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Unless his contract says he doesn't get paid unless he complete a full game, which it won't, his contract seems irrelevant to the discussion around his inability to play a full 90 minutes.

Kelleher - £20m or McCarthy - free (Lumley) KWP (Bree) Bednarek (Stephens) THB - £20m (ABK) Sessegnon or Omar Richards - free (Manning) Downes or Sara - £18m or Wilfried Ndidi - free (Charles) Smallbone (Lallana - free) Ghoddas or O'Hare or Andre Gomes- free or Sheaf £15m (Aribo) AA (Carvalho - £15m or Maxwell Cornet loan) Simon Banka £20m or Sargent £8m or Ings loan or Ilhneancho - free (Stewart) Fraser (Sulemana) With the £20m outlay for THB, the money needing to be spent starts to add up quickly. Boy could we do with finding another Livramento or three.

the Mail has a 24.8% football transfer rumour accuracy score. So a one in four chance!

...awful signing. Not an awful player I should point out, but I see it as a complete failure on the part of our scouting system to identify a left back that was good enough for the Prem. I wonder what other left backs were available that summer.

Rice was outstanding. He basically covered up all of our shitness and got us out of jail on many occasions. I know it's his job, but he shouldn't have to been called upon so many times in a game like that. Unlike the others, including Bellingham, he didn't seem to tire either. Amazing engine.

England seemed to completely bottle playing it out from the back. Obviously there was a press in the second half nad we didn't want to get caught in their trap, and there is nothing wrong with going long when it's 3 on 3, but we went long for almost every goal kick and there wasn't even an attempt to ping it out wide.

Another thing continually overlooked is that Southgate has created an environment where players want to be there and seem keen to play for each other. It may not have looked like it in the second half last night (I think they must have all watched King Otto and football's greek gods), but in general, players seem to look confident and have the freedom to play their normal game. We've seen in the past how without this foundation we struggle to shine.

Why does TAA get called by his first name. Shearer did it the whole game. Personally, I like what he offers us, although he had a shoddy game last night - but the fawning over him seems a little much. I'd also have liked to see Kane come off. I thought he played pretty well considering the service, but we do have other strikers in the squad that are very capable. If we need a goal, then you'd keep him on, but when we are leading and just need to change things as it was not working, it seemed a smart move.

Joe Hart will be lucky to get out of there without a ball smashed in his chops.

ah, but you didn't watch the game through the eyes of a body language expert. I mean it was perhaps the biggest game of his career to date, but unless you know what you are looking for, you'd wouldn't have seen that he was `totally disinterested'.

Vestgaard appears to have lost a yard of pace. I don't have a clue how that is possible, but rather than running in treacle, he now appears to be running in rapidly setting concrete.

Excellent, we have been in desperate need of a body language expert on this forum to help us understand the inner thoughts of players and staff.

I thought he look sharp, held the ball up well, kept possession and brought others into play. He had absolutely no service at all (which ringed a bell) because Albania were pretty poor. Not sure what you were expecting to see him do. Dribble past 8 payers and hit in into top bins? I think the injury he had was nasty, but it doesn't seem to have effected his pace. Still looks a talent to me. If we sign a better striker than him I'll be happy. Though Scamacca looked OK too. West Ham should have given him far more opportunities IMO.

isn't Moneyball all about spotting value (perhaps characteristics that can work well in your team structure/style) that others don't, rather than just buying cheap, selling expensive?

Is he any good?

That explains our massive annual losses, we are paying U21 coaches £50k a week.

The Nigerian?

He did the square route of fuck all last season, and wasn't all that impressive on the two proceeding seasons IMO. The three seasons before that it Liverpool he hardly played either.

Can't see him dropping from Arsenal to Saints. We just aren't an attractive proposition for players from these prestige clubs.

He'll be paid a decent Premier league player wage.

We could have used his wage to pay O'Hare. Perhaps he's not good enough for the Prem, but I'd like to have seen him given a chance.

Sounds a lot of money for a player they don't want.

who invited the Under Armour designer back in the building?

better man.