Even if we lose both Mac and Sulky Boy ( and I think only Caicedo will go ) we will re-invest and strengthen. We have one of the best groups of young talent in the PL. All will be better next season. I cannot see us being weaker. No one is irreplaceable.
Villa too - we taking them apart, 1-0 up and he limped off early doors. After that they played a counter attack game, naively we offered them our entire half, only Dunk in defence with his football brain spotting danger.
Funny you should mention Villa was chatting to my mate last night a Wolves supporter and he said the Fulham game reminded him of our Villa game. He also said why is Sarmiento not playing which to be fair is a good question.
I was surprised Sarmiento didn't come on, he made a real impact against Bournemouth. The other player to mention when you say we didn't bring anyone in to replace Trossard is Buonanotte who appears to be the sub RDZ is going to when we need a goal.
Chances are we’ll be able to get Potter and Bruno et al back if this happens
Waiting expectantly for the “too good for Brighton” remark from one of them
Sarmiento being the live wire that he is seems to roams across the front areas he frees up Mitoma to some extent as he takes defensive bodies away from him. I thought he played really well against Liverpool and Bmuff maybe deserves a starting place.
He’s only been here five minutes, it’s probably his comments about the window that’s attracting attention.
Both were similar to me too. Gamesmanship. But I thought we played better on Saturday. Villa, we fell for Emery’s oh so obvious tactics.
I thought the same, but RDZ turned to him on 73mins rather than Sarmiento and Enciso when we were really pushing for a goal, which maybe tells us RDZ is already rating him quite highly in the order of things?
Agree. It was Roberto who wanted to come and just as it happened he was the only 1 interviewed. He had done his homework on us and vice versa. He would of been well briefed on our operating system and yes, he's ambitious and after the 1st dozen games with the squad realising just how good they are, he's put it out there that we can go for a European place. The steadfast refusal to sell MC for 70 million was a big "we're backing you" from Tony and Paul in terms of keeping our best players in situ at least until the summer.
They tried the same against Arsenal and it backfired. Interestingly on a phone in I was listening to this week, the point was made that Martinez has got a bit too big for his boots and that his theatrics and mind games are becoming just a bit too much even for their fans, and that it might trigger him being sold on in the summer.
