The Skipper

Disagree. The sacrifices are overstated. Azpi doesn't play LB to protect JT because of his lack of pace (JT's never had pace). JT is also intelligent enough to play in a higher line, he just needs the right defender next to him, someone like Zouma.

To this day, people still underestimate Terry's influence on the team.

Koke would be amazingly perfect simply because of his versatility.

I'd be very happy if Oscar proved me wrong this season - and tbf - he really needs to.

I actually think we'll win pretty comprehensively but we do need to improve. As long as we grind out results over the next few weeks until we get into proper rhythm I'll be satisfied.

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I would be happy with this, should've picked him up instead of Cuadrado from Italy tbh.

Fair enough, but I just don't see him doing that. Can't ever see Victor Moses performing to a world class standard consistently and there will always be better players out there, but each to their own I suppose. For me personally, Moses has done nothing to over impress me over pre season because I know exactly what sort of player he is.

Even if he did cement the opportunity to become our first choice RW, would you be satisfied with Moses being our starting RW for the next couple of seasons?

What do you exactly disagree with, him being good enough to be our number one winger on the right or him just being a squad player here?

He has what it takes to be our number 1 winger alongside Hazard? Do you seriously believe that?

If he's slow then so are 75% of our team... He's relatively quick, especially for his size.

The Falcao analogy is bang on tbh. This is quite annoying, tells you he doesn't really evaluate these kids properly at all... Sigh.

Doesn't mean much to me at all, he's been the best of a bad bunch... He'll get a chance but he isn't good enough to be a starter here IMO. Maybe okay to be a squad player here.

Tbh, apart from Hazard & Willian, our wingers aren't really good enough. Willian isn't really a winger either. Moses and Cuadrado aren't good enough, Bertrand Traore is an unknown quantity at PL level atm... I think it's almost as important as a CM in my opinion.

We still need a LB, CM and winger, same as the start of the transfer window. Looks like we'll be addressing the LB slot as Luis is gone and Baba seems likely to come in, but it's quite disappointing how we haven't looked like signing a CM or a winger yet.

IIRC, Fabregas' suspension got reduced to one game, thus he's not actually suspended. He served it in the last game of last season.

It was a joke Jase

If this gets over 20 likes I'll consider it.

We are just not ready whatsoever. Don't know why we started pre season so late. We look about 2 weeks off pace.

Anyone know what the new XI is?

Never that, my friend .

Thanks everyone, won't let you down!

If Arsenal get Benzema they'll be a massive threat next year, especially if they can add a quality DM to that.

In what sense is Gimenez twice better than Stones?