Brentford v Man City team news: Doku benched

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Haaland	MCI	A, Vs
Up	Thiago	BRE	A
Down	Mateta	CRY	C
No Change	Welbeck	BHA	C, Rest
No Change	Woltemade	NEW	B

FPL GW15 Scout Picks

Verbruggen

Tarkowski
Muñoz
Thiaw

Foden
Bruno Guimarães
Bruno Fernandes
Minteh

Woltemade
Haaland
Thiago

Dubravka
O’Reilly
Andersen
Damsgaard

GW15 Captain Poll

Price Change Predictions

Risers

Fallers

Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Raya	ARS	5.9m	110.0%	Very Likely
J.Timber	ARS	6.4m	110.1%	Very Likely
Guéhi	CRY	5.1m	110.0%	Very Likely
Neto	CHE	7.2m	94.9%	Likely
Casemiro	MUN	5.5m	100.6%	Very Likely
Roefs	SUN	4.7m	86.1%	Unlikely
Truffert	BOU	4.5m	86.0%	Unlikely
Mitchell	CRY	5.0m	83.6%	Unlikely
Cullen	BUR	5.0m	82.0%	Unlikely
Saka	ARS	10.1m	70.2%	Unlikely
Matheus N.	MCI	5.3m	77.6%	Unlikely
Tavernier	BOU	5.5m	77.6%	Unlikely
Bruno G.	NEW	6.8m	45.7%	Unlikely
Thiago	BRE	6.8m	39.2%	Unlikely
Petrović	BOU	4.5m	76.4%	Unlikely
Rogers	AVL	6.9m	62.7%	Unlikely
J.Palhinha	TOT	5.5m	73.4%	Unlikely
Szoboszlai	LIV	6.6m	75.0%	Unlikely
Gvardiol	MCI	5.8m	70.7%	Unlikely
Dúbravka	BUR	4.0m	70.2%	Unlikely
Burn	NEW	5.1m	67.4%	Unlikely
Foden	MCI	8.4m	29.5%	Unlikely
Lacroix	CRY	5.1m	60.9%	Unlikely
Sánchez	CHE	4.8m	62.0%	Unlikely
Amad	MUN	6.3m	64.3%	Unlikely
Barnes	NEW	6.4m	58.1%	Unlikely
King	FUL	4.5m	60.6%	Unlikely
O.Dango	BRE	6.0m	57.9%	Unlikely
Verbruggen	BHA	4.4m	57.4%	Unlikely
Livramento	NEW	4.9m	57.1%	Unlikely
Ballard	SUN	4.6m	55.5%	Unlikely
Chalobah	CHE	5.2m	49.3%	Unlikely
Schade	BRE	7.0m	51.6%	Unlikely
De Ligt	MUN	5.0m	58.6%	Unlikely
Muñoz	CRY	6.1m	22.8%	Unlikely
Anderson	NFO	5.4m	46.4%	Unlikely
Doku	MCI	6.6m	43.9%	Unlikely
Sessegnon	FUL	5.4m	47.4%	Unlikely
Merino	ARS	6.0m	20.3%	Unlikely
Gusto	CHE	4.9m	45.1%	Unlikely

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Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Georginio	BHA	5.7m	119.5%	Very Likely
João Pedro	CHE	7.4m	103.0%	Very Likely
Vicario	TOT	5.0m	104.1%	Very Likely
Maguire	MUN	4.4m	103.1%	Very Likely
Tonali	NEW	5.4m	94.2%	Likely
M.Salah	LIV	14.1m	97.8%	Likely
Kerkez	LIV	5.7m	101.8%	Very Likely
Tel	TOT	6.3m	100.6%	Very Likely
Mateta	CRY	8.1m	71.5%	Maybe
Mainoo	MUN	4.7m	94.9%	Maybe
George	CHE	4.9m	91.1%	Maybe
Dixon	EVE	3.9m	95.0%	Maybe
Gabriel	ARS	6.3m	85.9%	Maybe
Welch	EVE	3.9m	93.6%	Maybe
Christie	BOU	5.0m	92.9%	Unlikely
Darlow	LEE	4.0m	92.7%	Unlikely
Coppola	BHA	4.3m	97.4%	Unlikely
Okafor	LEE	5.5m	94.2%	Unlikely
Travers	EVE	4.4m	91.1%	Unlikely
Arrizabalaga	ARS	4.2m	89.1%	Unlikely
Baleba	BHA	4.7m	88.4%	Unlikely
Boateng	BUR	4.8m	93.4%	Unlikely
Ortega Moreno	MCI	4.8m	92.2%	Unlikely
Mac Allister	LIV	6.3m	88.9%	Unlikely
Matete	SUN	4.4m	86.3%	Unlikely
Young	AVL	4.4m	87.6%	Unlikely
Pedro Porro	TOT	5.4m	84.1%	Unlikely
Gruev	LEE	4.8m	83.8%	Unlikely
Obi	MUN	4.3m	85.4%	Unlikely
Akinmboni	BOU	3.9m	86.8%	Unlikely
Byram	LEE	3.9m	84.1%	Unlikely
Knight	BHA	4.5m	85.4%	Unlikely
McGill	BHA	4.0m	85.9%	Unlikely
Pinnock	BRE	4.3m	91.7%	Unlikely
Isidor	SUN	5.6m	83.3%	Unlikely
Neave	NEW	4.4m	84.7%	Unlikely
Gannon-Doak	BOU	4.9m	86.0%	Unlikely
Dorgu	MUN	4.2m	81.6%	Unlikely
Kelleher	BRE	4.5m	88.1%	Unlikely
Cox	BRE	4.0m	85.2%	Unlikely

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Watchlists

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Raya Martin	ARS	C
No Change	Alisson	LIV	C, Vs
No Change	Donnarumma	MCI	C, Vs, Sus
No Change	Ramsdale	NEW	C
No Change	Sels	NFO	B
No Change	Dubravka	BUR	C, £

Last updated: 6 Dec, 2025 12:36am

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	van Dijk	LIV	B, Vs
No Change	Muñoz	CRY	A, Sus
No Change	Jurriën Timber	ARS	C
No Change	O’Reilly	MCI	B, Vs
No Change	de Ligt	MUN	B, Inj
No Change	Thiaw	NEW	A
No Change	Andersen	FUL	B
No Change	Milenkovic	NFO	B
No Change	van Hecke	BHA	A, £
No Change	Mukiele	SUN	C, £

Last updated: 6 Dec, 2025 12:41am

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Saka	ARS	A
No Change	Bruno Fernandes	MUN	B
No Change	Foden	MCI	A, Vs
No Change	Semenyo	BOU	C
No Change	Gakpo	LIV	B, Vs, Rest
No Change	Minteh	BHA	B
No Change	Bruno Guimarães	NEW	A
Up	Schade	BRE	C
No Change	Anderson	NFO	A, £
Down	Fernández	CHE	B

Last updated: 6 Dec, 2025 12:48am

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Haaland	MCI	A, Vs
Up	Thiago	BRE	A
Down	Mateta	CRY	C
No Change	Welbeck	BHA	C, Rest
No Change	Woltemade	NEW	B

GW15 Chip Poll

Dugout Discussion

5 October 2025 530 comments

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The final match of Gameweek 7 – and the last Premier League fixture before the October international break – sees Brentford and Manchester City square off at the Gtech Community Stadium.

Kick-off is at 16:30 BST.

TEAM NEWS

Pep Guardiola makes three changes to the team which drew 2-2 at Monaco in midweek.

Matheus Nunes, Oscar Bobb and Savinho come in for John Stones, Bernardo Silva and Jeremy Doku, who drop to the bench.

Rodri is fit to start in central midfield.

As for Brentford, Kristoffer Ajer comes in for Dango Ouattara, as Keith Andrews reverts to a back five formation.

LINE-UPS

Brentford XI: Kelleher, Ajer, Collins, van den Berg, Kayode, Damsgaard, Henderson, Yarmoliuk, Hickey, Schade, Thiago

Subs: Valdimarsson, Henry, Pinnock, Jensen, Carvalho, Onyeka, Ouattara, Lewis-Potter, Janelt

Manchester City XI: Donnarumma, Nunes, Dias, Gvardiol, O’Reilly, Rodri, Reijnders, Foden, Bobb, Savinho, Haaland

Subs: Trafford, Stones, Ake, Kovacic, Cherki, Doku, Nico, Bernardo, Lewis

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Totalfootball
2 months, 1 day ago
Reijnders needs to get some points today.
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1. EDEN THE MAN
  2 months, 1 day ago
  !
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2. Mr. O'Connell
  2 months, 1 day ago
  When pigs fly
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  1. Baps Hunter
    2 months, 1 day ago
    Reindeers fly with Santa 🙂
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    1. have you seen cyan
      2 months, 1 day ago
      Christmas miracle needed for a Reijnders return.
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  2. Baps Hunter
    2 months, 1 day ago
    Here in Finland it's cows fly ("lehmät lentää") because of LE-LE in both words 😉
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3. DARE TO BISCAN
  2 months, 1 day ago
  He will 🙂
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  1. Mom, Butters just gave me a…
    2 months, 1 day ago
    3.or 2
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    1. DARE TO BISCAN
      2 months, 1 day ago
      Yeppers. At least 2 (aka 'some')
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4. chocolove
  2 months, 1 day ago
  Only today?
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g40steve
2 months, 1 day ago
Donna big save
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1. tutankamun
  2 months, 1 day ago
  Poor from Thiago
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  1. el polako
    2 months, 1 day ago
    Working on a transfer to Arsenal.
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2. el polako
  2 months, 1 day ago
  Big man with big save.
  Went for him over Raya, hope he won’t let me down.
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3. Prinzhorn
  2 months, 1 day ago
  Good save but Thiago should have done better
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Ser Davos
2 months, 1 day ago
with the AFCON 5 FTs, is it 5 + 5 ceiling?
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1. have you seen cyan
  2 months, 1 day ago
  Nah, you would lose your transfers, so basically use all transfers before we get them.
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  1. el polako
    2 months, 1 day ago
    Never saved more than 2.
    lol.
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2. Bigbars
  2 months, 1 day ago
  Only 5.. .so from what i remember from some of the preseason tips, burn your transfers before that GW as you wont for example if you had saved 3 have 8.
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Prinzhorn
2 months, 1 day ago
Need Doku to come and break this game open
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Saka White Rice
2 months, 1 day ago
Who is a bigger priority sell between Bruno and Salah?
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1. el polako
  2 months, 1 day ago
  The one incapable of scoring penalties.
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2. Jinswick
  2 months, 1 day ago
  Bruno
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3. F4L
  2 months, 1 day ago
  salah
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4. Mom, Butters just gave me a…
  2 months, 1 day ago
  The one not having qualified for the AfCON
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5. Bigbars
  2 months, 1 day ago
  dunno, ive kept both all season and could use either to bring in Semenyo, but annoying thing is both could haul on any given GW.
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6. Ajax Hamsterdam
  2 months, 1 day ago
  Salah for me as he takes too much funds. I would actually keep bruno
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7. DARE TO BISCAN
  2 months, 1 day ago
  Keep Salah for ManU game. If he doesn't show signs of form, bin after that.
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8. keefy59
  2 months, 1 day ago
  Please link your correct team so that we can have a look
  I think the team linked might be last seasons number
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  1. Saka White Rice
    2 months, 1 day ago
    Updated now thank you!
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Mom, Butters just gave me a…
2 months, 1 day ago
What a boring game.
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1. tutankamun
  2 months, 1 day ago
  Needs a Brentford goal
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All Hail K
2 months, 1 day ago
A lot of meaningless possession.
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1. Defcons are for Kinnear
  2 months, 1 day ago
  Feels like both teams are happy to finish the game now
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Gazza1993
2 months, 1 day ago
Would you

A) Bruno to Saka
B) Porro to Gabriel
C) Both for a hit
D) Wildcard

Sels, Dubravka
Konsa, Porro, Senesi, J Anderson, Esteve
Semenyo, Fernandes, Mbeumo, Reindeers, E Anderson
Gykores, Haaland, Pedro
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1. Ajax Hamsterdam
  2 months, 1 day ago
  Can you afford mbeumo to saka? otherwise a
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  1. Gazza1993
    2 months, 1 day ago
    No unfortunately not, 1.0 ITB
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    1. Ajax Hamsterdam
      2 months, 1 day ago
      not D for sure. would be a shame to 4- with wc still available. I think a or mbeumo to eze. gl!
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2. Baps Hunter
  2 months, 1 day ago
  AndersEn is Joachim the def 🙂
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Mom, Butters just gave me a…
2 months, 1 day ago
Gvardiol is losing a ball just to chase back for DefCon. Clever.
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1. Ajax Hamsterdam
  2 months, 1 day ago
  🙂
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g40steve
2 months, 1 day ago
Robot telling the ref to FO
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1. Bigbars
  2 months, 1 day ago
  I have to say, I prefer the robot nickname to the previously used Meat Shield which was odd dont you?
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  1. x.jim.x
    2 months, 1 day ago
    Robot implies he has no personality
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    1. Sly Fly
      2 months, 1 day ago
      C3PO definitely has a personality.
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      1. x.jim.x
        2 months, 1 day ago
        Think he’s classed as an android
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        Sly Fly
        2 months, 1 day ago
        This is absolutely true, and I tip my hat to you, Sir.
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    2. Bigbars
      2 months, 1 day ago
      As long as he scores, especially when captained, he doesnt need to waste energy on a personality.
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Jinswick
2 months, 1 day ago
Whatcha reckon?

A) Save FT
B) Mateta -> Woltemade
C) Gyokeres -> Woltemade (leaves cash for Alderete/Rodon -> Califiori)

BB ACTIVE
Pope, Dubravka
Timber, Senesi, Richards, Alderete, Rodon
Saka, Semenyo, Gordon, Sarr, Xhaka
Haaland, Gyokores, Mateta

Bank 0.1m, 3FTs, BB, FH left
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1. Ajax Hamsterdam
  2 months, 1 day ago
  such a nice team! a and I would defo BB.
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g40steve
2 months, 1 day ago
O Reilly making bad decisions today
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1. have you seen cyan
  2 months, 1 day ago
  Reilly poor decision making
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2. Bigbars
  2 months, 1 day ago
  Take him off pep so I can bank the CS
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keefy59
2 months, 1 day ago
Haaland dropped to 2 baps
Needs some more returns
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JBG
2 months, 1 day ago
Good on you Semenyo Cers
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1. keefy59
  2 months, 1 day ago
  I think it's a bit to early for that
  Although he doesn't look like adding to his score he's still on the pitch & on penalties !
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g40steve
2 months, 1 day ago
Game needs Doku
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Tonyawesome69
2 months, 1 day ago
Just back from the Celtic game with mixed emotions. It was another tough one to watch but we dug deep to get the result.

The club is still an absolute shambles!
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1. Haalander
  2 months, 1 day ago
  Was at the hibs game last Saturday and they just look so flat. Good to see maeda score migjt give him a lift.
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⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
2 months, 1 day ago
Reijnders 2 defcons

5.5m dud
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1. _Ninja_
  2 months, 1 day ago
  I'm switching to Caicedo on wc
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  1. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    2 months, 1 day ago
    I might do the same without caicedo won’t keep getting goals should be good for defcon at least
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2. Tonyawesome69
  2 months, 1 day ago
  1/7 games he's hit DC and that was against Arsenal, you should lower your DC expectations for Reijnders...
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3. Mr. O'Connell
  2 months, 1 day ago
  One-week wonder. Biggest trap in the game.
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  1. Tonyawesome69
    2 months, 1 day ago
    Two*
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4. x.jim.x
  2 months, 1 day ago
  I think you’ve misunderstood something if you expect a City midfielder to be putting up defcons against Brentford
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5. have you seen cyan
  2 months, 1 day ago
  Can't get defensive or attacking returns, good at running around a lot though.
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MIGHTY JOE
2 months, 1 day ago
HOOOLD GVARDIOL
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1. Ajax Hamsterdam
  2 months, 1 day ago
  Well done for owning him not a popular pick but I like him
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All Hail K
2 months, 1 day ago
This incessant passing backwards by City is frustrating.
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1. Defcons are for Kinnear
  2 months, 1 day ago
  Their trying to bore their opponents to death
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2. g40steve
  2 months, 1 day ago
  Got the best fwd in UK & don't feed him
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Defcons are for Kinnear
2 months, 1 day ago
Everyone is strolling about. No intensity at all
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g40steve
2 months, 1 day ago
Dango for Thiago
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⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
2 months, 1 day ago
Thiago 59 minutes

Rules me out of getting him in as an enabler then
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1. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
  2 months, 1 day ago
  69 mins
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2. Defcons are for Kinnear
  2 months, 1 day ago
  I'm genuinely considering 5-4-1 moving forward
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tutankamun
2 months, 1 day ago
Thiagoff
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AC Pilkington
2 months, 1 day ago
OMG bemba da
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g40steve
2 months, 1 day ago
Savinho is terrible
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1. JBG
  2 months, 1 day ago
  No wonder they where open to sell after just 1 or 2 seasons, can't even remember when he joined
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  1. x.jim.x
    2 months, 1 day ago
    From Sterling and Sane to Savinho and Doku is a crazy downgrade
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  2. The Bandit
    2 months, 1 day ago
    He’s just signed a new contract
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2. el polako
  2 months, 1 day ago
  To be fair none of the City wide players looks like world beater.
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2 months, 1 day ago
Im surprised that Savinho is still playing and no Doku.
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1. All Hail K
  2 months, 1 day ago
  Agreed. That is surprising.
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  1. All Hail K
    2 months, 1 day ago
    Especially with the 1-0 score line.
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g40steve
2 months, 1 day ago
Hendo YC
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JBG
2 months, 1 day ago
O'Reilly very selfish
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Baps Hunter
2 months, 1 day ago
Haaland is getting frustrated, like we all...
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g40steve
2 months, 1 day ago
Yarma down
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1. g40steve
  2 months, 1 day ago
  & off
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