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Such an over-reaction to this signing on here, he's a squad player who can cover the entire right hand side of the pitch when required... Adomah is out at the start of the season so if we play with wingers Elmohamady will be the natural choice. Yes we have Bree, De Laet & Hutton at RB... but realistically De Laet is still working on coming back from injury, Hutton is slagged off on here every week and Bree is still unproven We don't have an endless pit of money, we aren't going to be buying better players in every area of the pitch in this window as we don't have the transfer budget or wage budget to do this.

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Johnstone Hutton Chester Terry Taylor Jedinak Hourihane Lansbury Green Davis McCormack/Hogan So far for the Hull game this would be my starting 11. Unfortunately I can't see us having two wide players to play with Adomah now injured, Green has been our best player in pre-season and could work through the middle drifting out wide when required with Hourihane & Lansbury moving forward. Jedinak dropping in at the back when the full backs go forward. For me we look more effective with Davis on the pitch as he can hold up play.

Realistically when you look at the squad and even the amount of players available in friendlies this season you can see we should be looking to offload players before we bring more in. There are at least 5 or 6 players that we should be looking to offload, if we can get bring in 2-3 players on lower wages than some of the players we have offloaded we are already in a better position. Does anyone know how much Tony Xia can invest himself through sponsorship that would be taken into account on FFP? For example Recon are now going to be displayed on the match day shirts, is it possible that he could have sponsored the club indirectly with 200 million meaning that FFP is not a danger for us for the foreseeable future?

Not much help to you as I haven't been yet but doing Prague, Vienna, Bratislava in September but... Prague was one we wanted to do 3 days in, and then we had the option of 3 days in Vienna and 1 day in Bratislava or vice versa. We went with 3 days in Vienna as we were told there was a fair bit to do and see there. I've been to Budapest previously and there is plenty to do and see over a 4 day stay.

The memory of Richards and Lescott together at the back sends shivers down my spine

It is when we are setting the team up and performing in the same shambolic way we played last season. No Kodjia no clue... Again

This bloke is a shambles. Absolutely clueless. I could put a better shift in at CB than this guy. I don't understand why we are wasting our time playing him in pre-season.

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Finally exchanging contracts next week. 5% deposit with the mortgage spread over 35 years, hardly ideal at all but as a first time buyer I wanted to get out of renting. The house I have gone for I managed to get for a really good price, it's in dire need of a cosmetic work as the guy I am buying from has been there 40 years without modernizing. Looking to sell when my fixed term ends in 2 years for a profit and I can then remortgage and amend to 20 - 25 years at a much lower rate. All in all it's been a bit of a nightmare saving up a deposit whilst renting, the government schemes are all set up so badly for first time buyers. The main scheme they have is set up for first time buyers to buy new builds.

Where was Elphick last night? Is he leaving?

I think from what has been discussed over the last day with agents not having to bend over backwards on viewing times etc just shows how the market is no where near a collapse. There are more people looking for housing than there are houses available and this is only going to continue as the population grows. The only thing I've found since looking at buying (currently in the process of buying my first property), is that a lot of houses on the market are massively overpriced. The house we have bought was originally on the market for for 15k more than it was on the market for when I viewed. I then bought it for 10k less than that... That's a massive drop on its valuation. I am now looking at houses in our area (just to check nothing better appears) on the market for a lot more than the property I am buying that are not half as nice. They will then stay there for a while until the agent and seller realise their mistake. Greed!

Best deal we seemed to be able to get. Not going to miss the guy, never wanted to play for us.

I actually thought he played well last night, an absolute unit and won a lot in the air. Would be interesting to play him in one half of the game against Watford to see how he gets on against superior opposition (Watford and superior opposition just isn't right)

But the reason he could barely keep onside is because the midfield were slower than he was... he was making runs expecting the balls to be played but it was coming far too late. The same thing happend to Juan Pablo Angel in his first season for us. If we play to his strengths in a more attacking way he will score goals for certain. I think we will begin to see that at the start of the season when he plays with RMC.

It would be nice to think we have found a few gems so far already, in Kodjia he could easily perform at Premiership level. At the end of last season we were talking about a 25 million fee for him. If Hogan fires this season as he did for Brentford he could well be Premiership quality, West Ham were looking at him for 15 million at one point. If Grealish & Green step up this season they should be working towards being Premiership quality. No doubt about it though, huge investment will be required. But I am sure Tony already knows this.

You realise they were McCormack's stats and not Adomah's?

Some of these are hilarious

Gonna give it a go... (Elmohamady + Johnstone + (Whelan+?+?)/3 One midfielder out of 3 potential options will join Now it seem's 6 players are set to leave - Gil, -?, -?, - Amavi, -10, -10

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Not necessarily true, we could achieve promotion with a player of less calibre than Joe Hart He's very unlikely to sign, but if it does happen then it increases our chances by some way. It also increases our pulling power as has happened with John Terry.

I think there must be something in these Hart rumours or else Dr Tone would have dispelled them by now... The fact that he hasn't mentioned it despite the media speculation seems to imply that negotiations are taking place...

Is it just me or are the club missing a trick with their big pre-order of the new shirts in the fact they haven't yet released Jonathan Kodjia's new number... I would imagine he is on the back of the majority of fans shirts?! Very strange...

The problem with promoting youth is it's a gamble, and this season we can't afford a gamble not to pay off...