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Him and Jordan Robertson were quite the strike force. Artur Boruc is also at Legia, but wasn’t playing tonight.

It’s getting close to the winter months too, so Pelle wouldn’t be any good.

Wanyama retiring at 30. Perhaps he is older… Edit: Oh, it’s an international retirement from Kenya.

A draw will do in the manufactured rivalry. Stops the rat from going top and keeps Crystal Palace within our mini-league.

Serious suggestions only. Looking at Derby's current status, he has a similar effect on clubs as his uncle did. Finished 6th in the Championship with a team of Mount, Wilson, Tomori, Cole and many seasoned Championship players, who wouldn't have been cheap. They signed Waghorn for £5m under him... Jumped at the chance to manage Chelsea straight away, who were jumping on the bandwagon of the former legend turned manager fad, and also because they couldn't attract anyone under the embargo. He did well in his first season, finishing fourth. But, the 12 defeats that season was still the joint highest amount of losses they've suffered in a season since 1998, and like Gerrard, Solskjaer and Rodgers, when it comes to Europe, they're found wanting and out of their depth. But, we won't have that problem. The second season, was when he fell off. I get that they weren't all his signings, but Tuchel's showing the strengths of that squad now. There were also reports of him alienating players during his second season and the squad were turning against him. Rudiger, who is now Chelsea's second best defender behind Silva and Tomori, who's proving a success at AC Milan being two of the most heavily reported. This aligns with the way he was reported to be like as a player in the dressing room alongside John Terry, as the "bulldogs", getting manager's sacked and alienating the foreign group. Ultimately, he's just a bit of a prick, and Jody Morris isn't too great either.

Who would we even attract to the club when we tell them they have a transfer budget of £0, until we sell your best players and replace them with bargain copies? Howe is the name constantly spoken of, and he didn't work with those constraints at the much less reputable Bournemouth. It's the ownership that is the problem at this club and we're not going anywhere while Gao remains in charge. If this was Newcastle, Everton, West Ham, who actually still get investments put into their club, you wouldn't hear the end of it. But, nothing comes from Southampton, for whatever reason. The academy's now non-existent, the first team is seemingly scraping by and looking for three worse teams each year. I don't know what it's going to take.

That’s well shit from both centre-backs. Completely sold themselves and let him through on goal.

We saw Bertrand’s best years, and in those years he could have made the step up to a more prestigious club, but stayed here for whatever reason. Vestergaard, yeah, we were fortunate to get £15m for him. No better than Yoshida, bar the diagonal passing.

Nigel Adkins masterminded a 2-2 draw against the Skates.

They only scored 16 first half goals in the entirety of last season. Their fans might as well switch on after 45.

Coventry top of the Championship. They’d be an interesting promoted club, still owned by SISU.

Looking at it regionally, us and Brighton are the only two south coast clubs playing in the Premier League's youth set-up. Brighton, however, are currently joint top of the division one alongside Man City, while we are joint bottom with Nottingham Forest and Burnley in the division below. Brighton are our nearest competition in the youth set-ups and they've leapfrogged us massively, even if we did beat them to Livramento, which I suspect came down to who could offer more first team football. I wonder what they've been doing, that we haven't. We certainly got complacent with the academy set-up, that much is clear.

Chelsea played a mix of first/second string tonight. But, their second string consists of Ziyech, Chillwell, Loftus-Cheek, Hudson-Odoi, Werner and Saul. Not players you'd view as weaknesses from our end on paper. Will be difficult for sure.

KWP and Livramento would be the best full-backs to go up against Traore’s running.

Helped make Sheffield United a top 10 side, to a team who couldn't win a game after he left. Although, he was replaced by Ramsdale... I think he's the one that's not getting the desired game time at a top club, who's a good player, especially now that De Gea's back looking like his old self. Four years left on his contract, though. I think they'd want £20m+.

Not a Saints record, but Norwich's 15 straight Premier League defeats is pretty miserable. Wonder if they can make half a season.

Nuno was a dreadful appointment after his sacking from Wolves. Spurs fans would’ve wanted an attacking manager after Mourinho, but they can only muster three shots on target against Palace and Chelsea, two 3-0 losses and a 2-2 draw with Rennes in between. Kane’s doing a Van Dijk too and going through the motions.

It could cause issues attracting players such as Simeu and Small in the future. Pros being that there’s pathway for you to get into the first team, if you’re good enough. Cons being that when you’re not in the first team, you’re developing in an ever-losing B team side.

Lingard’s so good these days.

Any bookings for the diving yet? That’s twice.

Never gets overturned if that's the opposite end.

Here's the goal. I watched the match and Vestergaard was poor all round. Keeping players onside at times, slow against Napoli's attack, was booked for a late tackle on the halfway line. He wasn't even playing diagonal balls last night. As said, he had three good months here in three years. He wasn't half as much of a loss as neutrals thought he was to us.

The fact that Ings walked straight into the England team after his move to Aston Villa only added to his misery! Oh...

Good to see Chaplow back, it’s been a while.