BlueLyon

Pedro isnt world class obviously, but so far he was amazing. If he keeps up for this season, RW wont be a problem this season. And IMO proper striker is always required, unless you have some 30+goal a season freak individual (Ronaldo, Salah, Messi). Striker still adds that clinical finish, and more importantly is always in right spot. Lw and Rw can be good finishers, but they are not exactly waiting infront of goal to finish off the chances.

I heard he was realy bad for Valencia so far? Not even starting games...

Rudi the PanzerTank

Every team knows we have some difficulties against stacked defences and at same time they know they can do us on counter because frankly we are shit in defense quite often. After Arsenal, every team realized their chances lie in packed defence and wait for counters against us. Bournemouth usualy plays nice football, but even they decided to shut themselves down today. Games will be like this for whole season. Its whats expected. Only City will play their game, others will park the bus. The question is can we break down defenses and keep our goal protected. As for Morata, the less said the better. For this system we need a quality finisher, so we can capitalize on all the possession and chances. If we had one, title would be serious, serious possibility.

Its nice because its yellow which is classic. It could be simple and clean, but yokohama and hyundai logos look bad, completely ruin the kit for me.

Jordan brand and football club. Nice kits or not, thats one big joke.

You know about that adjustment period? When something you are used to is no longer there and something new looks completely out of place, but after a while you get used to it and begin to like it or at least accept it? When we ditched Umbro and Emirates for Adidas and Samsung, at first I didnt like it, but soon the new kits grew on me big big time. However these Nike kits and especialy yokohama logo on shirts still looks absolute trash to me. Only good thing is the CFC logo. I fucking miss the adidas/samsung and umbro/emirates kits. Good ol' times.

I dont see the huge love for Kante new position. Yes he is very decent in his new role, but as DM, he was pure world class. To me he is a DM that has good ball control and allround play, which is a bonus. But he isnt better in more attacking role than as DM. Dont know why people want to make him something he is not. He is fantastic if he plays DM but has licence to push forward if he decides to. In current role, we miss his protection infront of back 3 and his allround tackling/marking isnt on same level as DM. I just dont see benefit in his more attacking ability for the sake of his great defensive ability. Only reason I see for this is that Jorginho is best suited to deep playmaker role and Sarri decided to play him there. He cant play in more forward position, because then he loses his control of play from deep which is his biggest strenght. Maybe we could play Kante and Jorginho in double pivot, possibly ideal, but ball transition in midfield wouldnt be as clean. In 4.3.3. Jorginho has player next to him on both sides, in double pivot he would only have Kante and if #10 dropped deeper, but that becomes midfield. Still very good player and maybe with time he will properly adopt. but for now, I liked his DM role under Conte more. He should be given more freedom than under Conte, because as typical DM, his quality is a bit wasted, but current position takes too much of his defensive side away, the side he is world class.

He is absolutely world class player that proven himself here season after season. If there is a player worth that pay, its him. Kante comes close second. People dont see yet we will NOT be able to replace Hazard. We couldnt replace Costa, nevermind Eden who is 10times more important in our attacking play.

Surprisingly I thought the CB was last thing we needed with all the players around (Luiz, Rudi, Cahill, Christensen, Zouma), but it seems thats the main area where we are still weak. Much to learn I have However I think young CBs we were linked with like Rugain wouldnt solve the issue. Our CB ball distribution is surprisingly good for now, its the defensive side thats problematic.

My few cents about the game 1.) Some of most exciting football at SB in long long time. Those quick passes were amazing. Lot of improvement in such a short time, cant wait to see us in two months and next season. 2.) Defence was super shit whole first half. But players will get used to play smarter. At 2:0, next time, we will step on ball and not exploit ourselves at back so much. This second half was already better, but Arsenal realy didnt test us. They could have gone all out and we would probably have trouble again, but thankfuly they stayed back. You also have to know that Arsenal is still one of best drilled attacking sites in PL, I see only City to be more fluid in attack (taking chances in another thing, but in creativity and chance creation Arsenal always did quite well) 3.) No youngsters again. I hope Sarri wont keep this as his standard. CHO wasnt there, RLC neither. No Christensen either so far. I hope, if Alonso, Luiz, Willian keep underperforming, Sarri will have the balls to actualy play some younger players instead of same old player power. 4.) Morata finish was sweet. He was also quite agressive in some duels, finaly. If he can keep this for next 10 games, that will be improvement though, but for now I wont jump to any conclusions.

He is pretty much fucked either way haha. Eden or CHO.

I wouldnt disagree with trying him as striker haha. Actualy has decent movement and finish, often looks goal-thirsty aswell.

Boohoo. They sign these contracts, its not like they are forced into. If they werent partying all the time and study instead, they would have knowledge to not spend all the fucking money. They have education options unlike some other people. World is not fair, but when someone starts how poor chaps in nfl are, give me a break. In 3 years they earn more cash than normal person does in whole life. If they spend it all, their own fucking problem. Obviously there is no money in world worth for a possible life long injury, but its a risk they took. Go work in mcdonalds or educate yourself and become a lawyer or some shit. No one forced them to play football. People who run the nfl are real dicks, but when you see they were hiding test results of head injuries of average nfl player during their career, you know how much they value players health. Nada. They care about entertainment -> cash. If you are still stupid enough to join such league...

Easily one of best if not best midfield in PL, but without good defence and attack, it wont be easy. Hopefuly Alonso, both CBs and Morata step up through the season and we will see some amazing footy.

Ghoulam would be probably here (or at city) by now if he didnt injure himself right before start of 2018. His contract was ending aswell.

By all accounts he should as soon he adopts the Sarri phylosophy and comes to full fitness. While Jorginho is DLP, Kante b2b, Kovacic will be somewhat creative/dribbling mid, helping push the ball from midfield to attack. In napoli, Sarri had Jorginho, attacking CM Hamsik (Kovacic here) and hardworker Allan (Kante here), pretty similar type of players. Kovacic after all has technique and pass ability to work nice in Sarri system.

Cant say for others but I stood by Diego all the time. Even now lol. Why? Because he proved he is quality and simply went through rough patch like every striker. I knew he has that ability. Unlike Morata who did very little last year. Even when he was scoring with head, dont forget his finishing with feet was crap 90% of time, but we let it go because he scored with head. And he kept falling down and complained, playing style that most people dont like. Costa was complaining too, but he provoked the opponents, which often helped us. Morata simply complains fo little pushes and gets cards for no point. When/if he has great season like Diego had, trust me I wont shit on Morata either if he goes through a bad patch. I know better players need time to recover. But as of now, Morata was average last season and below average since turn of the year. And he gets game after game, but no improvement. Just pointing out facts, during games I support all our players, but if they play bad week in week out, obviously I will start complaining.

If they missed every damn sitter like Morata, they wouldnt play either.

The man is as problematic as they get. No thanks to such characters. Even if they perform good enough, they are eventualy pushed/force move out like Costa or Tibo. Just avoid this. There are Kovacic, Neves and bunch of other options we can pursue instead.

Who cares if striker can linkup if he cant score a damn goal. I want striker to know how to finish, so that you have someone reliable uptop. If he can also link up, thats only a bonus, not an excuse. Lets not kid ourselves, Morata isnt as bad player as was Torres, but he is bad as a striker. Neither could score. Thats a big problem and we must bench him if he wont get shit together by the end of august.

If you saw the video of Real Juve final, you could hear Zidane say "you will suffer" too

No player with #9 in the team. This gonna be good season guys

Tbh out of all players there, I would only pick Mbappe who will never come like you said. Decently strong, pace 9000 and lot of skill. Young but already experienced etc. Other options are all meh to me. Martial, Icardi seemed most possible but I would give a pass on either. Martial is one lazy ass and Icardi simply isnt mobile yes. I saw enough games. He isnt slow, but nowhere near enough dynamic for PL. He is deadly in penalty area, can move there well, but he doesnt have pace or power of prime Didi, Henry, Suarez, Aguero...that is required for PL. There is a reason why no one bought Icardi yet. He is fantastic finisher, but offers little support in attack, and can not link up on wings or outside penalty area. Basicaly he can finish, but everyone nowdays looks for allround strikers and Icardi isnt one. Last but not least, one of biggest dicks in football. Just not worth the hassle. Strikers out there are simply not great. Good but not great. Better than what we have but players like Cavani, Higuain, Lewa,...are nothing compared to Henry, Del Piero, Drogba, Ronaldo from some years ago. Only one realy good was Suarez who actualy performed in PL, La Liga, CL and world cups on regular basis. Absolutely fantastic striker, but also huge dick, however his quality is not questionable. Lewa was also good for about two seasons, but apart from buli, he constantly flopped in CL. Werner just might be something in few years, but he will proly join Bayern. And I hope you dont rate Lukaku lol. He is again one dimensional and Im glad we sold him. Thing is we have shit options and anyone above looks better. But that doesnt mean they are the solution. Why not take a look at lower clubs and try to find another Suarez, Drogba,...instead of poaching overpriced have beens from big clubs.

I dont like his character tbh, not realy ambitious and determined. Good strikers are often a bit of cunts or big characters, like it or not. Its what separates them from others because their confidence is sky high. Lacazette is too nice and eazy going. Im tired of these "low confidence when you tell them they suck" type of players. Be a fucking man. Sadly there are very very very few strikers out there, too bad we sold Costa.