Mick

Gouffran ? If I'm right he'll have kept Gouffran as a cheap option who isn't likely to play much.

I didn't expect this, if Rafa wants him it can only be as a backup player on the cheap and a bit of 'better the devil you know'.

I thought Rafa might have kept him as he seemed to like him, a good thing from this is that it shows that Rafa is brutal and will only keep players who he feels will make a contribution.

The link isn't right https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/cheick-tiot%C3%A9-rip.1369248/

Grim.

He was great until a former manager tried to turn him onto something he wasn't.

That was Leon Best. I've just seen it on Sky. Best had to go off injured.

Did Harper elbow him in his thigh?

I can't get my head around this.

Shit, I didn't expect that. RIP.

I think those who bought it online will get it soon as they were supposed to have been posted yesterday.

We don't know that it's not Rafa taking his time, he's got a finite transfer budget that he can only use once. It could be that he's looking at each possible signing and thinking that if he has to pay X for one player he can only pay Y for another so has a list of players and has to balance how much he spends on each one.

The kid seems to have had some good times as well as bad.

I'm not sure I would have seen it that way if that happened to one of my kids.

It's also on the BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-40143165