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Puel gave Stephens his big break; gave McQueen chances. Sims too but he didn’t capitalise on them.

Not really. Awarding him a new contract so soon after his previous one hardly gave us much more protection; what it did do, however, was to saddle us with a heavier wage bill if you believe the figures.

£95K a week pal.

Didn't VFTT say it was £95K?

Boufal wasn't Puel's pick. He had been targeted by the club before Puel joined and thought he would be working with Koeman.

When Les could do no wrong

Thanks pal.

Are you watching this Kodi? Which add-on are you using? All mine aren't working.

Nothing about Clasie suggested he would make it here. Easy call in hindsight though remember some of the dutch boys recommending we watch Clasie's performance against Sevilla in the EL as a showcase of his talents. What stood out was a player who was tidy on the ball without being incisive and who wasn't particularly physically strong or up to speed even against slower, more technical opposition.

Interesting that if you made the same claims a while ago, you would have been attacked by the very same people who have now adopted those claims as their own. Guess the leslieites had to catch up at some point

On paper, Elyounoussi is in our top 3.

1.7/10 You mean the club allegedly agreed a deal - presumably because the club decided it was in its best interests - nowhere does it say Yoshida demanded a move. You're all over the shop, little fella.

Yet he couldn’t match Puel’s record with us? Getting your excuses in early. Good lad.

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Flawless not working again for me. Anyone had similar issues with it recently?

Forster, our 3rd choice keeper, as our potentially highest paid player - nothing screams f**k up more than that.

What grades does he have to get?

So JJ can not only read the future but also peoples minds too. He knows exactly what kind of Brexit 17.4 million people voted for. Sorry to break it to him but many leavers don't support the no deal hard Brexit at any cost that loons like him and Lord D fantasise over - thus some evidence suggests that 20% of leavers favour remaining in the single market. It's also why Parliament came very close to passing an amendment that would have seen the UK stay in the Customs Union in the event of a no deal. Expect more parliamentary activism if negotiations with the EU continue to deteriorate. As usual JJ's done his homework and really got to grip with the issues. Good lad.

Am sure she means it - to suggest otherwise would be an an admission that she’s thrown in the towel and her painstakingly built Chequers compromise is dead. But given there’s little parliamentary support for her proposal and even less support for a no-deal hard Brexit while the Labour Party and Parliament are too divided to offer an alternative; it seems increasingly that the only way to break this impasse is to hand things back to the people.

Didn’t train yesterday. Assume he was injured.

Too easy an explanation. Doesn’t matter who is Conservative prime minister, they would be trapped by the same existential forces - caught between the rock of delivering and owning a hard Brexit with all its fallout and the hard place of coming up with a practical solution which the loons would decry as a betrayal. Certainly there are things that May could have done differently such as waiting to trigger article 50 and not boxing herself in with her Lancaster House speech -striking proof that listening to the headbangers gets you nowhere in the real world. But it would not have changed the basic contours of the situation in which May finds herself.

Still need to blame others rather than look in the mirror and face a few home truths. The only reason there might be a second referendum won't be because of dastardly remainers; it will be because the brexiteers failed to come up with a plan that delivered on the contradictory promises made to 17.4 million voters. The only people to blame will be those who sold you a pup pal. Nobody else.

Too early to write off Hoedt even though he had a very poor first season.

That's a non sequitur - there are myriad reasons why we conceded only three goals in five games -McCarthy making a string of saves against Bournemouth and Swansea and Everton being absolutely gash in front of goal for starters. They don't necessarily have much to do with Hoedt. And you did say under Hughes: what about the 9 we conceded against West Ham, Chelsea and an Arsenal second XI? In particular, I don't remember Hoedt covering in glory against Wham.