And because of that they're getting far more sympathy in the press / from the football community than we do. We're literally in football purgatory - at least their nightmare is coming to an end.

8 or 9. Delap gittens branthwaite Bellingham Harwood-Bellis Trafford Wharton

They appear content to put in the absolute minimum so we don't fall foul of the authorities.

I can guarantee you there's no active plans for incoming Cashin to Blackburn. Players, Owners or otherwise

If we had delap playing the trophy would be ours now

Wont he be too old, in which case he would be very lucky to get more caps. The purpose of this tournament is development though. The club world cup feels like overkill and unnecessary but understandable why players choose to play in that over under age football. Who is missing, Delap, Gittens and Bellingham or are there more?

We seem to be playing the whole match without a proper CF, have we no one in that mould on the bench ?

Drogba is the prototype for me in these systems. Obviously there aren't many of him knocking about!

Buy back clause within sale apparently.

Exactly. You either need to be the build of this German forward or a Bellamy to be able to be effective on your own.

A few of them look streets ahead of their colleagues. Interesting that Liverpool are selling Quansah - a young, talented, English CB. With the Champions League registration rules you'd think they'd hold onto him for dear life. Anderson won't be at Forest for long, he's fantastic.

He's another small #9 playing upfront on his own. It's what I fear will happen to Leonard and has happened to Ohashi all season - they just don't impact the game enough. You have to be lightning quick, or incredibly intelligent at their size playing against two big CBs.

The Club world wank has really done this tournament shit. Fucking hate fifa

Stansfield will be lucky to get any more under 21 caps. He's shit

Premier League clubs? No. Championship clubs? Absolutely.

We don’t want penalties 🙈

I think it is partly due to the age cut out where you have 23 year olds playing, but its strange in that very few of those players I look at and expect many if any caps in the senior team. Our stand outs at those ages have already bypassed this age group. Livramento should get a decent amount of caps but even then, Trent is ahead. Elliott has a lot of competition and he is stand out for the under 21s. One or two others might such as Anderson, but equally the likes of Stansfield, Beadle and Cresswell would do well to get any caps.

Stansfield NOWHERE NEAR good enough. Can't hold the ball up. Doesn't run

All gone tits up since Morton came on. Stansfield work hard but poor.

It's endemic - he's just soft as shite. Anderson looks like he's playing a different sport to Morton. Also do we have anyone else on the bench for Stansfield? He's done nothing.

Can’t see a player who’s 27 and knocked about in Eastern Europe for the past 6 years catching the eye of many other clubs can you? Aside from a couple of goals in the conference league last year seems a bit of a no mark. I’m sure his wage demands will be 50% or more less than Danny Batth’s , the lad might turn out decent for us, but hardly had an inspiring career to date that will be catching the eye of other clubs. If Wolves thought he was up to it I’m sure they would’ve parted with the couple of million required by now.

The main area that needed work coming into the summer was the attack. We dont have enough goals in the team, we didnt even with Dolan and Weimann. If the next one in is a centre back, I hope it doesnt leave very little to strengthen the attack. We badly need a right winger, a striker and a number 10.

Lee Carsley should have been given the England job, it’s a travesty we went for a German on a short term contract. Trust in the process, Gareth almost took us to the promised land, the German never will.

To be fair, it was a bit of a mismatch but probably would have been avoided without the enforced change.

Why wouldn't someone else come in and gazump is now that they know he's available?