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He seems to be in a different country every week so it would appear he's not involved with the team in any way.

Plus he must have somewhat recovered from injury as I remember him posting a picture if himself on a treadmill a couple of months back.

Is it possible that he was injured but has been ousted from the squad after he's recorded? Still doesn't doesn't explain why he's all over the place though.

Hope we weren't relying on potential money from the sale of Benteke funding our summer spending. No one's going to be buying him now so Lerner will have to invest or we're in deep trouble. Also if the plan was for Benteke to stay i'm sure Lambert would have been eyeing up signings that help get the best out of him, that will have to change now aswel.

Agbonlahor is a doubt for Saturday due to illness according to physio room. Probably means Tonev will start but that surely leaves a huge opportunity for Robinson to get his debut off the bench on Saturday.

Played well again today. Seems to play better when we lose. Mainly because we always lose when we have plenty of possession and actually look decent on the ball. We only seem to ever win when we have minimum possession of the ball.

Maybe he's signing for United next season and didn't want to upset the fans 

Gabby and Weimann just havn't been good enough. Shame we havn't really got anyone better to replace them.

Is benteke trying not to score?

Gabby goes down way too easily and it's cost us

Bring lowton on and put bacuna in weimanns place

Maybe Lambert was worried he'd have another good season in Denmark and someone else would come in for him or his price would rise.

Best get him in on the cheap before other teams want him and develop him here for a season.

Although that doesn't explain why he isn't being sent on loan or given some game time here and there.

It's was only a months loan I think, so that's probably why he's back foremost

Agree, El Ahmadi was pretty decent yesterday, certainly deserves more than a 5

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Agree that he could probably do a better job as a defensive midfielder than anyone else in the squad at the moment.

Who's Falcou? Falcao's cousin?

Having Bennett in front of Bertrand means Delph doesn't have to do that job, so hopefully Delph can concentrate more on getting forward

Lambert has confirmed he's going to open contract talks with Albrighton, story and quotes from him in the Birmingham Mail.

Just one of the reasons we are in this mess, if Paul Lambert hadn't wasted 3.5m on this liability, alongside another 2m on KEA, 2.5m on Tonev and 500k on Jordan Bowery we wouldn't be in this mess.

I'm not surprised that Randy Lerner doesn't want to invest into the club anymore when PL is just wanking away the transfer kitty on players who would struggle to grace the Championship.

So you're saying Paul Lambert knew these players were gonna play badly when he signed them? No manager buys players knowing they aren't going to be good enough.

Basically, if Vlaar doesn't play, we lose.

Could quite easily have had a hat-trick today off of Albrighton's crosses alone

How many does benteke need

Has agbonlahor even touched the ball this half?

Francis calling albrighton, weimann

The lack of attacking flair is due to lambert.

But those 2 goals are hardly Lamberts fault are they?

Hit that first time please gabby