Alberto2005

There is also the argument that if Bruno and Botman had gone straight in they might have just hit the ground running anyway, there seems to be an assumption that giving them time definitely helped them (and it may have) but we'll never know for sure. With Tonali I don't think it's paramount to start him straight away just on the basis we have a lot of cover in that position at the moment.

Any advantage to be made with how long the refs are going to add on? 9 cards here in the opening Championship game. Could be a good one for cards with the extra time?

Looked bright but very raw.

Talk about milking it in his video ? "Once again sorry I can't talk about the documentary" x15.

I was in Belgrave the other weekend talking to a Villa fan, telling him how good I thought they'd do this season but inside thinking I hate your lot.

It's hard to see him not starting Anderson after this pre-season, but there's no way he's not starting Joelinton so I've no idea what he's going to do. I'd imagine he'll go Bruno, Joelinton and Anderson just about if Longstaff is slightly off the pace fitness wise.

Probably not too difficult with a few developers on the job, especially if you're desperate.

I'll be honest I'm already waiting for Burn to look leggy and be fuming we haven't signed a proper LB

Chelsea - Way more commercial revenue plus have brought in about £200-250m in sales Liverpool - Way more commercial revenue plus sold Henderson & Fabinho, also haven't spent much more than us Villa - Sold Grealish for £100m few seasons back

He's probably worth about 25-30.

Surely it wouldn't be that difficult to get the website taken down if they wanted? DHgate is UK isn't it?

We've also sold ASM though so technically only added 1 first team player to the squad. I don't believe we'll sign a RW, it seems fairly likely given the rumours for players like Livramento we'll go for a few defenders. I don't believe Arsenal will loan out Tierney either, or that we'll go for a left back this window.

Nah he doesn't count yet ?

You know on Football Manager when it tells you the amount of time you've been playing the game, and with it a caption for e.g 28 days, 17 hours, 3 minutes with a caption of "It's time to do some laundry..". That's how I feel about this thread, the constant Twitter shite, the hundreds of thousands of refreshes and for what? 2 confirmed signings ?

How are these sites allowed to do this btw? It's illegal to sell fake football shirts?

How is it no different to joining Man City? ? He's English, he will have grown up dreaming of winning the Premier League. Also the PL is a much better league than Bundesliga. Bayern and PSG are the same yeah, I'd even say the Bundesliga is definitely better than winning Ligue 1. I reckon Kane winning the Carling Cup with Spurs is more meaningful than a German title and cup double.

I just don't understand this notion of winning the Bundesliga, who cares really? Is he really going to look back on his career and think people said I wouldn't win trophies but look I won the Bundesliga. The only part I get is the CL part, maybe he thinks that's quite a plausible target.

Still find it a bit of an odd move tbh.

It's a little worrying that Manquillo doesn't appear to be moving on, I know we could be waiting to see if we get Livramento first. I think I'd rather keep Ashby than Manquillo tbh, but I understand he needs game time to progress.

Assume the midfield will be Bruno, Big Joe and Anderson opening game. I was thinking have we ever looked solid in midfield with both Bruno and Big Joe together? Feel like we always look vulnerable when they play together.

That's half the problem.

Mulling over whether to stay up for this, not as excited with the team we'll have out and I'm knackered because of the other two games ?

Must be WUM.

I think the friendlies have had a part to do with that.

When I see you're last post I expect at the very least some form of 4th tier embedded tweet, so this is very disappointing.