Lighthouse

I don't see anyone coming in and offering £40m and a massive wage increase to someone who's just had a decent loan in League 1. If people are going to keep pointing to JJM's wages as a reason he made a good decision, Dibling is the same age and probably earning treble that.

How is it daft, they're about as close and obvious a comparison as it's possible to make? They were born barely a month apart, poached by Chelsea within six months of each other. One has just made a £40m move to Everton, whilst the other is on loan in League 1, again. None of those other players have the talent that Dibling and JJM apparently do. They might have done well for our youth team but nobody like Chelsea ever rated them enough to come in and nick them. I'm going to flip that last question round and ask who it is you feel we've managed badly? Generally speaking, the players who've come through our academy have ended up at a level which suits them, we've not ruined their careers. Dibling was good enough for our first team, we never sent him on loan, so I don't understand the relevance anyway.

WTF, Have you literally just forgotten that Tyler Dibling exists? Even Livramento would be a reasonable comparison, for a player who left Chelsea's youth system for first team football and is now 22 and playing Champions League football and in the England team. We've developed our young players as well as we can. The problem, as has always been the case, is that the vast majority of them aren't, and will never be, PL standard. Those who are good enough will play for our first team, as has been shown by Robinson and Dibling.

Yes you can, it was a silly, short term decision that’s completely derailed his career. Despite clearly being very highly rated, he will most likely earn far less in his career than the likes of JWP, Targett and Dibling.

I think Downs, Stewart and Archer are more than capable of surpassing the 19 goals managed by Adams and Mara two years ago.

There are laws against taking hostages. He was a decent focal point but he’s not Drogba and didn’t do anything that Downs and Stewart aren’t capable of. Archer maybe not have the same physicality but his movement off the last man is good and his finishing better than Adams. If he does lead the line, we need to be playing the right balls at the right times, not just booting it at him from our own half.

Christ knows what he'd have done to Sugawara.

The idiot isn’t even a talented dancer of any sort. It’s like some guy setting up a YouTube channel called, “Mr Soccer Skills,” then unironically uploading a video of himself doing five keepie uppies and sending it to everyone he knows.

Feels like this fixture has been played on a Tuesday night since the dawn of time, so feels a bit weird having it come up on a weekend. I’d make two changes to the personnel and hopefully one gigantic change to the tactics. Bazunu Mads Stephens THB Jelly Jander Charles Fellows Azaz Fraser Archer

Sadly this does seem to be the case, judging by many of the statements from people I would assume to know a bit more. Poor feller, RIP.

We looked terrible because we were playing like a League 2 team hanging on for a 1-1 draw at Anfield, in injury time of a cup tie. Regardless of the number of defenders, we were just booting it hopefully into their half with no cohension.

Nobody is slating him for playing a back four.

You want people to name an incident that didn’t happen? What was it Maldini said, ‘if I have to make a tackle, I’ve ready f**ked up’?

Strongly disagree on that. He had very little to pass to and was left exposed quite a few times. Pompey played it long down his side a fair bit but I felt like he dealt with most things fairly well. I’d say he was one of the better players, along with Baz, Stephens, Charles and Fraser.

TBH it looked like what it was. A team in transition with a bunch of new players, against a more cohesive unit which was used to playing together in this division. I’d say this was pretty much the worst fixture to have after a frantic end to the transfer window and an international break. I like the team we started with on paper but I’d probably make two changes for the next game; Jander and Jelly for Downes and Manning.