We should have signed Donnarumma as he’s keeping him company down there.

“A big thank you for this season! I’ve felt at home since day one and had very special moments, grateful to be part of this team.
We left everything on the field to fight for the club’s objectives. Proud of the effort.
Looking forward to what’s ahead. “

His latest social media post seems to indicate he wants a move here

For this referee to be ref of Gateshead vs Solihull at the start of the season to be reffing arguably the biggest game of the day in the PL on the last is disgraceful.

Is it higher bars for yellows? As the higher bar didn’t apply to Ramsey at Bournemouth. Bruno at VP made about 7/8 fouls and then got a token booking at the end, as well as Bassey for Fulham. This is the worst refereeing I’ve seen for Villa in all my time of watching

Even better they play in exactly the same image as the Unai’s team.

That’s it we Matt, we need to focus on ourselves. Win our two games and see what happens. It would just be us to fluff our lines at home against Spurs lol

Think you also have to credit City that they made us passive, they filled up the spaces, which shows how far we’ve come that City are planning for us rather than playing their own game.

On Ollie what I would say, he was very poor yesterday, I have no idea why he was trying to compete with Milenkovic physically, he had to run off him to create space but got involved in duels. Entire game he had 9 touches.

I think we need to change the shape a bit. Like a 4-1-2-2-1. Think we come a bit predictable. Do think we missed Pau at the back to play it through the lines too. But sometimes momentum plays a part and think overall we did well.

Was a good experience, good seeing Judge, seems a big player back then. Enjoyed seeing a different sport with a different lens, as I wasn’t attached to anyone.

I went to watch Blue Jays vs Yankees in Toronto in 2023. Never watched Baseball in my life so it was an experience, and how they watch Sport over there.

Rashford movement is something else, amount of times he made runs, just weren’t picked out.

Wages are the massive issue for us and I can’t see us sorting until summer of 26. When we lose the likes of Phil/Dendoncker, Digne and possibly Mings. As we are no doubt still contributing to Coutinho and Dendonckers wages.

And our defenders acting like statues when crosses come into the box.

The last 3 referees we’ve had have been absolutely abysmal.

Think Villa were arguing that he’d been sent off, yet he’d somehow been allowed to come back out and then referenced what he was wearing for them to check the images etc.

Don’t think we’ve officially announced it yet? Are we pushing these type of signings down the academy route, just even with Kosta future buy it seems not a lot of profit than his actual fee.

Even with Rashford being crap this year his output is still more for United than the likes of Bailey and McGinn

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And we wouldn’t be in the top 8 of the CL without his goals. Would have been nice for that to be mentioned rather than a load of negative hogwash. You may say it’s in the article but you’re painting this narrative of this huge problem player.

Nope, because I’m not a xenophobic like you mate.

Bet you weren’t mentioning team player when Duran was helping the team to win against Bayern, Bologna, Leipzig games that has given us a huge chance to qualify. Just use it when it suits.

Part being the main reason because Unai didn’t want to sub off the player that has as many CL goals as me and you.

Yes because Duran was the reason we couldn’t defend and that Ollie missed another sitter. 🙄

But the difference is we aren’t really extending our leads. Last season we were more clinical

Also this is a nice problem to have the main issue which we aren’t addressing is that we can’t defend crosses and we have no decent wide players but yep let’s go for Duran and Watkins as being the main issue lol

You mean one is scoring goals and the other isn’t. If the scenario was the other way around and Duran entered at 1-0 up and we lost 2-1, what would your view be then? Watkins is completely off it, even his build up is pants at the moment

Let’s just ignore the supply line of Cash, McGinn and Rogers, you know the ones who gave the ball away and incredible 41 times.

Said it before but we have defenders who don’t like to defend. How we’ve left a 6,5 defender free at the back post to nod it in is just laughable. I was concerned that we just haven’t addressed this issue