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Villa is going to be great. Demolishing them was a massive achievement.

Not saying the values are perfectly accurate by any means, but its not based heavily on past transfer value. Harry Maguire f.ex. is only valued at €20m while being bought for €87m. Antony being valued at €60m is sketchy though

There is a differance between expecting good results and being disappointed in the team/manager if we dont get it. Only reason im expecting good results is because I think we have one of the best managers and a squad of players working really hard for the team. Simplified I know, but looking at squad value on transfermarkt we clearly have no business being favorites to get top 4/5 this year. 1. Man City €1,24bn 2.Arsenal €1,21bn 3.Chelsea €965m 4.Man Utd €863m 5.Liverpool €801m 6.Tottenham €715m 7.Aston Villa €615m 8.Newcastle Utd €603m Still need a couple of year of high spending to even consider being disappointed in missing out on CL.

Also think the red was fine, even in slow replays its hard to judge whether he would have reached the ball before the keeper or not. Not an obvious mistake. Think the pen was an obvious mistake, the defender did nothing wrong. Not blatant corruption "mistake", but playing at Old Trafford "mistake". Edit* Seen the pen decision closer, maybe it was a slight touch with the knee. Guess its defendable

I thinks its a bit naive to think there cant be corruption among the referees. There is corruption everywhere else in the business world and this is one if the biggest business there is. Some of the decisions being made are so obviously wrong that is it hard to think its just about some slight bias

"Mate for the day"

Im not sure we are going to win today, but im sure we are going to deserve the win.

Either sell ouright or keep. Selling could hurt us a little with ffp this year, but not a significant amount. He is still useful for the squad, so no point loaning him out at his prime age.

Hope they cling on to an unsettled Salah. His best days are over and his mighty ego cant handle it.

Bruno needs to chill. If there was a player from another team overreacting like that we would be laughing. Its twitter ffs.

Dont believe any word of that. If there were a longer recording that exhonorates him it would be released by now. Spare her feelings? Dont make me laugh. We are talking about a £50m+ asset here.

Got to be said though, if they didnt have Foden mimicking ASMs performance from last year the game would have looked alot different. Thought most of their threat came through him.

City probably had 5-6 chances were they could have scored with better finishing aswell. Wilson is probably the best backup striker in the Premier League atm(if you count Alvarez as a first team player).

This will be nothing like the City game. Think we will overrun their midfield and exploit their vulnerable defense. They will probably get one or two goals, but we will get more.

I agree, yesterday was not all about the personnel available. But I dont blame Howe to much either. Was sort of like rock facing scissors.

A needed experience for him. Not quite at Peps level yet, but he is getting there.

He is only poor when you compare him to his past self Its not like I think we should bench him.

Think that shot is a clear example off something being off with him. When he first came here one thing i noticed about him was that he never got dispossesed, now it seems to happen multiple times every game. Dont know what it it, maybe the baby is keeping him up at night or something. But I think its clear that he is not on top off his game.

Have to admit i didnt take that into account. Just think he brings limited value to the team if he is not running 90 minutes week in week out. And if we are ever going to sell him now is the time after being part of the first 11 last season.

He did ok today. But our threat down the left becomes so limited against organized defenses with him on LB.

Might it be time to let Longstaff go to someone who can utilize his workrate more? He for sure isnt a supersub.

City are a little anti-Newcastle with their extreme good passing and movement under pressure. This was a free hit, lets bounce back hard against Liverpool next week.

Foden is so damn good.

Dont think its been that bad, city havent had that many chances. Scored on a beautiful strike. We will probably be more offensive in the second half.

The consistency seems to be VAR staying out of everything.