I’d be all in on Olmo especially at 70 mill. Seems low for him. Mitoma would be perfect, but doubt Brighton would sell.
Still would definitely take Doku if that gets done. Would at least give someone besides Walker to get forward on the right.
Need one more attacker though. I don’t know about playing Rodri AND Kova every time out. Unless he channels some sort of Gundo magic in attack sporadically.
We have Akanji out here taking 25 yard curlers and our $100 million center back purchase playing a pseudo LB. Pep somehow making it work.
The Kyle Walker as advanced winger thing just drives me crazy. He isn’t a good crosser, isn’t technical enough to quickly create an advantage when the ball is reversed to him.
It’s still why I am scratching my head over selling Mahrez. He didn’t seem to be pushing for it either.
Big 3 points there. Newcastle not quite ready for the bright lights. Isak is the Ferriera of the Prem, lights up the minnows and disappears vs the big boys.
Mahrez makes sense to me because of his age and getting a decent fee. Mahrez doesn’t make sense to me if the plan is to just let Kyle Walker roam the wing all year and not replace Mahrez.
Awesome effort today though. Newcastle seem really solid but the all-CB defense thing that City have going really does seem to work and fit the style of play just so well. Gvardiol just adds to that.
I like it. You know he’s going to start and play there and is a far better landing spot than Chelsea. Like sure, you’d love to see him at Brighton and playing European cups, but he needs to prove he can stay healthy for a season before that and they should feature him most of the season.
What’s the downside? EPL team and he will be an every game guy, right?
Feel like we want these USMNT to get fancy high profile transfers as achievements, but they need to actually play (as we learned with Pulisic to Chelsea).
Playing time is the most important thing for sure but seems like the club situation could be better. Not like I can speak to Bournemouth’s offseason or anything but they were the worst team in the league last year by xGD. Not confident it’s that easy to play for bottom of the table teams and there’s a decent chance he just gets sold somewhere next year. Wouldn’t it be optimal to be at a place he can count on being at for a few years?
Everton, Wolves, Sheffield, Luton, Burnley and Forest all battling for relegation it looks like. I’d be floored if Sheffield and Luton stay up and Everton look like the worst club in the league by far early on.
Bournemouth feels like a pretty safe landing spot for two years to me. Made some smart transfers this year. Brutal run of fixtures early, but I’d slot them in that 15-10 tier with the limited sample size so far.
They look better than billion dollar Chelsea two matches in. The absurdity of players walking around in bubbles is always awesome.
Love a good Chelsea joke, but I feel like saying they “hired” Lampard last year is a bit of a stretch. He was clearly the caretaker while they went after Poch.
Very much the Josh Eilert of managers last year.
The Steinbrenner thing is apt. And they think they are being smart by breaking FFP while they aren’t in Europe but it is still insanity.
Arsenal on 6 points … but also not entirely convincing in either game?
Should be a really interesting race this year. I figure that Man City will hit a long skid with so little depth. It also feels like it’ll be a multi-team title race more than just two as it has felt like in recent years.
Doku is done if the medical goes well. I think having some more pace on that right is really going to open things up in the middle and as you said, much prefer Doku firing in crosses over there than Walker.
Kyle Walker, double agent, laying next to the ad boards after backheeling it in directly to Sheffield and watching their attack from the comfort of his stomach until they scored wouldn’t have been as funny if Rodri hadn’t saved the day.
