Yup, Sanchez would have been far better for the system, but from what I saw reported Dier wasn’t willing to leave. He’d rather to see out his contract, despite it being clear at that point that he was only going to get a look in if we got injuries…

With the amount of games happening between now and the new year + then players leaving for afcon and asian games, that’s a big chunk of the season we’ll be missing vital players, while having fuck all depth

Villa and Newcastle are definitely not shit, I’d be pretty happy to come away with four points from that.