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Hopefully the club let us know, they kinda like to keep bad injuries under wraps for some reason.

Yeah, powerhouse of a midfield. But still, we have to take this opportunity to laugh at the state of their glass ceeling.

Lol, Sissoko is going to Spurs. Ditched Everton.

Bloody pointless international breaks.

No, not at all. But for the giggles, go on Spurs....!! That would leave Everton up **** creek.

Good player to be honest. I assume he's going there for games though, not to be a squad player....so...Kone?

Lol @ Everton. Spurs have matched Everton's bid for Sissoko. Player prefers Spurs move.

#meltdown

Which TBF he did on Saturday.

A few of the most promising kids went out on loan last year, but that can't happen now - so I'd expect a few more games (and this is arguably something a lot of people were calling for Koeman to do anyway). Reed is arguably, alongside Romeu, the only tough tacklers we have.

Should have waited a bit later for that one..... but I have the feeling the club just wanted to get the major 'transfers out' done, before our new manager came in - so he had the budget to play with - maybe. But if we'd have kept him till today, it may be dicing with death a bit - we'd either get a stupid bid....or we'd be stuck with an unhappy player who will be worth a hell of a lot less next summer. The club probably had a better feel for the overall situation than any of us would have.

Nope, but these posts now are way too early. It's just loads of wild assumptions without knowing how said players will perform, who will get injured, etc etc etc. I think the club know what they're doing.

There's also a pretty wild assumption that not a single youth player will progress this year. I think we have some promising kids and the likes of Stephens, Reed will be getting some game time for sure. They can't go anywhere now (well, unless there's a late move). There aren't anymore loan windows in the football league, so they're bound to windows like the rest of us.

Sunderland, what? But we have this every flaming window. #iwishwewerestoke #iwishwewerepalace #iwishwewerexxx - but we finish above them, every time. Let's just give this team some time before coming down on this ridiculous points.

Given our record, you'd be wise to clump for the former...

Based on his Euro's I think. And probably because they'd think no one would be daft enough to agree to it. well....

£30m for Sissoko to Everton. That price is simply down to his Euro's display, no one would pay that much if it was just based on his Newcastle days. Will be interesting to see how it works out.

We were not going to get ready made replacements, a like for like. We will improve the players we signed as we have to most of the players we've signed over recent seasons. It's the same old assumption that for e.g, the Redmond we saw at Norwich is the maximum of his actual ability. The amount of stick Pelle used to get on here ''He's holding us back'' ''We're not going forward with him in the side'' - and now he's gone, he's being predictably used as a stick to beat the club with (that's not directed at you at all, but some others are saying as much). Hypocritical to the extreme, just to try and make their points valid from 2 years ago. I'm pretty sure we ''built' the squad up last year to cope with, what we expected, was going to be a run in Europe. The key point is that the number of players we have in the squad hasn't reduced.

Ok, I see what you mean now.

Huh? Not sure if you're saying that in jest or not, but we play 3 away and 3 home against the 3 other teams in our group.

Jesus christ, they're really scraping the barrel now aren't they.

'much weaker squad' - how do you define that exactly? We were going out in the market and buying a ready made mane, so if you were expecting that then ok...we're a lot weaker, but I don't think many people were.

The fact you associate bad news with getting yourself a reward/a nice little earner says it all.

As always is the case.....