Beth

The classic case of the longer they're out the better they get.

In 2023

He reminds me of that keeper who was at Bolton for donkeys years, Jaaskelainen. Bang average with the odd blinder and shit performance thrown in now and again.

The lovechild of Morph and Frank Sidebottom.

He'll not be risked for City if its still on.

They will and no doubt scrap replays as well.

Not looking like it'll be on anyway.

4-4-2 again? If this is anything less than 4-0 I'd be amazed.

I remember the McClaren relegation season and they came up to SJP on the back of a good run and we beat them 2-0. More chance of winning the lottery this time.

Tonight could be our last game before the new year by the looks of it.

If we win 8-0 tonight we would be out of the relegation zone.

Clark to the rescue.....

Ah yes sorry my bad. Darlow hopefully.

So we'll be getting shot of 3 of our 4 keepers then? And Gayle and Hendrick will be going nowhere as they're on a lot more money than they'd get anywhere else.

Lets be honest though, Villa were lucky as fuck to stay up the season before last. Sheff Utd had a legit goal (the Villa keeper carried it over the line) chalked off, if it had stood they would've been relegated.

Aren't you the one who thinks ASM is worth £80M? (lol) Fullback is not our biggest problem area at all.

I remember that one, our first win of the season after a shite start, went to the next game at home to Coventry and we were 0-3 down at half time and it pissed down all game as well. Happy days.

Mr T saying "Pain" GIF anyone? I think they will take the foot off the pedal at 2-0 with another game to come in a few days.

No but spunking half the alleged budget on one of our lesser needs isn't a good start is it?

Who wasn't?

It does not matter if he's the best full back in the world when we obvsiously need more urgent upgrades elsewhere in the team. Manquillo is probably the least of our worries in defence atm, nobody can deny that.

£50M is often quoted, so half of the budget on an aging RB? Priorty for me is as follows: CM, CB, ST, FB, W. Lets be honest here, everyone in football would be laughing their tits off at us if this deal went through. What next? £75M for Tarkowski?

£25M for a 31 year old RB is just stupidity, especially when you consider its almost last on our list of priorities for upgrades......

This 4-4-2 Howe prefers does our CBs no favours, especially with the CM pairing giving them no cover. We need either 3 CBs or a 3 CMs in for the next two games at least, if only to keep the scores down.

Obertan the second.