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It seems like a very strange situation with Alves. The coaches at the club seem to rate him highly hence the long contract that was handed to him and he looks like a baller who is capable of gliding past players with ease yet he never gets a sniff of real first team action. It must be really frustrating for him aswell.

RVN is the right man to get us out of the situation we are in. We look much more assured at the back under RVN. Villa park is a tough place to go to and we nullified their threat throughout the match. He can't be held accountable for JJ making a terrible decision which has ultimately cost us the match. He has no other options other than to play JJ at right back. If we can recruit the players he wants in January then we'll be fine.

Alves/Buonanotte for Ayew please and soon. Give him a chance to run at the full back.

A really good performance despite the result. The development and progression under Ruuds coaching was their to see today. We have to back him in the January transfer window and get the deals done early. Ideally i'd like to see us bring in two attacking full backs and potentially a right winger who likes to take his defender on.

Justin is getting the ball in acres of space out on the right hand side and Man City are happy to allow him space and time. He's not being exposed in 1vs1's defensively so if i was RVN i'd be tempted to bring on a player who is better in attacking situations and take a risk.

Mavididi's decision making during the first half has been awful. Even his work rate has been lacking compared to others

I did mean RVN

It'll be interesting to see what RVD will do here. I'd like to see him bring Mavididi on so that we have a player on the pitch who is confident in their 1v1's.

Two crap teams both lacking quality. This could end something crazy like 6-4 if Cooper makes the correct subs. United can't defend and neither can we. Shocking so far. Second to react to everything.

School boy stuff really. That gets coached to kids from a very young age. As soon as it bounces your in trouble.

It was a poor decision from Buonanotte to try and dribble in that area but once he lost the ball their was no immediate danger. Justins shite clearance was what directly led to that goal. That attempted clearance was sunday league stuff.

Cooper is killing us with these selections. ****ing be POSITIVE!!!!!

I guarantee the same will happen with Jake Evans in our academy. He is another great talent that will somehow struggle to get into the first team.

Hermansen Faes Vestergaard (if fit) Okoli Ricardo Ndidi Winks Fatawu Buonanotte Mavididi Vardy If i was Cooper i would take Arsenal by surprise and go all out attack. They'll be expecting us to start with a defensive line up so i'd throw them off guard and take the game to them. Fatawu and Ricardo as wing backs (free to swap sides as they please) Mavididi & Vardy upfront with pace to burn. Buonanotte being the creative player behind them.

No one can convince me that any other current Premier League club would sign BDCR or Ayew.

We'll be ripped a new one against these. 5-0 Cooper will set out all defensive and we'll barely get out of our half.

Two more games maximum for me. Not convinced by Cooper at all. We have had a terrible pre-season followed by a lethargic start to the league campaign. If he continues to leave our strongest players on the bench then he has to go sooner.

I've said it before and i'll say it again i can't see Cooper lasting until November. The signings have been poor and underwhelming in all honesty especially in comparison to Ipswich who came up with us. We went from being a side with an identity that looked extremely well drilled to a team that looks clueless all in the space of a couple of months.

Once again Mavididi needs to come on for BDCR. You need two wingers that pose a threat.

Can anyone tell me anything positive that BCR has done in this game for him to start ahead of Mavididi?

Ricardo for Kristiansen at HT and then swap Justin to left back Mavididi for BCR also.

This will end 4 or 5-0. Zero patterns of play are emerging. Look all over the shop defensively

No clue whatsoever. Absolutely woeful.

20+ million and doesn't improve the starting 11... What on earth is going on at this club. It feels like we are making a signing for the sake of it.

We'll make Solanke look like twice the player Kane ever was for Spurs. I have a horrible feeling we'll lose by 4 goals minimum.