S-Clarke

Come on Pilchards, you've got a lot more to you than being dragged into the board bashing. No one has done anything wrong here, because nothing has actually happened.

Link?

I don't get peoples points about Everton. If I read this without any prior knowledge I'd assume we'd sold him. But we've done exactly what Everton have done with Stones. People getting their knickers in a right old twist on here.

Look, you made yourself look a bit silly last summer - don't do it again.

It's not like Alpine to jump to conclusions based on just his mindset.

Good news I think. When Alpine gets into his hissy fits, good news often follows. Good omen.

toepunt will be delighted. Do Utd really know they're signing a non-league level player?

The meltdown on Redcafe is quite amusing, seeing as they've lost out to Chelsea on the signing of Pedro.

You two remind me of Bert and Ernie.

Hopefully I remember to pick this one up at the end of the game, rather than leave it under my seat.

I reckon we're probably talking £10m + easily. He only signed for them 6 months ago, has 5 odd years remaining, he's English and young. Looking at what's going on this year with Dwight Gayle going for £8m, Andre Gray for £9m....we got a good deal for Long!

I'm pretty sure that the registration window is open again for the group stages of both comps. So players can be re-registered across the comps if required.

Where on earth are Bristol City getting that sort of money from?

Winners of the EL go straight into the CL Group stage. I think as EL winners you are bumped up to 2nd seed's as well, but may be wrong on that.

Cringe from Milner. ''Oh, it was a special atmosphere''. All i heard were the Bournemouth fans, seriously. heads out of your arses, please.

Both, Bournemouth shaded the quality part

Lots of spirit, lots of desire, but very, very little quality on show.

Plucky, but no real quality on show from them, their touches are too heavy and their passes are underhit. Coutinho has been the best player on the pitch.

He's probably not really a defector, but thought this was the only place for these comments from Toby. Is he missing it here already? (ok, minus morgan).

To be fair, on that form Lukaku would out power most full backs. He was pretty impressive.

Ditto, it's just what I want to watch as a football fan. Unfortunately come next season BT won't have the Sat Midday game anymore, so I don't know if BT will re-position fletch and sav to another slot....or they just keep it where it is and have a very early build up to the teatime game (which they'll have from that season).

Not sure, but most viruses can go on for 10 days or so, so possibly. One of the main issues with him on Saturday was seemingly his lack of strength, he just seemed to be walking through treacle when trying to turn. A lot of people are saying he's not good enough, but in my opinion he was hung out to dry with the lack of cover in the first half, and then if he was ill as well....feel sorry for him!

That's weird.

Last summer we lost Shaw - £32m, Lallana - £25m, Chambers - £16m, Lambert - £4m, Lovren - £20m. That's near on £90-100m coming into the club. The wage bill would have been significantly lowered as well, so we had a lot to play with. This summer we lost Clyne, and in theory we'd only have seen £7-8m of that due to the sell on. And we lost Morgan for around £25m. That's a hell of a lot less than the £90m we pocketed last year, and anyone expecting levels of spending close to that again are slightly disconnected from reality. People also have to take into account FFP. One area we need to work on is the commercial side, sponsorship's etc. And until we are higher up the rankings in those area's, then we're kind of restricted in what we can do. It's also worth noting that we'll still be paying the transfer fee's for some of the deals we did last summer, that sort of spending for a club of our size was insane and only allowed through what we sold.

TBF Ronald came out after the game and said that Targett has been unwell and has been playing through illness, so his levels will be lower. And let's be honest, he looked frighteningly off the pace on Saturday. May be worth getting him to sit out for this one.