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Behave. Livramento was bought as a RB, talking of playing him elsewhere after 3 games, and playing him on the right ahead of S Armstrong, is ridiculous. Perraud has looked like a fish up a tree, and quite rightly was dropped. If the choice is: 1. Livramento RB, KWP LB, S Armstrong RM, and Perraud bench or 2. KWP RB, Perraud LB, Livramento RM and S Armstrong bench Then it's option 1 all day long for me

I get that, but for me, Stuart Armstrong on the right is our best option there which means Livramento RB, and KWP at LB.

Yep. I don't get all this Romero stuff. He's 34, hasn't played much, and will be on monster wages. Someone like Sam Johnstone is much more like it. Decent, experienced, and has years ahead of him. That Ralph alternated his keepers last year told us what he thinks of them, and as soon as we ditch Forster we'll be on the market.

Ditto. Although Bertrand was done here, I'm far from convinced about Perraud. He struggled in his first 2 games, and was rightly dropped for KWP.

That's a poor point. Kane and Shaw were given grief because they played for England. Black players suffered racist monkey chants because they were black. Don't be conflating the two issues.

So we played well, Sterling wound them up, there may have made some monkey chants from a section of the crowd, and the knee booing is again deemed racist. Got it. The highlights are now on ITV game so I'll check it out. Cheers 👍

Tiny

I didn't see the game and popped on this thread. Completely dominated by the racist / not racist bollox we've had time and time again. If sections of the crowd are making monkey chants, sections of the crowd are racist - it's pretty fucking obvious. I've no idea how we played though, sadly.

Shame to see that you've reverted to troll mode. But yep, expecting an established international player to join and sit on the bench, is unrealistic. He'd have wanted assurances that he'd play and I don't think he'd have got in ahead of Romeu.

Innings

Yep, everyone says "get him in" but they forget he's got to want to come here. He's an established international and I can't imagine that he'd want to come and sit on our bench getting the odd cup game here and there.

I suspect he's on massive wages. Good player though.

In truth we don't know what we've received or spent. It may be that the wage savings gave us wriggle room. Personally, I think we needed a DM and not getting one has left is short.

That £10m will likely have gone on loyalty fees on outgoing players, signing on fees and agents fees. And before any smart arses pipe up that other clubs have those fees blah blah, we ain't other clubs, and didn't have another £10m lying around to pay those fees. In truth it's a break even ish window.

Bless.

Indeed. I was surprised to see Danny Drinkwater end up at Reading. Unless he's gone right downhill, I'd have thought he'd have given us a bit of no how and leadership.

Good. We're skint and needed to refresh our squad, shift players off the wage bill, and not spend money that we don't have. We've done well. PS. That graphic is bollox. The net spend wasn't - £25m.

Very good point. They were our proper itk's, although Appy seems to know some stuff too.

Expecting us to sign an upgrade on Stephens, as well as a Vestergaard replacement, is as unrealistic as expecting us or sign another keeper. We have Stephens, Bednarek and Salisu under contract. We've signed 1 to replace 1 in the squad. As lovely as it'd be to replace all our average players with better, it's unrealistic. You know that.

Hopefully so. We need more bodies, and quality, in CM. Instinct is that we'll do something.

Same here. I guess the issue is getting a starter on our budget is difficult, and getting someone half decent willing to be 4th pick equally so.

So a Bednarek or Stephens replacement. Completely unrealistic. As the club have said, Salisu replaces Vestergaard in the team, and Lyanco has replaced Salisu in the squad.

Dunno what happened with that lad, but he was brilliant once. A proper Premier league player. Massive fall from grace.

So you expected Vestergaard replacement to replace him and Stephens? One man to replace two doesn't work.

Yep, seems odd to delay it. It went through my mind that they may want to tie it up with another announcement but its hard to see what.