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Luiz looking way off the pace.

Loved him last night. Absolutely harassed Andres Homes, who had one of the worst individual performances I've ever seen last night. Big part of that was McGinn absolutely bossing him. You could see homes frustration building and building all game. He just coudktn get around McGInns enormous ass!

Yeah took my daughter to her first game yesterday and she was so excited with the singing and atmosphere. Stayed for about ten minutes afterwards for the HI Hi and sweet Caroline. Was absolutely glorious. The holte was awesome, but as others have said itbseemedt like all four stands. Was epic Even Jamie carragher made a point of mentioning it at full time

Yeah I definitely noticed he wasn't his usual self, and worryingly didn't seem to believe he was as good as he so clearly is. Maybe a bit of a wobble in confidence after difficult two weeks and this ridiculous losing run that everyone keeps mentioning. Hopefully now the monkey is off his back he will kick on. Have to say the crowd were excellent with him last night. When clearly struggling they kept singing his name. Good to see He'll come good, he is far too good not to

One other thing to note was how impressive he was aerially. For a little lad he won a huge amount in the air as he has a real spring on him. When Walcott missed the sitter, he had leapt up to win a header and was blatantly pushed when in the air, blatant foul not given. Was going potty at the ref, if they had scored from that would have been shocking

I think last night we saw how crucial Jota will be in getting best out of Wesley. I'm sure grealish will add to the through balls when he finds his feet again but at the moment Jota is the only one looking for those little balls. Played him through a few times in both halves

In fairness Elmo did well on Saturday, people talking about no end product. He put in a great ball for grealish who missed an absolute sitter. There were another few crosses put in which found Taylor who should have scored and another couple that found men in good positions. Can't recall if all of these crosses were Elmo but the grealish one definitely was

The Steer supporters in here have very short memories. Yes the lad can pull off some top saves, but my god do you not remember second half of play off semi v WBA where for twenty minutes it seemed like he was on a mission to pass the ball to their centre forward!? (Three or four times!) Even in pre season against Shrewsbury and Charlton he did the same trying to be smart about passing it out. Good shot stopper not great at anything else, liability with his feet. Heaton will be quality. Sadly it seems many on here will never forgive him for not being Butland. Who by the way dropped two absolute clangers into his own net last night...

You thought McGinn was poor? I'm sorry I must have been watching a different game. How anyone can watch that game and come away criticising SJM and defending Grealish is beyond me. Truly. Fwiw I don't think Luiz is a DM. A DM for me has to hunt the ball and break up play similar to Kante. Luiz is a classy playmaker but did little in terms of tackling and chasing down. I think a classic DM is going to be crucial to us. How we fit Marvelous in and then have room for SJM Jack and Luiz is another matter, but as some suggest Jack in a free role off the left wing is an option. And maybe necessary as AEG is nowhere near good enough

Is he injured?? Disappointed he isn't even in squad. Needed far more energy in centre of park today. Not completely sold on luiz, had a dodgy first half gradually improved but hardly a DM didn't really tackle or Harry or press.

Jota and Kodija sub didn't work. Drew them onto us even more. Live and learn

Jota makes sense. He will play in games where we will have a lot of the ball. But away against the top 6 we need pace to break out more than a baller like jota

Can't believe Ryan Kent going to Leeds for under £10 million. Amazed we not all over that. Young huge potential, lightning pace, eye for goal. Did fantastic for rangers and had his best games in the old firm.Better than Wilson for me for absolute bargain price

I'm just glad someone has finally jetwashed the concrete on the north dtand! Needed a good old clean for well over a decade!

I'm dead against knocking down and building modern stadium. Villa Park is a special place, how the fudge trinity road wasn't listed I don't know but the classic old school design is absolutely unique in that we also have corporate facilities on a par with the modern stadiums. Something Doug takes a lot of credit for. There isn't an old stadium like it. We don't need a new stadium, more than enough corporate boxes for money making. Only thing that makes sense is knocking down north stand and building another holte sized beast. That would bring it up to about 52000. If any further development needed knock down the awful Doug ellis and build another trinity sized stand over the road again. Could easily get the existing stadium up to over 60,000. Obviously at a cost. But for me the Doug ellis was built on the cheap and looks dreadful

Young was the best winger in the league for 18 months. I agree he was on the slide before he moved to United but this was more down to our gradual decline under MON and the fact teams were literally double and triple banking him as we had so little threat in other areas. So hardly his fault

Sadly I don't see us filling in the corners. As mentioned above it's not practical on North stand end as long term North stand needs knocking down. Holte end would lose the iconic build of the stand alone holte end, something I'm dead against. If we are looking at turning it into a bowl like all the rest then we may as well sell VP and start building a completely new modern stadium. Personally I think building a new North stand on similar scale as holte is best current bet. We own the land. Plenty of room and would add another 8/9k bringing us up to 50,000 which is more than enough for the foreseeable future

Can't claim to have seen enough of Wilson to know if he will be PL quality, but on face of it makes sense, young pacey a d set pieces to rival CH if and when he is dropped from starting 11

Obviously not familiar with insta as pictures posted stay on there,, but all the daily stories disappear. Anyway nowhere have I said I don't wish him all the best, did well for us last year and thankful. I'm pointing out I think we should move on as he won't be a top PL striker Imho. And I believe imho that he won't be a happy bunny sat on the bench

I'm not the first one to point out his hold up play and first touch. The goals from open play did all but completely dry up, and while he was a good impact on the squad as he was the undisputed number 9, geez if you follow the lad on Instagram and twitter there is no doubting his ego! Lad believes he will score 26 goals for Chelsea in Premier League this year. We'll see

I'll be absolutely gutted if it is. Think it would even dampen my spirits of an incredible window. Abraham scored goals for usast year but from January on, even including the unbeaten run his all round play was pretty poor and his goals started to dry up from open play. He has a huge ego, won't take kindly to sitting on bench and just isn't good enough for the big league. Think it would be a huge mistake drowned in sentiment and he would end up rocking the boat when realises he isn't first 11

Absolute Stupidity. Looked like he played a big part in their two goals as well then gets sent off for trying to get ball off defender after second goal. Grabbed him from behind around neck and almost body slammed into the floor 2 feet from the ref. Idiot

You do realise he has played half a season after the injury and been as athletic as ever?? Check out the 2019 best saves highlight reel, doesn't look to have an issue with agility whatsoever

Let's not forget that Heaton leaving also massively weakens a relegation rival. Burnley stats last year first half of season were shocking. Heaton returning in January literally saved them and improved dramatically

The more I think about it the happier I am with this signing. I can understand why Butland may make more sense with resale value age etc, but simple fact is at the moment there is no doubt Heaton is the better keeper. Next video is of 2019 after his injury when he was injured for half the year. Still some unreal saves, agility top notch, parries into right areas commanding. Total keeper for me. Brilliant value