Hemp POTT for me - ran her blood to water. Always willing to carry the ball and give England an outlet.

They looked poor yesterday and ACD ripped them apart (and we all know how shite he is).

Is he rich enough to buy us and install competent leadership?

To be fair it's worked out wonderfully for us. He won't get his starting job back now.

From what I've read Batth and Weimann weren't on higher salaries - we were the only team in the Championship willing to give them a chance at their respective ages.

'Goal contributions' is the new fancy term. We need a RW who either scores goals themselves (thereby creating space for teammates) or creates goals for Gueye and Ohashi. We still really, really need a set piece taker too - that's worth 10 goals a season on its own.

It's a problem Lancs have faced for years too - that Old Trafford pitch just doesn't deteriorate. It's too hard.

Easy yellow card for me.

Don't know if he's right: https://x.com/RoversXtra/status/1949105025327718496

Watching Bolton v PNE on YouTube. I know PNE have brought in a lot of new players, but they're no great shakes. Can see them really struggling this year.

I must be the only one that thinks Wharton is incredibly clumsy on the ball - to the extent where I'd be calling for a DNA test to prove he's Adam's brother. I have kittens when he's passing the ball along the line at the back.

We didn't see Beck worry the opposite full back much either to be fair.

Are you one of these people that also support Rangers / Celtic too? They couldn't warm to him either.

Maybe he's happy with a few of the Academy players stepping up. Tyjon still being here is clearly a big bonus. None of the CBs have disgraced themselves. They seem to like Montgomery as an option at RB and CM. Mullarkey-Matthews seems to have been catapulted into the fringes of the first team.

Wanted 90% of his business done before pre-season started. We're about to head back from our warm-weather camp and we have a gaping hole at RW and no depth at 10 and CM. He can't be happy.

And most of us complained he wasn't good enough - so to go from that to nothing leaves a massive hole.

Nah we clearly need another CM. Tavares and A.N. Other. You'll run Tronstad and Travis into the ground otherwise.

Genuinely hope Elche get relegated - what a bunch of shithouses.

Another stupid yellow from Buckley. Can we please, please sell him?

Someone said in the last game thread that he's a RB and hasn't even turned out for the U21s yet (so I assume he's 17/18?). That's when it clicked for me - I thought he was just quite poor, but he's actually a RB being played on the RW, hence why he looks like a fish out of water at times.

Alebiosu is v. quick too.

He'd be a superstar in L2. He's quite good technically and he's a good athlete. Playing against lesser players, with more time on the ball, he'd be a handful.

I understand why managers like him - he works his socks off defensively, but my god he's awful in the final third. I think he'd be a good LWB, I really do.

If Ohashi was a couple of yards quicker I could understand all the calls for him to start. As it is he just doesn't trouble defenders the same way Gueye does. I think he's an excellent option off the bench, and should obviously start his fair amount of matches in rotation, but Gueye is clearly the more impactful CF to me. He just causes chaos upfront. Defenders absolutely hate playing against him.

Gueye causing a defence all sorts of trouble again. 1-0.