Craig Burley
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When they won the Champions League, the year they won the Premier League and the Champions League, they gave up a bit of going forward for a bit of solidity.
And they needed that for the final against Inter Milan because they didn't play well.
But they had a little bit more solidity.
They've gone back to the old gung-ho city.
Ah, yeah, we'll play two attackers at full-back and we'll do... They have a giant squad.
Well, it might not be good enough because of these positions that I'm talking about, particularly the full-back positions.
But you look at the team they had out tonight, going forward in particular, and you look at all the players I talked about on the bench, that's incredible.
But if they've not solidified the right-back and the left-back positions, that's on them.
Because they've spent enough money, they've brought players in, but they've not brought in the right profile of player.
And if that's the case, there's nobody else to blame but Man City.
It's like Barcelona in a sense, they'll give you chances and is there any coincidence that
Two teams that should be the biggest challengers to Arsenal this year.
And okay, you might throw Chelsea in the ring, and that's fair enough.
But if we're talking about at the start of the season, the two sides that we're expecting to be in a three-way fight were Liverpool and Man City.
And Liverpool have their issues, and there's absolutely no doubt about that for everybody to see.
And where are the biggest issues for both sides?