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McGinn said he was fine to continue at first but then when he said he felt dizzy he was subbed off straight away. Seems like the absolute right thing to do to me. 

7 hours ago, Zatman said:

apparently he wants to go as well

And has said he is willing to pay for any fees necessary regarding quarantine himself apparently. 

I hope the club understands that now they’ve made this statement of allowing players to go abroad despite the league itself saying no, it’s going to cause problems if it’s only select players being allowed to go. 

Bit of a stupid thing to do IMO. 

Will do this whole bunch of talent a world of good being around the likes of Ashley Young also. Shakespeare has already made comments on how Young has come in and taken them under his wing a bit, has set rules and stays onto the younger players to stay tidy etc. in the dressing room. Young has done it all pretty much, you have to respect him and his career which I am sure the younger lads will do of course. 

Not just Carney of course, but I can't help but think we have a really good bunch of young players and they're in a great environment for us to get the best out of them and for them to get the best out of themselves. Love the culture of our club now and you can see why younger players are attracted to us with the pathway to the first team being very obviously there.

Somebody take note of the time I said it previously but I’ll state it again - Carney is our best midfielder. I’m really not surprised he is starting already, he’s ready for it.

27 minutes ago, nick76 said:

That’s rubbish, his goal per minute in the last two years in the PL is up there.  Just because Tuchel didn’t fancy him when he came in doesn’t discount that. Tuchel wants the best in the world like Lukaku, but only a handful of players are that level. Tammy has proved he can play at this level.

He was Chelsea’s joint top scorer last season. If we bought Tammy people would have been over the moon, he has all the right attributes technically, physically and mentally. I’m actually glad for him that he has got to link up with Jose again and I’d be happy if we were in a position to be linked to him again in the future. 
 

6 hours ago, Vive_La_Villa said:

I can’t stand the victim posts. I don’t even know if the people posting them are white or of a minority.

As a ‘brown’ person myself it really winds me up when this shit comes up when it’s completely unfounded.

 AEG gets ridiculous criticism because he is inconsistent and because of what he did at Southampton.  I’ve seen white players like Westwood and Bannan get far worse abuse than Anwar. So anyone saying it’s because he is a Muslim, please **** off with your bullshit.

Lol “if anybody says it’s racially driven you’re wrong.” He isn’t being abused solely because he is Muslim, but 110% he will get it worse because of his religious views and his ethnicity. Welcome to England. 

Yes he has had public death threats and abuse on social media, he even came off social media completely at one point. I dread to imagine what his DMs look like.

Players that aren’t white will receive racist abuse, it’s a fact, it isn’t a myth and it isn’t an overreaction. Without getting overly political, despite us living in a multicultural society I think it is too often forgotten that this country is literally built off the back of racism, racial prejudice and colonialism. 

Yes white players get abuse, but players from different backgrounds and religions get the abuse in much different forms and that is by default and that is a fact.

Lars Kornetka coming in as assistant? Used to be PSV Eindhoven assistant, and also coached under Pep at Bayern. Great if true

I thought his distribution was really good last night, most balls sent out to our left flank landed straight on El Ghazi. I’d never begrudge Jed if he wanted to leave for more football but I don’t see us getting any better backup keeper. Top pro, good keeper, cheers Paul Lambert. 

Shit show

Just now, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

Anyone reckon Chuk or Ramsey could do a job here today?

Chuk is one of our best midfielders and everybody will hopefully see that this season

Mings just threw that guy about 20 yards down the pitch 

Just now, sne said:

Too easy, can't be for them to just give the ball to pacy Sarr and have him blast past on our left ime after time after time.

Where is Young? I genuinely don't think he has had a touch of the ball

15 minutes ago, thejoker said:

I think he said he’s happy with our squad. Didn’t rule out more signings. Smith said we would have signed Buendia even if Grealish stayed, so we must have at least £40m left to spend if we want to. 

Right now it looks like we just spent the Grealish money and I'm sure we want to keep other clubs thinking that too. If teams think you've got £100m to spend they're going to shaft you, if they think you've already spent that £100m it may be better for us. 

Just think, it really wasn't too long ago that we were praying Tonev would be good even though he cost about £1m. Now we have £30m+ Leon Bailey. As much as I hate this game sometimes, I do love it, so so much.

19 hours ago, ChicagoVillan1983 said:

Pretty cool we have a 15 million player that most people have written off to 0 coming back. Exciting to see if he has the potential we saw in him.

And also note that we got him for £15m as a cut price deal, easily a £30m+ player if Marseille were able to command the fee at the time. Look forward to seeing him back fit and healthy

8 minutes ago, romavillan said:

I've seen an interview with souness where he talks about that, I'm sure there's another story about a keeper but I don't remember it. Something about him going on in tracky bottoms and blatantly having never been in goal apart from down the park...

There was that Bulgarian lad too who played for Aston Villa based on the opinions of a fellow Bulgarian ex-player + 5 minutes worth of video footage. 

4 minutes ago, ferguson1 said:

Exactly this. The unbreakable, as some said on here, is now broken. Hopefully only for a week but shows how useful having two quality strikers is going to be.

Even if he isn't broken per se, he has time to rest without us stressing over who can play instead of him. Rushing back he who shall not be named last season ended up in him getting injured more. Look forward to seeing Ollie with Ings eventually though, reckon that could be a great duo.

3 minutes ago, Chine said:

In town you say ? 
 

mate

Digbeth to be precise

Just now, It's Your Round said:

Be nice to see Cleverley completely bypassed today. Also glad there’s no sloth Deeney in their squad. I’m excited to see how Buendia and Young link up with Ings. Also hopeful that El Ghazi can impact the game like he does when he’s at his best. 

Saw Deeney a few weeks ago (literally 2 weeks ago) off his face in town on the table next to mine

Genuine question, what is everybody's problem with El Ghazi? 

4 minutes ago, Phil Silvers said:

mmmmm, I wonder why. Games gone, these companies are too big now to leave results to chance. Fixed!

I thought that was weird too, it looked pretty clear to be an offside if we're going to be "precise" via technology. 

I don't wanna hear any "lazy" "bad attitude" blah blah blah comments about Pogba any more, what an incredibly talented **** player he is.

3 perfectly made assists, WOW

In the last year of his deal however I feel we're probably in a good position with him, if we can get £8m-£10m from West Ham and invest that into another CB (which looks like may be happening anyway) it is great business since we got him so cheap from Wolves.

That said, he is also a good player and I'd be happy to see him sign an extension, absolute unit in the air.

Nobody is the perfect player, but in regards to leadership nobody is better than Mings at our club. He will literally fight for his teammates, for the badge, for the club. He has an incredible amount of passion for the sport and beyond that he is clearly very intelligent, I'm glad he can get back to wearing that armband with pride now.