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Upon reflection, I’m not fussed about letting either player leave without bringing in replacements. Starting with Rapha, it’s apparent that Lampard doesn’t actually trust him to come off the bench to change a game at our level. He’s only been willing to sub him on when we’re winning by a clear...

Do you think Lampard approved of the sale?

Have I missed something… We wanted to sign Hughes AND Wolfenden?! It wasn’t an either/or situation? Rak-Sakyi for a permanent makes sense and hopefully something we can revisit. Would be a top signing.

Which goes hand in hand with the recruitment policy. No point trying to recruit players that are outside your criteria, one of which will be salary demands and transfer fee. If Hull could spend money this window, there’s a chance they would have sold Hughes to us. Then, why bother bidding...

I’d like to know what the reasons are behind it all. Lampard was on record saying that didn’t have enough LWers and CBs in the run up to deadline day. You’ve got to assume Lampard allowed the Sheaf move to go ahead because the 4 we’ve got will get us through to Jan comfortably, particularly...

The headcount is actually less than 22/23. The quality is undoubtedly higher but it’s a 50 game season, injuries/suspensions will happen.

I’ve not seen the video myself (if you could send a link, may I have it please) and going off what other people have said. My bad if I’ve got the wrong end of the stick here, I’ve had a busy weekend so not caught up on Cov stuff. Lampard had said we need a winger so is probably annoyed that we...

Yesterday there were some v disappointing performances. Eze really didn’t stake a claim, Madueke was average (good for the goal) and Rashford was awful and his stupid showboating pass that went out for a GK summed up his performance to be honest. If Tuchel really thinks Rashford is an important...

Without knowing the ins and outs of the recruitment process, it’s two summer windows now where we’ve left significant gaps in the team. If King is saying Lampard is unhappy, whether in jest or not, reveals something hasn’t gone right for whatever reasons. Looking at our bench, the depth just...

Unfortunately, there’s a sense of deja vu here because we thought this last year and only secured Grimes before the deadline last year. Paterson signed afterwards. My gut feeling is that there’ll be a change to the recruitment team because it just seems that we’re struggling to identify the...

In fairness, it’s difficult to play fast paced football when your opposition teams will put 9-10 players behind the ball. I’m hoping Tuchel’s tactical nous will get us through the latter rounds of tournaments. One of the reasons international football is so boring is because the quality of...

Tuchel was the best manager available if we judge his record in the club game. The potential problem is, we don’t know how this translate to the international game that is slower paced than the club game. With Carsley, two European Championships is exactly the pedigree of manager we should go...

Is what King said out in the public domain?

I’m not going to get drawn into the past but with respect, you got what you wanted and as of right now it’s not looking good. Tuchel should be a better manager (than Carsley and Southgate) but think we wrote of Carsley too soon to be honest. The style of football was good under him in the...

In qualification, Southgate set records for goals scored. I went to a 5-0 demolition of Albania in 2020 (?) and we played superbly, even though it was a 3-4-3. I’m in two minds. On the ‘optimistic’ side, you don’t get style points for demolishing sides and the only important thing is getting...

We’re at the point of the window where anyone we sign fits that criteria. With Da Silva, it’s a ‘hit and hope’ signing. We’ve just got to get to Jan and be aggressive in the market. I can’t help but think there’ll be a change in the recruitment staff before then.

Jones came off 3 ACLs back to back and is a top end L2 player which where all this started. His ‘ceiling’ was definitely killed off though. DaSilva is a different case altogether but why couldn’t he get back to his old form? The immediate expectation of him will be to fill in occasionally.

Went to the game, it was a bore fest. At what point do you get concerned about Tuchel? Say what you like about Southgate, we always looked convincing in qualification. Even under Carsley we looked much better against stronger opposition.

It’s expected points and generally the top teams in a division outperform this and vice versa for the teams at the bottom.

I’ve not made the claim this will trigger an election. My view is that this autumn budget will go down like a lead balloon and the bond markets could lash out against us again, that really would put the government on the ropes. Frankly, the Tories should’ve called an election after the Boris...