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Clear red. Ankle breaker. 

No sponsor on the jersey?

He seemed to get two yellow cards for separate incidents in the last few minutes against palace but the ref didn’t give him a red with the second. Did anyone else notice this? It looked odd. 

2 hours ago, DeepDish said:

You really don't get a Man City standard player when you only pay +30 something million. 

Maybe but there was talk Man City wanted him in the past, etc. 

Worrying how slow and clumsy he looks defensively. We were told we were getting a Man City standard, Spain international, Champions League level defender who will elevate us to another level. He looks a million miles off it at the moment. He looks  more like a more skilful Carlos Cuellar. Playing against top teams is supposed to be his level. I really worry about his pace. Settling in is not going to make him any faster. 

32 minutes ago, VillaJ100 said:

I mean I know from experience a hamstring tweak can be bloody painful but heal up quite fast

Same. I’ve had to be carried off the pitch in agony with hamstrings. But playing again in 4-6 weeks.

But Coutinho could really do without hamstring issues at this stage of his career. Good news if it’s not more serious though. 

This is a perfect time to test archer for half an hour. 

5 minutes ago, sidcow said:

Fine, but that's a different argument. 

Same argument I replied to to be honest. 

2 minutes ago, sidcow said:

Ermmm. He's the manager who sets the tactics. Seems a fair comment. 

We are fine. Don’t need to change everything just to help McGinn. It’s his own responsibility to perform. 

Just now, TheAuthority said:

Ooh I don’t know?

Have you heard of tweaking the tactics ?

Just to accommodate McGinn. Get real. 

4 minutes ago, TheAuthority said:

McGinn isn’t in the game.

Need to get him involved Unai

What do you expect Unai to do about it?

Digne asleep there. Should have attacked that cross. 

On 10/08/2023 at 21:58, Demitri_C said:

If you look at carlos its taken almost a year foe him ti be starting games like he was before injury. I wouls say same with buendia. He ia younger though so that will hopedully help

The knee and achilles are completely different injuries though so not the best comparison. There have been some really good examples of fast recoveries from ACL knee injuries in recent years, ie. within six months. 

43 minutes ago, The_Steve said:

Burnley would be stupid to pay £12m for a loan; even if he stays for 2 seasons, that's £6m a year. Makes zero sense.

Under that scenario, Burnley would make a huge profit when we exercise the buy back clause. They wouldn’t suffer any loss or liability. Quite the opposite. 

4 minutes ago, duke313 said:

Well yeah. City lost an £80m midfielder for £15m. Sounds like a terrible idea to me.

But they had the option to buy him back for 25?

I would choose champions league qualification all day long. I’ve always wanted to see us play in the champions league. I think I’d get more satisfaction from it than the shorter term euphoria of a cup win. And champions league football would really drive the club forward in so many ways. 

Phil is here to party. 

1 minute ago, CVByrne said:

Where are the PL clubs interested in Traore? Where are the clubs from the top 5 leagues? 

I don’t expect any decent club to be chasing Traore. But I could say the same about Bailey. I genuinely don’t think we could give him away at the moment with the wages he’s on. Anyway, I genuinely hope Bailey can turn things around. We need him to come good for us. But I’m not confident. 

1 minute ago, CVByrne said:

But nobody at the club agree at all with that. Bailey is clearly ahead of Traore 

Maybe but I don’t think the whole merits of someone’s opinion should be dismissed based on the Traore versus Bailey debate. It’s like arguing over Ant and Dec. They’ve both been poor. I’d argue Traore has done more in less appearances but that’s just my opinion. But I think some people are in denial at just how bad Bailey has been. 

10 minutes ago, Vive_La_Villa said:

I just can’t take people seriously when I see stuff like this.  

I think that was a fair observation by Jimmy Greaves. I think Traore offers more. Playing with Bailey is like being down to 10 men 99% of the time. 

16 minutes ago, nick76 said:

Well Thursday when he said yes, somebody said the medical was booked for Sunday then Fab reported contracts were to be signed on Friday so that was confusing.  I’m wondering if he did the medical yesterday then flew to U.S. to do the photos and video meeting Emery today and all that and we’ll get the official thing later today or tomorrow given the time difference. Just all guess work. Or maybe they are waiting for international clearance.

Yeah. If it was agreed on Thursday, I’d have thought there would be more concrete talk of a medical by now or him heading to America, etc. 

Any sign of this actually happening? It’s dragging out a bit now. 

1 hour ago, Khizzy said:

Are we at risk of overloading the forward positions now? 

I don’t think so. I think Watkins and Diaby are the only two players in the final third who match our quality in defence and midfield.