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This and the previous 2 performances have been very poor. These have won 2 games all season FFS.

Certainly seems like neither signing has worked. I didn't expect much from Stirling but thought that Neesham would be good. Feels like the T20 campaign is going to peter out, sadly.

We've let them get too many here, I fear.

This Spain team is ten times better to watch than the successful Spanish teams of the past with their death by a thousand passes approach. They've been the best team in the tournament by some distance.

To be fair, he's struggled in T20 cricket over the past few seasons. Got to offer more than Budinger, though.

Not sure that Cooper is that bothered about the bit in bold. His style of football will be very different to Maresca's, I think.

This is too good to be true. Aside from the fee being an issue, I expect he'll get a better offer from a club with more chance of staying up and no incoming points deduction.

Why is Currie in the squad and not starting? He's looked our best seam bowler in the T20 this season

Patel yet again getting one over us.

Madsen and Patel every single time.

All true but might be worth a gamble on loan as he has looked good in patches. If he's crap, we can then offload him back to Arsenal easily.

Great news re Scriven and Currie being back. Hopefully Rehan is too and we'll be looking much stronger again.

Not sure that a Winks/Wilf midfield would give us enough goals and creativity in the centre of the pitch. I guess, though, we'll be sitting deep and Ndidi will be asked to do his old job of protecting the back line, with Winks used as a deep lying playmaker who can ping in a pass behind the oppo's defence for a rapid front 3 to get on to.

Patson is not dissimilar in style to Awonyi at Forest, who Cooper managed to get a good tune out of. In a pure counter attack set up where his job is to exploit the high lines of opposition teams he could be effective. It's when he's asked to do anything technical and play as a link man, as Enzo and Rodgers expected, that the problems start.

And Currie is injured?

Yep, that's for sure. Hopefully we've knocked down the wages by giving him 3 years and spreading the cost.

I think that we would all agree with the bit in bold above, but those kind of CBs are rare and expensive. Van de Ven cost Spurs £35m, for example.

That's one point gained as we were not chasing down the likely target with a damp outfield. Bizarre team selection today. Who is Sam Wood? Why Walker over Currie? Is Stirling counted as an overseas player, who has been brought into replace Handscomb because the latter is injured? How come Rehan has been out for what seems a month with concussion when it's normally a 2 week absence max for that? Sorry, too many questions!

No, I'm thinking we desperately need a starting striker and 2 starting level CMs to be competitive. Let's hope that we have enough funds available to pay wages and fees for those after filling out the squad with back up players.

Bottom line is that we desperately need to improve the first XI and this signing doesn't do that in my view. He'll be a back up squad player, I think. As for beating other PL clubs to his signature, my worry is that this is because no other PL club is stupid enough to give a 32 year old a 3 year contract. Just hope we've given him sensible wages.

You don't think they'd have met his demands if they'd really wanted him to stay?

This is total meh but it's where we are as a club these days, picking up unwanted players from the likes of Fulham. If they really wanted him to stay they would have reached a deal with him. Just hope we've not thrown silly wages at him. The situation feels like when we got promoted under Micky Adams to be honest, as back then we were just out of administration and shopping in the bargain aisle. i just don't know what is our squad building strategy is any more. It's so scattergun. I think we will start next season with a weaker team than we started last season unless the quality of arrivals starts to improve massively.

That's a pretty low bar tbf.

Nah. 6 CBs and 4 keepers seems about right to me.

When is he contacted to? Is this his last year?