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It's facinating how many second balls end up with uncontested Villa possession.

Oh yea First goal in front of your own crowd then..?

Great finish. What a way to score your first goal for a club

No way even a City or PSG will pay £100m for a 32 year old striker.....surely?

At nearly 24 time is definitely not on his side. Players that hasn't properly broken through by that time are extremely unlikely to do so. A handful of good performances during a spell that lasted 2-3 months back in first half of 2019 is most likely looking like that, a good spell for a very average player that was playing in a well drilled team that was in good form. There's other players I'd like to see go before him, but we don't have the luxury to pick and chose whom to sell, so if anyone is willing to give £10m for him I'd say that's good money* based on the last two seasons. *for a team that would invest the money again to improve the team.

Really? Commentator on the highlights I was watching said that they were checking VAR to see if Soucek touched the ball or not to determine whether it was offside or not, so just assumed that he was.

Just watched the highlights. Has anything changed with the offside rule the last couple of years? I don't understand why the 1-1 goal stood. Even if Soucek didn't touch the ball, isn't he an active player in that scenario by blocking the path for Lascelles?

Not winning at home to West Ham should be a real concern to those who cares. One of the few teams (can only think of them and Burnley at the top of my head) that we've consistently done well against the last few seasons, mostly due to the pace in our side compared to a very slow West Ham (and Burnley) squad.

I can easily believe that, even without bonuses (if those bonuses even exists for the players). Villa will probably over take us next year and Wolves will gain significantly.

I think so too. It won't ever get better for him here than it did last season, and even if the future isn't with Arsenal you'd think he would be aiming higher than us now.

Sorry, that was below the belt BUT, he doesn't have any specific qualities that leads me to believe he will add anything that we do not already have in the squad.

Tom Davies is a nothing player imo. Might as well have kept Colback as he has the same technical and physical "qualities".

Did Allan play under Benitez at Napoli? Edit: I should learn to fucking expand images/tweets

Have it on good authority that you only received £15m for him the year he was sold.

Can only re-emphasize what others have said that if you "count" it like that, you've got to consider all other installments due this year for players like Beek, Diallo, Telles, Maguire, Fernandes, Bissaka, James, Fred & Dalot brought in the 4 previous seasons as well.

I was certain of relegation last season, but turns out as long as we've got ASM & Wilson fit for the main part of the season we will scrape through on individual contributions. If one of them gets a bad long term injury or is sold before the window closes without an equally good replacement lined up we're down.

Even worse than Steve Harper up top

Anybody stupid enough to pay for travel and tickets to see a Bruce lead, Ashley owned Newcastle in 2021 deserves all the laugh and ridicule they can get.

Man Utd need a trophy bigger than the league cup this season, and be right up there if not win the league or OGS is done. What an amazing team he can field now.

Points deduction is a sweet bonus imo.

I put 8. I want the club to fail so hard it becomes a financial liability for Mike Ashley. Only way he will sell. Don't care if a chancer buys us and we continue to plummet down the league system. If they fail the likelihood that the club will be sold on again is much higher than persisting with Ashley in the hope that a mega rich sugar daddy appears while we continue to aim for 17th with the odd relegation and promotion here and there.

50/50 isn't it? Only two players in their squad is 31.

Did Cardiff ever end up paying for him?

There's been a lot of good signings. Don't really disagree with any mentioned here so far (well, Bruce excluded) in their own rights, whether it's for return on the pitch like Shearer, decent return in that they were sold on for a lot more than what we paid like Sissoko, picked up for low fee & played a vital part in the squad for many years like Krul.

Remember the first games where he started as a right winger? Our level of scouting back then, even by todays standard must have been woeful.