The are we allowed the "it's quiet" thread yet? thread.

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mosssideblue said:
No worries Blue. Going to be a great PL this year, let's hope we are looking down on everyone else at the end of it (and by some margin :) )
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Never been so excited for the season regardless who will bring in.

Things went stale under pellers

Huge buzz going about the whole club .
Roll on August
 
mosssideblue said:
May to August is a real ball ache and time seems to stand still.

Pre season friendlies to get excited about soon. Hope we pull Moanio down a peg or two in China
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Can see that big nosed pony tailed cry baby with his hands in his hips shaking his head a lot over ath the swamp next year gonna be great
 
Edwaardz said:
Why are you so confident he'll play as a left-back for us? He's done it a few times in his career due to injuries, but that's all.

Is there something you've read that has convinced you?
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Nope. He just fits the profile. A technically sound left footer with good possession skills, and good speed bought for a Pep team about to lose its fullback. I'm just putting 2 and 2 together.
 
Dax777 said:
Nope. He just fits the profile. A technically sound left footer with good possession skills, and good speed bought for a Pep team about to lose its fullback. I'm just putting 2 and 2 together.
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Okay, but there's a relatively significant skill that he'd require on top of the two you mention, and that is the ability to defend to an adequate level.

Pep would surely need to be confident of that before deciding he takes one of two left-back spots. I don't see how he can be?
 
Edwaardz said:
Okay, but there's a relatively significant skill that he'd require on top of the two you mention, and that is the ability to defend to an adequate level.

Pep would surely need to be confident of that before deciding he takes one of two left-back spots. I don't see how he can be?
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The ability to play to instructions? Yes. Can he defend? Probably. Haven't seen enough of him to say, but his coach at his old club has used him sometimes at leftback, so more likely than not he is no defensive novice.

I've never been a big believer in positional rigidity. Thankfully, we now have a coach who isn't either.

The current starting RB for Germany Kimich was likened to Gundogan in style and modeled his game on Shweini. Pep got a hold of him and plugged him in at CB a few times, now Low has him at RB.

Also I think organization is where our best defending will come from, not individual defensive effort. That said, I think Zichenko is probably a
good defender.

But we'll see. It fits in my mind. And Ive trusted my view of things more since Pep's hiring.

Said months ago that 2 wingers were a must. We seem to have come to that conclusion with the Nolito and Sane chase.

Pointed out Peres as the type of RB Pep will like as early as February, you can check the 'Pep Targets' thread.

2 ball playing CBs: He chose Laporte and Stones. Laporte fell out, but Stones still seems likely. Not to mention this new Bonucci link.

So my I stincts on the type of players ans how Pep views our needs has been pretty good so far.

My instincts tells me Zichencho is the likely LB candidate. I'm going to stay with that until Pep and City says otherwise :)
 
Pep did have 2 full-backs on both sides at Bayern. Alba, bernat, lahm, Rafinha. I hope we don't go into the season with Clichy as our only natural LB. But given the reports, it seem to be a possibility.
 
BlueCityfan said:
Pep did have 2 full-backs on both sides at Bayern. Alba, bernat, lahm, Rafinha. I hope we don't go into the season with Clichy as our only natural LB. But given the reports, it seem to be a possibility.
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Maybe, but Lahm and Alaba spent half the time playing in positions other than fullback. None of them played as fullbacks as we know the position, they were as much midfielders, so Zinchenko could easilly be a full back / midfielder in a Pep team. But even if he goes on loan whoever we replace Kolarov with wont be a bog standard fullback.
 
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