ROTTERDAM1982

No he's not........inherited a team at Porto, alienated everyone at Chelsk, and spent £100m at Spuds and still played boring football, no thanks.

Why?.......one of the best records or an England manager, master tactician, and very positive.Can't be worse than we have now surely?

Hoddle.

Joe Ledley?....bloody hell, would'nt mind Kris Commons though.

Pilkington is 26, would cost £3m?, would want a 4 year contract and probably at least £30k per week, that;s a total outlay of at least £9m for a 4 year contract, give him a 5 yr contract it would cost £11m, now i am willing to guess in 3/4 years time you would get more than £4m more for Ince than you would for Pilkington.That is what we should be aiming for, goalscorers always command more. Lamella cost £30m, is'nt he the same age?

Its an investment.

Bennett will be a better FB than Lowton.He has more pace, and is slightly better positionally. Going on to who could manage instead of PL, then i would'nt be disappointed if Hoddle came in.

In total, you are buying a player of Ince's potential, for a total fee of £15m.Why can't we afford that?

I can't see Ince going to Lplop yet, maybe in 3/4 years time. For his development, he needs to get regular 1st team football, he will get that at VP.He is available for about £3/4m in Jan, and apparently about £50k per week.Now if you give him a 5 year contract thats an overall outlay of £15m.Would that be a gamble or not?....not in my eyes tbh.

How about buying a quick player to play wide, who has brains........Ince maybe?

Pilkington?.....Christ, no.Limited ability, no pace, 26?. I'd rather buy nobody, or spend £6/7m on 2/3 players.No more £2/3m players please.

In my view dodgy, Baker is too much of the focus of attention.He is, for a CH still very young, and i think he will develop into a good solid CH, say alongside Okores, but he needs a steady , fast LB alongside him, and a better defensive midfielder than Westwood in front of him. Our major problems are up front.Devoid of confidence/ability/effort, we are in a desperate position of having only one player in the team at any one time who looks like scoring.Today Albrighton, Tonev, Weimann, Westwood, Delph, and then Bowery, never, ever looked like scoring, against a team like Stoke. Man Citeehh, can't defend, but they can score.

The only one who looks like scoring in the squad atm.

He cost £2.5m, hes 22/23 in his 1st season, i'm not going to get too disappointed if he fails.What i am disappointed in , is the fact that we expect/want/hope this signing to make a difference. PL has made too many signings for the future, he needs to insist on backing now.

I can't see wages being a problem now. We need to step up now, no more £2/3 m might be's, we need 2/3 £5/6/7m players to come in now.We are not Wigan, who need to buy to sell, we need to be where our main competitors, Everton, Spuds and Noooocastle are.

Baker and Clark as a partnership struggle, the whole back 4 without Vlaar is too inexperienced imho.

He was'nt that good last season, just talked up a lot. As someone said earlier, what are his abilities?...hes an ok passer at best, hes not physical or quick, hes not energetic, and does'nt mark his man.Hes a sub at best.

Incredibly poor again today, at least he tried to be more positive the 2nd half, but poor technique.For me replace Westwood wit a good midfielder and we are half way there.No energy, no pace, no ambition, out of his depth unfortunately.

Yes, een poor this year.Saw enough in his game though that suggests to me hecould be a very good player.

Bennett played well against good opposition though, which seems to indicate to me its a concentration issue. He will be a good LB, i hope its with us.

My point is Con, Valencia did'nt beat Bennett last season, one on one, as easily as he beat Luna today.Maybe , just maybe, we should have cut Bennett a bit more slack.

He got beat every time by whoever was attacking him, and gave the ball away, and failed to get into position for their 3rd, so how was it Bakers ault over Lunas? Gabby was shit again yet again today.

Luna was'nt at fault for the 3rd goal?.....got caught half asleep. Baker and Clark would'nt be in the 1st team bar for injuries/suspensions, so not going to judge either atm tbh.Clark had a good game today though i thought.

Bennett played well against Valencia in both games last year, Luna was absolutely woeful today.Bennett would have been slaughtered.

£8m for a 30 year old, probably on £80+ K per week. No thanks rather buy Ince and Ings, up and coming, who will become better players.