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Brazil trailed twice but now lead 3-2, Neymar with two penalties. Didn't see the first but the second looked soft. Dougie playing on the left hand side of a midfield 3
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Who? Never heard of him
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I assumed it was a simple release clause in that, if they want to pay it and he wants to go, then he can join them at that agreed fee with personal terms to be agreed. I guess the other option is that Douglas Luiz has a pre agreed contract which automatically starts on City triggering a clause to switch his registration?
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QuoteJack Grealish mentions it as an after-thought, bringing it up in a matter-of-fact manner, cool Brummie tones somehow amplifying the nonchalance. “It was actually a weird one,” the Aston Villa captain says. “I had a fitness test on the day of the Liverpool game [last Sunday]. I hadn’t even trained for the two days before it because I had a sore hamstring. I didn’t expect to play the way I did.”
Grealish rolled his socks down, sauntered out, scored two, set three up, twisted the blood of the Liverpool defenders and drove his team to a wild 7-2 victory. He has carried the confidence on to international duty. Making his first England start in Thursday’s 3-0 friendly win over Wales at Wembley, he was the game’s outstanding performer, creating the opening goal for Dominic Calvert-Lewin and, more broadly, drifting into spaces, running with the ball, getting his team playing.
The 25-year-old says that he does not obsess about his diet; he does not work on those bulging calf muscles and he does not care where he plays. He just plays. And when everything clicks, as it has done so far this season, the sense of excitement and possibility is tangible.
England need a midfielder like Grealish, a player to break the lines, to get up the pitch, maybe to win a free-kick, to make something happen. The question is whether Gareth Southgate can accommodate him. The manager does not use a No 10 in his 3-4-3 or 4-3-3 systems and he has said that he does not see Grealish as a No 8. Which leaves him fighting it out for one of the wide forward spots, where England have genuine strength in Raheem Sterling, Jadon Sancho and Marcus Rashford.
Southgate played Grealish off the left in a 3-4-3 against Wales, in what was an inexperienced and experimental line-up. Although Sterling is injured, Sancho and Rashford hope to return for Sunday’s glamour Nations League tie against Belgium at Wembley.Follow link for full article
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Mason Mount got MOTM apparently
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Hopefully the Shakespeare factor plus studying how West Ham pulled them apart will give us the edge here
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Fernando Calero rumour says that Villa want him whatever it takes but Espanyol consider him indispensable for the lack of time to find a replacement and that it was a very good offer (15m euros)
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Bye all, this was fun!
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Uh oh, looks like McGinn is off to Leeds!
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Now 10th favourite for the title but still below Leeds FFS
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Got himself into some really good positions too going forward, think I counted 3 times where we had a good chance and missed with Trez well better placed if he'd been spotted.
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If there's any truth in this whatsoever I'd speculate that it could be to do with agreement on release clause
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Also does not reflect well to the other players in the squad knowing it could be them next.
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Hard not to feel for him to be honest. He might not have reached our expectations since last August but the lad was instrumental in our promotion, made both of the goals in the play off final after breaking his fast and seems to be really struggling with confidence at the mo
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16 minutes ago, Tomaszk said:
The defiance of opening this is funny.
Like throwing things round the classroom when the teacher has gone out.
*throws ball of paper at chalkboard*
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Welcome Milot!
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“Some of the other players we’ve talked about aren’t our players, and we don’t like that.
“We’ve had a lot of players this year who we don’t own. They’re a lot more valuable now than when they joined us and if we try to buy them it’s like, ‘Well, you improved them so now pay more’.
“That’s a terrible business model and we’re not going to be doing that in the future.”
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22 minutes ago, sidcow said:
Are we still the last club to field an all British team in the PL?
A few coincidental injuries or suspensions and we might be the next club to do that as well.
All English I believe. Boro did it with one Scotsman iirc albeit one who could have declared for England
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Was 1/5 at skybet as I recall!
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He was 18 years old for that season in fairness. Could still be a player there.
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Ryan Sessegnon not in squad tonight either - can play LWB and LW
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Wasn't great today, will he get a ban for that stamp?
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We got out of jail there!
Douglas Luiz
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Was thinking that myself, from Grealish and Watkins to Neymar and Firmino, bet the poor lad can't wait to get back to B6