Dan

I'm amazed how few saw it this way. Massive recency bias.

He will go. Too much talk here.

Lots of these players are active drains on the club. We shouldn't give clean slates for the sake of it. You can really earn your chances after this last 3 years.

I'd blame those playing personally but each to their own

It's absolutely mental to have a situation like that on the opening day. What a joke.

I'll give him some slack as he's got the most incompetent possible seniors sabotaging him. If dross like Soumare are anywhere near this side in September I'll worry.

Left it too late to do the overhaul required. Rinse and repeat.

Our midfield is foul. Just awful.

We always beat Huddersfield

Hope we get our arses in gear in the transfer market so Cifuentes doesn't have to pick this clown.

About as unconvincing as a win can possibly be.

Total joke if we don't win this.

Aiyawatt and Rudkin are still the captains. No surprise the ship continues to sink really.

£18mil welcome back from your holidays Teflon.

We were so strong in so many positions in 2019/20. Had a good goalkeeper, the centre half partnership complemented each other well, two very good full backs, a really nicely balanced midfield. The only real fumble for me was the Perez signing who was an ill-fit for the role and a sign of things to come. That team in hindsight underachieved only coming 5th.

Good deal. Credit where due. He's been a very good player for us. Not quite Kante, and I'm not quite sure about legend, but he's been a big part of the last decade. Was excellent around 2018-2020 sort of time and rightly touted for a move to the top. Think it's quite a reflection of the way it's gone for a lot of our squad that he departs for Besiktas rather than Bayern. He's obviously dropped off and isn't what he was. I think we've continuously tried to make him something he isn't, constantly fiddled with his position when just keeping him as a ball winning destroyer was where his strength really lay all along. I don't think we've ever quite recovered from his initial drop off. We've never really come close, or even attempted to replace it. The likes of Skipp, Winks, Soumare etc... just simply haven't got anything like the defensive instincts he had in his first few years. He's been part of our drop off so I can't sit here and pretend it was all rosy from day one but he's been good on the whole - he's one of the few of this squad who goes with a blessing. Anyway not a terrible move, gets to play in Europe, the Istanbul clubs are relatively interesting if even not quite the top of the tree.

Makes you wonder how many they've actually banned.

That is quite literally why they do it. Their post relegation bollocks last time was called out so they have instead of taking it on board just decided to do the same and say nothing.

Shows you where their priorities lie - if it wasn't already obvious.

He's been very good for us on the whole, definitely a drop off in the last few years but still think he's probably our best midfielder now even despite this. Been part of enough good times to go with a bit of a blessing, but it's the right time. Find it interesting nobody bothered a year ago for free but after a pretty nothingy year, a year on he's managed to bring in a fee.

Agree - will give him some benefit of the doubt as he (ridiculously) has only been here about three weeks. Really is stupid when you consider we got relegated in April. There are massive flaws in our side. Unfortunately every manager is handicapped by the idiots above him.

Was watching the first half thinking our high energy style might actually suit him. Then you watch that and remember he has the bozo gene no matter what you do.

There's a lot to fix but good signs from him. High press will always win fans over.

Looks like frozen out which is good, do wish there were more we'd do it to.

Pretty good on the whole. Dampened when Fatawu went off but didn't really allow them any good chances to score which is a refreshing change. Nowhere near convinced on the whole but think the manager's showing some good signs.