S-Clarke

Mayuka is pathetically rubbish.

Good player, good sign up. Will be a big part of our season.

I think it's hard to get carried away, or overall negative - whatever happens in a friendly. They're not competitive enough and the quality is much lower, BUT...you do get a gimpse of what the players and the system can offer, and I think Tadic and Pelle will be huge threats for us. Pelle likes to get involved and seems very mobile, quite quick as well. Tadic just oozes class.

Like the way we're still pressing high, Pelle looks like Lambert MK2 and Targett looks like an able replacement for Shaw.

Crap signing IMO.

Umm, ok.

I like the look of tadic, works very hard off the ball.

Gaston is doing ok, looks class in possession as usual but does seem to wander into trouble and loose the ball. He has to cut that out of his game if he's to be a success in the PL.

Yeah, Pelle's touch and movement looks pretty top level. B'mouth cannot handle it.

We look class tbh. A level or 2 above, easily.

That was a top class cross from Tadic.

Pelle and Tadic both dragged on a bit, and at the time people were moaning about how long it was taking us to sort that. Looking back now it seems as if it was sorted quickly, but the reality is that it was a fair few weeks of will he won't he.

NickG, what are you on about here??? 2 first team, nailed on players. First names on the team sheet as it currently stands. Also, whoa re the 'most posters'' who don't want to see Fonte in the side? Why do people say stuff like this to make their point sound more dramatic, it's literately just 0.0000000001% of the fan base who has said they don't want Fonte in the side - probably Saint Richmond. At the end of the day, we've already lost too many important players - albeit for good fee's. We now cannot afford to lose other important players due to poor contract situations. We do actually need a team! And at the moment, Fonte and Cork are damn critical to us. There some things you can paint a positive outlook to, but your post is literately clinging onto the tiniest little bits of thread.

Dean Ashton mk2

Glad that it's coming from that twitter account. What rumours are those then?

Shaw is such a dumb ****. Thick as 2 short planks.

Such a pointless poster. All credibility, if he ever had any, went down the toilet when he started an argument with himself. He's a wum, nothing more than a poor WUM with multiple logins.

So, basically he's been reading this forum and knows as much as us. Thought as much!

....nothing? Pretty much true to the point.

He's a skate, already been outed. Not sure why he keeps on posting.

Koeman on Schneiderlin: "He is not on his way out. He is still on holiday and will come back this weekend. There are only rumours about him. There are no bids for him and that is the situation."

Feels like the Wanyama deal all over again.

Dani Osvaldo has been sold to Liverpool for £35m.

Could well do, but it may not. We'll have to wait and see. Can't see us getting anything at Liverpool either way, but reckon we have a decent chance of beating the Baggies at home in the 2nd game - even with the squad we have now. Gelling is quite often used as a myth and an excuse, i remember Burley using it a lot. If the players are good enough and the manager is good enough, he should be able to get results from them - or know a way to integrate them into a team.

And a top striker. Giroud is alright, but nothing special. And their only other real backup to him is Sanogo, who is ****.