The Football Thread 2022/23: End of season reviews pg79

Finiarél wrote:De jong to Chelsea seems to be on

I mean good but he's said repeatedly he wants to stay at Barca. :lol:

Herdanos wrote:I don't see why Chelsea are after FDJ, does he get into their first 11? They need strikers and forwards, not another CM.

De Jong's an excellent player who would improve most teams and every squad. While Chelsea do have more pressing priorities it's easy to see why the club would take the opportunity to sign him, if he's available.

Chelsea's group of midfielders is good but there's a lot of cavaets attached. Kante will be 32 at the end of the season and is getting more susceptible to injuries as his career goes on. Loftus-Cheek's great potential looks to have been snuffed out somewhat by bad injuries, Gallagher's unique skillset means he's still got question marks over his ability to play in a midfield two and the likes of Gilmour and Chukwuemeka probbaly need more seasoning before they can be relied upon by a Champions League team.

Which leaves Kovacic, (Who is excellent, tbf) and Ross Barkley, who among the many professional footballers, is definitely one of them.

Drumstick wrote:He had issues at PSG because his mum slagged off Mbappe directly to Mbappe's family

Maguire's mum is in for it.

Psychic wrote:
Herdanos wrote:I don't see why Chelsea are after FDJ, does he get into their first 11? They need strikers and forwards, not another CM.

De Jong's an excellent player who would improve most teams and every squad. While Chelsea do have more pressing priorities it's easy to see why the club would take the opportunity to sign him, if he's available.

Chelsea's group of midfielders is good but there's a lot of cavaets attached. Kante will be 32 at the end of the season and is getting more susceptible to injuries as his career goes on. Loftus-Cheek's great potential looks to have been snuffed out somewhat by bad injuries, Gallagher's unique skillset means he's still got question marks over his ability to play in a midfield two and the likes of Gilmour and Chukwuemeka probbaly need more seasoning before they can be relied upon by a Champions League team.

Which leaves Kovacic, (Who is excellent, tbf) and Ross Barkley, who among the many professional footballers, is definitely one of them.

You've forgotten Jorginho, which IMO is perfectly reasonable, but managers seem to love him.

Psychic wrote: and Ross Barkley, who among the many professional footballers, is definitely one of them.

Moggy wrote:
Benzin wrote:Opens up chance for Gallagher to come back.

Please.

Which one?

The best one

Psychic wrote: and Ross Barkley, who among the many professional footballers, is definitely one of them.

Absolutely savage :lol:

League Cup draw:

What with all the World Cup gooseberry fool going on, it's going to be another hectic schedule this season. The season's barely started but there's a period later this month where Villa have the following:

20th Aug - Crystal Palace
23rd Aug - Bolton
28th Aug - West Ham
31st Aug - Arsenal
3rd Sep - Man City

Of course other clubs will have similar, but you just feel it's going to be mental trying to cram everything in.

I think everyone has that format for the rest of the month, but it's going to absolutely knacker the players. Especially the ones going off to Qatar.

Indeed. This is going to be an absolutely horrendous season, especially for players and clubs with intentions of going deep into all competitions, or who are involved in Europe.

If you are a Premier League club not in Europe, you just need to suck it up, you'll have the least games of anyone in the Football League by a distance. 8 less league games.

21st Aug - Wet Spam
23rd Aug - Forest Green
27th Aug - Leeds :dread:

30th Aug - Fulham

I'll take it.

Steven Gerrard's Aston Villa will play Frank Lampard's Everton in the 12:30 kick-off tomorrow. I'm ready to be disappointed :datass:

And what's all this about PSG wanting Rashford - a load of rubbish, surely, or his agent trying to stir something up? If there's any truth at all in it though, Man U should bite their hand off - he's beyond awful, so any money would be good money.

Lotus wrote:Steven Gerrard's Aston Villa will play Frank Lampard's Everton in the 12:30 kick-off tomorrow. I'm ready to be disappointed

And what's all this about PSG wanting Rashford - a load of rubbish, surely, or his agent trying to stir something up? If there's any truth at all in it though, Man U should bite their hand off - he's beyond awful, so any money would be good money.

Seems like the rumour has evaporated almost as quickly as it appeared, sadly

Rashford is PSG's Arnautovic.

Lotus wrote:And what's all this about PSG wanting Rashford - a load of rubbish, surely, or his agent trying to stir something up? If there's any truth at all in it though, Man U should bite their hand off - he's beyond awful, so any money would be good money.

Definitely Rashford's agent.

Whack £75m+ and get rid of him to PSG.

United's third kit is nice. :datass:

BOR wrote:United's third kit is nice.

twitter.com/ManUtd/status/1558007886088994816

Yeah I quite like it.

Preezy wrote:
BOR wrote:United's third kit is nice.

twitter.com/ManUtd/status/1558007886088994816

Yeah I quite like it.

It's handy because when they're not playing, they can do some roadworks on the side.

SEP wrote:
Preezy wrote:
BOR wrote:United's third kit is nice.

twitter.com/ManUtd/status/1558007886088994816

Yeah I quite like it.

It's handy because when they're not playing, they can do some roadworks on the side.

The Football Thread 2022/23: End of season reviews pg79

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