Dan

I do think winning the league and cup does raise more questions than it does of say Southampton - who are another club I don't actually really think get enough investigation. They've dropped off a ridiculous amount as well.

I increasingly like the Salech shout. Attainable given they were relegated, young, good in the air, quick, good goalscoring record. Probably costs you £5mil or so (if we can't shell this out on one striker we're in deeper shit than I realised) and very feasibly ends up worth treble that. Ticks a lot of the boxes for me.

Interesting how much derision this article got - was 100% correct.

Something we haven't at any point attempted to do with him. He's needed a quite specific role / system to flourish. It was therefore a poor idea of a signing from us and a poor use of funds, another reason as to why we are now where we are.

I'm dreading the day we have to pay for it. Might be a price worth paying though.

Would be an utterly dumb move, one of the daftest we could make so you'd really not put it past us.

We've already got that option in Ayew who is a perfectly fine second choice. Striker's the one position we need to get right - there are a chronic lack of goals in this team. As ever I fear we don't cast out net wide enough.

Agree although think Leeds' Longstaff signing is the spit of the Skipp one. Albeit for about half the money. I'll never understand that Skipp signing. Utterly ridiculous. Was worth about £5mil max.

Not a single unwanted player moved on so far. Tick tock.

Unironically agree - Ayew is no worse.

Bamford would be depressingly us.

When did Kasabian open a crypto bookies? How did I miss that?

Spartak Moscow themselves might be the best bet thinking about it.

Would've been moved on at least two years ago at even an averagely run club.

Fine by me. Sensible contract permitting.

Ben Marshall's run of like 4 worldies in 6 games. He completely fell off as a player.

it's actually so disappointing this has ended up in here. He really has lost it hasn't he, his finishing in that was fantastic.

Good shout, with McGivern I always think of him against Jimmy Kebe. Frankly shouldn't have been shown live before 10pm.

Probably tomorrow

Always reassuring to hear.

Always ****ing hated these.

Too much is made of possession itself which is just a number and less about the speed and tempo of play. A Dyche team could have 75% of the ball if they come up against say Nathan Jones.

Don't know what's funnier, the result or the North Korea level attempt to hide it.

That Portsmouth game I went to both that and the cup game and they absolutely battered us for about an hour of the cup game, just couldn't quite come back. You knew were going to lose but the scale of it, good god.

I'm quite relaxed about them this season - last season was a massive chance spurned. Their fans won't realise this yet as they will make the mistake the majority make of assuming incremental upwards movement is inevitable. Those chances do not come around often though and they ultimately secured only Conference League football (of which they've even managed to luck it by bumping up a competition) and a semi final of the FA Cup. They had essentially our 2019/20 season with more margin for error and ultimately a worse team, and they have done the equivalent of selling Maddison and Barnes already. I don't think they fumble on quite the level we do and go down but I can just see Marinakis thinking their drop off is a disgrace and Nuno being under pressure quite early on. I definitely think they've peaked.