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Actions speak louder than words. If Cooper really thought anything of Will, he would've started him against Tranmere and Walsall. He's not getting any game time bar a catastrophic injury crisis, so he's better off going on loan in January.

I'm close to 50 and I'm definitely falling out of love with the game. Money, VAR and the general apathy the club has towards it's own fans, its disgusting. It'll probably be my last year watching us live. The fan experience is very different to what it used be.

To be fair to Ndidi, he's got 4 assists only 2nd to Saka, so he's doing his job to an extent. Winks on the other hand is completely useless when we don't have the ball. He has neither the physicality or the energy to be able run around, win the ball and then progress the play, Skipp does and should be 1st choice CM. If Cooper's tactics are to cede all territory and possession to the opponents, then Winks isn't his man. He has no usefulness in this system.

Yeah I'm afraid he's the one sellable asset we have. If he continues like today, he'll be gone in the summer. Absolutely outstanding performance.

He'll hang his hat on those 2 goals, but in reality it could've been 10 for Arsenal. They had 36 shots with 16 on target. Did anybody have any confidence in us keeping them out in injury time, I didn't. The game, the tactics, subs, everything was awful.

No complaints, would've been double figures for them if it wasn't for Mads. Terrible gameplan in the 1st half, and when we scored our 2nd, went back to the same gameplan. Low and behold we concede 2 more.

Winks really is shit, offers nothing when we dont have the ball.

This is going to be a massacre. Arsenal criticised all week for playing shit football, are going to try to make a statement at home.

Ok don't get your knickers in a twist, I'll explain my comment. If Cooper had shown more faith in Alves and given him game time, we may have the player we are looking for and saved 18M. Bilal will need to be developed, and that will come at the expense of Alves. Ndidi and Facundo are our CAMs, meaning only one of Bilal or Alves will realistically get any game time. Since we've spent 18M on Bilal that decision has already been taken, which I think is a shame as Alves hasn't been given a chance. That's the crux of my comment, not dismissing Bilal as a failure after 55mins, but more the lack of faith in our own youngsters.

The hype around AJ is unreal. Before the fight 10 current and former boxers were asked who would win, and they all said AJ. 86% of people said AJ would win. Just like in football, the experts know fuch all, especially that idiot Tony Bellew. Even after AJ got KOed and was floored 5 times, Bellew still insisted that AJ was the faster boxer who just had a bad day.

After watching him, I wish we'd have more faith in our very own Will Alves, and saved 18M.

Cooper would be having wet dreams over Young and Milner.

Yeah he's great at falling to the ground and conning the ref for a foul. Great use of 8M.

I'd add Skipp for Winks to the list as well.

That's if we're winning by 2-3 goals, otherwise it will be 5mins at most. Also what's happened to Golding, is he still here?

No wonder he has such an awful win ratio when his teams can't defend, averaging almost 2 goals conceded per game. Not many times you're going to score 3 in the PL.

Villa are on a winner. Emery has won 4 Europa Leagues as well as about 6/7 other trophies. He'll get them a couple of trophies before he's done. Opportunity missed on our part.

Spot on analysis. Cooper decided to cede all territory and possession to Palace, and then crossed his fingers and hoped they didnt take advantage of that. Unfortunately I don't think he's learnt anything from the weekend, and will do exactly the same thing again.

Everton are one of the few teams that wont overplay at the back, so Ndidi's pressing wont be as important. I think Facundo will start but there's no way Mav and Fats will play together, both give the ball away too much. It will be one or the other, with Ayew or Bobby on the other wing.

That role of being the destroyer up top, really works against teams trying to play out from the back. Alot of disrespect levelled against him from our own fans, but still doing the business.

Credit to Nuno, not seen as the most positive manager, but subbed on Alanga and Hudson Odoi away to Liverpool, and low and behold, they combined to get the winning goal.

We're under the pump, but defending resolutely. Up step genius Cooper, who decides to change our shape and sub a CB for a RW. To make matters worse he decides to put on a CB who hasn't played all season into that environment. Ayew was flagging, changing him for Kasey and leaving everything as is ,was understandable. Even if Coady hadn't made that mistake and we had won, it still would've been the wrong decision.

Cost us 2pts with his brain dead subs.

Cooper throws away 2pts by subbing Coady on for Ayew and changing our shape. We needed fresh legs, he should've brought on Kasey for Ayew and kept our shape.

Playing well and if Ayew was a bit sharper, we could be winning.