Other teams aproach to friendlies?

[BlueMoonAwoken]

Im just watching spurs now against lisbon and they are playing near enough their first team. Surely if we are trying to bond a team together we need to play as many first team players as possible so they can gel with each other..

I just have a feeling players like yaya, silva and boateng and anymore that come in may disrupt our start in the season. We have 2 massive games against 2 rivals for that 4th spot they are very important games.. We dont want to get off to a slow start.

[BlueMoonAwoken]

And spurs are winning 1-0

[Mark (Blue Army)]

And spurs are winning 1-0

1-1 now.

[BlueMoonAwoken]

haha yeah ill shut up now

[Douglas Higginbottom]

It's a bit hard tp play the first team when most of them are not there!

[BlueMoonAwoken]

I know but being the richest club in the world you would think getting off to a good start would be a priority, there is all the talk about winning the title but this year we have to "have to" get into the champions league.

[Mark (Blue Army)]

haha yeah ill shut up now

ha ha, no i know what your saying we should have most of are starting 11 out so they can gel, but you have to remember mate it's only gonna be are second pre-season game tonight. The player's that played in the world cup are gonna need time to rest, I think once we get to the Inter game and the Valencia game we will have a full squad together that will be playing in these games.

[BlueMoonAwoken]

Yeah i suppose, just worried about the first 2 games.

[Blue in the face]

Also take into consideration that spuds havent got new players to the same extent that we have. Their whole team probably went on tour.

[BlueMoonAwoken]

Yeah i suppose, just worried about the first 2 games.

We'll fucking smash em mate, wheres ya confidence?

Yeah when i doubt city they usually come through, its when i expect them to do well they do shit :-)

[Douglas Higginbottom]

Also take into consideration that spuds havent got new players to the same extent that we have. Their whole team probably went on tour.

I just saw a few minutes and there is no Defoe,Lennon,King,Crouch,Pavulychenko,Dawson,Gomes,Krancjaer,Modric on the pitch in the first half so it's hardly their strongest team is it:)

[BlueMoonAwoken]

No doug your right but they have kept the ball and created lots more oportunities than we did 90 mins. Have they got a better squad than us? i know its friendlies and im clever enough to know they dont mean much, but you can tell how a team plays whether they are any good.

[Blue in the face]

Also take into consideration that spuds havent got new players to the same extent that we have. Their whole team probably went on tour.

I just saw a few minutes and there is no Defoe,Lennon,King,Crouch,Pavulychenko,Dawson,Gomes,Krancjaer,Modric on the pitch in the first half so it's hardly their strongest team is it:)

Holy shit Doug. You saw all that in a few minutes?

[Renato_CTID]

Well, I'm watching live a terrible performance of my AC Milan against Varese. Never seen anything worse from rossoneri defense, but Pato looks absolutely brilliant!

[BlueMoonAwoken]

Spurs are losing now so makes me feel alot more comfortable.

[Murph]

All bar the last one or two friendlies are pretty meaningless. At this stage the main thing is to improve fitness and not pick up any bad injuries.