Roberto De Zerbi *OFFICIAL*

[monkeybarry]

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No Sandro no party

 

[glasgowspur]

Good to see Gary mabbutt fit enough to make, although I suspect he would have swam home to make sure he was there.

 

[robp135]

That’s VDV out for a month with a broken hand.

 

[metalgear]

will be interesting to see how dezerbi organizes the central attack

end last season, it was very loose, understandably because lots of energy was devoted trying to close down and defend central areas.
with fernandez and tonali, the no.10 role should be free-er of defensive duties and shift into attack.

yet in pre-season, it was rather haphazard in central attack, with no real discernable patterns - not even getting to crosses or end of long balls from midfield. yeah its preseason and maybe the focus is still build up play into the final third, however it is still disturbing that after selling johnson and kudus getting injured, we still don't have a threatening attack.

then again it is a comprehensive rebuild and probably a few more bombas in the front are key to improving the attack as mentioned by dezerbi. i don't think we will be totally ready for the start of the season, but who is except arsenal and maybe man U.

 

[robp135]

will be interesting to see how dezerbi organizes the central attack

end last season, it was very loose, understandably because lots of energy was devoted trying to close down and defend central areas.
with fernandez and tonali, the no.10 role should be free-er of defensive duties and shift into attack.

yet in pre-season, it was rather haphazard in central attack, with no real discernable patterns - not even getting to crosses or end of long balls from midfield. yeah its preseason and maybe the focus is still build up play into the final third, however it is still disturbing that after selling johnson and kudus getting injured, we still don't have a threatening attack.

then again it is a comprehensive rebuild and probably a few more bombas in the front are key to improving the attack as mentioned by dezerbi. i don't think we will be totally ready for the start of the season, but who is except arsenal and maybe man U.

Also can’t read that much in to these friendly games.

 

[Bishop]

will be interesting to see how dezerbi organizes the central attack

end last season, it was very loose, understandably because lots of energy was devoted trying to close down and defend central areas.
with fernandez and tonali, the no.10 role should be free-er of defensive duties and shift into attack.

yet in pre-season, it was rather haphazard in central attack, with no real discernable patterns - not even getting to crosses or end of long balls from midfield. yeah its preseason and maybe the focus is still build up play into the final third, however it is still disturbing that after selling johnson and kudus getting injured, we still don't have a threatening attack.

then again it is a comprehensive rebuild and probably a few more bombas in the front are key to improving the attack as mentioned by dezerbi. i don't think we will be totally ready for the start of the season, but who is except arsenal and maybe man U.

We are going to be a work in progress this season. Depending on how the window finishes we should be on paper ready to challenge for a European place again. I wouldn't expect too much more as we have essentially ripped out the core and started again and that will take time to gel. It's also no certainty that each of these additions works exactly as well as hoped. Next season still needs to be a season where we have patience and give De Zerbi time to build towards something. We never going to be able to fix everything wrong with the playing squad in one window but we've made quite an effort at doing so.

I don't think we should be setting any strict targets but we should be looking to see continual progression.