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    Is he calling him Fred or Fray-zay?

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    Always good to give Man Utd a good pasting, even if it was just pre-season.

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    Shaqiri loves an overhead kick.

    To the graph!

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    The best thing about every club worth a fuck going over to America is that most of them have taken their reserves and the Yanks, not being as thick as the clubs think they are, are refusing to pay $150 a ticket to watch it. Half empty stadiums.

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    101,254 at the Liverpool - United game yesterday.

    Still a lot of mugs.

    Mourinho's comments are quality.

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    Man Utd have the biggest following over there, so that’s probably why. I thing there was about 47 people at Tottenham vs Roma, and that’s Levy’s main target market.

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    It does strike me the season is starting ridiculously soon after the World Cup. Anyone involved past the early stages thereof will be gassed.

    Also having these 'high profile' friendlies is a total disaster, you need to be going around with light warm ups against Austrian teams and lower league sides.

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    Absolutely. They've got 40-odd weeks of football to follow. We put together a poor goalless draw against Porto yesterday. Sounds like Porto were the much better side. Lejeune blew his ligaments.
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    Porto should have won comfortably.

    Inter have it right. Spaletti said he wanted a real pre season and they've had games across Europe instead.

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    Quote Originally Posted by niko_cee View Post

    Mourinho's comments are quality.
    Martial had a baby and he went back to Paris. The baby is called Swan. Now I can understand why Jose is mad.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    It does strike me the season is starting ridiculously soon after the World Cup. Anyone involved past the early stages thereof will be gassed.

    Also having these 'high profile' friendlies is a total disaster, you need to be going around with light warm ups against Austrian teams and lower league sides.
    This is the thing keeping me slightly positive. We only had a couple of first teamers go whastoever let alone get to a quarter final.

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    What do you reckon Lacazette's chances of starting the season are?

    I reckon Arsenal could be a good shout for an opening weekend ambush on City.

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    Emery seems to be wanting to play Aubameyang out wide to the left with Lacazette centrally (how wenger slotted them both in once or twice as well I think).

    I think his preferred team seems to be:

    Lacazette
    Auba - Özil - Mhkitaryan (?)
    Ramsey - ??? (torreira? xhaka?)

    ??? - Mustafi - Sokratis - Bellerin

    ????

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    Quote Originally Posted by niko_cee View Post
    What do you reckon Lacazette's chances of starting the season are?

    I reckon Arsenal could be a good shout for an opening weekend ambush on City.
    He's played every game as well as Aubameyang but now Ozil and Ramsey are back I'm not sure how it all fits together.

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    As above, don't you reckon Phonics?

    Not sure who he plays out left otherwise. Other (very interesting) option would be a 4-4-2 diamond, which I'd love to see, but I'm not sure that will happen.

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    Diamond midfield. Arsenal has complete freedom to do whatever they want. They should be gambling to progress instead of playing it safe. 442 diamond is what I would like to see. They dont have any natural wide players. Auba and Mkhi can play from out wide but you would think they would be better suited playing from the middle.

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    I agree for sure. Would love to see that , and with Bellering and Kolasinac who are basically closet wingers it makes complete sense.

    But I still don't think it will happen do you?


    So far all pre-season games have been 4-3-3 or more like 4-2-3-1, and that's what Emery used to play at PSG and Sevilla as well, from what I understand.

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    I don't think he will do it. It will take a shocking performance to change the complete formtion to a diamond midfield.

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    Yeah exactly...

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    Saw this:

    This season will also see the introduction on competition-specific suspensions for players, rather than cautions carrying across multiple competitions.
    In an article on the beeb about managers getting cards etc this season. I can see the idea, but I think competition specific suspensions are a bit daft. I always remember on FM when a player was sent off for something violent in the Spanish Cup he'd miss the next few seasons of cup games as the lengthy bans only ever applied to cup games (I have no idea if this is still the case). It works in the sense that picking up that stray yellow to trigger a suspension before a cup game is definitely a thing, but I'm not sure it works so well if they have to carry over seasons to be served (which presumably they do have to).

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    Hudson-Odoi for Chelsea is going to be proper mega. Bellerin hasn’t got near him so far.

    He’s handed Morata three different chances to score but then again it’s Morata.
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    Hudson-Odoi looks super exciting. Hope he gets too play some in the league this year.

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    Morata is having a shocking first half. Missed a penalty and looks like having no confidence what so ever.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trancemeister View Post
    Hudson-Odoi looks super exciting. Hope he gets too play some in the league this year.
    If he does, it won't be for Chelsea.

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    Why are we playing Arsenal in pre-season? At least make the money spinners against teams that you don't play all the fucking time as it is.

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    Also, Hudson-Odoi may look great but ejaculating over such a player in pre-season friendlies is such an Arsenal thing to do.

    I imagine Sarri will be a lot more progressive with the kiddos, mind, so we might see him get a go.

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    4-0 defeat to Braga. Rafa's went to the press to tell Mike to fuck himself.

    He's not lasting the season.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    Also, Hudson-Odoi may look great but ejaculating over such a player in pre-season friendlies is such an Arsenal thing to do.
    I imagine Sarri will be a lot more progressive with the kiddos, mind, so we might see him get a go.

    Agreed. Pre-season friendlies really tell you fuck all about stuff.

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    We've just bunted Napoli 5-0 in Dublin. Just pre-season and all but I guess it's better to be doing the bunting than being bunted (like Spurs).

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    Lichsteiner elbowed someone in the head then had a bust up with them protesting his innocence within 3 minutes of his debut. Automatic fan favorite based on the Twitter reaction.

    I've always hated him as an outsider, I can't imagine the reaction he'll get playing in the league.

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    Shaqiri has impressed me in pre-season. He's always seemed the type to try their darndest to get a shot off or generally make poor decisions to try something spectacular, but he's been spot on with his decision-making tonight (and generally) and looks like he'll be an excellent option to have. Sturridge too, but we've been there before. At least he didn't get injured heading that in, I suppose.

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    Quote Originally Posted by niko_cee View Post
    Shaqiri has impressed me in pre-season.
    Fatness advantage.

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    We just beat Lyon on pens with Robert Green saving the deciding spot kick. What a time to be alive.

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    Why are so many friendlies this year being decided on penalties. I swear it's about half of them and that's never been the case before.

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    Because they're playing in front of Yanks and they can't handle draws.

    Speaking of our cheeseburger munching cousins: https://www.theguardian.com/football...er-austin-bold lol @ Bruh

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