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God a dose of Covid has done him wonders. He was fantastic!

I think he’ll start Ramsay v Newcastle but I really thought it was Luiz that got booked.

I mean to be fair it’s a good tactic to keep in mind for the future...keep a forward player well offside only to run back on and tackle a player receiving the ball. I actually thought it was situations like this that the offside rule was brought in for. Nobody will care outside Villa Park though as it keeps the title race more exciting.

He was so good today, he deserved a clean sheet. He totally expected not to be tackled by an offside player and yes he he should have just headed it but 99% of the other teams in the league would have already been losing by that point as our defence was magnificent up to then.

Yes I picked up on this and wanted to know more. He clearly thinks we are not treated fairly but I’m surprised he thought it was personal to him. Possibly because he comes across as such a nice guy, which I bet he is. So maybe this will turn out to be a good thing if the officials realise he is not such a pushover and will be noisier about decisions that don’t go our way. what happens to him re the red?

Jack, Targett and SJM possibly. It resets after our GW19. So sometime late summer at this rate.

Traore is in some of the Ross Barkley pics. But I agree that the training pics don’t really give a true indication of who is at what stage of recovery (other than who is now testing negative) and whether they would be able to play a competitive match tomorrow. I imagine there will be a lot of assessment during these sessions.

By the badly translated remarks from the Marseille fans in that Twitter thread, he had a stinker of a game at the weekend. They’ve just been talking about this rumour on TalkSPORT and their transfer journo says he called someone he knows ‘close’ to Villa and they didn’t give him any info, therefore he’s deduced it must be happening or we’d deny it. Outstanding journalism, I hope he gets paid well for that.

Literally the only advantage we have going into this match is that City (hopefully) won’t know who is affected and who will be fit. That said, footballers talk and they probably know who our positives were already.

I think he just meant that you both have alcohol related user names and he gets you mixed up.

I would say half way between the two. Not Percy confirmed but well above Mail click bait link.

He is known to be pretty reliable but clearly gets some things wrong.

This guy also said we were signing Rashica last summer.

Our starting defence has been fantastic this season, we’d be mad to sell any of them. Strengthen further yes in case of injury or to provide competition but keep them all.

I tend to agree. I would be gutted if we decided against buying him after he seems to fit in so well here and then watch him have a fantastic injury free season elsewhere. That said, I’m happy to wait until the end of the season to make a final decision (although if he stays injury free and plays brilliantly for the rest of the season his price may rocket).

Apparently we didn’t officially request the Spurs game be postponed until Saturday which is why Fulham are spitting feathers because it led to their late notice about their rearrangement. It is probably why we are putting in an early request re the Everton game.

Spurs can be thanking their lucky stars it didn’t happen to them given the behaviour of their players over Christmas. They absolutely don’t get to take the moral high ground. Tonight’s fixture will go ahead of it can because there will be no space to rearrange FA cup fixtures and we will want the tv money. I would fully expect us to be treated the same as Newcastle and Man City by the PL and the Spurs game postponed, not sure about Everton.

I’m not sure we’ve even had any links on Twitter tbh.

I was quite surprised CP raved about him so much given what we have been told re buy back clause. I listened thinking “shuussshh!! . I now choose to think that a permanent deal is in the bag

By the look of his Insta, he’s back in training but on his own so maybe a couple of weeks behind Barkley. Yes I’m aware this is pure speculation from 1 Insta story, I’m not proud.

Yellow card suspensions don’t transfer between competitions so if they’d have got booked at utd, they’d be out for Spurs. However red cards do transfer to domestic competitions so Matt Doherty will miss the Brentford game for Spurs and not the game against us.

Yep. All of that (still secretly wishing for a EL spot though).

Yes, he will want to forget his last couple of matches but we are doing so well and have transformed ourselves defensively. Mings is a massive part of that and has been largely excellent this season yet people are falling over themselves to have a pop at him. Criticism on here tends to be reasonably calm and rational (match threads aside) albeit not always accurate but other social media platforms can be vile. What worries me is that he strikes me as a confidence player who will be well aware of the change in feeling for him. A Mings lacking confidence is not good for us. I don’t know why our own supporters can be so horrible to our players. How is it ever going to positively impact the confidence and spirit of the team which is so important in achieving success. We need to be with them not against them.

It’s nice you’re confident but I think you’re naive unfortunately. We are building something but I don’t think we can do it at the pace he would want. There has been no proper test of either ours or his resolve with a mega bid from a Champions League club yet. I would be amazed if one didn’t come in the summer. Pogba will leave Utd for big bucks and then they will have the finances and the hole in the squad to push for him. If he has a good Euros, he’ll be one of the most sought after players in Europe, which he probably is already. If we finish 6th-10th, it would be a great season for us after last season but would it be enough to persuade him to stay if a CL club put in a massive bid? I think we’ll have a battle on our hands but our owners are fantastic and will be well up for it.