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They have assumed Liverpool's role delightfully.

Had a look at players at his age, in a similar position, who played over 1,000 mins last season in the top leagues around Europe. It's a short but very good list of players. Sandro Tonali, Boubacar Kamara, Hamed Junior Traore, Eljif Elmas, Aurelien Tchouameni, Yacine Adli. (Any of those in bold would be fantastic signings for us going forward) If he's not getting on the pitch much, I would like to see him go out in January. See how things shape up.

Brooks is miles and miles better than either Trez or Traore. It's too quiet though, don't think it'll be anyone except maybe some older cover on loan or something.

"Little Mendy"

In my opinion it was poorly thought out but the question itself wasn't the problem no, it was her responses afterwards. It's like she was bored and decided to play devil's advocate poking those who were basically saying "I can't afford it". The gist I saw before she disappeared off twitter when people said they couldn't afford it or didn't want to pay was her saying well you don't have to go, you've got a choice. Yes, thanks Eni, great input, I think they know it's not essential. They want to go/watch games, and have been able to, now they're being asked to pay more.

I agree. It was like she was baiting people though. Very strange. You would never in a million years find Purslow putting his foot in it to this extent twice within three months. She needs to get off twitter if she's going to remain in a prominent position at Villa, she can't be trusted to not embarrass herself and the club. Or we could just sack her now and save face for the next time she asks why people less well off than her don't want to spend money on something they've already paid for.

In the wrong thread!

Aluko is horribly oblivious. Maybe she should try and not having a well paid job she has no credentials for. See if she's so relaxed about spending money. This would be two strikes for me if I was Purslow. Three if you include the signings she's probably responsible for that have been pumped almost every match.

I hope he does it again if asked about Grealish. He's totally embarrassing himself, it's funny. He's also contradicting everything he's said before with the reasons he gave for Jack not making squads at all. Be a man Gareth. You're the England manager. If you don't think he's good enough or playing well enough say it when you next leave him out of a squad. Don't lie about the level he's at or the position he's in. If England play this 343 abomination trying to press from the front, but with full backs as midfielders, we'll get obliterated by any half decent side. There's no one in the middle of the pitch! We're in a ridiculous position. Southgate is never going to manage ever again after this. He didn't want a job after the Boro debacle but fell into the 21s role!

Swear to god I had that in my head when I started and tied myself in knots. Yes, the only issue we have is if City want him for their XI. If it's for anything else, I think we're in a decent place to buy our way out of it.

Guff.

Loved what you said about people just calling him "Jack". Because everyone knows who that is.

I often think about this as I'm watching his reputation grow. I think he left spurs this summer and went to a super elite. City, Liverpool, Real Madrid stuff. 5 year deal in 2018, made it clear to Levy he wasn't signing a new one. They got £115m for him. He's an England staple, not even a debate.

If we have a good season I think he'd still want to play. Won't want to go to city and be on the bench. He'd be well worth paying them another £20-30m to stop them buying him back IMO. The guy's nonchalant ability is silly. You just trust him on the ball. Plays his way out of everything and has figured out how to compete while not being the biggest.

Amine Gouiri who we probably could have pinched for £8m at the start of the window has started the season on fire for Nice. Very lively left winger/striker. Turns 21 in February, someone who we should definitely have a look at next summer. Any longer and I think he'll be beyond us unless we do a real madness this season. Nice are having a good run at Champions League in France this season.

He could get a league two club if he really wanted to. Hope his agent isn't being silly here and telling him to wait for a "big club". He needs games or he is in danger of falling out of football. The last two years he was here he was abysmal. If he wasn't injured, every second he was on the pitch he was terrified. Real shame he couldn't use confidence from that Sheff Utd goal. Came on in the playoff final, and quite a few other key games towards the end of the season. Did nothing in any.

I imagine it could be Jacob Ramsey or Lionel Messi and ROK would treat them exactly the same in training. Shouting at them to use their weak foot on drills and to pick up the cones on the far side at the end.

Good words from Dougie. So often you see these annoying "lost in translation" stories around this time saying I CAN'T WAIT TO LEAVE VILLA or something like that. Nothing of the like.

He wasn't even good for him tonight. That formation was a rotter, Grealish hid another bad England performance.

This is very correct and you could see it after 5 mins. Embarrassing professional management. **** embarrassing. Stubborn this. This formation is a mess. It was against Denmark or whoever it was.

We would **** murder England with Southgate as manager. For one, only we would have Grealish playing. We'd thump them about 5-0.

Nah, he's injured. Been walking round the whole game. Quite what the **** is going on I don't know. Southgate now planning to play him for 270 mins no doubt.

He probably wants to play. But he should be sitting out a friendly ffs.

Yep, down now.

He's definitely injured.