Emery: “We don’t have the potential to sign, for example, Manchester City signing Semenyo, Tottenham signing Gallagher. OK, but we have our own power & we will exploit our capacity. "We are creating something special here. More than the capacity to buy everything we want.” #AVFC

Best manager in the world.

I can't bring myself to not revel in Man U's misfortune, even if it is to Villa's detriment.

Besiktas are doing great business off us singing Abraham, if the rumours are to be believed. Rumour is that they want to bring forward his buy clause, so they'd be signing him from Roma for £12.5m and then selling him to Villa for £20m in the same day.

Amazing timing.

Pretty chill with idea of Malen staying or leaving. Emery clearly doesnt' think he's a good fit for the first team (which I think is correct, he's generally not been very good when starting apart from Saturday). We have to sell someone, I'd rather Malen than someone in our best XI.

I hate to side with Man City - but they seem desperate to find a reason to disallow this goal.

I don't really get this recent narrative of "Why would a young player come to Villa when you see our track record" that I've seen on social media. The track record of loaning out players and then selling them couldn't be a better advert for a young player. #AVFC

PGMOL admitting that Villa suffered two VAR mistakes so far this season (Merino not getting a red in the Arsenal match, and Andre not getting a red in the Wolves match), and we benefitted from one VAR mistake (that soft disallowed goal in the Brentford match for a push on Emi). #AVFC

Don't believe the Tammy Abraham rumours. He's already on a loan with the option to buy, and he's scored 10 goals by January. Why would the loan club allow him to leave?

Same fanbase that stalk Matty Cash after a clean tackle 3 years ago.

@ Palhinha have that you jumped up little mug

I never get that "Here we go" feeling when teams get a goal back against us any more. Same as against Forest. I'm sure we'll lose a 2 goal lead at some point, but it feels impossible - the mentality of this team is so good.

Spurs being helped so much by the referee here. Should be down to 9 men.

Just about the 7th yellow card offence for Spurs not given with that Simons dive. Not that I'm counting.

How has Paulinha not been sent off in this match?

Brilliant first half performance. Particularly Bogarde, Tielemans and McGinn in the middle. Have dominated their opponents. #AVFC

Mathys Tel pulling Cash back by his neck. No foul... #avfc

It's still January, but if you were talking about a Player Of The Season shortlist right now - you'd have to include Cash, wouldn't you? He's improved at both ends of the pitch. #avfc

Bogarde appears to be getting better and better with each passing game.

Such a dirty team, Spurs. Every time we play them.

The tackles that have gone in on Villa players unpunished this season are an actual scandal.

What a result for Macclesfield

My Planet Zoo zoo is being entirely propped up by the fact that my poison dart frogs just won't stop having babies. Just a non-stop conveyor belt of frogs being released into the wild that is getting me enough conservation points to buy more interesting animals.

Was surprised to find out that Conor Gallagher is only 25. I would have clocked him for 29/30. Think he must have just rose to profile young.

Was curious why Villa are sponsored by the tourist board of a random town in Egypt. Looked at the Wikipedia page for the town and it was founded in 1990 by Samih Sawiris, Nassef's big bro. #AVFC

Referees won't give Arsenal players red cards for ANYTHING.

Looked like Madjo is our second signing of January. A hefty fee for a player with 5 first team appearances. Also, I'm kinda gutted he recently switched international allegiances to England - because the inner FM player in my would love a Luxembourg international playing for Villa. #AVFC

Decent first half. By the standards of our usual performances against Palace, give us the league title now.

Palace. No atmosphere, but a drum.

Would rather West Ham go down, because the league needs fewer London teams. But I'm glad they're winning tonight because I want there to be an actual relegation battle and it not be done by March.

This angle makes their goalkeeper's actions look even more bizarre. McGinn had the ball at his feet before he even left his penalty area. In real time in the stands, I had presumed it was one of those ones where McGinn won the footrace for a ball in behind.

Couldn't work out why I felt so chilly working from home this morning. Took until half ten to realise the heater isn't plugged in and it's 14 degrees in my office.

Leeds done us another favour against Liverpool. Couldn't have picked a better week to lose our first game in ages with Liverpool, Chelsea and Man U all dropping points in matches we would have expected them to win. #avfc

YES Evann! Scoring a header!

Either a load of OnlyFans people are incredibly into Evann Guessand and that's why a bunch of them liked my post within 10 seconds, or we have bots on Bluesky for the first time I've ever seen.

Watching the AfCON and Guessand is playing as an out and out CF for Ivory Coast.

Ultimately, we've not got the type of squad that can manage 4 first teamers being out. We were excellent first half though. Just keep thinking about what if Arsenal went down to 10 men in the first half.

How is that not a red!? ffs

Genuinely think Arteta noticed that we literally don't have any senior holding midfielders to cover Onana, and told his team to knobble him. He'll know as well as us how injury prone he is.

Arsenal rewarded for the free reign the referee has given them to kick lumps out of Onana. Was brilliant in the first half, but their tactic has taken him out of the game.

Well, we've shut Alan Smith up, if nothing else. Think he's said about 4 words that first half.

How tf have Arsenal not had a booking so far? Every time we get the ball.

Alan Smith already called Arsenal "we" or "us" twice and the game hasn't kicked off. Carragher saying how great it would be to see them win. Going to be a long evening listening to these bellends.

Walked around a corner once and someone up the road was bowling a fake cricket delivery so I did a fake slog back over his head. He turned around to fake watch the ball go for six, and put his hands on his head in fake exasperation

Just thinking about back in the day, when the best way to watch football was to look at the DMCA takedown notices on Google so you knew which websites worked. Iraq Goals ftw

It's somtimes notable when a news website has used AI translation.

If we somehow beat Arsenal on Tuesday with the players we'll have available then, then Sky Sports will just stop broadcasting football and take out a hitman contract on Emery.

Forever this.