Pizy

Arse, Liverpool, and City all having great windows. It’s going to take something special from us to finish above any of those 3 this season.

If a Madueke replacement comes and Kudus is off the table going to Spuds, I think I’d rather we go for another natural, touchline hugging winger to compete with Gittens on the left than Nweneri. Fofana I guess is the logical choice.

Says he’s prioritizing Spuds as well. Think he sees his path to being an every match starter more viable at Spuds than he does here so that makes sense.

Nobody is beating this super motivated PSG in form like this.

Kudus makes sense because he’s highly experienced and ready to step right in in a number of areas. As big of a talent as Nwaneri may be is he really the profile of player an already super young team needs? Keeping in mind that we ALSO have Quenda coming in as a winger next summer!

What sort of position does Nwaneri play predominantly? Not sure why we’d be interested if he’s a RW when we’ll have Neto and Estevão there. And centrally we have Palmer and now João Pedro.

The entire Arse fanbase will be on suicide watch if we actually swap Noni for Nwaneri. A winger not many of us really rate and would happily see the back of for their most talented and promising youngster. 🤣🤣🤣 Not saying I want Nwaneri, just that it would be hilarious. Arse fans would be in meltdown.

Madueke & Nkunku are the two we most urgently need to shift for good money before these other clubs come to their senses and realize they can do better. Get Madueke to the Emirates before they decide to go for Rodrygo instead.

Andrey Santos looked solid for someone who had to be unexpectedly thrown in last minute. Kept his passing simple and tidy, stayed calm in possession, and got stuck in to some crunching tackles here and there to win the ball back. Made a couple of positional mistakes that allowed Palmeiras to break past him but that’s perhaps why Maresca doesn’t view him as a holding midfielder but more of an advanced #8. Valuable experience for him overall and it’s good for him to show the manager that he can be trusted like this.

Levi being out means the CB situation against Fluminense is worrying. Even more so if Reece is out again. But at least Caicedo will be back and João Pedro’s first appearnece was very promising. As much as I don’t really have super high hopes for Gittens, it sucks that we didn’t pay up sooner and get him in before this tournament started. We desperately need a natural left winger.

Madueke makes the wrong decision every time. Gets into SO many dangerous situations and then fucks it at the last pass or action.

wtf happened to us? Dominated the first half and now look dead on our feet.

Completely asleep since half time. We have been just asking for it since the whistle.

We’re just begging them to have chances at our goal with all these stupid fouls. Cucu needs to calm down.

Why is Nkunku still playing for Chelsea? Offers absolutely NOTHING.

Our world class RB playing in midfield and a LB in woeful form playing RB. When we have 2 natural midfielders on the bench. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

This is what I want to happen but I have a bad feeling we’ll sell Noni and replace him with Garnacho. Gittens will be our only LW and with Estevão likely competing with Neto on the RW and João Pedro probably competing with Palmer centrally behind the striker, Maresca may opt for another LW instead of Kudus who likes the central area. Then we’d have 2 natural players for each AM position. Hope I’m wrong.

Even as an American this game is kicking off at a weird time. With the threat of storms like we’ve seen repeatedly during this tournament, starting a match at 9pm feels dumb. Imagine another multi hour delay pushing this match past midnight on a massive holiday weekend here no less. Stupid logistics from FIFA as per.

Sure have been quick to punish us yet City and all their shit is still dragging on. I realize one is UEFA and the other is PL, but still.

United have apparently announced that Garnacho has officially asked to leave the club and won’t be reporting to their preseason training this coming week. Fabrizio again reiterates that he really wants to stay in the PL. Chelsea, please…please no… I just don’t know what other club would want him.

Guiu & George have loan written all over them. Them going another season getting sparse minutes here and there in lesser competitions wouldn’t be beneficial to their development at all. They need to play every week.

Any winger with an ounce of football intelligence in the final third will do.

Man, if we can sell Noni and immediately replace him with an upgrade that’ll be brilliant business.

So how good are Palmeiras compared to the teams we’ve played so far? Should we be worried with no Caicedo and likely no Lavia?

Playing in a shiny new stadium is cool but Everton are probably going to be dogshit and in the bottom half again. They were apparently demanding £70m+ before he signed this new deal. Now if Everton stink again for the next year or two and some big club comes in for him he has likely priced himself out of a move.