I want us to try out the 4-2-3-1 for now, I think it's got potential to work as long as we have a player that will work well with Busi.

I would like Sergi to replace Rakitic for now and see how he does in that role, he has the work rate for it. Only big thing missing would be his positioning to properly cover for the right side of the pitch. Playing at RB his positioning was often exposed so I hope to see a change if he's playing alongside Busi.

                      Suarez/Paco 

  Denis/Deulo    -    Messi/Iniesta    -    Dembele/Turan/Raf  

              Busi/Gomes    -    Sergi/Rakitic/Paulinho

Alba/Digne  -  Umtiti/Verm  -  Pique/Masch  -  Semedo/Sergi

                    Ter Stegen/Cilessen

GK: We're completely covered.

DEF: Only worrying thing is seeing Vermelen there, I don't doubt his abilities but his fitness. If he can stay fit I think we will be fine defensively.

MID: No name's there convince me we will have any new creativity in the midfield from last season, all I hope to see is some more stability when it comes to defending. Really hoping Sergi can provide this. What's going to happen with our midfield in terms of creativity and defensive abilities is still up in the air for me.

ATT: I want to see Messi at false 9 behind Suarez. I think this will be the only way at the moment to fix the creativity in the midfield. I think our attack will be fine this season.

Team Expectation:

At the moment I don't see much reason to worry that badly. Our biggest problem for me was getting the ball from the midfield to the attack. This time we have Messi who is playing the exact role he was last season but with two new great players to cover the right side for him, which is why I think our midfield creativity can be temporarily solved for this season.

Denis/Deulofeu have a big chance to claim the LM spot with Denis already looking like he wants to fight for a spot. Deulo as well. Both great signs at the moment and it's looking like a partnership of Denis/Deulo with Alba will also be good.

Only big worry for me is how Busi and his midfield partner are going to be able to handle defending and not being overrun. I think the RM and LM are going to have to be doing a lot of tracking back to make sure our midfield doesn't get overrun. Dembele and Deulo/Denis should be able to handle this with the help of Semedo and Alba who are known for covering a lot of ground during a game.

Season Expectation:

I think we can compete for the domestic double. CL is still up in the air.

La Liga will be decided by our ability to not drop stupid points through silly defensive errors. Semedo will be a massive help because he will not suffer positional exposure like Sergi did last season, something that led to many avoidable attacks from the opposition.

Copa del Rey should be like any other year. I expect us to win it.

Champions League is still hard to say for me. I don't think we're going to crash and burn like many think and I expect us to surprise a few people. We're clearly not favourites at the moment but I would never write us off, a lot can change during a season. Beat Madrid 4-0 and they went on to win the CL the same season as evidence for that. We look at last year and we were knocked out by Juve but the game was a lot closer than you would think. First of all Mathieu was at LB who was heavily exposed which led to their first goal, that shouldn't happen this season. All of our starting XI players are capable of playing well enough to not get exposed on the same level. We were also very unlucky to not score twice through the chances Suarez and Iniesta failed to convert.

I think it's going to be a fun season with the likes of Denis and Sergi showing their true colours. We also have Dembele to look forward too as well.