Barclays Premier League 2014/15

He is imo. When you look at the sides he played in before with him centrally and utter pace outwide. Compare that to last season when for the majority of the season you had two slowcoaches like Santi & Poldi/Wilshere/Whoever with Giroud up front obviously his game isn't going to be as good.

Seems as if I'm in the minority here, but Özil will 100% justify his fee once he plays centrally with Alexis & Theo either side of him.

Alexis is fucking incredible though, model of consistency and gives 110% every game. We've not had a more threatening dribbler at the club since Thierry Henry.

Fwiw Ramsey has been really shit so far this season as well.

Chelsea have the best XI but City have the best squad. And City have the best player in the league in Agüero but obviously his injury record is a concern.

They don't really have that good a squad. Its a bit of a myth, imo, light up front and in midfield given the formation they play by my reckoning. Certainly not convincingly better than Chelsea's.

Light up front? Agüero, Jovetic, Dzeko. One gets injured? Play one up top, more options in midfield: Silva, Nasri, Yaya, Fernandinho, Fernando, Milner, Lampard.

I reckon Chelsea have put together the first world class team this league has seen since us in 2008 and they're going to absolutely walk the league. City might stop them if they keep Aguero fit, but even then they're not as good.

Its 3 strikers for two positions and ones injury record is abysmal and the other (Jovetic) is fairly untested in the league.

Lampard will go in January (and also isn't very good anymore on todays showing), and with Yaya, and both Ferns for the two midfield positions with Milner covering they could probably do with another body there.

The big question mark is will Fabregas do his traditional disappearing act from January onwards at Barcelona and if he does if they'll cope.

You're assuming Pellegrini will stick with the 4-2-2-2 all the time, there's no guarantee of that at all. We are definitely light in central midfield though, I suspect we'll make a rare January purchase for a new centre-mid.

True, but I'm not sure 'we'll just play a different formation if we get injuries' is hugely indicative of having good squad depth. It's the opposite, probably. No doubt thats what you would do, but its the dearth of squad options that would force it.

I don't think it's a case of that though. Pellegrini has regularly played 4-2-3-1 in the past and our youth teams all play 4-3-3. I think we'll be changing formation on a more permanent basis. That's not to say we necessarily have great squad depth, as I said we are weak in central midfield and arguably at left-back too but the weaknesses aren't that great. They're easily comparable to Chelsea's lack of depth at centre-back for example.

Good counter attack.

Bet we lose, yet again, to Villa tonight.

Villa have this started campaign ridiculously well.

Good set of results for us this weekend. Need to do our job tomorrow though.

Oh no, I agree with that. I don't think you have a bad squad I was just disagreeing with the comment it was significantly better than Chelsea's, for example, and a case of your good squad vs Chelsea's good first XI.