AndyM3000

Confident we can finish ahead of Spurs and Everton now. Nuno's best traits are playing counter attacking football and his Wolves team did well in big games but couldn't break down shit teams. Think the chances of Kane sticking around to play under Nuno are close to zero.

I think that's an absolutely awful appointment for Everton. If Spurs go for Nuno as well we can finish above both of these.

Please don't ever leave

They have the team to play everyone off the park and do things in style but hes being a nit. It's like us benching Grealish and for 75 mins and starting with Trez then trying to nick it. This game, like all the other England ones, have been boring as ****.

They created 0.18xG before Grealish was on. Now at 1.31xG. It was a dreadful starting line up and nothing will change that.

Grealish creates goals, what a shock

Not sure you'd get away with that in the Prem

Icelandic clap for a freekick. If I ever see that down Villa Park I'm leaving.

Was going to say Germany have failed with the through ball a few times but if they get it right it will be a big chance. It's been on a lot.

The hype over freekicks, it's like watching Stoke from 10 years ago

I'd take England's attack over the Germans but unfortunately England's attack is on the bench.

If this was a training game, that bench beats the first team. The first team wouldn't get the ball off them.

I don't even care about England, not one bit. To the point I'm more interested in Villa winning a throw in than them winning the World Cup. I hope our lads do well if they are called upon but Southgate is such a boring nitty manager I honestly hope Germany smash them, there's so much potential with this attack and he's going to play Kane and Sterling, 5 at the back, 2 DMs, it's embarrassing. The English media are a joke as well, went from being favs to winning it to "Defend and wait for moments" after the first game. He's honestly worse than McLeish, baffles me how so many people think he's doing a good job.

I just went on Wiki to check how much each stand holds and saw this..

I'm on the wait list. Got no idea how many are on it or how far down the list I am. I think we have 32,000 ST holders? Last I heard waitlist was over 10k long, I'd have thought most would renew, who wouldn't now?

I don't if they are all given but the next 99 challenges like that will be a yellow, which is why it will annoy me so much. Similar to the Watkins "dive" v Utd, 99/100 times just told to get up and play on.

I think every ref is just shit. Doesn't matter if they are on VAR or on the pitch, so many of them are awful.

After seeing our team get ripped apart 10+ years ago and watching, Milner, Barry, Young all slowly leave I am fairly numb to it all now. If we lost Emi, Watkins, Konsa, it would be a big set back but I'm confident we can replace them. We obviously can't replace Jack but we'd have some serious money to spend and I trust our scouting set up to come good long term. For me, it's more the fact he's a Villa fan, the captain, been here all his life and I've watched him since he was a kid, it will pain me to see him playing for City or anyone else. He is the heart of this club and while nobody is bigger than the club he's not far off it.

On this positive sign, I did watch the Kane interview from a month or so back. He obviously wants to win things as well, but said he's only 27 and still sees himself as only being halfway through his career with how long he wants to play for. Jack can play for a long time with his style, it's the pace merchants that can really drop off once that goes. Hopefully he looks at things the same way and we get another year, we must get Europe this season if he does stay.

I like Raph and will get him in for Buendia after 3 games if that doesn't start too well. The one thing I will take from last season is to try and hold my transfers and maintain 2 rolling ones. It gave me a lot more room to fix problems quickly and also shift funds between Def/Mid/Attack without taking hits.

Well, get ready for this quote to do the rounds. Jack Grealish - "I want to win the Champions League"

Jack will be on the England live stream soon if anyone is interested (starts 4pm).

Done a first draft, will check in again towards the start of the season. Buendia, Fofana and Lampty won't be going anywhere all season for me as it stands. Kane is overpriced, he will really struggle to replicate last seasons points while Salah had a somewhat poor season by his standards and has a much higher ceiling for the same price. They have messed Mane's price up for the 2nd season running, shame that.

He kept dribbling it towards the opponents goal instead of passing it back to Pickford.

Cracking 2nd half this