SambaMaverick

Why not at this point? We're well into throwing shit at the wall territory.

All he's done aside from that pass vs Leeds is jog around lazily. If we added his fee to our super mega bumper summer warchest, who knows what superstar SR might have unearthed?

Who? ABK and Lavia will be on the way out whether we're relegated or not. Those two and KWP are the only players I'd be arsed about losing.

The more I think about it, the more bonkers it is that we paid £11.5m for Sekou Mara. Why?

What on earth is up with JWP? The way he let March breeze past him reminds me of myself chasing shadows at 5 a side. Is he unfit/overweight? Edozie a bright spark but like many of his predecessors, his end product is just gash. Adams is a tryer, I really like him but his return won't be anywhere near enough to keep us up. Diallo is just a waste of space, he was a total ghost out there. Even KWP was shite. Perraud seems unable to get into match shape, let's hope he got a treadmill for Christmas. Don't need to mention the Angus Gunn tribute act in goal. Lyanco a tryer too, but unfortunately just really crap. Djenepo a tryer but cannot pass, run, shoot, or even dribble sometimes - who on earth scouted him? Can't see any other outcome but relegation.

Hope we kept the receipt for this unwanted Christmas gift. The players are total shit but we've gone backwards since Ralph and that is just unthinkable.

Fear of what? They still get paid tens of thousands every week no matter what.

We look half the team we were even under Ralph. Now that's a fucking achievement.

He is total shite

Not exactly the most concrete link ever. I think I'd much prefer Karlsson, Kent has proven himself to be quite ordinary.

Che Adams league mins in 21-22 - 2,041 Michail Antonio league mins in 21-22 - 2,979 Antonio is on about £100k/week right now, he's always said how much he loves West Ham - it's not evidence, but it's enough to say he's not coming back here.

Nick Pope and Dean Henderson available and we go for Angus Gunn v2, christ

Works out about right, considering Antonio played about 1000 minutes more in a much better side. He's no better a finisher than Che, for me. He seems quite happy to ride the bench at West Ham as well.

Ruben Selles is clearly being groomed for the top job from what I've heard. Quite why SR seem so insistent on reinventing the wheel and making themselves look clever at every turn, I don't know.

Shite. I don't know what you're watching if you're taking positives from that.

Too similar to Che imo. Can't finish but brilliant at bringing others into play or carving out a chance for himself.

This is a much more reliable source and it has him at about £21,000-a-week. Which is still fucking ridiculous.

I'd rather we just committed to working on more realistic Championship / fringe European league targets who can come in the first week of January, rather than hang our hopes on Boufal/Ramirez/Gakpo/Ramos types who either come with an injury and take ages to get going or just don't come at all.

I'm actually coming around to the idea of Chris Wood. Can't the World Cup stay on forever?

Who do we fancy from Juventus then?

This link should work.

My point is that these guys don't seem aware of that fact. They're talking about these young players taking us to the top ten while, as you say, we sit in the bottom three. They're also playing down the failure to sign a striker by saying "wow, we signed a lot of really good players".

More smoke up their own arse. I hate the term sleepwalking to relegation, but...

Promising first 20 minutes in terms of hard running and activity in their half, but ultimately a false dawn. Could have been worse, but all the signs are there. A passive midfield, shocking defending, shocking goalkeeping - and an utter waste of space in AA.

Adam Armstrong is a waste of fucking skin