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Neither had Rickie Lambert Nor had Ollie Watkins before AV signed him... Championship strikers tend to do well in the Premier League.

Almost certainly we'll sign Adam Armstrong now.

Let's see how we look against the Spaniards. That's the real test. Still encouraging to know we can swat away Championship opposition. Think we'll be fine this season (depending on whether we add a couple of players...), and improve on where we finished. Top half would be nice, but let's not get carried away.

Villa are going to massively flop next year, with or without Grealish.

If Spurs want him that badly, they'll pay now. Leave it and Ings will have the pick of much bigger clubs than Spurs. If Man City or United came in for him, our position would be far weaker as we know he'd probably end up there anyway.

Welcome to the maison de fous!

Was also in the youth team at Nice when Claude Puel was in charge. Can only be a good thing to have learnt from world-class managers like Puel.

Seems like the type of player who would do OK for us.

I will stick my neck on the line and guess that we won't sell him for any price. Not to a non top six team in any case.

Anyone who wants Howe over Ralph needs to give their head a good wobble.

As and when we are looking for our next manager, I would be hoping for someone of a much higher calibre than Eddie Howe.

Can we offer a buy one get one free and throw Hoedt in to whoever wants JV?

Objectively a terrible decision. Don't get the hype over Kalvin Phillips. Average at best.

I can see Elyounoussi and Lemina working their way back, but Hoedt is done. A terrible defender, and an even worse person in my view. Get rid at all costs.

Echo the thoughts of others, a very interesting read. Out of interest, have you looked into as much detail into the other teams in the league? If so, where do you see us in relation to them? Obviously from a statistical point of view, the league table, as is the cliché, doesn't lie.

I don't think it's deliberate. He knows we need to improve defensively. And that isn't true by the way, only been January since the regular defeats. And we got 6 points from our last 4 games. Let's not make things up.

Very true about Puel. He knew the limitations of this team and reacted accordingly. Sadly some of our more unintelligent fans couldn't see that. Same with Ralph I think. He knows what he's working with. Just got to hope it's a busy transfer window. I really want him to be ruthless with this squad.

Pathetic display but players ultimately are responsible. Ralph made it clear he wanted to finish as high as possible; they let him down. Mass clear out required (I've said this for years).

I don't get why we've taken off the one player who actually seems to be trying Why is Redmond still on the pitch??

Trying the stuff that saw us win 6 of our first 8 games. Convenient for you to forget that. The only person showing their footballing unintelligence is you. I'd have thought you'd have realised to not spout off but here you still are embarrassing yourself every week.

Redmond has been abysmal. Defence shocking. Very annoying as we had played well.

He's clearly a very good manager. The fact is, when he was sacked, harshly, we were on a good run of form. Whether we'd have progressed as quickly as we did under Poch/Koeman with Adkins we'll never know. They had connections I suppose he didn't have.

Hope all the players have copies of Viafara's message underneath their shirts when we win up there

Having Black Lives Matters emblazoned on shirts was misjudged, and the Premier League would be wise not to align itself with an extremist organisation in the future. I don't see the act of taking the knee as being "owned" by that organisation though.

I honestly don't see the issue. It's just taking a knee. That's it. No big deal.