Man City 11 vs Chelsea 11

[nonotnowjim]

Regarding Arsenal, I'd have thought Thomas Partey would walk into our team. My view is he is the guy that makes their team work

And if he didnt get into the first team, he would wait until all the rest of the players were asleep, force himself into the team, leaving them unconscious,  and then go out partying in Ibiza before they woke up.... allegedly.

 

[Scott Harris]

We can't really know for sure because we don't really know how good all of these signings are going to be. They could all turn out to be flops, they could all be amazing, we just don't know. Any pundit that says differently is just talking out of their ass, because I don't believe for a second that anybody has had the time to watch all of these players that we have signed.

If we were to talk about before the transfer window, I do think a decent amount of our players are better than theirs.

I would pick James, Chilwell and Silva over all of their defenders, especially now that Cancelo is gone. CM is interesting because a fit Kante isn't getting dropped for anybody. So if I was to do a 11vs11 from before we signed all of these players, it would look like this

Ederson​

James Dias  Silva Chilwell​

Rodri Kante​

De Bruyne​

Mahrez Haaland Foden​

 

[frendz]

No point talking about players that are not currently available. Kante hasn't played for long and I am not sure when he returns, what kind of player we are going to see. 

We obviously don't have players that can match KDB, Bernardo, Mahrez and Haaland.

At the same time, they don't have a Mudryk. Most of their players are slow comparatively. 

And then there's the GK thing. Both of our Gk keeps making silly mistakes every now and then. 

 

[olderschoolcfc]

I admire the blue tinted specs on this thread... 

But, there is a reason City have finished ahead of us in the league, every year for the last five years... 

we only have two world class players in our squad. James and Kante, only when both are fit. The injection of cash into our squad is very much needed and I hope our signings go on to take us back to title success. fingers crossed 600 million translates into a squad for the next decade. 

 

[Argo]

Funny that Partey and Casemiro totally transformed Arsenal and United. Almost like solid defensive midfielders are superior to registas...

Also Murphy is right about us overpaying massively for players, but the comparison with City's 11 misses the most part. The difference between who is sitting on the bench and that the City 11 is tailored to what he wanted in the squad.

Small problem with that, Partey is a regista. (Apologies for the links to Gooner sites).


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.justarsenal.com/the-importance-of-thomas-partey-to-arsenal-cannot-be-ignored/311457/amp

"He’s also integral to our build up, relieves pressure with his elite receiving of the ball and creates attacks with a fantastic dribbling ability and quality passing range."