Howay

They’ll be calling it a building process, as Villa have another 9 figure spend. If we want Bissouma we’d get him tbh, Villa won’t compete with us - I know a lot of their fans are going mad that they beat us to Kamara but the reality is we didn’t value him at the price they paid, people can say it’s free but it ends up being an £80m or so deal once you factor in all the player/agent fees plus wages. I’m calm about this window tbh, I think we will go about our business in a methodical way, we will try for a bunch of players like Ekitike and maybe miss out to top sides - but maybe we sign 1-2 like that, then as KD and others point out we get a couple in like Harrison who are in that Burn/Targett mold.

They’re after Suarez too apparently (as Gerrard can’t think for himself), plus Arsenal apparently bidding £90m for Osimhen. I don’t want to hear a fucking word about our spending from the press.

I think honestly it’s his injuries, he’s looked a bit nervous compared to his old self but I think he could recover from that but the main issue I think is he’s only managed about half our games the last two seasons.

That’s the FFP workaround our lot used isn’t it? So it seems Conte has convinced them to back him.

It’s Eddie Howe’s nephew that’s pushing for it apparently. He’s an upgrade but I’d prefer a bigger upgrade given what I’d imagine they’d ask, I have sort of similar feelings as I have about Lingard (although I would prefer Harrison) in that he improves us but given their aims we’d need to improve again in the very short term. Not that I’d be upset if we signed him mind as he’s a threat, but he’s not an exciting link.

Bowen and Tomori as well. About fucking time Tomori got a call up btw, how Tyrone Mings was getting call ups over him is mental.

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Almirons against Palace was brilliant, but aye it was Bruno v Southampton for me as well. Just the audacity and ability to pull it off, how clean he hit it despite it being such a difficult thing to pull off, absolutely magic. The Trippier free kick v Everton, or the Bruno last minute winner against Leicester for buzz.

I’m not bothered if he does or doesn’t, if he’s on that amount of money it’s up to him - I just mean I’m tired of hearing all these poor players being called good servants when they’ve been making fucking fortunes compared to what they should have been making, and playing PL football when they should have really been in the Championship.

You’re forgetting they’re everyone’s cup final, and will be the current most massive club in the championship. Therefore they’ll be on TV nonstop like Newcastle were in that division. I agree though, it’s going to be really difficult for them they have a League One squad - even Rotherham who were miles ahead of them will struggle.

It does my head in man. You have Ciaran Clark making £38k a week and refusing to leave despite being unregistered and people going “what a great servant to the club this man is”

He was banging on about Silva being shite in the game and that subbing him off was the turning point, then said Silva was playing like Almiron.

He seems fine, the same way most footballers are. I just don’t think it’s that serious or that Grealish owes him anything, he spent the game against Man City fouling Grealish and then diving (with Grealish doing the diving bit too), so I’m sure it wound Grealish up and they’ve had a laugh after the match about how shit Almiron is (in their opinion) so he’s brought that up when he’s drunk and having a laugh. “Professional” no but I also really don’t get why he has to be? I agree he was being a nob, I found it funny whereas you and Craig didn’t which is fine - I just can’t get my head around our fans on Twitter getting so precious over it. I suppose for me I’m just hitting a bit of a breaking point with all this reverence of our players from everyone on Twitter. Like people posting about how mint Gayle is and that he didn’t get a good chance (despite leading our line for a season and a half in the PL), or saying they’re all good servants, etc.

I think it’s funny tbh. I also find it hilarious that our fans are performing mental gymnastics to defend a bloke that’s shite and been pushing to leave the club since the day he walked in the door. Also one of them goes on to say Miggys mags live rent free in their heads, they smacked us aside 5-0 ffs. Trying to compare Grealish to him is pathetic by this lot too, not even in the same stratosphere of player. The only player at Man City that created more per game than Grealish was De Bruyne (2.5 chances to 2.4), his goals and assists will go up next year whereas Almiron will be playing for a Spanish relegation battler. I know you two weren’t making these points btw, I’m just getting tired of our fans on Twitter being so precious and calling all our players good servants. I can see people thinking it’s harsh on Almiron but Almiron did spend the game against them kicking Grealish all over whenever he got the chance . I also honestly like to see players be a bit more genuine and take the piss out of each other rather than all being boring professional robots who just say every other player is class.

The really do take pictures of the absolute shittest stuff, make up a story about it and then get emotional over it. “Eyyyaaah marras ah wuz walkin my staffy and saw a mackem-wagon, brought a reyyyt tear to my eye just shows how much last weyykend meant, even Callum the staffy had a tear in his eye”.

Brentford was the perfect club for him, very calm, no pressure whatsoever, smattering of people in attendance enjoying their picnics. Win, lose, or draw it was a nice day out. He was class mind, I’d have picked Bruno because he’s Bruno but Crooks is a romantic and soft as shite clearly. Time for Eriksen to join us now.

How mad is it to hear that we’re going after players that Dortmund and PSG have interest in.

The magedia strike again

Spot on, I always think this when people like Barry “micro penis” Glendenning bring it up - they tend to just come out with outrageous shite about how we’d enjoy live executions or something along those lines, at no point does he think the way he’s using peoples actual executions in this manner belittle or treat the deaths as frivolous? It’s using peoples deaths to point score, if you’re doing that you don’t care about the deaths in the first place. I think raising the topic is perfectly reasonable, but it’s the way Glendenning etc bring it up that I find absurd.

Villa and Everton both offering around 120k a week to Tarkowski apparently, after Villa outbid us by 60k per week to sign Kamara. So basically before the window opens Villa will have added nearly 500k to their wage bill (Tarkowski, Kamara, and Coutinho permanent transfer), and spent £20m finalizing Coutinho. Yet we will be the ones getting flak for spending money . Enjoy finishing 14th, with Stevie Geeeeeeeee.

What about sportswashing Oliver? Not going to bother staying on message you miserable prick?

Spot on. Almiron with 0.05 xG per game as well as angling to leave the club every window yet being hailed as some hero because he runs . I can’t wait until we buy some players and stop hearing this £60m-80m shite as well.

Villa keeper was attacked during the pitch invasion apparently. Are the FA going to bother doing anything about these pitch invasions?

She will look better in her toon top next season, once her lad fucks off from t’Leeds.

That quote sums him up, it’s also even better now that Howe finished higher despite the squad taking half the season off.