S-Clarke

Sometimes people should take a few seconds to think before they hit post.

I love seeing Jay play like this, looks like the player he was with us in his 2nd season. Been a long time since we can say that.

Whenever I see Nyom play it gives me great confidence that I, too, could become a top level footballer.

I hope we don't get an early goal, weird to say, but it'll just threaten him to spend the rest of the game telling us to stay behind the ball.

Thought the first half was decent, we could and probably should have put them out of sight in the first 30 mins. 2nd half was durge though, trying to hold on for a 1-0 against a depleted Watford side at home is depressing. Retreat, retreat, retreat. I think that's what us fans find frustrating, hopefully with a bit of pace in the side we won't get stuck so deep and will have an outlet. He does love defending a lead though, no matter how slim. Onto the 5th round, amazingly.

He's going to Sunderland.

time for our resident airport arrivals mole to pop up...

I'm fed up with people that moan about the people who are moaning, and now i'm moaning about the people who moan about the people who are moaning FFS?

Can't say I know much about him, but what we have needed for about 18 months is someone with presence up top. He clearly will bring that, adding height to the spine of the team was well needed. Let's get some pace in and around him and we may start heading in the right direction. Generally It doesn't seem as if Monaco fans have a bad word to really say about him, claim he's good in the air, not amazing on the floor, but will always give 100%.

He's gone on a worse scoring-blank than long! I think his last goal came at the start of 2016 for WBA! An example of a player who let it all go to his head.

Not sure I know a set of fans who like that bloke, irritating self-important idiot.

That's not going to effect the game though?

If you play one up top, I'd think a target man is exactly what you want? He's probably not an out and out target man per-say, but I will bet you his ability in the air will bring the other attacking players into the game more (and thus open more space). Look at Crouch, Benteke, Okaka, Vokes, Barnes - not great players at all, but they still effect a game because of their presence.

Just having some threat in the air will help I think, given our lack of any physical presence up top we'll probably be pleasantly surprised by even average hold-up ability!

I don't see anyone really getting excited over it, I see a lot of people with an open mind and maybe a tinge of relief that we're signing a player with attributes we lack. You tell us we can't be excited (which we're not) and that is one extreme, yet it's OK for you to flip it the other way and rant against him, having not actually ever seen him play. The fact you're comparing him to Shane Long kind of suggests you have no idea the sort of player he is, a quick google will show you that he is a player in the mould of a target man. Not always the prettiest of players, but often the most effective in bringing others into the game. So, I think most are open minded, not excited. Yet you seen to having a meltdown of your own over someone you've never seen. Go figure.

So no then, fair enough. You had such a strong opinion on him I assumed you'd certainly seen him live.

Given how opinionated you are agaisnt him, I assume you've seen him play a few times live? (in person or on TV) over the course of his career?

Good point. Bit like Arsenals failed attempt to meet Suarez's release fee.

Deal closer....19m agreed.

He's going to Inter.

Premier League clubs aren't allowed 'fancy' patterns anymore, some pointless new regulation. Straight lines only.

If we did that, we'd be losing out financially on the deal. We wanted those mega bucks I think.

How many of these ''there will be an announcement at x*pm'' ''the press have been called'' snippets have actually ever been true? It's not really how football works. We had so many in our takeover days as well.

I'm sure they'd love to have it filled up with home goals from the last two seasons, but.......

All we needed was it to be a friday, and we would be all set.