BlueLyon

Casemiro is same.

Herrera man marked Hazard a few times very well, if he doesnt play on sunday, Eden will have more space to do his magic.

He is simply too nice to be lone forward in league like PL. Id prefer Richarlison or Lautaro.

Yeah our last adidas kit with those lions looked like pajama on first images, but it was actualy one of nicest in adidas era. Maybe design on this one wont be as visible either. But one way or another, it lacks more white decals. And the socks shouldnt be blue.

I have seen Palace play a couple times and his on the ball ability is nothing special. If people think Azpi isnt good enough going forward, then this guy certainly isnt either. But he is much faster. He is absolutely superb defender though, his timing of the tackles is great and marking too. Using shit word for his attacking ability was bit uncalled for, but he definately isnt good enough for Sarri type fullback. Chilwell is great though, Id pick him over Bissaka any day (for left side obviously). Bissaka is going to be great fullback, thats why many are interested. But he doesnt suit in our system, nor in City or Pool. Unless we are prepared to push all the attacking load to our left side once again and just have defensively solid RB, no point in buying Bissaka.

We swept everything under the carpet again; club issued the statement that the bust up after the burnley match has been dealt internaly between both clubs and staff. No one from burnley will be punished by fa for calling Sarri fat italian.

Nike was giving City classic simple kits for years. Why the hell they have to fuck around with graphic design on ours... This season kit is crap. Next season one looks poor too. 2017/18 was nice and if they did that one again but with white trim around sleeves and collar, it would be brilliant.

Yep. Not so sure about Bissaka though. He is monster defensively, but his ball control and attacking ability is frankly said shit. For example, he wouldnt be suitable for attacking team at all.

The whole damn universe is giving us that top 4. Dont fuck it up Chels.

This is most probably official. Ill reserve my opinion until I see them on players.

I wouldnt mind paying 100m on single player, but Coutinho isnt that special to be worthy of such fee. I agree we should rather get Pepe and Chilwell for 110 or so compared to just Coutinho for 100. But at the same time we must stop spending on average players just to fill as many positions. Then we just brings deadwood that doesnt fix issues and we waste money and time. We have to get 3 quality players per summer window, regardless of the cost. Right now my priority if we can sign players would be LB and ST. Kovacic shouldnt be bought and RLC needs to play, so CM should be someone talented, but not one to eat RLC all the minutes. Id love Ndombele, but that would mean RLC career here as starter is done. If Hazard leaves, then obviously a suitable replacement for him like Pepe.

Imagine how good this guy will be once his eye skills fully develop

Obviously he will say that, otherwise it would be clear Bayern dumped him after this injury and Odoi would realize that. This gives them open possibilities, regardless what their real plan is.

De gea will have a game of his life against us, you know it.

Dont forget we also picked Cuadrado ahead of Griezmann when we could have either.

Superstar bench comes to the rescue and Pep gets hailed as brilliant coach again

Sarri: hold my fag

Thank you wolves

Mourinho second coming didnt kill Chelsea at all. We brought Costa, Cesc and won title. Then Conte won another title with that squad and some additions. What followed is what killed Chelsea. Selling Costa without bringing quality striker. Selling Matic without bringing quality DM. Losing aging Terry without bringing or developing new top CB. Aging Willian, Pedro without bringing talented fresh blood. Not to mention fullbacks. The board fucked up the entire transition by keeping old wasted players, buying average players for big sums and buying absolutely shit players for even bigger sums. It all points to one, Marina. For every Kante or Hazard she or wheoever works on these deals has bought 300m of shite. United is in same boat. Spending on shit like Alexis, Fred etc.

I rather see Zouma properly defend against attackers and just hoof the ball away compared to the shit show Christensen puts, regardless of style we play. Ball playing CBs are the way to go and I prefer those. But Christensen is average defender at best and you always rate CBs based on their ability to defend first and then their ball abilities. The later separates their quality, but if the first is not good enough, no one will even consider them. If all we want is ball retention and f*ck defending, then why dont we just play Jorginho and Kovacic in CB pairing. If Christensen was De Ligt, I wouldnt even argue with you. But between Christensen and Zouma, we have more chance to retain clean sheet with the later. Thats the priority for the defence, regardless of the style. And Zouma isnt even that bad to make simple passes to Azpi or Luiz, but true he isnt anywhere great with long passes, althrough he also isnt as bad. I remember he was actualy surprisingly decent when he was still playing here. Christensen on the other hand doesnt contribute anywhere near as much as Luiz either. And he looks unreliably shaky when under pressure.

The problem with ball playing defenders is that they are picked for their ball playing ability over their defending ability which should be priority. De Ligt is ball playing CB, but he is great CB because he can actualy defend and command the back line. Terry was the same. We have Zouma who is good defender and average with the ball. And we have Christensen who is average defender and ok with the ball. But if we pick worse defender out of the two just because he can pass, then we are doomed. Our defence will never be strong enough. Obviously it would be ideal to have great defenders who can also pass, but we dont have those right now. And picking your CBs based on how good they are on the ball instead of how they defend, its stupid, regardless if the game evolved to this point. What good is their quality on the ball if they get shat on against every decent attacker?

DFB agreed to postpone Frankfurt-Mainz game in bid to help them prepare better for Chelsea fixture.

Good news: united is shite Bad news: chelsea is shite too

We are in absolute shit state right now. But as all things come around, sooner or later we will build this stadium and new team. New era will begin.

With our senior squad and hopefuly second season improvement under Sarri (otherwise whats the point?), we can at least hope for top 4 or anywhere near it. If we replace Willian, Pedro, Giroud, Luiz, Azpi etc with the likes of Dujon, Tammy, Tomori,...we will end up 18th or maybe even relegation. I dont want to downplay our youth potential, but if anyone believes we can survive PL by replacing most of senior players with youth, there is literaly zero chance. If these players had experience of playing in PL or first tier leagues abroad, then perhaps. But most are still green as hell. If anything we would completely ruin their development because I can assure you with all those kids we wont be having results and once that happens the media and fans will put massive pressure on them, at which point everything will collapse. This isnt Dutch league, nor german league where you can play bunch of kids and succeed. At best we can hope RLC, Odoi and maybe James to get their chance next season along with Pulisic and then in 2020/21 we add Tomori, Mount and Tammy if they perform well on loans. Ampadu as well. I dont have massive trust in AC, but lets say he too develops in good CB by that time. Edit: with Kovacic not staying, we would probably have to keep Mount as backup, but I doubt he would be anything more than that next season sadly. Essentialy giving us this lineup for the future Kepa James-Christensen/Zouma-Tomori-X Mount-Ampadu-RLC Pulisic-Tammy-Odoi But if you think that lineup cab cut it straight next season and remain in PL, you are dead wrong mate. Id love to see it, but it would be our doom. Maybe if we had two or three senior Terry material leaders, it might work, but we dont. If ban sticks, Id go with Azpi-Zouma-Rudiger-Emerson Kante-Jorginho-RLC Pulisic-Giroud-Odoi James to rotate with Azpi. This brings integration of 2/3 new players into first 11 which is maximum for successful transition. Many clubs have tried to replace their entire teams and failed to succeed. Just look at Fulham. They brought several talented players, but it didnt work.