S-Clarke

Shocking from KWP - dreadful. Good second half, wasted away there.

I hope Stu is over his fitness issues, a fully fit Stu in the championship will be ridiculous. Much better second half, Smallbone has added much more shape centrally. I think Lavia's mind was elsewhere, understandably I guess.

Best two players of this half. Manning > Charles. Tidy.

Both have been pegged back by Bournemouth to be fair, we're struggling to get out. Manning has looked decent though, covering and defending well. Looks pretty switched on.

Alcaraz has been really, really poor today too. He's better than this, doesn't seem too sure of his position and is being crowded out too much.

If doing his job is flapping his arms around and celebrating a challenge he had to make, yet consequently conceding two goals, then I'd hate to see him not doing his job. Bloke is inept. Lavia has been sloppy, giving the ball away, caught in possession - but you can kind of understand why, and he's given us a hell of a lot more than Lyanco ever has.

Same failings from where I'm sitting - Moussa not knowing what to do with his feet, McCarthy kicking the ball into touch like it's rugby, Lyanco celebrating nonsense and still giving up goals for fun. Adams totally isolated up top and fluffing the few chances he gets. Same players, same failings. Hell of a lot of work needed. Need some takers for Moussa, Lyanco and McCarthy ASAP.

Honestly, the bloke is an absolute tool. I'd give him to Bestikas for free.

This is absolutely diabolic from us, being given a dicking by Bournemouth. Keep it respectable, they look on a different planet to us.

If I'm honest, I'll be staggered if we get our money back on him. £15m tops imo. That January transfer window was an absolute cluster fuck.

Can't find what I saw now, but it was regarding Lilie - he was travelling over there this week, ''things will now move quickly'' was the tone of the bit I read, as he has decided to leave. No chance he stays.

Sulemana is off back to Liege 1 - should be done this week.

Not sure where you saw that, all that's on his twitter feed is a reply to a question from a fan where he states Burnley are 'trying' as we need money. Feel like taking whatever he says with a pinch of salt tbh.

Agreed, I'm desperate to see movement at CB as none of the ones we have are either good enough or committed - I guess for the start of the season we'll be going Stephens and Bednarek, but I hope we can shift on Lyanco, ABK and Salisu sharpish so we can get some more progressive CB options (Ronnie Edwards etc)

I think it's fair to say we're in a bit of a holding pattern at the moment, without these moves we simply cannot evolve the squad - not financially, just because of the sheer size of it. I'm sure we'd love Ronnie Edwards for e.g, but unless Lyanco, ABK and Salisu piss off then we will not be getting a CB in the door. It's a frustrating situation because in respect of ABK and Salisu we can't even count on them as players, they simply won't play - they'll down tools - so we really need to get them gone by hook or by crook. Similar is true of our full back positions really, it's a massive luxury to be here with Bree, Livramento, KWP, Manning and Larios - there will undoubtably be one of KWP or Livramento out of the door before the end of the window in my opinion, it's all too unbalanced atm. I'm sure we'd have expected to have shifted much more than we have by now, especially our 'star players' - but the bids coming in are derisory really. It makes no sense to sell Lavia for any less than £45m (straight cash, no add on nonsense), otherwise we might as well keep him for a year and sell him back to City for the pre-agreed £40m next summer. It's very frustrating how clubs are happy to offer £70m for Cacedio or £45m for Paulina, yet subject us to sub-£30m bids for our equivalents.

There will be a breaking point at some point in August, the players are quite calm at the moment but if it comes to August and they still don't have anything lined up I can imagine the attitudes will change. What we don't want to do is paint ourselves into a corner by playing hard ball now, then having to give in during late August and having zero time to actually replace, or having to ridiculously overpay ourselves with panicked deals. It's a really difficult one and I guess only the club know truthfully how certain individuals will react as the weeks tick on.

I've learnt to take anything Charlie says with a pinch of salt.

Latest transfer - Henderson to Gerrard's new club over there, he's getting £750,000 per week!!! This is where average folk are just going to fall out of love with football, how is that justifiable in any way what so ever? It's very similar to what China tried a few years ago, but I don't think the money is going to dry up this time. I can think of plenty of better uses for 750k p/w than Jordan flaming Henderson though.

I'm so pleased for him that he's been able to go full-circle, you don't often get strong affiliations with players but he is one from the recent years I'd have back here at a shot - love the guy. I hope he does well there and fills a pretty big Busquets hole. It's a shame he won't get to play at the Camp Nou though.

Pretty much got our money back for a player who ultimately failed. Can't complain about that.

Gave 100%, cannot deny that, but so limited and prone to disasters most games. Glad we've managed to shift him on if i'm honest. If that's him, and potentially Diallo out of the door.....that's massively debloating the squad of the crap we came down with, will be a good start.

He's the relegation specialist.

I don't think he's ever been a particularly consistent ball player, he can do a random trick once in a blue moon but the most consistent attribute is him underhitting, overhitting or misplacing a pass and playing everyone into trouble. You've described him perfectly there, and that's how he's always been. Too emotional, plays with his heart and not his head. And he's very limited ability wise. I really hope he goes as I think he will be a disaster in the Championship.

Of course he was going to do that, he's Mr Celebrity.

I love Alcaraz's instinct to get into the box, his finishing is so accurate 90% of the time as well. He'd get more goals than Adams if he was played up top. I think it's going to be ridiculous having a player of Charly's ability in the Championship, we need to make sure we make the most out of it!