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Be good if we could have a really focused week in training building up to this one so that, for once, we are actually ready for the first couple of games of the campaign. Would hate to be pissing around in some pointless overseas tour, knackering the players and staff a couple of days before the start of the English season...
In his first real top-tier season, Mason featured in 36 total games for us and was a bright spot for us for a good portion of the season, despite being played in what is not his best position.I cringe every time I read names such as Mason, Dembele and Chadli on the line up.
I cringe every time I read names such as Mason, Dembele and Chadli on the line up.
I cringe every time I read names such as Mason, Dembele and Chadli on the line up.
Just seen they're offering student tickets. Hopefully I'll be. Charged for one of those being 20...
Well up for this. Definitely a shame about Hugo's wrist.
We'll have racked up 5 friendlies this summer as opposed to 6 last year and 4 the year before that. Not really different for us. Then we'll also need to add in all of the closed door friendlies as well, of which we've had two already, I believe.So we aren't playing that many friendlies before the new season? Ok, that's... different.
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We'll have racked up 5 friendlies this summer as opposed to 6 last year and 4 the year before that. Not really different for us. Then we'll also need to add in all of the closed door friendlies as well, of which we've had two already, I believe.
May 27: Beat Malaysia XI 2-1
May 30: Beat Sydney FC 1-0
July 29: MLS All-Stars
Aug 4: Real Madrid
Aug 5: Bayern Munich or AC Milan
Well yeah, but do those games played in May before the players' holiday really count? And for me the rest are bit too close to the United game, but I suppose Poch and his crew know better. And yeah, the closed door games and basic training are the bread and butter.
I included them because they're technically summer friendlies, so didn't want to exclude them. If that's the case, then you have to reduce the previous summer's numbers as well. It does seem like it is a small amount of friendlies, but apparently we are right on pace with previous years.
The geezers clearly a div on a wind up, stop biting chap.Mason - His quality is debateable, but he made that position his own when he first broke into the team. Agree we could probably do better going forward.
Dembele - Not sure how many more chances we can give him to try and to rediscover the form that led him to single handedly destroy Manchester Utd (for us and for Fulham) in his first season. A very frustrating player.
Chadli - Completely disagree. 11 goals, 5 assists and 41 chances created. Our most productive midfielder after Eriksen (who went missing about half way through the season and left Chadli and Kane to pull us over the line).
Those are better numbers than Stirling, Coutinho, Mata, Di Maria, Yaya Toure, Ramsey, Ozil, Milner, Sigurdsson.... i could go on. In fact numbers wise there are probably only about seven or eight midfielders in the league who had a "better" season.