Andrew

Good signing for them, they're desperately short of players in centre mid.

Hes not got the range of passing but is a faster and more energetic. He describes himself as box to box which seems pretty apt so far.

Wanyama is a decent destroyer but not particularly good with the ball. Our lack of a Cabaye type at the moment would make that a mistake I reckon as we'd need him to use the ball better than he's capable of doing.

Demo is out on the 8th, draft mode is included.

UEFA backed down pretty pathetically with their FFP punishments for City and PSG, the legal challenges are still ongoing. It looks like FFP, in its current guise at least, is on its way out tbh.

They want to compete on 4 fronts which means they need depth, De Bruyne can comfortably play in any of those 3 behind the striker positions. tbh Navas has started the season well but is VERY one dimensional, I reckon first choice will be Sterling, Silva and De Bruyne behind Aguero which is ridiculous

He'd want more wages than we'd give him. But otherwise I absolutely would have him.

He only played 3 pl matches though, then Chelsea sold him for a profit. He's impressed for a few years either on loan or permanent in the bundesliga and for his national team

City have agreed a fee for de bruyne. leagues done

Yeah, "I like you can't win anything with kids" never bothered with the others so much. Its a feature that could be a lot more interesting, add in some superleagues and stuff or something and Id be all over them.

ohh I think I might be booting this up tonight http://thesetpieces.com/features/cm0102-the-return-pre-season/

Aye they were both quite late exclusions from Monday night I believe. Arsenal have struggled with width this season, they pretty much play 3 number 10s so their fullbacks create all their width by bombing on. Playing wide, Thauvin left and Perez right perhaps could cause them all sorts of issues.

Thanks for those, hadn't seen them yet. We appear to have someone who can take a freekick...thats odd.

Yeah, I want mourinho to sod off again.

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Wouldn't start Taylor tbh, if Colo, Mbemba and Janmaat are going to be 3 of our first choice defence I'd start them as they need game time together, the understanding between the 3 hasn't been good enough yet. No surprise since they had no preseason together.

ffs dave, use the format removal button

I think Perez will stay in that position tbh. Him, Wijnaldum and Thauvin supporting Mitrovic as our front 4 depending on whether Sissoko can be arsed or is still with us.

"Certain"

They've looked solid so far. Don't think there is a better defence in the league

They had a stonewall penalty appeal turned down. It's fair enough, the ref fucked that one

Ha! Obviously it isn't but anyway... Out on the 22nd of September with a closed "beta" (that absolutely isn't a beta) already underway and a demo presumably coming along at some point, here are some videos about whats new. Quite like the sound of draft mode and the fact the Legend chemistry now works a little easier. I always question if I should bother but there is no doubt I'm picking this up when its out.

Everton have apparently agreed a deal for Andriy Yarmolenko, who is a left footed left winger who can cross the ball...which is exactly what we need. We've signed another player who fancies himself as a number 10