David Kelly

Has Tonali played a good game for us yet? I've seen flashes of his ability but I'm yet to see a good game. I thought against Brighton when we were dominating he would shine but he was hardly involved at all. We need more from him to justify his place in the team let alone playing a full game.

I thought Osula looked promising. His movement was pretty good (something I also noticed at Fulham), we just didn't have anyone who seemed willing or able to pick him out. The one (less than) half chance he had, he made a good fist of and he looks pacy and quite strong for his age.

Going to this one so I'm hoping for the same as last time I went. Ant & Dec conducting the singing out the back of the stand. Oh and a 4-1 away win.

Be a shit load of rumours* until about 4pm when the closed for business tweet comes from whatshisname from Sky. *All of these rumours will be pushed by sites looking for clicks.

Yeah I totally get all of that and it could change in 24 hours, although that seems unlikely. But at this moment its extremely disappointing and you can't imagine Howe and the players are looking at it any differently. I've no desire to see us panic and go for players who don't improve the first team btw and I don't think a lot of the other players mentioned for centreback do improve the team. Not sure the same can be said for the right wing mind.

More disappointing though given where the club is supposed to be at now? I was extremely disappointed when we signed Hendrick mind. Even taking Ashley into consideration.

I've been positive throughout this summer but at this point, It's hard to conclude that this window is anything other than a clusterfuck now. We've lost two of our most promising young players while replacing nothing more than players we allowed to go for free. If we have our first choice starting 11 we still have a very good team and a bench that can actually make a difference, but we all know in this game, if you stand still you actually go backwards. And I'm not even sure we've stood still at this point. Whatever the reason behind this, it's not a good look and it sends us into the season on a down note straight away. It's difficult to believe we will be in the mix for top four as things stands and without that, we had better get used to the idea that we are going to lose our top players because Bruno, Isak and Gordon are good enough to be expecting to challenge for trophies and if the project stops looking like it's heading anywhere. So disappointing.

It's rare that I do agree with Souness but he's right on this one. Actually Bereton could have had 3 yellow cards in the incident. One for pushing Fab, one for putting his head in and one for simulation. Schar could arguably had two as well mind for pushing him and then putting his head in too.

Shirley Chelsea can't sign any more central defenders?

It was getting close to lunch time and I do love a kinder.

Has there ever really been any links to us being interested in Mbueno? I know there hasn't been any/much talk about this kid either but I've seen Mbueno linked by a lot of people but not actually reporters saying anything. It seems to me that people have got him in their head the same way as they had Paquetta last season when there was never any interest from the club. I'd imagine the fact that Brentford's new attacker is out til the end of the year wouldn't make signing him easy either.

Aye this is totally the case with a lot of our support.

TBF loads of our supporters were wanking themselves silly over the prospect of spending £30m on Eitike when he hadn't done much more than this kid at a similar age in a much inferior league. Wilson is clearly staying, possibly forced by his current injury, so that means we need a third choice striker. We aren't going to spend £40m on a third choice striker and a player of that calibre wouldn't come to play third choice. Not being in Europe makes that even more certain. So we have to be looking at a prospect. Admittedly this lad's goal scoring hasn't been dynamite so far but he's been playing in an awful team at a very young age. We (and apparently Liverpool who have also looked at him) must have seen something, we aren't in the business of signing shite for the sake of it anymore. It's not a thrilling signing but clearly one we need and potentially a very promising one.

I like that he's too thick to realise the other supporter he's invented is from a team who's also in the championship so would, if he existed, have had reason to know something about their players. If it wasn't in fact all just made up in the first place.

Aye. It was a slightly scuffed finish but for us at the time, the goal as a whole was like Brazil at their height.