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So how does Falcao's £345k a week wage work out with the Financial Fair Play rule? I thought the whole point of that was to stop the biggest clubs getting everybody in on ridiculous wages?

Good work from the club with the players in and the trolling from the PR department, we've now got more depth than last year at our two weakest positions, CB and GK, we've kept hold of key players and we've told Spurs and MoPo to do one multiple times and made them look stupid. Top work!

Alpine pal, have you got an account on the Hull forums yet? I assume that's why you've been a bit quiet?

BBC 5 Live coverage is pretty decent, video as well as audio online and red button. Nobody anywhere near as attractive as the woman in yellow on SSN though!

Bloody hell, Redknapp is predictable. Defoe and Kranjcar.

He sounded pretty certain about Ben Arfa, then added Ramirez as a 'strong rumour'.

BBC Deadline Day reporting that Gaston's going to Hull?? Can't see that myself, somehow.

Amazed he's not going to QPR.

Marco van Ginkel has moved from Chelsea to AC Milan on loan - he did his ACL last September, played his first game in March, about six months later.

Where are Billy and Guan today?

I agree with you, 6th is very possible - if we had our first choice team available all the time. It won't be. Tadic gets injured and that's most of our attacking creativity gone; Pelle gets injured and we've got no 'proper' striker. If Forster picks up a knock and Boruc isn't in shape to step in, then we're in the same position as last year with keepers, and we all know how well that went. If Clyne gets an injury then we're vulnerable at the back in defence and we lose most of our attacking ability down the right hand side of the pitch.

He's on the bench for United, so he'll play for England every couple of months.

BUT WHERE WILL THE GOALS COME FROM?!?! We had 18 shots today, that's a good place to start I reckon.

Didn't take him long to be replaced! Hope Luke's got a nice comfy seat and a good few books to read whilst he's sat on the bench watching Blind play LB.

This depends entirely on which West Ham team shows up. They played well against Palace and Spurs, but if last season's tactics make a reappearance (as they seemed to in the cup) then I'd be disappointed with a point. I don't think we can afford to play Cork, Wanyama, Morgan and Davis as some people are suggesting, there's not enough creativity there; I'd like to see Gaston get a start. Probably get nobbled in about 25 minutes though.

Better for you than smoking, but I don't see why you'd use one if you wanted to quit when you could use gum/lozenges etc.? They work out cheaper, more discreet, much less crap in them and are actually proven to work to help people quit, whereas a lot of people make the switch to e-cigs and don't actually cut down their nicotine intake. If you do go for e-cigs, make sure you go with a big brand which may be slightly more expensive, as e-cigs and their paraphernalia aren't licensed as medicines in the UK *****il 2016) and so legally companies can chuck whatever they like into their liquid without having to prove it's not hazardous to health; nor do they actually have to put in the amount of nicotine they claim to have in them.

Is Boruc still having a strop? Would be good to see him starting I think.

And I think most people would agree that Liverpool and WBA is a tougher opening two games than Swansea and Sunderland.

Looks good to me! We can sell one of the Tadić clones to Liverpool and keep the other one - new business model right there!

I'm not sure about Sky Sports Mobile, but I know with the BT Sport mobile services you can stream them to TV via Chromecast. If that works with Sky Sports Mobile, then that's probably the cheapest (legal) way of doing it - £4.99 a month gets you Sky Sports 1 + 2, £9.99 gives you all Sky Sports channels. Add in £20 for the Chromecast and you can be watching for £70 for the year. But again, I'm not sure if their app is supported by Chromecast (yet).

Can you lot (Alpine, Turkish, CB Fry, Unbelievable Jeff) just exchange phone numbers or Skype details and be done with it? Or even just PM each other so you don't feel the need to score points with the rest of us looking on? Looks like Fat Sam's after Nastasic and Richards from Man City. How they're going to pay their wages alongside The Donkey's, I don't know.

I would imagine the two we're in for are a winger and a right back/general utility defender; we'll be fine for strikers with Pelle, Long and Gallagher, with Rodriguez due back in the not too distant future, Boruc isn't going anywhere and is old and smart enough to give it his best shot when he's needed. Hopefully the Gardos and Fonte pairing will work out, Yoshi's fine as a back up and hopefully RK's smart enough to put Stephens ahead of Hooiveld in the CB pecking order. Heck, Gazzaniga at CB would be preferable.

It's on the BBC's football gossip page; The Sun is their source but that's behind a paywall.

Spurs bid £17m for Schneiderlin. They're having a laugh, right?

You wait till they play us at St Mary's! I have to say, it was bizarre watching Lambert wearing a red shirt with a number 9 on the back. That'll take some getting used to.