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Stolen from another thread 

7th still on?

1 minute ago, maqroll said:

Alvarez incoming.

 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

34 minutes ago, Brumstopdogs said:

 

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

1 hour ago, Peter Griffin said:

Iroegbunam moved to QPR on loan for the season

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

1 minute ago, mjmooney said:

I think throwing lots of sprouts might be amusing. Much easier to smuggle into the ground, and suggests he's even more insignificant than Bruce. 

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? 

2 minutes ago, nick76 said:

Dondocker is almost as good a nickname as DenDonkey.  Great name to do nicknames

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? 

4 minutes ago, AshVilla said:

You realise we only have seven or eight hours to find a replacement right?

I imagine his replacement is Dendoncker. Also we’re a business, we’re not going to turn down 25m plus for someone who for clearly wants to go and will also walk for free in 9 months.  

It’s a shame if we lose him but he’s not irreplaceable. I imagine 25m, plus a couple of million in add ons will do it. No point keeping an unhappy player who walks for free in 9 months. 

3 minutes ago, Laughable Chimp said:

I just don't think we need him.

We already have Sanson, Luiz, Kamara, Mcginn, Ramsey and Nakamba hell include Iroegbunam into the mix too. 

 

Unlikely, but we could lose Luiz, Nakamba and Sanson today.  

I don’t want him to go but if he doesn’t want to sign a new deal, then it’s a business at the end of the day. 20m plus today or lose him for nothing in 9 months? 

Can’t see anything other than a couple of loans at best today. It’s who leaves which could be more disappointing.

Again, the team below won’t be anywhere near the team we see but it’s what I would go with in order to keep the score down:

                                    Martinez

                   Konsa    Chambers    Mings            

 Cash                                                                 Digne

                      Kamara                     Luiz

                                     Buendia

                       Bailey                     Watkins                
 

Subs:  Olsen, Augustinsson, Young, Iroegbunam, Ramsey, McGinn, Coutinho, Archer, Ings

On the 8 November 2020, we went to the Emirates and pretty much destroyed Arsenal 0-3, playing a 4-2-3-1 formation. Interestingly, seven of our players who played that night played a large part again last night - Martinez, Cash, Konsa, Mings, McGinn, Luiz, Watkins.

How can we be so different? The first half last night was an embarrassment. 
 

Now moving forward, surely we need to move back to a 4-2-3-1 formation just to bring some balance and organisation to the side?  

                          Martinez

Cash     Chambers       Mings       Digne

                 Kamara        Luiz

            ??              ??              ??

                              ??

Just look him in the eye Calum for god’s sake 

Can we actually play a balanced team at present or not then?

I honestly don’t know our best eleven right now?

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