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Say what you want but it was absolutely idiotic to still have Ritchie playing left wing back in the 72nd. Had several warnings that it was going to cost us another goal and did nowt.

Ayoze is absolutely shite. Piss weak, slow, lazy, poor positionally and can't kick a ball properly.

Goalkeepers ludicrously protected. If they punch a striker in the head, they never get punished. Foot isn't even that high there. Keeper has ducked into it.

What sort of imbecile picks a squad where the bench has 2 keepers, 3 centre halves, 5 strikers and only one midfielder? Starting Livermore away to Malta and Jones ahead of Keane also criminal. I know we all know he's been well overpromoted but this is just common sense.

Where has the 24m come from? Even if you count Thauvin (who would probably be counted in last years books if it was an obligation), it's still never that. Not that the spending amount of defendable obviously..

The record goal thing is a lot to do with the state of international Football nowadays. Considering the amount of part time and lower league filled sides we play, anyone playing that many games up front would get that record. Kane will probably break it in the next 7 or 8 years.

Barlaser.

Are our players much worse than Huddersfields? Some coaching on how to keep and pass the ball might be nice. Technique wise? yes they are. Merino was the only one today i was comfortable with controlling the ball under pressure, i feel like some tough decisions need to be made around players who were reasons for our promotion last year. Nonsense. Their three behind the striker was Ince, van la Parra and kachunga. Average as anything. Mooy was playing in Australia 2 years ago. They are coached to keep the ball and press when they don't have it. We are coached to sit off and I have no idea what we're coached to do when we have it. It would seem to be kick it away as soon as someone comes near us.

Are our players much worse than Huddersfields? Some coaching on how to keep and pass the ball might be nice.

Richardson was one of the bullshitters who jumped on the Grosicki bandwagon before Caulkin said they were all full of shit. There's no way Rafa is "close" to that mess. Hardy and Caulkin the only two worth listening to.

Totally- except the bit where he played in 7 league games, we paid 5m for him, gave him massive wages and can't shift him. We should have just loaned someone in.

Bony to Swansea. Llorente to Chelsea. Michy to us.

If we were short of money, we wouldn't have signed Manquillo.

Off to Hull as part of the Clucas deal.

Interesting that we don't seem to be interested in loan or Zouma or Loftus Cheek. I think I'm right in thinking we can only have one player on loan per club so I wonder if we've got our eye on Michy if they sign a striker.

He goes past players as if they aren't there and actually uses his pace which is a significant upgrade on Obertan. Still only 21 so would be an interesting signing as long as he's not first choice.

Lascelles looked perfectly fine under Rafa in the prem and also looked very solid with Clark in our run before xmas. I think it's perfectly fair to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume playing with a hernia impacted his game in the second half of the season.

Rafa or someone close to him has clearly briefed this since they've all released it at the same time. It'll just be to pressure them into taking action.

He's followed us on twitter n'all. He also recently started following Glentoran. He was at Glentoran as a kid. Not sure he has any link to us.

As sad as it is, I had googled how tall he was last week and got a load of different heights. Looked at the end to see how tall her was compared to other players and he was pretty much the same as Solanke who is listed everywhere as 6"1.

According to transfermarkt, he's represented by a company who predominately manage English players. Will probably just be agents trying peddle him to an English club.

A number of Burnley fans I know also said Ings, Rodriguez and Austin weren't that good. He's quick with good movement and a great work rate. Touch is ok and finishing is hit and miss. Main concern is that most of his good work has come playing off Barnes or Vokes. Not sure how he'd do as a lone striker.

Absolutely love D & B. Missus never buys it though. Should sack her off really.

He played 12 games for us in the second tier.

The bigger picture? Looking at our next 10 games, I can see only 3 I actually expect us to win. That number becomes 0 if anything happens to Shelvey.