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Aye we don't need a striker at all IMO. Is Austin even better than Cisse?

I don't have any evidence for this but don't we tend to create more with Cisse on the pitch than with any other striker we have?

out of 10 how would you rate his link up play and first touch? His link up play seemed pretty good when he did a brilliant lofted through ball to Obertan in the lead up to the second goal

If the City score stays 3-0 I'll have won 150 euro tonight. Pretty good for me

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He's an absolutely brilliant footballer like. Didn't they fall apart when he went to the AFCON last season?

Sunderland should try buying some good players sometime

So clearly I said he played wide right then. Thanks for clearing that up. You are saying he played wide right and centre midfield at the same time

Mole is rattled marra

He's black therefore I think he's class

Absolute rubbish. No way could Wijnaldum play in Colbacks role. What a total waste of an attacking minded player who'll score and create plenty of goals for us this season playing him that far back. It's the sort of thing I'd expect from Pardew. In fact scrap that I don't even think he'd be that stupid. He's an attacking midfielder, that's where he's played all his career at Feyenoord and PSV. Except he played CM last year and everything he's best at lends itself to CM rather than it does AM. Also i'm not saying he should to do what Colback does That's the problem in itself, Colback is far too negative and we don't create anything through the middle because of it, we need more impetus from deep positions. Not sure where you got the idea that playing CM is a waste, might want to let Yaya Toure and Cesc Fabregas know that. I watched nearly every PSV game last season and he played primarily as an attacking midfielder, as he did throughout his Feyenoord career. I never once seen him play just in front of the back 4. You can't have 10 attacking outfield players on the pitch man, we'd get murdered as soon as we lost the ball if we did. David Batty was one of the most negative players we had in the sense that he rarely passed the ball forward but he was great at winning the ball and giving it to someone who would dribble with it and get it forward. He doesn't want him playing just in front of the back four. There is such thing as just a central midfielder that is not an attacking midfielder or a defensive one

The guy was really getting into it as well

I have the same bet but with a much smaller amount of money involved

We've been shit defending from balls in for fucking donkeys and both goals yesterday seemed down to shambolic communication all round as opposed to individual errors. Aye Janmaat should have been shouting at him to get back or tried to challenge Pele himself

If Shaqiri does as well as he should at Stoke(if he goes there) Spurs or Liverpool will buy him next summer

It was positioning rather than his lack of height that let him down for the first goal

I wouldn't mind him passing it sideways at all if he did it a bit quicker

Villa have bought some decent players this summer, think they'll be alright for the foreseeable future

If Shane Long is 5'11", I'm 7'0". Soccerbase lists him as 5'8" fwiw. He's definitely at least 5'10" and has a massive leap on him

I wish Colback would get rid of the ball a bit quicker like. Yesterday he wasted time looking around before inevitably playing the simple pass. He should just take one or two touches and then play the simple pass

Mocking him for his white skin ffs

I actually thought he's had plenty better games last season than he did today, didn't think it was a particularly good performance by him by any means

I think we need a better footballer than one of Colback/Anita in central midfield and also we have a lot of competition for that attacking midfield role

Obertan made no attempt to help Haidara....Left Haidara trying to cover vs 2 Southampton attackers continuously. Agreed Don't agree He was pretty much at fault for the second goal for me. He makes the slightest effort to help cut out that cross, or more so, stop them even getting in to a crossing position, he had plenty of time and opportunity, and they don't score. He just fucking wandered about, 5 yards away, making no effort what so ever. That was the worst example, there were plenty others. It's like he thinks he's too good to defend which would be hilarious

How do you even become a fan of a club formed like a year ago in a city with 2 teams