It has turned out to be such a strange season, that even after we playing at our best, beating teams for fun, winning at shite hart lane, keeping clean sheets more than any other teams, scoring more than anyone else – we are going to end up second! Man City just can’t lose can they?
Fulham can do us a favor, they can restrict Pep to a draw or win against them. I have zero confidence in Tottenham beating City and West Ham can’t go through them on the last day at Etihad. If something can happen, it’s today. Lets hope the gods favors us and Fulham and we get to see for once the sad face of Pep Guardiola. We have one of ours play for Fulham, Bernd Leno, who has promised that he will give his 100% to stop our competition.
There has been some happenings while I was missing. Jorginho signed the contract for another year, Mikel was full of praise for him and it basically confirms it’s time for Thomas Partey to go. I don’t believe Mikel wants to keep two 35 year olds to fight for one place when Declan Rice is a starter. If I was you Mikel, I would sell Thomas for whatever money we can get, and go into the market for a DM understudy to Rice/Jorginho.
Bayern did us dirty in the quarters. Saka was denied a clear penalty. Harry Kane got away with an elbow on Gabriel which should have been red. They weren’t so furious then about refereeing, but when it happened to them against Madrid when the offside whistle was blown a bit too early, all hell broke loose. Mr Tuchel, Karma is a bitch.
Next year’s kit has been leaked, and I am disappointed to say the least. Last season was best of Adidas, both Red and White, and the black ones were great. This season, the third kit was a standout and home one was fine too. I think I might skip the next season’s if the leaks are true.
A belated Happy Birthday to Dennis Bergkamp, you happened when I was playing cricket as 10 year old but looking back, I would have loved to see you play live. A gentlemen, a magician, red through and through.
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Fabrizio reported that we are monitoring the young 18 year old Ajax centre back Jorrel Hato. He has a deal till 2028 and he will be an investment for the future. We most certainly need a third regular CB to rotate with Saliba and Gabriel without hampering our game play. White/Tomi are CB but we haven’t seen them play there, and we don’t know if they will turn out to be equally good. If it costs us 10 odd million, I would say go for it.
Sacking news have started about Pochettino. He talked about an interview, the content doesn’t really matter but if the manager comes out and talks about it, either he is fearful he will be sacked, or he knows he will. Chelsea has just moved from a billionaire russian who managed to win things to a billionaire american who can’t make things happen. Loving it.
Right, and Ten Hag just can’t stop talking about us can he?
TRVL
All makes sense to me and, as Marc says it’s always square pegs in round holes with El B. Less it change he’s always going to be the nearly man.
40 goals between them*
TRVL
Hard to say about Marts as he’s never had a decent 8 to play with, as Ode does with Saka. Still young and delivering well, though, as I’d bet Unai or Howe would take Martinelli in a heartbeat and get more from him. Pep? has Doku, and the new Ange at Pool will be looking to import. PSG?
He’s our gem and we should keep him. I’m not buying he’s just a head down merchant; he’s just out of favour because Tross plays LW differently to Marts by coming centrally more. Agreed, Marts doesn’t have tippy tappy nimble feet Tross has, but Tross doesn’t have the running at people at electric speed Marts has. Nothing has a CD’s arse-cheeks flapping more than a speedster searing into the penalty box at speed with tight ball control.
Jesus, Zinchenko (please sell him) Eddie, Reis and it makes me really unhappy that ESR will probably have to leave. Vieira, Lakonga (watched him and he has improved, but not to our level), Tavares: and Tierney was quoted as saying he expects to be sold when the Italy loan finishes.
Have to ask, though, is Tierney any worse than Zinchenko or Kiwior? I actually think KT is old school LB better than both as a defender, but has his limitations inverting or playing in the top third barring interplaying and overlapping with Marts.
It’s what Marts has been missing to play with. I feel there were games this season tailor made for KT where we would have fared better. I’d keep him for that utility reason for next season. Bringing on Marts around 55 minutes with KT to have a go down our left, the opposing manager has to at least consider to make adjustments where Saka would also get more freedom when Marts and KT prove effective.
KT can also play 3 at the back next to big Gabs.
Agreed, KT is injury prone; Unai knew that when we bought him, as we had to wait for an injury to heal for his medical. With Tomi being a lightweight, sick note too, KT would fit the bill for me even if he isn’t as fleet of foot El B likes. He’s got a rocket of a left peg from outside the area and can whip in some delightful balls into the corridor of uncertainty for an experienced 9 to convert.
KT can also sit back to let Rice loose in the opposition final third, as a sub or starter. We’ll get peanuts for KT, as his value has been run down when it could have been at least maintained.
I feel we should keep KT and sell Zinchenko.
Ah yes Marc, the gods of capitalism. Where would working people be without this line up o’ cunts?
Branson
Dyson
Philip Green
Jeffrey Epstein
Robert Maxwell
Trump
Putin
Kroenke
Thatcher
Liz Truss
Milton Friedman
To name but a few in my money-grubbers-fuck-everyone-else-except me-XI.
If Bindippers beat Villa tonight, the Spuds establishment will surely be motivated by champions league qualification moolah and therefore give it the big one against City.
At 1-0 there was always a chance that Manchester U could get something together. Saliba was in control at the back and his confident game was crucial yesterday.
Aitcho – off the ball intelligence – something our games master at school taught sixty years ago so somebody on Ā£330K plus per week should have it as a second nature. The difference between Havertz and Ozil – Mesut could strike a moving ball with amazing accuracy, could pass the ball through the eye of a needle and provide inch perfect passes to forward players – the assist master. Sanchez loved playing with Ozil.
Tony
sensible suggestions but KT does not feature in the mind of El B. Zinny will always get minutes over KT and a lightweight Viera will be chosen in place of ESR. KT & ESR are both lining up at the exit door. KT’s price will be low but there is quite a bit of interest in ESR – there are at least 4 teams who looking. Could he become a lillywhite?
NORG
ManU xg was 0.7, there was hardly any chance they were coming back. The stats can tell us what our eyes might not. We had more chance of scoring a second. We can mistake huff and puff for strategy.
You had a good games teacher. He’d probably love Havertz, so many players don’t have the same levels
I never subscribed to the bleating about Ozil nicking a living when he first came to the Ems. His stats showed that was far from the case.
But by the end, his stats showed us this was. Other players knew it and it was part of the rotten culture that had become the norm at our club. All the sniffles for away games, a bad back if he didn’t fancy it, a single assist in his last season with us is testament to how technical ability is nothing without professionalism.
Loved the player but he was probably better suited to Late Wenger era, technically gifted, mentally fragile.
Ozil was on more then than than Havertz is now. Shocking waste of money on our part and talent on his.
Vera, we haven’t effed a transfer pooch for years.
You’ve not been paying attention.
Classic.
Analytics suggest we don’t need offensive reinforcements. You’re right. Stop there, you’re getting it now. I keep advising to assess data and evidence not your feels.
I’m not averse to additions but you’re allowing Tets, and by proxy, Havertz, even possible Pedro from Legrove, derangement syndrome affect your logic.
Try enjoying the our team and worrying less about the times you were shown to he wrong. Of which I’m sure there were many.
Kroenke
Don’t ever be reincarnated as a fish – you bite far too easily even when I’m making a joke about needing a beer to watch the match yesterday.
Tony,
Our offensive returns are good. We’ve all seen the same numbers. Our GD is far from shyte, it’s one of our best ever. We’ve all seen the numbers.
ManU finishing wasn’t woeful, that’s dishonest journalism. No goals off 0.7xg is more than fair. One shot on target I think and that might have been been cross.
If Rashford was playing there’s not a shred of evidence to suggest ManU would have fared any better. Again, we’ve all seen the numbers, they would probably have done worse.
You can’t just make up imaginary scenarios to bat away a win at OT against a shit team trying to hold it together after a thrashing. Well, you can but you end up like Vera, sounding increasingly desperate
Enjoy the wins rather than create alternative realities where they aren’t wins. Not winning the league, doesn’t a manager a loser, too simplistic but not unexpected from you .
People on here were looking to give manager of the year to managers that came 10th or were brushed out of Europe. I told you last season De Zerbi was nothing more than flavour of the month and this season you’ve hitched yourself to the next new thing.
All the while wailing that manager who’s done better domestically than all but Pep in the last two years is a ‘loser’.
Even if you spend hundreds of millions, getting even top four let alone close to the title isn’t easy. As Chelsea, Liverpool, ManU, Newcastle have all shown us.
Job done, two times fan player of the month Havertz with the assist. Tross with the goal. Almost 2xg. Exactly what you’d ask from your front line.
While some guy who thinks Rashford would have made a difference to our win thinks the opposite.
I think you’ll need lots more of those seals if your going to maintain your David Steel like allegiance to Vera who appears to be your very own David Owen
Aitcho
Simple questions – where do you think we will finish at the end of next season -and in the TW incoming player spend and outgoing player income.
Marc
Carpe diem… Or in other words ‘seize the carp’. āš
Your political controversies and extremist politics (!) are one of a number of things that make LiR for me.
On Ozil, using the principles of ‘cost-benefit’ in addition to what he didn’t do for team cohesion, he is – and possibly always will be – Arsenal’s worst ever signing.
I have to give KH and Tross some serious praise for yesterday’s goal. Taking that position out on the wide right knowing he was onside then taking the ball into their box and waiting for Tross to be in the right place after that long and variably paced run was pretty special. A stopped clock is right at least twice a day!
Well we got the points its all down to the Spuddies tomorrow.
They get a draw and its down to goal difference – serious squeaky bum time for Arteta.
Spurs win tomorrow and Ange will be a hero in N5. They might even invite him on the bus ? – perhaps not.
Apart from my earlier my earlier KT post these 3 youth players had good loans. I hope we keep them but obviously there are concerns with youth players and El B’s reticence to invest game time in them yet persevere with error plagued pets.
Charlie Patino
The 20-year-old midfielder is widely expected to leave this summer after finishing his loan spell with Swansea. The start he made on the final day of the Championship season was his first since January. Patino still made 35 appearances and has been linked to Juventus and Roma.
Would be great if Havertz could give Biereth returns from Motherwell of 6 goals & 5 assists in 14 games +++ Kid has made a statement in the lower leagues hope he gets preseason game time.
https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=134559
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RBQjQ5gmE8
Good reel. The kid can play. Looks better then Eddie, Reis and Jesus, but at the lower levels. Got a bit of Haaland about him. One to watch
Mike Biereth
The Dane spent the first part of the season on loan at Motherwell and delivered six goals and five assists in 14 appearances before making the switch to Sturm Graz. Things continued to go well as the youngster bagged five goals and two assists in the Bundesliga and added three more goals in four Europa Conference League outings.
āI have a year left on my contract, so when I come back in the summer I will still be an Arsenal player. Itās just about getting back and seeing if I can impress the boss,ā said Biereth last month. Arsenal refused an offer for a permanent move in January.
Arthur Okonkwo
One of the stars of Arsenal’s loan players, the young goalkeeper presided over Wrexham’s net on the way to winning promotion from League 2. The 22-year-old kept 14 clean sheets and allowed 30 goals from 36 appearances. The 22-year-old’s contract is currently set to expire with the Welsh side keen to tie him down. āObviously weāre keen to keep Arthur and weāre working on that,ā boss Phil Parkinson told BBC Sport Wales. “It could take time but thereās one thing for sure, weāll give it everything that weāve got to keep Arthur at the club.”
From a Mirror spot link I posted before the game yesterday.
Interesting AI thriller series:
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Tony-agree with your KT assessment, at least when it comes to comparing him to other in-house options, but his injury record precludes him from ever being considered the starter here…I feel like Timber has come to be shoehorned out on the left, so he will likely be the starter moving forward…as such, it will be interesting to see what becomes of Zinchenko, who openly admitted that JT was the better option, as he likely won’t want to stick around to be a fringe player again…problem is, can we sell him considering his unjustifiable wages…we re-upped Tomi, who can play on either side, when healthy, so we will likely look to add some depth pieces, especially if we lose Kiwior and/or Zinch, as Cedric is definitely coming off the books