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There's sometimes this idea that people must have a strong opinion about things. You either love something, or you hate it. You're either pro or anti.

I think there needs to be a distinction between being against something and not wanting to promote something. The guy from Sheffield United said that to him people can do what they want, but because of religious beliefs he just didn't want to promote it. It does beg the question as to whether some of these players would refuse to promote alchohol or gambling sponsors for the same reasons, mind..

Never really thought they were too concerned about the financial side of things. Not sure they bought us to earn money from it. I think the price of a new stadium is peanuts to them, as crazy as it is.

Villa still being us from 1 year ago. Same discussions we had back then. They also have the same discussions about stubbornness of the system and that he keeps using certain players who underperforms like Watkins over Duran.

If we're talking any club, then Solanke. Could mention a couple of older players like Wood and Ings aswell. Ings obviously didn't work out, though.

Their net spent over the last 5 years is lower than ours, when we're talking about transfer fees. The thing is they have sold players for a good fee aswell (Mane and Fabinho for instance). Going back further, to 2017 when they bought Salah, they also sold Coutinho for 135 mill euros. They paid less for van Dijk and Salah combined in that very same window.

Give me 3 months and I will conveniently have forgotten about this draw, while complaining about a future one.

I think I'm keeping Hall as we have the odd clean sheet here and there, and were minutes away from another one last game (although to be fair they should've scored earlier). Idk, I just feel like we're going to keep a few clean sheets and he might get an attacking return some day. He's cheap. Other cheap defenders aren't any better anyways.

Same here, held onto Son. He's been such a let down. I've actually earned lots of points the last few weeks by taking hits, but I startet second guessing whether it would really continue, and felt like I had just been a bit lucky with the other hits. I guess you should never change a winning tactic.

Me too, but many were too busy telling me how many assists he had in 2023. Those 2023 assists really came in handy this year!

Pretty decent. Who did you cap? My entire GW was destroyed by my decision to just wait 1 more GW to bring in Saka.. Not sure about Ait Nouri yet, they're using him as a CB in the worst defence in the league by far.

He was actually injured for a large part of that run in. Even Bruno didn't play until the final few games. It was just Burn and Targett who came in to play regularly during that massive winning streak after january, and our defence was just so shit before that, so Targett and Burn looked like massive upgrades. Wood came in aswell, and he also mattered due to the complete lack of options upfront. We would be nowhere near 4th the following season without Tripps, mind..

Ait Nouri feels kind of like Lewis. Never clean sheet, doesn't get the attacking returns atm... Are they playing him at CB? Seems odd to me.

Not enough depth = lack of rotation. We had more lack of depth due to injuries, but still fielded a strong starting 11 in many games. It was the fatigue (increased by the injuries) that killed us, and fatigue has a huge impact on Villa aswell. Our key players were completely out of energy from the 60th min, I'd imagine that Villa is experiencing something similar. They went all out vs Juve midweek.

They chose Badiashile vs Villa, but should atleast be getting more minutes, yes.

173 minutes in the league so far..

I didn't have Haaland, I was just 0.2 short of swapping Son into Saka, and didn't want to take a hit. Ofcourse Saka has the gw of his life..

City will probably start picking up points from now with the easier fixtures. Probably not like winning every game as they used to, but it's unthinkable that they keep going like this much longer.

Honestly thinking about it, it won't happen in january. And that would be a bad time to do it anyways. Who depends on the actual bids and what replacements that are available to us in the market.

If the reports about january is true, it seems like we have to. Better than doing nothing imo. We need more balance.

Scores a goal per game for Norway, and was the Champions League top scorer when he was at Dortmund. City are just screwed in every way atm.

What happened to mr. humble?

Didn't that guy manage to piss off Andrew Tate with an inappropriate comment on him converting to Islam, and then he had to make shitty apology videos etc?

If Man City lose it will be 0-1-6 in the last 7?

Must be one of the most expensive benches in PL history (bar Chelsea) in terms of transfer fee. You've got 2 ~£100m signings, alongside some other expensive ones aswell. Chelsea has probably beaten this many times though, with Enzo and Caicedo.