hypochondriac

Maybe our tella replacement if he goes.

Boo. I haven't seen a serious link to him from us.

Asking price or what we are willing to pay?

Considering there was talk that he was going to hold out until January and then leave on a free, I would suggest that 17 even if it is a fair bit of addons woukd be incredible business.

If Swansea really want 20 million, is there any reason we couldn't just offer that once we've sold a couple? I'd prefer that over the Charles signing if it's a choice between the two.

Surely the club know that we need someone who can hit the ground running as soon as possible. I still think we must have a chance with Piroe but seems like there would be heavy competition so I don't want to think about it too hard in case I'm left disappointed.

Are we sure we wouldn't sign him in addition to another striker? It's a long season and if tall paul and Adams leave then currently it's Armstrong and Mara which is a big risk.

But worth remembering that three of our preseason games were against teams that should be beating us. We could have played Bromley and smashed them but would have learnt very little.

Neither of them were crap.

That's not what I mean. A referee in a competitive gane would not be denying that.

And by rights they would have drawn 1-1 with us. Not a chance are we denied a penalty like that in a competitive game.

Would be nice to get a clinical striker in this week who we could bring off the bench just in case it gets to 70 minutes on Friday and we are struggling for a goal.

The team who started the game. If you like you can put bednarek in there and maybe Ameyew but that's essentially the team who is going to start the season. The likes of Lyanco, Bree and McCarthy should be nowhere near the starting lineup

This basically. Badly need that striker as quickly as possible.

We were much better today than against Bournemouth.

Because some people are annoyed that we didn't score and that ultimately we lost the game. Others understand its preseason and it's about learning the system, getting fit for the start of the season and looking like we know what we are doing. I'm much more encouraged after this game than I was when we played half a team against Bournemouth. I'm not sure our second string are up to much but the first 11 will do very well in this division (even better if we get another two or three signings and everyone can see where we need them.)

Lol. Enjoyable game where we played some nice stuff. We have some exciting players this year. If we get that focal point up top then we could be really effective and score a load. Still a few issues at the back but again we will get another cb in which will help. Overall an encouraging game where we probably played the best we had all preseason.

We've been the better team. Score is mostly irrelevant other than would have been nice to score. We clearly should have had a penalty which would have been 1-1.

Proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Smallbone shanked one just now. Armstrong and Tella have missed a few and Stephens missed one early in the second half.

I expect we will too (not counting my chickens though after last summer!) Just hope it's soon...

We've had quite a few chances that a more clinical striker could easily have scored.

Personally I think we've been pretty decent. Definitely should have had a pen. Absolutely need someone clinical up top for the end of the window. Annoying to give away the goal but these guys are much better than Sheffield Wednesday. Good to watch some attractive football and I'd like a goal.

It could be that we expect Lyanco to have left by Friday and there isn't really anyone else to play there.

I'm guessing that Bednarek has been injured and he'd rather start Charles on Friday in that position over Lyanco which is fair enough.