Mazzy

That's 100% a yellow card if Brunos is.

Why the fuck isn't Grealish there to see it.

Making it easy for them. One ball into the box and that's the game over in 6 minutes.

Wtf is that. Why is he left alone

Koulibaly off.

Could also be seen as foolish and stubborn. We'll have to wait and see.

Grealish injured then? Or just mentally injured by the nightmares of facing up against Almiron.

Disappointing Targett isn't back. Must be worse than just a dead leg, or it's a horrifically bad dead leg.

I don't like Man Utd but I am wondering whether Chelsea will get the same amount of shit and if the media will cover every second of the aftermath of this game if Leeds win 4-0.

Leeds much better than Chelsea were expecting clearly. Gallagher looks a little lost and Harrison has been fantastic. I know which I'd prefer on this showing.

We do, so why pay the extra for Pedro if he could do wonders with Sarr for roughly £5m less? I know age is one reason and perhaps Sarrs attitude/personality is something they've looked into and decided against. However if we are really penny pinching and walking away from deals for the sake of £5m/10m then it seems an odd decision to overlook Sarr in favour of Pedro assuming both were ever options.

That's more to do with the manager and his tactics/attitude though. I'm saying is Sarr the better player and potentially cheaper. Yes he's 4yrs older than Pedro but does that just mean he would be able to make an impact quicker than Pedro would do.

Are Villa getting the better deal with £25m for Sarr. Only time will tell I suppose.

Stupid thing to say if he didn't have some idea it was correct. Wouldn't do much for his reputation much good if untrue. Not saying I belive him ofcourse and I won't belive it until he's signed officially, as usual.

Two ways this can go. We can either say fuck it and just continue to play how we want to play regardless of the fact we are playing Man City and just see how that goes OR you change your game plan and tactics to suit the team you're playing to try and nullify them and stop them playing how they want. I'm convinced Howe is the kind of manager that will almost always go for the second option. Guardiola is the manager that 99.9% of the time goes for the first option. Neither is necessarily the correct way and only in hindsight can you ever really know which is best for a specific game. I know that obviously teams tweak their gameplan every week depending on who they are playing but Man City are perhaps the one team in the Prem who you approach ENTIRELY differently to any other you play in the league.

Where have you seen that? Thought it was Leeds who were interested in Sarr.

No thanks. He's just James Perch but with a cunty attitude.

Guess we'll find out very shortly whether he's in their squad or not. Not that that is the be all and end all. He could just genuinely be injured. 20 minutes till we find out.

If the player is hassling the club for the move then you'd like to think it'll happen. More often then not they have the biggest say in whether the club will sell or not. Is Watford hanging on for an extra £5m going to be worth it if Pedro wants this move and would potentially have his form damaged by keeping him against his wishes.

I'm pleased about this one tbh. Better injury record than Fraser, better goal contributions than Almiron and just better overall than Murphy. Has way more potential than all 3 of those, which is potentially the most important thing. Get this sorted in the next 7 days and you'd hope we still have time to get one more in, probably on loan.

Wolves may as well just give Mendes the managers job when they sack Lage. He seems to do just as much for Wolves as the manager anyway. As others have said it'll be disappointing to see if Ramos does go to Wolves and a bad choice on his part.

Could also argue that neither play as striker if you really wanted to be argumentative. Positions are far more interchangeable these days. Both have played as wide forwards and both have played as central strikers.

How do you come to that conclusion then? We've (apparently) bid for Pedro and (apparently) preparing a bid for Ramos. Both players play in positions we need to strengthen, so is it absurd to assume we are trying to get both?

Trying to get Pedro and Ramos then it would seem. That would certainly improve the depth/options across the front 3. Whether Pedro is an improvement over Almiron or ASM is another matter though.

Maupay off to Forrest. At this rate they will be the highest spenders in the league this season. FFP doesn't scare them.