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Someone needs to be having a word with that lad.

And ringing a hotel is? Like I rang the hotel. FFS. You absolutely did.

And ringing a hotel is?

Are people not reading the fact that it’s a posh Rolls Royce? Clearest indication of the deal being done yet.

Won one on Monday.

I hope shite hawk is making a comeback.

... what?

Internal discussions, not with West Ham.

It's far too quiet following a pretty significant looking development, like. Not a single journalist commenting. Find it hard to believe that not one of them would have contacted the club to query it.

Still buzzing from this. Completely unexpected at half time. Seemed certain to be heading for a 1-0 win for Stoke, from a Shaqiri long ranger that should have been saved.

No wonder Rafa played him while injured last season. He saw something in him that the vast majority of us didn’t.

Wins don’t get much bigger than that. Suddenly, we’ve had a very good festive period. That’s despite fielding some truly terrible looking teams. Rafa knows, like.

Sorry, lack of those kind of tweets this afternoon so thought I’d contribute.

Rafa has made some BIG calls today.

Five pages of rumours to catch up o... oh.

Just think it's extremely unlikely that we'll lose 9 out of 10 again in the second half of the season. The window will have a say in that, but I think we'll be alright.

Yep. A lot of good opportunities to break came to nothing because we shit ourselves. Still had enough chances to nick a point. The vast majority of teams this year will not even come close to being in that position. Absolutely no shame in that performance whatsoever.

Not sure if the tickets board gets used much, but I have a spare ticket for tonight if anyone is after one? Lower Milburn, £43 I think.

Nine paragraphs. Cool.

Anyone able to post up Caulkin's article from today? He mentions that they have an outline agreement on £300m.

Vivid.

Has looked goosed after the first five minutes in every game since he's back, and appears to be a lot slacker in his chasing and pressing of opponents. Better today, mind. So hopefully he's on his way back.

Still think that curry night was the sealing of the deal, like. It fits too well with everything we know about how Ashley does business. With the amount of journalists that reported the 'agreement' at the same time, there's no way that wasn't put out by the club. Assuming Rafa's line of not knowing how much he has to spend is to attempt to protect us from being fleeced during negotiations.

What did he say? Gave it a good go, and if Perez had better finishing we could easily have got a point. Said there was a few things to be positive about from that performance, and Stelling said the same a couple of times. It does suggest if we can get a couple of players in January, especially a striker, the rest of the team could rally. Thanks. Sounds like we're doomed elsewhere on here. People spitting their dummies out needlessly imo. It's the sort of mentality we need to cut out if we want to stay up. Negativity at this stage only breeds further negativity and we'll implode. The sentiment is right, but it's pretty difficult to find positives during this kind of run. Especially when it's not entirely down to abject performances, but rather a blindingly obvious gulf in quality. Just makes it difficult to see how it can be turned around. Other than buying what we need, obviously. Aye, I appreciate that, and I'm not sticking my head in the sand pretending everything is alright, cause it clearly isn't. I just think some people need to look at things a bit more objectively than just through Black and White eyes after a run of slightly more difficult fixtures. I mean, at the start of the season I wouldn't have necessarily expected much (if anything) from games vs Everton, Man United, Chelsea and Arsenal. Even then Leicester you'd maybe expect a point at home. As the season has progressed a point at home to Watford and away to Burnley would have been okay too I reckon. The most annoying result has been vs Bournemouth in this latest run of games because even a point away at West Brom isn't terrible (so long as we beat them at home). Yeah, I agree. For me, its frustration more than anything. One win in amongst this run and we're sitting quite happily in mid table. The teams around us suddenly finding form has only amplified the concern. Just have to hope that we do move quickly in January, and that we're not cut adrift by the time we do. Stating the obvious, but a win at West Ham could potentially be season saving.