Holmesy

Evanilson will be loved by the Bournemouth fans and hated by everyone else. He’s an absolute shitbag!

The saddest thing about his whole situation is we all knew exactly how it was going to play out. You could've written it down when he started acting like a tit, put it in a time capsule, open it now and it would have played out word-for-word: - Choose lifestyle over football - Believe your own hype - Start making shit choices to impress the wrong people - Bite the hands that feed you - Waste your talent and end up a journeyman plodder - Mature - Regret the chance you've wasted - Come out to the media saying you wish you had done things differently I'm sure 1000 people in the game told him this would be his path at the time, but there's just no telling some people. You've just got to wash your hands of it, sit back and watch it play out like clockwork. What could have been....

Ultimately, it should come down to this - are any teams scared, worried or building specific plans to stop Longstaff when he's in the team? I think we all know the answer. If anything they'll be building plans to pressure him immediately because he's prone to gifting the ball to the opposition when he's pressed. We have a Ferrari in Tonali champing at the bit to make his mark and in the little glimpses already this season he has shown what he's capable of. Unleash the trio of Joelinton, Bruno and Tonali and let's start smashing teams. We've waited long enough, Eddie.

I think that's a bit too simplistic. Foden has been played on the right wing and the left wing by a shite England manager. He has to adapt his game more when he plays for England because every manager is going to be a step down from Pep but he's hardly been given a fair crack of the whip. Southgate didn't have a fucking clue what to do with him or half our other attacking players for that matter.

He chose to play Foden out of position in every game instead of playing Gordon or Eze. Fucking clueless! Thank God he’s gone.

I still maintain that our planning leading up to and during this window was shite, and Mitchell kind of alludes to it when he says 'our focus was too narrow'. It sounds like the infrastructure put in place by Ashworth could be partly to blame, but almost 8 months to plan for a transfer window, with an organisation full of football and business experts, and coming out with one free transfer squad-filler and a young striker who is unproven doesn't scream 'well oiled machine'. I could understand it if Ashworth dropped the bomb just before the window, but he hadn't been part of the process for about 6 months. Obviously the new hierarchy have to find their feet and figure out their working dynamic but we'd have been better off managing the window ourselves, with Mitchell starting just after the window closed. The timing doesn't seem to have helped anyone or made anyone look very good. Hopefully this is just a bump in the road and we can continue on the same trajectory we were heading on up until the start of last January. Our transfer record since then has been absolutely bobbins.

That's a quality move. Fair play to the lad. If I was a pro footballer with a stuttering career, that's the kind of move that would really appeal - interesting country, amazing culture, unbelievable women, proper football heritage, great climate, high standard of living with the wages he'll be earning. It's far more interesting than playing in the rain every week for a championship club, travelling to places like Luton and Birmingham.

Joelinton is undroppable at the moment so i'm not sure we'll see much of it at all, even when everyone is fit

It feels like we're transitioning or evolving to a new, slightly less gung-ho style of play and that might take a bit more time to flourish into something that's attractive to watch. Lack of plan B was something that was highlighted a lot last season, as was the naivety in trying to see out games, so maybe this is Eddie's response to that. The defensive line seems deeper, the press is less ferocious. we're counter-attacking a lot more and soaking up pressure well. It isn't pretty but if it ultimate leads to us being harder to beat while still picking up points, and we build the attractive football on top of it over time, it can only be a good thing.

It’s great that we’ve added winning ugly to our armoury but we need to start playing some actual football soon.

Are these lads all pissed?!

Sandro not starting makes no sense. Sandro not coming on yet makes even less. One more foul and Longstaff is off

Discussions on how they can spin the shitshow into something positive would be my guess

If we go into the season without any more additions, this has been a shitshow of a transfer window. We've had since January to plan what we wanted to do. Obviously a lot has changed at the club, but I thought the idea of our new structure was to ensure business continuity.

Equally confident we won’t, but I hope you’re right.

I like Barnes on the right. We lose a lot of his goal threat but he looks better than our other RW options there

He’s got himself into some great positions around the box but his end product has been rubbish, his set pieces have been poor and he looked a bit dodgy defensively in the first half. Hopefully Eddie is patient with him and let’s him get these performances out of his system without dropping him.

Hall has been poor all game. Disappointing really, I want him to nail down that LB spot but you can see why he hasn’t.

It’s an impact injury! I mean, he is pretty fragile but you can’t blame the guy for this one.

Go on big lad! Absolutely buzzing to see what he can do.

From the highlights I watched, it looked like they were all over us, yeah. I didn’t watch the game so I can’t judge, hence the question mark at the end of ‘battered us’

Just watched the highlights of this having missed the game. Looks like they battered us? We don’t look like a well oiled machine at the moment.

Nah, might as well drag it on for another week.

If it's a case of him or Almiron/Murphy, i'd take Sterling all day long. Eddie has said a number of times that he doesn't like loans though, and we'll never sign him permanently so if it happens it'll be a big move away from our blueprint

Maybe it's cheaper than the up front money being demanded for Guehi? If it's £50m up front, with staggered payments for the rest, it might make more sense to us from a PSR POV?