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There's no point comparing them either. Two different eras with different methods, knowledge and technology. KK, SBR, Benitez & Howe will all be remembered as great managers and great people in my book. Roeder and Houghton maybe not so great managers, but great people.

Elegance like a rolls royce, engine of a Toyota, precision of a BMW and grill of a Lada.

Wow

Think they'll change positions constantly.

Gutted for Anderson. Done everything right and doesn't get rewarded. Strong team though. Can't wait for KO.

Still the best league in the world without question. One half of 4 games without a goal doesn't change that. Everton should already been 3 goals up against Fulham.

Don't know why but hearing the commentator talking about "de Paul Dummett" really amused me.

Both Howe and Emery are great managers. There's so many variables to me it's impossible to say who is the better. It's not without reason Emery was our first choice as he at the time at least was on paper the safer choice. In hindsight I am glad we ended up with Howe rather than Emery, but that's purely down to his personality and him sticking it to the useless football media who wrote him off after one poor season with Bournemouth. Emery makes Villa a much more likeable club. I hope they do well under him...as long as its not at the expense of our success

Miggy showed last pre-season when he all of a sudden started scoring regularly what was to come.

He's still better as a striker.

Can't believe so many are willing to shoehorn Trippier to left back after watching him play for us the last 1.5 seasons on account of a few appearances for England and 1 (?) assist. Are you the same people who wanted to play Isak on the wing so we could play both him and Wilson at the same time last season?

They are all safe bets in one way or another, to the extent a player purchase in football can be. Same as all our signings since the takeover. We have players now that can from the core of the team to set the standard off and on the pitch and be here for a long time. Hopefully we're in a position soon to move fringe players on for decent fees that allows for more wriggle room within the constraints of FFP so we can see more exciting high risk, high reward type of signings.

It's like he's prepared for the questions ahead of time and knows exactly how to answer them every god damn time

Was on the bench for Leverkusens game against Marseille on Wednesday, so they are clearly keeping him safe in case we come in with an offer.

End of last season Pre-season 45 minutes against Benfica 61 minutes against Göztepe 71 minutes against Reading 28 minutes against Bournemouth (subbed in at 61st minute) 46 minutes against AZ - seems to have been subbed due to knee injury Edit: annoying as fuck but don't know why I can't delete the duplicated fixture list from last season. Post was supposed to end after the screen shots from the Southampton forum. Edit edit: but to answer the actual post I quoted - he still seemed to be building up match fitness. Hopefully the injury thing was just a precaution rather than something serious.

Harsh on Manquillo who's arguably our second best right back.

Ashworth buying all the biggest FM 2022 talents.

He's at the age now where he's more valuable to us than what any remotely sensible club should be willing to pay for him.

Would send a terrible message to Anderson and rest of the youth set up. Coming back to pre-season training in best condition in the squad? Go on to have a brilliant pre-season, scoring against tough PL competition? Here - go on loan for the season at Plymouth. He'll start for us against Villa unless something unusual happens in the remaining games before the season starts.

Will always remember him fondly. Very unique player who was a joy to watch playing in the b&w shirt. He's clearly the sacrificial lamb due to our FFP constraints and would definitely have provided this team something we need this season. Let's hope Barnes makes up for it by being effective at what he can do well. Hope ASM smashes it in SA.

Think he'll start the season with Willock & Longstaff being out and Tonali not up to scratch yet, and him reporting back in such a good physical condition. Then it'll obviously be how he performs in those first games that will define his season whether it's as a back-up/rotation or regular.

Nah, it's a symbolic sum rather than giving him away for free which was the alternative.

Never expected that I'd ever want to physically punch a tweet hard in the mouth

Looking forward to seeing Asbhy getting a full match to prove his worth.

Fuck. Højlund to Man Utd is annoying. Some players are just built for the PL. He's one of them.