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  1. Yeah Dwight Yorke went for £12.6 million. Are we saying Cash is worth twice as much as Dwight Yorke?
  2. Absolutely not. Could completely destabilise the dressing room. Imagine Grealish coming back in, thinking he's a champions lrague winning big shot and Mr Villa and that the fans love him, then trying to take complex tactical instruction in imperfect English from Unai. He would revert to being like a bold child in school who doesn't understand anything the teacher is saying so will spend his days messing and answering back and disrupting. May as well put him straight in the bomb squad. His career is on a downward trajectory, and he will never respect another manager as much as Guardiola. So many reasons for No.
  3. Watching that mic'd up business with michael owen and Howard webb about the red vs spurs. Yeah look it's probably a red, but listening to the fourth official shouting FOUL FOUL and then the AR2 ref shouting down the mic WATCH THE REACTION. Like do you want to calm down? Why are you shouting? Just ramping up the noise in the ref's ear. Just seems very unprofessional and unnecessary. Yeah it was probably a red, but if it was given as a yellow i don't think anyone would have complained too much. Hard not to give a red when the assistant refs are losing their **** minds though.
  4. Yeah I would only let Watkins take penalties for the opposition, but Merse's idiocy is that the back up striker is irrelevant because if Kane misses games it's guaranteed elimination. In back up, you would only have the player with the second most goal involvements in Europe's top 5 leagues. Only Mbappe has more.
  5. Whatever is driving this is almost certainly not in the interest of fans.
  6. Paul Merson says that Toney should go to the euros instead of Watkins. His reasoning is that Kane will play every minute of every match and Toney is better at penalties so he should be there just in case a game goes to a penalty shootout. Within the first paragraph he argues that having a good back up striker would be irrelevant because if Kane gets injured, England won't win the tournament anyways. It's the most asinine football opinion I think I've ever heard. It's bait, but even by Merse's standards it's stupid.
  7. With a bit of luck he can become our all time PL goal scorer by the end of the year.
  8. Getting up before 6am to go to work. Set my alarm last night for 5:50am and not only did I have to get up and walk briskly to the bus stop, once I get to work I'm going to have to do things. They're going to make me. It doesn't seem right. Being up at this hour should be enough.
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    Jhon Durán

    I just wonder if you can coach instincts. I remember a 19/20 year old Adama Traore arriving with all the power, pace, running, dribbling but when it was time for decision-making or positioning he was found lacking. We all argued that if we could coach him to make the right decisions and introduce the ability to look up to find a pass he would be the business. He's still playing PL which isn't a bad outcome but I feel like they're still trying to teach him to look up 9 years later. What I'm unsure about is whether or not Duran can be coached the soft attributes.
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    Jhon Durán

    I don't see the potential. I think he's strong and powerful with a bullet shot, but that's it. I think he has poor positioning, poor instincts, quite clumsy, no finesse. The comparison to Bertrand Traore is so wide of the mark. More Adama, and even then his dribbling is not even close. I'm usually wrong and look forward to this post being quoted, but i don't see it and if we got an offer of what we paid I'd take it.
  11. Duran makes being a striker look very very difficult
  12. So what does the Villa crest look like then?
  13. That Rodgers one was worse than the tackle that got him the yellow
  14. I was looking at the wrong knee on the replay. Please just be a bit of a jarred knee. Please stand up
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