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Leeds play that high press game much better than us (at the moment). It helps when you have someone like Raphinia who is happy to run and take players on. Will be an interesting game when we play them in a few weeks, they certainly give you chances, so the score is anyone's guess. Palace are a true reflection of dross though. Nowhere team.

Mike Dean: Referee notifies police over death threats to family - BBC Sport Personally I think this is even more proof that he needs to be taken out of the spotlight for a little while, but let's be honest...he loves the spotlight, so he's not going anywhere.

Money talks I guess. One last shot at the top level if he feels he can do it, but the reality is that he'd barely play and would be even more susceptible to injury's if and when he did. He really would be dicing with his entire career and I'd fully expect him to be back out on loan within a year. Leicester or Everton are much better shouts.

Ings to City stinks of 'English quota' stuff. Let's hope he's not silly enough to throw his career away like that.

Which is why it's even more ludicrous that we have no backup to KWP. We needed better than Valery, but now we don't even have him.

Personally I'm all for winning a trophy. Any 'jaunts' into Europe on league placing for clubs of our size are fleeting and not long-term. A trophy is long-term, it's always there. It's in history. We need to win more silverware, our cupboard is embarrassingly bare really. I think we should have won something during the Koeman or Poch years tbh, we were well placed for something - but what happened? We started putting weak teams out in the cup because we felt we had a chance of 'Top 4' and wanted to concentrate on the league - and yes, we got into Europe under Koeman, but were knocked out in the early rounds which put a mockery on 'resting players' for the league so we could finish 7th. Silverware over league placings every single time for me. I wouldn't have swapped those Arsenal results around by the way, if we were going to win one of them I was hoping it was the FA Cup game.

Hopefully most clubs operate a long-term scouting strategy rathe than just deciding to make a move based on a run of games, that would seem a little foolish. He's clearly a top level player, struggling with form after quite an in and out season.

I'm sure we'd love either of them, but individually they are both likely to cost in the region of £30-40m. We will not be spending that much on an individual player. Our replacements for Ings etc will be in the normal 10-15m bracket.

It doesn't happen that often because most defenders can sort their feet out. He had an absolute nightmare there, personal disaster of a match/week. When Bednarek is bad....christ he is beyond bad! When he's good he's decent though.

Chris Sutton is about as irrelevant as Robbie Savage. They're just looking for reactions, they're just WUM's in pundit form.

Maybe the tiniest bit of good news from today. I thought he looked decent in the first half, he was making good runs into space and his goal was excellent - again, a good run into space, a great touch and an even better finish. Second half he lost his way a little, he hasn't played a great deal for Liverpool so fitness may have come into it, but I also don't understand how we were trying to use him when we were against 9 men? He seemed to play as one of the last men - maybe hoping he could pick a through ball? (Although that would have been tricky with two banks of 4 so condensed to each other - the width and stretching of the play was the way through in that game) But overall a goal on his debut isn't bad at all, looks a tidy little player and certainly a much needed lift for our attacking third.

Violent conduct, seriously? According to Sky, the VAR crew have justified the decision because of Souceks 'clenched' fist. I'm struggling to see any clenched fist.

You referring to the likes of Hoedt/Lemina/Elyounoussi etc? They needed to go to be honest, they weren't offering us anything. Plus letting them go enabled us to bring in the likes of Diallo and Theo, without those departures we wouldn't have had the room in the wage budget.

I haven't. If anyone has mentioned it they're WUM'ing. We're not in a relegation fight, we can at least rest easy in that sense.

I think he openly admitted he'd have more players here if he could have them! The quality of the depth isn't there, they're just academy players, who let's face it...aren't up to the level in the main. He's been dealt a tough hand really, he's had to generate pretty much all his funds from sales since he's been here. Kinda tied with one hand behind his back most of the time. That's why I think he deserves a lot of credit for what he's managed to eek out of this squad.

Whilst it's true that we had that period of form, stretching over a really good sample of games, it's not a true reflection as it came across two seasons - one with a forced break in the middle of it. We seemed to handle the 'restart' matches much better than anyone else, not entirely sure why. Then we just gained momentum and ended the season like a train. We had a little break to recharge our batteries in the summer, and we kind of started where we left off (bar the first 3 games...). The true test was always producing that level of form over an entire season, but it's become pretty clear that we can't do that because of our squad. Unfortunately 10/11/12 is probably a fair place for this squad as it stands and I'd be more than happy with that level of finish.

Richard Browne: Madness. Totally accidental. Officiating in this Country is at a new low. Will Meredith: Mike Dean with VAR is like giving a toddler some fireworks and a lighter. Ridiculous. Peter Malath: Soucek red carded for that? Football is going through slow death on our watch. Disgusting Ben: As a neutral from another league, if that is a sending off, I’m not watching Premier League football again! Absolute joke. Even looked like Mitrovic was telling the ref it wasn’t a red. Keith: I'm a Fulham fan and that's never a red. Even Mitrovic said it wasn't. Unbelievable!

'Accidental elbow'. It was really, really iffy. Not clear enough for a red in my opinion. It was on 97 mins as well, is it really worth it? At least he gets put in the spot light again I guess.

The bottom 3 really do look cut adrift. It's going to take some work for any of those sides to stay up now. I'd be amazed if you need any more than 34 points to be safe this year.

Tag-team special. He is way too red card happy, something iffy about him.

We will lose him. The squad needs a bit of work, but we can only do that by reinvesting what we sell. It feels like we are building up to some strategic sales to then re-invest the money (probably only a portion of it) in building the squad out in numerous areas. That's how I see it anyway. I think we are lacking a real star attacking wide/number 10 style player, maybe Minimino can be that? We're lacking a really, really good CB and arguably we need an upgrade on left back and further depth up front. We can't do any of that without selling, and JWP and Ings are probably our only sellable assets left - in terms of the size of the fees they can bring us.

We were lucky it was so difficult for Man Utd and Leicester playing against 10/9 men then, weren't we.

That kinda describes some of our players too.

He was one of the reasons we lost the third goal. He certainly didn't play well at any stage of the game. He can deceive people by looking to run around a lot with the ball, but look at what he actually does with it. Nothing. Ever. A position that looks promising with him pulling out wide and running at a player, will often result in him slowing down, turning back and playing it to a defender. Every.single.time.

If we don't see Salisu in this game then I think it's fair to assume he doesn't actually exist.