HarvSFC

I'm not Puel's biggest fans and believed he more than deserved to get the boot when he did with us. However, if Charlie Austin was interviewed tomorrow I reckon he'd give a very similar interview about Hasenhuttl.

Do Stephens and Hoedt get worse with each appearance? Suppose the myth that Hughes made them worse is now gone. Neither of them should be anywhere near a Premier League team.

Much better without Krueger, who would give us the rehearsed soundbytes, or even patronise us despite clearly knowing nothing about the game. Also, without Reed, who would often talk about Champions League football and pushing us onto the next level, despite clearly not having the set-up, or infrastructure to do so. This did seem very honest. Admitted they made mistakes, didn't have a solid plan, which we all probably knew, as we could see it, but many clubs in this day wouldn't admit that and we've obviously all seen the club in the worse state when the owners have tried to play blind (to the fans) regarding the club's issues. We're going to remain a club which develops players and then moves them on to the bigger clubs. This time though, it's imperative that we keep the man in the dug-outs. Losing Koeman pushed us backwards massively and almost cost us our league status. We struck gold with Adkins, Poch and then Koeman, but yeah, I don't think we'll be taking Hassenhuttl for granted after the last three. Gao's here for the long-term "apparently", but it was mentioned that we're "not a club flushed with money". Manchester City were cited, but obviously none of us are expecting us to compete on that level. However, when recently promoted sides such as Wolves, Fulham (ha) and Aston Villa are outspending us, while Bournemouth have also done for a few windows now it is a bit disheartening and there is a fear we could be left behind and that Gao isn't the long-term answer for the club. We just need the plan and the money to come together at the club, so that we aren't spending £20m on Carrillo, but rather like we did in League One and the Championship when we were the big spenders and were able to sign the best, or better players in each division like Lambert, Hammond, Fonte, Sharp, etc which ended up very well for us.

Valery could be a £60m player next year going by Wan-Bissaka's sale this summer.

We don't have any of last season's loaned out brigade on the website, but we do have Austin and Lemina still on there, so not too much to read into that.

Tadic under Koeman?

0 appearances for Manchester City - £15m.

"I was also very frustrated by my injury that lasted four months." So were we. Ah well, at least he's showing the reason why we no longer want him around the squad with all these interviews. Usually players leave it for the international breaks to express their want to move on.

How much would we be happy with for Lemina? £25m?

How reliable is the information? From the same itk poster.

Weird to see Hoedt in there, as he's the one that's been rumoured to have the worst attitude of the loaned out bunch, didn't do himself any favours with the social media activity after Newcastle thrashed us and certainly didn't do himself any favours at Celta Vigo, as we all know he's not very good. Hopefully, it isn't an indicator of us fancying going for the cheap option again in trying to improve him, rather than bringing someone else in either. Although, on a similar note it's good to Cedric at least in there, as he still has something to offer in being the backup to Valery. (Just don't let him mark crosses). Sad regarding Lemina, as he's an entertainer when on song (as rare as that is) and one of very few in the team who can pull off something special. But, this team shows the decision regarding his future. Definitley need a new CM though, a Schneiderlin/Wanyama type, just not one of those two as their motivations seem to have gone. Lastly, bloody hell, Guido Carrillo. What a terrible signing.

He's Van Dijked them.

Bournemouth got £6m for Lewis Grabban from a Championship club. He's older than Austin and never scored a goal for Bournemouth. Probably on a lower wage though.

Why don't other clubs just sell their best players before the window begins like we did with Van Dijk?

We should try and make a move to bring Beattie home too. He's coincidentally been at Leeds and Birmingham when Chris Wood and Che Adams have had the best scoring season's of their careers.

Fonte was on the decline when we sold him, despite his career stock being high following the Euro’s win. Same as Cedric’s. Yeah, Fonte was a good servant through the League One and Championship years and looked good next to Lovren, Alderweireld and Van Dijk, but I don’t think he’d look any better in this current defence and at his current ability than what we’ve got now. Fortunately, we’re not currently discussing Fonte’s name alongside Austin’s, Long’s, Forster’s, Elyounoussi’s, etc.... Of average players who we’ve setup for life with their current contracts.

Borussia Dortmund have just signed Thorgan Hazard and Julian Brandt for £22m each...

"The south coast is Bournemouth's".... We've had a pathetic season and they've had their plaudits all season, calling it a "great" one, yet there's just four points between the two sides and the possibility of us still finishing above them. Levels.

On the couple of occasions Friend didn’t jump to his whistle when a Spurs player made the theatrical fall he just let play continue yesterday, Hojbjerg gets in on the act again and is booked. Another case of a rule for one...

Shame it took this long to realise that Austin and Yoshida (especially) are better than what's been put out in recent matches, but hopefully that's it now.

Fingers need to be pointed towards the ownership again (how many times have we said that in the last couple of years?). Can't spend a penny in the January transfer window, but lets splash out on flights to Tenerife, where accommodation and training facilities will also need to be paid for alongside plenty of other things. Even Cardiff, who haven't received any Premier League money as of yet would have had a new £15m striker in their ranks alongside Leandro Bacuna and Oumar Niasse today. How did Che Adams get on today? Or, was he just another name like Mepham, Walcott, Mawson and even Paul Mitchell fed to the media? We've left ourselves depending on the worst striker in the league in Shane Long to keep us up. Hasenhuttl has also got to learn and quickly in this ruthless league. He's had his manager bounce, but now he needs to sort it out. Koeman was versatile with the 3/5 at the back formation, seemed to know when to play it and when not to and more often than not he got it right. Yet, Ralph plays it every week, meaning we pick up just two points from a run of fixtures against Crystal Palace at home, Burnley away and Cardiff at home. Just not good enough. Recent weeks has been like watching a Puel/Pellegrino team with the meaningless passing in the centre circle allowing the other side's defence to regroup. Not quite as bad as a Hughes one just yet though.

Fox sounds like he's having a terrible game, any need to change Harding from Tuesday?

Right I've learnt how the quote thing works now, you can delete the above post :L

The comment that i put above, was in reply to this. But the quote didn't appear up.

How come Esajas didn't play tonight and Carter did, even though we needed a winger with Puncheon and Lallana both out?. Your itk is just bs I reckon, Tyson was meant to sign 24 hours a go, he missed Carter, he also missed that Butterfield was flying into Switzerland to join the squad (surely he would of heard that if he get's told everything else) and he also missed Dickson and Richardson. Weren't you also the person making up the Stock rumor in January? about how he told you he was coming on facebook?. Are you known as 'Rocket Swaine' on 606?, because your a bit like him.