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Safe to say if Rafa doesn't fancy him in the Championship he won't be keen on him being anywhere near the team in the PL.

As if its been anything else. Doubt much will happen now. In the other thread you were being critical of folk moaning. Not much happening in this window is indefensible.

Fucking hell.

It would be perfectly fair if lack of proper investment wasn't one of the main reasons we went down in the first place.

Acuna was a fine footballer, to be fair. Our CM options were very strong during his time here or he'd have played far more.

By the end of the season only one of them was a regular starter, to be fair. I know it's your default to be stoic and that's fine but as Sewelly alluded to we're still doing pretty much the bare minimum to prevail instead of taking advantage of a position of relative strength.

Can't disagree with that. Honestly, it's one thing 'not paying January prices' and quite another sitting back and failing to invest the modest amount required to displace the likes of Alsoran, Colback and Ameobi. The same Alsoran (pathetic btw) who is our 4th top scorer? Your point being what? That you're having a mini-meltdown over not disposing Gouffran, yet he has proven to be fairly effective at this level. Yeah, a real meltdown because I think we should have better than Yoan Gouffran on the left wing. We made a huge profit in the last window and should be investing some of it now, with a view to next season too, should we get promoted. You know fine well going forward as a club we need much better than the likes of Gouffran, man. One of the reasons we were never in a relegation battle in 10-11 is because we started looking like a PL team in that second half of the Championship campaign and were able to pretty much hit the ground running the next season. If we go up with this squad we'll need nothing short of complete overhaul in the summer.

Can't disagree with that. Honestly, it's one thing 'not paying January prices' and quite another sitting back and failing to invest the modest amount required to displace the likes of Alsoran, Colback and Ameobi. The same Alsoran (pathetic btw) who is our 4th top scorer? Your point being what?

Can't disagree with that. Honestly, it's one thing 'not paying January prices' and quite another sitting back and failing to invest the modest amount required to displace the likes of Alsoran, Colback and Ameobi.

its a strange one. not sure which tapes rafa had been watching. as soon as it was known we were signing him, there were plenty on here already calling Sels out for not being able to catch a ball. Was there? Doubt many here watched the Belgian league regularly. It's a thing about not adapting and confidence being down surely. Wasn't he chosen the best goalkeeper in the Belgian league, surely can't have been this bad and yet won it. Adapting to fucking what? Are the footballs bigger in Belgium, like?

If Lazaar's a defender I've got a Chinese restaurant to sell you, btw.

I find it difficult to be angry with him. He's a work in progress and is, at the moment, without a lot of the things you need to be effective in English football. He might get up to speed eventually but because that mong Carr signed him as our main striker the expectation was and is way above his level.

If we'd signed Sels on a free we'd have still grossly overpaid. What the fuck was Rafa thinking?

Eh?

As if you just did that.

Saving this for May. Have it in a word document and everything. How would us getting promoted change the fact we were dumped out the cup in even more miserable fashion than any of Pardew's attempts? The league is obviously more important but Jesus, this is pretty f***ing shocking, like. Easily the worst result of the season. Goes without saying its mightily embarrassing, but it will all be forgotten if we win the league. The cup was never going to be a priority this season. I'll leave the meltdown until we drop to 3rd. If the league's such a big a priority why is January 28th and we still haven't signed anyone to consolidate a promotion push? Why haven't Brighton? Who are just 2 points better off and have just done the exact same as us today? Did Brighton make a £32m profit in the last transfer window?

It's a bit of a pisstake to folk travelling over 500 miles, like. Putting that utterly abysmal side out.

not if we were 9 (10) points clear of our nearest promotion challenger they wouldn't 6 points.

Saving this for May. Have it in a word document and everything. How would us getting promoted change the fact we were dumped out the cup in even more miserable fashion than any of Pardew's attempts? The league is obviously more important but Jesus, this is pretty fucking shocking, like. Easily the worst result of the season. Goes without saying its mightily embarrassing, but it will all be forgotten if we win the league. The cup was never going to be a priority this season. I'll leave the meltdown until we drop to 3rd. If the league's such a big a priority why is January 28th and we still haven't signed anyone to consolidate a promotion push?

Don't be dramatic, lads. Everything's fucking awesome.

Great. The race to 2nd in the Championship ahead of Reading. Amazing stuff. We're 2 points off Brighton you dramatic little snowflake. Wow, it's not at all like you to ignore the fact we're pissing about when we should be showing a bit of ambition.

Great. The race to 2nd in the Championship ahead of Reading. Amazing stuff.

To be fair, it's more that the players picked are all shit with one or two exceptions.

Did a bloke without vocal cords just announce the scorer?

Was it CRISP? Brilliant.