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SOUTHAMPTON vs MANCHESTER UNITED (1230)
It’s been a tough, if expected, return to the Premier League for the Saints whose points tally is yet to get off the mark. Things ain’t so rosy for Man U either and a home win would see Southampton climb above their visitors in the table. Dear oh dear. Away win.

BRIGHTON & HOVE ALBION vs IPSWICH TOWN (1500)
From appalling starts to an outstanding one, at least as far as the Seagulls go. Ipswich have been served some tricky fixtures to start with, and Brighton will be no less of an opponent. Just one likely outcome here. Home win.

CRYSTAL PALACE vs LEICESTER CITY (1500)
Despite just the single point on the board, Palace look strong and should be way too good for the visiting Foxes. Home win.

FULHAM vs WEST HAM UNITED (1500)
A lot of people will understandably have this down as a draw, but with a hat full of fixtures now in the bag our new signings should have started to settle and form a decent functional first team. Fulham too have a decent side, so this is likely to be close. But with a strong defence – Wan-Bissaka, Todibo, Kilman – and Bowen, Paqueta and Kudus marauding towards the other end, there’s something about West Ham that threatens as few Irons sides have done in recent times. It will be interesting to see if Carlos Soler plays and what he can produce. Away win.


LIVERPOOL vs NOTTINGHAM FOREST (1500)
Every point is valuable for Forest and they’ll be satisfied with the five they’ve notched up so far. They’ll struggle to add to that this afternoon, though, as Liverpool have their eyes firmly on top slot. Home win.

MANCHESTER CITY vs BRENTFORD (1500)
Will City’s legal troubles affect their approach to this game? Tempting to think it might, but unlikely. The Bees have started well but this encounter will be a bridge too far. Home win.

ASTON VILLA vs EVERTON (1730)
Poor old Everton. Bottom of the table (again), without a point and a sword once again dangling over their heads. Another tough season beckons.

BOURNEMOUTH vs CHELSEA (2000)
Two sides on the up. You’d have to fancy Chelsea, but cannot dismiss a strong Cherries side. The fence? Not today. Away win. 


*SUNDAY*

TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs ARSENAL (1400)
How much will the Arse miss Rice and Odegard? A good deal, you’d expect. And with home advantage, what more could Spurs wish for? But Arsenal are more than Rice and Odegard – just ask their accountants – and a local derby could spring any result, particularly if the hosts dominate midfield. So Draw it is.

WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS vs NEWCASTLE UNITED (1630)
It’s been a tough start for Wolves with one point and a goal difference of minus six after three games, while the Barcodes are unbeaten in fifth. Still, the hosts should be better than that and will hope to turn around their fortunes soonish. Can’t see it happening today though. Away win. 


OVER TO YOU…

SOU vs MNU
BHA vs IPS
CRY vs LEI
FUL vs WHU
LIV vs FOR
MCY vs BRF
AVL vs EVE
BOU vs CHE 

TOT vs ARS
WOL vs NEW

£65M for Sowanke. Bargain!

Love seeing the four-be-twos lose, even though I live within a mile of tottenham's ground, and am thus surrounded by gooners fans

Can’t say I’m happy to see Arsenal win. They will go close to the title again, hope they just miss out again.

Far too many West Ham fans are obsessed with Tottenham 'hating'.

I can't stand Tottenham or Arsenal, so always want games between them to end in a draw. Just like Tottenham v Chelsea and Arsenal v Chelsea games.

Think Solanke is a decent player (you’d hope so for £65m) but looked rusty. He is no Harry Kane though 
Everyone goes on about Romero & Van der Venn but they still can’t defend a set piece to save their lives.
Dont look any better than last season & Arsenal challenging for the league doesn’t do the manager any favours when they aren’t 

Must admit love seeing them lose at home and we don't really want a Man City procession. Spurs have some ordinary players, Brennan Johnson ain't the answer and not convinced Solanke will be a success for them.

The Aussie will be under pressure soon enough, seem to remember at the last season he was angrily suggesting it was nowhere near good enough and that there were going to be big changes in the summer with players and overall club mentality etc, lol.

Cunts.

No lover of Arsenal but happier to see Tottenham lose. Utter cunts
If they lose here to an Arsenal team without Rice & Odegaard I suspect more than a few Tottenham fans will start to lose confidence in Fat Ange.
More abysmal work defending a set piece & the keeper looks a liability under any physical pressure. Bit of an Italian coward

One up now

Watching Tottenham Arsenal and I don’t think there’s ever been a team that I’ve wanted to lose so much as Arsenal. Even thought it’s against Tottenham. The most snidey whingey team you can imagine with the biggest twat of a manager you could imagine.

It's all good and well saying we should have signed Duran, but the big question mark with him is, can he stick a long throw into the mixer?

The old saying that you have to take your chances when on top must be the truest thing ever in football. There are no excuses, look at the size of a goal, it's pretty fucking big.

Didn’t watch the game but read that Bournemouth missed a pen, hit the woodwork twice & tormented the Chelsea defence before a smash & grab at the end.
 

Probably just trying to make myself feel better but Jasnik may well be right and they were never selling Duran anyway, the Villa director was saying last week they'd had about 40 offers for him but they wanted to keep him. However, if he was gettable for just a few extra mil then that is a harsh reality that we will have to live with and it may have even have created problems behind the scenes, as we'd be a different animal with him leading our line.

This was the video I was referring to:

Think the big problem here was they were not going to sell him.
They rejected every offer they got think they mentioned 34.

I wish sometimes we had done the same... 

A bid of 34m would have got it done apparently

frank_booth wrote: ↑14 Sep 2024, 21:57

stubbo-admin wrote: ↑14 Sep 2024, 21:12

onsideman wrote: ↑14 Sep 2024, 19:42 I'd definitely have forgone the 19 year old Brazilian kid who, yet again, was nowhere near the matchday squad.

The ineptitude is astounding. The player was desparate to join and we desperately needed him. Not hard

Not just that, but the 'suggestion' is we had a deal wrapped up for about 33m pre July, when Villa needed to sell, Tim swanned off to Brazil chasing 'young talent' rather than close it and by the time he came back they'd flogged Luiz and Kellyman, sorted their books and the Duran price had gone up.

Sullivan then says he's not paying more than the previously agreed price, and cue the saga of trying to get them to take less than 40m in a variety of ways.

Only at West Ham.

How reliable is this story? I thought it was they wanted 40 and we offered 25? Or there was a 15 mil discrepancy. If this is the case, that’s fucking shocking.

stubbo-admin wrote: ↑14 Sep 2024, 21:12

onsideman wrote: ↑14 Sep 2024, 19:42 I'd definitely have forgone the 19 year old Brazilian kid who, yet again, was nowhere near the matchday squad.

The ineptitude is astounding. The player was desparate to join and we desperately needed him. Not hard

Not just that, but the 'suggestion' is we had a deal wrapped up for about 33m pre July, when Villa needed to sell, Tim swanned off to Brazil chasing 'young talent' rather than close it and by the time he came back they'd flogged Luiz and Kellyman, sorted their books and the Duran price had gone up.

Sullivan then says he's not paying more than the previously agreed price, and cue the saga of trying to get them to take less than 40m in a variety of ways.

Only at West Ham.

onsideman wrote: ↑14 Sep 2024, 19:42 I'd definitely have forgone the 19 year old Brazilian kid who, yet again, was nowhere near the matchday squad.

The ineptitude is astounding. The player was desparate to join and we desperately needed him. Not hard

I'd definitely have forgone the 19 year old Brazilian kid who, yet again, was nowhere near the matchday squad.

The ineptitude is astounding. The player was desparate to join and we desperately needed him. Not hard

amazing that we could all see that but the football professionals couldn't.

It isn't only the stunner he's just scored, its him getting the winner in 3 out of 4 games this season as a late sub

I 20 year old with massive potential or a journeyman 32 yr old German. It was a no brainer. I'd have forgone w]one of the midfield signings to make up the asking price

happygilmore wrote: ↑14 Sep 2024, 19:12 Villa 3-2 now
we should have gone all out for Duran

Villa 3-2 now
we should have gone all out for Duran

Everton 2 up at Villa Park

Let’s see if we get another implosion in injury time!

Everton 2 up despite only having 14% of the ball. Dyche is out Moyes-ing Moyes.