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Settled down after the first 10mins, which were awful. Injected some pace anbd started to hold the ball. EMC either offside or giving away needless fouls. Improved performance overall but little to frighten them in the final 1/3. Rushworth looks the part.

Stream up!

Cyrille especially. He was unplayable at times. The best we've had recently was Max funnily enough, strong as an ox.

Kickoff delayed to 7-15

So much so that it often seems to exclude him from the buildup play and we play with a man short as it were.

You can generally see if someone can play or not in the first few minutes, touch, pass, tricks and intelligence. Limitations become more apparent with time, particularly as the opposition learn more about them and they've been kicked around a bit. He's a solid enough Championship player to my...

He looked bloody awful at first. He's quite skillful but his skill is a bit laboured for me and predictable. Strong though.

Yes, limited. Looked duff at first but improved under Lampard for a spell. At £5m we overpaid.

Manchester Evening News think he's on the way out https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/man-city-reject-transfer-bid-31933473

I like him well enough but not at £10m and not right now.

I might be wrong but didn't Illia Zabarnyi go to Bournemouith at almost the same age for a whole heap more than that? Doyle isn't a nipper anymore, which is why Man City want shot!

Failed to turn up. I was angry and almost disbelieving that day after all the talk of promotion, not just here but from the club and the players. In retrospect it was the coaching situation of course...

That isn't the question though. I said why would we mortgage the future on a player unproven in the PL. That's a much bigger gamble and one that PL clubs haven't made so far!

£5m in Europe should buy us a lot more.

He's soon to be 22 and never played even a handful of games. If we go up we'll need a proven PL starter.

Why would we do a deal to buy on promotion for a player who hasn't been able to hack it in the Prem? The lower Leagues are full of England youth internationals who never quite made it, we've had a fair few of these ourselves. There must be better options for the money.

Ah yes, missed that :) A bit rude about a seasoned international ;)

Latibeaudiere?

I want to see much more from our strikers and more pace and crispness in the build up play. Far from good enough so far and not long to go. We have a relatively easy start on paper and it's vital that we're in a position to capitalise from it this season