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Rightly offside. So much offside blocking taking place. Ref looks like a cross between Mark Clattenburg and Richard Hughes.

I don't think that's a bad thing. Mbeumo might be a year or two older than we'd like (turning 26 at the start of next season) but Salah will be away at Afcon next year, and it would be nice to have a viable alternative for that position. Edit; Guess Mbeumo might be off at Afcon too....

Really good analysis. When half of the Arsenal team are out long term with hamstring injuries, you suspect there is more happening than just bad luck... The Gakpo stats in that are super interesting too.

This is all a bit sad, and detracts from the fact that he's actually a really good player, and his injury came at a super unfortunate time. He's scored more goals than last season, and played fewer games. But I did get a surge of 'ooft' hen he took his shirt off and revealed that...

Haha! important disclaimer at the end, even if it does make sense, kinda. Really it's a bit odd if we've briefed that we're gonna throw money around, so it's likely journos just doing what they do... We could well bring in 120-180 million worth in sales - the higher number if we sell one of Diaz or Jota along with the likes of Kelleher, Tsimikas, Nunez, Chiesa, Endo, Morton, Phillips (lol, as if he'll ever leave...), maybe Gomez too . So I don't expect a net spend of 200 million, but if we sell all of the above, I would hope we then spend 200 milion rather than just what we get from sales...

That's fair enough. it's really the notion of 1 in 2 being exactly what you want that seemed silly. Sesko isn't good enough imo, but Ekitike looks promising.

Would love us to sign an attacker(s) with pace. Nunez will be gone, and that probably leaves Gakpo as our quickest forward, but we're definitely not able to break quite as quickly as we were a few years ago. Also, another punditry masterclass from Danny Murphy on the BBC "I'm surprised we haven't heard a bit more about Jonathan David at Lille, who is on a free. Watching him play he seems to have Premier League attributes. He's strong, quick, a decent finisher and a scoring record of one in two is exactly what you want. Eh? 1 in 2 is exactly what you want from a striker playing in a weak league? is that like 2-1 being a better first leg result than 2-0?... Not seen loads of David, but doesn't seem a top class player to me.

What a guy. So calm, and the Klopp gesture, amazing.

Anyone else have a few leaks in the eye area?

That's another weird VAR decision. Bournemouth down to 10 men - Red card for a dangerous tackle that was only dangerous because he slipped over and accidentally caught the Manc.

That chip against WBA was sublime. Also gutted that his UEFA cup final goal against Seville didn't count for anything cos of how we imploded in that game.

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It must be frustrating as a footballer and a human with feelings and emotions, but all of us know he'd be starting more games if he hadn't performed so badly when he has played. I wish him luck, but will be relieved when he's gone.

The penalty that Newcastle got before HT was everything that is wrong with VAR. Such a soft penalty. Ipswich player did touch Murphy, (hand on shirt type grab) and Murphy does a half twist and throws himself to the floor. Ref says play on, VAR tells him to go have a look, and you can almost hear his thought process - he still probably doesn't think it's a pen, but he's been called over to look, so he's not gonna have the balls to stick with his original decision. If that's a clear and obvious error and that's a pen, there'd be a dozen pens a game.

I thought he was kinda mixed. Good in patches, and then did play some terrible passes straight to them. And there would be the English tax. Also your new profile pic made me vomit, so thanks for that.

And that was a 42 game season (but they did also get 91 in a 38 game season in 99/00). Anyway, this is certainly a fun discussion to be having rather than hoping City drop points against (crap team) at so we can make up a 2 point gap...

Amazing how Arsenal being pretty terrible this season will convince (stupid) people that we're not worthy champions. Which is why we hopefully win 5/5 and end up with one of the highest points totals ever to win the league...

That was pretty much the perfect result really. Would have felt a little anticlimax to win it without playing, but the draw takes the pressure off even more.

The ball has also gone across the middle of the 6 yard box, so Martinez doesn't look too clever there either. Again.

A rare good final ball but Doku, but it wasn't great defending by any of the Villa back 4

I've admittedly not seen too much of kerkez defensively, but Aït-Nouri looks like a bit of a liability at the back. Switches off or is too easily beaten far too often

Haha! I'm surprised that the bile didn't start drooling out of Keys's mouth. And Gray is looking ever more like Uncle Fester, which is distracting. Good on McAateer for standing up to the BS.

Yeah, we had 30 or so shots, and they weren't all stupid long shots either. Their keeper made a few decent saves, and their defenders defended better than expected with some really good blocks and last ditch clearances. And we hit the woodwork 4 times (albeit twice with one shot and twice in quick succession before we scored). We are definitely coasting more than I'd like to see, but also look like we can go up a few gears any time we really need to.

I think the tour guide knows only marginally more than the baggage handler. By which I mean slightly more than zero, but still sweet FA

No, was on Reddit, but I think someone else in this thread mentioned the Reddit post before. I saw it too yesterday on Reddit. Tour guide saying there was "good news" but when asked if it was about VVD deal, or Salah deal he said "No", and insinuated it was about Trent. So 2+2=7. Tour guide probably had a really good sandwich packed for his lunch, which was good news.