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I'm not big on the back patting for other clubs generally, it's Villa or bust and I couldn't give a shit about anyone else bar Everton (Cazoo brothers for life).

But honestly, the whole Chelsea verdict a few months ago, the Liverpool bottle having spent so much money, the endless excuses and plaudits for United, the dull, non stop wankery from their fans about how 'boring' the league is just because they're not battering teams to a pulp every week. I'm sick to death of the lot of them.

The last few weeks have been shit, hoping a team who've been as excellent to watch as Bournemouth (and Brighton to an extent) slip up and do us a favour. Getting the job done, against one of that lot no less, means I can now be a Cherry on Tuesday.

Dont give a fuck about who wins the league, it's a three horse race and we all know it. If we can get one over on these lot at any stage, all the better.

It's an incredible ask of the club to pursue him with any sort of conviction in the summer, given how much he'd cost us on both fronts, but if there's a player I think we should somewhat break the bank for its him.

Edit: not that anyone will believe me, but I was typing this up before he scored 😅

From Emery

"We train this afternoon, and we will see how he is responding, if he's feeling good to play tomorrow"

"He was testing yesterday and today we must test again how he is feeling, and how we can get the players with some pain to play tomorrow"

Not concrete, but not especially secretive either...