Baird of the land

You really think he's gone one of highest paid at WH to peanuts here

We've taken on his big wages for 2 years and given west ham money, that's laughably horrible.

Maybe Spors has bet money on West Ham getting promoted

No a saints fan that wants a midfielder to go forwards not sideways and backwards

Super depressing signing.

Vranckx career seems to have stalled somewhat. 7 goals in his 3 years and then none in 4.

Yep at this level going for another sideways plodder over a box to box type is going to cost us points.

Hoping you mean jwp is past it, not that we’ve signed the crab.

Might as well bring back Joe Aribo then we'll truly have the full set of crabs.

Why if we're being told we should accept an over the hill free crab as a replacement for Charles.

I expect us to reinvest a significant proportion of the transfer fee into signing someone with similar dynamism to Charles. I doubt if THB leaves you'll be championing signing Jannik vestergaard on a free.

So subs have no impact on games. Jander also didn't start multiple games during the winning run so guess he's not being missed either. Just a shocking coincidence our unbeaten run coincided with the ability to rotate excellent quality CM's as starters and bring on the other as a quality impact player.

Maybe the some who didn’t rate Charles and think jwp is ok are the same delusional people. i certainly made clear how badly we’d miss Charles and have missed him, and think jwp is in no way a suitable replacement.

I think it’s pretty clear if he comes it won’t be as bragg’s replacement, it will be at expense of a replacement of Charles. So that’s my consideration to be so firmly against, as a real like for like Charles replacement is essential.

I fully expect to now spend the season shouting in frustration while our crabs don’t run with the ball and instead recycle the ball slowly.