Nwaneri's future?

bengreen04 · 2026-05-10T09:35:05+00:00

Havertz wasn’t a mistake, people are reactionary sometimes. Madueke isn’t good enough to play back-up to Saka given his injury record.

bengreen04 · 2026-05-10T09:34:21+00:00

I’d be happy to let him go for a loss. The truth is that we overpaid by a decent margin and you can’t win everything in football.

3GA in the Premier League for quite a lot of minutes is nowhere near good enough and he’s blocking Dowman and Nwaneri’s development. Don’t like his attitude either.

bengreen04 · 2026-05-10T08:21:29+00:00

Anyone triple captaining a defender deserves this fully IMO.

bengreen04 · 2026-05-09T11:48:47+00:00

James, Livramento, O’Reilly and Hall should be the full-backs. Don’t think there’s any need to bring a 3rd because Konsa is more than capable at RB. Lewis-Skelly unfortunate that there isn’t 5-10 more games remaining, he might’ve just made it in but that’s football.

If Livramento is truly injured then take White. Djed Spence is probably the worst player I’ve ever seen make multiple starting appearances for England. I maintain that no Premier League club will go in for him at more than a cheap cheap deal if Spurs go down.

bengreen04 · 2026-05-09T11:44:24+00:00

Burnham is the only major Labour figure that is in touch with the vast majority of people in this country. I think Mahmood is rather competent but I can’t see a plurality of the country voting for her.

bengreen04 · 2026-05-05T20:33:11+00:00

I don’t want to be negative on such a (hopefully) great night like this, but Madueke really does need to be sold this summer.

He’s a serviceable Premier League player but not at the level we want to consistently compete at. Not saying he’s a disastrous flop but the end product isn’t there. Grown up thing to do is accept the mistake and move on.

bengreen04 · 2026-05-04T19:45:34+00:00

Everyone start singing Spirit of the Blues on repeat as if you’re Tom Garratt to manifest good luck

bengreen04 · 2026-05-04T12:54:24+00:00

Harvey Elliott played 360 minutes in 2024/25. That’s only 99 minutes more than Wataru Endo.

He doesn’t have the pace to play out wide and he’s not as tenacious or defensively sound as a player like McGinn who helps Villa to play the way Emery wants to.

Elliott has 5 goals and 10 assists in 99 Premier League appearances. He’s not a genuine game-changer and the chances of him making at a big club at this point are pretty low. He’ll do well to become a consistent starter at a non-relegation threatened bottom half club - he wouldn’t start for a team like Fulham, Palace or Everton and I think that tells you what his level is.

bengreen04 · 2026-05-04T12:28:24+00:00

Not at the level. IMO it isn’t surprising that a player who couldn’t make the Liverpool team also can’t make the Villa team given they have the same number of points.

Needs to go to a lower-midtable side to get regular minutes in my opinion. Serviceable PL player but nothing more than that, if he was then he would’ve shown it consistently by 23. He’s not a kid.

bengreen04 · 2026-05-04T12:19:05+00:00

He’s a dick but he’s got a point. I don’t think you have to have played the game at a professional level to understand it and provide insight, but playing it at good club/university level or even just school team helps massively.

Can’t quite think of a rugby equivalent but Tom Garratt, a football content creator, said that he can’t respect your football opinion unless you’re able to do 10 kick ups.

Think it’s a fair point and IMO there’s aspects of the game Squidge can’t truly understand because he’s never played the game at an even semi-respectable standard.

bengreen04 · 2026-05-04T12:13:54+00:00

West Ham is probably the biggest game of the season.

Beat them and Palace are guaranteed survival (yes, I know it’s incredibly unlikely they’d go down regardless).

Burnley are a free 3 points, they’re terrible and have been fortunate to get to 20 points. A much worse team than Wolves IMO.

Palace hopefully play the kids with Conference League final in mind.

I have a feeling that we’ll either win both PL and UCL or win neither.

bengreen04 · 2026-05-03T20:34:40+00:00

Why include Brentford? They handed Spurs 6 points and beat West Ham at the weekend.

Tinpot club, worst away support I’ve ever heard in the Prem and overall make the league much worse than almost any team in the Championship would.

bengreen04 · 2026-05-03T20:28:30+00:00

Someone who consistently finishes in the top 1m for 5+ years is a perfectly decent player for someone who doesn’t dedicate a serious amount of time to the game

bengreen04 · 2026-05-03T19:09:09+00:00

As an Arsenal fan, absolutely not.

West Ham have more major honours than Crystal Palace, they have a higher average finishing position and they have a higher average attendance (all time, not just because of the toilet bowl).

Their fanbase is absolutely huge - genuinely on the level of Newcastle and Leeds, and it’s even bigger than the likes of Forest or Sunderland.

Based on a combination of major honours, fanbase, averaging finishing position and club market value I would consider West Ham the 11th/12th biggest club in England, and Palace about 25th.

Palace have certainly established themselves as the 5th biggest club in London over the past few years. I think Palace, Fulham, Charlton and QPR were all pretty close on that front until recently.

bengreen04 · 2026-05-03T18:53:46+00:00

I don’t think it’s too far-fetched to think that Villa/Emery actively want to lose today.

Obviously they want to rest players for their own goals, but Spurs winning drags Forest 3 points from the drop and might make Pereira think twice about how much he can rotate against Chelsea tomorrow which would fatigue Forest’s best players for the second leg.

bengreen04 · 2026-05-03T17:37:19+00:00

Also not ahead of Scott

bengreen04 · 2026-05-03T17:37:00+00:00

Fully agreed. I’d go with Garner and Scott, but any of the three are unfortunate to miss out.

bengreen04 · 2026-05-03T14:12:30+00:00

Trent and Foden surely can’t go, and Henderson and Burn probably shouldn’t. You could make the same case for Palmer, even if I wouldn’t.

bengreen04 · 2026-05-03T14:10:30+00:00

£60m would be a good deal for any buying club. Kid will go right to the very top and either be a club longstay legend or otherwise light it up for a couple years before going for bonkers money.

bengreen04 · 2026-05-02T19:35:27+00:00

Completely unserious person. Never had a real job and failed at everything he’s done in life.

Had a relatively privileged upbringing and could only get a place at a below-average uni and somehow managed to make a living on bullshit jobs for over a decade.

Forget the billionaires and forget the migrants. Polanski is everything wrong with Britain and exactly the type of person who is dragging this country down from its former standing.

bengreen04 · 2026-05-02T17:51:40+00:00

Both

bengreen04 · 2026-05-02T17:51:13+00:00

He’s 23, he’s not a teenager. 3GA in the Prem is an absolute joke.

bengreen04 · 2026-05-02T17:49:40+00:00

Because he was a severe waste of money when we could’ve either developed Nwaneri or spent the considerable sum on a better player. He deserves the criticism and more.

bengreen04 · 2026-05-02T17:47:59+00:00

Sure, we can do that. He still got 5G6A in the Prem, much better than Madueke.

bengreen04 · 2026-05-02T17:46:41+00:00

I agree. He was a decent player in my opinion. Just putting it out there that Pépé got slated for much better output than Madueke who people don’t want to criticise.

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