Kid Icarus

Twitter has always brought out the worst in people

He did yeah, although Ginola was only here 2 seasons and only played 1 and a half of them. There'll be loads of players we barely mention that beat him on stats.

Feels inevitable

It was yeah, for context Longstaff scored 8 just last season. He still bagged plenty of assists mind (13) and scared the life out of everyone we played. Best example I can think of of stats not being the be all and end all

PSG's DNA coming to the fore here

Ginola's goal tally still blows my mind considering how good he was and the amount of goals we scored overall.

No way is he better than Ellroy Jetson and Fred Again

Martinez is easily the most likeable thing about Villa imo.

Stuart Pearce tipped us last season. We need to see who's signed first, but I don't see it for quite a few years yet like.

Been trying to think what it is about his performances and impact of late that reminds me of something else and I think I've got it. The first 6 months of David Ginola when we all realised we had an absolute superstar who had instantly taken us to a whole new level.

Sounds good but is it not a bit too casual?

Aye, all of the Man United fans I've ever known up here, all lifelong fans who wouldn't ever accept being called a casual are all absolute bellends to a man like.

A couple of guesses for pro and fan versions based on the rumours, the tiro 25 template and Shadow's posts.

This half has felt like 90 minutes ffs

Taylor is about as big and close as it gets I reckon. Clough was nowhere near the same without him and I daresay it would be the same for Howe without Tindall.

Sounds weird but this is a very good outcome when all we knew was that he had to be hospitalised. Pneumonia's no joke obviously but it could have been something far worse. So happy that he seems to be on the mend.

You really notice Tonali's quick thinking here. Brilliant https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdFhXW1Y/

I love an unnecessary top bins. The peak imo:

Great minds

Outsprinting and having more desire than a player that came on after half time as well.

I was lead to believe Ugarte is really good though?

Wew. @Sempiternal Cunha:

I watched them a bit that season to try and see it and I did, but it didn't look terminal and it was easy to see how Howe would improve his off-the-ball work. I think Howe wanted him when we were looking for that RW/AM hybrid, which lines up with us going for Szoboszlai the summer after because I remember their FBRef profiles were spookily similar. Really not sure whether Howe's still after that type of player anymore (Cunha maybe?) but it would be pretty interesting to see what role he would have had here, because I think it would have been Murphy he played instead of rather than anyone in our midfield 3.

When we were linked with him and we were doing our sleuthing on Foxestalk, it was a pretty widespread opinion that he talked a good game, but did a lot of hiding when the going got tough.