James_lcfc

Doesn't improve the starting 11 now, but he may do in the future. Still very young. Agree he's probably not what we needed short term though.

This is perfect.

Countries are touching innit.

I kept waiting for him to burst into a full sprint but he never really had to last night. Be interesting to see if he is quick. Looks a very limited footballer from what I've seen so far but it's early days.

Brilliant news. Will follow with interest.

I was definitely splitting hairs - Apologies! I'm not particularly enamoured by our transfer business, but the age profiles seem appropriate.

For balance - Fatawu was an obligation from last year. We had to sign him. Golding was only signed to placate Chelsea, so he doesn't count. ...and Skipp and Okoli are 23. So he's only signed one under 23 player, and he'll be going back at the end of the season! Big Steve knows you win nothing with kids!

Like the look of Skipp. I think he’ll be a good player for us.

Game of opinions I guess, but you’ve also perfectly described Bobby Reid there based on what I’ve seen of him so far. Minus the PL player part. Very poor. Mavididi isn’t perfect and will make some poor decisions but he works very hard out of possession and can make things happen when in it. Has to start.

Go on then, enlighten us…

When the head of recruitment tells Steve he isn't very good, but has over a hundred Premier League appearances:

To the people concerned about the Fofana vibes - Yes he will almost certainly do the same to us in the future if a bigger club comes calling, but that's not a problem for now. If bigger clubs are hassling us for his signature, it will be because he's done well, and you'd like to think we'd be able to make decent profit on him at that point. It's the model we should be embracing. The Fofana deal worked brilliantly for us. I mean, it didn't really stop the PSR issues, but it probably should've!

It’s possible those two would’ve cost quite a bit more if an English team was involved in the bidding as well? It seems pretty difficult to get good value from the highly rated talents around Europe as a PL club.

Would be a great move, but we should be keeping him if we can shift Faes.

£35m! We would be lucky to get £10m for him, he’s an absolute liability in the PL. We would’ve sold him when we went down if we had decent interest in him.

How’s he going to leave? I doubt we’d be interested in a loan. ….and nobody is going to pay money for Wout Faes. He’s just not very good.

Highly rated young player who is desperate to join us? Must be something wrong with him. It’s a no from me.

Not sure I agree with this. There isn’t much shit in the division at all, it’s a tough league. Fulham looked a good side to me yesterday, yet only finished 13th last year. Levels above us anyway.

Rested for a European qualifier on Thursday. (Probably)

I was expecting tireless working when he came on, but he sort of ambled about. Feel like I’ve been misled by the Palace fans.

I was quite impressed with his little cameo. I think he will improve us in that double pivot role instead of Ndidi. I give Ndidi a lot of stick, but to be fair to him, I thought he was one of the better players yesterday when he moved further forward. Obviously he’s not creative enough for that role really, but he was one of our better players in the second half. He was awful playing that deeper role earlier on though, as he has been for years now. Skipp has to play there.

That might be the creepiest image I’ve ever seen. Well done.

Not really. Rodgers gets mocked for his height constantly, which literally can’t be helped any less than being ‘ugly’. Yet when someone makes a comment about Stevie’s looks people are outraged It’s always amused me anyway. Both are below the Gucci belt, I just like the differing standards on here.

Yes. It was articulate and well thought out.

People will be surprised with how bad we’ll be this year. Lots seem to think that the relegation season was purely down to Brendan Rodgers, and the players we kept were just mismanaged rather than not very good. They also fully believe that winning the league last year is in some way relevant to how we’ll fare this year. We need reinforcements quickly, and not just squad fillers - First teamers who can jump straight in.