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Interesting, quite cheap too? And I think I remember Chelsea having first dibs on any transfer as well....given their need for CB's, they may become interested.

Palace haven't really been spoken about since the restart, given they were already safe. But christ, they have been disgustingly bad since the return. Worst side along with Norwich. 6 defeats in a row, probably another today.

12th is ours...

Sheff U look shocking, lacking in any real ability or quality. Not entirely sure how they are where they are! I like Sander Berge, but that's about all they've got.

I think any manager would be mental to go there. It really isn't any way to run a football club. Maybe they need to be clear in their head what they want to achieve with Watford, what football philosophy and identity they want? They don't seem to have a clue, they just move players around between Granada and Udinese and have no real transfer strategy. Oddball club and they really do need to get relegated so their owners can feel the financial pinch of their absurd club management.

Gareth Bale's situation is a strange one. He's clearly never going to play at Real Madrid as himself and Zidanne are always at loggerheads, doesn't even get in the match day squads. Yet his agent is now saying that he isn't leaving Real Madrid because no one will be able to pay what he earns, and how he's 'happy' and settled at Madrid - even if he doesn't play any games? Has Gareth completely fallen out of love with football and is just going to enjoy the mega money and not do anything until his contract runs out? He should just admit defeat in his Zidanne showdown, leave the club and take a pay cut to join another top club. There would be countless takers if he was willing to take a pay cut, but as I said, maybe playing football isn't important to him anymore.

Personally, I'd have kept Yoshida for the final 6 months of his contract and sold off Vestergaard for the up to £26m.

Seems to have all stemmed from the Real Madrid rumours for me, he looked 100% set to join and then it didn't happen. He's gone backwards since then, errors at first which were covered up as rarity's are now following a consistent pattern of basic technical errors. If I were Man Utd, take £20-30m on him, service a portion of his wages for the next couple of years, and get a new goal keeper or use Henderson.

If they want to spend £15m then I'll drive him there. Such a shame we decided to block that up to 26m deal in January, that would have been hilarious. But even with 15m, we're not making a huge loss on him. Take it and run!

Do you know if the club are actively looking at goal keeping options? There has been talk that Fraser is coming back and is going to fight for his place here.

If he has any decency he'll agree to a mutual termination of his contract for free, as he's probably by now recognised that he cannot play football.

On VAR, I know it's raised it's questions this season and there aren't universal fans - it annoys me in many ways, but the goal it intervened in today is exactly what it's there for. That was a potentially huge goal at the bottom of the league, could have cost Watford or Villa millions if it came down to a point. It was a shit miss by the lino first off, but this is what VAR is for - clear and obvious errors and removing huge game changing/season defining official errors such as that. Bournemouth will be sick, but the game will be much fairer if VAR is used like this.

Bournemouth at home, funnily enough. Last kick of the game, he decides to confuse Bednarek and lets Wilson score in an open goal.

Yeah, wtf is that about? He's a knob, but he has literally picked them up from being dead and buried to being in the driving seat to stay up. What is with their owners? Good, strong season under Javi Gracia....struggling start, so they sack him by September. Then they bring in the the previous manager who they'd sacked a year or so before, and he lasted about 2 months before they dumped him. If i'm honest, I hope they go down because how they run that club is not a way to run a football club.

I haven't really paid much attention to La Liga this season, but Espanyol finished bottom of the league and were relegated? Jesus. What on earth happened there. They finished 7th last year and top of their Europa League group...! Crazy. Marc Roca is a very decent CM fwiw.

Yes, exactly. He seems to dither in his head way too much, he's very reactive rather than proactive in his positioning and given that he has no pace then he can't really react most of the time, this is a constant from him. On the ball, and off the ball.

To be honest, given his height, I'd expect him to win most in the air by default. He did still lose a few headers though. On the ball and positionally he wasn't great, as per. He doesn't react to danger quick enough for me, seems like 3 yards behind the game in his head all the time - and it doesn't help that he has no pace to recover with either!

If they've got doubts and won't pay the upwards of £75m, then they're welcome to go and shop elsewhere!

Redmond very frustrating to be honest. He's always hesitated in terms of taking players on, it's a part of his game he's never really been able to shake off. Not entirely sure why. His passing has been dreadful too, and let's not talk about his finishing. He does have good ability on the ball and his pace helps us up the pitch and causes a threat, 100%, but he really needs to improve the final key elements of his game otherwise we will be forced to look elsewhere.

Take his goals out of those games, likelihood of anyone else scoring is low. So, yes, we'd be almost relegated without his goals.

It's good to see Adams start to make the most of his opportunities on the pitch, I'm not sure why it's taken him so long to settle? He's still raw in certain area's and certainly needs to improve technical area's of his game. I'd loan out Obafemi and bring in another striker to complement both Ings and Adams.

Without his goals, as of today, we'd be sat on 32 points. Says it all really.

Looked ok, not as fluid as previous games but we still should have made it more comfortable than it was. Bournemouth didn't seem to have any real idea on how to play, it was a mixture of long balls up to small centre forwards/wingers, or passing into the box only to lose it. A very confused performance from Bournemouth, but we did keep them at arms length really. Most of Bournemouth's opportunities came from the inside left, which is Vestergaards's area - he was dreadful once again. KWP though, he has changed the dynamic of this team on the right side so much. He has so much energy, so much pace and belief. He's still raw in certain area's of his game, which is why I'd have question marks if the price is too high on him. Overall, a pretty standard premier league win over a very, very confused and poor side.

20 goal English striker in his prime, but he's also a fantastic defensive forward for high pressing teams. Priceless really, but I'd probably listen at around £90-100m. If Lukaku cost £90m, then he costs the same.

Ben Godfrey 😉