MessiWillSignForVilla

Haha, holy shit!

I've thought for a couple of seasons that they remind me of the final years under Lerner, just that they are falling from a higher point. They've got more time to stop the rot, but I really hope not! And now there bottom

We absolutely have, I used to hate going in the last season of MON because of how quickly the atmosphere could turn toxic. I'm pretty sure there was someone (I think Carragher?) that even said in the media that they knew they just needed to not concede in the first 15 at VP and the crowd would turn on the team.

To be fair, he probably could've done with a few seasons down in the Championship learning his trade. Even Pep and Zidane managed their respective B teams before getting the main job.

I'm not sure goals should count against them at the minute until you get to 5

Good luck Wes, hope you can recapture some form and fitness!

I want Man City to lose every game they ever play, but this is gloriously funny

He's deleted it now,. here's a reddit thread about it with a screenshot.

Assuming the red list sticks around in to 2022, he also misses Leeds and Newcastle in February, and Wolves and Spurs in April. Though I imagine it will be lifted by then.

Argentina's last game is 10/09, so by the time he's back he'll miss Chelsea, Everton and Chelsea (LC) through Quarantine, he'd be available for Man Utd, but would likely only have about 1 day training after 10 sat in a hotel room, then back for Spurs, but then there's another international break so it's the same shit again, missing Wolves and Arsenal through quarantine and barely any training before West Ham and Southampton, another international break where he'd miss Brighton and Palace, potentially Man City. So at least 7 through quarantine, but possibly up to 12 plus any more League Cup games due to lack of match fitness and about 20-ish days missed training.

Just bored at work.

Dortmund is just over the border to be fair, about 2.5hrs away from Liege according to Google.

Presuming he still wants to actively be part of the Belgium team, €5m for Axel Witsel would be an absolute steal, but I just don't see how no-one else would be going in at that price, unless wages are a big stumbling block?

It's pretty amusing to see all the Man City fans rightly denouncing this and saying they want Mendy out of the club, whilst simultaneously drooling all over themselves at the thought of them getting Ronaldo.

Tomorrow

He was fantastic, Gabby with skill and a brain!

This was our team in 2019-20 in the first round against Crewe How many of those were important first teamers at the time? We won 6-1...

Didn't he only have one pre season game? Don't think it's a comment on his ability, just that he's low on fitness.

Like how all but 1 of the starting line up are first team players?

Was he ever actually linked with us by anyone reputable? Or was this all based on him liking Villa stuff on Instagram?

Chelsea for me. They were hamstrung by having Lampard for so long last season, but once they got going under Tuchel they were great, and as much as I genuinely think Werner had a decent season last year, Lukaku is just such a massive improvement goalscoring wise that I think they're gonna blow a lot of teams away this season. I'm a little worried that we're slightly overdue our massive battering from them...

Pfft, everyone know there's no women on VT, closest we've got is men pretending to be obscure female winter olympians.

It was a shaky start, but once we grew into the game I thought we were pretty comfotable and played some good stuff at times. Ramsey easily MOTM for me, he's really grown in to a first team player over the summer whilst last year he still played like a kid at times (which, to be fair, he was/is). Really impressed me, and I hope he can start adding the goals and assists to his game. Don't think there was a bad performance out there today, but I do think Martinez was slightly lucky to stay on the pitch, even if the pen was overturned for offside, it was a pretty dangerous and reckless challenge from him.

And if he isn't a member, it should be fairly easy to appeal against, but it's not exactly a stretch to think someone is a member of LIE if they attended an event called "LIEN's first fightback meeting", especially when they had a speaking slot. Pam Bromley, named as an example of unlawful harassment in the EHRC report, and Tina Werkmann, vice chair of Labour Against the Witchhunt, who told people not to report holocaust deniers to the party. I suppose there isn't anything particularly wrong with that, but I found it odd he spoke about a rival conference, which wouldn't even include left wing MPs, exclusively for suspended members. Personally I don't see how giving a platform to everyone with an axe to grind against the party would help the Labour party at all. But then to claim you're being expelled just because you attended the meeting even though you were an active participant is straight up lying about it, which was more the point I was getting at. One is claiming the party committed a crime to expel you, the other is suggesting the party reviewed information you freely allowed in to the public eye. Also, from what I've seen about these letters (I could be wrong, admittedly), you're typically given a chance to explain yourself, and even from his post, he's not been expelled yet. What seems to have happened is that this guy has been accused of being a member of a proscribed group, based on the publically available evidence of him speaking at their first meeting, and has been told that if he is a member, he'll be expelled. So it seems all he has to do is tell Labour he isn't a member and he can avoid expulsion. But instead he's accused Labour of spying on it's members and misrepresented the reasoning behind the possible expulsion. In fact, I think it's a brilliant example of why you should wait to hear both sides of an argument before making a conclusion. Another interesting thing is that he claimed in the meeting that he was suspended in January 2020 for "Daring to stand as a Socialist candidate for the NEC", which seems surprising since the Chair of Equalities on the NEC is the NEC member for Socialist Societies, so quite how someone could be suspended just for being a socialist (whilst Corbyn was still leader), unless he's misrepresenting what happened again... I dislike a lot about how Labour have gone about things under Starmer, but this just seems like someone with an axe to grind against the leadership trying to stir up trouble.