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I’m still waiting for mine to come in the post.

This is the frustrating thing, Aribo would have been useful today in our CM crisis.

Yeah Matsuki made a foul, ref gave advantage, then Charles won the ball and ref gives a free kick for the Charles tackle. Matsuki gets a yellow and they score top bins. It wasn’t a foul and if advantage wasn’t deemed enough then the FK should have been taken from way further back where Matsuki fouled. Also not convinced that Manning wasn’t fouled for their first goal but maybe he was too weak. Alongside the Archer clean through offside decision, it’s fair to feel the officials have cost us 2 points today, regardless of how much better Watford were second half.

I agree with the comments regarding Bazunu, although he’s not made any obvious/big errors, but he’s still conceding at the same rate. We have faced just 11 shots on target this season in the 4 league games, with 6 goals conceded. Ok, so we’ve had an OG, penalty and that top bins free kick today, but that’s a 45.45% save rate. Pretty sure over the full PL and Championship seasons he was also around the 50% or lower mark. You cannot get automatics with a keeper that’s conceding every other shot (or worse). To not sign a new number 1 is a huge an unnecessary risk.

This guy broke the story yesterday.

Didn’t we take him off at HT away at Leicester, the fans sung his song for 40 mins straight in protest to Rusk subbing him off. It was a bit mad.

When you put it like this it really hits home how far we have fallen, very depressing indeed.

I agree with the sentiment that it’s best to judge when the window has closed and the dust has settled. The concerns in the GK area are valid, remains our weakest link. We have enough evidence that putting all our eggs in the Bazunu basket is very risky. Worries remain also about which of our strikers is going to deliver the goods but we do have plenty of proven championship goalscorers, just need to get them back in form. All 4 linked signing from yesterday are exciting. Especially the 3 that look certain to happen. Really looking forward to seeing them play for us. Caspar Jander seems like a player that could be our next Fernandes type find. Azaz and Fellows are the proven quality we all wanted that should deliver immediately. We were missing creativity so bring in 25 championship assists from last season. Can’t really ask for more in terms of proven creativity.

Nice of Tom to wait for permission, unlike some players…

Think they want a loan though?

He does seem to have a good reputation and plays for the German u21s. You’d think that fee will be inclusive of add ons. I’m sure that we will see the figures reported by UK journalists soon.

Think it was reported as €12m over in Germany.

Yes, it relies on our strikers returning to their previous champ levels. I’m hoping having better and different creators in a 4-2-3-1 that we get more output. Remains a worry.

We bemoaned the lack of creativity despite generating the most xG in the league so far. Bringing in Azaz AND Fellows would be 25 assists from last season. Playmaker and proper winger. I think that would solve the problem.

Does Alfie’s 👀 emoji mean something here?

Fully agree this is the only player I am upset about losing. We were a disgrace last season and Matty was the standout player that has so much potential and a long contract. However, you can’t keep players that don’t want to be here, so we take the money and spend it on Azaz, Jander and a winger.