I finally ditched my laptop. Apparently the motherboard crashed again, and there is no point giving it a third time welding. I got a DELL, beautiful laptop with awesome screen but fucking hell, what has happened to the world of computers? It’s hardly a top end but costs more than that Nvidia founder will pay in divorce. These AI capitalists, money hungry scums are not only destroying the planet, they are stock piling RAM, making every fucking technology costly as fucking hell. I can live with the planet being destroyed but fuck you for RAM. Cunts.
Right, back to football. A lot has happened since I last wrote. We are at the top of the table in Premier Leaue with a 5 points lead to Brighton. We are out of the Carabao Cup by a team who celebrated the Fourth Round win more that we celebrated after winning the Premier League. We are sitting in top 8 in Champions League with no losses in 4 games that we have played, one of them was an exciting 2-2 draw with Bayern at their home ground.
So far, so good – except the Carabao Cup exit. Lets break it down a bit.
Premier League
We are only 10 games into the season, so it’s a bit early to speculate but a 5 point lead is massive. We beat Liverpool at Anfield, though it was a hard watch. We picked up some hard wins along the way and dropped points only to Brighton, who beat City 1-0 at Etihad to make sure we don’t regret that loss.
I think we are in a very good position, considering Bukayo picked up an injury and we are playing without him. For how long have we seen him play 2 games a week at that right side, getting kicked and punched and yet delivering a brilliant performance? Mikel did realize that it can’t go on forever and got Madueke, but he created a bigger problem afterwards. We sold Martinelli, and Trossard in the same window and got only Tzolis hoping Bukayo will do what he does.
It has led us to play Eze at the left wing, he looks good for an odd 5 minutes before telling us that he is not a left winger. I don’t care if he has played at LW in the past, because he looks shite and he must be shite 5 years back.
I think we will go for a LW in the January transfer window, but lets see. Mikel might have some defensive reinforcements planned for the winter.
Champions League
We have Dortmund, Madrid, Betis and Sabah left to play in group stage, and all we need is to finish in the top 8. I can’t fucking wait for the Mikel v Mourinho game, there has to have a decider of who is the real boss.
This standing will change every week, you see some usual teams but you don’t see the likes of Bayern, Inter, Atletico here.
Carabao Cup
Fleetwood beat us on penalty. We were ousted in Carabao Cup in the fourth round. That’s one of the trophies lost already and I could see some of the fans on Twitter and Reddit, thanking gods for that. The reason given, is that we have a lot of ‘important’ games to play in Premier League and Champions League and Carabao Cup was a burden.
Fuck that mentality. It’s a sport. You play to win.
Lets talk about the ‘much needed rest’ eh? The last game before international break was against Everton in Premier League. We fielded a proper playing XI against them and yet, we have some of these STARS on our bench –
Kai Havertz
Martin Zubimendi
Calafiori
Bruno Guimaraes
Max Dowman (you can leave this one if you want)
Mosquera
Hincapie
Timber
Kepa
8 out of these 9 players will walk into any of the Premier League teams. Are you saying the playing XI and this bench couldn’t handle 2 games a week? Come on man.
FA Cup – is yet to start, so nothing to talk about.
Right, that’s me done. I have promised to post and be available more frequent for about a thousand times (the same amount of time Mikel thinks of buying a defender in one evening, every day) and broken that promise, but lets try it one more time.
See you in the comments.
