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Moffi looks good. Powerful unit with skill and good in the air as well. Just what we need but I'm sure others will be looking at him.

Larios is miles away from being ready to compete against men in the Premier league.

She surely must know it can't and won't last and she's being used to get him off the hook. Nobody is that dense are they?

You make the task impossible by limiting us to 3 signings. We need a minimum of a competent goalkeeper, a couple of big athletes in midfield with stamina who can pass and move, a creative number 10 who doesn't get knocked off the ball with the slightest touch and a big centre forward with pace who can head and shoot and knows where the goal is - oh and a new manager probably as well. 100 million should cover it. Failing that we're down and won't win many more games this season. Over to you Dragan.

The keeper is throwing in a minimum of a goal a game. That is a disaster and must knock the confidence of the back four.

A bottom of the Sunday League 3rd reserve keeper would have save Lallana's weak header. Bazunu should have been comfortably catching that but he appeared to want to push it out and ended up making a complete hash of a simple save. Nerves, age and inexperience shouldn't be a factor. To me he seems to want to push all shots out and doesn't seem confident of catching anything cleanly which is not a good sign.

I admire your optimism even though I suspect it is misplaced.

I can't imagine Dragan is happy at the way SR are running his investment into the ground. Hopefully he is rattling a few cages. Having said that hopefully he'll be providing some decent funds for the January window because clearly we need some new blood with fire in their bellies and a clue as to how to play football. Problem is, he may decide to cut his losses the way SR is running this shit show.

Ok,but what happened to our team after that? Surely Coutinho didn't destroy everything we'd built in one game.

Nobody seems to be able to explain the 4-0 collapse at Villa which came during a very good spell of form. It came out of the blue and, for whatever reason, we never recovered.

He can't always rely on having decent players around him. If he's that good then he'd be doing far more than he has for quite some time now. He's been less than ordinary for far too many games. I get that he's missing the likes of Romeu and Lavia but he needs to stand up and be counted. I'd hazard a guess he is not covering anything like the ground he was when playing effectively so he has to look at himself in many respects.

Same people thought Walcott was worth 70k per week. Madness for a club on a limited budget.

Well, watching the game it felt to me like we were getting battered. The only thing missing was more goals.

The bottom of the league at Xmas doesn't really come into play because of the World Cup break. Not to say we're not in serious shit 🙂

Clearly didn't learn very much then.

Maybe time to remove those red and white tinted specs and accept we were battered for most of the game. 3-1 flattered us if we're being honest.

If NJ is actually claiming to have never really seen the players competitively that's a big cop out and proof he's not taking the job seriously. Any new manager worth his salt would be studying the hours of footage that are readily available. The stark fact for him is that a large majority of the fan base didn't want him so his honeymoon period will likely be very short so he'd better get some strong performances and wins under his belt sooner rather than later.

So the fact that the 'tap in' led from a missed penalty goes in our favour. Says everything you need to know about this XG nonsense.

Right now I'm not sure we can afford to loan out anyone who remotely resembles a footballer so let's recall him.

Lyanco as a defensive midfielder would see red before half time. He'd be steaming into anything that moved

Newly promoted Fulham are a very competent, organised side.

That would be my guess.

No, our CEO has already told us that.

Jones has had 8 weeks to get his ideas across leading to that shitshow yesterday. I doubt a few more days will make much difference.

That's very interesting that 7 from yesterday played during that very good spell last February and,as you say, McCarthy could slot in for Forster and ABK is better than Bednarek. So, coached properly and with elite fitness levels in theory we shouldn't be the shambles we are and if we add a striker, get Lavia fit and bring in some cover we should be competing. Why then are we so far off the pace?