Lighthouse

Does anyone else think Upton Park looks a bit different this season? Almost looks like a new stadium but it can't be because if it was the commentators would have mentioned it by now.

Pretty much anyone decent we've had since Matt Le Tiss has sent their agent down to St Mary's, demanding they be bought and sold like a commodity. That anyone would accuse Saints fans of not showing loyalty to their players is hilarious.

Fonte is different to our other departures in that he has no leverage. Everyone else has been able to say 'sell me now or I will leave next summer/2 years'. With Jose that simply isn't a threat, so we hold old the aces. He will stay unless its to our advantage to sell him, I.e. We have another Virgil/Toby/Lovren lined up.

As I said....

All Sunderland so far. Will need to keep Januzaj quiet on Saturday.

I wouldn't bother. Robbie has already stated "we are going down!!!!!!!!!" As a definitive statement of fact, less than 2 games into the season. His opinions have little basis in reality.

To me it looked like Musa flicked his leg out to the right, knowing the defender was their and would stumble over it. Subtle but I'm pretty sure Musa was looking for it.

Who the frig is Daniel Emery?

Assuming Chelsea and Liverpool have got their act together, 7th is about as good as we can reasonably expect this year. It only takes 4 from the likes of Leicester, West Ham, Stoke, Everton, Watford, Swansea etc. To have a decent season and we will be bottom half.

Can't see 3 players arriving, not unless 2 are leaving. If I was a betting man I'd say no sales and we sign one attacker.

I don't think we need JWP, Davis and Clasie all in the same squad. 2 from 3 for me.

Chelsea losing to Watford, so they're definitely going down. Stoke lost to one of the Manchester clubs, so they're definitely going down (because it was at home, they have to go straight through to League 1) Just leaves one more relegation place for us to avoid. Hopefully Liverpool can confirm theirs with a defeat at Burnley.

This is what I would play. It has no bearing at all on what I expect to see, just what I'd do Forster Pied - Fonte - VvD - Targett Hoj - Rom Redmond - J Rod - Tadic Austin

Dalek doesn't have an opinion, he just posts nonsense about 17th and sleepwalking into relegation and has done continuously since we were promoted from League 1. Even when we were top of the Championship, he was talking about how the '45 point mark' usually ensures safety. It's not an opinion, it's meaningless, attention seeking drivel. He has even admitted in the past he's doing it to wind people up. Sadly we don't seem to have mods anymore so this kind of sh*te goes unchecked.

What's with the fly tipping in TMS recently? The mods have been at this before.

Three things I find astonishing... 1. Why the mods are seemingly oblivious and haven't banned him. 2. Why people still continue to respond to him. Even sarcastic remarks about how 'hilarious' his routine is just feed his ego. 3. How an individual can be this utterly tragic. It's been like 12 years since he started with all the Hoddle stuff and he's still at it.

I await CB Fry with a suitably amphibian analogy.

True but he has been distinctly average the rest of his career. I don't particularly rate either personally, neither would be in my first choice 11. I'd go back to 4-2-3-1 with a front 6 of Hojbjerg - Romeu Redmond - please for the love of f**k a decent #10 - Tadic Austin

Shaw tripped over his own leg. Never a penalty. Positives to build on from the first half. Still not sure on the formation and we need a bit more firepower but my bed remains resolutely dry this evening.

What's really weird is that Robbie joined this site 10 years ago but is apparently only 6 years old.

So you're saying if we draw at home to Stoke, we will definitely finish higher than last year?

You should apply for the Chairmanship of Juventus. Those poor deluded fools p*ssing away their best asset for a meagre £86m. If only they'd left it to 9pm on deadline day, they could have got £200m for Pogba easily.

He could have been as good as Beattie in 2004 when he didn't want to be here, or Rasiak in League 1, or David Speedie, Wanyama in last years Europa league. You get the idea. Well, everyone else does anyway.

I remember that time we lost Skacel and Rasiak in the last hour of the transfer window. We had a meltdown of Chernobyllian proportions.

No he isn't. He has a contract for 2 years, we don't have to offer him anything.