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It's confusing. There's no style or pattern to our play except retaining possession and getting it out wide to bang a hopeful cross in... no incisiveness etc. And incredibly dull.

This. And they cost the same money. He's a very very very limited footballer

I reckon Big Dave Merrington.

He's never been commanding at corners despite his size. He gets a bit of a let-off with a few things because of the protection he's had in front of him. Not bothered about the mistake today, par for the course really - it happens. For me, it's his all round game which I've never thought was as good as good as some people believe. I've upgraded my opinion on him though. (Good Champ GK)

We lack the quality of previous seasons, sadly. Not massively surprised, this season will be up and down with all the fixtures, rotation and watered down quality of the squad. We'll obviously be average in the league but a good run in the cups would be good. Then spend big next summer in attempt to keep Virgil from defecting from us and have a proper go at the top 6-7 again..

Finally, people are cottoning on. He's terrible.

Good lineup ...

It will never be his left foot. Ever. I'm sure of it! Up for a ride on the meltdown train tho...

Terrible for £10m. Absolutely no left foot and predictable. Hopefully he'll get better, but he seems a bit 'Championship' to me.

He's got no left foot. At all. Would rather we had someone else there in his position

He didn't look like a typical English youngster... more like a thin Cazorla. Roasted Baines. Well done to the lad, balls of steel.

Pashun tho mush, innit?

Tit for tat after the Liverpool van Dijk story. No truth in this

With some game time he's actually totally changed my opinion of him.. thought he was limited. Obviously not! Well done Oriel

Bore off in the 1st but an excellent 2nd half - it really could have been six or seven. Thought VVD but in particular, Hojberg was excellent... an absolute masterclass from someone so young.

Loving this randomness

Redmond is toilet. That was a crap 1st half. We really, really don't look very good.

Any idea how many we've sold for this?

I said that tongue in cheek

The irony is, he's a quite a magnificently sized **** himself

But I thought he was crap, didn't score for five months, not worth 36m etc etc

The players are still working hard (as they should, they're professionals) but there will come a time when they'll lose belief and ease off... and we'll be on the end of a horrific spanking. Then we'll be at a crossroads. FWIW, does anyone else see any light at the end of the tunnel? The only thing I can say that's positive is that we've played 2 title contenders away and we're able to chalk them off the fixture list. That said, those contenders were exactly the sort of teams we wouldn't have been scared of last season and would have given a good game... and perhaps looked a bit more potent/evenly matched. As I have said before, Boufal will not solve all the problems. He might give us a bit more creativity but we're still woefully short in other areas. Anything less than 3 points against Swansea and they'll be a few more twitchy bums on here - and rightly so.

You'll be lynched on here for saying that. FWIW, feel the same. Everything's is just 'meh' Wtf from the officials though.

Nope you're right. I think I spotted about 14 of them in a pre season once. Very unnerving.

They're small time when it suits them, eh