Im sure they are funded by the club its self because it acts as a distraction especially Don Robbie head of public distraction.
The Irish fella known as Craig is the biggest flip flopper going and its all clicked based.
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Craig Holden recently reached over 300k subscribers.
Goldbridge has over 2M.
Don Robbie could probably buy Arteta a striker!
There’s money to be made in performative outrage.
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Can anyone see Saliba (or Gabriel) wanting out in the summer?
I say this not as a dig, but one of the best things Arsenal have going for them in terms of dusting themselves off and going again is not many of their players would be particularly attractive to sides above them in the pecking order.
If you think of the relatively small number of clubs who could forcibly snatch a player from Arsenal, you’re talking probably only Saliba, Rice, and Saka who any of them might look at as the player they need. And for reasons, it’s probably only Saliba they’d have to play any defense over keeping.
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Maybe there is some scenario where a lot of interest in Saliba gets Gabriel a bit unsettled and someone responds to it in an opportunistic way, but I cannot see him being the guy any club is banging down the door to wrestle away from Arsenal.
And then there are several players like Trossard, or any of the collection of FBs, who dont play as much as they would like might try to engineer something, but no one who is particularly important
Partey launched 11 throws into the box on Wednesday. Apparently that is some sort of record.
I prefer teams that play but I am not a purist. I think you hurt teams in the ways that are available for you to hurt them. I think it was Paisley who said something along the lines of it’s not about a short ball or long ball, but the right ball when addressing this idea, and it was one of the things I loved about Luis Enrique’s version of Barca. They retained the ability to pass you off the pitch but would go long quickly if there was room over the top to do it. I find it incredibly funny that this Arsenal side could go from a reasonable comparison to that Barca side to this, and in such a short amount of time without even really changing their personnel.
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Yeah but by number 5 they were floating in like they were on a balloon and were struggling to reach the penalty spot. This is another example of Arteta being a one trick pony he had decided this was the plan and it was been stuck too very much like the corner routine.
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Thing is I only remember Bournemouth doing it twice and they scored from one. You want teams to guess what you’ll do.
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To be fair, he might still win trophies.
With Spain.
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Still can’t quite fathom this guy turning us down and then going to Arsenal a year later.
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I think Arsenal wanted him last summer but couldnt get him so got Merino instead. We then tried for Zubi later in the window when it looked like he was willing to leave after all. This summer we’ve probably decided not to go for him, either because we now have Ryan doing that role or because of the player/ agents behaviour putting them on our blacklist.
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Are they going for a 4-6-0 line up next year?
Arteta? That adventurous?
Nah.
How about 7-3-0?
Another midfielder. Another CB who is played at FB. And another summer of explaining why he cannot find/does not need to add a forward.
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