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Just seen they have signed Trippier (Burnley) who although I have to confess I dont know a lot about but a few on here seem to rate him highly.

But have they (dont pay an awful lot of attention to them) not got the current England right back?!

They also signed De Andre Yedlin who looked absolutely superb for the USA in the World Cup last year and he was making appearances for them towards the end of the season so you have to think they have hopes for him.

Have to say that on that basis the signing doesnt make much sense. For club OR PLAYER!!!

Im sure money wont have been a million miles away from his decision but strange never the less from both parties!!!

After seeing the new fixture list it makes you realise that there are actually no easy games, once you get outside of the top 5 or 6 I don't think there's a great deal between any of the remaining teams, yes you could say that the newly promoted sides should be the bottom 3 but even they won't be easy to beat particularly on their ground, teams that you could say would be lower half teams, the likes of West Brom, Stoke or Villa will be better next season, perhaps Leicester and Newcastle may struggle a bit but it certainly makes you realise that finishing in the top half for any of the non top 4 sides is no mean feat really, I think we need some points on the board early on to settle the nerves, hopefully we'll pick up a point or 3 at the Emirates to start us off!

Hi
Not sure is this is something MADHAMMER could incorporate into the site but how does everyone feel about a monthly prediction competition?
Could make it as simple as predicting the number of points we'll pick up each month or incorporate scores as well. Bonus points for your early season prediction coming true of the number of points we'll collect and where we'll finish in the league.
Maybe we could even have a Champions Badge presented to the winner at the end.
I've put my early thoughts together based on blind optimism, faith and he I shall no longer name crushing early season dreams.

i hope in Bilic we have a manager that finally goes into some of these away games with a plan to win the game instead of this defeatist approach i've been seeing from the likes of allardyce, zola etc. yes the teams are tough, yes they have better players than us but please for goodness sake lets give it a go at liverpool away, arsenal away, chelsea etc etc. we had zola who talked the team to defeat before we'd kicked off, then grant who was clueless all round, and then allardyce who simply shut up shop or attempted to every away game. i want a manager to work out a way to play well away and at least give it a go so please Bilic get this sorted. southampton and swansea is the example i'd like to follow….they go out and give it a go regardless of who they play. why all this fear factor and lack of ideas from managers? I'm actually looking forward to the big away games, a new manager brings fresh hope….will it last? we will see.