Lighthouse

Lemina starts for Wolves. Place your bets on which version turns up.

We have Walcott on the bench and Moi starting, I’d at least have him as an option.

Careful, there is a certain mallard assassin who will get a little over excited at that idea.

Have I missed something on Orsic? He played yesterday for the B team and isn’t in the squad today.

I’m not fan of Jones but this is just a baseless straw man argument. I’ve seen nothing from Jones to think he’s just a spineless yes-man and Dyche would be at the mercy of the recruitment constraints of any team he managed.

He’s doing (in the 45 minutes he’s had so far) what any competent manager should be doing with that squad. Pickford, Tark, Coady, Onana, Gueye, DCL and co. Should not be in a relegation fight.

I’ll bet my House DVD box set on it.

I find it rather irritating that having spent years selling our reserve LB to buy a striker from the Championship, we go and sack him the moment we actually look like spending a bit of money. We were playing fine under Ralph but losing games in the two six yard boxes. We were a competent striker and 'keeper short of midtable safety.

Well, let’s hope he’s decent. Welcome to the club Kamaldeen.

That’s a funny looking Jordan Ayew. 🤨

I can’t help but believe that Lavia, Orsic, Alcaraz and the two we’re about to sign would have more than made up for the one point Ralph was from safety.

Nice try but I've never objected to us trying to sign a £25m player. I objected to spending over the odds (someone on here even suggested we pay litterally double) on a £6m player to, "just pay whatever they want and get it done FFS!"

Adkins was actually a league above us with Scunny.

Spending absolutely is the problem, we're still shopping in the £15m area we were when we first came up. That just doesn't buy decent players these days, it buys kids, Championship players and Elyounoussis, which is exactly what we've ended up with.

I’m not applauding anything. We’ll sign the players we can afford, who are willing to come to a team bottom of the league, from clubs who are willing to sell in January. I see no reason to be this rude and sarcastic about vacuous Twitter rumours regarding players we may never have even spoken to.

I never criticised anyone for being unhappy. You were adamant we hadn't signed a striker; we did, we signed Mara. He may be crap at this level right now but he is a striker. You're pre-empting the signing of Ayew because it's the lamest possible option you've seen us linked with on twitter, whilst silmultaneously seizing upon any rumour linking one of our supposed targets to another club. I'd say you're taking Twitter pretty seriously. We've signed Orsic who, whilst not a striker, is certainly an attacking player and a very good one according to many people on here (can't really say I've seen much of him personally) and we still have time to sign a striker tomorrow. Three, possibly four, players is a very active January by anyone's standard, so let's see how they get on.

We signed lots of players in summer and three more already in Janary. They were all linked to various other clubs but signed for us, whilst we were linked to many players who, as you say, signed for other clubs. It's bog standard transfer window stuff. Lets suppose you're the owner, manager, DoF, head of recruitment etc. at Hypo FC. Just down the road, Everton want to sign promising Spanish striker Dave Bloggs. The first thing Dave Bloggs' agent does is tell a bunch of journalists that Hypo FC are interested in him, to try and pressure Everton into a better deal. All the fans of Hypo FC get excited and then sure enough Dave Bloggs signs for Everton. Now you're public enemy number one in Hypo-Ville; the useless DoF who let another transfer target slip away to one of your rivals, when in reality you've never even spoken to the bloke or his agent. You're being called useless because of some twitter rumours about a player you never cared about signing for some other club.

But you have no idea what's really going on behind the scenes and who the serious bidders are. He might come here, we might never have been interested at all. This is just bog standard stuff. Like I said, every transfer which has ever happened has involved links to other clubs. Orsic was linked to other clubs, which had some fans hysterically demanding we just pay whatever Zagreb were asking to get it done, and yet here he is.

Just out of interest, does anyone know our best combined performance in the cups for a single season? If we do beat Luton, that'll be QF and SF as a minimum for this year.

There what goes? A player we are linked with is linked with other clubs, this is bog standard stuff. I doubt there has ever been a transfer of any player to any club in the history of world football, where they weren't also linked to someone else, and yet people act as if this is surprising and disappointing.

I don’t get it, why would the club be apologising/rationalising to some random people getting their hopes up for rumours they’ve seen on the internet?

I regret to inform you that the odds of most lotteries are longer than 15/1.

Decent draw, a shame all the decent sides have easy opponents.

The only reason we’d do something like that is to put pressure on one of our other targets, not to show that we have money.

I’m going to skip a few steps and just say that I’m disgusted that we sold him to Liverpool so cheaply.