Zero

Great piece of business.

That’s probably our best lineup, just without Botman and Isak. We should be good enough to get 3 points today. Come on lads

To be honest that’s why those organising parties shouldn’t impose that much rules that forced different parties to go the legal tribunal route.

We can also diverse the risk by splitting the budget among a few prospects

I have had a feeling that Howe told the team not to play with 120% effort against poorer teams to prevent injuries.

I was suspecting this for long - Howe reserved the intensity tactic for big games only

Great game, hope that finally lifts the team morale and start to click

Weird feeling Thats probably the best 45 mins we have been playing this season, considering it’s Man City We probably deserves a draw, yet I know we can’t

Yes but at also depends on how much PIF is genuinely willing to invest

We might get a surprise result here 2-1

Considering the amount of games Villa has to play this season, and they have lost players like Diaby and Luiz, I agree that Villa is our benchmark. We should finish above them.

End of season may be, but right now there is none in the market that is better than Howe. And to be fair - I know many won’t agree - the last game it’s the players that let Howe down. As a manager he probably could do more, say giving Tonali more minutes, but to me, I am impressed by what he did during half time - switching to 442 and giving Hall freedom to organise the attack. We have criticised his tactical flexibility last season and to my surprise I think he did show his willingness to change. Some good, some bad. The question probably should be why we always started the game in such a bad way, that we need to ride our luck with only 45 mins left. Pre match preparation? Our plan A (433) got found out? Bruno not up to his standard? We don’t need to repeat how the window let Howe down. I just want to point out that our players should share more blame than Howe. Schar has been fucking ridiculous this season, except for that strike, what did he do? Lots of mistakes, red card, missed the sitter. And Bruno/ Joe? Again just one good game so far? Trippier and Kelly telling us why they should be substitutes? Livra and Barnes probably are the only players that kept their required standard. Hall and Burn got a pass from me. Even Isak has been fucking disappointing. You can’t just blame the tactics or the players quality for the poor display on the pitch.

It’s fine that we have different opinion, but genuinely speaking, at work place, if your boss publicly started the war against you, like what Mitchell did to Howe, you should consider all your options, because you know your boss will never be your allies

To be fair we all know that one of them will go at the end of this season. Better change the question to who will be fired by PIF. No fans will support Mitchell at this moment but at the end of this season, our owner will decide whom he will support

I just want to add a point, whilst a DOF is not a scout, he is still the one that should have the final say on transfer, and that he is also the one that should be credited for, and accountable for, the transfer as a whole. If he decided that the team needs talents for the future, he will assign scouts to give him potential targets, thus formulate his long term transfer plans. If he decided that the team needs established stars, he will decide which one to go for and contact the agents, after considering the scouts reports I genuinely think we made sensible transfers under Ashworth era, before January of coz.

The latter might be due to squad hierarchy?

Surely Tonali has to be on by now?

WTF Schar

Looks like it’s our 433 being found out

Looks like we changed to 442

Wow

Hall is there

I start to wonder, did we have any change in the coaches last season? Could that be the reason why we deteriorate that much?

You do wonder why we couldn’t play like that season again despite having better players

Good lineup