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Never doubt Ten Hag's stubbornness to prove a point. Antony will start for us on a regular basis this season.
I think he's more interested in winning football matches personally.
Never doubt Ten Hag's stubbornness to prove a point. Antony will start for us on a regular basis this season.
Never doubt Ten Hag's stubbornness to prove a point. Antony will start for us on a regular basis this season.
I think we'll look like a different team playing an actual high line with aggressive, front foot defenders rather than seeing Lindelof and Evans run back to the penalty spot at the first sign of trouble all season. Our midfield has looked more compact and sensible as well.
Some of the attacking interplay we've seen in bursts in the friendlies and Community Shield is very, very promising as well. I think we can be best of the rest after City and Arsenal if things click.
As shit as he is, he still started 15 games last season, so why don't we have this conversation at the end of this season instead of after a couple of friendlies?So why didn’t he last season? Or in pre-season? Or the other day in the charity shield?
I thought the same until he started spouting utter nonsense last season.I think he's more interested in winning football matches personally.
Weirdos voting 1st place @Acquire Me
Will gift you something nice if we win the leagueI am an eternal optimist. That madness never changes!
I think we will comfortably finish above Villa and Newcastle.I have gone 4th.
Last season was poor but the fact everything went about as badly as it could RE : bad luck, injuries and refereeing decisions, and we still missed out on top four by "only" 8pts shows its actually not that difficult to achieve.
Arsenal and City will finish top two but I'm not convinced by either Spurs, Newcastle or Chelsea. Liverpool have lost Klopp. Villa will have the Champions League as a distraction.
The key is CB. Last season we had Evans start 23 games and feature in many more. No offence to a player who has had a great career but at his age / current ability he'd probably struggle in the Championship, never mind starting week in, week out for a team with top four ambitions. Even just replacing his games at CB and Casemiro's with Martinez / De Ligt / Yoro / Maguire should be worth the 8 points!
Wouldn’t say that’s the best case scenario. Mate we finished 3rd 2 years ago with a weaker squad than we’ve got now. We’re finishing 3rd/4th.Unless we bring in a midfielder or two then best case scenario, given the squad we have currently, is fifth.
INEOS have more work to do.
We may still sign one. Fecking Luke Shaw will probably also manage to play around 5.2 games and if Dalot and Mazraoui stay fit we may be ok, esp considering that while Harry Amas won't become our starting LB, he may get quite a few games, helping in smaller games, at least. Ideally I hope we can bring somebody on free or loan, however. In some ways, Luke being injured again highlights the importance of an LB signing and they may do something about it, unless we are bankruptWe have no proper LB (again) and haven’t strengthened CM (again). Think it will be another disappointing season. Was so chuffed with the charity shield performance and the De Ligt signing but Shaw’s latest injury has deflated me. 7th.
Will gift you something nice if we win the league
Wouldn’t say that’s the best case scenario. Mate we finished 3rd 2 years ago with a weaker squad than we’ve got now. We’re finishing 3rd/4th.
Agreed there. Even just Ugarte. He’d improve us massively. Him and Mainoo can both get about as there at a decent age.Our central midfield options are pretty abject, Mainoo aside. A couple of midfielders would give me more confidence.