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Always Arsenal
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If an unnamed Premier League midfielder does leave an unnamed Premier League club, it's because they couldn't agree a contract that suits both parties. I won't forget that and I hope the wider fanbase are louder and more organised if a situation like this ever comes around again.
June 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Congrats to the women and also to @tim-stillman.bsky.social

A lot of us owe you thanks to Tim for raising awareness of this team to a level such that so many of us who previously didn’t now invest a lot of our time and emotion rooting for this wonderful side.

Have a great night celebrating!
May 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Wrighty is all of us. I'm so emotional right now.
May 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Leah Williamson: "When I joined this football club, and they were winners, and they'd won everything, all I ever wanted to do was represent the badge in the same way"

Proper Arsenal. Through and through.
May 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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The thing about Wirtz from an Arsenal perspective is we haven't even been linked, there's been zero suggestion of any effort to sign him. Maybe it wasn't going to be possible, but for a player like that you have to try absolutely everything.
May 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
It looks like there's going to be some churn at Madrid. That usually means an opportnity to pick up a gem. If we get any encouragement, put that £80m on the table for Rodrygo.

Then we don't need to lose sleep over the CF. A Havertz back up will do.
May 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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The Arteta banner (I don’t think the Ødegaard one is as bad) has significantly damaged my view of Liverpool as a club.

Not the fans, there are always some insane fans, I expect that. But Liverpool the club allowed that banner to be displayed.
May 12, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Been thinking about Arsenal transfers this summer with the arrival of Berta (haven't we all), but I have a slightly different angle - I'm focusing on the 'upgrade via transition' model that Berta used in Spain. What I mean by that is how he generated funds by selling big and replacing well.
March 31, 2025 at 7:25 PM
2/3 years, what Neville/Carra said, bothered me (a lot).

Then I realised its WWE/pantomime stuff, and just stopped caring. What they are doing is setting up a narrative for next season.

It's important that Arteta is 'whiter than white'. Any show of dissent will feed the narrative.
Mikel Arteta's greatest achievement at Arsenal? 😸
May 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Extending Leo in all likelihood means no LW. That's bad recruitment.

Unless they're going all in for a certain CF.
May 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Yeah, yesterday has hit me in waves.

I don't want to sound fatalistic, but that might have been Arteta's best shot at a CL with the club.

That's not to say we won't be good enough to win it. We most definitely will be.

It's just physically so demanding for PL teams to juggle the PL+CL.
May 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
It doesn't help that Odegard only plays in that right inside channel. Teams 3x up on Saka because we have given up the centre.

Yamal was constantly 1v1 against a back 3, because he didn't have Olmo/Pedri standing on his toes.
It means little now, but I'm quite surprised Nwaneri didn't get off the bench tonight. We needed someone with goal threat to try something late on, a shift and shot - he can do that.

This also means nothing, but I'm tired of watching Saka needing to beat three players every time he gets the ball.
May 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Maybe, maybe not.

21 years since the last league title. I guess, don't take it as a given.
We won't have to wait another 16 years for another Champions League semi-final. This season has been exhausting. Bring on August.
May 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Heartbreaking 💔

I'm tired. The last 3 seasons have been emotionally exhausting.
May 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Just please get one and make it uncomfortable.
May 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Raya doesn't save that. Just fuck off.
May 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I would bring on Cala for MLS now. He's showing his age.
May 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
We huff and puff, but we just never seem to find a way through.

Also, Odegards effort was sensational, Ruiz's takes a massive deflection.

It's just one of those seasons.
May 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The performance (and BOU), basically gave me no hope for tonight. However, in the last hour, I've just had that *feeling*.

No matter what happens, I hope they turn up.
May 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I think turning the tie in our favour looks like this.

They're fresh, so they'll be fast off the blocks. If we keep it tight and cagey, the crowd get nervous, then anything goes.

If we concede in the first 20, then there's nothing in this game for us.
Hope Mikel has drummed it into the players that we can’t win the tie in the first 30 minutes, but we can lose it in those first 30 minutes.

Get to 65 minutes 0-0 & wait for the PSG quit to come to us.

Lay the quit foundations & the quit will appear….
May 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
It's clear the players have written off the season.

This is the Premier League. If you don't come correct, 70% of the teams in this league can hurt you.

The players don't care, because effectively, the club wrote off the league season in Jan.
May 4, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Karma ain't done with us yet.

1 more game to go.
Very well put. Up until now, I felt the club was put in a difficult situation. Benching/removing him from the squad wasn't as cut and dry as people made out.

However now, the club is responsible for anything that happens. If you believe in karma, the club we'll get its dues in kind.
I thought (and still think) that Arsenal have been in a difficult situation with Partey, for various reasons - technical, legal and otherwise.

But extending his contract makes him a problem of their own making, it’s not just about him being under contract anymore.
May 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
A Spurs v Utd final, and Arsenal potentially getting knocked out of the CL.

There's a good chance things get pretty toxic. That will be the time for a complete Mugabe media lockdown.
May 1, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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That flag yesterday by the way. Talk about a lack of effort. Unimaginative, inauthentic, corporate rubbish. Let fans do these things, at the very least consult with fan groups who have consistently worked on things like it. Just embarrassingly bland.
April 30, 2025 at 9:56 AM