Where to start? I mean, what games have you watched so far this weekend? Where should we start?

I've watched, I mean, I've watched quite a few.

I've watched the City game, I watched the Liverpool game, and I watched the Spurs-Newcastle game.

So, I mean, maybe we should start with City.

I mean, it's, they, you know, Crystal Palace, I think, I look at them this season compared to last.

They're not the same animal that they were last season.

Last season and for the last two, three seasons, they've created a lot of problems for big teams, but I don't see them being that team this season.

If you own them,

If you had bench boost in your mind, if you had those Coventry assets in your mind, would you play them this week?

Yeah, 100%.

I, I wouldn't be too put off by that sort of one-game week sample.

Um, like you mentioned, Coventry, away to Arsenal, it's the hardest game that they'll have all season, really.

So yeah.

Again, it's almost like roles were reversed for, for the second game week because everyone who was away comes back home for their first game to the season at home, which is a big bonus, especially for Coventry being it their first time in quite a while in the Premier League.

So yeah, for me, if I had any of those guys, I'd h- 100% be playing them.

So would that strengthen your opinion on, on maybe captaining Joao Pedro?

What did you make of the United game?

I actually watched it at my brother-in-law's wedding yesterday.

I thought, um, they looked weak.

They looked weak.

They looked, um...

I, I think they lack legs.

I know that they're signing Baleba, and I think he'll make a big difference.

How do you think this game versus Newcastle's gonna go?

I mean, you're, you must be quite bullish.

I am.

Yeah, I am quite bullish.

I mean, I, I'm, I'm, I'm an excited Chelsea fan.

I, I, I don't-- You know, we've had such a shambles of a list of managers over the last few years that, um, when you bring in someone like Xabi Alonso, man, it's, it's really exciting.

But, um, I, I would g- Let's go through the, the obvious ones like João Pedro.

Uh, uh, I know, I know he's got Arsenal in game week three, but i- if, if I sat there-- If I said to you now I had a future, you know, I could tell what's gonna happen in the future, and I said to you João Pedro gets a goal and an assist against Arsenal.

Fire away

Mm

... "If only I did this".

Like I want to try and take myself back into that head space, because that head space was like, should've kept Tarkowski the whole season because he's a defcon beast and he will always get three or four or five goals from a set piece.

Arsenal, I have to always have double defense because they're so solid.

So I'm just trying to take myself back to that kind of, that head space of like Calvert-Lewin punished me a lot last year as well, and I didn't have him at all.

Not, not, not for one single week.

So, and I know that Mbeumo likes to start quite fast in the Premier League, so I'm kind of hoping that happens again.

Yes