honeybradger

Have you seen Hermansen play in the last year? He has been dreadful.

Stolarczyk wasnt as bad in the PL as Hermansen has been since coming back from injury, there was a clear drop off when Hermansen was rushed back to replace Stolarczyk last season. Hermansen also completely missed a bread and butter save against QPR in the cup, even against weaker opposition he looks miles off it. You didn't notice his height as much when he was more agile but he looks tiny in goal nowadays for West Ham, he cannot cover his corners anymore.

Jakub also had an injury but at least he makes the save more often than not (saves it 67% of the time). Since Hermansen's injury every shot at him has been a coin toss whether it goes in or not (saves it 55% of the time).

If a woman goalkeeper conceded the goals Hermansen has conceded in the last year there would be shouts to reduce the size of the goal. Since his injury he has lost the power in his legs that made him a good shot stopper and now he cant reach the corners of the goal due to his height. If he comes back he almost certainly will not be the same as the last time he was in the championship.

Our results actually improved after he was bombed out the squad. 3 wins in 14 when he's started. 4 wins in 11 with him dropped. Crap either way but fans are quick to forget how disgustingly poor Winks has been for us on the pitch for the last two seasons.

When we think it cant get worse than Daka we sign Ayew. When we think it cant get worse than Soumare we sign Aribo. Just F off King Power, this ownership is no better than if they were actively trying to tank the club.

Not much you can do with this group of players. What else could he do? Start Aluko and Daka maybe but that's not guaranteed to work out either.

The reaction of Atalanta fans to us signing him told us everything. Incredible that the club did not do even the slightest due diligence before signing him.

There's a big gap between Lamine Yamal and Cordova Reid. Would Bobby be in one of these tables even if he was in Sweden, i dont think so. Also I was fine with the Diabate rumour . Looked like he had good movement.

Swansea about to sign Leo Walta for peanuts.

We have won 3 games in 14 when Winks starts. Not matter how bad things have been recently they will almost certainly get worse if he gets involved again.

His sub appearances were for 5 minutes in the Premier League, of course he struggled to do anything in those games.

Since Hermansen's injury he has approximately a 55% save rate at PL level. Worse than Danny Ward for example (although with Ward it was how ridiculous his misses were and the lack of confidence he gave). As a short goal keeper he is massively dependent on his agility to make saves and he appears to have lost that. Jakub gets criticised for palming shots back into danger areas, but currently shots in the corner of the goal are out Hermansen's reach, therefore you have to say that Jakub is currently the better shot stopper. Hermansen's fitness may improve again though, you get the sense that he was rushed back early by both us and West Ham.

Surely youre not still blaming the Winks issue on Van Nistelrooy after him downing tools and getting frozen out under another manager. You can blame Van Nistelrooy for many things but he handled Winks exactly as required and the club should have followed through and removed him that summer as a priority. No one would care about Winks's commuting distance if he showed commitment on the pitch, least of all Van Nistelrooy, the issue is that he had phoned it in long before he was frozen out. It's typical for managers in any field to ask a bit more from workers who are underdelivering, such as starting work earlier, working from the office more, recording their time. Getting Winks to stay at Seagrave was a very valid way to try and change the mindset of a player who was only focused on doing the bare minimum. That didn't work for Winks so he was frozen out, as is fair.

It's the club's fault for signing him. If he needed that ridiculous wage to take a step down to the championship then they should have moved onto the next target. Maybe they thought they were buying a solid premier league midfielder that deserved to be on Prem wages. If he was that level he would be going to a PL level club though. Just another major screw up from the club really.

Can you add a 2x speed option?

We need a CAM and Page is more of an 8. Could be sooner than expected

If we signed Daka for £2mil and on reasonable wages whilst in the championship and whilst Vardy is no longer the default starter he could have worked out. He's now lost all confidence and consistency, momentum as a striker cannot be understated.

How can anyone give Cooper any praise. He was the one who signed Ayew and Bobby Reid, who were dreadful in the PL and arent even cutting it in the championship. Skipp as well, who has somehow become a fan favourite, is not good enough for a team looking for a promotion push, let alone for £20mil. Just an absolutely diabolical summer.

Dom Ballard a player who was scoring regularly at u18 and u21 level for for Southampton between the ages of 17 and 18 then had his career slowed by an injury. Now he would be an ideal transfer for us after half of a great season in League one. I wonder where Jake Evans and Lorenz Hutchinson would be if we had been integrating them since the start of the season. Might not be at the level of Ballard probably but certainly better options than Ayew.

We would be creaming ourselves if we were signing signing August Priske. Diabate has the same number of goals and is likely cheaper (and therefore available for us to buy) because of his age.

Ayew attacking midfielder back on the menu.

He already was before he went to Chesterfield. This loan just affirms what we already knew.

Why on Earth did he have to be partnered with Eric Dier. Don't France pump out 2-3 world class centrebacks every year? We need Monaco to sign one of those to cover for Faes and make him look competent. Although maybe I should never have hoped that we could sell him in the first place.

He left because there wasnt a pathway to the first team. Who started this "he didn't want to play centre back" rumour, it is ridiculous to suggest that he wouldnt have renewed with us if there was a pathway to the first team of a Premier League team as a back up centre back available to him. He left at the same time as Luke Thomas broke through, so he could have played left back as well.