Strike

Smart move. Watkins is the better striker at Villa who has handled the burden of being the striker in a large sample of games starting week in week out The board waiting around on 19-22 year olds as usual - It would be crazy if Villa sell a premium striker and we are not in the conversation

Nobody wants to come near his wages. We are stuck with him - might as well integrate into the squad as backup LB

Jhon Duran £58m off set by Joao Felix the other way for ~35m (a small loss on him) is the deal I want to see before the end of the window. All other names the club is linked with won't affect our top 4 chances

58 m pounds - Surely not true

Hopefully Saturday's result leads to a change in plans

Awesome. Pay for his flight to Villa

Teams can pay the fee. Or offer a good makeweight instead of another young prospect

Offloading Nkunku at what cost? I'd rather keep Nkunku than get another 19 year old

He's had many worse games. Jackson had a decent first half and even got the assist. As bad as Jackson was at the start of 2nd half, Nkunku upfront alone was worse and made zero sense

Nkunku sub last night was disastrous. Jackson was the forward to keep on when City were playing the high line.

The goalkeeper + defensive mistakes is undoing a lot of the good work this season I think Maresca has been far better than Poch - It never felt like we were 1-2 steps away from a coherent team with Poch. Now, if the board is serious and signs a GK and ST, it could actually make for a good team with Maresca's coaching

Good game. Let's get Garnacho

Forum exploding in 3, 2, 1...

Are they using a high stakes Premier League game to put Nkunku on the shop window? We needed Jackson against this high line

City are taking off the CB kid

Of course the ref ends the half when its a Chelsea corner

Palmer has had a shocking half

Fuck off. Madueke playing everyone on too

Third big chance for Gvardiol. Had to score

James is struggling on the right side of defense.

the other debutant too. Don't see how City improve without a midfield signing

Thank fuck Marmoush was offside there. Silva was onside and backing up

Target the Uzbek kid. Seems to be shaky as hell

City are there for the taking here