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Really good signing. Big potential. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

During their brief stay in the PL, Gibson only looked any good when they were playing with eleven men deep behind the ball, trying to squeeze out 0-0s. As soon as they got into relegation trouble and had to try and win some games by being a bit more positive, they shipped goals for fun and Gibson appeared to be pretty limited. Think Roger Johnson and Scott Dann back in their Birmingham days. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Not worth his wage demands with his injury record. Shame, as he's better than any of our current midfield options, but we're already relying on an overpaid crock to score all our goals in the ten games per season he's fit enough to feature in (for an hour) - I'm not sure filling the key areas in our side with players who are rarely available is a sensible policy. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

No way in the world would a penalty be awarded to a forward for a light nudge, in the reverse situation, VAR or not. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

I think he can be a useful asset for us. 6' 4" and mobile, he can bring something different to the party - mostly off the bench. I'd rather we invested in Gallagher's development than kept flogging the useless Shane Long horse to death. He's never been a good striker, never will be. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Worth noting that he's been on crutches with his knee in a brace since the end of last season. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

The UA Twitter had the away shirt modelled by Sims, Slattery and Valery, under some tagline about building a future or some such guff. A hint that they might be part of the senior squad next season? Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

An actual number 10? A goalscoring midfielder? This rumour does not compute. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

What the hell else is she supposed to do? Talk about shopping and lipstick? She's an experienced international footballer, presumably hired to share some insight based upon her specialist knowledge. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

I guess that means they're not planning on dumping that unfit, brittle waste of space and we're going have another season built around the lament "if only Austin wasn't injured". Yay. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Ah, so those few people on the forum steadfastly insisting that Carrillo was going to be a great signing because, if you total up his goals as a late substitute against heavily beaten teams in the lower leagues of France, he's basically a goal every other game man; they were plants from the club's scouting and analysis department preemptively defending their work. Got it. If only they'd ignored their own statistical horse crap and just watched how rubbish he was at football, we might've saved a fortune. Or spent it all on the number two target on their list, who may or many not have had a full complement of legs. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

And rightly so. Why pay a penny more than they have to? If Villa want to turn down cash they desperately need to stay afloat, under the deluded impression that they're in anything other than a weak negotiating position, more fool them. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Diop's going to be a monster of a CB. £17m for a 21 year old who will go for £60m+ in a couple of years. Very good business. Disappointed we haven't seemingly been sniffing around. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

A mid table club making noises about having realistic European asperations. The secret's out now - we're just happy to survive. That surely makes us a far less attractive proposition. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

CA: 119 PA: 120 Is that easier to understand? Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Well, he was with us for half a season and - presumably based on something - not considered better than our available starting options for all bar one game. He's only made 20 starts for Verona since joining them last summer - the majority of them at right back. I'd speculate that we didn't keep him on because A) he wasn't the centre back we needed and B) high wages for a 30 year old squad utility player didn't seem like great business. Obviously in retrospect he might've suited our late season back three, as he's kind of an in between right back and centre back player, but he wouldn't have added the aerial strength or physicality we sorely lacked. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Gosh, what a minimal effort design. I suppose it's in keeping with the general "whatever, that'll do" indifference of the new Chairman Gao era. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

I don't think it's a case of "leaving Cedric alone" to guard the back post - it'd just be weird positioning for a centre back, when facing a cross from the right wing, to completely abdicate the centre (and any forwards that might be lurking there) to become an auxiliary right back. The Arsenal goal you mention was scored by Welbeck, running in from the left wing. The centre back in that situation can't abandon his station (and any forwards that might be lurking there) to go and mark a left winger. Cedric's job is to cover the back post. He just isn't very good at it. Blame it on his height if you like, but many similarly statured full backs seem to cope okay. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

100 Kenyan shilling is about 74p. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Lookman. No-one else suitable for us/worth having. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

I guess Villa's £40m valuation of Grealish will come down to something more realistic as the transfer window and their financial crisis ticks on. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

He's only played about six games - and all of them as part of a very defensive back five. In a back four for the u23s he looked very poor - certainly not better than his centre back partner Alfie Jones. He doesn't move well when isolated one on one with attackers. Over time that will become obvious. I think it's a bit premature to be suggesting he's been our best defender on such slim evidence. He did okay, and in our dire situation that was good enough, but let's not get carried away. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

You could say inSane... He's not played very well for the national team yet. Unlike England, they have options and can afford to be choosy rather than just picking someone because they're on the staff of a big club. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Brilliant bloke. His deadpan "well done, he's 13" response to Michael Owen celebrating like a cock after scoring past a kid in a training drill still tickles me. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Also, we need to sell because our squad is too big. Something like 32 players over the age of 21, all therefore needing to be registered in the final 25 man squad. There's a lot of dead wood to move on, assuming the club's fiscally responsible approach considers spending wages on multiple players who can't play to be foolish. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk