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I agree, it was a really gross comment. Still, on the bright side, the kids will be back to school soon.

We have back up players in every position. Are they not good value for money too?

What a great bit of business. Excellent addition to the squad and West Ham have effectively given us £29.2m for him too!

By all accounts (from what I have heard) he is a top bloke and a top pro. I’d send him out on loan with a recall option in case anything happens to Peretz.

He scored plenty of goals for Blackburn. He also did well at Sheffield United and Derby. For whatever reason he just hasn’t managed to perform for us.

English? I don’t think they existed in the time of the Vikings? Anglo-Saxons perhaps?

Decent corners?

I’m guessing that Kuntz is long retired? A commentator’s nightmare too. Update - blimey, he is now 63 years old!

Why do you think we are signing him for sentimental reasons? We are picking up a decent EPL player for peanuts. He is fit, experienced, has a good engine and will be a godsend to Larin. Good bit of business I think. As for next season, as said already, we need to get promoted first. All the forward planning in the world won’t mean a thing if we don’t go up.

JWP has more in his locker than Charles, is more versatile and vastly more experienced. He brings things to the squad that Charles doesn’t have. You don’t always have to swap like with like.

He can’t do a job in defence, would you want his howlers in midfield too?

This is a strange place. When Charles went some were saying that we wouldn’t miss him as he didn’t play much last season and he was behind Downes and Jander anyway. Now a seasoned pro with bags of EPL experience is not good enough to take his place? If the finances work it is a no brainer to bring JWP back.

That they couldn’t afford his wages?

As someone said earlier, he would add quality to any team in our league. If Jander stays that would be a very strong midfield set up. JWP is also very versatile. I don’t know what the other options are but, depending on the finances, we could do a lot worse.

It makes you wonder how clubs used to manage before “preseason” became a thing. Was fitness on issue last night? To me it looked more like a bunch of players who hadn’t played with each other before. I lost count of the number of times that we gave the ball away in the second half. With the exception of probably Downes and Larin the rest looked like they had caught Captain Jack’s brain fart virus.