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MessiWillSignForVilla

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  1. I genuinely despise the man, what a word removed he is. Also, a manager arranges a training camp during the season, and the players are going to him moaning that they don't want to do their job? **** me, our squad was so poisonous at that time.
  2. The VAR was Craig Pawson, I'd love to ask him what the difference was between this and Watkins' claim yesterday which he was also ref of.
  3. **** me, what a save by Pickford, even if Watkins is offside...
  4. Feels like Ramsey has a reputation with refs that he's a diver even though I can't remember him ever doing anything particularly egregious, he doesn't get anything no matter how obvious the foul.
  5. To be fair, the guy who first mentioned this even clarified to say it would be when Suarez' contract expired in the summer and not in January.
  6. It's a good job Mike Dean wasn't ref, could've gotten a red
  7. It's always been the case, I remember coming away from games during the MON era thinking that Villa Park would **** hate having to watch Barcelona every week, any time a defender spent longer than 3 seconds on the ball the groans would start and god forbid someone passed back to the keeper.
  8. Happy we got the point against them, but why can't we ever have a normal game against them where the universe doesn't conspire to just **** us over? I'd even take getting absolutely battered by them if it meant we had a game with no dodgy penalties, no dodgy cards, no inexplicable clangers from our players and no biased refereeing, but I swear I have never seen us play them without something happening to us, even when we beat them, they manage to get something dodgy go their way.
  9. I assume that was made for the 2011 League Cup final, otherwise that is just bizarre. It is hilarious though just how much we feature in a video about their special day and just how much they manage to mention us without doing so directly. I wonder how many times they had to re-record the line "we may not have the remarkable history, we may not have the titles and cups" because they kept adding "that them lot have" at the end, before they thought, **** it, well just cut around it.
  10. Honestly, if Gerrard doesn't get our first home win vs Utd in 27 years today, he should be sacked immediately.
  11. It has to go to FIFA because it's a different member association I imagine. Edit - Beaten to it!
  12. Interesting that it's stated as an Academy signing, I had half assumed that he would come in to the first team and be fourth choice whilst playing some occasional youth games
  13. But did Digne put that in his insta story that I was on about?!
  14. Not to piss on everyone's chips buuuut, Chelsea have a lion on their badge too... It ain't confirmed until ITSOTP.
  15. I'll preface this by saying that AFCON should absolutely be respected, is an important international competition and doesn't deserve the scorn it gets sometimes with fans thinking players should just pull out of it, but I can't help think that every tournament something happens which makes the AFC and all the articles about how AFCON is disrespected look like the Alliance of Magicians.
  16. Just a loan according to this guy that Everton fans say is reliable for them.
  17. Makes no sense with the way that FFP works, this way it means that both clubs can technically claim a profit on their books for the transfer.
  18. It felt a little like he let his foot off of Boris throat towards the end, but I think that's because the pertient points that will headline tonight's news had already been said - called for him to resign, said he was a liar - and by that point Boris was just stonewalling, so you probably couldn't get much more out of him. I think Starmer actually handled that quite well, and I say that as someone that dislikes Starmer a lot.
  19. We've not beaten them in the FA Cup since the 1957 final and in my lifetime we've beaten Utd just 5 times, I can't see how anyone would expect us to come out of this week with anything more than 2 losses. No point getting upset over the inevitable screwing we're gonna get this week.
  20. The bit in bold about Ramsey isn't correct and is the whole problem with the goal. You can see from the angle at around 3:14 in the tweet that Ramsey has gotten in the wrong position and then has to crab across to block Cavani's run, if he was in the correct position to begin with and was stood still when the free kick was being taken it would've been fine, but Ramsey made it too obvious he was acting as a blocker. You're allowed to just stand offside and if someone runs into you that's on them, but you can't obviously try to block a run.
  21. I knew the "eye test" would get brought up, I would've put money on it if I could. I use the "eye test" too, from watching Targett I happen to think he's quite a good full back that is unfairly maligned on here, the stats just back up my opinions on him, and my opinion of him is how I knew I could find him performing well in those stats.
  22. That's what the xA is for, and his xA is consistently above his actual Assists, suggesting it is in fact players not finishing his chances.
  23. Targett has an above average Cross Completion %, yet somehow it's become common knowledge on here that he can't cross. Everyone on here realises that a good cross completion % is around 25%, right? They don't come off very often. He's statistically one of the better creative full backs in the league and has our 3rd highest xA and xA/90 (if you exclude Chukwuemeka on the xA/90 as he's only played 112 minutes, which just makes it hard to judge his stats). His xA/Key Pass is also at 0.10 for Open Play, just shy of what Grealish had for us last season. He's fine for a team competing to get in to the tophalf/top 8.
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