Saint_clark

You lot really are on some sort of bizarre witch hunt with me right now aren't you? Whatever happened to "play the ball not the man". Bazunu is shit and we should have signed a striker if we're letting Che go. Not sure how me holding those opinions are "having a mare".

Fair enough lads, you've just rammed home the point that we've been way too slow to act this window.

We need to start spending some money on proven championship players. Get Gyokeres in to play up front and stick Armstrong in Tellas place.

Didn't say great fee, I said good fee. I compare it to the fees we paid for Adams and Armstrong both of whom scored a lot more than Tella did.

£30million for JWP ffs.

Worth pointing out that as poor as it seems Manning as been so far, he got two assists today.

Difficult to stick to that script when he's been their most influential player so far this season proving that he was actually held back by us.

Fuck sake.

Whatever way you look at it we really ballsed this up. He always had the talent to be a top player and we messed him around with a bit part role for ages. At least we're getting a good fee for him but it's karma that having to let him go now is significantly weakening us after we showed such little appreciation for his ability for so long.

He has the ability to be a "Shane Long" if he adapts his game and accepts that finishing will never be his strong point in the Prem.

He's now conceded 53% of shots on target. 7 out of 13. Save rate of 47%.

Grinding out results. Hope we can keep it up and the loss of tella and Adams won't tip the scales. Great finish by Armstrong who is relishing the extra time and space in this league.

Short memory then. Guess you only started watching again when we got promoted.

Didn't matter as we were so much better than the majority of the league anyway. This season we're not.

Danny fox was quality at this level, it's worrying that Manning looks so poor.

Signing defenders from a team with one of the worst defensive records, I'm shocked.

Has any team gone an entire season without a single clean sheet?

We should be aiming for top 2 not top 6. With the squad we had on relegation we would have achieved that.

Wolves I would have thought. They let Jimenez go and haven't really replaced him. Or Luton.

Adams is more proven than Nicolas Jackson who would you rather have?

He really isn't.

Even the summer we sold Lambert etc the board knew when enough was enough, refusing to let Schneiderlin go. Letting go one of those two would be just about bearable, letting both go and we're just emptying our squad of all our best players.

ABK on the bench is interesting. Tella off then, £20million isn't a bad amount though.

She does, sorry mate. All window we've been talking about how we have to sell BEFORE we bring people in. Now we sign Fraser and we're assuming he's tellas replacement?

Everton are absolutely desperate for cash wherever they can get it though. He wouldn't have been playing so from their point of view they've just saved £1.8 million and haven't lost anything.