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Pre-season (2024/25)


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4 minutes ago, McCormick said:

Honestly, if it wasn’t for his injuries over the past few years I reckon Kelly would be England’s starting left-back (or in the squad at the very least).

 

He's got the ability, and there's a gap in the England team at that spot, and so I'm sure he'll be pushing for it, and that would have been in his thinking when deciding to join up with Howe again.

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20 minutes ago, astraguy said:

Kelly has an eye for a pass good addition , how's Harrison do?

 

 

 


Struggled to make an impact, looks a little lost out there. I thought his position was higher up the pitch so maybe was in his natural position yesterday. Lots of work to do though, but still a pup, loads of time. 

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Harrison looked a little over-excited. Gave the ball away a couple of times early on by trying to make things happen and then was apologising for it way too much.

 

Bit of a missed opportunity for him really but he’s got plenty of time.

 

 

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Seen how the likes of Tottenham, Chelsea etc have played some elite teams in this pre season 

 

Reckon it's much of an advantage to them, getting tested against opposition? Our last 2 pre seasons seemed to go pretty well when transitioning to start of the season 

 

I must say, I'd love to see us against Bayern or Madrid in pre season! 

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2 minutes ago, janpawel said:

Seen how the likes of Tottenham, Chelsea etc have played some elite teams in this pre season 

 

Reckon it's much of an advantage to them, getting tested against opposition? Our last 2 pre seasons seemed to go pretty well when transitioning to start of the season 

 

I must say, I'd love to see us against Bayern or Madrid in pre season! 


Not really sure it matters much either way and you can’t read too much into pre-season results. So long as the conditioning, tactics and all of that jazz are correct and the off season has gone well otherwise. I’d say that’s more important. 
 

Didn’t we have an amazing pre-season under Allardyce results wise. Then we were utter shite after 3-4 games into the season. 
 

Got a fair few Spurs mates and I’m sure they had a few seasons in a row where their pre-season results against big teams were impressive. But the season proper was anything but! 

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6 hours ago, janpawel said:

Seen how the likes of Tottenham, Chelsea etc have played some elite teams in this pre season 

 

Reckon it's much of an advantage to them, getting tested against opposition? Our last 2 pre seasons seemed to go pretty well when transitioning to start of the season 

 

I must say, I'd love to see us against Bayern or Madrid in pre season! 

think going to japan may have limited us.

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7 hours ago, janpawel said:

Seen how the likes of Tottenham, Chelsea etc have played some elite teams in this pre season 

 

Reckon it's much of an advantage to them, getting tested against opposition? Our last 2 pre seasons seemed to go pretty well when transitioning to start of the season 

 

I must say, I'd love to see us against Bayern or Madrid in pre season! 

 

Granted Girona didn't put up much of a fight, but on paper, albeit not "glamourous" in the way a Juventus, Lyon, Atletico etc would have been, both Girona and Brest were very very solid tests of where we are for the start of the season. Don't think a team that has played against Bayern or Madrid has any advantage over us in terms of preparations.

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9 hours ago, Conjo said:

 

Granted Girona didn't put up much of a fight, but on paper, albeit not "glamourous" in the way a Juventus, Lyon, Atletico etc would have been, both Girona and Brest were very very solid tests of where we are for the start of the season. Don't think a team that has played against Bayern or Madrid has any advantage over us in terms of preparations.

Surprising that both are in the CL this season…

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