? What happened to the Premier League riches and prize money that everyone else seems to have in the bank? Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

I think it was about 8 this season before today. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

I'm not on board with booing our own players, but the fans' frustration with Redmond is understandable. In his mind, in his demeanor, he's something special - he's doing us a favour by slumming it at Southampton. And yet his performances are absolutely shocking. Not like early-days Mane, where he would spend all game weighing up the most over elaborate option possible before falling over his own feet - but at least striving to do something positive in his erratic decision making. No, where Mane was a headless chicken, Redmond's problem is he's just a chicken. He shrinks away from responsibility. Why try something when you can pass the buck to someone else? Attack the space? Run at the defence? Be proactive in any capacity? Nah, just turn inside and pass backwards. Then if it goes wrong it's someone else's fault (which Redmond is only to eager to pipe up about). His fearful attitude has cost us many a promising attacking position, and today it even cost a goal at the other end, inexplicably passing backwards from a shooting/crossing position on the edge of Spurs' box leading to a punishing counter attack. It's not his fault that Les Reed signed him as a thoroughly inadequate replacement for one of the league's best attackers, but there's very little for the fans to get behind with Redmond. He's a poor player with a poor attitude whose presence makes a poor side poorer. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Forster must be the most expensive wheelie bin in history. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

He's won 4 games. I think literally any manager/coach/trainee tea lady in the world could've won 4 out of 20 games with us. He's bringing nothing to an already rubbish party. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

20 games (12 at home), 4 wins. Are we going to wait for his win percentage to drop into the teens (Boxing Day) before something is done, or are single figures the cut off point? It hasn't worked. There's been no signs that it will work. He should be out of work. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Oh well, that's one way to nullify the incoming ban... Bloke's made of glass. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Yoshida losing his man to concede another headed goal slap bang in the middle of the area. How many times? Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

A bad back? He's Harry Redknapp'd the hell out of Dodge. I'm sure everything will get better now... Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

19 games, 4 wins, 3 points above the relegation zone. Wonder how much worse it has to get before the club acts. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

I make it 8 goals conceded by Forster already this season from outside the area. Wonder what the record is. What's the point in packing the defence if the opposition can continually score against us without having to bother to break it down? For comparison, we've scored 1 goal from outside the area. And only 4 in the entirety of last season. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Hahahahaha Unless he's got Panamanian ancestry, he won't be going to this or any World Cup. Who's going to sign him? A premier league side? Come on... Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

4 wins from 18 games. 11 of those games have been at home. He's useless. And he'll take us down. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Baby steps of improvement, but the fact is only the bottom four have won less games than us - at the end of this relatively difficult run of fixtures over the Christmas and New Year period, is anyone confident that we'll be in any better shape? 4 wins in 17 matches in all competitions is pretty abject any way you slice it. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Stephens actually won a header in the box today. Just the one, but it's a step in the right direction. I think many of us have felt he'd go well on the right of a back three, and he certainly backed that up with his performance. Echoing what others have said about us being too negative in the second half - if that was the plan, why did we leave Tadic and Redmond on for so long when they were only turning the ball over? If we could've just retained possession a bit better we would've won that, but we gave it up so cheaply time and again. Why Lemina wasn't called into action was puzzling. He can tackle, pass and also carry the ball forward - attributes we were crying out for. Great effort, lots of huff and puff, but a lack of quality on the ball generally, I thought. This isn't a vintage Arsenal team but we treated them like they were Barcelona. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

1-0 h/t. Not sure how we're ahead, to be honest. We look shaky in defence and horrible in possession - don't think this line up is working. Ward-Prowse is again a passenger, Redmond is just a terrible player, Romeu is getting bypassed too easily in transition when we (inevitably) lose possession after three passes. Great finish by Austin, a quality save low down from Forster, and Hojbjerg has been excellent. I think a reshuffle at the break is in order, though. Can't believe Lemina isn't on the pitch. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

A draw's better than nothing, but we remain that worrying combination of sluggish in attack and uneasy at the back. If we can only win games against clubs in midst of a crisis, it's going to be a long journey to 40 points. Ward-Prowse must've been dragged off at half time around four times now in his last ten to twelve starts. Quality. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Really poor - Bournemouth deservedly ahead, should've had a penalty too. Zero counterattacking threat due the sloth-like make up of our forward line. Pretty grim viewing. Even without his mistake, Hoedt hasn't been impressive - badly caught flatfooted by Ake in a carbon copy of his goal in this fixture last season. Where do we go from here? Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Typical - first game of the season I miss and we suddenly kick into life. Much needed result, and by all accounts the performance to boot. Nice. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk