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2 minutes ago, Hornso said:

Why not exclusive screenings? Each game sold to the highest bidder & they’re the only person in the world to see it.

I think Wu-Tang Clan used this model to sell one of their albums. Makes as much sense as expecting us to pay £15 per game

9 minutes ago, Lord Willard said:

Stolen off Twitter

 

Surely it should be the whole England team that are drowning. Grealish is the Life Preserver ring on the fence in the background

58 minutes ago, WakefieldVillan said:

Unfortunately I think we will get beat here and I think Vardy will be the main difference - They battered us twice in the league last season and he scored half of their eight goals in those matches - I'm just not convinced we will be able to stop him (again).

How do teams even stop Vardy? The only team who I get the impression he always struggles against is Wolves but I don't know if that's just a psychological bogey team type thing.

6 minutes ago, villalad21 said:

Gareth plays with 3 centre backs and 2 holding midfielders.

He's only done that for the last 3 games, in the Iceland game and before we played 4 at the back. He doesn't really have a footballing philosophy strong enough to actually describe as far as anyone can tell.

IMO Grealish could thrive in any system if given a fair chance.

54 minutes ago, jacketspuds said:

Jamie Redknapp has said that Mount can be England's Kevin De Bruyne. I wonder if Southgate will shoot that down as quickly as the Grealish/ Gascoigne comparisons.

Ah well yes, as you can see from the table below, Mount's stats stack up very well to KDB, especially when you consider he was playing in a weaker team.

https://streamja.com/pAmeK

Forget just saving that, I know a guy who would've caught it

9 minutes ago, Zatman said:

He only has 6 league titles and 2 Copa Liberatadores on his CV  

Yeah I read his Wikipedia too

Still never heard of him

He's on the bench again behind some bloody old codger who's never even played in Europe.

For all I know Franco Armani could be the second coming of Lev Yashin but I'm still going to curse the name of whatever Argentinian Southgate equivalent is picking this team.

30 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said:

Is that former Villa youth man Rob Edwards managing the Welsh?

 

Think it's a different one, Wiki reckons our one is managing England U16s

17 minutes ago, VillaFaninLondon said:

As far as I'm aware:

Schmeichel (Denmark)

Soyuncu, Under (Turkey)

Evans (N Ireland)

Castagne, Tielemans, Praet (Belgium)

Barnes (England)

Iheanacho (Nigeria)

 

So that's 9 players, of which 6 (I think) will definitely start against us. We have six senior internationals on duty I believe, 4 will definitely start against Leicester. So not too much difference but we're a bit more fortunate in that players like Barkley and Trez didn't get called up on this occasion (in Trez's case I'm not sure why but I think Egypt aren't playing in October). 

The new CB they bought is also in the U21s for France. Not sure Amartey is in the Ghana squad as well but I'd assume so.

All of Leicester's first XI other than Vardy are current internationals. Pereira and Ndidi are already injured so they didn't travel but the rest did AFAIK.

Soyuncu seems to have picked up a knock playing for Turkey as well so that's potentially three of their best defensive players out.

Seems like other than Vardy, Mendy and Justin (the fill ins for Pereira and Ndidi) everyone who will play against us has travelled.

The only disadvantage we'll have in this area is we have two South Americans that have travelled further and played in the middle of the night.

Edit - Unless Maddison is back fit, he didn't travel either.

11 minutes ago, villalad21 said:

Let's not get injuries then. Problem solved.

I don't think the PL allow you to just cancel your games against Burnley that easily.

8 hours ago, PaulC said:

what a load of bollocks this article by Nick wright of skysports https://www.skysports.com/football/news/12016/12101756/mason-mount-justifies-inclusion-over-jack-grealish-as-england-beat-belgium. Guess Grealish can only keep performing at the very high level he has  and its up to Southgate whether he wants to select Mount over him Could cost him his job eventually. 

The most annoying thing about all this is that Mount and Grealish could very easily play together and there would be room if we played 4-3-3 instead of this 5-2-1-2 abomination.

Sadly though, a very soft penalty, a very deflected shot and 5 bad misses by Carrasco have meant that our outcome-oriented, nonanalytical media are describing this as "vindication" for Southgate and his flawed system.

8 hours ago, MaVilla said:

Please don't let us lose, I don't think I could handle all the "bielsa is the Lord almighty walking on water turning shit in to wine hes the mentor of Pep the Great and king poch the master of the game and the man who taught Einstein about science and painted the mona lisa and invented the wheel and created sliced bread".........

And all that crap.

I mean damn, yeah he's a good manager but blimey the media jerking off is really bordering on fetishism.

Even if we beat Leeds the media will give Bielsa the credit for inspiring us to beat Leeds by coaching Leeds in such a brilliant perfect magical way. Truly a master of the game.

30 minutes ago, Brentfordnylons said:

Got that wrong He’s a hammer 

That's alright, not the biggest plot twist in a transfer this window. 

5 minutes ago, Kiwivillan said:

12 goals in 24 at CF looks good to me 

Transfermarkt have him down as 70 games, 38 goals, 11 assists at CF over his whole career as well. Goal involvement every 100 minutes is nothing to sniff at. Seems like he's very well versed in playing in the centre of a front 3.

9 hours ago, Zatman said:

Jairo Riedewald, still on the Palace books amazingly

He actually played a few before lockdown when PVA was injured IIRC. No idea he was still there before that either.

Next tier of opposition? What tier is above 5 goal involvements against one of the best teams in the world?

10 minutes ago, Thug said:

 

Never a truer word spoken.  Burdening players with comparisons and tags.  Southgate frowns on it.

 

 

 

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/812699/England-captain-Gareth-Southgate-Harry-Kane-Alan-Shearer

https://www.news24.com/sport/soccer/englishpremiership/southgate-compares-harry-kane-to-shearer-20170605

 

 

It's just... He has no integrity. It's the worst thing I can say about anyone.

3 minutes ago, KenjiOgiwara said:

Who's the right pick as an England manager going forward you reckon?? 

Someone with a club management career that wasn't an unmitigated disaster for a start. I wouldn't mind Eddie Howe but I'd prefer Potter.

1 hour ago, Reivax_Villa said:

 

Performance of the week?! And the rest!

Here's your award for GOAT PL result Deano