S-Clarke

I bet the BBC thought they were being clever picking him up. ''Oh, his brother is amazing though''. But phil has always been the ugly ducking of the Neville household.

Said he already has perm. accommodation sorted out down here as well. What's the betting that it's Ocean Village.

Have you missed the last 10 posts?

Don't know much about him to be honest. Only one way to find out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY3b2CWfsqc

Diego Capel is on our radar according to reports in numerous places this morning - Sporting Lisbon's Spanish winger. (Loan deal by the looks of it)

Alpine has been destroyed on here this morning! But it's oh so easy.

Gaston and Cork have played themselves into the team here, but I believe there are transfer options for both, hence there's a chance they may leave, but I think both will remain.

As much as I admire the optimism, it's not realistic this season what so ever.

How he's dealt with the Morgan situation has been brilliant. He's used all of his playing experience to manage that one. You can tell the players all respect him greatly.

2017 I think. Long way to go.

For what it's worth, I think Koeman has managed the Morgan situation absolutely superbly. Showing every bit of his experience.

It's been fully reattached.

Sky Sports interview. He was clear that there ''WILL'' be incoming(s)

I wish they'd stop asking him the same bloody question! The answer should be clear by now.

Oh absolutely, getting the movement and activity in around him is key - but at the same time, his touch and strength needs to be there - which it was today.

This is a blast from the old days! Love it.

I think you're reading way too much into it. He wasn't too far off how he was last season to be honest, you need to remember that he didn't have a pre-season, he was straight into competitive matches - so the sharpness is playing catch up. I can understand why these questions come out, as with all that has happened it's easy to look for signs that he's not committed, but I think it's just a case of sharpness.

Let's not get carried away, but the signs are positive! We will face much, much tougher tests than West Ham put up today.

That's how to play a central striker role.

We played well all game, the right tactics deployed against a thoroughly ugly team and we didn't play to match them, we played to outplay them. We started the match on the front foot and bossed possession throughout, if there was a criticism of the first half it's that we didn't have enough forward impetus - nice in the middle, but not enough thrust after that. Their goal was just unlucky in many ways, totally against the run of play and didn't mean anything in terms of the outcome. Our goal was scored at a great time, as it allows us to go in at HT on a high and we managed to bottle that and carry it on in the 2nd half, because we totally took the ****. West Ham were absolutely abysmal, let's not forget that, but we passed and moved it around like we did last year. Ignoring the mistake for their goal, Morgan was involved throughout and got himself at least 1 definite goal....so either Morgan or Pelle have got a brace! (I personally think the ball brushed in off Pelle's head for the equaliser, I'll let them battle that out). But onto Pelle - that's how to play a central striker. Physical, dominant, bringing others into play and scoring goals. It was a near perfect performance from him in that 2nd half and that's exactly what we need him to be doing for us this year, if he can turn out that sort of level on a regular basis then we will cause havoc. Long wasn't great, endeavour was there, but quality was very much lacking. He's got a better touch than he showed, so he will get better for us. Tadic is a level above, what a find. Gets stuck in, can throw defenders off his tail with physical strength just as much as his skill - an integral part to our side. Overall, we got it tactically spot on. Koeman seems to know exactly how to play it and the 2nd half sub's made a positive difference in the outcome. It's great to get our first win so early on, I feared we may take a while, but we've looked a lot better at this stage than I thought we would. Lots to be positive about, but there will be much tougher tests than West Ham put up today that's for sure.

This transfer window is beyond bizzare. I think it's getting to the stage whereby fee's mean nothing, you cannot take any notice of them anymore.

Nice to see people are now massively hyperventilating because we've lost Tadier.

He made the correct point that both loans were separate entities. Which they were. That's why Osvaldo isn't returning because this loan has finished.

I think it was just a very poorly researched addition, brought in at a time when Morgan was going. The goal posts have changed in that respect, and it turns out that Tadier didn't really want to be here in the first place. All clubs have transfer howlers, but Forren, Osvaldo, Mayuka and now Tadier look like total nightmares for us!

Surely it doesn't matter either way? We only have one international loan, I think we can have up to 4?