Pre Season Thread

[thfcsteff]

Tel has arguably been our best player in pre season and has put in two lovely crosses and a great pass to get Tonali in, I’m questioning now if people are calling him brick based on online narrative or from using their own eyes.

Yup. It's boring innit.

 

[spurspinter1]

Yup. It's boring innit.

It's just pre-season, you've got:

People freaking out because the manager's allowing players to actually have a rest rather than playing our absolute best XI for every friendly...And panic about the result if it isn't a 6-0 dominant performance laying down the marker for a title challenge.

"Fans" desperate for players they have grudges against to look awful (or just simply not be absolutely perfect) so they can bitch and moan. One comment here joyously confirming that Richy is no Kane when dropping deep, the board would be lost without such astute analysis!

The eternally fascinating and never tedious discussion about what it actually means to be world class rearing it's ugly head yet again, like not the nine o'clock news debating "Does GHod actually exist", it's high time we picked a concise answer and just stuck with it.

Gutterboy claiming we have 386 players non HG over the age of 21 and the club will go supernova unless we sell everyone immediately

It's a GG pre season bingo full house, people subconsciously choose to get worked up about it, but I'm here actively reading (barely tolerating it) so who is the real mug?

 

[metalgear]

Tbh I've only seen frustrations over the forward situation, which is understandable.

The vast majority has been positive.

LB is puzzling.

 

[Finney Is Back]

tel looks good and tricky; second half playing line breaking passes early shows even more potential he has
robertson willingness to overlap to the byline shows good partnership with tel - and adds an extra variation in attack

richy looks to have been asked to drop deeper and he's showing that he's no kane. lacks urgency getting back into the box.

bergvall appears very disciplined and quite press resistant and recycles the ball well

kinski is a baller - his long passes are a few levels above what vicario offers

van hecke mistake for the goal - commited too early and beaten by a simple 1-2

thats what i saw but yeah, it looked sunny and hot (shadows were very short) and its kangaroo fc, so make what you want of it

This is what De Zerbi wants from his number 9 and why Kroupi was the top target.

It’s also why I think we might eventually end up with a slightly less well known number 9 late this window, Amine Gouiri perhaps?