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City putting the pressure on us here, 1-0 up against Leicester

4 minutes ago, thabucks said:

Arkadiusz Milik Linked with Spurs, Toon & Fulham... worth a sniff surely at the reported £23 mill.
 

I hope we one day find out who the mystery #8 is/was - it’s bugging me who it could be with no one able to confirm my guesses. 

 

Same  I've even been scanning squad lists on Transfermarkt to no avail

Do we know his shirt number yet?

He can also cover at left back, won't fetch a huge fee and his wages will be low as we signed him in the Championship. Strange one

1 hour ago, markavfc40 said:

Unbeaten in our last 6 games five of which have been in the league where we have conceded just 2 goals. He has over seen quite the turnaround defensively.

Attacking wise we are way too pedestrian at times but the injection of pace with Traore will help and hopefully we bring in a least one more attacking player with either pace or who can move the ball quicker.

I am hopeful this season Smith can do what he has over the last couple of years and we can continue to improve and progress under him. He has clearly learned lessons from his first three quarters of last season as a top flight manager and reflected on them/acted on them during lockdown. I am hopeful he/we won't be as naive this season.

 

This is a good point really, in our last 5 league games we haven't even conceded in the first 84 minutes, only the late goals at Everton and West Ham (fluke). Considering we conceded 65 in the first 34 games of last season it's hard to not give him credit for that

In other words a number 8, perhaps from the continent... 

8 hours ago, Andy81 said:

Ordered 

Andinho 81 on the back of the shirt!

https://www.juvefc.com/juventus-pressing-for-khedira-contract-termination/

noticed this today and thought he ticks all the boxes of the clues given before, then I saw that he's had eight periods out in the previous 2 seasons, missing 48 league games as a result including all 24 games since November last year! pretty rough luck that.

coady, saiss, boly, dendoncker, neves, traore all started as well as their £35m kid and jimenez, neto and podence all came off the bench. shocking result that.

Average age v West Brom was pretty similar actually - 19.6 v 19.3. Looked like an even game that was settled at the death.

Match Sheet

https://www.transfermarkt.com/west-bromwich-albion-u23_aston-villa-u23/index/spielbericht/3445835

Match Stats

https://www.transfermarkt.com/west-bromwich-albion-u23_aston-villa-u23/statistik/spielbericht/3445835

who would potentially be a number 8 from europe who will surprise us? must be a well known player so either ex-prem or known from playing in EL/CL? or international level

is it possible that Benrahma's fee is actually close to 20m given that they only got 21m for watkins after exeter's cut?

was West Brom at home just before the winning run 

The only thing keeping me reopening this thread is AvfcRigo82's subtle hints that there might be something we hadn't thought of holding this up  I wonder if it's been mentioned yet by anyone

didn't he score in the 5-5 at villa park? i remember him giving it to the holte end anyway!

That vote lost 7-13 last time, don't they need a 14 majority?

Is that @avfcagent? his account is locked, would be good if someone posted screenshots

which forum?

1-0 up

Genuinely assumed that was a joke! what a loser.

Gareth Southgate is a Nickelback groupie and spends every evening watching all of their music videos on repeat as his wife sighs in the background.

Gareth Southgate wears white socks with sandals and sits down to piss!

Can see us getting two attackers in before the start of the season and possibly a third closer to the deadline - can't see him being happy 'filling in' at wide forward again when we've got a whole window to bring in additions with no shortage of cash...