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Meanwhile we're lining up with Bobby Reid and Jordan Ayew on the wings.

Quite a few people have uploaded all the matches to mega. If the links here dont work there are others.

£20mil for a midfielder who doesnt offer much out of possession when we no longer have a possession focused manager represents good value for us surely? If that offer was on the table we would be silly to not take it and reinvest.

Those are the same posters that backed Rodgers to the end and wouldnt have it that he wasnt the best manager outside the top 6. Anyone with sense looked at Emery's time with Sevilla and knew he was a good manager.

We are certainly playing like the 19th place team in the league. It's just early days where a couple unlucky/lucky results skews the whole table. If we play this way over the course of the season we will be sat in the relegation zone at the end of it.

He's an idiot for signing that contract, especially after not getting a sniff in pre season. He's the sort of player who we wont value whilst we have him but after a season or two in a lower/foreign league he would be too good to consider joining us, like Calvin Bassey or Matt O'Riley for Fulham.

Does anyone remember when he was linked to us in 2020 and you had Celtic fans coming on here saying that he was better than any version of Vardy? Reality is he's nowhere near current Vardy who has one foot in the retirement home.

Sad reality is we were a better team last season. Every single player was better under Maresca and it wasnt just because we were in the championship either. You cant convince me that we're more likely to stay up with one of Reid and Ayew on the wing in place of Mavididi or Fatawu, would rather have Akgun than the first two.

If he was a 20 year old from our academy he would hardly get on the pitch for us. It's the sad reality that a 31 year olds like Reid will get endless opportunities after bad performances whereas all it takes for a 20 year old academy player to be written off and never played again is one performance where he's not up to standard.

I bet Ricardo's is shite like: Good servant Loyal Good character Legacy Trains well Historic Warm bum

I wouldn't call what Ayew does experienced/savvy. He doesnt pick and choose when to fall over and draw fouls, that's his default and he never switches it up. It's fine in the final minutes when you're leading but when you're drawing/behind at home it completely stifles our momentum in possession. Man City win titles by tactical fouling the opposition, Ayew getting himself fouled when we're in possession benefits the opposition more than it does us. Ayew is like if you take the worst part of Maddison's game and remove all the quality surrounding it.

He did so well for us in the Championship because he always had 2-3 options to pass to because of Maresca's system. Under Cooper every player is isolated and it's impacting Winks more than anyone.

This cant be it because Fatawu barely played today and Ayew stayed on the pitch.

Reminder that Cooper benched him for the first 3 matches of the season by the way. Now he's doing the same to Fatawu.

Was on the bench for our first three games as well.

He's great at winning fouls! Not like Man City are the most successful club in England by slowing down the opposition by fouling them.

VK has been shocking

Buonanotte can play on the wing as well. He's done more to start than Ayew.

He's been good so far this season to be fair to him. Probably the only thing Everton have going for them.

Not just Twitter but on Stoke's forum they're grilling him pretty harshly.

A decent portion of stoke's fanbase seem to have written him off already, hopefully he can turn it around for them once he's got a run of games. Why we thought it was a good idea to sign a youth striker for £7mil when we had 3 senior strikers and no gametime to offer him I wont understand.

I think the Oxford manage worryingly referred to Nelson as depth when the loan was announced. Hopefully the manager gives him a proper look in.

Him and Ben Nelson.

James Justin was benched for large parts of last season and there were none of those threads. The Ricardo Pereira threads arent even necessarily related to James Justin's form, they started before we had even started playing. Most of our fans recognise that Ricardo is a special player, arguably our best. He's far better than Kristiansen and Justin at least, if we want to have the best chance to stay up he should not be on the bench. It's that simple.

The new manager bounce when Cooper is sacked is going to give us all whiplash with Ricardo coming back into the side and both Mavididi and Fatawu playing at the same time.