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Honestly, of all the batshit crazy decisions in the last few years this is one of the craziest. Shows the club had completely lost its way and was unable to spot talent or manage the squad correctly Think it’s a toss up between this, signing Tall Paul and appointing Nathan Jones for the title.

Agree with your line up. We need to stick with a starting 11 and let them learn to play together. Sick of all the chopping and changing. In previous seasons when we have been our best, the line up basically picks itself. I think we have a clear best 9 or 10 at least. Would love to see RM pick them and stop messing about.

Just seen on Twitter that he’s statistically second worst this season so far for expected shots conceded. At least that’s an improvement from last season I guess

Yeah you can carry a couple of passengers in the championship defensively and still be a good team. (Danny Fox springs to mind). But that’s only if the spine of the team is great. When 3 of your back 5 are horrific and one of the others is Bednarek, and your manager leaves the DM out… what hope do you have? Feel sorry for Bazunu. He’s so young and I really want it to work. But I honestly cannot understand the club backing him to this insane level

Once again we are in the position where we only have one 19 year old Defensive Midfielder to rely on. I agree he’s a good player, but Martin needs to fix the system so that the midfield are actually present. That was some of the worst team defending I have ever seen yesterday. For all the talk of the team being unsettled etc., Sunderland went through exactly the same and also have a load of injuries. Did we see any of their players mincing about? No. They got stuck in and took it to us. Maybe we appointed the wrong Mowbray

I won’t write him off after one game. Luckily, we saw a load of him as he was in the PL last year. So based on more than just this one game, he is utter shite and not worth playing ever again

Can’t make a save, and when he does he parries it straight to the middle of the box to a waiting striker. I can’t believe we are persisting with him. Suicide

Im on holiday with the time difference so missed all the deadline day “excitement” Waking up to see we kept KWP and signed a striker.. quality work saints. E I E I E I O

Should be a piece of piss, all of their players will be playing for us instead. Another routine victory for Russell Martin’s barmy army E I E I E I O

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But on the other hand… He’s also cack.

Our options would genuinely be better than last year when we were still in the PL if we pulled that off 😂

Agree, I’m genuinely amazed he’s still here. Had him down to go in the JWP/Lavia bracket as a first choice for another PL club. He is very obviously much too good for the championship

Seems weird we won’t just go and pay the 15mil. Especially as the Wood bids were rejected. Seems a much better option at that price

Premier league player in the championship. Oozes PL class. Insanely good signing. Reminds me of Schneiderlin

Good thing is, that means he is here to play. Could have easily sat on the bench collecting his wages. But instead he has chosen to come here and challenge himself. Can only respect that. And if he keeps putting in performances like Saturday’s, he will become an instant favourite here. He was class

The game has changed massively now to be honest. Any promoted club needs to immediately rebuild and spend a shit load of money as the gap is so big. The fact we look like prime Barcelona against these championship teams says it all. There is a huge gap now.

Properly tinpot. Takes away from the crowd atmosphere and probably inspires the opposition more than it does our team. Scrap it immediately

It’s because a lot of our fans are idiots. He was surrounded by absolute dross here for the last few years. And asked to be more defensive than his skill set allows for. Playing as a box to box midfielder with license to get forward, surrounded by better players and he was always going to shine.

Well it definitely won’t be raining goals. We just lost our two biggest goal threats

You’re being very, very kind on the club here. I don’t see how selling our prime goal scorers weeks into the season can be viewed as anything other than a cynical cash grab. This feels like when Nathan Jones was appointed, loads of people got called “bed wetters” for saying how he isn’t up to it. No - it’s just fucking obviously a stupid idea. Now people are being called “bed wetters” for pointing out that we’ve (yet AGAIN) had a horrific transfer window under SR. I agree that the central midfielders they’ve brought in are good. But we had fantastic central midfielders last season and we were still shit. Now we are in exactly the same boat. At least we have a better manager this time.

If that’s true it’s gutting. We should never have let him go in the first place. Clearly better than Djenepo/Mara/Elyounoussi/Aribo He’s earned a move, and good luck to him. Seems he’s actually too good for our retarded club. We are run by fucking morons.

Ultimately this window has been yet another massive failure so far. Key words are ‘so far’. The club still has some time. But easy to see why people are questioning their ability to do good business after last season.

Literally been the first 3 games of the season at a brand new club for him. Give him 10 games at least before writing him off ffs.

I think it’s clear to see that the football has been better this season than in a long time. I love the bloke, I am fully on board the Martin Express