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March looks a hell of a player for them.

I'd be pleased with a point today. Similar to us after the first couple of games Brighton are a better side than some of their results, I really don't think there's a whole lot of difference between any of the sides that are likely to be in the bottom 10/12 places and like the games we've won and lost - aside from West Ham and Spurs - they're settled on really fine margins. Hopefully we pinch a win with some traditionally bad fixtures coming up, I'd like to see Joselu get a goal after his missed chances the other day.

Nice to see Sissoko is still absolute garbage.

What a win! Harder than it needed to be but I'm liking how we're looking that little bit better than the sides around us.

I hope Butland doesn't have his usual blinder, stopping 3 certain goals as is customary when he plays us. He's such a good keeper.

It's a bit harsh on Gamez not making the squad but I'm much happier to see Mbemba back in the lineup. Same with Manquillo but Yedlin's pace is probably going to be needed today, hopefully he starts well with it being his first game. Would absolutely love Joselu to get a couple of goals today into a decent win. I could see either side nicking a tight win, fingers crossed it's us.

Watched the highlights last night and thought the same.

I thought that was even more noticeable when he went off and Gayle came on. We didn't really have a focal point and it gave Swansea a lot of the ball. I'm not doing Gayle down with that, he isn't that type of forward, but you can see why Rafa will likely pick Joselu in this league.

Merino > Sanches

Fantastic win! Merino oozes quality and we didn't really look like conceding the lead. Joselu leads the line really well and it isn't really looking like anyone is going to take that spot from him.

Diame...

Think we've played pretty well but positionally we seem a bit all over place now and Swansea look more likely to do anything with the ball. I'd be happy if was scratted a point out of this.

Did anyone see the Q&A? Anything interesting from it?

Agree with the above posters. Baffled how anyone can say it's similar.

I hope he gets a few games at Brighton just to see what he's like. It seems a shame that he's gone from one of the better keepers in the league to almost untouchable for anyone.

Want him to stay but if/when he does I bet his morale is sky high after all of this...

Have we had a good transfer deadline day in recent history? I can only remember nothing happening, failed bids and stupid late attempts.

Good luck to him! He's probably one of the more underwhelming squad signings we made last summer but didn't really get much of a chance to get a run going with how consistent and injury free our better defenders were. I think he'll be a good signing for Norwich at that price.

Hope he stays. Given the chances Fulham create he'd absolutely destroy that division so you can see why they're chancing their hand.

I can't even think of an improvement we could likely sign in such a short time period. Any suggestions?

I'm surprised so many people are open to selling him. He was deadly last season and we need someone like that in the Premier League. We massively screwed up by rushing him back and further aggravating his injury and now he's injury prone? Give him time to recover and he'll be better than anything we're likely to buy. It seems the whole thing has been managed awfully from a pr perspective which is surprising.

What absolute bullshit this is. Well done Neville you nonce ?

Wow I've just seen the elbow on match of the day with noticing nothing at the match. Are people really upset about that? There's absolutely nothing malicious in that at all, it's certainly not reckless like the Arnautovic incident from last weekend. If he gets banned because of Neville and some other journalists I'll be massively disapponted. I really expected something bad reading the comments on here post-match.

You can see why a lot of Stoke fans were sad to see him leave. He won far more balls than I expected him to and his link up play was very good. For the price we paid he looks like a bargain.

Don't know how some of you heartless bastards don't like this lad. It's rare you see the type of connection between fan and player like at the end of the game today, people were jumping about all around me. I thought he had a good cameo today he certainly looked more in the game than Gayle has been. He's not perfect but there's time on his side and he's certainly willing and if he grows into his potential he could be very valuable. I'd still start Joselu though - really surprised at how well he worked himself in the first half.