Tiresias

I will trust in howe

Son has suffered from a succession of negative managers who have sapped his confidence, Howe would get him firing again and he has demonstrated over multiple seasons he can be an absolutely lethal attacker. His downside is he is a bit of a confidence player who will go in streaks, but no doubt he will find scoring form again under a coach that wants him to be forward regularly with support, though he is never going to form a partnership with Richarlison like he did with Kane so probably never quite hit those heights.

Klopp may be the worst for abusing officials. Absolute disgraceful how he acts around fellow human beings, and the worst thing is I am fairly sure he is aware and it is some performative shit that he thinks shows players how much he cares or something. I used to respect him, and I still do as a coach, but he is such a cunt.

Mings injury certainly changed it hugely. Had he stayed on the defence wouldn't have lost their heads. I don't agree with Emery's suggestion if Cash scores to make it 3-2 they are back in it, they would have pushed as much and we saw what happened with that high line and Barnes. But up until that 3rd goal Villa absolutely fully in it.

Footballs thing about player fines is kinda mad. I heard Nedem Onuoha talking about having wild culture shock transitioning to punditry and realising no-one have a shit about if someone was 1 minute late

I'm not sure the tshirts will hurt much, i guess helps squad cohesion but not sure. I think the injury to mings did knock the wind out of them and seemed clear he was the one barking orders to the defence as once he was gone they played like a thrown together 5 aside team

Ancelotti is rotating out the modric kroos partnership this season, they have 4 excellent midfielders in Bellingham, canavinga, tchoumeni and valverdi. They maybe would go for a 5th but can't imagine they'd break the bank unless someone left. Have heard rumours of tchoumeni being offered around but he will be in the playing squad a lot more this season so could go either way. Apologies to the players for me murdering spelling their names from memory

Can't believe he drew and lost that many tbh feels like we won them all lol. There was that rough patch I guess

Don't want to see that poor guy

They hate tielemans lol. Feels like he;s their Wijnaldum, he may well be good for Villa (and i don't think emery will tolerate shit performances) but the reputation seems to exceed what he actually did, he did seem to check out for them for quite some time.

The second isak game did kill it. They were definitely in it at 2-1 still, 3-1 is tough to come back from. Even that Cash chance he should have scored gets it to 3-2 they would have pressed as they did with the same result, which is why I disagree with their fans saying that was a turning point. But if it stays 2-1 our team does get caught in that 'stick or twist' dilemma and we may have dropped deeper. I remember getting nervous at 3-1 then thought, hang on how many games end 3-4 ffs. It's touch, you drop off 3-1 down from their perspective looks like surrender even if ultimately the right call for goal difference. I think what you have to do is have a calm head in the team and just try and get possession, see if we drop off thinking game is done and jump on any mistakes. With the game still frantic the high line just seemed foolish.

I worry I qualify because I still think top 4 will be tough and will take a while before we belong there season on season, but actually i am really looking forward to the season regardless, hopefully do well in cups, hopefully get out of champions league group (will be hard), missing top 4 will oddly still be progress for me as we build up squad but i dread a little all the takes, there will definitely be people calling for Howe's head if we don't get there lol. But I wouldn't call myself anything other than optimistic lol.

I wonder if Eddie really ever thought he'd get to coach players like this after he left Bournemouth. I know he purposefully didn't rush into another job but the league has a short memory and equally a lot of the jobs that do open up are right double edged swords. Most newly rich clubs would have overlooked him a bit in search for bigger brand managers, and we nearly did going for Emery. Despite today Emery is class but thank god we went with Howe, and now he gets to watch a player in teh champions league and ask the club to buy them and the club does.

yeah definitely.

He was alright, someone called him 1 out of 10 which was ludicrous (as he is perfectly capable of a rash red card now and then lol). He will get there, and to be honest his infectious personality probably counts for more than you think on the pitch. His celebrating all the goals...

Aye, quite natural though new league and all that, unless you're Tonali lol

Drop Bruno, move gordon central with licence to roam... I kid, a little, but we fucking have options now

He also seems like such a normal guy too lol

He is such a natural finisher. Full season fit he should score loads and loads

He's great. I've listened to his podcasts too and he has talked about being pissed off not getting picked but he's going to still get loads of goals for us. His attitude is perfect. (He spoke on podcast on if he's confronted manager on getting news not starting and he said he learned not to do that, just accept news gracefully then have that conversation with the manager later in the week rather than get angry) He wants to prove he's the best by scoring, now I think Isak is better but that is no slight on him. So many teams don't have one good striker, we have two really high quality ones. He is going to get plenty, he is going to get plenty of love, I am sure he is going to start plenty of games too. I remember when we signed him I was concerned about injury but thought was decent signing, but I don't think I appreciated how good a finisher he was, I kinda thought he was ok and could do occaisional spectacular ones, but I generally trust him in any 1v1 situation.

I knew his speciality was 1-2s but what he is good at is getting nice short pass off while accelerating to full pace in one seamless movement without seemingly making any passing motion with his feet

Not having this guy being on page 2 not getting any credit. thought he was really really good too today.

That was his only yellow, i think there was confusing cos Bruno's yellow looked like it was for him