Not worried yet no coz it is far too early but I do have some concerns:
1) That the midfield is weaker (in depth) that it was last season. Diame wouldn’t be missed from a fully fit starting XI point of view but he is being missed when we have an injury to either McCarthy or McArthur or when the midfield needs freshening up a bit mid match. Having Watson & Jones as back up doesn’t offer anything when changing things other than making teh XI out on the pitch weaker
2) Losing Moses. As well as his plus point he had many, many faults but he was vital to Bobby’s system in terms of being able to stretch the opposition & get in behind them. Having Franco/Kone there puts people out of position & putting Gomez there just slows everything down by about 3 paces. I’d like to see the Japanese lad whose name I still can’t remember how to spell or McManaman given a go sooner rather than later but I’ll bow to Bobby’s judgement on that coz if he doesn;t fell they’re ready then they mustn’t be ready
3) The defence looks a lot shakier than it did from feb onwards & have slipped back to allowing the opposition to score without them really having to work hard to do so
That said, I’m still of the belief that the team is capable of surviving relatively comfortably
