The Other Mat

I was hoping for at least one further quality signing but if the players aren't available now for whatever reason then so be it. No point bringing anyone in for an inflated fee now who isn't quite the required level. They'll probably only end up on the peripheries of the squad and eventually shipped off to Turkey for nowt.

In most of the areas Buendia gets criticism, Harrison isn't any better. He loses the ball more than Buendia and his passing is worse. Defensively they're on par but Harrison has 8 more goals than Emi in roughly the same amount of top flight games. If we want to improve then he's defo not the kind of player we need.

Auba in the summer seems a legit link. Emery must have watched that chelsea game where he was subbed on, played with zero effort, then was subbed off and decided we need an aging forward, with zero application to join our squad... Or not.

Alan Wight was a left back

I couldn't get to sleep last night thinking about his performance. Unreal player.

Nah, We bought him for £13m.

Yeah it's narrative they want to spin. The whole post match analysis was about Spurs. It's a joke.

Read this from the BBC feed... Unai Emery says everyone at Aston Villa is “proud” of their World Cup-winning goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez and wants him to quickly adapt back to life in the Midlands. "For us we are proud of him and every Aston Villa supporter must be proud of him," said Emery. “We have in our team and our squad a winner of a World Cup. Congratulations to him. "He pushes his team-mates on the training ground every day. When he comes back we have to try to introduce him again into our everyday and to be positive to use his energy to help us.” Martinez drew criticism for his celebrations when awarded the World Cup Golden Glove and Emery wants him to be ready for the challenges at his club side. "Hopefully he is coming 100% focused on Aston Villa. He has to adapt again in a new way with us," he said. So it's Emery and the coaching teams decision not to start him.

Seems the plan was never for him to start today so that's on Emery rather than Emi.

Pundits turn everything into a drama, just for something to fill the airtime.Sky started it years ago and its ebbed into everything since. All of them are clueless.

This place is insane sometimes the bloke could have cold, slight injury, who knows.

Seriously why does anyone care that he's holding a doll with an Mbappe mask on? Well, apart from Mbappe himself and surely he has the emotional intelligence not to cry about it.

He made a comment after the USA game saying "Our 2 CBs controlled the game" that sums up his tactical approach in general. Honestly hope this is the end for him. I just want a manger who players on the front foot and utilises the squad to its fullest, not relying on the same few players to drag us through a match.

We've needed a solid DM for years. I think he'll turn out to be a really decent bit of business for us.

Looks a proper baller and the type of midfielder we've needed for years. Id love to see him in a double pivot with Kamara next season.

Buendia assisted the peno and it was hardly a simple header to put away.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/63585647 This brilliant from Jack.

If everything goes to plan he could be the next Kevin Davies.

Tbh... Not the diving but some of the fouls off the ball stuff were horrendous. I don't blame them the Ref let then get away with all sorts so they carried on.

He was basically none of the above today

Man of the Match. (Can't believe you missed it!)

What a goal!

This looks so much better with the colours corrected. At this stage of the process it's unforgivable to see the finalised colours that far out.