Hi all,
Today Shotta and I muse about just how deep a mire Arteta finds himself in.
Pedantic George.
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Positively Arsenal 
Team: Ramsdale, Tavares, Chambers, Holding, Kolasinac, Elneny, Xhaka, Odegaard, Pepe, Saka, Aubameyang
Subs: Leno, Mari, Maitland-Niles, Sambi, Smith Rowe, Martinelli, Lacazette
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Yousef Teclab
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Kuwaiti paper @alqabas
say Qatar Sports Investment (QSI), in charge of PSG since 2012, are turned their eyes to the Premier League and have identified Arsenal as a option to invest. #AFC
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nice.
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nicey nice.
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very nice…oooohh
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HT: WBA 0-3 Arsenal
Aubameyang x2 and Pepe with our goals
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Arsenal midfielder Lucas Torreira has joined Serie A side Fiorentina on a season-long loan with an option to buy.
Torreira will wear no.18 kit at Fiorentina.
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that was a class goal by Saka to make it 4-0 to the Arsenal
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Well it bodes well that we will look comfortable in the Championship next season.
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AMN on for Odegaard
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PEA with a fine strike for his hattrick 5-0
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now thats what i call nice.
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lacazette on for xhaka
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nice with bells on.
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lacazette with a great first time finish 6-0
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Martinelli on for Aubameyang
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All the players who needed goals scored, West Brom rested their first team but you can’t rally ask for more then this as that would be cruel on a young opposition!
Perfect result and game for the Gunners and the team should begin to pick up some better form in spite of City with the senior strikers returning.
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Ramsdale made some fine saves
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Arsenal v AFC Wimbledon in the next round of the CC
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Arteta on the transfer window
“I don’t know what will happen. There is still a few days to go. We have some exits as well planned. We will see”
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It’s easy and probably rational to take some emotional restraint given the club’s trajectory, but I must still confess to a surge of happiness seeing and hearing the away fans react to an Arsenal goal. Great to have them back.
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the full draw
QPR vs Everton
Preston vs Chelternham
Man Utd vs West Ham
Fulham vs Leeds
Brentford vs Oldham
Watford vs Stoke
Chelsea vs Aston Villa
Wigan vs Sunderland
Norwich vs Liverpool
Burnley vs Rochdale
Arsenal vs AFC Wimbledon
Sheffield United vs Southampton
Man City vs Wycome Wanderers
Millwall vs Leicester City
Wolves vs Tottenham
Brighton vs Swansea
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900ft also good that the travelling fans sang anti AFTV songs
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the best thing about the performance v WBA was we played lots of fast free flowing attacking football
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the transfer window shuts on Tuesday, and Arteta says we have several outgoing deals we want to get done.
I would say that the players he most wants out are
Runarsson, Willian, Nelson, Nketiah, Kolasinac, AMN, Bellerin and Cedric
would think he wants to bring in a first choice right back, and maybe depending on departures another midfielder and maybe a striker, especially if we sell either of Lacaette or PEA
when you look at our squad we are well stocked in some positions, and its also clear that some players will not see much if any game time if most of the squad is fit
Bellerin looks way down the RB choice, Cedric is also behind Chamber there, and if we do manage to bring in someone like Trippier then Cedric would get very little game time if any. We have depth at CB and Left back so Kolasinac not going to see much playing time.
Nelson, Willian and Nketiah are unlikely to get much if any game time and its unclear if AMN will be involved much, for a lad at 24 who got 5 caps for England last year, he really needs to kick on, be it here or somewhere else, I would suggest it wont happen at AFC
We have got rid of a lot of players over the last season and a bit, but apart from Willock to Newcastle we have not taken in much if any fees at all. In fact we have paid for several players to leave, and there are suggestions that Kolasinac and Willian will go the same way, and some others will be loan with buy options.
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Enjoyable evening. Those rare occasions when a non-huge club play high-line don’t half show why almost all opponents defend deep though.
Means not too much can be read into how we play when someone bucks the trend, especially when playing such a weakened team.
Still, made a nice change and hopefully a decent confidence booster. As it goes, City next will mean some space behind, though whether we can be in any position to attack it is another matter.
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It was great to hear the away supporters once again. It also looked like Arteta was sitting down a lot more and not continually shouting multi lingual instructions and flapping his arms around.
Could there be a correlation between that and the more attacking style of play?
It was good also to see Auba engaged and smiling, it’s been a long time coming.
Let’s see what the weekend brings after the welcome respite.
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Totally disagree we were playing lots of fast free flowing football, WBA U23s were playing a high line and we just played loads of balls over the top, to add to their high line they played their full backs wide so there was lots of distance between them and their CBs for us to play straight balls through.
Only the MO and Saka movement was a goal of note and some of they were a comedy of errors from both sides.
I said we didn’t play to badly after the chelski game and I think we didn’t play to well on this game with lots and lots of mistakes.
More lazy punditry giving Auba Motm especially when he missed so many easy chances. Saka was leagues above him in performance.
I did enjoy winning six nil but we struggled at times against a championship U23 side with some quite average performances by some players that simply won’t do against decent PL opposition.
Xhaka and Mo have long been our best midfield partnership and Saka and M.O. were excellent together. It was also nice to see a keeper catch the ball as well as the many Dave’s he had to make.
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I thought that Saka was excellent, but I wonder whether an EPL team would allow him so much space.
It also seemed to me that there were fewer crosses and that Arteta was sitting down much more than usual.
It was a very un-Arteta like performance and leads one to hope that, perhaps, he has seen the same light that so many other people have.
It was good enough to give us a warm feeling, for a change, but we should not be misled into thinking that we can see the tunnel, let alone the light at the end of it.
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it seems Miguel Azeez is joining Portsmouth on a season loan
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One by one the academy players are going, to be replaced by purchases, Arteta’s players.
How many more purchases will the powers that be stump up the money for?
How has Arteta been able to persuade the powers that be to cough up all of this money and to chuck away millions in respect of players he does not want and to waste the academy products because he does not want them either?
Perhaps he thinks he is still at Man$ity or perhaps he knows something we don’t know.
All I can say is that if we are taken over by some Arab potentates then my love for this club will disappear overnight.
Wenger’s speech at that last game is now a distant memory and the principles that he begged that the club adheres to have been flushed into the sewers.
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Midfielder Tim Akinola is expected to depart on loan. Young right-back Ryan Alebiosu is also expected to spend the season away from Hale End, with talks over a loan move to Sunderland gathering pace, Football London understands. [@ChrisWheatley_
] #afc
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do you think CR7 will fit in at ManUre? Seems a bit oddball to me.
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He’ll score a few goals no doubt and I am sure if I was a Man U fan I’d be super excited right now. Logically it is possible that it’s a poor move but you can dee how it plays to the heart.
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…thing is it could well disrupt that team, theyve started to play together, and it took OS a long time to get them coherent as unit and such a star like CR will want to be a leader…some might not want to follow? What if he raises the bar but others cant get that high? What if he cant get the service he wants and gets in a nark, which then gets other players backs up.Does he become the team or does he fit in the team? I feel sceptical about both.
Of course he could be fabulous and they really challenge with him, but he has a big ego and big demands?
But its added some spice in the PL for sure, and I agree FH if youre a ManUre head it must at this moment seem exciting, hes still very exciting and a massive force, and its shocked us all that hes gone there rather than go out to pasture at City.
Well we shall see.
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Arsenal defender Henry Jeffcott has been named in the Northern Ireland U19 squad
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rumor that Everton are trying to sign Ainsley Maitland-Niles on loan
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Gabriel captained the U23’s to victory today over spurs, Taylor-Hart with both our goals in a 2-1 comeback win,
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isn’t it really stupid that the transfer window shuts during an international break, players have matches this weekend, then join up with their country squad on Sunday or Monday, but the window don’t shut till 23.00 on Tuesday.
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Arsenal only need to win by 5 goals v Man City to go above them in the table
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Ronaldo to Man Utd reminds me of when Thierry came back.
Nice, romantic, but very expensive. Adds more drama to the season….hmm.
I’m more impressed by what David Moyes is building @ West Ham.
If they add Lingard, Zouma, and possibly Divock Origi (all for 60M), they would become harder to dislodge from the Top 6. Their Europa adventure will clarify where they really are but I am impressed and quite happy for Moyes.
On to The Arse,
In 5 hours we have an opportunity to alter the narrative.
Etihad’s beatable if we absolutely go for it.
I really liked Auba’s energy at the Hawthorns.
Tavares offered something different…
Gunner MØ8 sprinkled some of that vintage “maestroarsenalis magic dust” and
we could finally be set for that nu adventure we all desperately seek.
Spanking Pep could be useful…
I expect:
Leno
Cedric – Holding – Mari – Tierney
Lokonga – ESR – Xhaka
Pépé – Aubameyang – Saka
+Ramsdale, Chambers, Tavares, Elneny, AMN, Ødegaard, Martinelli, Balogun, Lacazette.
CARMON ARSENAL!!!
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This game is a freebie, there is no pressure on us to win and Mikel won’t receive much stick if we lose.
Also we are coming off the back of a confident building win where everyone scored and we won’t have the pressure of being at home and having to forward.
We have seen the spuds.just sit against city and counter attack so there is no reason we can’t do the same COYG.
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not sure how we are lining up but the team is
Leno
Chambers
Holding
Kolasinac
Cedric
Xhaka
Smith-Rowe
Tierney
Saka
Odegaard
Aubameyang
subs:Ramsdale, Okonkwo, Tavares, Mari, Maitland-Niles, Sambi, Elneny, Martinelli, Lacazette
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Jeorge Bird
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Arsenal U18s v Brighton: Ejeheri, Robinson, Foran, Jeffcott, Walters, Bandeira, Sweet, Cozier-Duberry, Sagoe Jr, Flores, Edwards.
Subs: Kovacevic, Davies, Roberts, Green, Quesada-Thorn.
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MAN CITY: Ederson, Walker, Laporte, Dias, Cancelo, Gundogan, Rodri, Silva, Torres, Grealish, Jesus
Subs: Steffen, Stones, Ake, Sterling, Zinchenko, Fernandinho, Mahrez, Doyle, Palme
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Pepe not in the squad as he is “unwell”
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Chris Wheatley
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Former Arsenal youth player Sam Oji passed away in the early hours of this morning at the age of 35.
Oji started his career in the Gunners academy before going on to play for the likes of Birmingham & Leyton Orient.
Thoughts and prayers with his family & friends at this time
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we could be in trouble today. I see city have martin atkinson back today
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shit defending and city take the lead, chambers failed to get off the ground for the cross and its a free header for gundogan, leno should have done better too
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