Finnegan

Kyogo not really getting a kick. Does he want to swap with Ayew at half time?

We have a massive thick section of our fan base that just do shit because they think it's what you're meant to do with no actual thought put in. Just copying other fans. Like the ****ing idiots that used to sing about Yuki Abe eating dogs because United did about Park and they were too stupid to realise Japan and Korea are different countries.

A really quality forward and a reality quality centre mid and we'd be half decent.

Mate, Liverpool

Why the **** are we booing Gray?

Pass was a bit crap but Page did really well to read it in the first place and good energy to set it up. Cracking finish.

Absolutely nobody getting by the athleticism of Skipp and Soumare there

Looks like Cifuentes has told them about the pace of play. Passing looks quicker already.

Personally think what it needs is some cardboard clappers to go with it

Oof. Those empty seats.

Birmingham'a captain looks like the big lass from Game of Thrones

Birmingham are going to win this. Koumas will score to troll me and Gray will get the winner. Nailed on.

I really just don't like watching any of our players really. Except Abdul I guess?

So what you're saying is he'd be an upgrade on Edouard?

Grim

What the **** He'd barely get in our team.

How spectacularly un-ambitious to have Xavi Simons' quality and agree to go to Spurs

I'm starting to think he's just Indy Kaila's alt account and now Indy is threatening to step in to the realms of credibility, O'Rourke is becoming his meme alt.

There are so, so few actual inbound rumours that I think people will just keep reposting it anyway if we put it in the twitter thread. In any busy window, I absolutely would just dump all O'Rourke rumours in there. I think we're up to double figures now, easily, in players he's linked us to this year that we're 100% obviously not buying. Guy is shameless, shameless click bait.

This is general chat, apologise to Mark

Because there's more to a footballer than your athleticism or your ability. There's loads of footballers in the lower leagues that are technically gifted (which I'm not suggesting he is btw) but just don't have the brain to cut it at the highest levels. You've got to have the mental strength and self confidence to play in front of tens of thousands of people in a stadium and potentially millions watching world wide at home. You've got to be able to shrug off mistakes and and have enough belief in yourself, arrogance almost really, to know you're going to go back out on to the pitch and perform. I think Daka was horrendously poorly managed when he got here. I don't think he's the only one. I think Rodgers tanked the value of our squad in more ways than one and one was definitely badly handling guys like Daka and Soumare when they arrived. It can't be easy for a striker, of all positions, to be constantly chopped in and out and in and out of the squad with little chance to really develop any kind of consistency. But by now he's had plenty of chances and plenty of goes at it and he's just never, ever really regained the composure or self belief that he came to the club with. Comes a certain point that that's not the problem of X different managers, it's just a problem with the player. He's just not really got the mental strength to play football at this level, has he?

Don't really think he's the type, is he?

You joking? I can't wait for Daka to go.

The most exciting thing about Daka going would be surely, surely at that point we'd have to be signing someone, right?