Ankles Bennett

We are looking just like qpr. Spent a fortune on players including nicking remy but still couldn't stay up. We need to start planning for next season in the championship.

Mclaren has clearly lost the plot by taking save off when he was our best outfield player. Time for him to fall on his sword I think.

We need at least another 19 points t reach the supposed safety of 40 points. To be honest I can't see that this team will be capable of getting 10 more points from the remaining games.

Couldn't agree more. No plan b if there was even a plan a

He as shown his quality in home games so for me it's all down to McLaren's tactics away from home. They just don't understand what he wants from them.

It was telling that we only started to look anywhere like a threat once Mitro came on

Has he not gone yet?

Ok it might be too late but at least we are now showing g some ambition buy spending big.

The really worrying aspect of our team is there is no one in the side who will take the game by the scruff of the neck and drive the team forward. In other words not a single leader on the pitch which means we will be relegated. I believe it will be villa us and Norwich who go down because the mackems have got goals in them. We haven't.

Lose to w brom and I reckon mclaren will be gone.

That's because its their stated policy that they don't publish rumours/heresay

Remember how he blamed Armstrong, when we got beat by Manchester United ? No it was Abeid who he blamed for passing the ball to Krul in the area, who then miskicked it straight to Rooney who scored the only goal in the 93rd minute. Can't go blaming an international goalkeeper who is your number one choice. Lets blame the youngster who had a cracking game in midfield against some top players, but who then made the mistake of thinking he could rely on our goalkeeper to clear our lines.

The real reason why I disliked AP was because he came in at NUFC and immediately started telling the fans that our expectations of challenging the top 6 was unrealistic and that we should be content with a side that just about managed to finish lower mid table and that any draw or win against a top ten side was a bonus. He basically dumbed down expectations and, when we occasionally exceeded those expectations, because the players were in fact perfectly capable of challenging the top 6 teams, despite what AP led the media to believe, he took all the plaudits which made him look like a good manager, when in fact any half decent manager could have produced the same or better results with the same players. But what I really disliked about him was his tendency to absolve himself of all blame where results were not going our way, and to select the flair players or youngsters ( Ben Arfa, Mehdhi Abeid ring a bell anyone) as the reason for the teams failings, rather than his long ball tactics. The man is all talk nothing more. I would love it if he got the England job so everyone could see what a fraud he really is.

I'm really quite excited by this signing and not that bothered we didn't get Berahino. I really think he will turn out to be the best sign of the transfer window. Don't know why....just a gut feeling.

Telling people unashamedly that someone has '11 composure'.That means absolutely nothing you stupid c***s! Its just completely absurd. I mean I can just imagine my dad sat in front of the tv wondering what the f*** 11 composure even is. You either have composure or you don't would be his opinion Or they could just say he doesn't panic under pressure. Good old English. The most descriptive language in the world. That's why it's the business language of choice worldwide.

When you think we paid a world record £15m for Shearer twenty years ago in 1995, £25m these days doesn't seem that much. Not that I'm saying Berahino is anywhere near as good as Shearer.

Very strange that they haven't responded at all to our offer yet as well. Might be wishful thinking but could it be that Peace will sell at that price but won't do so until nearer the deadline so there's no time for Pulis to ask him for the cash to spend? If he rejects it now we might move on, but if he doesn't respond at all we'll wait (for how long who knows) and he can come back closer to the deadline and accept it claiming it had to be considered by the board for a while. Also we may even increase the offer in the mean time, so its win win for him. Its more than likely that he isnt responding in order to keep us hanging on until later on this evening, which then leaves us no time to bring in one of our other targets, thereby making it likely we wont be able to score the goals to keep us up, which in turn goes quite some way to helping preserve West broms EPL status. He's a devious one this Pearce is......

Fair enough West Brom not wanting to sell to a fellow relegation rival, but they are saying West Brom believe they will get just as much for him next summer. I've got news for Jeremy Pearce. No one will pay £20m to £30m for a player in the summer who is in the last year of his contract and who can be bought for peanuts in the following January transfer window, or even nothing the following summer. Charlie Austin £15m last summer anyone?....£4m the following January. West Brom will be lucky to get around £12m for Berahino next summer and if no one takes a punt he will probably sit out the last year of his contract and get a bumper payday on a free transfer. Still thats their perogative. In my opinion, if they had sold Berahino at the start of the transfer window they could have brought in the likes of Remy and Austin who would have scored the goals to keep them in the EPL and still had money left over, but hey, Jeremy Pearce is the hard nosed businessman... what do I know!!

Its another Wayne Rooney from Everton scenario. Berahino will end up at Spurs because thats where he wants to go and Spurs know that, so they will simply outbid us by a few quid every time we submit an improved offer i.e we bid £25m they bid £25m and £5.00. Also Berahino knows he will get England exposure playing alongside Kane and Alli at Spurs so its only natural that Spurs are his forst choice. All we can offer is a cracking night life and a bucket of dosh ...oh yes and all the SD gear he can wave a stick at.

So that's Dummett at centre back to replace Willo now that we have a left back.

What everyone overlooks is in rugby the ayers have a modicum of intelligence. With football it's a completely different ball game (excuse the pun) because soccer players are essentially thick as two short planks and don't understand the word motivation unless it's mentioned in the same sentence as win bonuses.

Exactly - none of Rodgers, Moyes or Benitez were free in the summer but they are all free now. They may have some contractural agreement with their last clubs that we need to cover but it's better than what we will lose if we drop out the league. With a nine day break before the next game now is the time to move. Its never going to happen while Charnley is MD because he would have to admit he got it wrong, yet again (Carver!!!) and would be exprected to tender his resignation, I am assuming Ashley will have a clause in his conract that means no pay off if he resigns. However, when, not if, we get relegated he will be sacked and replaced by the groundsmans assistant, and will no doubt be entitled to a massive golden handshake for abiding by the perennial confidentiality clause in the severance package. Money!!! thats all these cretins are interested in rather than doing the honourable thing and admitting they are just not up to the job.

To stand any chance of staying up I reckon we need Remy, on loan, or bought, Berahino and Townsend.

But Stevie has told them we are playing so well we wont be in the bottom three at the end of the season, so why would we want to buy players we dont need?

You watch. There is method behind Levy asking £14+ for Townshend. If we are still chasing him near the end of the transfer window he will lodge a bid for Perez and offer to drastically reduce Towns ends asking price if we agree to sell them Perez. Also I don't think Mclaren really wants Perez so wouldn't be surprised if this happens.