Mattoon

Finally starting to look a premiership player plying his trade in the championship. Should be and could be one of the best players in the league. Let's hope he can keep his head in the game.

Don't remember him touching the ball. Game died after about 70 mins. We were happy just to casually knock it about, with 10 men they found it hard to get the ball , then in the last 10 mins they had all the ball and we just sat and soaked it up. I don't think Yedlin even got a touch at that point.

You know that's not his way, he'll struggle in those "winable" games and get a couple of spawny wins against some top of the table clubs just to keep everyone thinking he's "turned a corner" I think this time is different, i have no real reason for thinking that other than hope and hatred mind. I'm fine with that, I want him to keep himself in a job long enough to burn the entire house down! He needs to go down in a blaze where there's no doubting it was all his fault. If he goes now everyone will be bleating about how he could have turned it round.

You know that's not his way, he'll struggle in those "winable" games and get a couple of spawny wins against some top of the table clubs just to keep everyone thinking he's "turned a corner"

Watching the replay back I don't think Sels played on that tackle too much, did he roll around afterwards? He had to go to ground, if he tried to land on that leg the way it was it could have been shades of Alan Smith.

Contempt*

At this point I'd snap your hand off at a draw!

A) he's not going to be first choice he'll be expected to chip in at times and is capable of doing that and b) he'll have better service here than he's had before. Makes sense as a 3rd or 4th choice, he's not going to be leading the line bar a catastrophe of biblical proportions. People need to calm down.

"Fantastic" What the fuck are you on about? I purposefully didn't reply to this on account of not wanting to be whooshed.

I think Brighton will play more open than any team we've faced so far, fancy us to catch them on the break. I just hope Perez still has his striking boots on today because he has a lot of weight to carry.

Not such a bad thing, we don't want him peaking too early

http://i.imgur.com/6ADLV4r.gif I'm in total agreement lolro we have to give him ample time to buttfuck any chance Palace have of staying up.

I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt considering relegation and Rafa giving his support of him but after the latest outburst he can go fuck a duck the docile prick. He can't have it all his own way, either he goes on our terms or he can stay and rot for all I care, I'd rather he be sat on the development teams bench than go for the money he wants to go for, he slide off on a free when his contract is up, rot away for the remainder of his contract if no one coughs up.

On YT alone I am happy with this, I just hope he can live up to the hype portrayed in those videos. Even if players are naturally slower in that league, the way he makes up ground for some of those tackles is insane. Welcome aboard the Rafalution Lazaar!

I kind of really want this to happen now

I don't expect he'll play until after the window closes. Sounds like there's some interest in him now so a move is probably imminent. I guess they just want to protect the asset, he's no good to anyone including us if he gets injured.

Working when this starts but I'll watch the first half on my app at work and hopefully get home in time for the second

How can you tell whether someone is fast from a still image? I'm basing it on the photo. So its fair to say there is a chance of error on my part. Every report on him says he has blistering pace. In which case, it is possible that Khay has the relatively unexciting but nonetheless impressive of judging speed based on still image. A rare breed. Maybe it was just a blurred image and a lucky guess?

Only here can we get a player back after a 4 game suspension only for him to get injured after half a game and have our best two strikers out in our most important fixture so far FFS

Quietly confident on that draw, of course it will depend on league form at the time.

Don't have much knowledge of him to make a judgement so said judgement can wait until he's had a few games for us. He's here and he's playing for us so he gets my full support until/unless he turns into the next Colback.

Hope we do and put them out. That said, a cup run is the last thing they need with their small squad and impending relegation battle 100% have to beat these fuckers if we get drawn, don't give a shit about extra games, we need to kick them while they're down.

Just paper gossip, nothing concrete yet.

All said and done, Rafa has been very public about him, he's happy with his attitude and work ethic in training, he likes the guy and is in no rush to sell him. That will do for me, if no bids come in for him and he stays, Rafa is confident he can do a job for us then so am I. He's not gone the right way about getting a transfer, there's obviously not that much going on up top between those ears, but that doesn't mean he has a bad attitude. His form is sporadic but even on a bad day he'll be the best/one of the best players in the league. If he goes I hope Rafa gets the time and the money to replace him with genuine quality, if he stays then I'm more than happy with Rafa's judgement of the player.

We shouldn't be losing at home for the rest of the season tbf, teams will try and park the bus at St James' we've seen it already and we've lost because of it. Rafa will know this and he'll have wisened up to it, he'll know what we have to do and I trust his Mekon sized football brain to get it right.