Gerard

Goodbye sweet prince

Something quite funny that he was the player most desperate to leave this summer and he finds himself still here unwanted and can't get a better gig than a League One club.

I said this both about Danny Ward and Oliver Skipp before we signed them that it's good money on proven mediocrity. £30m+ on these pair who were mid 20's, been in the game since children and both had very low ceilings to improve further. This is why the club is where it is, extremely lazy recruitment and due diligence funding Liverpool and Tottenham by spending money on their cast offs that were only valued this high by us, we never had to beat any other clubs off to sign them. All too predictable how they would fair even before we signed them, reaping what we sow from this terribly run club.

29 in six weeks time. His whole career has been fliring around the first team and never been quite good enough whether we were a team challenging for Champions league qualification or a bottom half League One club. I actually quite rated him as a squad player when he first got his chance, I thought he had a unique set of skills to come on as a sub when holding on to something and under pressure as he was quick, athletic, tenacious and busy. But for the love of God go now man. Hard to believe he's almost 29 as he'snever progressed,

Just give it Rudkin to complete the whole experience.

Just had a look, we've won one game in 15 since he was sacked. That's Leicester City in the Championship. The club is absolutely rotten to the core.

Fun Fact - Southampton have scored the last four goals in fixtures between both clubs

Good time to get it with us just about out the running for the play offs. Back to back relegation anyone?

If JJ is not contractually obligated to sign for us if we pay the fee then he'd be mental to sign up to this shitshow and basket case of a club. Far too good for us.

I disagree with that. For me Lookman wasn't as good as Barnes and was another expensive squad player, he looked adequate but not stand out. I wouldn't have bought him either if I was running the club.

Kone looked a no brainer, just turned 22 in July and had no academy background. He got to Wycombe the hard way from the depths of the lower leagues and was the League One POTY. I've always said you won't go far wrong buying the best young player from the league below like we did when we bought Maddison. Everything just screamed potential and rough diamond coupled with a low transfer fee. I'm not sure if we were ever in for him but I 'd rather take my chances on half a dozen Kone types than one Skipp who we knew wasn't good enough for Tottenham and has been in the game long enough that we knew he'd just abour reached his ceiling.

Dropped, rested, call it what you want but big performances tonight and they will keep their places.

Just been to this tonight and on the way out was aggressively approached by an old little skinny guy who said we were shit and had no fans. He then asked if I wanted some and if I did he would give it to me.

Burnley were impressed enough by him to pay £14m, there must have been a player there at some point. Loan with an option sounds good to me, we're never going to get a player that ticks every box and doesn't come with some sort of risk.

I'm still miffed we didn't get Ghezzal with an option to buy when he had no suitors but us and was languishing in Monaco reserves. As you imply though it's a risk with little downside and potential upside on players who look like a gamble.

Just thinking that, it's an oxymoron. It's either mandatory or an option, perhaps it's just bad English from someone whose English is not a first language and it's an obligation? An obligation to buy makes far more sense than a loan with an option for a players who walks into our first XI.

Not with an "option to buy". I hate these deals, if he excels then our ceiling is fixed and if he bombs or gets a serious injury then he's back here. All downside and no upside.

Difference is we really didn't want or need those two to be here, BEK would still be a huge benefit to our team and promotion hopes.

Absolutely not, if no one wants to buy you then that's not the club's fault and BEK will have to get on with it. If he is one of our best players he either gets sold or stays, no half arsed loans. If the club have not been unreasonable wit their demands then surely he understands this and gets on with it.

Just sell, the only players I really wanted to keep outside the academy players were Fatawu and BEK. I was also happy to keep {ducks for cover} Vestergaard, Ricardo, Winks and Mavididi before this window started, the rest can go for a decent offer. We've had a good selling window getting rid of the rotten core of the club of which Soumare is one.

He'll be very much missed in this team and would have been one of the best players in the Championship, a big dent in our promotion quest if not replaced adequately which I highly suspect he won't. However if he was desperate to leave then best for all concerned.

Weren't we interested in him two years ago under Marescu? Seemed young and highly rated at the time,

2 goals in 3 games for QPR. IMO we should either sign a Kone type profile who is young and raw with a potential high ceiling or an established striker who would be very good at Championship level. Some of these names we're linked with sound no better than Ayew or Daka and I'd prefer to leave well alone than sign a 26yo who is a one in six man in a league like the Dutch league. Not sure why we didn't sign Kone as a player who is incredibly raw and come from nowhere but young and League One POTY sounds right up our alley especially with our very talented options behind the front man if BEK stays.

You are Jon Rudkin and I claim my £10.

Can't believe he's only 32, seems to have been around for decades. Could have been a brilliant player but for injuries but so could the much younger James Justin and we seen how far he fell away from peak.