I love Charlie but Rico is the future of the team in that position. He will make mistakes as he learns the play and the levels of the PL but to bring Charlie back in when he's fit would be a mistake now. And I hope Eddie knows this, as he has done with Franno so far. Keep Rico in there, especially with the run of fixtures we have, he will keep getting better....and his delivery is superb!
The penalty incident with Wee Man - lots of people, Alan Shearer included, feel it was a blatant dive that deserved a yellow card. What do we all think? I feel that Ryan is NOT a diver, generally speaking. When players are too quick for the defence and get even slight clips, they go down and it can appear to be soft or a dive. I can't see the point in him diving there when he had gone around the player?? Whether it was enough for a penalty is another matter of course.
Its been a brilliant start to the season. We were not that far off at least a point at Chelsea too, if certain incidents had gone our way. I guess we are one bad performance away from the gloom merchants from re-appearing though! But I always felt the three new players made us much stronger than last season, if Eddie also then realised some of our old guard couldn't be first choice any longer. So far....he has. We do seem to be playing a little differently, a little smarter, faster when we need to be.....and players like Callum and King are clicking. I can't believe Southgate hasn't either included Callum or mentioned him when speaking of options.
We know we will have proper off days and will be interesting to see how we do against the very best teams....but overall, I believe we really can end up in our best position...and also beat our best points total.