The Skipper

Yep. Charly is an ‘aesthetic’ player, looks good on the eye but hasn’t got great substance to his play. Like most things he does literally just looks good on the eye but it usually doesn’t actually advance the team going forward. RLC kind of has the same problem. He needs consistent game time in my opinion so he can get more of a feel for the adult game. Won’t happen here, but yeah.

Well, made a huge mistake rejecting the Chels, this is just karma basically.

Thoughts? @Jason

Tears in my eyes, oh how I’ve missed a good Eden performance. What a game. Little genius!

Class, Ghanaian needed at the club again.

Fantastic spelling of Batshuayi pal hahaha. I'd love this team: Wily Rudiger Christensen Cahill Sterling Bakayoko Fabregas Kenedy Musonda Batshuayi Hazard Maybe Zappa will start ahead of Sterling - but would like to see him come on there or for Kenedy.

Dujon Sterling should be in the first team imo, especially as we're struggling for quality WB depth. His ceiling at WB is higher than that of Moses' or Alonso's. Also quite interesting that Ampadu is getting minutes already, looks like he's extremely highly rated.

Play Fabregas, dude thrives in games like this.

3 times over the limit apparently.

It is. Martial, Rashford, Mkhi would all start here ahead of Willian/Pedro. Could even make a case for Mata tbh. Their attack in general is much better than ours (-Eden).

Zouma imo has the belief and work ethic to really work on making himself a good 3ATB defender. Unfortunately he can't really practice well enough at Stoke but after that injury, minutes are more important than anything, needs to get that feel of the game back.

No idea why the club doesn't use him as our main PR/marketing player.

Jesus and Aguero would cause Cahill lots of trouble with their athleticism and off the ball work, Rudiger does make more sense to help out that back three for sure. Also hoping it's Azpi AC Rudiger but you and I both know Cahill will probably start.

As long as Ruben plays lots - which I think he needs more than a manager that's trying to mould him - he'll be fine for this season at Palace. He just needs game time most importantly.

Super first half, but again petered out in the second. Really still needs to work on his stamina and general influence on the game. If he can produce that first half over 90 minutes he'll have a good career.

Spot on, it's a very important attribute for a striker to have - does he keep the defenders on their toes? Is he a presence? Tammy's already got that in the locker, now needs to continue to refine his game and make an impact on the league. He'll get better as the season progresses for sure. God bless Paul Clement, honestly.

Here's your chance lad.

Yeah, same, but I do believe in Andreas' talent and no better stage to showcase it than Man City. Hope he has a really good game because he is surely capable of it.

The info graph is interesting. Why did Conte match up Kante vs Xhaka and Fabregas vs Ramsey? Seems suicidal. Maybe would make sense if we pressed Arsenal high but we didn't really...

I would've said the same if we had a better transfer window addressing our weakness at WB and another one which is becoming more so apparent every game - wide forwards. Apart from Hazard, I don't think it's good enough tbh. Pedro is getting old so we can't rely on him too much. Willian is always upgradable, and should not be starting. Our squad doesn't have that extra oomph it needs imo. Loss of Costa will become more apparent, just hoping Alvaro steps up to it. Baka has done well in the limited time he's been given but I feel like when he does get those minutes we shouldn't be expecting top top performances every game. City and United always had the better squad and they've adequately addressed most of their weaknesses. We've only addressed one of ours really (CM). Still need to improve our wing backs and also get in real extra quality to help Hazard and Morata. It'd be another Conte miracle if we won the league, honestly. Maybe it's just a case of grass is greener, but don't really expect us to seriously challenge till the end of the season for the league this time around tbh.

CB is the best area of our squad, if we had the squad of say last year I'd be extremely annoyed at Luiz but I'm just excited that Christensen gets a go now.

Going to be a long season if neither of our CF's can make a serious impression. I think he did ok today with almost no service but he to bulk up from now till Christmas to become a presence long term. We don't have the luxury of bedding in strikers. I've accepted that the club aren't too serious about challenging for trophies this year tbh. We don't have that luxury but it is what it is. Just hoping Morata can have a decent return either way this season - but I truly believe we'll properly see what he's made of next year.

Has made a very very good start to the season, can see him scoring 30-40 in all competitions honestly.

Like I said, he needs a season to truly get a feel for the physicality in the PL. Especially in our system team, our striker needs to be physical, needs to have a presence somewhat to be successful consistently. Not expecting big things from him this season tbh, but he's open to prove me wrong of course. Truly judge him next season.

Picking up injuries really easily now. Getting old. We really need to upgrade our RFs.