Dan

How do people defend him? I can only assume they know him or have some sort of vested interest. He's absolutely awful by not far off any metric. It speaks volumes that doing the bare minimum generally gets the "there you go moaners, what have you got now". The bar is so low.

We have left this too late though and we've ended up paying above expected for some of what we have brought in. It's a better window than it was a fortnight ago but I still think this could've gone miles better.

Too much credit being given. There was no plan, hence the late flurry this window - where leaving yourselves short is an inevitability.

So we're going to exit the window without a single player under 38 who you can safely rely on to score you 5 goals at this level. Another botched window. But who expected differently?

Really good move.

Happy with this one - right type of profile of player.

Which minute in the first half is he going off tonight then?

Is my stream ****ed or are they seriously still waiting? **** me.

As ****ing if the teams in the CL / Europa get a rigged draw to avoid each other now. Because they really need that bit more help don't they

Agree that people are mad about goal expectations. We just need a 20 goal season striker. You and everyone else. Literally only three players hit 20 last season in the Premier League and that was in a very high scoring season. I don't expect many goals at all from Ayew, I am hoping he's a low key decent player though, doesn't need to be a goal machine to contribute. We do need goals elsewhere though.

The Snake Charming Snodgrass

Weird as I've been told on here all summer that nobody would touch us with a bargepole. Quelle surprise, player in weaker league still fancies a move here. This is the right water to be fishing in. Fingers crossed he's a success, I do quite like the look.

There seems to be quite extreme takes on both sides with Cannon while I am just somewhere in the middle. I don't think he's quite the saviour that he is made out to be and is a classic example of a player who has gotten better by not playing. But then I also find the complete lack of minutes he has really a bit bizarre as well. Like he isn't 'that' bad is he? If our happy medium is to sell him for less than we paid a year ago it's just yet another baffling move on the whole - bringing him in when he had a long term injury pointed to him being a long term pick. It would be typical for us to sell him (the one we should loan out) and loan out Soumare (the one we should sell).

Them being owned by Olympiakos' owner might work against them on this one.

This I worry is going to be the theme. Not dissimilar to Faes in that sense.

Agree, but it would be great if some of those did fall under that category too. They know that this is a club that can achieve things.

Yeah when we said attackers we didn't mean "attacking for a goalkeeper"

He's allowed the house to burn down, but come on, he's got you a new sofa, what more do you want?

What on earth is going on?

Yep - knock down expectations then celebrate if the reduced expectations are delivered, which is usually a big if in the first place. They need to do something pretty extraordinary just to achieve par for this window. Like we said last week - at least two attacking signings. That was the quote. That's the minimum.

Did anyone go to Wolves two years ago when we won 0-4? Their south bank were absolutely belting out songs against their equivalent, Scott Sellars, as they fell to the bottom of the table below us. The month afterwards: The final table:

Thought he looked really good for a couple of months when he came in but never seemed to recover from that Anfield nightmare. He seems to have picked up this bizarre confidence though and it's not even a good confidence. Shirks responsibility for his own errors. He'd be no big loss at all for me and he's one of those you could probably fleece a decent fee for. It is however worrying that he can come out with this - another black mark against the cretins 'running' this club. Damning that even he thinks it when he was absolutely awestruck when he signed for us.

It's why I just can't get properly annoyed anymore until we have new ownership. What's the point. Our luck has run out now. The Fulham away games in 2023 and the weekend sort of sum up the situation around us now. 2023 was a hateful team who should've never gotten relegated but managed to thanks to a situation those at the top never bothered to fix. The weekend was just an honest but poor team. This is what we are now. This is decline. This is life under Top & Rudkin.

Lots of anti Rudkin songs at Fulham. Maybe the penny is finally dropping in the fanbase.

Forest.