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Don't think it's being suggested that people rate him, quite the opposite really. People accept shit from him, hence if he played like Mitrovic did last night everyone would be signing his praises. Some seem to find it difficult to ever give Mitrovic any credit.

Link up play has been a part of a center forwards job forever. I mean if you think Mitrovic's contribution last night didn't have a massive impact on us playing well you're crazy. He certainly doesn't have the goal scoring ability necessary to be our main striker. But he can offer something very significant to the team.

I don't get it. After supporting Tiote for years past any meaningful contribution how haven't you learnt to stop being so wrong? Not much wrong with the second comment like.

Well if Clark isn't available then Mbemba is the best we've got. Glad Mitrovic is starting.

Napoli are well known but they're hardly a massive club like.

Just going to let the man get on with it and not piss and moan personally.

And then Rafa decided to play him in the same position Pardew did.... So he continued to play a player in midfield who'd been playing in midfield for the past several years?, I didn't say he couldn't do a job there. But he was a striker with quite a good record before the uneccesary obsession to move him so who says he cant go back?

Don't mind Gouffran up front, he is a striker after all. Seems a few don't realise he was always a striker until Pardew got his disgusting hands on him.

Don't agree with all the Mitrovic hate. Yes his finishing is shit, but nobody else can hold the ball up front and bring others into play. That's not always what you need, but it will be in this game. We just need to get the right players around him to feed off the knock downs and lay offs.

I like Perez, but we'd have struggled massively today if he'd come on instead of Mitrovic. We didn't have a single chance on goal until he came on, he might not be able to score in a brothel but he links things up and helps to create chances. Preferably it should be two up front with him included IMO.

Even better

Yeah its tedious to whine about people having a go at Villa, like I just said.

How about instead people stop fucking whining about people having ago at Villa?, its tedious.

Here's the Villa defence force out again

Villa are hilariously shit, fucking drown you cunts.

Changed the game for us, made the ball stick up front, winning headers and laying the ball off.

We have always seemed able to sign players without having our training ground in London and most if not all Sunderland players will live in Newcastle anyway

You know the side like? Just Gale in for Mitrovic?

https://www.villatalk.com/topic/16169-prematch-thread/?page=4 I love this stereotype of our support. The first sentance of that post is one of the most ridiculous things I've read. There's a reasonable amount of evidence to back up what he's saying, tbf. We're pretty shite at home and have some really minging results to show that - and the crowd have been either quiet or quick to moan for the majority of the season. Derby was an exception and hopefully the efforts of GallowgateFlags will get them pumped tonight. Really looking forward to this tbh. No idea what the score is gonna be. A win is massive; back to the top and nine points clear of 3rd ahead of what will probably be the pivotal section of the season. Aye our home form is poor in comparison to our great away form. But over a full season our home form alone would still put us on 95 points. I mean we've got almost as many points over 15 games at home as Villa have in their 31 games so far this season, so its a bit of a laugh for one of them to call us "turd" at home.

It been argued a million times, I'm not going to argue it again. What amazes me is that people still feel they need to bite at every mention of it. Nobody can have a go at the way Villa fans acted that day without some fucker feeling they need to tell us all how we shouldn't be bothered because we'd all do the same in their position. It's bizarre to be honest.

Imagine if say, in 3 or 4 years, Spurs were to come here on the last day of the season needing to win to stay up. I reckon we'd do the same. People still trying to justify this shit?, fucking hell, give it up ffs.

But surely wether it's deliberate or not is only relevant in deciding if the player should be punished? It wasnt going in until it hit his hand and you can't score with your hand, so how can it be considered ok as a goal just because he didn't mean it?

Ashley is making a mint out of us and has been from near enough day one. For starters, If he was interested in us being successful then our income would have been maximised instead of as much as he can get away with being diverted elsewhere. Things like stadium sponsorship and club merchandise. There's also the small issue of attaching pretend debt to the club accounts to the tune of £129m and the soon to be added £33m no doubt. All done to put bidders off and allow his exploits free reign. This is also a reason why Rafa and any ambitious type will never have any sort of full control here because once they know the true picture of diverting or missed income opportunity, they'll be on it like a short. He's making a mint?.. can you explain that in financial terms please? Because being relegated twice doesn't make you a mint like. The "fake debt" you're referring to are basically losses covered. I mean I get the whole "you can't owe debt to yourself" thing, but the fact is that debt is still money spent to cover losses. I mean the blokes a cunt yes, would I like him to suffer a heart attack? yeah I would. But the stuff you're coming out with is a fantasy.

Would definitely prefer to watch Mitrovic than Murphy, but can't fault Rafa for going with Murphy considering the form he's in.

Well yeah, we need another creative outlet. Not just for when he's injured but at home where he's often fairly successfully negated. He's never negated like, we're always worse without Shelvey.