PaulC

I don't agree. Because of Ramsey's form he is being played out of position and despite have a poor game yesterday he still came up with a vital goal.

They were lucky yesterday! They are going well but its early days yet

Not a fan of Hodgson myself. He was the soft choice for the FA. But England will qualify and so they should.

That was fine against Man City but not at Hull unless we were happy to settle for a point.

I thought he cost £7 million I'm fairly certain it was 4.5. HairyHands said as much. The thing is that once the papers get 7 million in their heads there's no going back. No journalistic glory in saying "oh, actually it was only four and a half." ok

I actually think Bacuna will get better with more games. He's still new to the right back role and he's improving every game.

I thought he cost £7 million

That's very true

He offers more to the team than his goals and he stood up and did the business when it mattered at the back end of last season.

Its a funny old game. West Ham loose at Hull and win 3-0 at Spurs.

So contrary to general opinion Kozak is not and cannot be a like for like replacement for Benteke. The apparent reason we got rid of Bent was due to his inability to play in our system yet we've spent 7m on a forward who, eh, can't really be effective in our system and purchased two other forwards who seemingly aren't ready to play in our system. Not a bad way to spend a limited budget. Haha it's a good point to be fair. We created one decent goal scoring chance. Would have been 2 if Kozak had of controlled that ball from Agbonlahor in the first half.

He has had a poor half

This is an example of overreactions. Everton getting top 4 I suppose is possible but Liverpool title? C'mon. contenders I didn't say they would win it.

Yep as hes not figuring for Chelsea.

The concept of the formation is fine if Luna and Bacuna push up and play as wing backs. To be more attacking I'd have Weimann in for Sylla. Delph would not play that attacking midfield role but hes still great box to box.

Weimann maybe having a blip in form but he's still only 22 so no way would I write him off. Long term he will score more goals than Agbonlahor imo. Long term we will need to replace benteke because he may leave us after the world cup. Is Kozak really the answer. The Defence is ok. I don't think we can sign another centre back because we have an injury to okore, because then we will have 5 centre backs on our books. We need a quality playmaker to improve the team.

I guess if he feels he has more chance of breaking into the England team than the Belgium team then he may wait until he qualifies for England. Its up to the lad who he wants to play for. He could probably make the England team now but he wouldn't be good enough yet to break into the Belgium team.

No it was the forwards that kept us up last season. Our front 3 is the strength of our team!

Yes I do think Bacuna's set pieces are better

None of Benteke, Weimann or Agbonlahor played in the 4-0 thrashing by Tottenham to suggest any of those 3 are left out is ridiculous.

I doubt it as he has a good attitude. Hes still young and everybody has a blip in form. He has also had to play with different players this season. With Benteke back, hopefully his form will get better.

Yes impressed with him once again yesterday. Him and Delph look good.

But surely with his height and presence he should be able to win more headers than he does and hold the ball up. Also his first touch is atrocious. Yes you expect him to be able to do the basics like control a football. Its easy to put the blame on the midfield who I think did ok today. He miscontroled a ball maybe twice today. I was watching him closely against Hull and he really was not as bad as people are saying. He is not quick so counter attacks will not work with him. He is a big physical forward who thrives when crosses are delivered to him. He doesn't work with our wingers and we don't have a designated attacking mid in the squad. Ok guess it was the area of the pitch that he did miscontrol that highlighted it more. He's going to need time to settle into our way of playing.

Good point. We weren't great at Norwich, we didn't play well against City either and yesterday, yet we have 7 pts from those three games. Wait until we start playing.

Yes he has definitely helped make our defence stronger. Pick of the signings this summer so far.