The plethora of midfielders, from Leicester star Riyad Mahrez to world record signing Paul Pogba, will be hard to squeeze into your squads and tough calls will have to be made about who’s in and who’s out of our five-man midfield.
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Liverpool, beaten finalists in the League Cup and Europa League, are looking more and more like Jurgen Klopp’s team, bolstered by the acquisitions of Sadio Mane and Giorginio Wijnaldum. Was it too much for someone so young and inexperienced?
He is not the only manager to do that but, whatever any of them say publicly, all six managers will believe they can win it this time.
United announced the re-signing of Pogba early this week.
The most expensive footballer in football history, Paul Pogba will need to hit the ground running at Manchester United.
Manchester City have been quite busy in the transfer market signing John Stones, Leroy Sane, Gabriel Jesus, Ilkay Gundogan, Nolito, Marlos Moreno and Oleksandr Zinchenko.
Sunderland on the other hand barely survived in the top flight last season, but now England manager Sam Allardyce guided them to safety once again.
“Speculation has been there for a long time, not just over the past couple of days”. There are unlikely to be many easy victories gained this season.
It is not known whether a deal will be wrapped up before the transfer window closes. City feels like second, then Arsenal third (because I’m not picking them out of the Top Four until they actually finish out of it), Liverpool 4th, with Chelsea and Spurs fighting for 5th and 6th.
Despite two defeats to Bayern Munich and Arsenal, and a unconvincing penalty shootout win over Borussia Dortmund, in their recent pre-season friendlies, Erikssen is confident the Spanish tactician can do well at City and welcomes the Gaurdiola-Mourinho rivalry in Manchester. They became only the sixth different club to ever win the league and the second in as many years not named Manchester City or Manchester United, with four-time victor Chelsea taking home the crown in 2015.
Three marquee managers are starting anew at three of English soccer’s biggest clubs: Antonio Conte (Chelsea), Pep Guardiola (Manchester City) and Jose Mourinho (Manchester United).
We’ll have to wait to see how the signings do but I think the majority will come good.
Just look at Leicester City winning the league last season. They will dearly miss their coach in dugout in what looks like another season destined for relegation scrap. “But I think next week he will be able to”.
If Hull give a few loose passes from the off and start the game poorly, the crowd will be right down their necks, and, importantly they’ll be right on to the owners, which just fuels that that negative feeling around the club.
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The likes of West Ham, Swansea, Bournemouth and Crystal Palace have broken their transfer records over the last two months and the so-called lesser teams have no compulsion to sell their top players, given the cash they are raking in. The 22-year-old may have conspicuous defensive deficiencies, but that responsibility mostly falls on the defensive midfielder in one of the Catalan’s teams. Is City’s defense good enough to win the league, even after the purchase of the highly-rated Stones?
