You’re going into the season with Zinchenko as left back with Cancelo literally the only cover for left and right back and only 3 central defenders.
That’s some gamble …
But not at the same time as making the wholesale changes in the squad through quality acquisitions in the next 2 transfer windows, delivering the quality team platform to be competitive in La Liga & Champs League by winning titles & giving Messi ballon d’or opportunities in the next 3 seasons -...
He was due back playing after the international break & am pretty sure Pep will have asked that he does play (once assured by our medics he was fit) when he was named in the squad.
It accelerates his match fitness if nothing else.
He got a 1 year deal on transfer deadline day. FFS literally nobody else wanted a player who has played only 35 games in over 2 years & not once in 7 months.
The only surprise is they didn’t offer him 2 years.
Is the correct answer. We defend as a team. Part of our defensive strength should be our ability to retain possession and not give it away cheaply through high risk passes in dangerous parts of the pitch even more so given defensive/pace in CDM limitations.
Foden & KDB are brilliantly dynamic...
That’s not right. Sterling’s movement is fantastic & gets into numerous goal scoring positions every game. The issue is he doesn’t put enough of them away. He’s better than he was but miles away from being clinical. His mental strength is what Pep loves though - he never let’s the misses bother...
Cancelo got injured with Portugal. Apparently, he’s back after the next international break.
It’s possible - if somewhat expensive - to not offload anybody & leave someone out of the champs league squad and just have them around for the EPL squad (Torres is u21 for that).
There’s also an...
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