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Hate seeing all these clubs selling their flops for the price they paid. We end up releasing all of ours for nothing.

I have a hard time believing anyone that refers to Josh Sargent as a "soccer superstar".

Imagine getting relegated and then being told you've got to spend £25m on Lyle Foster That's a honking signing.

Were there many Tranmere fans?

They were above us in the table and out of the relegation zone when they sacked Gerrard. Goes some way to showing just how obvious it was that Rodgers needed to go.

Tielemans takes corners for Villa so look forward to endless half booing/half clapping every time he goes to take one. Can we just agree to ignore him for the game and then maybe give him a little clap when he gets subbed?

Even in 2022 when we were on an even keel. They sacked Gerrard in and got themselves a proper manager while we kept Rodgers. By the end of that season there was a massive chasm between the two teams.

Not needed against Villa's 4-4-2 with McGinn on the left.

Love it when Mavididi gets into this mode where the game is won and he just takes on everybody.

**** me what a goal.

It's incredible how little Thomas has developed in the near 3 years it's been since that performance against Liverpool where he tied Salah up all game. I'd imagine there are Tranmere fans that don't know who he is that are assuming he's some 17/18 year old. He's played over a hundred games now. Looks lke he's never played in a stadium before.

Good run out for Skipp. Starts saturday for me.

Good penalty taker is old Stephy.

Looking forward to seeing how the club **** this one up.

Did like the commentator saying "You can't give Jordan Ayew that sort of time and space" like he does that regularly. I think he'll be a very useful player for us but ****ing hell. Has he ever scored a goal like that in his career before?

I like how busy Skipp is.

Is that Nigel Adkins?

Think you might need to chill out mate. We're playing Tranmere in the 2nd round of the milk cup. It isn't a big deal. Provided we don't totally shit the bed then Ward won't touch the ball. If it bothers you this much i'd suggest going out for a walk or something because in 36 minutes he'll be starting.

I think the entire squad is lacking in goals and creativity.

No issues with that. Hoping that after we're 2-0 up we bring Alves and Popov on. No Cannon, Soumare or Braybrooke all but confirms they're off. Nice to see Coady on the bench. Hopefully we can get him back and involved in the Premier League XI by the Palace game.

Schedule the jet to leave Ghent airport at 7:45pm BST so that he doesn't watch us struggle to score against Tranmere and get cold feet.

Isn't that more than what they announced would be acceptable? 20m + a potential of 6m seems a lot cheaper than 23m + 2m + a 15% sell on.