Chris L

when they start to be carried / not offering anything. those players arent on that list, yet. but at some point they will be either due to age or simply declining. thats how clubs at the top should and do work. the likes of wilson, longstaff, hayden, lascelles, targett, willock (if injuries dont improve) etc are the first that should be cleared out and replaced, the rest as and when they the time comes, rather than holding on to them longer. the club have to start being a bit more ruthless with it.

agreed. that has been an issue with this club for far too long, we hold on to players way longer than we should. other clubs don't. wilson has been great for the club and has dug us out of a lot of tough places, but hes getting on and offers nothing anymore. people wont ever forget what he has done in the past. but the concern is what he offers now. if he stays on another year or two and declines even more, it would tarnish his stay here and people will only remember the worst bits unfortunately. its best for him and the club to move on and bring in someone younger who can offer more now.

those signings would be great, even without "a purple". especially IF we do business early in the window and get them in ready to start pre season from day one, that would help getting them into the system and frame of mind a lot quicker, hopefully we dont spend the first month or so trying to get rid of dead wood THEN make some signings after pre season starts. we may then miss out on targets or they may come in too close to season starting and needing that time to adapt.

Didn’t bother reading the article. His are usually full of nonsense from the ones I had bothered reading 😂

IF he does, he cant be anything more than third choice, send osula out on loan IF he stays.

Commentator just said that the throw out there by raya wasn’t a good one. He literally nearly put them through on goal 😂😂😂

Don’t really understand the kick offs here. Forrest have been top 3 most the season. As long as we do better than/match Chelsea and Man City for last few games we fine

Wilson can’t even chase mings down 🙃

Shock. Villa man falls. Ref gives freekick.

Rashford will likely score

They hit the bar and post. Should have had 3 atleast.

Same as Bruno. should have kept Barnes on. even (sigh) Longstaff may have put more effort in at cm this half

I would. Don’t put yourself through that 3 minutes twice

“That should be that”. lad it was over at 2:1 the way we playing

😂😂😂 absolutely embarrassing this

Ref likely celebrated that goal

This ref is pissing me off now like

Was going wide but great reaction still

Is livramento scared to shoot? Has got himself in a few good places this game but then looked for the pass rather than a shot

Can see Barnes moving to the right fairly soon into second half and Gordon on left. Murphy and trip have been terrible this game and all their play seems to be down that side.

That’s a dive. Should be booked.

Do you blame them when the ref is literally giving them what they want

How’s that a yellow to joelinton but not the one for the Villa player earlier? Both didn’t same thing in stopping and attack joelinton got the ball too

Ref was about to give Bruno a fk then allowed them to play on.

Bruno F?