Quote from: marcous on Today at 03:44:52 PM

Almost everyone would agree that Man United and Chelsea started the campaign badly, and so far United is slightly better than Chelsea. I think the performance of these two clubs will improve in the second half of the season, but I am not sure that The Red Devils and The Blues can finish in the Champions League zone. Factors involving player injuries and the slow adaptation process have meant that Ten Hag and Pochettino's squad has not consistently won. I think Liverpool is more promising than Arsenal, after seeing their performance in the past six weeks.

Chelsea are just not stable now and it's bad that they've got only one win since the beginning of this season and coming from a club that spent over £1bn trying to bring in fresh players, I expected more from them. Another reason I feel they are unstable is the fact there's to me no old player that can help with experience, just as Real Madrid is. See, I understand what Todd Boehly is trying to do when he signed many young players into the team but selling off most of the experienced ones didn't help at all. Watch the way they play, you'd see there's no much coordination, I feel if there were more old hands, apart from Chilwell, Reece James, maybe those players would easily adapt. Right now what Pochettino needs is to shut out critics and focus on saving not just his team but his job as well. In yesterday's narrow win over Brighton in the Carabao, he was heard saying that the win had put them on a positive start to greatness. Quite a hasty assumption to me and their next game against Fulham will tell.

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On the other hand, Man City is a club that is unbeaten in the EPL this season, but surprisingly Newcastle was able to beat Pep Guardiola squad in the Carabao Cup. Maybe this is because Pep is playing his second squad and saving key players, for the next matches in the EPL and UCL.

I feel we should cut Guardiola some slack. I mean one's going to get tired of winning too much at some time and if you watched the game, you will see he didn't make use of all his first eleven and even though they put much effort into the game, you could tell that he didn't attach much value to the tournament as he would a Premier League game or say champions league.