Greenridge

Carter seems to be priming his pen for an onslaught if it all goes pear-shaped tonight. Maybe rightly so.

His biggest problem is his pace. Complete lack of it. Our long balls for him to run on to are comical, it's like he has is own personal area of quicksand underfoot. His strength is to be in the box. End of. Redmond should be doing his running but he's showing he's just not up to the job. We are woefully short up front and it's been biting us in the arris all season.

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/14954021.Come_on_Claude___let_your_stars_shine/?ref=mr&lp=10

Striker Sandro Ramirez of Malaga http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/stoke-city-transfer-gossip-stoke-must-fight-spurs-and-southampton-for-sandro-ramirez/story-29961033-detail/story.html

I see Pochettino is denying that Alderweireld has a £25.4M release clause in his contract. Interesting that it's the same figure as being banded about for VvD.

Flicking through the Boro forum it seems he's had a few decent spells, a few flashes but largely not much of note. Similar to when he was here.

He was injured and deemed only fit enough for the bench.

It depends. Recent history suggests we won't but money talks. Just enjoy him while he's here.

That's four minutes (well, actually 2 as I turned it off) of my life I'll never get back. Blud.

Thanks for the link. Mind you, we never paid £21M for Sofiane though. I was surprised to see we only had 38% possession. Great result.

New ownership might change that.

If he'd kept the shot low then Stek wouldn't have had a chance. It was the classic 'perfect' height for the 'keeper.

No, I think the guy just had poor eyesight.

Crowd seems pretty quiet.

Did you really just write that?

Sometimes it's not actually Andy playing, it's Jamie. They rotate. It was Judy's idea.

VvD has played 17 games this season and runs around more than most in our squad. How is it that he doesn't need to be 'rotated'?

Yes, let's speculate on a forum who it might be with complete disregard to the consequences. The forum will be held liable for any disingenuous content so folks should think very carefully about posting. As for the events that are coming to light, horrific.

It says something of fans' current expectations / mindsets when we see holding on to a player mid-contract as some kind of accomplishment we should be grateful for / celebrating. You're right we didn't 'scramble around' for last-minute signings. Maybe we should have. Just because we didn't sign players late on doesn't mean we didn't need them and doesn't actually mean anything.

Because the computer said no?

PEH is a victim of this 'rotation' system that Puel is operating. Players need games especially in a new league at a new club.

I'm astonished you're allowed to continue to post. There's plenty of crud posted on here and a few are guilty on a regular basis but at least they post about the game / club. You however.

We're a club in a rut at the moment.

We played exactly the same way against Burnley re McQueen and VvD

Because Martina is a comedian not a footballer.