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Up there as one of the most embarrassing footballing experiences of my life. Shite from Rafa, shite from Shelvey, that fat cunt in the stands. Disgraceful from the lot of them.

Like watching a lower league team play in the FA Cup. Depressing tbh, compounded with the injuries. This season is gonna be wank.

Fucking unbelievable.

No clue what you're on pal but you should probably pack it in. Worrying.

Elliot over Caballero Ashley interview good

PepPepPep! Was entertaining at Barca because they had Messi - plus Xavi/Iniesta/Busquets had an almost telepathic understanding of each other to the point it was ridiculous. Trying to implement it with a bunch of expensively assembled mercenaries is just a recipe for boredom.

Absolutely hate this system for Man City's players. All that attacking talent and it's the centre backs and full-backs playmaking. Very negative formation designed to monopolize possession and suffocate the match.

It appears we are relegated, then.

The thing with him is, I've always thought he was shit, but in his first season he somehow managed to score 4 goals. I went back and watched them, as I was so confused by this discovery. One was a hit and hope from distance against Burnley, but the other 3 involved him bursting into the box to score against Everton, Spurs and Stoke. As shit as he was, he actually got himself into the box to score goals. It's physically impossible to imagine him doing that now.

Agreed. I think he has physical attributes, leadership qualities and his reading of the game can develop - but is a poor footballer, and that will probably limit his ceiling. That said I would never have predicted Harry Maguire to become a £17 million player so domestic defenders can surprise you in their development. Maguire's actually good on the ball so he's a bad comparative example in terms of skillset, but the point still stands.

Nah, I do think it got a bit intense and over the top at one stage on social media. Perhaps not at the time, but certainly with the hindsight knowledge that he was playing through the pain barrier.

He got unfair criticism last season, in light of the fact that he played 47 matches while enduring injury problems. Don't think he's a worldbeater, but he has attributes and age on his side.

In all of the compilations I've gone through he's been in and around the midfield positions an awful lot and a canny few Chelsea fans on Reddit said that he'd played there. I dunno, I can't say I know anything about him beyond that. He seems extremely versatile (probably to a point of being an issue, tbf) and a bit of an athlete so it wouldn't surprise me if it was the case. Completely no idea what to expect from him or how he's to be played if we do sign him.

Eurgh, don't even mention that filth. Tyler totally ruined the game by mentioning that towards the end.

Have to make the best of my last season watching football before that VAR shite comes in.

According to this, he has never played CM since coming to England. https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/kenedy/leistungsdaten/spieler/281404

Can Kenedy really play central midfield? He was a striker/winger when they signed him, and moved back to left back.

We're hardly stacked there tbh

We're clearly having a major issue clearing the squad and we're needing to literally kick them out of the squad to get the message across.

he may have got #1 cos he asked for it, or they had some kind of competition. They decided the numbers last year on shoot outs. That's why Major Lazaar got #7 ahead of Catsu.

Might as well just torch the ground if we can't even get this odd-named sinophobe cunt through the door

So we've named a full 25. Will need to remove players if we're signing anybody else. Kenedy (if he signs) won't need to be registered since he was born in 96.

He wasn't a disaster for Twente, that's for sure.

absolutely hate him me, think he sums up our establishment as Sports Direct Tinpot FC more than any other playing individual.

What a fucking tinpot operation we run.