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Am I right that in the FY in question we have logged the sales of Barnes for £35m, KDH for £30m, Castagne for £15m, and brought in £10m for Enzo, and we've still potentially contrived to breach the threshold? Jeez, what more are we meant to do?! Meantime, Chelsea "sell" their own hotel to themselves and can carry on spending £0.5bn per year.

What are the chances of drawing Man U away in both cups? FFS.

To be fair, that was a perfect through ball just now. Shame it was at the wrong end!

We've been largely poor in general play apart from 2 well-worked goals against the run of the play at the time. But as ever we have contrived to leak 2 goals. Will we ever concede fewer than 2 goals ever again?! Having less than 50% possession at home to a midtable Championship team when we're at pretty much full strength is really poor.

Stronger team than he picked for Villa! Guess he is hoping for a morale boosting win. If we don't get one, confidence will be through the floor, though.

Lol! I wondered that but think I've lost my sense of humour when it comes to Leicester City, mate!

Would be 7 changes to the Villa starting line up ie Justin, Vesty, Soumaré, Ayew, BEK, Mavididi and Vards.

Assuming it will be something like this: Jakub Hamza Coady Faes Thomas Skipp Winks BDCR Facundo Alves Daka

Any news on when Wilf is back?

Leicester 2019/20 after 20 matches - 42 points

Think that they only paid £3m plus £2m of add ons for him, compared to the £5m we paid for Ayew.

The thing is that aside from the PL win it’s still very recent that we were a real force threatening the big clubs. It’s only 3.5 years since we won the FA Cup and missed out on top 4 on the last day of the season for the second consecutive season. It’s only 2.5 years since we were in a European semi final. Does harking back to those days even really qualify as living in the past? Our decline has been so rapid that I think a lot of fans are struggling to process the new reality. What’s becoming ever clearer, though, is that the club is in a terrible mess: we have a squad largely full of players with no resale value; we are burdened with a wage bill that is way too high compared to income; there is a lack of a clear strategy and plan from the owners and board, as shown by the inconsistency of recent managerial appointments; and the fanbase appears to have become resentful and passive at the same time, leading to a stale atmosphere in the ground. It feels like only root and branch change from the ownership down can turn things around now. It’s very sad that things have come to this, but that’s where we are.

Accidentally caught our game on MOTD this morning. In the analysis they said that Ayew basically gestured to Justin for him to clear the ball long. If so, it makes it even more puzzling why Justin attempted the short pass to him. Either way, I don’t see how Ayew can be considered at fault for the goal. It’s 100% Justin’s fault.

I suspect Ruud subbed on Okoli to give us more pace defending against the transition as we threw more men forward in the last 10 minutes. Agree that the subs were too late.

Yep. If you concede 2 a game in this league, you are not getting many points, let alone wins. Conceding 2 or more in 15 of 20 games is catastrophically bad. Today, Villa were really poor and created virtually nothing until we threw everyone forward in the last 10 minutes. And yet still they scored 2 goals. Even if you look at the 5 games where we've conceded fewer than 2 goals, we were fortunate not to concede at least 2 in most of them. Tottenham should have been out of sight at HT, West Ham had 30 shots and Mads played a blinder v Bournemouth and they hit the woodwork numerous times. The defenders are poor but we also concede too many chances and goals from just outside the box, including yet another one today; that suggests an issue with the defensive central midfield, too. We look doomed tbh.

That has to be Justin's last game for us.

Every manager we have makes decisions that are unfathomable to fans. Sick of Ayew starting.

Ayew over Facundo? WTAF?!!

He pretty much did that against Wolves.

Can't understand links to a CM when we have much more urgent priorities elsewhere eg RB and CB. Plus Casadei was hopeless in the Championship, let alone the PL.

Brentford have got a decent points tally so far, but they've basically used up 6 of their 7 easiest fixtures (ie 6 of bottom 7 at home). Their remaining fixture list essentially consists of the big 6/top half teams at home and those battling relegation away, neither of which will be easy in the second half of the season. That said, they don't need that many more points to be safe.

He is way better in my opinion.

Looks like Stoke might have finally made a good managerial appointment.

Simply have to somehow find a way to stop conceding 2 or more goals yet again. If we don't, getting anything from here will be very hard.

Only if his challenge is deemed to be a genuine attempt to win the ball and I don’t think Ortega’s would be seen as that.