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Manchester City v Chelsea, August 3rd, Columbus, OH, 5.30pm EDT / 10.30pm UK Pre Match Thread
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3 defeats but the squad is mostly made up of youth team players so wouldn't look too much into itHow has your preseason gone so far?
Only Ederson, Ortega,Lewis, Grealish, Bobb and Haaland would actually play for the first team. Kovacic and Gvardiol are the only players who played in The Euros on the tour and they only joined the squad last week.
Alvarez is at the Olympics and Savinho is in Manchester.
It's all about fitness and Pep looking at youth players
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Yes that would really help with loss of commercial revenue, breach of several contracts etc, geniusHonestly, we'd be better off fucking this off, going home early, getting the returning players back at the cfa and having a game against ourselves.
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Plus the Swiss, Belgians, Dutch and Portugese crew.And maybe the english/spanish contingent.
3 defeats but the squad is mostly made up of youth team players so wouldn't look too much into it
Only Ederson, Ortega,Lewis, Grealish, Bobb and Haaland would actually play for the first team. Kovacic and Gvardiol are the only players who played in The Euros on the tour and they only joined the squad last week.
Alvarez is at the Olympics and Savinho is in Manchester.
It's all about fitness and Pep looking at youth players
Interesting. Thanks.
It hasn't been smooth sailing for Maresca and Chelsea either. 1 draw, 1 bad loss (1-4 to Celtic) and a nice 3-0 vs a Mexican team. As you said, all about fitness and experimenting with ideas.
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That is the only thing he can do, but the pre-season tour is for everything else but not for that. Having a full squad plus some subs of internationals finally caught up with us. Total waste of time from footballing point of vie. Pep know that, but nothing he cannot change it , so better shut up and do some lucrative media shit. Watching other teams playing with full squads and we fielding a team of youth players we all know wont make it is a bit dodgy. Hopefully they will be sold at the greatest profit margin across Europe.3 defeats but the squad is mostly made up of youth team players so wouldn't look too much into it
Only Ederson, Ortega,Lewis, Grealish, Bobb and Haaland would actually play for the first team. Kovacic and Gvardiol are the only players who played in The Euros on the tour and they only joined the squad last week.
Alvarez is at the Olympics and Savinho is in Manchester.
It's all about fitness and Pep looking at youth players
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1. experimenting to decide which ideas or small twerks implement or not, build fitness of available players,That is the only thing he can do, but the pre-season tour is for everything else but not for that. Having a full squad plus some subs of internationals finally caught up with us. Total waste of time from footballing point of vie. Pep know that, but nothing he cannot change it , so better shut up and do some lucrative media shit. Watching other teams playing with full squads and we fielding a team of youth players we all know wont make it is a bit dodgy. Hopefully they will be sold at the greatest profit margin across Europe.
2. we need back up, players like Rico Lewis, Oscar Bobb, McAtee, O'Reilly will get many minutes. Oscar Bobb may be even a starter,
3. Pep know that its better to train at Etihad Campus, but its not a total waste of time - see p.1. Black and white judgments are so poor, lame and inaccurate,
4. i havent seen so far any top team, which plays with full squad - are You reading what You writting?
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Jesus christ. I thought it was painfully obvious it wasn't a legitimate suggestion, but clearly not obvious enough for some.Yes that would really help with loss of commercial revenue, breach of several contracts etc, genius
It was merely a way of Portraying how pointless the match is and how many players are still yet to return.
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So why say it?Jesus christ. I thought it was painfully obvious it wasn't a legitimate suggestion, but clearly not obvious enough for some.
It was merely a way of Portraying how pointless the match is and how many players are still yet to return.
Black&White&BlueMoon Town
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City's result against Celtic wasn't as bad of a defensive performance against that group as another I saw...How has your preseason gone so far?
(and that is saying something)
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