Premier League Gameweek 25

[Martial'sEmergingSmile]

The worst part of how good Barnes, Grealish and Maddison are is that they're all big United fans. Maddison's dad still has a United season ticket.

Spoiler

Back in the Fergie days, with our financial superiority and focus on young English talents, we'd 100% have been bullying our way to signing all 3 of them.

 

[No Idea For Nickname]

No idea!

What???

 

[bsCallout]

Kante covers so much ground, whereas Makelele was all about that positional discipline in front of the back four.

I think they are both defensive midfield players but in totally different moulds.

Similarly, I would call Carrick and Busquets defensive midfielders, but nothing like the aforementioned names.

Yes, that's fair. I feel like Kante at Leicester was more like Makelele though.

It is important to distinguish the type of CDM because it changes the dynamic of a team a lot.

 

[Classical Mechanic]

The worst part of how good Barnes, Grealish and Maddison are is that they're all big United fans. Maddison's dad still has a United season ticket.

Spoiler

Back in the Fergie days, with our financial superiority and focus on young English talents, we'd 100% have been bullying our way to signing all 3 of them.

Barnes is from Burnley so we should have been a more logical academy for him to join. We must have missed him.

 

[No Idea For Nickname]

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[DomesticTadpole]

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That is bad news for them.

 

[golden_blunder]

No Grealish. No Cash either.

Well, without cash how would you expect to get grealish?

 

[DomesticTadpole]

Well, without cash how would you expect to get grealish?

Very funny.

 

[Classical Mechanic]

That is bad news for them.

Good news for England though. Nice rest and then he has time to play himself into peak condition again before the Euros.

 

[DomesticTadpole]

Good news for England though. Nice rest and then he has time to play himself into peak condition again before the Euros.

It is. I just don't trust Southgate at times and picking squads. Jack has to be in. Who the hell thinks it is a good idea to have internationals in March, in a overcrowded season, in the middle of a pandemic?

 

[AltiUn]

The worst part of how good Barnes, Grealish and Maddison are is that they're all big United fans. Maddison's dad still has a United season ticket.

Spoiler

Back in the Fergie days, with our financial superiority and focus on young English talents, we'd 100% have been bullying our way to signing all 3 of them.

I was always under the impression Grealish was a massive Villa fan. Is he just a really loyal player?

 

[DomesticTadpole]

So Barkley isn't the answer to Grealish?

 

[kidbob]

So Barkley isn't the answer to Grealish?

No but it is the answer to "What is shite?"

 

[Renegade]

I was always under the impression Grealish was a massive Villa fan. Is he just a really loyal player?

Grealish is a boyhood Villa fan for sure.

 

[SilentWitness]

I really don't like Warnock as a co-commentator.

 

[acnumber9]

Leicester have looked half the team since Maddison came off

 

[GifLord]

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[Classical Mechanic]

It is. I just don't trust Southgate at times and picking squads. Jack has to be in. Who the hell thinks it is a good idea to have internationals in March, in a overcrowded season, in the middle of a pandemic?

Grealish will be in no doubt. I think the break is going ahead because it’s the last chance for managers to work with their squads before the Euros.

 

[Crustanoid]

Arsenal will be pummelled senseless. They won't even try to beat City

 

[PoTMS]

John McGinn has started to believe his own hype.

 

[Shane88]

De Bruyne back. Just what City need, they were really struggling without him.

 

[DomesticTadpole]

John McGinn has started to believe his own hype.

Yep. He doesn't look anything like the player linked to us.

 

[DomesticTadpole]

Those last few minutes is where they needed a Grealish. His crossing is so much better.

 

[Giggs' right foot]

I really don't like Warnock as a co-commentator.

Is that Neil Warnock? Is he a commentator now?

 

[Gandalf Greyhame]

It would be a step back from last season if we end up anywhere below 2nd this year.

 

[Martial'sEmergingSmile]

I was always under the impression Grealish was a massive Villa fan. Is he just a really loyal player?

Grealish is a boyhood Villa fan for sure.

I'm not so sure. Might be a bit of hype like the 'boyhood Liverpool fan' Carragher stuff, until it came out that he supported Everton as a kid.

Let's say Grealish has definitely got a lot of tweets in support of us, he came out after he scored against us and said that he'd always dreamed of scoring at Old Trafford, he's said that Old Trafford is his favourite ground. Quite a few different things.

Also this Times article that reemerged last summer, when he was linked with us, from a 2003 profile on Villa's academy.

 

[SilentWitness]

Is that Neil Warnock? Is he a commentator now?

Stephen Warnock. Ex-Pool player.

 

[GlasgowCeltic]

Casually leaving out Foden and Rodri without any drop in quality

 

[Sleigh]

Terrible 2nd half of football. 4 defensive midfielders on, inviting pressure and still Villa didn’t offer much.

 

[Bertie Wooster]

Bugger.
I've spent both matches pleading for a last minute equaliser and not getting one. No doubt setting it up perfectly for an injury time equaliser for Newcastle tonight.

 

[Giggs' right foot]

Stephen Warnock. Ex-Pool player.

Aaaah, hahaha he was the genius who claimed Red Star Belgrade had "a lot of guys" being plumbers and stuff a year before playing Liverpool in the UCL wasn't he?

 

[Cee90]

Where’s Gundogan playing with KDB back?

Is he still playing in an advanced role or has he been pushed back?

 

[Robindinho]

I really don't like Warnock as a co-commentator.

On sky? Was it not Andy Hinchcliffe?

 

[Leicester Fox]

Terrible 2nd half of football. 4 defensive midfielders on, inviting pressure and still Villa didn’t offer much.

We looked very tired 2nd half

 

[Pow]

Where’s Gundogan playing with KDB back?

Is he still playing in an advanced role or has he been pushed back?

they shouldnt cross into each others space anyway
gundogan has played on the left side of midfield breaking into the box
whereas de bryune stays on the right side where he crosses from usually from deeper than the byline

 

[always_hoping]

Arsenal will be pummelled senseless. They won't even try to beat City

Arsenal have lost their last 7 league matches in a row against City. And Arsenal have failed to score in their last 3 home games against City.

Don't see any different today.

 

[big rons sovereign]

Artetas gonna bend over for his boss isn't he.

 

[The Mitcher]

Artetas gonna bend over for his boss isn't he.

"Teach me a lesson, Pep!"

 

[Wiltord02]

Think we are going to get battered today. Would like to be optimistic but I think City will just high press our midfield into oblivion.

 

[SilentWitness]

On sky? Was it not Andy Hinchcliffe?

Thought it sounded like Warnock, my mistake if so. Whoever it was commentating though was annoying. Warnock is too.