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West Brom must wish they got shot of him when someone would give them 20m a perfect example of the risks of refusing to sell a player!

So was Wayne Bridge for over a season he played mostly left wing in the first team!

Would be an ideal moment to give him his debut.

Or he's the next Delgado and we will see 4-5 awful games from him!

Plus I think Martina is turning into a bit of a cult hero with an increasing number of posters preferring him to Soares maybe it's an anti Hispanic thing?

I was among the 'lucky' few to witness his debut in the league cup when we were knocked out by Notts county and they invaded the pitch like they had just won the cup! To be honest in an awful team performance he looked half decent! Tejera I'm pretty sure was a 'brown envelope' signing and while his impact on the pitch was minimal it was probably a nice boost for Rosie's retirement fund!

Hardly surprising he's been dodgy for years and it's finally caught up with him fingers crossed old saggy chops himself is next!

It was an odd one that signing a bit like this thread! Definitely had more potential than Frederico 'the torpedo' arias who was always going to be a disaster!

Someone get his signature on a 5 year deal quick before someone else does! The lad looks quality we should be giving him game time to convince him that this is the best place to fulfil his potential it's criminal that he has had to wait for so long reminds me of when we let craine and mills rot in the reserves in the championship and then watched them walk away.

First team for this one we have worked hard enough to get here lets at least give it a go, our league campaign is going to be a disappointment this year so lets have a go at all the cups I don't for a minute think we will be relegated.

When do the real questions about the manager start? The media rumblings are already there the fan rumblings are already there he badly needs a win and a performance it's not like we are playing great stuff and getting unlucky!

The jury is well and truly out on this one for me it depends on two things: 1. What % of his wages Bournemouth are picking up 2. How many games he plays

Such a waste I would have loved to be blessed with half his ability!

The biggest disappointment for me is the manager and his fixation with a diamond formation that doesn't suit our squad at all! If we were still playing 4-2-3-1 I think we would be seeing much better results than we have so far as the personnel at the club suit it and everyone knows how to play it. I'm amazed we appointed a manager who doesn't play the saints way which we still seem to be doing at all other levels. The quality of our signings looks good there is massive potential and the prices seem Very good in a crazy market really hoped we would replace pelle with a physical forward as I think every side needs one and now we don't have one! Mid table finish and not progressing from the group in Europe is my prediction.

Disappointing, not enough goals added.

Didn't think it was a bad comment from him, he was very young and still pretty raw when he became captain and the idea he had to chat with the chairman after every game is just plain bizarre! All he says in that article is he didn't really want the pressure and responsibility he wanted to focus on his own performances. Still some will read everything he says in a negative light, still think the way he acted when leaving us sucked but really don't get the level of hatred people seem to harbour!

Someone needs to tell the manager we play 433/4231 not a diamond and we don't have the squad for a diamond oh and sign him a strong tough centre forward who knows where the goal is!

I suspect we have realised he is a crock and will never get back to his previous level and this is just a good way of getting his wages off the bill and I suspect a hefty loan fee in for him. Still if he goes we better be getting another forward in sharpish! I will never understand why we have appointed a manager who doesn't want to play the formation our entire squad is setup for!

You seem to have missed two things firstly we have invested a large sum in new long term contracts for 5 players with more possibly in the pipeline this will have consumed a vast dum of money, second the transfer window is still open and the word on the street from throes itk posters is that we ares still actively pursuing deals. However don't let simple facts or the truth get in the way of a meltdown/ rant!

Consistent national policy well funded with a clear goal and consistent leadership oh and when the going gets tough two years before the next Olympics you can't dip into the transfer market and bring in a few dozen cheap foreigners! Footballs national strategy is too messed up and the governing body has little to no control over what happens to young players, too many prospects spend the vital years of there mid-late teens rotting unnoticed and un challenged at big clubs. They earn too much money to young without really achieving anything the whole system just isn't geared to deliver in the right way.

It's pretty obvious he's going so lets just get on with it, the speculation and the merry go round is annoying me!

You must have slept through Allan Bennett's debut then, now that was a real shocker!

better than a travel lodge! All just goes to show the only thing constant in football is the club everything else comes and goes and ebbs and flows!

What less risky strategy do you suggest the club pursue?

Well we haven't before, what we have done is gentleman agreements ie Morgan and wanyama by the sounds of it this is something similar but we will have to wait and see! It's a crazy world football I would have put money on Fonte staying at the end of last season by I didn't expect him to star for Portugal while they won the euros and I never though man Utd would be sniffing round 32 year old defenders with 10 million quid in hand! Really goes to show you can't predict anything in footy these days!