Yeah I much prefer this squad to the one that started last season. This time last summer a Saliba or Partey injury was as critical as an injury to Odegaard and Saka. We’ve at least neutralised those two risks.

But either way, we’re not competing against ourselves - the real question is whether we’re better than City and I’d say no. Unless we get lucky.

Coombs I think we've gone slightly up in terms of quality, but down in terms of depth in attack. Playerwise looking at the squad we probably have the best defense and the fourth best attack in the league, which usually isn't enough if you want to win the title.

goon gambling a lot of Jesus staying fit

I don't see how this could possibly go wrong.

goon The meltdown is unreal online. People are legit raging All the ITKs in the mud currently.

Edu spend the whole summer telling people to be excited doesn't help.

Clrnc Edu spend the whole summer telling people to be excited doesn't help.

He literally told us we wouldn't be disappointed in the end of the window.

Mirth not sure a Partey injury was as big as that then, nor would it have been now. More importantly, how exactly have we mitigated that very probable occurrence? We're down two midfielders any way you slice it. Merino doesn't count if he can't play.

We should have kept Vieira and sold Eddie. Now we need to keep Eddie as we can't find anyone. That's a big fuck up in short term planning.

Signing Merino and Calafiori looks great though.

Havertz establishing himself as first choice 9 should make a big difference compared to what we started with last season. IF he's fit Arteta will be much more willing to rotate Saka (and Martinelli) with Jesus than he was with Nelson.

Mirth if he's broken his shoulder, he's not cover for anyone. There's no use taking a long term view, the season is now. It's Timber all over again.

Pepe LeFrits We should have kept Vieira and sold Eddie. Now we need to keep Eddie as we can't find anyone. That's a big fuck up in short term planning.

Though maybe Arteta is going to give Nwaneri loads of minutes and he'll be amazing and suddenly our attacking depth will be awesome

QuincyAbeyie

Pepe LeFrits We should have kept Vieira and sold Eddie. Now we need to keep Eddie as we can't find anyone. That's a big fuck up in short term planning.

Has Eddie left? Agree this is probably the biggest unforced error blunder

Clrnc it's the overall shared minutes that's worrying. We had to find dependable cover to trim Havertz and Saka minutes by around 500, but now all of them have to share the additional 2500 minutes left by our players. We also have additional 2 UCL matches this year.

This is a huge gamble on everyone fitness in a year we had Euros and Copa.

Well Merino should reduce Kai's minutes as he'll be used in midfield less, Jesus will reduce Saka's minutes I think.

There's always potential for additions in January as well.

Mirth Has Eddie left? Agree this is probably the biggest unforced error blunder

Haven't seen any confirmation. I reckon it'll fall through

Mirth exactly. But it did happen now, and now is the only time to fix it. If they don't, that's on them.

QuincyAbeyie

Just saw the presser, he said it's a small fracture, whatever comfort that might offer.

Coombs I think a bot hacked into your account