a1ex2001

Could you guys (not just you two specifically but all involved) find the ignore button or open a thread in the lounge to take cheap shots at each other and leave this bit of the site for footy? It's my birthday so would be nice of the club to announce a signing today!

It won't be up to us with regards to letting him go the ball is in his court, he will be entering the last season of his contract and is coming off the back of a decent loan season so he is sure to get offers elsewhere. I hope he stays and being realistic I think he will but if I were him I'd be asking for a rise and some sort of game time promise.

Question is will he sign it or will he decide it's time to chance his arm elsewhere? I think your right if JROD moves on he will sign but if there isn't an obvious opening for him I can see him heading for the hills!

Samba is a funny one he looked excellent for Blackburn back in the day and then de-railed his own career in pursuit of money going first to Russia and then the odd transfer to QPR. He's to old and too much of a crock these days for us to be taking a gamble on him! Can't decide if the boards itk posters have all got together to have a laugh at our expense would be nice to finally drag this one over the line!

He is into the last year of his contract this summer so unless we can convince him to sign a new contract which will require some sort of promise of first team opportunities then he will be sold. Amusingly Everton have been sniffing according to the press as well which would be a real surprise given how Koeman ignored him when he was here.

So he did no recollection of him scoring in the league cup was it as dubious as his goal against Arsenal!

Would you say we have had more bad performances than good?

Fine with me, we can all re-evaluate in the summer then.

Would be a shot in the arm and if by some miracle he stays fit could be a major signing!

Steve Basham scored one for us I thought we might really have found a player he had a decent career but never hit the heights! Oddly Stuart Ripley only scored the one as well shame he turned out to be totally past it when we signed him I remember being vaguely excited by his arrival!

Delgado? Even if it was probably an own goal? https://youtu.be/GFlPFM4M_4I

The club clearly thought they had a player lined up it didn't work out so we are in the poo!

Totally agree while Puel has been short changed by the board his total lack of adaptability is a massive concern, how he doesn't realise that Stephens and yosgida need some extra protection I have no idea. We have good players he just chooses to play the same formation and the same style regardless of the fact it isn't working!

Much more important that the manager goes booting reed won't improve performances on the pitch which is the only thing that counts right now!

I'm officially worried that was a total shower of sh1t. Sack the boss now and give someone a chance before we are in proper trouble if we wait 4 weeks we will probably be giving the new man no hope!

I thought it was a major coup when we signed him, sadly he never hit quite the same heights for us but there were some quality moments.

slightly misleading thread title? (attention seeking?)

Very generous of you! I have no hope of a ticket but begging is beneath me!

Had a nice smile after Fonte's debut lets hope he doesn't step it back up for the weekend. Great moment for Crouch he always seems to enjoy his football and I don't think he's ever caused a problem at a club even when Stoke weren't playing him he's just got on with it. I was gutted when he left I think if he'd stayed we would have bounced straight back time and time again clubs have shown all you really need to get out of that league is a top draw goal scorer.

Seems to be a decent squad player and nothing more which is a shame would be interesting to know how his stats in the gym add up compared to others as he does seem to be lacking in the pace stamina and strength departments all of which are needed to make up for his smaller stature!

Disappointing need for a cb is pretty apparent I await a statement saying we tried real hard but failed oh well plenty of game time for the youngster so I guess we will know by the end of the season if he is good enough or not every cloud and all that!

Lol if he was willing to go to palace he would have been willing to come here surely this is clearly a money thing and the club won't get taken for a ride.

Ouch but surely we didn't bank on Liverpool getting desperate on deadline day!

God knows what was wrong with just using the match thread? Said it all there would love to see Puel sacked easily the worst managerial appointment since portaloo but we are stuck with him for the season so I don't expect any up turn in form anytime soon!

He does though not on a match by match basis but he continues rotating the same players in and out of the same positions continually hammering square pegs into round holes in the vain hope that one day they will fit and being puzzled when they don't work right. Note I said line upS not line up the man wouldn't know a settled team if it bit him on the arse.