The Skipper

Fabregas -> Pedro -> Costa -> Goal.

Honestly, pre season performances mean nothing at all to me. Musonda is more talented and has higher football IQ than all three.

Not good enough.

I bet you Ivanovic starts. I hope I'm wrong but I wouldn't be surprised whatsoever.

Please Juve. You can keep Pogba for one more season if it means you'll buy this coleslaw off us.

Not true, he tweeted a week or so ago that it'll be a busy few weeks for CFC in the next few days/weeks.

Sell Moses and Cuadrado, confirm Pedro, promote Musonda as the 5th AM. Hazard, Pedro, Willian, Oscar & Musonda. Solid.

Asamoah is so much better.

I refuse to believe this is happening.

Well, I was previously against this but I've definitely come around now. If we ship off Cuadrado this is a massive improvement to our AMs. Hazard, Oscar, Willian, Pedro. That's solid. And it also gives you a nice platform to improve on I.e. If a bigger talent became available at RW. I would also get rid of Moses and get Stones.

Fabregas? Costa?

Atm they've only got Stones, Jag and Holgate (who's more of an U21 player if I'm correct). They need a CB irregardless of whether Stones stays or not.

They needed a back up centre back anyway.

He's always been Spanish.

I suppose we can expect him to "give all his best" then.

Haha, personally I haven't seen that. He is a level below them guys but he does have the potential to be amongst those players. I haven't really seen the English media doing that.

Exactly. Memphis has finishing in his blood, he's ruthless with it. Eden just isn't that player unfortunately. I said it when he joined that the biggest thing he needs to work on is his finishing and got heckled for it, but honestly it looks like that was true and sadly, it doesn't seem like he has progressed in that aspect of his play at all. He gets himself into very good positions to shoot sometimes. If Eden shot more accurately, he'd definitely get defenders to panic more whenever he got into the box, but it's like the defenders know he won't shoot.

"overrated".

Marginally.

Let's talk about 09/10 - when we played with a higher line under Ancelotti - was JT exposed then? No.

For me it's no question about who should get benched between Cahill and JT. Why it's seeming like its the latter... I will never understand. JT's leadership and organisational qualities alone should put him ahead of Cahill.

Stones is a completely different sort of CB compared to Zouma. Stones can also play RB very competently. In fact, we could easily play something like: Azpi - JT - Zouma - Stones. Or partner up Zouma and Stones in some games because they're both mature enough. They complement each other very well. For me, John Stones isn't a signing for just now. It's an astute signing for the future. The Zouma - Stones partnership could be amazing in the future.

Wow. Must be noted that this is for the reserve team however.

Alexis as well...