Sean

He needs to start. I can't deal with having to watch that lump of Wood against Liverpool.

So excited to see him play, so angry with this ridiculous delay that's going on.

This isn't some strategic move by the club. Howe wanted Dubravka here as backup to Pope. It's driven by the player, so it's a blow however anyone wants to try to frame it. If Pope doesn't get injured or lose form then it's a very small blow. It only becomes a bigger issue if Darlow ends up having to be selected.

Still a cunt.

No-one "has" to argue - you are all just choosing to ffs

Richarlison comes across as such an unlikeable cunt. Doesn't he seem to like crying himself?

We need an Ando update

How the fuck are we still waiting on the work permit if other players/teams get them within a day or so (as someone mentioned another club signed a player on the Thursday and he could play on the Saturday)? Also worrying that Bruno, ASM and Wilson all have hamstring injuries, serious or not, as there's always a risk of it reoccurring.

That did cross my mind. Possibly.

I just hope we know whoever we are going for is actually available, and wants to come. Let's not have another January deadline situation where one club refuses to sell/loan at the last minute because they don't need to, and another player turns us down at the last minute. That would be deflating.

If it's only £5 million, I see no reason they can't and shouldn't just buy him up front.

I could deal with him going there. West Ham - not so much.

What was his celebration about and who was it aimed at does anyone know? Looked like it was aimed at the dugout. Maybe Howe was about to take him off? It just seemed a bit strange as I've no real idea what it was about.

Are they reliable?

We clearly should have. It's like they thought we had an advantage as Willock missed a sitter so decided to hold that against us.

He didn't say anything about Bruno being injured before the Wolves game (which is good management to leave the opposition unaware) so unless he says Maxi is fit I don't think we can take any clues from him not mentioning an injury. Hopefully he's fine.

Water off a ducks back. We're not to blame in all of this. There's no need to try to attack anyone saying bad things about our owners. Even if they try to link us as complicit. It's just giving them the attention and bites they want. Also, attacker the messengers just shows you have no valid response to the criticisms, which let's face it, there is no valid counter argument to some of the things said about Saudi.

That's not their manager's quotes.

He didn't even do that - it was a wind-up post I believe Having to watch him attempt to play football is making me hate him irrationally (actually it's not irrational as he is just so awful at everything an attacker should be good at). I wish any fucker would take him off our hands.

Perisic the coolest motherfucker on the pitch.

It was silly to bring him on at Tranmere, no hindsight about it - pretty much all of us said it at the time.

I might pass out if we managed to get Haidara. I'd probably pass out if we got McTominay, but for a completely different reason

Did anyone actually suggest taking him off? I didn't see anyone calling for that, and that would have been mental. If you didn't like Ben Arfa, you couldn't have liked football.

Schar's not getting dropped man.