Froggy

Brighton 2-2 Man United Burnley 1-1 Wolves Palace 1-2 Arsenal Fulham 1-1 Newcastle Liverpool 2-1 Brentford Man City 2-0 Villa Forest 1-1 Bournemouth Spurs 2-1 Everton Sunderland 1-2 Chelsea West Ham 1-0 Leeds

To play Devil's advocate, I don't see what he's done wrong to get the criticism he does. He did well at Chelsea despite being under basket case Boehly. He'll be a success at City.

This seems very realistic tbf.

Imagine Fernandes had people in front of him who could actually finish.

Neesy is talking utter pish. He had one poor season, one good and two unbelievable ones. Were going to miss him badly.

Find this argument a bit mad to be honest. He has fucking Bournemouth in 6th and still in Champions League contention. Bournemouth! That's with losing Semenyo, Huijsen, Kerkez, Zabarnyi and Ouattara. It's an incredible achievement.

With the benefit of hindsight, he was successful aye. He seems to be the butt of certain jokes for opposition fans, but if you ask any Man United fan when they were at their happiest since Fergie, the vast majority will say the Ole era. That includes the periods where we won trophies with Jose and Ten Hag. If Carricks interim role was mean to serve as an audition, then he has obviously passed. He won't get the same patience as other managers though. This is his second interim stint and he's had a better structure in place than most of the others and much better players to work with as well. Itll be interesting, but I don't see him being a success. Hope I'm wrong.

I really don't like the "will you ever learn" approach mind. People reference Ole like he wasn't a success. Third, second and a Europa League final in two full seasons should not be looked at negatively IMO. Ole's football was miles better than Carricks.

I know people hate these stats, but they paint a pretty decent picture IMO.

I like idea of Carrick but I watch the games and I think we've rode our luck an awful lot. The performances under Amorim were miles better, but the results were poor. Carrick is winning games we don't really deserve to be winning. Could be wrong but I'm uneasy with it as it stands.

2+1 deal for Carrick.

Villa 1-2 Liverpool Man United 2-1 Forest Brentford 2-0 Palace Everton 1-0 Sunderland Leeds 2-2 Brighton Wolves 0-0 Fulham Newcastle 1-1 West Ham Arsenal 3-0 Burnley Bournemouth 1-2 Man City Chelsea 1-1 Spurs

Yeah, this is a big mistake.

He is class tbf.

Romano reporting Joao Gomes to them is close and the Ederson deal is stalling.

Feels like we've been linked with 6/7 midfielders already mind. Is that Italian journo reputable?

If Casemiro does that he's banned for four games.

Villa have lost 6 of their last 10 domestic games, winning 2 and drawing 2. They got a couple of draws against Forest and Leeds who were 15th and 16th, and they beat West Ham (18th in table) and Sunderland (needed a 93rd min winner). No evidence at all to suggest they haven't phoned it in the same way us and Spurs did. The difference is Villa had already got enough points on the board from massively overperforming their xG earlier in the season and picking up points they didn't deserve. Their form around this time of the year compared to us and Spurs is probably very similar.

We're all Man United today aye?

We've been heavily linked but you'd think him sparking out his teammate will close that door. I hope.

French.

We have had no other choice to be fair. The contracts handed out by Woodward and co. were insane. Thankfully we're under a wage structure now where the last of the mental contracts should end this summer and everyone else will be <£200k a week except for Bruno Fernandes who could be on a billion a week and still be underpaid.

It's 24/25 we're talking about. Like you said, the official figures will include staff wages etc. so we will never know the exact breakdown without asking players for their payslips. I personally think Maguire's graph makes good reading for us though, aside from player fees owed and Glazer debt. It's all trending in the right direction.

No, did you just stop reading there? They base their wages on reports. I'm not saying it's 100% accurate, but it's obviously not very far away at all.