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I don't pretend to understand the subtlety of the rules, but how is he not interfering by moving his legs to allow the ball to go in? Had he stayed still he would have prevented the goal.

It's a West Ham reaction thread, ie to date.

Quite. And whilst sat there move your legs to allow the ball to cross the line. He was obviously interfering with play.

I think we're at cross purposes. Cedric release was nuts and when fit he's better than we have. But to date, his departure has not weakened us cos he'd couldn't have played.

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How has releasing an unfit (ie one that couldn't play) RB made us weaker? I'm genuinely intrigued.

Sarr looks quality to be fair. I didn't give Watford a chance after Delofeou went off. Brilliant team performance.

Of course we do. What we need in terms of a proper rebuild, and what we needed (and could reasonably expect to actually get) mid season to get us through, are different things. Today was a shocker, and highlighted our lack of size, strength and pace.

Letting him go was ridiculous, but he is injured so we'd be no worse off if he was still here.

Yep. We all know the issues. Constantly highlighting them ain't gonna change a thing. Poor selection team. Poor performance. Beaten by the better and more motivated team. Move on and enjoy the rest of the weekend.

Oh the irony after all this "birds this, birds that".

Cheers. Explains one of the line up decisions.

Odd line up. Don't fancy Smallbone's chances in midfield today, Noble will bully him. Would prefer JWP in there and one of the RB's at RB. And as for Ings on the bench.

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Yep, we'll have to give him away and pay up a chunk of his wages. Horrific. Company year end is June so we should see accounts end of March - tgey'll be interesting in many respects.

Not for me. Long's running makes so much space for Ings and pushing him out wide reduces Ings threat.

If it was a 3 year deal and he's been here for 3 years then yes the fee will have been written off. I assumed the deal still had time to run but I might be wrong. Is there provision for deeming a football player an impaired asset? I've never heard of it happening. A knackered tractor on a farm, yes, but a footballer who's turned out to be ****, I'm not sure about. I take your last point but if we are offered similar money in the summer as we could have got in January, and after another chunk has been amortised, it obviously makes sense. Either way he's a donkey and signing him was appalling business.

I didn't see this post before I responded to Turkish, but yes, amortisation and timing of transfers makes a huge difference. It's an odd concept that a million less for Carillo in the summer (after the next contract anniversary) is worth more to us than selling him for a million more last month.

It may well be that it was because it was January. Letting another year of the contract anniversary go past and then selling makes more sense as amortisation reduces the loss / potentially pushes into profit.

Blimey, that's a bit of a stretch! I have my doubts how much of a virus Valery actually had, but if it's glandular fever, I rather doubt that 1. Che and Obafemi have caught it, but 2. If they have, that they're playing football still.

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Nail. Head.

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