The Club x Club series takes on the puzzle of Manchester City under Maresca, with resident Doku expert Sean leading the way. A new manager who may rotate less than Pep, a huge set-piece vacancy left by Bernardo Silva's exit, and a formation nobody can quite pin down make this a squad full of upside and question marks in equal measure.
The lads work through it. Where the first-round names land and why one high-ceiling winger's minutes risk is the whole story, the Cherki-versus-Foden battle for the ten and the handcuff stack that solves it, and a genuinely useful thread on chasing available minutes over raw talent after a season that went sideways. There's a full airing of the Elliot Anderson question, is he a third-round buy or someone else's problem, and Tim's belief-based case for taking him anyway. Plus the defenders they'd happily pass on at their price, the loanee-shaped Grealish and Savinho uncertainty hanging over the whole thing, and the striker nobody wants to hold on their bench all season.
It closes where City always does this year: lots of risk, lots of reward, and almost nothing you can be sure of until the first few game weeks. As always, everything's timestamped to August 3rd.