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Meh.

Yeah was just about to post that from the Mail - "one player the Midlands club are focused on signing is Newcastle United winger Allan Saint-Maximin" Weren't there whispers from his agent around February about this too? Pretty certain they're after him like Just sounds like a lazy 2+2 thing to me... an easy story to write. Adama is highly-rated, and ASM is the next most similar player on a similar trajectory in the league. They may well be interested but I don't think the guys writing the articles would know that.

You must have lived a pretty sheltered life if that's so

Getting to this point myself, unfortunately. From Bournemouth onwards I barely paid any attention to our games. Usually despite safety/end of season I still get a feeling, but that feeling in my gut is fading. We're an aimless club, quite literally here to make up the numbers. We've a few decent players in Saint-Maximin, Miggy & Dubravka but we're the most boring team in the league to tell the truth. Our fanbase is dulled, atmosphere at St James' doesn't exist and hasn't for approaching 10 years, football in general is shite these days and not worth the attention we all habitually give it.

In that the focus of the supposed leak is of the managerial structure... would that suggest everything else is fine and that's the final sticking point? Or is it just another spanner in the works? Or is everybody just talking shite as usual?

Aye. Well deserved for me, top keeper.

Rose at CB :lol:

Lazaro has made an impact pretty much every time he's played. Baffles me that article when you consider Bentaleb & Rose who have done fuck all but been mainstays. Anyone with sense would sack those two off and keep Lazaro.

Curtis Good - Lubomir Satka as the centre backs imo.

Not even had time for photos. Goalkeeper kit is a gorgeous shade of blue. Best for years, that.

Mirror article shared: Pandemonium ensues. We should know by now that these articles are not to taken on face value If they were, this thing would have been done 2 month ago when 'imminent' was the buzzword.

Great point, that.

Thought the same, I was entertained by it for a few minutes. Old school.

Yeah Watford have been okay since the restart, I wonder if he's committed a sackable offence with that temper of his?

I would agree. I can't say I have been impressed with his work going forward, he doesn't seem to like getting into the opposition half much. But he is solid defensively, and he's more comfortable on the ball than Dummett. I don't mind seeing his name on the team sheet as much as I did initially. Watching Yedlin and Lazaro invariably go AWOL when we get done at the back has made me appreciate a defensive full back a bit recently. Rose's defensive work for us has been questionable at best. Dummett is a much better defender.

Cracks in the pleasure dome at Liverpool.

Pleasure to see him back to his usual self in the second half today. Quality player.

Schar makes having a dislocated shoulder look good. What a specimen.

Krafth and Fernandez there man... horrible.

Not bad, some nice spells from us there, enjoyed it.

He used to be. He's done nothing in a black and white shirt that Dummett isn't also capable of.

The first pen could be considered soft, but it was still a pen imo. The Watford lad, Femenia maybe, had pretty much lost control of the ball after doing pretty well anyway and it was just braindead & lazy from Ritchie to plow straight into him regardless of the fact contact was minimal (knee to knee iirc). Second was stonewall and equally braindead. I was sitting counting, 2-3-4... why are you still holding him? Summed up our performance as lazy today... Almiron, Lascelles & ASM grafted, Dubravka was without fault... but other than those guys we were lazy. I blame Bruce mostly mind as the likes of Fernandez & Manquillo shouldn't have been out there. They've got nothing left in the tank having played pretty much every minute since the restart. Schar should have played CB with M.Longstaff or Bentaleb in CM.

Average is very kind. He's fucking awful. Him & Ritchie occupying the left flank man... absolutely tragic duo.

Agreed, that's a woeful point like Also Willems was fantastic in the games he played for us, but he's had a serious injury and there's surely questions if he'll even be the same player I'm sure he's out until 2021 anyway, don't see why you'd look to sign him until his recovery is complete How? What’s woeful about the idea of signing players who have chemistry? Whether that’s bringing in former team mates or players of the same nationality. Happens all the time.

“Just” to keep another player happy is not what I said like. It’s a bonus, and for like £6m... easily worth the risk.