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Love the way he "Ghosts" the opposition! Pure footballing elegance!

Yep, after seeing the pre-season unfold they deffo look like the hottest options we have at the moment to fill the Maxi and Longstaff holes, unless of course longstaff recovers form/fitness in time...

More like it...

I think we can battle for fifth place this year and maintain the champs league placing and revenue source!! For the players and any future ones, chamos league is what repositiins us globally. Anything less than fifth would be a dissapointment, but not the end of the world.

After current pre-season our midfield three would likliest be bruno, big joe and anderson. Front three being miggy, gordon and Isak. Quite a few to come off the bench also (barnes, tonali, calum, longstaff, murph, miley, target...)

I am still worried about our "slowish" defence against this lot. last season they tore us a new hole by having quick transitions down the wings and with direct over the top balls. Tripps and Schar´s pace were really exposed. Add Diaby into the mix and they have a very quick front four... Still, if we get the first goal I think we will gather momentum and smash them "a la spurs"

Premier League Winners: City Runners Up: Liverpool 3rd-6th: Arsenal, Newcastle, Chelsea, Manu Relegation: Everton, Luton, Palace Overachievers: Villa Underperformers: Spurs Top Goal Scorer: Nkunku Break Out Year: Anderson Season to Forget: Varane PFA Player of the Year: Bruno PFA Young Player of the Year: Anderson Manager of the Year: Eddie First manager to quit/be sacked: Lopetegui Newcastle United Where will we finish?: 4th or 5th Top Goalscorer?: Isak Season to forget: Schar Howe will we fare in Europe?: reach last 32 Europe La Liga winner: Madrid Serie A winner: Milan Bundesliga winner: Bayern General World Player of the Year: Vinicious or Bellingham World Young player: Bellingham

Makes more sense to swap around the 4 and 6 in the above formation otherwise it seems illogical

By the look of things we are going to be a very fast and direct side! Hard press and quick turnarounds using Barnes and Gordon with Tonali pinging one touch passes... DROOOL

Would like disasi and/or a left back to make the window a real good one. Think the talk about Gordon being like a new signing might just turn out to be true. WE GONNA BURN DA LEAGUE!!!

Always thought he was a decent player, will not get us out of our seats as much as maxi but will frustrate a lot less too I imagine...

Feel exactly the same. whenever they get back in the prem i will be looking forward to beating them, but until then the less i know of them the better. Completely irrelevant

Chiesa or Lillestrom for me pls

Ok cool. But they are a very small minority and do not represent the huge majority of us…

I reckon we might see him on instead of Maxi, move big joe back into the middle with bruno and tonali. ———————pope——————— trips——scar———botman——-burn (other) ———————tonali——_—————— ————-bruno————Joe————- miggy (other)——-isak———-ASM (gordon)

This is a crazy statement Kaka. If you have ever studied politics or sociology you will know that the two extremes of the bell curve are where you will find “radicals” who are capable of triggering interest (media) and blowing things out of proportion. I also find it flabbergasting that people would not want their best players in their team because of the colour of their skin, it makes no sense. We all at times want ASM out of the team for his lack of defensive work and huffs, but I have never ever heard anyone criticise his involvement because of his colour. As for england; I stopped going to England games over twenty years ago because it seemed to me that they attracted the scum of the earth(bell-ends again!) worst support I have seen in my life! Would never go back. If you were using only the people who attend england games as your base statistic, then I could possibly see where you are coming from…

Vinicius was an unknown kid when he went to Madrid, he was pretty average his first year there…. Could be a good bet, bring him through slowly, and at 20M it should be good value

Good signing for villa, Pau torres heading their way as well. Emery is strengthening well

I want him to get a proper pre-season into him and for his niggles to dissappear. We could finally see the Maxi we would all love to see i.e. fully fit and doing his bit at defending (albeit not that much… but something)

Similar player to Zlob and Madders

Mattheus Franca will be that guy?

Some nuanced writing over the last couple of pages with many suppositions and little statistical backing. Would rather you all talked it through together (Saudi Embassy?) in a nice relaxed ambience…

I would like three players minimum 120-150Mspend, our rivals are already ahead of us transfer wise and we need to keep pace. Left back, centre back and a right winger who can also play left. Tierney (25), Gleison (30) and Chiesa (40) would be fine…

Partey and Zhaka are bobbins, Rice is a huge upgrade on that pair. he will give the security they lacked in the big games.

Rumoura about that Liverpool now after Dom Sloz… Would be absolutely gutted if they got him