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I missed the Cardiff equaliser getting ready for work, come back and see Archer score. Nice.

We better not loan out SAA and Dibling. Both showing they have roles to play this season even from the bench.

Not much from Archer bar the back heel but everyone else on the pitch has been pretty good. Fernandes clearly the stand out and you can tell Taylor is full of experience.

Lovely finish SAA

Ok that was a great strike. Lumley nowhere.

The future is bright. Survive this year and we really have a squad that will grow with experience. Just need to get the last couple of signings right...

Lesley looks a right unit.

Lovely Fernandes and good assist Dibling

That's amazing if true.

I know we shouldn't be relying heavily on an 18 year old but he does look good and if you're good enough, you're old enough.

I liked him but he obviously just didn't fit. He joined a bonkers club at a bonkers time but he did ok. Wish him all the best.

Merson would be shitting himself over that.

Tolu Arokodare at Genk. 15 goals last season, 4 already this season, 6'6" 23 year old. The next Tall Paul. 😁

We played the loan market well last season, it would be nice to do that again - even if it's harder being a Prem side than a Championship side to do that.

If Martin deems AA to be a striker, then he needs to play him there and stop having him wide in a two. The positions that AA and BBD took up against Forest were ridiculously wide for a team that didn't have a player in the middle. AA does make decent runs and he scored a decent amount of goals last season (including key goals) but I will never be comfortable with him playing as a striker - he doesn't have the speed of thought a Prem striker needs. However Russ is the manager and if he wants AA as a striker, then we can't really argue - but I agree that means we need to bring in a player on the right. I don't see Fellows being the answer too from what I saw of him last season - he's still too raw. Our strikers going into the season then are AA, Archer, TP and Stewart - one of whom will probably leave - with BBD able to do a job there too. That worries me. How can a club that spots a player like Sugawara not be able to spot other similar gems?

Ok, punt at the line up: Lumley, Breezy, Edwards, Wood, Taylor, Lesley, Dibling, Fernandes, AA, Archer, BBD. The more I look at our squad on Wikipedia the more I think we are so weak in an attacking sense.

With every day that passes as we head towards 11pm on Friday, the more I'm hoping we hang on to TP. The problem is the Turkish window shuts in mid-September (the Saudi window shuts after ours too incidentally) and we don't want to be in a position where our window has closed and we're still losing players that could help us.

Bijlow wasn't going to use his wrists anyway, we only wanted him for his feetsies. The club better act fast. We need a keeper or we are up poo creek without a paddle.

That’s because they’re ahead of their time, they’ve been to the year 3000. Not much has changed, but Stephens still plays in a back 3. And Russ and Lucy’s great-great-great granddaughter is pretty fine.

Us fans would obviously love him to stay even if he runs his contract down but money talks and unless he signs the contract, he's gone if someone comes in for him. With Suga at RB and Bree as backup, we're fine there but Taylor and Manning are a step down on the left, particularly if we persevere with wing backs. It's possible we're holding on to Larios for this possibility. If the sale of KWP allowed us to bring in a decent winger/AM/striker, it wouldn't be the worst thing but I hope he stays. Even better if he signs the contract.

When you look at Palace signing Eddie Nketiah for £25 million (plus £5million add ons) it shows that Sargent simply wouldn't be good value (or would just be too much of a risk, there's nothing saying he wouldn't make a Prem striker, just too much of a risk in a season where we need to stay up). I'm not saying Nketiah is the answer for us either, just that the money is probably the same for him and for what Norwich would want for Sargent.

He's a good Championship striker that is only 24 and is getting better with game time and may or may not make the step up to the Prem - but for the money Norwich want for him (£25 million+ with a contract until 2028) he's not yet worth it IMO as he'd be too big of a risk. He leads the line well, presses well, brings others into play and can finish but... his injury record is somewhat iffy. I think Bournemouth have been interested though which shows the sort of level he may get to and for that money we should be able to do better. Enter this Yuri fella...

Well done @Benthelegend

I'm a fan of JWP and for the right price I'd love to see him back but we have a potential midfield three of Fernandes, Lesley and Downes with Smallbone, Lallana, Dibling and Aribo competing and I just fell we need to sort the attack out way more than central midfield. Our attack looks weak compared to the rest of the team (as long as we get Bijlow in).