Lighthouse

It's going to be pretty close, looking at our results since about 7.30pm this evening. Looking like we will have a relegation play off with Arsenal. Congrats to Palace on securing the title though.

Baring any last minute ins and outs I'd go with... Forster Cedric - Yoshi - Gardos - Bertrand Hojbjerg - Romeu - Davis Redmond - Barry - Boufal Incidentally, when was the last time we did a double over the Hammers? Edit: Actually that's what I'd expect Puel to go with but with Stephens in for Gardos. I personally would go with: Forster Cedric - Yoshi - Gardos - Bertrand Hojbjerg - Romeu Redmond - Boufal - Tadic Barry

Benvenuti!

No mention of ear lobes, Skacel, petting zoos or Carsten Janker, though.

No point in getting rid of him before the end of the season, unless we have someone obviously better lined up. Nothing to lose really, after the cup final, the rest of the season is a bit of a dud TBH.

*sigh* ...

Never in a million years are 2 of the bottom 4 getting 40 points this year. 35 will be enough to stay up.

Afraid I've got some bad news for you.

FFS give it a rest with the relegation BS. We need to win about 2 more games the rest of the season to stay up.

111 Ricardo Fullers.

Would be daft to get rid of Jay just when he looks to be finding his old form. If we're getting rid of anyone it should be Long but with injuries as they are I'd hang on to everyone until summer.

Quite obviously not. I never got the argument of players going to be with their fellow countrymen. If you were a pro playing for Chievo Verona, would you want a move to Genoa if you found out Gary Taylor Fletcher was playing there?

Wouldn't be a transfer window without somebody suggesting we should sign Vokes.

The club will have no doubt have identified a range of possible targets. Signing them is a different matter entirely. Still, let's wait until the end of the window before passing judgement.

There are 6 teams at the bottom who are far, far worse than us and the bottom 4 of those are awful. We aren't going down, even if we get 2 wins and 2 draws from the rest of the season, we will likely stay up.

He must have pictures of Les in a compromising position or something. How an academy player can stick around until he's 24, without making any impact, is beyond me.

I'd expect our reserves to lose to theirs. I'd expect our U23s to get battered by their reserves. Basically what happened.

The double is on and we're looking at a fairly meaningless second half of the League season. Let's go for it!

My team would be; Niemi Cedric - Svensson - Virgil - Bridge Oakley - Romeu - Marsden Rodriguez - Beattie - Tadic Subs; Forster, Yoshi, Bertrand, Davis, Anders, Tessem, Ormerod I've only used players who were available (or are likely to be) for both finals, so left out Pahars and Austin.

Always rated him, was amazed so many saw him as a liability for so long. Just needed regular football.

Incorrect. Powell was dreadful.

What and absolute muppet. Oh well.

We had the second best defence in the group stage, after Shalke, and we didn't progress. After the first group game, only Virgil managed to score in 5 games. I think I know where the problem lies.

Assuming they would have to pay something like £6m in summer, it's basically an extra £9m to get him now, that's assuming he is brilliant for Stoke and meets the criteria to trigger all the additional clauses. It looks a bit steep but it sort of makes sense I guess.

Speak for yourself, I've been saying all season Yoshi is as good as Fonte right now. Several others seem to agree.