Lighthouse

So as per Liverpool, Leicester and the home game against United; we played well enough for parts of it but didn’t take our chances and when it came to crunch time and we needed to keep it tight, we conceded three goals.

We got £20m for a player who had only ever looked good on loan in the Championship. If someone offered that for Brereton Diaz, you’d bite their arm off. He wasn’t that young either, 24 when we sold him, so hardly an up and coming teenage wonder kid. How we spend our money is a separate conversation, it doesn’t change the fact that £20m for Tella was good business.

What’s your point? Neither has shown themselves to be anything beyond average Championship players so far.

We got £20m for a player who did pretty much nothing for us. Excellent business as far as I’m concerned.

No, it shows that anyone can be flavour of the month in any given season. Two years ago, everyone wanted to be West Ham when they were winning the Euro-JPT, nobody wanted to be Forrest or Bournemouth. A couple of months back everyone wanted to be Brighton, now they’re about eleventh.

That’s an awful lot of assumptions based on very little. History is littered with players who, "just need the right manager who can sort them out." The likes of Pogba, Mutu, Lemina, Cassano, Osvaldo etc. all undoubtedly had superb talent but ultimately never got near what they were capable of. ABK not being in the Swansea squad, unless there’s some unknown injury, doesn’t exactly scream ‘commitment to the club’.

Without knowing what Kraft really did, day to day, the dreadful recruitment and transfer strategy since last spring has to fall on someone. Ultimately the wrong people (or lack thereof) were making the wrong decisions in the footballing side of the club.

It was Swansea, and not even their best team. Archer for me is the least awful forward option, with Dibling and Fernandes behind.

I’ll take any kind of cup win if it comes to it, but that was fairly comfortable overall. Cant read too much into the performance, Swansea were goppin’.

Midweek trip to Old Trafford about a month after Christmas, I can’t see how this can end badly.

Oh good, Will Smallbone.

‘Tator says Bednarek has been ‘a colossus’ for us over the years. Good grief.

That'll do for a half. Nothing ridiculous second half please.

I think we've found our level of opposition.

I can barely contain my excitement. I have checked the kitchen, we don't have a Tupperware small enough.

If you like. Come August it'll most likely be Bazunu in goal and McCarthy on the bench, which clearly upsets a lot of people but I'm absolutely fine with. Just for reference regarding his 'never saves any shots' problem; If you took 20 shots at every keeper in the Championship last season, on average they'd save 14 whilst Bazunu would save 13. That's it, that's the difference.

He's been injured that long, I'd forgotten how much his very presence actually upset some people. Hopefully he plays all of next season and we can get promoted 'in spite of him' again.

They don’t. Chances are someone has leaked that number in the hope of pushing up the selling price but nobody will actually be expecting anything like £16m.

Ali G Inda House was supposed to be a parody film. 25 years later, here we are.

McCarthy has consistently made very poor mistakes throughout his career, regardless of who the manager has been. He had two clangers against Liverpool, the first was not 'Russball' it was him making a very poor, panicked decision and if he keeps playing he'll do it again. When you say Bazunu is at the bottom of the save percentages, you mean something like 64% when the average is something like 70%. It's not the horrendous failure that some people like to pretend. Weirdly, Bazunu's errors all seem to get blamed on him, whereas everyone elses are because we're playing 'Russball'. I've no idea how this was decided but I don't subscribe to it.

You've just made that up. Bazunu is a better keeper than McCarthy and whoever is in charge next season in the Championship will most likely agree with me (and Ralph, Jones and Martin).

Trump was busy telling his supporters to inject bleach, which TBH is one of the few things he's said which I agree with.

He has just tw*tted a seagull.

I’ll take him over what McCarthy did against Liverpool and Newcastle any day.

Good luck to him, hope we can get him back in the match day squad soon. I’ll feel much better with him on the bench than McCarthy or Lumley.