Some good points made above. I am willing to accept that we are in fact a team in transition and that this explains some of the patchy and tactically naive performances we have seen recently. We have turned over Jota, Docherty, Cavaliero, Costa and others, however I believe we have acquired players at least as good or better than those we have shed. Just needs patience for them top develop I guess which unfortunately has never been one of my strong points!

Certainly good signs V Palace though, we just had a more serious look about us. Nouri excellent and Samedo starting to look like the class player he is, good solid performances all over the pitch.

Still don't like the Moutinho/Traore sub combination though.