Craig

I don't think he's engineering a move the way Isak clearly did, but if the opportunity to join Man City and establish himself as their first choice RB, he's unlikely to turn it down. If there is genuine interests, conversations will be ongoing and it'll be on us to state that Man City attempt to get business done early, or not at all.

Villa are away to West Ham on Sunday. I can't see them getting anything other than 3 points from that. Mind you the results this season have been weird enough to expect nothing.

That's Ramsdale back to the bench then.

Yep, Pope isn't saving that first goal either. It was a freak goal.

I'm not sure what the expectation is of Ramsdale for the first goal and there wasn't much he could do about the second either. The comments about him being rooted at times have validity - just as those about Pope being shite with his feet, Donnarumma not coping well with pressure in his box or Raya being too far off his line, but again it's a situation of balance - Ramsdale pulled of some important saves last night without which we may have come away from the game with nothing. He's competition for Pope, but neither of them are notably better than the other.

It's on that basis I don't come on here during a match because they naturally ebb and flow. We're going to have periods of the game where we're not on top - it's unrealistic to not expect that. Against Marseille it was after the break; against Leverkusen, it was the first 20 mins or so. Far better to give a balanced view of the game once it's done than the microscopic disection minute by minute that seems to go on. All in all getting a draw against this lot was a brilliant result.

The Mackems defence is as a slow as fuck. We need to get Elanga running at them and making them shit themselves. Wonder also if we're considering starting Wissa.

I should imagine there's a least some level of investigation as to whether they can terminate his contract on the back of his outburst.

Aye, we need to understand what the craic is with Livramento early doors are react accordingly - can't have that bollocks taking up an entire summer again. If he wants to go, he'll be going - whether it's the end of May or the end of August.

He's not alone in falling foul of that, but tends to not attract the same level of criticism that others do and if he does, it gets called out. He's a great player and being a local lad it does afford him some degree of latitude, but he's not infallible.

Real opportunity this weekend to close right up on the European places given the fixtures out there. Table is currently: 1 Arsenal 33 2 Man City 31 3 Villa 30 4 Palace 26 5 Chelsea 25 6 Man Utd 25 7 Everton 24 8 Brighton 23 9 Sunderland 23 10 Liverpool 23 11 Spurs 22 12 Newcastle 22 We see the following results and things look a bit different: Chelsea v Everton - Draw Liverpool v Brighton - Draw Palace v Man City - Away Win Forest v Spurs - Draw Sunderland v Newcastle - Away Win Man Utd v Bournemouth - Draw 1 Arsenal 36 2 Man City 34 3 Villa 33 4 Chelsea 26 5 Palace 26 6 Man Utd 26 7 Newcastle 25 8 Everton 25 9 Brighton 24 10 Liverpool 24 11 Spurs 23 12 Sunderland 23

That's the key point for me. Qualifying for it is one thing - qualifying for it again whilst you're in it is another step up. As others have said we're only 4 points off 4th place - has to be our priority at the moment, as much as I'd love us to go on another Carabao Cup run.

They’re so convinced they’re going to maul us given their impressive home record and our questionable away record this year … but it’s a derby, anything can happen! I reckon we’ll spring a surprise similar to what we did at Everton

Before the game I’d have happily taken the draw and after the first half performance, absolutely would. But how we came out after the break, took the game to them, got the lead, hit the post twice and forced a brilliant save out of their keeper, it smarts a little to concede a late equaliser. But we shouldn’t forget the enormity of the competion or the opposition. This lot won at both Man City and Dortmund in the last two weeks. 10 points after 6 games is a great return as well.

He gets an easy ride at times for me. He was primarily at fault for both Spurs goals last weekend and also their equaliser tonight IMO. Not going all out to slaughter him, but he’s not blameless either.

Invitation to Tender?

Does the snipboard thing not suffice? Admittedly it's a few extra clicks and it'd be good if it was integrated somehow, but overall if it keeps the performance up I'm happy to go with the few extra clicks.

...not to mention the BS

On the contrary, I think he's going to be anything but free to Liverpool

Got a bad feeling about this. 2-1 to Leverkusen

The Salah situation is down to a number of things for me, and Isak is none of them: - no Trent providing balls over the top (it's no coincidence for me that Salah went missing in the Carabao Cup Final when Trent wasn't playing) - his legs have gone - he's got his lucrative payday from Liverpool and is now probably wanting his last hurrah in Saudi The outright hypocrisy of sections of the Liverpool fans having a go at him who also dared to suggest Isak was within reason to go on strike to force his move is laughable. Neither situation is acceptable.

If spicy onions don't make you fart, your digestive system is arguably fucked.

Your farts must have been atrocious!

So Rio Ferdinand this time, Jermaine Jenas last time out… who we getting for 2030, Joey Barton?!