CB Fry

Did you sleep through the referendum then?

Patchy at best. 4/10.

Here comes Jay Rod and that means goals goals goals.

We are never ever ever going to score.

Chris Nicholl memorial selection. #fourtwofour

I've just rolled two dice and can now confirm that Oriel Romeu had Puel by the throat on the training ground on Friday morning.

This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

Ringo had Brian Epstein by the throat on the training ground.

If we finished mid table for the next five years it would be such a disgrace for a club what is so massive like what we are.

Here we go again.

I, for one, would welcome a money laundering, multiple murdering paedo modern slave trader with twenty years of white collar corruption behind him just as long as he STOPS SELLING OUR BEST PLAYERS AND INVESTS IN THE SQUAD.

They should do a video replay of the effing bidding process.

LOL. Corbynomics.

Koeman took a club that have finished top eight in 8 of the last 10 seasons including 3 5th and 2 6th place finishes and took them to probably seventh. He's a miracle worker and no mistake.

I think I preferred it when Glasgow's WUM routine was based around how our highest paid player was on £55k a week and we were being blown out of the water in the transfer market by level two clubs like Stoke. This new angle that we are profligate cash-splurging nutcases is less hilarious. Well done on trying to keep the act fresh, though.

No wonder Bertrand had Puel by the throat on the training ground.

There's drivel and there's drivel.

Bizarre you are looking at this is such a ridiculous black-or-white way. We signed someone we think is perfectly capable to cover our (current) two centre backs. If the club didn't think he was competent he wouldn't be on the effing bench.

Solid analysis from L'Equipe.

Except if we had done nothing and only had Alfie Jones on the bench, you'd be furious. Inadequate. We've brought in experienced cover for emergencies. We didn't really want him because we tried and failed to sign the two CBs in January. We ballsed it up in Jan but Caceres was just a sticking plaster, best of a bad job. If he never ever plays that's fine by me. Job done. He's the umbrella you buy to stop it raining. Seems a bit odd that you'd rather we didn't bother with that when it's pretty clear you'd be fuming if we didn't. Imagine if Caceres had signed for, say, Hull and we were left with Alfie Jones. You'd be saying "well I'm glad we didn't bother with him" would you? No I don't think you would.

So tonight on another thread you are berating the club for our transfer business in the summer for being inadequate. But on this thread you are advocating that what we should have done is sign no centre back cover whatsoever and just bung an academy kid on the bench to cover the already inexperienced Stephens? You'd have genuinely have been fine with that in February this year? That doesn't strike you as being a more inadequate option than signing an experienced player who could come off the bench in the event of a suspension or injury?

Well, they obviously won't be.

Haven't looked, we're not going down under any circumstances outside of a points deduction.

We are safe anyway.

In the last few years we've signed Lovren, Toby and VVD and players like Bertrand and Cedric who were both slated when signed but have been great. I have no doubt we have our real targets and we are capable of signing them and they will be quality. I expect us to sign two CBs - an expensive one (Boufal/Gabbi level price) to replace VVD, and a less expensive (£6m) one to replace Gardos/Caceres (but good) taking us back to four first team CBs. The interesting thing will be to see who from those 4 is our first choice pair next season.