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yeah, agreed. If we get Hall he’s young enough that he’ll be classed as club home grown in 3 years too.

Aye shit, I've miscounted how many keepers were there. I'll edit.

Been looking at player registration for the CL and we're short of being able to register a full squad and some first team squad players will have to miss out. Registered players Can register up to 25, which must include 8 nation home grown players and 4 club home grown players. We only have 2 club home grown players, so can only register up to 23. Martin Dubravka Kieran Trippier (HG) Paul Dummett (Club HG) Sven Botman Fabian Schar Jamaal Lascelles (HG) Joelinton Sandro Tonali Callum Wilson (HG) Anthony Gordon (HG) Matt Targett (HG) Matt Ritchie Alexander Isak Harvey Barnes (HG) Loris Karius Tino Livramento (HG) Nick Pope (HG) Jacob Murphy (HG) Miguel Almiron Joe Willock (HG) Dan Burn (HG) Sean Longstaff (Club HG) Bruno Guimaraes Club home grown but can play without registration as under 21 and been at club longer than 2 years Elliott Anderson Lewis Miley + other youth like Parkinson, Turner-Cooke etc. Left out? Emil Krafth Javi Manquillo Mark Gillespie Alex Murphy (signed last summer, so not been at club 2 years yet) If Lewis Hall comes in he'd have to be registered to play too, as while he's under 21 he's not been at the club 2 years. That'd mean we'd have to push another player out of the 23 to make space for him (Ritchie?).

we’ve got our club back!!! <3

Gordon looked super creative in the first half, aye. Will be chuffed to see him prove me wrong this season. Confidence is clearly a big thing for him.

eh? He's ran this game

Enzo made such a mistake going to Chelsea, man. He could've had his pick of teams this summer and now he's left to trying to carry a team of clowns by himself.

we'd have had 6 reds a game last season with these rules

Romano really is having a terrible summer. You love to see it.

just feel sad watching Sterling play these days.

Liverpool's honestly doesn't look much better and their bench might be even worse. Who's defending in their XI?

It was ludicrous how fit we looked in comparison to Villa. We were still running around with the same intensity at 80 minutes as we were in the first minute. Mostly our press understandably faded in games last season but it didn't yesterday at all.

I thought he was really poor and it was the only downside of the day tbh, sorry . Maybe it’s because I expect so much more from him, but he lost possession a lot.

Love Callum Wilson, me

He’s the absolute perfect fit, like. He even looked mega physically today.

got to assume Anderson has a knock

can’t believe how bad Bruno’s been, like . Proper 1/10 performance.

Tonali quietly very, very good

that’ll do though lad

I know he was offside but can’t believe Isak hasn’t passed to Miggy there, man. Unbelievably bad.

don’t like that massive space in front of our CBs. There’s no way Emery hasn’t spotted it in the first half.

apparently the rules are different for handball to a foul like Martinez’s, aye. Still think it’s clearly denying a goal scoring opportunity, like.

Isak and Bruno off it that half, otherwise very good tbh. Villa are good and have quality all over.

don’t really see how it’s any different to Pope’s red last season tbh. There was a covering defender then too.

Botman has been excellent so far