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What a brilliant draw! Absolutely pumped for this one! Nah, not really. It's sh it.

West Ham could end up with Morgan, Pelle and Fonte in the same team then? Like a sh it Liverpool.

Watford selling a popular effective player to a potential relegation rival seems all kinds of nuts to me.

Not sure why a release clause would be all up front but it probably means it can't be conditional - ie you get another £2m once we win the Europa League. Please just sign him Saints. Just effing do it Les.

Clearly didn't do a "very, very poor" job at Stoke. 9th three seasons in a row (their highest position since the early 70s) is not "very very poor" under any measure, anywhere. He's simply been there too long and unlucky with injuries this season. Ran out of ideas. He failed at QPR, but that was a chaotic time at that club. He has been successful at every other club He's been at. In some cases very successful. If he took over tomorrow my confidence of staying up would increase twenty-fold. Not sexy, not exciting but neither were Hodgson, Allardyce or Puel and they ain't going down either.

If he is available why aren't Chelsea all over It? He's better than all the other lumbering lumps they've been linked with and pretty sure Conte used to pick him for Italy.

Leicester, Middlesbrough.

Adkins and Hull through. Would be a nice draw.

Well, that's something. Of course he could mean everything is false. But let's have some hope. After all, he could have not commented about us at all.

This is very true, but we are absolutely desperate for someone to hit the ground running and be a catalyst for change. Settling in/bedding in is a luxury we cannot afford. He'll know this. Personally this is why I think we should have been signing someone who has been a first team regular, rather than tying ourselves in knots with pointless stats desperately wringing out a statistical goalscoring legend from a pitiful number of appearances. We've signed someone who has no concept of being the main man in a team, none at all. Anyway, the comparisons with Micky Evans are only slightly tongue in cheek - we really need him to play that role. We need an impact signing to make an impact. Gabbiadini did it last season, so it can be done.

Didn't get picked, didn't score. Good luck at Saints Guido, let's hope you are better than your career suggests and let's hope you don't spend too much time on the subs bench you are so familiar with.

Even at the time no one thought for a minute that signing had anything to do with Jan the man. This guy is a Pellegrino player.

Is this our the boy called Guido Carillo Every day he's showing his skill-o Dreaming dreams we play like Brazil-o And he fu cking hates Pompey. Sha la la la la la la la la Sha la la la la la la la la Sha la la la la la la la la And he fu cking hates Pompey

Beat me to it. It's not on his Instagram anyway.

I quincy us making another signing soon.

BRILLIANT NEWS!

That eye-gym has been too small for too long. Great news.

Austin Pelle Jay Rod was a great signing and got injured Mane scored 20+ goals in the season before we signed him All first choice regulars at the previous clubs. Gabbiadini has turned out to be not a great signing but he wasn't first choice at his previous club. Funny that.

Everyone wants any signing to work out well. I am happy to go on record and say I hope he is the Micky Evans we've been waiting for.

And decent performances vs Spurs, Arsenal.

Ten days ago I bet you'd never even heard of this guy, now we've all got to have unshakeable faith in him. I didn't realise that "Not being good enough to get in the Monaco side" was a prerequisite for a new signing these days. I'd prefer a more straightforward prerequisite - say, demonstrates consistent goalscoring ability over a sustained run in the team we are signing from. But that only worked for players like Austin, Pelle, Mane, Jay Rod so obviously that's impossible and unreasonable now even though we have done this with success multiple times. Perish the thought we sign someone who can hold down a place in a team.

I'm not employed by the club sweetheart. Funnily enough those "micky mouse league" players have all made a better bigger and more successful impact at our club than those we have signed who were not getting games in non micky mouse leagues. Hojberg, Gabbiadini, Lemina amongst others have arrived from oooh exciting non micky mouse league and....flopped. Whereas our crappy old micky mouse players like rubbish old Pelle, rubbish old Mane, rubbish old Virgil, rubbish old Jay Rod, rubbish old Wanyama clearly didnt.

Mane, Pelle, Rodriguez all scored 20+ goals playing regularly for their clubs before we signed them and I thought they were all good signings and they all were. What's your point about Bertrand again?

No idea. Unfortunate for him, not my problem. He ain't getting picked. All I've said is I wish we'd sign someone who has been playing regularly and scoring regularly. We've done it before with some success so call me bonkers but that's what I would have like to have seen us do again because it is perfectly possible.

His goal return is sh it. On my planet someone not getting game time means they're not getting selected ergo they ain't much cop. Absolutely mind boggling that this is being used to help you massage numbers to pretend he is a world beater. Personally I am looking forward to this guy turning out for us and banging in a goal every other game just like he sort of has if you, like, calculate it by minutes and divide it by the, er, goals and we carry the one and honest he is Paulo Rossi when he gets going.