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We wanted Truffert. He chose Bournemouth

Just to reiterate, Dave backed Benitez to the very end. His views on managers of this football club are worth less than quite literally anyone who's ever logged into this forum

Funnily enough, I think whoever sanctioned that signing should be given a new contract

You wouldn't if you'd seen him play for the U21s

Doesn't really work like that. You can't buy a player from a team who don't want to sell mid-season and there's a whole host of variables about who we want to sign. Wages, transfer fee, agent's fees, age of player, contract length, player's willingness to join, availability mid-season, scouting...

Everyone can have their own opinion, but the way I look at it is this... The expectation levels before Moyes came in was that we avoid relegation because we had a very poor squad for reasons we all know about. Since Moyes arrived we've had one transfer window, in which we spent the 13th most...

The only way he doesn't stay is if we are relegated - that's literally the terms of the loan

Going to say this at the risk of some absolutely ferocious vaulting in years to come, but (and I've only had the one pint so far this evening) I'm convinced he's going to end up being the best signing we've made since Lukaku. Ndiaye was still playing for Borehamwood at the same age Dibling is...

Bit of a concern about his use of the ball. There's shades of the bits I don't like about Alcaraz about him in these early showings. In fact there's shades of some of the good bits of Alcaraz's game about him too. It's very, very early to be making any sort of judgements about him and, to be...

So Dyche should have been doing far better with the squad he had then? Glad you can admit this now

Ndiaye, Branthwaite, Gana, Keane, Dewsbury-Hall, Grealish (as far as being able to start), Alcaraz, Coleman That's 8 of the first team squad, David

Grealish isn't a 10. Pretty much all of his best work in his career has been from the left. Moyes was asked about Grealish as a 10 this week and he said more or less the same

I found myself nodding along with this post. I think with Barry, there's been some stuff there that you could say were genuine attributes but I couldn't really see where his goal threat was ever going to come from. The progress is slow, but there's definitely some progress on the goal threat...

I was waiting for someone to say this tbh. His body language has been the same every time I see him play, including at Southampton. To begin with, I thought this might be an issue of some sort, but I think it's just the way he is

Yep, unlike Grealish who wants to stay wide, Dibling v clearly wants to come infield and drop into number 10 type areas meaning he needs an overlapping right back. Pienaar was exactly the same, but he had Baines 🤷