Rhodes will be just what they need for next season's relegation battle.

A player like Rhodes wouldn't fit into our style of play. The dogs in the street know he's ineffectual playing up front as a lone striker like Graham does.

If you are judging modern day players on their sense of style and class you wouldn't be signing many. I used to wear jeans that had ripped a bit under my overalls. I've thrown them in the bin when they've got as bad as people wear to go out in today.

I can't say much about the other players on that list but the Daniels lad at Wigan was on loan at Rochdale and he was struggling in a team that came within an ace of being relegated. My Dale supporting friends weren't all that impressed.

He should have been booked for the dive.

I could have told you that Armstrong won't be coming here permanently unless something changed. How smart do you have to be to realise that ?

Quite a few commentators pointing out how much more physical this competition is than the Premier League. That never used to be the case. Have we become too soft ? I prefer a bit of cut and thrust in the game personally.

I remember him playing for Australia against England in the old inside right style of position when he was still out in Holland. He ran England ragged. First time I ever saw him play, I thought he looked class that night. Regarding Bruce, Ledley King with two bad knees was a lot better.

A team of grafters will only take you so far. You need the skill factor as well.

That's not a team that has me jumping out of my seat I'm afraid Mark. Centre midfield is too plodding and predictable. We need at least one of those three that can regularly get up and beyond the strikers. I can't see that in those three. Also I'm not sure Nyambe and Bell are creative enough to contribute enough from out wide for that system to work well. I agree with Mowbray we need to build slowly, a couple of good players every year. That's what Dyche has done down the road. He signs a couple of good players each year that go more or less straight into the first team. They'll do it again this close season. Piece by piece you end up with a good team. You could say Mowbray did that last year with Smallwood and Dack. The thing is these players we sign have to be good enough to hit the ground running and go into the first team right away. Signing back up players isn't the answer for us now we're playing at a higher level.

Those tattoos are just God's way of telling you that you have too much money.

Not good enough.

We won't be signing any released Premier League players. The wages for even the average to poor Premier League players are way beyond our means. That ship sailed years ago.

He looked a class act when he first got into the City team.

Ravel Morrison ?

How could they be fair challenges. Kane was wrestled over and thrown onto the ground ! I'm glad he got his own back in the best way possible at the end of the game.

If it is £2 million we won't be paying it.

How did Sterling miss that chance that was ruled out for the guy who passed the ball being off side ? My mum could have got that one on goal and she's in her 80's. He looked like he'd never seen a football before. How many times did he run down a blind alley and lose the ball ?

I was concerned with the way being on the receiving end of some really bad refereeing decisions seemed blow us off course. We lost our way almost completely for the rest of the game. We ended up playing walking football.

Walker's always got a mistake in him. I don't rate Young as a left back. Trippier was excellent, never made a mistake all night. Linguard was poor in front of goal, Alli started great but went quiet. Sterling is clueless, he dribbles when he comes to a pair of feet, too much head down. Rashford should start next time. Kane had two touches and won us the game, one a really good headed finish. At that point in the game it's easy to panic, he didn't. I couldn't believe how he got that amount of room, before that they were all over him like a cheap suit. Henderson was ok. The goalie only touched the ball once. Did the referee have his eyes painted on ? VAR is a joke. If Tunisia ever start a rugby league team there were a couple of good recruits out there. Play like we did in the first 20 minutes and we'll be a threat. Play like we did in the second half and we'll go out in the first knock out game.

I don't want us to be signing " back up " players at this point. We want players who can come into the first eleven and improve it.

Unless England surprise me tonight I've seen a few sides that look better than us. Even the sides that have lost games.

That's hard to believe. Most people would give their left testicle to play in the World Cup !

I never rated him Mike, he just got lucky.

They'll be back. Just not their day today.