Dan

He's not soft. He knows his way around this league. Imagine he told them he wanted Alex Scott the day he signed his contract.

There is zero chance of us signing a midfielder. At no point over the summer have we shown any interest and that won't change now. The decision makers seem to take perverse pleasure is doubling down on these moronic decisions while releasing smug briefings basically telling us all to calm down.

Szobozslai is dreadful in there. Tone was set when he gave it away after 3 seconds against Newcastle from the kick off. Unless he's had it written into his new contract that he plays CM then he shouldn't be anywhere near that pivot.

Jacquet looks goosed on 60. He hasn't had a preseason.

You clearly know fck all about Iraola's character.

Felt like bad vibes in the ground. Lost count of the times Virgil was apopleptic with whoever was playing left back. To the point where he basically ignores the left side for a few mins in the second half. Trouble with that is you've got to pass it to Frimpong which nobody can be arsed with. Natural for them to be pissed off after that s*** show but they feel like a very weird and disconnected group. A few signings in the next few days would help but that's not going to happen. Iraola has been given a hospital pass and has some big decisions to make. Nyoni looked good when he came on and deserves more minutes, probably at the expense of Dom (who was fkin abysmal) but this feels like Ngumoha last season; everyone pinning our hopes on a young lad with hardly any experience when we should have signed someone.

Fkin hell that was a lot worse than I thought it would be.

I was being slightly facetious.

Nah. Iraola sounds as desperate for a RW as the rest of us.

Mbaye was definitely in the opportunistic market. Like Munoz. I'm not mad we didn't pay what they were asking for him. Completely unproven and played five full 90s in his entire career at the top level. Would have got behind it obvs but whatever. Always felt like Minteh was the one when we went in with the second bid. Been on our list for a while, I'd imagine.

How long before she's saying he's as good as Gordon Cowans and should be paid accordingly?

18 yr old troublemaker with a gobschite of a ma. No fkin thanks. Villa are welcome to him.

Silverware over the last 10 years very similar.

Maybe Iraola doesn't want Camara. No point getting wound up about us not signing random players getting hawked around.

Torres? He left us for them mate.

Got the run around at Anfield in a pre season friendly as well.

Willian, Salah there are more. They don't lose many. They are more attractive now than they have been for years. We might not even fancy this lad anyway. Seems he's been a name mentioned all summer but nobody has bothered.

Why have we rarely been able to do it then?

Fkin Chelsea.

He'd be a Newcastle player if we tried to play the transfer window as a linear game.

Minteh is better than Sarr for a pure winger. Their profiles are quite different. Ideally we get both.

How many league games is that from now? There's a big intl break.

Also played DM for City at the weekend. I like Delaney but he's normally crap with transfer stories.

We'll have to agree to disagree

Guehi was/is miles better than Konate.