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Been only 2 minutes but this hasn’t aged well.

That guy is such a joke.

Omorodion has one full LaLiga and one full Segunda Division season behind him, in which he apparently both excelled. Guiu has only played Spanish third tier football and like few dozens minutes of top level. If anyone goes out on loan it’s logically be Guiu.

City is making a great deal. Huge profit on Alvarez. He is a good player, very strong in many different areas of the game, but not extra or outstanding in any, not irreplacable.

We need a replacement for Gallagher? I though we sell them because we already have too many.. Lavia, Enzo, Caicedo, KDH, Ugo.. Do we really need to buy one more?

Well, how about now? Who should be selected when everyone fit? Badiashile, Disasi, Adarabioyo, Levi, Fofana.. Two weeks later we will face City in a competitive game and at least two of them should start but nobody seems to be confident & in form.

Real Madrid next.. If we defend like this we can easily concede 4 again. Few positives after Today.. Lavia is promising, Noni is good clutch, Sterling - as much hate he gets - still good. Enzo, Mudryk, Adarabioyo, Colvill were absolutely underwhelming.

This was nice. Well done Noni and Raheem.

Colwill what a weak ass performance again.

There are annoying aspects in his game, no doubt, like pushing for penalties. But even Today, immediately tried to make things happen. Might not work all the time but at least not staying anonymus.

Noni has been criticized a lot for during the preseason for being selfish and wasteful. Well, he is, but at least he is always trying. Mudryk is like the guy in the office who always try hard to stay under the radar so it’s not so obvious they don’t know shit. Wish we could get rid of him somehow.. Defence seems a mess once again, like we’re not really getting any closer who will play where. Beginning of the season will be painful again.

Zoloft

Enzo is such a stupid boy..

Ok, but City can actually say “fuck it, it’s just preseason”. They coach has been around for 8 years, most of the squad been together for many seasons, they are a great and established team. We are again a side with many new players and new coach, so it’s very worrying that 300 million midfield of Enzo/Caicedo/Lavia/KDH looks like some moron schoolboy team.

Marescaball 😄

Already tired of this game.

Ah geez..

Conference League maybe.

We spent more money on central midfielders than their countries combined GDP, of course they are not. Ah, so it's not just me. Maybe he'll losen up a bit by time bit he is like the douchy kid with rich dad at school.

Christensen is a skinny guy too, but he is doing quite well on the highest level of football. Also he 18 only, we still have time to fed him with some extra oatmeal for breakfast. Look at Kompany when he was at Hamburg as a youngster, he got much more built in years at City.

Ten Hag seems to love players with respectable injury history and shiftly changing form, considering these he would really fit Manchester United better. Few days ago there were Marcos Alonso rumours aswell, that'd be funnier though.

Well, he said he went to Marseille games to watch see Drogba, he didn't say he succeeded.

By the way, where did the Duran links go south?

Probably, but my point is, what was/is the plan with these guys? They were not globally highly rated talents, they were already 18 when we signed them, which means 1-2 years after that they should be at least taken into consideration to appear for the first team. But these guys.. are not close at all. I don't even see them playing in the PL. Players like Broja or Gilmour didn't happen to become world class but you can feel they were actually close to this level and they still play in fairly high level. But this Burstow guy, or Washington.. Cannot even see them thrive in Champo.

Quite depressing to look at this list tbh. Matos, Burstow, Casadei, Richards, Samuels-Smith, Moreira, Washington.. All these guys were signed one year ago only, all around 20 years old and so far away from first team that they can’t even make the first cut in preseason - in a Euros/Olympics/CopAm summer. I understand academy products don’t always end up to be top players, and also there are some senior players who we need to get rid of(like Lukaku and Kepa), but above 6-7 players.. They were already 18-19 when we signed them and none of them seem to be even any close to Chelsea level.