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Have they? They clearly had a lot of targets, but if clubs don't want to sell / want too much money / player wants to high wages / player gets offered more elsewhere / gets an offer at a higher level, what are you supposed to do? Sign the wrong players? Massively overpay? It's disappointing...

This is what I don't understand. He's a good signing, I don't doubt, but why string it out? Now it feels an anti-climax. I mean, we've gained a stadium, so it seems a bit of a petty quibble, but feels it could have been done better.

Fair play, he was a quality player for us, it had just ran its course. Very best of luck to him.

Christ, that's awful. Looks like it's a costume for a film set in a 1950s American High School.

I guess they won't have heard many sheep references before, so that makes it funnier.

Someone's getting an RSI if we do.

No. He's let himself go.

Possibly pedantry, but that's not true. He had his best season before last, and it was only last season that he regressed.

I know. Which is why I think this is sensible business, though the timing could have been better.

Needs a career reboot, really. With hindsight, it would have been better for all concerned if he'd have been sold last summer when his stock was so high. Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Will be a good player for them if he can stay fit.

So a brainy Neanderthal, then?

Yes, coming off a season of howlers.

Wouldn't do this for anyone else, but seeing as it's pretty much your entire schtick: I fucking hate the Americanisation 'dumb'.

You have to time your sales. We don't have a centre-half in despite badly needing one. We're not going to sell one of the ones we do have.

It's by far the strongest part of our team. You should never not want to strengthen, but there are other areas that warrant the outlay more.

Rushworth has made an inauspicious start. We know Wilson's not of the standard to be our first choice keeper. To change it now would be folly.

Agreed. But why then play him for 90 in what's a fairly meaningless fixture in midweek? It's baffling.

And when it looks like they might have done, they do their ACL.

That's really poor, and really poor from Lampard particularly.

In a game where the opposition have wrestled control from us. This isn't the first time either, where he's looked like he doesn't know how to change games going against us.