Difference being that in 2007-08 we actually did spend some time on the top of the league.
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Arteta has much more financial support than Benítez. If David Villa and Silva joined us, I think the story could be very different. Meanwhile, Arteta has already spent £850m, and their best football was two years ago.
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David Silva was 1.70m. Way too short.
Pounds or Euro? That was cheap either way even back then.
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M stands for Metres, as you well know.
Yes, that it was I meant by different constraints. But I was thinking in terms of the supporter experience, of feeling like the side was close, just not seeing the pathway.
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They’ve already been in this position and not demonstrated that they would come back stronger.
If their league challenge was demostrating a team learning from mistakes they haven’t done a great job.
And what is the response the morning after? Transfer market…
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I’ve no doubt that AFTVs income is largely being generated by rival fan clicks. Only reason they put such imagines/tweets/social media posts together.
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Isn’t it the case for most “fan” “influencers”?
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Just the shouty ones really - goldbridge, that Irish LFC fella, the Man U lads posted earlier.
Plenty of others that stick to sensible football chat.
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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