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I'm not saying he's the next Haaland, but when what you've got isn't working, and you can't sign anyone else for a couple of months, there's no harm in rolling the dice imo.

Chantenay? Re Dobbin, I think the fee was £10.5 m, but I'm not sure how an inflated fee helped us given that we got fair money for THB. That said, Villa have paid and received a lot of questionable fees over recent windows. £37.5m for that Maatsen lad from Chelsea, and Kellyman to Chelsea for £19m were eyebrow raising. Rogers going to Chelsea for £120m, and paying £50m for Jackson, equally so.

Yep. 2 assists as well.

He made 2 starts for them in the league. That was last season, and he'll have developed since then. Mubama offers nothing whatsoever. The kid is in form and will be confident. I'd rather throw him on in the last 10 mins when we need something than Mubama.

Yep. There's enough experience out there to work it out and sort it out.

If we can keep it to 1-0 at half time, yep. If not I think we're fecked.

Only surprise is it took that long. We need half time to re group and sort ourselves out.

This start is something else. I think my optimism was a tad too optimistic.

We're so bad we're almost looking 3rd best.

Dancefloor

Realistic is believing we'll beat this lot. Anything else is negative. Bizarre to look at the past 40 years. It's completely irrelevant to how we're doing under Tonda. We should win this. Comfortably.

Grind

On that we do agree!!

Whilst I get that, the (other) geriatric wasn't a crook or obvious loon. Trump was always a car crash in waiting. That much should have been obvious to the Americans.

You've shifted from Somalia, to Somalia and Sudan, now a whole bloody continent. I'll end the discussion here as you'll be dragging Asia into it next.