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He seems like a guy who values loyalty highly - and it looks like he has a great relationship with the club, staff and fans. It's also not like playing for us hampers his chances of being an international regular, as I think that was also a factor in Grealish going (thanks mouthgate, you prick).

He seems to be talented but very streaky - for the kind of fee and wages involved, I'd want someone a lot more dependable and frankly a little more serious/professional than him.

100% agree with this. If we compare the debuts of Carney and JPB with that of, say, Indiana Vassilev, we can see a massive difference in their approach to the game mentally. The first two seemed cold as ice - not fazed by the situation at all, just calm and collected, whereas IV looked like a rabbit caught in headlights. It's not easy to predict how a player will react to the step up but I guess that's where scouts earn their corn.

DM is a very simple term in today's game tbf but we don't play with a sort of large destroyer type in the first team, and seeing as the big thing NSWE wanted was to have a philosophy running through the club at all levels, it stands to reason that we wouldn't play one in the academy or U23 teams. We like a DLP, so we have Luiz in the first XI and Lindley in the U23s.

It's going to be very interesting to see how he develops as a player. He has a very mature head on his shoulders at just 16 as a few of you have already said. He's also pretty good on the ball and I've seen him pass with both feet relatively effortlessly. If he continues to improve from this point then we'll have a serious talent on our hands and a first team player ready to rock and roll in a couple of years.

RIP Michael K. Williams

Ah well, I heard he has the touch of a rapi... never mind.

At that age, surely it has to be Feeney.

He does that himself 99% of the time tbf.

I do wonder whether that would knock his confidence somewhat, though. He's flying right now and I think we should be channeling that into the first team.

That would be an incredible chant for him

They're advertising it on VillaTV+, so if you're already subbed you'll presumably have the game already - or it's £1.99

This 100% happens - I've seen whoscore change stats after their initial release.

But Tottenham weren't below par today - they were pretty good, all in.

Very reminiscent of a game we lost to spurs years ago, where the difference between the two teams was Rafael Van der Vaart - this time it was Son. It's important to note that spurs played well today. They knew how we were going to line up and obviously had a plan ready and they executed it effectively. It showed the limitations of that system and if I'm honest, I'd much rather we went back to having wingers and one striker. We need that creativity and guile in the attacking third to break teams down.