James_lcfc

He’s happy to take anything then. Gives us a chance!

If we bring Fotis and Hlozek in, I'll accept Ayew. Ayew on his own and we're all done with the club!

Sevilla wanted him last year - Played over 30 games for them. He must be on disgusting wages, as otherwise surely we’d be able to get £7m for him… What an utterly terrible signing he’s been.

Pre-season has been a ride hasn’t it!

Fear the worst to be honest, but it's a new season - Got to have a bit of hope and optimism! 1-1

If the ones we're pushing for are good players and back themselves - You'd think they'd hang on a bit before committing to a newly promoted side with a looming points deduction. Wouldn't blame them waiting to see if a better offer comes in. Having said that you'd also think they'd want to get themselves sorted as quickly as possible for the new season, so who really knows!

Nobody likes a fence-sitter!

Wish he'd play Ricardo there instead of Ndidi. I can watch another season of Wilf in the PL, it's bad for my blood pressure.

Looks awful from what I’ve seen so far. …but I’ll judge him on a decent number of competitive games.

Squad is full of poor to average PL players. This season was always going to be a massive struggle depending on the recruitment - Regardless of manager. You can’t look at what we did in the Championship last year. It’s completely irrelevant. People vastly overestimate our players at this level. It’s borderline comical.

We were Premier League Champions in 15/16.

Always thought he was decent, but there's far too many reds on his FBREF report. I'm a statsman nowadays so it's a no from me.

Hopefully an obligation in there if they get promoted.

£25m + add ons for a player in the last year of his contract seems like great business by Watford. Only slightly above average stats at Championship level. Fair play to them.

He’d definitely be moaning in the press via his mate Guillem wouldn’t he. Sort of miss it now.

Ndidi is going to be Cooper’s main man this season isn’t he. Just nowhere near good enough anymore. Miserable stuff.

Starting to get a little concerning now isn’t it. Not full panic stations yet, but not too far off I guess bringing in those ‘first name on the team sheet’ type players is very difficult compared to the squad fillers.

So many nice tributes from clubs, players and fans - You can tell he was just extremely well liked. Played a massive part in bringing this club back from rock bottom and he'll be remembered forever for that. Club legend.

Ooohhh. Can we play a game of 'who are ya?'

Josh Low is the face of that terrible period we had in the early 00's for me, no idea why. Awful player!

Christ.

Pretty bold shout.

It's only Nixon reporting this isn't it? He's listed as a tier five source on the other thread - Surely there's nothing to worry about.

The red-est of red flags.

Didn't we pass on Bowen due to concerns with the background checks we did? Someone with a 'Controversies' section on their Wikipedia surely doesn't require much due diligence!