CB Fry

That's mainly because he hasn't done anything good.

John Cole or Andrew Marr would describe that utter effing shambles of a reshuffle in exactly that same way. Corbyn, by some considerable distance is the most pathetic leader of a major political party in my lifetime. They say he has no credibility because he doesn't. And let's not gloss over the fact that Seamus Milne has been asking Laura for advice on how to communicate Labour's message better. But yeah, it's her that's out of her depth.

Who is the SOMEONE ELSE he's SIGNED to cover left back in Bertrand's absence, then? That's exactly what he tends to do, right?

Matt Oakley is the answer. Get him and his laptop in our black box. #moneyball

The perils of not selling high. They've not really gained much by triumphantly holding off Spurs if they just flog him to Stoke who I can't see would pay as much as stingy old Tottenham.

Just blood them all Ronald, blood them all, blood them all.

I wonder if Watford in the Premier League will manage to increase their commercial revenue to above the level of Watford in the Championship? It's a tough ask because it's not something the greatest businessman world football has ever known managed to do with us, but good luck to them.

To be fair Adkins came across as rather clueless about the signing when he was asked about it - I know that time was peak "we do our business in private" nonsense but Nige's comments during the Gaston saga were a cut above the usual Adkins straight bat. Doesn't mean it was exclusively a Nicola signing but definitely more of a "club" signing than a manager signing (like, say, Billy Sharp). That said, let's just say it was definitely a Cortese signing and that he was a shortar sed Italian bellend.

Forward, Barrel, Till, and for 150 blanks, ....call.

In fairness, you are very easy to patronise.

Clueless.

Much like all the other theoretical plans on here. We won't be forcing players to sign six year contracts and we won't be stopping our best players leaving for huge fees and wages.

I think your obsessive deification of Sam Gallagher is only marginally more deranged than your spiteful sniping at Dusan Tadic.

If we consistently have two or three players good enough to be sold to top six clubs for £15-£25m every single summer then I think we'll consistently finish at least mid table (or better) every single season. I think that's a far better plan than only signing players who are prepared to commit to six sodding years with no prospect of ever progressing to a bigger club.

13th this time last year but 17th and stayed up on the last day. Not quite sure how that qualifies as a decent second half to the season. Clearly worse than the first half of the season.

If we sign that guy I think I will invite some friends around for drinks, maybe make some fruit punch, provide some buffet food and play some music on my stereo system. Also there will be cake.

Except he's been late for things before and been punished before. He won't go in January but probably will in the summer provided someone actually comes in for him, which may require a little bit more of a contribution from now until May. The events over the weekend will have no bearing on those outcomes. The £100m thing was about no one going in January which no one will.

Therefore us winning it would be pretty bloody magical, then.

Presumably Les knows Shelvey from his Charlton days? I imagine John Jo sees Les as the father figure responsible for kick starting his career or something.

Top, top manager.

That Turkish ex Basel manager with the nice hair we nearly had before.

Dear Jeremy Please, please, please make Diane Abbott Shadow Foreign Secretary.

No more imaginary than yours.

I did think that about Newcastle too, though. Depends how much Lerner is prepared to fund. If they are going back up I can't see Garde doing it, they might as well go for a meat and potatoes manager - Pearson/Steve Bruce/etc to clog and clunk them back up to the top flight like Chris Hughton did and big Sam did with WHU. As it stands they look just as likely to end up in L1 in three years as being back in the Prem.

Sorry, they were still talking about Villa at 8:40 at which point I'd finished up in the kitchen and bailed out. True story. At least we're not them by the way - their chief exec has been in radio interviews giving it the full Rupert saying how successful the commercial side of the business is doing and how shirt sales are up. Shambles.