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Fuck knows but I guarantee whoever it is will be better than Wood.

I wouldn’t even keep Chris Wood as third choice striker next season. Don’t give him a squad number and promote someone from the youth team instead. He’s one of the worst players I’ve seen up front for us.

Lampard too. No mention of it since, funnily enough - it's almost like they know nothing, print shite and then pretend they didn't

And consistently started Ciaran Clark.

I'm still getting used to it - might take another couple of transfer windows until it feels real. I still expect us to discuss all of these exciting names and then sign Jordan Rhodes on a free. On your point about getting rid of players, I think Murphy has put himself well in the shop window for newly promoted teams. There's probably another £8-10m?

Leading by example as always, Steve

Joe Gomez is wasting away at Liverpool. Wouldn't mind us launching a rescue operation for him

He pretty much looks like exactly the same player as Bruno, which i'm stating as a positive not a negative. Technical skill, composure on the ball and a bit of bite in the tackle. Get him signed!!

Yeah, i knew it was one of them.

They talked about it a bit on Talkshite this morning. Gabby Agbonlahor and Ally McCoist asked if EH should be a contender for manager of the year. Agbonlahor dismissed it out of hand funnily enough. Can't remember what McCoist said. Wankers! Lineker said on MOTD that we have accumulated more points since the start of the year than every team barre Man City and hailed the 'astonishing' job EH has done. A bit of coverage but not nearly enough

He did ok in an average and hardly prolific Palace team, he has 1 in 2 for Besiktas, Belgium and the Belgian U21 team and more than 1 in 2 when he played for Dortmund. Nothing in his career has suggested he's the type of character we should be avoiding. However, i'm not suggesting we sign him. I'm just saying there is better value out there than paying £60m for Tammy Abraham and pointed to him as an example. I'm sure there are plenty of others but my knowledge of world football is not what it used to be

If Tammy Abraham is going for £60m we need to be avoiding daft price tags like that and rely on decent scouting to uncover better value players. Batshuayi is on loan is Turkey and is still 28. He'd probably be worth a punt.

Ekitike was going to cost around £20m if rumours are to be believed and a decent PL striker would probably set us back £30m. If we're after a Nunez-level striker you're probably looking at a total outlay of £100m but I doubt we will be. £50m doesn't seem unrealistic considering we paid £30m for Bruno

Hopefully we're looking at one marquee striker signing and another young, up-and-coming striker for a bit of last 20 minute unpredictability. Someone along the lines of Toney/Nunez/Gabigol and then that Ekitike lad (who i've never seen play in my life) would be a good outcome.

Agreed, can't stand the little diving prick. Hope he gets snapped in two

You don't sign world class CBs for around £10m. He's better than what we had and he has significantly improved us but he's more of a 'needed at the time' than a long term solution.

That's not accurate at all. If he had any aerial threat about him at all, he'd have bagged 4-5 goals by now. He offers nothing from set pieces and every time he gets a headed chance he cushions it back to the opposition keeper. There is literally nothing about his game that is Premier League

We got the gameplan right in the first half and he was fine. The second half gameplan was suicide and he was made to look shit. That's on the manager, not the player.

There wasn't one player on the pitch that can hold their head high after that performance/result. The fact that we now have such high expectations for Joe shows how far he's come.

Bench him permanently. Doesn’t score, assist, hold it up, run about, physically impose himself. He looks like he’d struggle in league 1. Absolutely pathetic!

If you’re going to moan about people voicing their feelings about certain players and our defeats, you’re probably in the wrong place. Or shall we only come on here to say positive things? Woke as fuck that mate, let’s see if it catches on

Nice and tight up until half time, sitting deep to stop them getting in behind and it was working. Move the line up 40 yards in the second half and we’re 4-1 down within 20 minutes. It that was part of the game plan someone has been on the aerosols. If not, the players want slapping! Bag of shite!

I’d rather see Gayle playing than Wood. Or even Joelinton, with Bruno and Shelvey starting in Midfield. At this stage, blooding someone from the academy would be preferable

One of those training dummies would be a good shout.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Chris Wood is shit and gives us nothing.