Farcical isn’t it. I had tickets for my grandsons. Then they disappeared. Then I tried logging on as my wife (who has given her ticket to one of the grandsons) and both tickets were on her account and she isn’t going. #avfc are dreaming if they think tourist fans will put up with this.

Or what ridiculous refereeing decision will cost us this season……

Nigel Clough was outstanding that day

A great piece.

I always think XG is very much based on game-state and Emery’s style accentuates this.

XG was broadly right over 38 games last season and I think it needs a large sample size (not a match) to be useful.

It does show our problem is chance creation and thats still a problem for me.

For me, we need either Pau or Youri in the team to progress the ball

Is this another young player we are buying with the intention of loaning and flipping or is he an addition to the first team squad Jacob?

Plenty of promise from Guessand but he’s technically not at the standard …… yet

There’s not even a pretence of a sporting contest anymore….

They’ve killed the World Cup for me.

I think thats the key point. Slot didn’t spend £420m, the Sporting Director did….The coach isn’t responsible for the level of spend or the players selected in their set up. Man City might be a risk as they have a similar structure to us but I’m not sure about Liverpool.

Surely Pau has played more than 30 pl games?

UK foreign policy is don’t upset Trump….

In our situation, NSWE ditched the CEO. Gave carte Blanche to Unai, effectively sidelined the Sporting Director and NS got directly involved in running the business side until a replacement and a new structure was put in place. It feels a stretch to me that Fenway do that…..

For Unai to take the job, the Sporting Director making the appointment would have to commit “hari kari” to replicate Unai’s power at Villa. I don’t think another club gives Unai the power to the extent we have, so I could only see the pull of a Madrid or Barca being enough to make him leave.

I think he will either go back to Liverpool. Better to be on their bench than not in our squad or go abroad on loan (if he can)

I think he can go abroad?

We didn’t pay. Not sure he’s the right profile for what Unai wants.