aint gonna be walking anything, but nobody else will. will be brutal hard season mostly as we decided to take different approach in the market now, rather than add to the triple winning squad we mainly replaced outgoings and lets be honest Doku has lots of potential he wont deliver imo Mahrez type numbers yet and neither Nunes/Kova is in the level of Gundo especially for for being a clutch players in big and tight games.
bit surprised Gvardiol is benched a lot he was the main transfer we fought all summer for, guess Pep taking the slower approach of building him in probably doesnt want Ake to start asking questions on game time after his great season.
and then KDB serious injury just created this issue we almost always have to start with Foden and Alvarez behind Haaland, which sometimes works off but sometimes doesnt look too good. not sure this is how Pep wants us to play overall, but it will take time to mould the team without KDb, Gundo etc.
(and Bernardo is injured too ffs)
we will know more as we start to have few more matches played vs top8 opponents. we will be put under more test than Wolves today, and even this was a really shit game.
on the other side we need to continue to rip apart all the lesser games like Luton, Burnley, Sheffield and the ones just above relegation zone like Everton and get the CL 1st place done asap so we dont use extra energy in CL group 5th and 6th round...
Arteta will be up for next weeks game, to pay back for last year, and get on top of us on the table too, I do hope Pep will want a serious reaction to todays game tho.
but yeah, Gundo, Rodri, KDB wont be around who would have been the starting midfield trio vs Arsenal probably under normal circumstances. will be an interesting game which we may not be able to dominate that much.