Ankles Bennett

Barcelona Real Madrid et al and table topping Leeds United were happy to compete for

I did all that when we won the Fairs Cup in 69!

No need to apologise you'll get there eventually I'm sure!!

Hey I was at the 76 final so show a bit of respect! Where were you? Probably not even born!

Sorry but completely underwhelmed by this. To me the Carabao cup is a tin pot cup where most of the top 6 play their second string in the early rounds. I can't see us beating a full strength Man u in the final either. The only hope is that they target a top 4 slot and play a weakened side, but even then they have strength in ddepth so I can't get carried away when the likely outcome is yet another cup final defeat. Sorry but just being realistic!!

Isak will be missing for West Ham if he has concussion. Don't the rules say players can't play in the next game if concussed?

If we do sign Gordon the first order of the day is get rid of that sh*t haircut! !

Am I the only one who is completely underwhelmed by the potential signing of Gordon!

I wonder if Eddie has any plans to convert Gordon to a striker. He's already converted a striker (Joe) to a midfielder!!

Gordon and Maddison anyone?

Wife's mackem friend and husband stayed with us in Hertfordshire when Sunderland played Norwich in League Cup final. Went along as they had a spare ticket. Couldn't help but have a sly snigger when Barry Venison put through his own net!!!!!

Can see Perez scoring to knock us out! Sods law!!!

This is a pointless subject. The only rule that should be implemented is no added time at all. If a team spends 90 minutes hacking the ball into touch so be it. It's not like time wasting is a relatively new scenario. Players consistently go down faking injury to give team mates a chance to have a breather because they are under the cosh, and then score a winner in the time added on by the ref for that time wasting.

Arteta complaining that we haven't set up as we did last night when playing other teams this season. Sounds to me that Howe outsmarted Arteta who threw his dummy out of the pram because we didn't adopt the tactics he expected lol!!!

Love to see them get Bruce as interim manager lol

I'm fully expecting Joe to get a call up to Brazil in the near future if he keeps bossing our midfield.

Seems to me before Isak that this summer we have only spent around £50m on the first team. £10m to make Target permanent £10m on Pope and £30m on Botman. So £58m on Isak and we still haven't spent as much as West Ham who have spent around £128m this summer. So matching the Paqueta bid is doable in my book then a right winger on loan and the squad is looking good.

The Watford fans really rate Pedro. Most are gutted at the thought of him leaving, also arguing that he has to be worth more than £30m if Anthony Gorden is rated at £45m!

So if its true we have taken a £140m loan plus the £60m we have thays enough for Diaby, DCL, and Paqueta?

Seems to me PSG have given his agent a backhander to ensure we walked away by making completely unreasonable agent fee demands, which then clears the way for PSG to snap him up cheaply with yet another brown envelope changing hands once the transfer is complete.

My Dad was Joe Harvey's Sunday morning golf partner but I never got an inkling of any transfer news from him!

Let's not forget that our form from January was top 4 form so I don't agree the current squad is midtable!!

But if we upgrade other areas of the team, the opposition will find it difficult to double up on ASM without leaving space for upgraded teamates to exploit!

I watched a YouTube compilation of Paqueta and he looks mint. Got to make signing him a priority!!!

I wouldn't expect to see Wilson again this season. He's too injury prone and will surely break down if he comes back too early