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It's been mentioned in the Boufal thread but as I'm pretty certain it wasn't him I thought it should be in here too. Itchen/Chapel corner where the players' box is was a very tanned guy with dark hair and quite thick facial hair, looked too old to be a youth player and I didn't recognise him at all. Was with two middle aged women, which struck me as perhaps family visiting his new club with him? I googled a few names mentioned on here and none of them matched, (Erkin, Ziyech), anyone else get a good look at him? He was in the box as I said, but not 'with' the players if you like, definitely didn't mix with them whenever I looked over.

I don't remember him making a save the entire time he was here, so I really don't rate him. That's not because he's joined Everton, I felt that way when he was here.

I'd imagine that's exactly the case. I'd imagine Bolasie has had to take a hell of a pay rise to move away from London to go to a bottom half team in a **** area without any European football, whereas a real 'big club' wouldn't need that to attract a player out of Palace.

I would have been content with us signing Ashley Williams, and really happy with us signing Yannick Bolasie. But I just can't help but think that for the 'new Man City', they are pretty bang average acquisitions. All of Everton's current business is also covered entirely by John Stones' sale, so they haven't actually spent anything else, and they look to be going into their opening game with a very poor goalkeeper in Stekelenburg as their number one. Ambition.

Always loved Chelsea using 'follow the leader' for Florent Malouda, surely Maya Yoshida fits even better

Not only both part of the winning team, but only conceded 1 goal in 4 games!! plus an hour of extra time so almost 5 games! Unbelievable difference they made to the defence. So happy for them both.

I'm sure it will have been pointed out before, but Portugal conceded 4 goals in the three group games without Cedric and Jose in the side, and have conceded just one in the three knockout games since their inclusion in the starting 11 (which was Cedric's mistake), what an impact to have after coming into the team when the pressure is on! I like France, and there are aspects of Portugal that I don't like (Pepe), but really hoping that our boys can be victorious tonight, Jose in particular really deserves it what a pro.

Personally, if that is what the kit looks like, I will be over the moon. Last season's kit was as unimaginative as stripes can possibly be, I don't recall us ever having a kit that looked like this one and I think it's lovely.

I would entertain the idea of Berahino because I don't think he's a bad kid from what i've seen/heard, more badly advised and possibly not the brightest. Probably knows his 'big club' move ship has sailed and we'd be his next best option i'd imagine.

Surely something will be announced soon, we can't be in line for The New, New, New, New Manager Thread can we!?

If we really are trying to sign AOC then that'll be enough of a statement of our intent for me. I know some have their doubts in terms of fitness and whether he's progressed since he left but he's still only 22 which i think a lot forget. Throw some decent money at Arsenal, build the team round him, it would be a great morale boost for the fans I think. Sadly, however, I still see him ending up at West Ham.

Dont do this, please...

First yellow, and a ridiculous one at that

It is stopping us from winning things when you look at it in terms of the personnel we have sold on paper, but the reality is we didn't win anything with Poch's squad, and we now have a better squad but we wouldn't have had that if we hadn't made the sales we did in that famous summer, because we can't afford to have all these great players at the same time. Our strength in depth is fantastic, a world away from what it was in 13/14, where we had Lambert, Rodriguez (eventually long term injured) and Gallagher as front men, whereas we ended last season with Pelle, Mane, Long, Austin, Rodriguez, Juanmi all as options. Our sales have improved us vastly thus far, we're never going to get everything right but so far our hit rate is pretty impressive.

Redmond is English, and is an attacker, two massive premiums.

Let's not pretend Howe is some pillar of loyalty, he jumped ship and failed and was incredibly lucky that Bournemouth were willing to give him a second chance and he has it about as comfortable as it can get. If I was him I wouldn't be leaving there in a hurry.

I'm not very excited by the prospect of signing Nathan Redmond, never have been, but come on lads £11million really isn't a lot of money anymore. Ross McCormack cost Fulham £11million. Having said that, offered the chance I wouldn't have signed Long or Bertrand either and they've both turned out to be absolutely fantastic, so hopefully this is the same if it happens.

I actually quite like that haha. Away kits should be reserved for the horrific I think, the more garish the better in my opinion.

Hodgson has been mentioned so thankfully that rules him out. Joachim Löw?

I'm willing to be underwhelmed if it is in the form of a manager that I don't know much about. Moyes/Howe would be disappointingly underwhelming.

Home kit is beautiful and surely achievable. Love the away kit but can't imagine we'd have anything like that, sadly.

And having sold Hummels, Gundogan and by the looks of it Aubameyang, I guess it's his chance to now make that team his own. We can dream though.

Please don't say stuff like this, I can't have my hopes raised that high it's not good for health

As has been mentioned, very strange for the Echo to mention this Pereira guy given that it hasn't been mentioned elsewhere and he's not on the odds list, perhaps a hint on behalf of the club?

I presume that means that's because we want them to be then rather than due to a lack of interest on their part? Interesting.