🚨🇵🇹 EXCL: Manchester City make direct contact with Pedro Neto’s camp as talks start over possible move.
Neto among #MCFC target if Savinho goes to Spurs while he’s also understood to be on Tottenham list as backup option.
Deal also depends on Chelsea valuation. 🔛
Make no mistake, now that Arsenal are on the verge of completing the signing of Bruno Guimarães, the premier league title is already guaranteed. The Vinicius signing, if it happens will guarantee the UCL.
A Bruno Guimarães–Rice double pivot would easily be the best double pivot in the Premier League and one of the best in Europe. There is no better Rice partner and alternative rolled into one player than Bruno G.
Good luck to any team that has to come up against them next season.
@Blue_Footy Sometimes we need to question some of this pundits mental capacity to be even entitled to opinions.Does palmer even need to perform well to sell him to Man U?
One Aspect Joao Pedro needs to improve on going into next is:
• His pressing abilities - when it comes to pressing, Joao Pedro is poor, this is one aspect I need him to work on, to be a possession team, our front players needs to work more of front, not just Pedro even Palmer.
• His movement - Pedro also lack poor movement, his runs are poor, this is why players like Enzo and Palmer can play those excellent passes again, good run give midfielders options to play that excellent passes.
These are the areas I want Joao Pedro to work on going into next season.
Xabi Alonso is not managing friendlies. He is running open lessons.
Most managers still treat pre-season results as a scoreboard exercise — a chance to build momentum, protect confidence, or avoid early criticism. Alonso does the opposite. The final score is almost irrelevant. What matters is the classroom on the pitch.
Every friendly becomes a live examination of principles: pressing triggers, rest-defence shape, body orientation in 1v1s, how quickly the team recovers its structure after losing the ball. Players are not simply trying to win the game; they are being assessed on whether they execute the ideas correctly under fatigue and opposition pressure.
That is why you see him stepping into drills himself, why the intensity never drops even when the opponent is weaker, and why rotations and tactical experiments continue right up to the final whistle. The match is not a performance. It is the next chapter of the syllabus.
For Chelsea, this approach is deliberate. Alonso is not looking for early “wins” to calm the noise. He is installing a shared language and non-negotiable standards before the Premier League begins. Results will come later. Right now the only result that counts is whether the players understand the lesson.