HarvSFC

Yeah, I've always wondered where the space was for Jaidi to return following this stint. Nice to have former players in the staff, but if it's purely for sentimental reasons then it isn't often a success. Good luck to him, but I think we're now looking to move on from that period of just settling with what we have got, or at least giving Ralph some of his wants.

The last time Van Dijk had a long lay off he was out meeting other teams’ managers in Blackpool.

Moyes should just stay at home.

Impressed today. Wasn't the performance I was expecting, or the Walcott of old, but what he is now missing from his early days, he has developed other areas of his game to still perform at this level. Will be a miss now against Everton, but another two week break could serve him well.

Will be a loss against Everton, without Walcott too.

Add Salford and Peterborough to this now.

Football League clubs are coming out and supporting this. Fleetwood, Forest Green and Derby are what I’ve seen so far. Shit.

Liverpool - "You'll never walk alone" - Unless there is a global pandemic and then you can fend for yourselves on furlough... Furthermore, we would like to walk alongside the eight longest serving Premier League clubs, but the rest of you... You can fuck off.

Long and Obafemi are more effective than Deeney and they’re both currently struggling for game time, especially now with the addition of Walcott also. No thank you.

Leicester are the only club I’d want voting.

Despite all the criticism he gets, the £20m obligation to buy loan deal for Ings was a masterstroke from Reed, even if it didn’t seem so at the time.

Brilliant moment was Lambert’s goal.

I don't think Elyounoussi will ever make it here. He just didn't seem to have an impact on any games that he played. Like, less of an impact that Boufal had. Anonymous every time, even against Derby in the cup under Ralph when he played the full match in the 2-2 draw. Think it's down to a lack of pace/speed. Tadic didn't have either, but he made up for it with a better brain and more technical ability, which I do not believe Elyounoussi possesses. The Scottish/Swish league seems to be much more his level and he does stand out in those to be fair to him.

Is Valery any worse than Martina/Pied? I don’t think so. Too early to say about Vokins, perhaps it is him who Ralph doesn’t think would be able to step up.

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An interesting one. KWP absolutely needed to be signed permanently after his performances in the back end of last season, so happy with that. Then we have the question markers. Salisu and Diallo are still quite fresh/unknown. Both have very little experience of professional football and the Premier League is an unforgiving league. They could go either way, hopefully they’re more of a Djenepo, who is still raw, but clearly has ability and potential, rather than a Danso. Then we have Walcott, who again has question marks over himself now. Has he still got what he once had and how bad are his injury problems still? He’s always been a good finisher though, so hopefully he can add that to a squad who only has Ings as the natural scorer. But, then last year we signed Danso on loan on deadline day, so we’ve gone up a few levels there. The signings of Diallo and Walcott have also pushed Tella and Smallbone back down the squad’s pecking order, as neither are good enough currently. While we now have four centre-back options again, and we know we have three who can play at this level. (Salisu unproven). I’m not too disappointed about missing out on Williams. I thought he was a strange link to begin with. I’m more than happy with Bertrand still, who is still one of our better players and obviously KWP on the other side. I think Valery is still good enough to be backup on the right side and I haven’t seen enough of Vokins, but at 20 this season is really the one where he needs to prove that he is good enough and add to his singular league appearance. Sam McQueen still exists, he’ll be 26 when he leaves us next summer, probably retire, shame.

Silly Sun journo man. I suppose it was more likely that we would shut up shop after bringing in Theo, so worth a punt to at least seem itk, if you’re a journo who doesn’t know anything.

Strange one. I’ve always been a big champion of Walcott since he left us and often wondered what if with him, if he had continued to play down the centre, rather than getting lumped out wide due to his pace, if he had stayed here a while longer to develop further and if he didn’t have his long term injury issues. However, bringing him back now seems/feels like a couple of years too late. I.e. he should have joined us when it was between us and Everton for his signature. But, now in hindsight and given his performances at Everton, I don’t really care that we missed out on him back then. Additionally, if we were linked with Walcott at the beginning of the window, then we would have all dismissed it, like we did the links to Lallana, as he is as far away from our usual transfer incoming age bracket as possible. Although, I am in big favour of occasionally stretching that bracket and bringing in a quality experienced player where possible, as it has worked wonders with Ings. I suppose Walcott is just a loan and it is risk free if he does continue to suffer with injuries and recapturing his old form and hopefully he can force me to eat my words and show some of the class that he definitely showed in glimpses at Arsenal and for England.

Djenepo!!!!! That’s what he contributes when he’s on it. Lovely.

It is strange because Adams’ goal against Man City was so instinctive and he hit it without really thinking too much about it. Now, he seems to want to take an extra touch, happened against Spurs and on the rebounded shot today.

Having a medical at Parma.

A crap situation. Rhian Brewster is a good signing for Sheffield United, they have £20m+ lying around without selling anyone noticeable and signing Ramsdale for £20m prior.

Scared of flying and constantly gets into public spats with his manager/owners, so the black box would have ruled him out.

Ronaldo Vieira going to Hellas Verona.

You can also replace "Celtic" with "Southampton".