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Would this be too negative against the top teams? Kamara Dendoncker Luiz Bailey Watkins Ramsey or would this leave us open again? Kamara Luiz Buendia Bailey Watkins Ramsey

Just hope he learns from this. He apparently analyses every game played over and over, so please Stevie take the positives from today on board.

We totally deserved something from that game. Full credit to the lads. McGinn just shouldn’t be starting though.

Just sign the new deal edit - apologies, thought I was in the Luiz thread

PROUD

If we can take something tonight then surely we can build some consistency and confidence?

We really do deserve something from this game.

Probably the best performing player so far this season.

Take that Haaland you great lumux

Yyyyyyyeeeesss

Stolen from another thread

7th still on?

we can all show off our new toys. Dendoncker incoming. Oh wait.

A clean sheet so far - what is this wizardry?

Grealish on the bench. Haaland, De Bruyne and Foden start. Oh joy

Plenty of light, glass roof and good use of red brick and metal. Everything is just well thought out, which is to be expected with our owners. #feelingblessed

I posted my team before he moved!

Here’s what I think will loosely happen, we’ll try and ruff them up in the first 5/10 minutes. McGinn, Mings or Cash will take a booking in that frenetic opening minutes, the crowd will be loud, behind the team and moaning at the ref. Approx 15 minutes in we’ll concede the first goal from City’s pretty much first real attack. It’ll be a calamitous defensive error or fortuitous deflection. A few crowd noises will then be heard of “Gerrard Out”. We’ll then be all over the place for 30 minutes and they’ll look to score two or three more before halftime. However, we’ll somehow hold out. Last ditch tackles and some poor finishing let us off the hook. The whistle will blow for halftime and the booing will be a little louder. The same eleven that started will return and again for 5 minutes we’ll look ok, maybe even gain a corner, and the Holte End will be on their feet, but wait? Our corner kick specialist is on the bench, damn it. It comes to nothing. City then grab a second from a swift break and our heads drop. City make three changes but the quality of their game doesn’t drop. Gerrard will ponder a change or two and on 60 minutes he’s decisive by bringing on Ings, Luiz and possibly Buendia. The crowd start singing “you don’t know what you’re doing”. City score again and very quickly another. 4-0 down with 15 minutes to play, then whoever took our first booking of the day for us will make a “I’ve had enough” challenge and get sent off, with a second yellow. The crowd become hostile and our dugout are getting absolute pelters from the fans behind. Gerrard sits looking pensive and is ready to say “it’s on me”. City score a fifth in the dying moments and that’s it. Game over. All in all a pretty miserable day. Gerrard will say the usual nonsense about the gulf in quality but that he’ll work tirelessly to put it right during the week ahead. It won’t be far off this I reckon. UTV

Can we all focus on the possible signing of Jan Bednarek please? (I’m all out of tissues that’s why)

Can play midfield or defence and gives us some extra physicality on the pitch. I think we’ll really like him. Honestly, it’s a decent solid signing.

Could also be an issue if the deal doesn’t happen now. Will Luiz be so p%^*# off that we then stop playing him all together?

Typing on my phone and watching SSN transfer hub isn’t a great combination when writing something on VT is it.

If Luiz goes tonight, then I wish we could have got Tielemans. Tielemans and Dendoncker together would have been decent business. edit- I really should read before I post

I assume Man City will get a percentage of any deal being done?