Michael Keshani
@michaelkeshani.bsky.social
Someone already took @/Kesh, so this platform is off to a bad start for me.
Main thing I’ve enjoyed this year how much we control games. Not as much verve yet but the control may be even stronger than the back end of 23/24, which I hold as the benchmark.
Wrote in the summer about what needed to change re control, and I’m really delighted with Zubi off the back of it.
Wrote in the summer about what needed to change re control, and I’m really delighted with Zubi off the back of it.
October 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Main thing I’ve enjoyed this year how much we control games. Not as much verve yet but the control may be even stronger than the back end of 23/24, which I hold as the benchmark.
Wrote in the summer about what needed to change re control, and I’m really delighted with Zubi off the back of it.
Wrote in the summer about what needed to change re control, and I’m really delighted with Zubi off the back of it.
Many were seemingly very offended when I said we played poorly last week but similar this, though against a very good side. Lacking our best attacking midfielder and centre forward, losing three starters during the game, just had to dig in and get it done. Didn’t enjoy it but few complaints.
October 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Many were seemingly very offended when I said we played poorly last week but similar this, though against a very good side. Lacking our best attacking midfielder and centre forward, losing three starters during the game, just had to dig in and get it done. Didn’t enjoy it but few complaints.
You can't play like that regularly if you want to win the league but if you do play like that, you have to win. Hated pretty much every second of that.
October 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
You can't play like that regularly if you want to win the league but if you do play like that, you have to win. Hated pretty much every second of that.
Aside from absolutely everything else, if you wanted to give me 25 mins to calm my worries about Gyökeres down, these would be them. Done very well so far.
September 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Aside from absolutely everything else, if you wanted to give me 25 mins to calm my worries about Gyökeres down, these would be them. Done very well so far.
If you're going to be as low-touch and low-pass as Erling Haaland for a proper team, you have to be Erling Haaland, and all the movement and strength that comes with that, before you even get to being of the level where 22 league goals is an off season.
September 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
If you're going to be as low-touch and low-pass as Erling Haaland for a proper team, you have to be Erling Haaland, and all the movement and strength that comes with that, before you even get to being of the level where 22 league goals is an off season.
Morning everyone!
I wrote about the changes to Arsenal's forward line, the new boys, the new configurations, where everyone fits, the hopes, dreams, expectations and worries.
I was as diplomatic and even-handed as I could be - can YOU tell where my scepticisms lie?
I wrote about the changes to Arsenal's forward line, the new boys, the new configurations, where everyone fits, the hopes, dreams, expectations and worries.
I was as diplomatic and even-handed as I could be - can YOU tell where my scepticisms lie?
September 19, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Morning everyone!
I wrote about the changes to Arsenal's forward line, the new boys, the new configurations, where everyone fits, the hopes, dreams, expectations and worries.
I was as diplomatic and even-handed as I could be - can YOU tell where my scepticisms lie?
I wrote about the changes to Arsenal's forward line, the new boys, the new configurations, where everyone fits, the hopes, dreams, expectations and worries.
I was as diplomatic and even-handed as I could be - can YOU tell where my scepticisms lie?
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Look at the new signings in the forward line, how everyone fits, expectations and hopes and, for one and a half, let’s say, a few worries.
There’s going to be a lot of mutual adjusting needed, but the plus side is undoubtedly how varied the threat is now.
There’s going to be a lot of mutual adjusting needed, but the plus side is undoubtedly how varied the threat is now.
September 18, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Look at the new signings in the forward line, how everyone fits, expectations and hopes and, for one and a half, let’s say, a few worries.
There’s going to be a lot of mutual adjusting needed, but the plus side is undoubtedly how varied the threat is now.
There’s going to be a lot of mutual adjusting needed, but the plus side is undoubtedly how varied the threat is now.
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This game is doing absolutely nothing to allay my worries that despite Eze being a lovely player, he's perhaps not the ideal fit for where we are and what we need. But he is at least definitely a very good player, which can't be said for all. V happy for Martinelli, he really needed that.
September 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
This game is doing absolutely nothing to allay my worries that despite Eze being a lovely player, he's perhaps not the ideal fit for where we are and what we need. But he is at least definitely a very good player, which can't be said for all. V happy for Martinelli, he really needed that.
It's a complaint I make extremely often, but very jarring as a silver who tends to find a way in for (pretty much) every game how easy pickings these CL games are, and how little you hear from all those people who are always so desperate to go, apparently.
September 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
It's a complaint I make extremely often, but very jarring as a silver who tends to find a way in for (pretty much) every game how easy pickings these CL games are, and how little you hear from all those people who are always so desperate to go, apparently.
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Enjoyed writing this one overall. 22/23 years was great up until the final bit, but it’s very hard to really go back into that time and not look at the last few years as massive progress, even though the excitement and general feeling isn’t quite the same.
September 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Enjoyed writing this one overall. 22/23 years was great up until the final bit, but it’s very hard to really go back into that time and not look at the last few years as massive progress, even though the excitement and general feeling isn’t quite the same.
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Enjoyed writing this one overall. 22/23 years was great up until the final bit, but it’s very hard to really go back into that time and not look at the last few years as massive progress, even though the excitement and general feeling isn’t quite the same.
September 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Enjoyed writing this one overall. 22/23 years was great up until the final bit, but it’s very hard to really go back into that time and not look at the last few years as massive progress, even though the excitement and general feeling isn’t quite the same.
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It was hard to imagine (and, at times, watch) Arsenal without Zinchenko a couple of seasons ago, all for it to end with the club desperate to get him out in any way possible.
In part a steady process of planned evolution, in part a story of trust broken in moments.
Read through the link above 👆
In part a steady process of planned evolution, in part a story of trust broken in moments.
Read through the link above 👆
September 3, 2025 at 9:35 AM
It was hard to imagine (and, at times, watch) Arsenal without Zinchenko a couple of seasons ago, all for it to end with the club desperate to get him out in any way possible.
In part a steady process of planned evolution, in part a story of trust broken in moments.
Read through the link above 👆
In part a steady process of planned evolution, in part a story of trust broken in moments.
Read through the link above 👆
I was very sceptical of allotting the funds we did for Madueke in the context of the rest of the side, but I feel a massive amount better about having him to come in for Saka at Anfield than I would’ve for shifting Martinelli over or hoping Nwaneri can make a dent from RW.
August 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
I was very sceptical of allotting the funds we did for Madueke in the context of the rest of the side, but I feel a massive amount better about having him to come in for Saka at Anfield than I would’ve for shifting Martinelli over or hoping Nwaneri can make a dent from RW.
Mental health update in the wake of the last 24 hours of Arsenal news
August 20, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Mental health update in the wake of the last 24 hours of Arsenal news
Those of you who’ve been more present for pre-season than I have, I have some big questions as to how next season is going to go:
- How much was a Guinness at the stadium?
- How much was an Asahi at the stadium?
- How was the Guinness at the stadium?
- How was the Asahi at the stadium?
- How much was a Guinness at the stadium?
- How much was an Asahi at the stadium?
- How was the Guinness at the stadium?
- How was the Asahi at the stadium?
August 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Those of you who’ve been more present for pre-season than I have, I have some big questions as to how next season is going to go:
- How much was a Guinness at the stadium?
- How much was an Asahi at the stadium?
- How was the Guinness at the stadium?
- How was the Asahi at the stadium?
- How much was a Guinness at the stadium?
- How much was an Asahi at the stadium?
- How was the Guinness at the stadium?
- How was the Asahi at the stadium?
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A lot of similarly tactically inclined people didn’t take to him, which I sort of get, but also find sad. He exploded when I was about 14, and he really opened up a different way of seeing the game to me. Even though he’s Bayern incarnate I can’t help but love him.
August 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
A lot of similarly tactically inclined people didn’t take to him, which I sort of get, but also find sad. He exploded when I was about 14, and he really opened up a different way of seeing the game to me. Even though he’s Bayern incarnate I can’t help but love him.
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Müller is probably my favourite non-Arsenal player in the last decade or so (not inc Messi, ofc). Not the kind of technical player I usually love but I loved seeing him show you can’t stop the smartest guy on the pitch from outwitting you.
August 8, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Müller is probably my favourite non-Arsenal player in the last decade or so (not inc Messi, ofc). Not the kind of technical player I usually love but I loved seeing him show you can’t stop the smartest guy on the pitch from outwitting you.
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