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Man U looks far too much like a Liverpool away kit for me.

Yep shame for him. He was getting in behind Robertson with ease last week which is no mean feat. Feels like one of those players where once you get stuck in that endless cycle of injuries it hampers the rest of your career.

If we want to get anything from the game we will need to be more clinical than we were last year. Likewise, City will need to be on their game to beat us, rather than strolling through it like they do against other teams.

Eddie seems to like an English signing. We could field and entire 11 of English players and still have a pretty impressive line up and not some shitty Burnley EDL types, actual exciting highly rated talents.

It's still taking some getting used to that £30m seems like the baseline fee for any half decent player.

The cynic in me feels like his "team" probably strongly hinted to him, if he doesn't want to go to prison and lose his career, his only option was to convince the girl to get back with him and stay with her.

I feel like if we signed a rcb and bumped Lascelles down to 3rd choice it would kinda be a slap on the face to him in terms of the patience he's had to show and not kicking up a fuss about never playing. I think Howe has probably kept him on side by him still being official captain and with the hope of it Schar is out then he gets to play. Not that it would bother me as I don't rate Lascelles that high but Howe seems high on team morale and cohesion.

Appearance based permanent option loan would be perfect. Gives us chance to assess if he can stay fit playing week in week out and if not we can then just send him back at the end of season. Not that Arsenal would go for that, because who wants to help out the evil Newcastle.

Is crazy to be away to Man City and actually feel excited for the game. We may still lose but as people have said just the fact we have any belief we can now go there and give them a proper game is light years from where we were a few years ago where we would just be dreading the idea of getting pumped 5:0.

I think it was pretty clear Villa's fitness fell off a cliff. They slowed the game down massively after Mings went off 1st half, using the stoppage and the dampening of the atmosphere to gain a bit of control of the ball. That continued briefly into the 2nd half, but once we got our wind again, triggered by a strong miggy run if I remember? and then the gift of the 3rd goal, our tails were up and superior fitness began to tear them apart. Their high line playing right into our hands of course also.

Good to know they are starting as they mean to go on with gameweek 1 for Man Utd. Howard Webb is in charge of VAR in this country for goodness sake, no one should ever be surprised, not if they ever saw him referee a Man Utd game back in his day.

Crazy how many "top" teams have just copied Pep with this full back/centre back stepping into midfield. Can see Lindeloff is doing it here.

Sarabia has been poor.Would sub off of I was Wolves

Rashford is easy to keep quiet when he's through the middle if you don't play a high line. Really hope we play Livramento against Antony when we play them. Can show him inside as he's right footed and he also has the pace to see him off. Was annoying seeing Burn get the mick taken out of him by that little runt purely cus he was small and agile. Be nice to see Tino boss him.

Came alive 2nd half but he was unusually quiet 1st.

Allegedly..... Complained about our takeover at every opportunity before it happened and again after, Refused to shake our executives hands publicly at a PL meeting Complained about Saint Maximin transfer. I'm sure there's more.

Came on and played there on Saturday. So would assume he's ahead of Tierney in Arteta's thoughts.

I mean with black and white tinted specs on, we could link all recent rule changes to us. However they could argue they are for other reasons also. Depends how paranoid we want to be ?

Annoying Man u have such an easy home game to start the season. Wolves look like they could be awful so could easily see Man u winning like 5:0 and topping the table by the end of the night. But I still have a sneaky feeling they might underachieve this year if their new signings don't settle quickly.

Yeah strange when I saw them both come on as sub. Assumed they were injured if they were playing gakpo midfield. Strange lineup.

I think what we did to Villa, coupled with our performance last season is already enough to see the majority of teams will come away to us and try to sit in.

Hasn't he said he prefers playing right wing or something and isn't a fan of left back? Davies that is.

Hope it's bollocks. Was bemused by the money people were bidding for him last summer and he was even worse than expected when you watch him closely at Chelsea.

Think the ideal scenario is for Liverpool to miss out on all targets AND for Chelsea to later be found guilty of FFP breaches. Not that it ever seems to mean anything if someone is guilty. Liverpool and Klopp are surprisingly to me becoming our new closest rivals with all of their whining and complaining. Thought it would be Spurs when we got took over but feels like we have already moved past them.