Mazzy

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.

Chelsea are much better today than I thought they would be.

And that is a fantastic finish.

Spurs cannot get out their own half.

Gallagher would do that. How much better is he than Willock is what I'd be wondering though.

Gallagher and Ramos would do nicely. Doesn't affect the wide positions much but that massively improves the spine of the team.

West Ham players seemingly given up in the last 10 minutes. Been really sluggish. The heat has alot to do with it obviously.

Can't belive Scamacca isn't already on. Antonio has been poor by his standards. Keeps getting in physical battles with the CB and then moaning when they give it him back.

Awful penalty. No surprise it was an England International.

The knobheads of Nottingham clearly all sat behind the VAR monitor.

Handball there. Absolutely no doubt

Offside definitely

Wow! Wtf. Ten Haag isn't getting 5 game at this rate.