They’re so consistent
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The mayor of NYC dunking on Spurs for being shit 
https://x.com/franklinleonard/status/2061967485851873734?s=20
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Passes completed…
Possession…
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Didn’t Arsenal sacked their club doctor 2 or 3 seasons ago? They are doing the same thing again.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/06/08/arsenal-sack-head-doctor-zafar-iqbal-mikel-arteta-final/
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They have to keep changing their doping protocols I expect
If that is the case, you keep the doc in-house and never release him/her.
Or pack him/her off to the Saudi Embassy.
“Injury hit”
Yeah bizarre they’ve been one of the least impacted teams by injury out of anyone.
As I said before what passes for football journalism now is just regurgitating whatever your source at the club tells you completely uncritically.
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Dr Zaf! Didn’t realise he’d stayed in football after leaving us.
Can still remember him being a key feature of photos of new signings being unveiled 
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Yeah, he was also at Palace before Arsenal.
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Timber, Califiore, White, Havertz, Merino and Jesus all had their season significantly impacted by injury. You would probably expect 3 of those to start most games if fit and all of them would have been personally hoping to be important players.
It is a reflection of how much money Arsenal spent and over how long a period that they had the squad to largely get through those issues even though some of those injuries were to players in the same position, but it did mean they started the CL final with a second choice LB and third choice RB
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Sure but “football player gets injury” is just part of the game and managing it is part of the job. Losing 3 starters across a season is relatively nothing.
Ultimately that’s why you have a squad, because injuries are inevitable. To label this an “injury hit season” is wild compared to 99% of clubs.
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That is significantly downplaying what they experienced. Sure, they dealt with it, but they did so because they had spent a billion quid on players over the last few years with a specific focus on bolstering the squad to provide the depth needed to deal with this sort of thing, not because the injuries didn’t occur. And when you look at the type of injuries experienced, especially to the collection of FBs who all have suffered a Gomez like recurrence of their issues, it is reasonable they’d have had enough concern about it to undertake a review and change some things.
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Yeah it’s why I don’t understand the comments about not being able to buy two CB in addition to a RB. We have struggled for depth defensively for some time and we especially should look to make that right now we have only one nailed on CB starter (who surely will need his minutes managed).