James

Come on. We’re about to sell our best player and the replacement is a 20 year old on loan from a lower mid table PL club. He might turn out to be decent, but surely wasn’t the Club’s first choice. As others have said, we’ve banked the best part of £60m this summer and the replacements for those two players will reportedly have cost less than £1m. Does suggest our finances aren’t amazing.

Yikes that is disappointing. We’ve surely known THB was gonna go all window….

I think we will end up getting the Norwegian CB. I think at this time in the window it’s not really worth following the minute by minute tweets as things change quickly and what’s being reported probably isn’t current information. I can’t see us letting THB leave and not replacing him.

Great result. When are big players are firing we can beat anyone. Glad to hear Schlotterbeck had a good game, good feeling about him.

Fellows! Finally!

Azaz!

Larin!

I don’t get our pre season at all. Weak opposition and don’t look fit as a result. Weird.

We are miles off It this season, absolutely miles.

The problem is the team is significantly weaker than it was at that time. We don't have THB in the team as he is unsettled/being sold, we don't have a Charles replacement to come off the bench and inject energy and, injury prone or not, Stewart was a big, physical striker that caused Premier League defences problems when he wanted to. We've replaced him with (yet) another Man City youth player who, whilst he has qualities, isn't anywhere near the same level as a fit and firing Stewart.

I think hope of a f*ck you storming of the league with the same team is slowly evaporating based on how we've started the season. We were pretty naff at Colchester, lost to Watford, could easily have drawn on Saturday but for a late show and got humped tonight. Not particularly inspiring right now. I do think the Tonda charge is hampering our recruitment efforts, it would be a surprise if it wasn't.

We essentially didn't have a midfield tonight...

I don't think Mubama is an alternative option to Larin, he scored a nice goal on Saturday but if Cyle is out for any length of time we'd be pretty screwed.

This is guff. We will be lucky to make 8th without some signings.

We don't have anywhere near enough depth right now, we have to pray for limited injuries. Our first choice XI will be too strong for a lot of teams but we aren't close, on tonight's performance, to West Ham and probably not to Wolves either.

We do look pretty underpowered against a second/third string West Ham...

Last time he suggested a player it was Mubama, so maybe he knows more than he lets on…

I thought it was fairly widely known that we'd get the sanction during the September international break.

Great result. West Ham losing at home, Boro losing too. Lovely afternoon.

It’s important given we are on -4. These conversations wouldn’t be happening in a regular season where we’d just lost the first game. This season is unusual as we are on a penalty and also realistically need to go up before the parachute payments run out. It’s pretty understandable why fans are tetchy…

I refuse to believe the -4 isn’t putting some targets off joining us versus other promotion contenders. That and the uncertainty about Tonda. It’s choosing to join an unsettled environment. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if we wanted that Anel guy and he just decided to join Burnley ahead of us. Adds to the importance of a win today to start wiping the minus out.

I think Dobbin is a decent player, he’s a good Championship player that stood out for an average team last year. Is he a worthy addition to the squad? Absolutely. Is he a replacement for someone like Scienza? Absolutely not. Was he a priority if we needed to sell to buy? Not for me.

If Dobbin is a Scienza replacement (if he goes) then I think many will be sorely disappointed. That’s not the level of replacement required for auto aspirations.

I’ll say it again, spending £9m on Dobbin as our only signing of the window looks extremely strange at this point given how short we are in other areas…

Actually not a bad suggestion. Would want him and another though. I think he’s a better option than Wood or Stephens next to a new THB replacement.