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He's played there TWICE for an international team! I suspect the team that beat England to a Nations Cup final have a bit more savvy than our desperate attempts to arrest the slide at the end of last season.

All slightly different cases for me. I just don't think Ali J is good enough. Too slow, not strong enough and inclined to switch off when it's not going his way because Iran are shit and the Dutch league is shit and he's used to being a big fish in a small, shitty pond. This season will go one...

That's an issue all round. Trossard can play no 10. Propper does for Holland. Gross is the man in possession. Andone wouldn't be out of place there. Of those only Propper CAN play centre mid / holding. Gross was hopeless at it IMO. The question is, does Propper want to? The other question is...

Deliberately didn't mention Izquierdo as I agree with you 100%. He was injured, not skiving off. Propper is a much better player than he showed because I've watched him for Holland and he pushes forward in that role. He was frustrated with the brakes on, no doubt for me. Montoya? Great...

You can't evidence at all that players go through the motions. It's only a feeling. I'm happy to name who I thought it was in my opinion. For me Propper slowed down, Montoya never bothered in the first place and Ali J and Locadia are either very poor or disengaged with CH fairly early in their...

I simply don't think you can say Hughton wasn't trying. That's just wrong. He seemed to put everything he could in to his ideas but ultimately they were wrong for that squad and that league and we headed off in to a vicious circle. I stand by the long article I wrote. Modern football is very...

I bet your parents hated you.

I've just checked the team v Wolves and the only new signing from that season even involved was Bernardo. It was a game where we absolutely had to get some kind of result. Against Newcastle, where we again had to get a result, the new players involved were Bernardo and Andone from the off and...

At Wolves only Izquierdo and Gross of the non-Championship team were left on the field at the end IIRC but I don't think there was a game completed with 100% of the promotion team on the field at the end. Happy to be corrected though. There was an increasing reliance on the Championship players...

Fair enough. I would have said Woves was very lucky. We robbed them that day. But any away win in the PL is hard won and I didn't think there was anything lucky about turning over West Ham.

We also "failed to beat" Newcastle at home, when we'd won up there. Frankly, what you've used up there is just clever phrasing to state a fact. Anyone who was at the Newcastle game will tell you that the first half was the worst performance since Sami Hyypia and one of the worst performances...

I hope not as well, if you don't want to repeat our cycle. He'd get you up within a season or two but all the evidence suggests the initial PL campaign will then be a backs to the wall effort with more experienced players to the fore. Of course, whoever you DO get in may not win anything at all...