Saint Garrett

Yep, spot on I feel. Think everyone is pretty sick of the only positive coming out the club at the moment is how many academy lads we've got playing. Problem is they're not going to get us top half Prem football.

Brilliant servant for us. Time to go though the way he's been acting this year.

Isn't Chambers at Middlesbrough still?!

Which is logical. However, we were never going to let him go that late in the window. Fair play for keeping him for another 6 months if we weren't ready to sell. Problem comes if we do not replace him.

I think it's a good deal for both parties. They get a decent CB for a season despite his ability deteriorating, and lets face it, £10m is bugger all these days. We get a decent chunk and a decent profit from the deal, and Fonte's best years, and are able to re-invest - this being the key part of it. Can we get by to the end of the season? I don't think we can, hence why the club has been trying to get Sakho on loan. We'd be buggered and risking relegation if VVD was to get injured, even for a few months. I don't think it's a great time to buy a CB as teams unlikely to want to sell them, so a short term replacement untilt he summer would seem like the best move. My bigger concern is what this means for the club in the bigger picture. The club captain wanting out, who else wants out? Why does he want out? Problems with the manager setup, continual selling of players? Lets face it he was likely to be replaced this summer anyway....

Utter toilet agreed....but we're 1-0 up in the tie and 90 mins from Wembley...

Attendances will naturally be down given our current predicament and boring football. However, its still a bloody semi final of the cup, got my tickets!!

Some current CB's playing in Ligue 1.... Nicolas Nkoulou Kamil Glik Dante Maxime Le Marchand Malang Sarr Paul Baysse Just got that from the black box (Football Manager/Wikipedia)

We now have our own song before the game to create an atmosphere......or is this a negative?!

No Steven Davis vs Leicester but VVD and Bertrand fit. -----------Forster Cedric VVD Yoshi Bertrand ----------Romeu------------- -----Clasie--Hojbjerg------- Redmond---JRod----Tadic

No excuse this year though because we have a stronger squad....jsut a worse first XI...supposedly.

You say that, but doesn't he have one of the best pass % in the last few years for a defender.

Likihood is that we'll probably get 3/4 points from Leicester/Swansea, and get knocked out of at least one cup, probably two. Fonte will go of course but we've known that for a while. Think we need to bring someone else in, even is Yoshida is alongside VVD as first choice. We have to bring in a striker who can score goals from crosses as again last night showed.

Would be a good signing for us with a better defensive unit around him, he'd fit in fine. Only problem I have is us spunking huge money on his wages and transfer fee.

Had it for the first time on Tuesday as I went to watch Basingstoke play....it is absolutely terrible!!

Not sure how you value a squad if I'm honest, just a completely made up article.

Tbf, half of the stadium isn't open...!

----------------Lewis--------------- Martina Stephens Virgil McQueen ----------------Reed--------------- -------Hojbjerg----JWP----------- Sims--------------------------Tadic ----------------Long----------------- So short in the attacking areas

Going to Middlesbrough I think too.

Difficult to say he's failed at Boro, been an excellent signing for them and one of their best players...

If the club are that willing to get rid, then they'll accept the lower price. Not sure I'd be overly happy with us spending £13m on a 33year old centre back who is going to be on upwards of £80k per week.

Also pointless taking into account the Norwich game, where we were always going to rotate players. In addition, with so many games over the Christmas period, all clubs rotated. Between Everton and Liverpool we only had 3 changes, one of which was VVD who was banned for Everton replacing Fonte who is AWOL.... Not saying I am a fan of the rotation at all, but you can't go the whole season playing 11 players, especially not when we have played probably the most games out of anyone in the league this season? Our midfielders are also much of a muchness, there is not a huge amount between Clasie/JWP/Davis/Hojbjerg so choosing 2 of those alongside Romeu is likely dependant on opposition.

Fonte / Payet swap deal ?

He's so lazy, did absolutely nothing and is a diving b4stard too!

Wonder how he felt watching on last night, just another step for the clubs journey that he's been a part of for so long. Wonder if he wished he was out there on the pitch.