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For **** sake, poor lad. What a terrible time for him to get that injury again. Another bright prospect hampered by injuries and another player light for the season.

If you want to turn that around you can say that West Ham had a settled side, on a high from getting promoted and being back in the Premier League and were playing at home in front of a very vocal crowd. We on the other hand are on our 3rd manager in 3 seasons with an entirely different back 4 and other new players, plus a couple of injuries. I thought we'd lose before we played them and if you want to show any patience, you have to accept that there will be hiccups along the way. Indeed yeah I see that point too, I thought playing all our preseason games away from home would have possibly helped set us up for playing our first away game. It was discouraging that Collins and Winston Reid managed to stop us from creating 1 decent chance though. Just saying, if we lost and made some chances, it would have been a little more encouraging. Thought that game highlighted what a lot of fans have said about the lack of strength in our squad, the bench was appalling, no real game changers. Image if we got 1 or 2 injuries to any of our starting 11 that day, we'd likely be in a right pickle again.

Is it me, or do the fans see the danger of situations in regards to our team a lot quicker than the board does? Last 2 seasons being a prime example and the worrying thing is, we need a few more players bad. Squad is so damn light and the quality is few and far between. Seems to be a lot of reliance on the "kids coming good." I mean, we didn't even create 1 good chance vs West fcukin Ham. West Ham, who were shite at home in the championship and only started 1 new signing I think (Diame). I hope I'm just over-reacting and that by September 1st we a have a few more decent players in the squad.

Guess the quote "“It’s difficult because of the prices and that’s a hard thing" sums up the reason why we are not been linked with players, simply because we cannot afford any. Hope I'm wrong, our squad is relegation battling fodder at the moment, very light and low on overall quality. Pull your finger out Randy!

Not that encouraging... Don't sound like Randy is eager to spend on players. Express and Star

Haha, of course he is. The only thing Mark Lawrenson knows about Villa is that if Darren Bent is fit, he scores goals.

We don't exactly have midfielders in abundance that we can stick at center back if that came to it. If Dunne goes, we have 1 experienced centre back in Vlaar, it would be wrong to put that much weight of expectancy on our younger players for a whole season. Recipe for disaster. We sell Dunne, we need to replace, simple as that IMO. We've already lost Collins and Cuellar and replaced them with 1 player. Can't think of another Premier League club that has only 1 "experienced" centre back.

Do we though? We struggled when injuries hit to name a solid partnership last season when we had more CB's at the club. If Dunne goes and we don't replace we only have Vlaar (new to the league), Clark (not played a lot at CB in recent years) and Baker (still reasonably inexperienced at the top level). If one or two get injured, we would be screwed.

I'd be all for selling Dunne if we've got a good replacement coming in. We can't rely on just Vlaar, Clark and the youngster Baker for the whole season.

Sick.

A little, considering the time of the year now, less than 10 days to go of transfer window, we don't seem to be getting linked to many players at all anymore. Come on, lets get a move on! On paper, we have one of the weakest squads in the league in terms of quality and numbers. Needs bolstering bad.

Only at a good price. I don't think he'd be able to make an instant impact. He looks like at the moment the sort of young player that shows glimpses, but throughout games is largely anonymous. We got a few of those players that do that. Heard he had a good game yesterday though. I would rather someone who could make an instant impact in the Premier League, don't think Ince would.

Faulkner was commentating with Jack Woodward on the NextGen game earlier this week, and was talking about expecting in's and out's before the window closes.

Whilst we should get rid of Hutton and Warnock, I think this trade to buy thing should come to an end for now after those 2 sales. We are really low on numbers, simply buying one player and selling another isn't going to help us when players get injured or we need to rotate. When it comes to experienced players, we must have one of the smallest squads in the league.

One thing is for sure, we need some f**kin players, quite a few. Our bench today was unbelievable weak. Our bench would look weak in the championship, let alone the Premier League. Back the manager Randy, otherwise I fear even the talented Lambert will fail to keep us in the league. Sorry about that lack of optimism, just saying it like I saw it today.

Moose (Ian Abrahams) from TalkSport saying James Milner will be a Sunderland player by Friday. That guy does chat some shit! On the tiny weeny off chance he is available, I'd hope we'd be in for him.

No thanks, especially not on loan. Plays like a headless chicken. If we were to get him, buy him, not loan him, but would rather we didn't get him at all.

£3.5m for Ireland? Wouldn't read too much into that ITK twitter account. I like Ireland, he works his socks off now and has more quality than anyone else in our squad. He started to show what he was about under Eck, and is showing it in abundance pre-season under Lambo. Looks like Lambo rates him too. Big player for us next season.

Bargain buy, especially if he is valued at £9m in Holland. Nice of Vlaar to stick a £3/£4m buy out clause for a prem club! Great business.

He is more dynamic but he's also more unreliable and error prone, takes longer vacations without informing the club, needs agry management classes and needs to learn how to pass a ball over 5 yards. That would be quite refreshing, our current CB Collins needs to learn how to pass it under 200 yards.

Sky Sports: VIlla Move Off For Now Here are the quotes.

What a load of shite, Villa should have either said to him they weren't gonna pursue the transfer further or just paid up. Surely we could have waited if we have no money for wages right now instead of inviting to Villa Park the other week.

Stevie Ireland is **** awesome! He's got class and he's everywhere in this match. Early signs good for the new season for him.

£4m is better than nothing next summer, I'm just happy someone is interested in signing them. Wouldn't surprise me if there wages together would cover 3 or 4 new signings. Doubt the likes of Vlaar and co won't be on anything close to those two.

We'll see, James Nursey said the other day that these two were signing for Sunderland too. Hope it's true. Massive loss on transfer fee's we paid though.