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Should be enough to beat Arsenal. Pep’s missed an opportunity to put Grealish in midfield today.

Dumb comment. He scored against Arsenal last season.

This. He was quality, his first touch sublime and part of our treble winning team. People quickly forget how he stepped up - along with Grealish - in the dire depths of last winter to keep our PL dreams alive. This shiny new toy syndrome some fans have about our new players is wearing. Yes -...

Got nothing against 3pm KOs, ideal when you’re going to the game and for away games there’s time to travel. Players probably prefer them too. But the 3pm TV blackout in the UK needs to go in the bin. In this day and age it’s a farce that unless you’re a fan with a season ticket or the money and...

About time we see Grealish on the left and Doku on the right. Foden in just behind Haaland. That said Alvarez deserves to start so it’s a bit of a headache for Pep. Another solution would be Grealish midfield as he’d excel there. Lewis has earnt himself a start as well. Shame Stones didn’t...

Feel sorry for him. Played some lovely balls that didn’t come off and Doku comes on and gets the slice of luck not once or twice (Doku didn’t beat his man for what it’s worth so don’t bother going down that path). Also helps that Alvarez’s finishing is insane at the moment. Doku was bought to...

Rodri is available but does anyone think Pep will go all stubborn and keep him on the bench as punishment?

“Shunted out right to accommodate Grealish.” Have you been in a coma for the last 12 months?

“Showing up Jack” - Jack’s been injured and isn’t fit yet. It’s the only reason we’ve seen so much of Doku on the left. And Doku didn’t show him up at all yesterday. Yesterday’s distinct lack of control and ball retention by the majority of the players showed how much we need Jack in games like...

Weird one yesterday, he didn’t have an atrocious first half IMO (a bit loose with retaining the ball but not unlike a few others) so at the time I assumed he was taken off because the booing was a) either getting to him and affecting his play or b) successfully spurring on Wolves. A half time...

Doku’s biggest problem is through no fault of his own - being hyped up in some quarters as the next Messi and being used as a stick to beat Grealish with while he was out injured. It’s all been very unedifying the last few weeks and some of our online “fanbase” and a few on here can be blamed...

Feels like this has been coming for weeks for various reasons: Injuries have buggered us. Not only no KDB, Stones and Bernardo but Grealish was out for weeks so isn’t fit yet (needs a few games to run into form), Kova was also injured and isn’t yet fit. A transition period of some of the old...

Agree. Seemed a bit lost today and his effectiveness nullified. I can see him stepping up massively against Arsenal though, if Pep doesn’t have another brain fart.

His free kicks are sublime - stunning goal today

I was going to say it’s laughable that he’s getting slated when he was brought on at 80 minutes, but in fact it’s just quite pitiful.

Exactly, the recency bias to that team is absurd. Sure, let’s just drop Grealish, Alvarez, Bernardo, Walker, Ake etc…

There’s a lot of short term memories on here replacing treble-winning players with new signings when we haven’t faced a truly difficult team yet…

It was his first game back from injury and tbf he did look knackered in the second half particularly, I wouldn’t judge him on Wednesday’s game. No player coming back from injury is going to be at the top of their game - there’s no substitute for match fitness.

Bobb all day for me, really encouraging performance last night

What’s worse is that so far on here I’ve seen the usual lazy judgemental tropes whittled out about him celebrating the treble and drinking as though it’s an unforgivable act and has some bearing on the fact that - nearly 4 months later - he’s just recovered from an injury that kept him out for...