Pizy

Kinda hope Kane does end up going to City. He’s a constant waking injury and City are already a buzzsaw attacking wise so I don’t think he dramatically improves them. In fact, he could disrupt their fluidity. If he stays at Spuds and becomes committed again they may actually be a top 4 threat with Nuno’s more pragmatic style.

We can basically kill Arse’s season in match week 2 and seal Arteta’s fate since they have City next up after us. And they’ll hand Arse their annual thrashing. It’s very likely that they’ll start with 0 points from 9 as long as we don’t choke against them again like last season. Unfortunately, if they do sack him they’ll appoint someone who’s actually good like Conte, probably.

I’d be delighted if we still sign Kounde. Statement of intent and a look to the future for when Silva leaves and Azpi is a year older.

Not a peep about Kounde in weeks nor Zouma leaving. Think that ones dead for now. Especially with Trev killing it today again.

Something that looked much better than many times last season was how crisp and quick our passing was. There wasn’t any of that annoying walking pace stuff that infuriated me so many times.

Looks the exact same as last season. Causes defenses fits with his runs but fails at the crucial last moment. I’d still continue to start him alongside Rom because he creates space for all the other attackers.

Pregame worries shattered. That was an excellent first half performance. Totally dominant. Trev again impressive spraying it around. Already looks miles better on the ball than Zouma, it must be said.

Tbf, though, Chilwell and James didn’t even play. How are they not fit yet but Jorginho is who played like every minute until the end of the tournament?

This is for all intents and purposes our B team. Doesn’t look exciting or entertaining at all, really. Hard to see where the goals will come from. Just need to get 3 points by any means and hope everyone is fitter for the Arse game.

Season hasn’t even started and already Kante has to be managed carefully. 😔 Was in amazing form in preseason as well.

So I guess Koundé is off the table and we’re going with Chalobah instead?

Not gonna lie, it’s super anticlimactic seeing us line up with such an undercooked XI on day 1 of a new season. So many of our best players not starting and zero new faces to freshen things up. Think this could be a tedious one with this lineup.

As everyone expected, they’re genuine title contenders. As will Liverpool who many pundits and fans seem to be writing off as past their best. This is going to be the hardest fought title and top 4 ever.

The one aspect in which United are vastly superior to us in. They have a midfielder who can pick unbelievable passes and assists (Pogba) and a midfielder who can score for fun (Bruno). It could take Mount a month or two to score 3 goals from that #10 position whereas Bruno can get that in 1 game. Kante, Jorginho, and Kova may not get more than 1 assist all season long.

Fuck sake. We may legitimately take a couple of months to see the best of this team. And by then we may be in a hole chasing several teams.

There’s been nothing at all about an incoming midfielder for weeks/months, guys. It’s clearly not happening. Hopefully we secure Koundé and then that’ll be the end of our business. We’ll just have to pray for Kante’s health for the whole season.

If that’s the case I can’t imagine Haaland would be demanding more than that in wages. So that must mean he told us he wanted to wait until next summer to survey his options and we couldn’t afford to wait ourselves.

This is the slowest transfer we’ve known is done ever. He doing a world tour before signing or something? 😂

It’ll probably be the same old story. They’ll sit deep and let up pass the ball around with 80% possession and struggle to break them down. I think it’s critical we start the season well or we could be left behind by the other title challengers before the race really starts. If I remember correctly Liverpool and United have extremely soft fixtures to start with. Or at least one of them does. We can’t afford to fall 6-9 points behind anyone.

We’re almost surely going to look a whole lot like we did last season for at least the first few games until Lukaku gets up to speed and any other new signings are brought in. And by that I mean we’re going to really find it difficult to score goals and our pattern of play will look very laborious and tedious.

Didn’t Ziyech also get injured in the final match of preseason last year as well? Imagine how he must be feeling… 😔

A 180, no. Significantly better than last season, yes. Don’t need him to be a world beater just competent.

Yeah, it’s just sad watching Timo like this. Doesn’t look any more confident than last season. Just don’t get how someone can go from an almost arrogant assassin in front of goal to this.

Not really sure I understand playing several players who clearly won’t be here. Also not sure I like the idea of like half our best XI not playing a single preseason match before the PL season starts. Even if it’s just for 60 minutes I’d have played as close to our best XI as possible. We have a tough as hell start to the season and need these guys to hit the ground running.

Seeing as there have been zero links with anyone for RLC and since he’s in today’s squad I think he’s staying as our 4th choice CM.