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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.

Great performance today. I don't think a single player had a bad game. Mbemba gave the ball away in a couple of dangerous positions but aside from that I can't remember anyone doing anything wrong. In the first half I was worried that despite the hard work we didn't have anything to really trouble them but Atsu's pace breaking forward looks much improved and Merino is the type of player we've lacked for years. He's surprisingly more combative and robust than I'd assumed. Same with Joselu. I thought I read Stoke fans saying he was pushed around easily? He was winning and holding up balls all over the pitch.

Definite win today. Screw these bad vibes ?

Has Remy had more than a handful of good games since he left us? Seems desperate and exactly the type of player we don't need.

I think we'll win. The pressure is on West Ham as much if not more than us and we haven't been as bad as what some have made out. Hopefully after a couple of games Gayle has found a bit of fitness after missing the latter pre-season games and gets a goal.

Carried us through games we shouldn't have won when the other outfield players didn't want to know and people are wanting him dropped after two games? Incredible.

Pretty much the same sort of comments from any match thread last season when we hadn't scored. ?

who's Douglas support again, Bradford? Yea ?

Happy with that! Fingers crossed for a win.

Who else would we play in midfield alongside Hayden like? Colback? Diame? Diame played a lot deeper in pre-season so I wouldn't be surprised if it was him. Hope I'm wrong.

I don't think it'll be pretty but I think we'll win today. I'd also be surprised if he'd start Merino because we'll likely entirely bypass the midfield with Huddersfield's radge pressing game. Loads of long balls and scrat a craft 0-1 win from a set piece.

Good luck to him ? It's not the most exciting transfer but fingers crossed for the lad.

Not massively keen on this but wasn't really moved at the prospect of signing Perez either. Hopefully it works out for him here ?

Seems a bit harsh to blame anyone for those Spurs goals. Both seemed like two very good pieces of play.

I'm a bit surprised at the over reaction to his red card. It was stupid and it potentially cost us a result but apparently he's shit and a liability now? Is this the same Shelvey that without him we've looked completely clueless without in our entire Championship season and pre-season this summer? Come on.

It's a great feeling to be back in the a Premier League but I haven't missed the feeling of hoping we don't get smashed every game. I was more confident earlier in the week but I think it'll be a tough afternoon. Would be over the moon with a draw. 1-1 Mitrovic off to a flyer.

Agree. Adrian isn't even a good shot stopper from when I can remember seeing him. He seems to let in a lot of simple goals. I'm not a massive fan of Elliot or Darlow at a Premier League level but it seems daft to spend what seems to be limited funds on a marginal upgrade.

Nice move

Weirdly excited by this signing and I'm basis this on no knowledge of him at all. What has this window done to me ?

Not keen on this transfer at all. He's been poor when I've seen him play and a Sunderland supporting mate said he's one of the first to down tools when things aren't going well. That said... Every player deserves a clean slate when signing for us so I hope it works out for him here.