Dandy Man

Elanga is fine, there's not too many unknowns so it's a bit boring in face of it but think he's a round peg for a round hole and will improve us significantly

Similar has been said about a few signings since Howe came in, I am fairly sure Elanga could be dynamite for us as he would compliment what we have and his attributes align with our style, but it's all conjecture at this stage

I like Elanga, he has everything we need, he'd seem far more exciting to a lot of fans if he had been tearing it up in the Dutch league or similar

And Bolsonaro

It reminds me of a magic eye drawing, stare at it long enough and it starts to look good

Wish we'd just get the DCL deal done already, bored of moaning about the prospect of signing him and would like to move on to moaning about his actual performances (or lack thereof)

It was horrific to watch but it's just one match, sometimes you get bummed sometimes you bum someone else, that's football

Went to the toilet and it's all gone dreadful

Maximo Perrone

Agree on this, it shouldn't have a bearing on the decision but it was a very poor decision to come charging out in that situation. Anyway, at least he saved the penalty and we won 5-0.

I was 50/50 on it, can see why it was given but it was a ridiculous VAR review and there wasn't really enough there to overrule the ref, but also did not feel like the worst decision we have ever been on wrong end of, it's not an exact science and things can be ambiguous I guess?

Danny Guthrie, Mike Hooper

Highlights of the day have been the three poos and one bath so far, gone for the first beer now, wife and kids going to arrive home just before kick off which is going to force me into exile in the bedroom probably

Feel like shit and want this monkey off my back

C - not sure how a team consisting entirely of Nick Popes would do though. Bit of a recency bias to overcome but he's still a bit better than a D surely?

Small D for Matty T. Difference between him and Wilson is that I could easily see Targett turning out another 3-4 seasons for some lower table PL team, Wilson I can barely see turning out another 3-4 games. Also Wilson has declined a lot more from a higher starting point whereas Targett has more gone from being quite good to bang average.

There will be no Carabao Cup, I'll tell the children

A lot of recency bias and hard to know just how finished he is but does feel like there's not much left in the tank now, E+

Didn't think it should be a red, but can absolutely understand why it was a red and there's absolutely zero chance of it getting overturned and you're mad if you think otherwise. It is what it is.

Was probably close to a B for a while but still a solid C for time being

B for Botman, could eventually end up being a C or an A depending on injuries and luck etc

Probably still just a C now, having definitely been a B, hard to properly gauge how badly he has declined unless he's starting every match but feel like he's still good enough to be starting for a lot of teams in the Premier League

Textbook D for me

Came off with a knock in a 2-1 win yesterday, had a quick look on some forums and Bolton fans seem more negative than positive on him

Incredible result for Shamrock Rovers, matter of time until Noonan is snapped up by a top English team now. Apparently perennial footy trivia answer Nii Lamptey was younger though..