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City-Villa is a win-win scenario. Someone has to lose points. We just need to beat Ipswich, there's not a bad scenario if we win.

Just beat Ipswich.

Villa aren't an excellent side? They are, IMO, one of the top 5 sides in the best league in the world, are likely to reach the FA cup final and have just reached the quarter final of the most prestigious continental competition. I mean... what are we doing here?

I'm in the, just get Mbeumo, camp now. He can fix two areas in one swoop (RW and ST) and has a fantastic fitness record. We can perhaps box smart with other positions, i.e signing a young player etc. I just dont feel like we will go for the obvious choice. I also think Brentford will price us out.

Spurs beat forest tommorow. They are on a mini high, bit of confidence back in them.

Froggy wins more battles on this forum than his midfielders do for his team tbf.

Was always a game we could lose. I know its not our identity but we should have sat back and countered. So long as we batter Ipswich, it doesn't matter.

Because sadly that's not the rules. Ref can't give a yellow from VAR.

Aye thats because we have 3 without pace.

Trippier getting caught all half. Apart from that we look OK. Ref is shocking. He's a classic homer.

That goal for Southampton will heap pressure on Potter. Lucky the season is nearly over.

That O'brien is an absolute unit mind. Perfect for Everton.

Everton were visibly knackered at about 60 mins. That's what 6 months of Dyche will do.

Haha. Oh well fuck em.

Silver lining but Everton getting beat a few times before the end of the season aint a bad thing. Want them on holiday for last game. Also Brighton, similar, need them with nowt to play for.

Fuck.

Pickford saving us but feel a city winner coming.

This is terrible from them. They've barely done anything.

He won a European cup at West Ham. The Man United gig was a poisoned chalice and I won't blame anyone for failing at Sunderland. I'm not saying he's a great manager but he's not a bad one.

Everton are so good under Moyes

Everton putting up a decent effort.

How dare he be asked how his team will improve. The fucking temerity of the journalist.

Because he has been asked to by an agent. It could well be Mileys people trying to drum up interest or it could be another club trying to unsettle him.

I agree and I'm not advocating a sale but let's play devil's advocate for a second.... 40 odd million (guesswork) pure profit in the PSR coffers might be the difference in us signing 2 more first team ready players. I also think that if we are to head to the top, we might not want to get attached to young players that come through the system. Have a look at Man City and Chelsea, they churn out players precisely for selling them on. I wouldnt want to have to make that decision, if a big offer came in.

Yeah it's a funny one that but what if someone puts 45m down like Forest did for MGW? We'd have to make a decision on whether he's truly destined for the top or not because it's alot of money to turn down. You can see why someone like Everton or West Ham might be willing to shell out for a top young English midfielder, for example. Like some have mentioned above, he should get plenty of game time but is he ready for that? If one of our midfielders gets injured, is Miley ready to step in for 15/20 games? A loan wouldn't make any sense either because we'd be getting the worst of both worlds.