What really gets my goat is when he picks one player from each club not how they performed that week. We keep winning and with clean sheets but our CHs never get picked nor our goalkeeper. On motd he was hopeless.
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Come back Lee Dixon, all is forgiven.
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100% spot on! Itâs the most nonsensical way to select a team. A pointless restriction.
And itâs clear that ghost writers write his comments. Because when he was writing it, he kept using the term âmonster playerâ a bit too much and people clearly noticed.
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If youâre going to double or triple team Odegaard then one needs to immediately engage him. Itâs pointless to stand off him with three of you around him waiting for him to do something.
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Yes Mikel keep on crying wolf. Watch them actually get injured.
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Team of the Week was Garth Crooks, so Deeney is an improvement, if only a slight improvement
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Walcott failing to notice our goalkeeper and main striker have been injured for a month.
Maybe when the PL and CL games start 
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Not sure I like the implied threat in threat in that statement.
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And that time will be in June, Theo
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They may have been ghost written too.
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There are going to be a lot of unemployed ghost writers now that celebs can just use AI for their autobiographies.
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The goalkeeper , the main striker and the backup winger (Chiesa) , and a real utility midfielder (Elliot)
And now Trent. I suppose the fact that trentâs injury happening in the international break is a minor blessing.
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I guess that, in a way, Iâm lucky that I donât have to put up with these pearls of wisdom - I can only imagine the narrative that would be served by these football experts if Arsenal and/or Man City went through an injury crisis similar to the one that Kloppâs Liverpool had to endure around last seasonâs League Cup final.
Yes, Iâm a fan of a football club, therefore I am biased towards that club but the picture painted around Arsenalâs squad that had to face Liverpool a few weeks back would make one think that they had no other options but to field their U23s. They had three starting players out, and one of them through suspension.
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https://www.premierinjuries.com/injury-table.php
Weâve got injuries , around the same number as the other teams. Give or take one.
The point that City and Arsenal have deeper squads than us wonât be made by the media however.
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City, in particular, with their ÂŁ50m backup players, all on ÂŁ200k a week.
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Arsenal have 9 defenders , 6 midfielders , 6 forwards in their first team squad.
That doesnât include the guys from their much vaunted youth academy.
So they have a couple of injuries to critical players. Well , they can just stop crying about it. Theyâve got players theyâve spent huge money on sitting in their bench too.
Weâve integrated guys from the academies into our first team. Arsenal have sold the majority of them.
Elliot / Trent/ Jones / Bradley / Kelleher.
Who does arsenal have left now ? Saka and Nwaneri? No one asked them to sell Nketiah without having a proper #9.
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TBF they could have kept Nketiah⌠and still not had a proper no9 
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Arsenal currently donât have any of their first choice xi out.
Tierney isnât their starting leftback , Sterling isnât their first choice attacker. Neither is Tomiyasu. And I forget who else is injured. Everyone knows that Arteta is having Saka fake an injury.
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Well Emile Smith Rowe considering how important Odegard is to their style of play.
Heâs in London. Why isnât he playing ? Oh wait.
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Arsenal injuries are hugely exaggerated, probably because theyâve gone 2 whole years without one so itâs come as such a shock to the club.
Fact - the only 2 first team players theyâve missed to injury for longer than a week have been Odegaard and now Calafiori.
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