Lighthouse

It’s not irrelevant, if you’re selling a house you look at what the other, similar houses in your neighbourhood are going for. Keita’s release clause just means there was a maximum Liverpool were obliged to pay in order to sign him. Without that clause his fee would have been higher. If we’re comparing the two, Lavia has already played for Belgium, which is a much tougher team to get into than Guinea, let’s be honest. One has played PL football, the other CL. I’d say the former was more important when signing a player, you want a player who’s going to perform domestically every week. I’d say we have every right to expect a similar fee.

Morgan is a contrarian who goes for the low hanging fruit by bringing a bunch of unhinged lunatics on the show who are easy to argue against. He’s the TV equivalent of the people who constantly need to tell everyone how shocked and disgusted they are by some nonsense they’ve read on Twitter, nothing more.

We need to get our wage bill down and bring in a bit of moneys we don’t need to sell our best players on the cheap. If we can offload a few more Diallos and Orsics we're under very little pressure to sell the likes of JWP and Lavia, unless we get a deal which suits us. £42.5 plus a few add ins sounds like a reasonable enough deal to me, although still less than they paid for Naby Keita.

Not as much as knocking Blackpool out of the cup and having pundits call it a ‘giant killing’.

Makes us look weaker if we don’t, as if we’re resigned to selling them.

As soon as I saw his name on the team sheet, I knew we weren’t getting any points tonight.

The whole point is that he is a proven PL quality player and we all know there’s an extra tax on home grown players. JWP isn’t some Richard Wright type signing filling up the quota on the reserves, he’s good enough (and fit enough) to play regularly for most teams in the bottom half. People are spending £30m plus on completely unproven players who’ve only ever performed in places like Austria or Belgium, JWP is clearly worth more than that.

So they want our captain, England international and one of the best free kick takers in the world for £10m less than they paid for Scamacca, or £5m less than Leicester paid for Daka. I needed a laugh today.

Then McCarthy came in and was even worse. Something like 17 conceded in 6 games. Also, we lost 1-0 in the league 9 times. Does that sound like a team who’s main problem is between the sticks?

Exactly what I said. Baz was substandard and if anyone wants to argue his mistakes cost us ten points, compared to a top level keeper, then so be it. My point is that even if you swap him for peak Niemi, we still get relegated. Therefore saying that he was the main reason we went down is nonsense.

So in other words, if we had a perfect keeper, who made no mistakes, we’d still have been relegated.

Yeah, all those games where Moi, AA, Che and Onuachu were slamming in goals but we lost 4-3 because of Baz really cost us.

My gut feeling is he’ll be our first choice this year, show a definite improvement on last season and overall be quite decent.

Last time Leicester went out there they ended up racial abusing a Thai hooker and winning the Premier League, so fingers crossed we don't get a repeat next year.

I'd say it looks decent, probably my favourite of the three, although none of them is anything special.

Being realistic, we have three RBs you could argue are amongst the best in the league. It’s a luxury we neither need nor can afford, so if we get a sizeable chunk of £30m to spend on attacking players, I’ll take that.

He’s a perfectly decent one at this level, as are the two fullbacks. I’d probably want better than Stephens if it comes to it but none of them are disastrous, nor is Bazunu for that matter. Its in attack where we still have issues to sort out, especially regarding creativity.

Rain in the midlands and NW will deny both England and Hants a victory.

F**k me, after what happened yesterday we’ve now declared. 😆

Our kids were the best team in it, loved going to ODC games last year. Somehow we came unstuck against a 158 year old I’m the semi against Kent but overall it was a hell of a season. We’re a batter light in all formats, need a county opener and a 3 in the T20 IMO, but otherwise decent.

So… who put money on a healthy first innings lead when we were 88-7 yesterday?

All these precision missiles and they couldn’t stop a convoy of their own crappy tanks rolling towards Moscow.

I’m not sure anyone was ever in love with professional football because they found the players relatable. Why would you fall out of love with football because players are going to Saudi Arabia for obscene money, they’re already going to Manchester and London to earn double your annual salary in a week.

That’s the whole reason all these players came to the Premier League in the first place, they’re just swapping it for a little more money.