AntrimBlack

You get nowhere by selling your best players. I sometimes cannot understand the mentality of posters who seem to have no ambition for the club.

Congratulations, big man, and very well done. Just remember - you are where you are because of Aston Villa.

Keepers can win you games - and lose them. We have had plenty of experience recently with sub standard keepers.

What sources? And how would they know. And blind guesswork does not constitute a source.

Is that just made up? He was on £120k this morning.

I actually think he has been decent enough in his time with us. With him and Moreno that's our right side sorted for maybe a couple of years maximum - neither of them are spring chickens. If the problem is players not earning their big salaries, then maybe better examples elsewhere.

Thank you. And welcome to the real world.

Guy I know, plays for Middlesborough, fits the bill, wouldn't cost much either.

Watkins great, but Buendia changed the game. A good win that we really needed.

That is a fairly standard team Emery has gone with. Hopefully good enough, but who knows.

These are highly paid professionals. Of course they should be capable of implementing the manager's instructions, but they should also be capable of independant thought. That ability is not there. They are just not quite good enough.

That does not seem to be particularly old if he was good enough.

If you are going to foul, you need to foul clever. If you pick up a yellow, you are probably not doing it properly.

I think it is all about timing, like many things in life. And the planets aligning, of course.

That must have been an uncomfortable afternoon for the squad judging by Emery's interview. Uncomfortable week coming up for them too.

Have just watched the interview. That is one angry manager. Wholesale changes coming in the next window unless the players up their game. If they even can.

We must keep Archer. He is special. God only knows how many times I have posted this.

I don't know about other fans, but I think he is underestimated by some posters on this forum. He does what every striker does - not putting away what appear to be easy chances. We see it all the time. It must be remembered that also Watkins workrate is incredible, and very important to us.

Coutinho, Moreno and Duran deserve to start next game in my opinion. We definitely need better players brought in, in the summer, to enable us to compete with the likes of City. We were very poor in the first half, and they were out of sight by halftime. Now let's see what we can do against Arsenal. Watkins my MOM for a well taken goal and his constant harrying throughout the match. Coutinho was brilliant - he might yet become the player we thought we had bought. Duran is a big guy for his age and a very useful outlet instead of relying on Watkins all the time. That was a sublime goal attempt - we may just have got ourselves one of those much vaunted `hidden gems'.

Does this mean Sinisalo is now number 2?

Absolutely. The questions are bland and unimaginative. I realise they don't want to get barred from the PC's but surely they could up their game a little and ask more searching questions in a considerate way that will not cause offence.

This. Completely baffled by this.

I think he needs to be in the first team squad next season.

Hate to say it, but I think Emery may have missed a trick here.

I hope not. I think he will be better than Watkins or Bailey.