Window Cleaner

What was extreme was appointing him in the first place. No sane chairman should have overlooked the total Milan disaster. FdB is obviously nothing more than an Eredivisie coach.

No question really, we should have sold him for anything over 60 million payable in a reasonable time. As we've seemingly been sold to a group with not much readies then we need to go back to selling to finance top notch offensive players instead of buying bang average players like Boufal.

Sounds like a top plan actually, winning 1-0 is by far better than losing 5-4. All sport is about winning, it's the name of the game, if you want entertainment go to the cinema.

If you look at an average Ligue 1 day you'll see that every side has at least 1 Boufal like player, Newcastle bought a shedload of them and now they're all back playing in Marseille, Troyes at St Etienne. They flatter to deceive because while it looks like Roy of the Rovers stuff on occasions, there is virtually no end product to it.

Absolutely, as I've said before we are an average side throughout and we get average results. Want better results ? Sign better than average players for higher than average fees. Football is about that these days, the best sides spend the most money and everybody else is just well, average.

Correct. A manager can only do so much. No matter how he lays out the game plan, if the players can't follow it it makes no difference. We needed to sell Van Dijk and buy some real class at the sharp end.

Saved by the lower order today. Going quite well at 233/8 at the moment, 30 odd ahead and approaching a second batting point. Good contributions from Holland, Berg and Abbott.

Well! I thought we'd bowled pretty well to get them out for 200 but as it seems to be our annual batting disaster day I'm not so sure now. 66-6 might lead to problems for Hants.

I see that the fraud cases around the Grenfell Tower fire have started then. Sad event but there will always be those who seek to profit from anything but anything. I think there were about a couple of hundred false disappearances from 9/11.

Quite a few changes to the side today, Alsop keeping wicket by the looks of it. Adams and Wetherley to open.

Mané had a bit of a difficult start I believe.

must admit I've failed to seize that one off the bat as well.?

Highly likely, he's just not a 1 day bowler, might have been in the past, don't know about that but he goes for 40 ish every time now.

If you don't want to miss out on the most biased commentary ever broadcast have a listen to Radio Notts. No Solent today ?

Need to stop Wessels cos he's slamming us. Yesss, Crane gets him.

So we're off, Notts batting first and scoring a few in the opening overs. Need not to let Hales and Wessels get too set. Hah, magic, Hales caught by Afridi off Woods as I typed.

In fact Valence did sign (on loan) what to me would appear a similar sort of player from PSG. Perhaps Atletico and/or Vietto were too greedy or both. Could be that the bloke from PSG had a better agent or that PSG were willing to offer far more subsidies.

But they didn't, probably because that's far more than they'd be willing to pay. Bloke needs to reboost his value in the eyes of other clubs if he wants to get a big money move eventually. For the time being he's a trouble maker who's not played for about 6 months. Still reckon we'll never see the same sort of money that Liverpool would have given us.

Personally no but I'm sure that someone does.

so what does that mean then ?

Nothing concerning Vietto and Saints would be a good bet.

Did Vietto eventually get a move somewhere or other ?

Who can say, since Renard called him to explain exactly why he'd been dropped by Morocco all I've seen is a last minute wish to be transferred to Spain. Pity he couldn't do that towards the start of the window really, he'd have had a better chance of it coming off.

Won't be many more cup games against lower league sides this season though, one or two perhaps in January. Then again, knowing our luck we'll probably draw Utd away in the 3rd round.

Hmmm, seems to be a bit of a Boufal obsession here; The fact is that compared to the best of the best and even the best of the rest he is a very ordinary type of player. We paid what, about 15 million for him and we got what we paid for, an average player who'll sometimes shine and sometimes look pretty awful. If you want a Lemar or a Mbappe then it's upwards of 80 million and not a bent centime less.