Well good evening to you ALL.
Big news on the bond front. Stan has paid of Arsenal’s debt foooooooor… stability moving forwards. It doesn’t affect Mikel Arteta’s bleak summer ahead. I mean, really, did you think Stan was just going to drop a cool £100m on the squad to take advantage of the lowest market since the great depression of 1929? Absolutely not.
The AST have an excellent assessment here. My take is that Stan is now getting paid by the club and probably taking a lower interest rate over a longer period of time. Helpful that we don’t have to keep cash in the banks and great that our interest rates are much lower. Still doesn’t mean we’re balling out with the big names this summer.
The North London Derby is coming this week. I expect a proper Mourinho performance. Forget about the bleak football, lack of shots, and general misery around our rivals. He’s coming to party this weekend and the team had best be at their very best otherwise we’ll get beaten and the post-match story will be ‘never underestimate Jose.’
Arteta and Jose have had a similar season. Both picked up teams at low ebbs, both have had a mixed bag with results, injuries and luck. Our man acknowledged as much.
They have had some ups and downs but overall you can clearly see what he wants to bring to the club. He manages the energy, the momentum and establishes a really strong culture in every football club. As well, he makes sure that he wins and he’s won in every single club that he’s been at. Obviously the situation and the timing when he arrived is different than starting a new project right from the summer, but I’m sure he will be successful because he always finds the right way to do it. It will take him a bit of time but I’m sure he will do it.
Still, what can’t be denied is we’ve looked pretty decent and on the up… and they haven’t. We still haven’t had a great 90minutes start to finish. Is there a better time to demonstrate that we are capable? No. The moment is now, so let’s see what we have.
Mikel Arteta was goaded about 7 times into calling Jose a past-it-melt, but he held back, basically saying he’s a world-class manager. Smart move really.
I think a derby has a completely different context to what is happening with the current form and anything like that. I have huge respect for Jose, for what he’s trying to do there, and we know to go there and get a win we’re going to have to do everything really, really well. I’m expecting a really tough game.
I agree. Spurs could be at the bottom of the table and this would still be a tough game. They have a great squad of players and elite talent built to make your weekend miserable. Harry Kane, Son, and Bergwijn can all do damage. I’m quite pleased Alli and Celso are out.
So what can we expect? I think it’ll be a similar approach to the one we saw from Wolves. They’ll defend deep, expect a mistake, and try and kill us on the counter. They obviously have more quality, so we need to be careful. They won’t need many chances to kill us.
This will be another huge game for our midfield and wide players. We need to play smart and stick to the game plan. Hopefully, the team is a little more confident after the first half against Leicester and we take the game to them. It’s a big away game, if we win there, who knows what we might take to the Liverpool game.
Before I go, interesting that some outlets are saying Matteo wants to stay but not apologise, whilst Canal+ is running with the idea of letting Aouar go with an eye on our bad boy replacing him. Swap? I mean, it’d be rude not to have a chat.
Short post today, have a great evening, see you tomorrow! x
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Pedro,
They obviously have more quality, so we need to be careful. They won’t need many chances to kill us.
Huh, come on Pedro!!! really!
Guns, we’ve gone from squad poverty and the uncoachables to… having a better squad than last seasons Champions League finalists?
For the first time after couple of season i am optimistic about this one, regardless of what Jose can do we should be getting results in this game, because 1st Spurs aren’t in a good state of mind, 2nd we were loosing in the past to Mourinho teams because of tactical flexibility.
Now we have a young coach hungry to prove and I believe he will go to to toe with Mourinho Tactical Wise. COYG.
Pedro
Believe brother believe
They are chumps have only a few good players
Besides we have arteta right?
Everyone and their dog knows jose will try and counter attack us as usual
Need to not overcommit
In all honesty we can kill them with our own counters
Just pray auba doesn’t miss a penalty again!
”having a better squad than last seasons Champions League finalists?” really Pedro
You are going to throw that in our face,
1. Score that penalty Aguero in a first leg and we would have not be talking about this now
2.Ajax Collapse.
Reaching a final was great, but luck also played a big part in it and their achievement was against all odds which means they pulled above their weight. Other than that no souce, in that team may be I would take Kane Ndombele and Toby all the rest are just average.
Quick thoughts on Ozil. He’s clearly just pissing all over the club at this point. I’m glad that Arteta has drawn a line in the sand. Just let him rot until he leaves next year on a free. We can always restructure deals with players like Auba to stagger their wages after Ozil leaves (eg. instead of 250k per week for 3 years, it can be 150k, 250k, 350k). It won’t change a thing for Auba but will give us flexibility. Just think how nice it will be to have that money after Ozil slinks off. Such a shame because… Read more »
Someone in lily white will dive, and they will get a very soft penalty which Kane will convert, as usual against us, possibly with another Arsenal red card, so to get a result, such events will have to be factored in , as I am sure Arteta is aware, whatever he says in public
Pretty certain kane will score AGAIN, just like vardy, these 2 always have our number.
Also pedro, the whole deflated market bit isin’t seem to be happening if the few deals that have happened around the world are any indication. Early days to confirm either ways though.
They’ll probably use Lucas Moura’s speed against Xhaka. Looking for Xhaka to fault him multiple times.
I’m a glass half full kind of guy but Mourinho has got our number. 2-1 Spurs and I’ll be happy with anything other than a loss.
I expect us to smash Spurs in the first half and then tire out in the 2nd half. We are not fit enough, athleticism in the squad is not good enough to play the football Arteta wants us to play. If we don’t take our chances in the first half,Spurs has a good chance to win against a tired team. And,Spurs clearly has a much better squad than arsenal. I think Arsenal’s squad is the 7th best in the league.Spurs is 4th best. Jose can defend deep all he wants but his low block has been shit at Spurs. Arsenal… Read more »
I predict a penalty in the game
Kane and song and dembele are the only ones better than some of our starters
The rest nah
Son
I saw the Bournemouth game they dont look great whatever their reasons, but they will be up for it for sure . Pedro where did you get the news Lo Celso not playing ? I dont see it .
wikipedia already have the swap announced 🙂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houssem_Aouar
“Arsenal[edit]
On 11 July 2020, Aouar joined Arsenal on swap deal with Matteo Guendouzi going the other way to Lyon. Yet to make an appearance for the club, he is set to be a key player for the future under Mikel Arteta as he is going to surpass Zinedine Zidane’s legacy as the greatest midfielder of all time.”
left foot…I would agree with your assessment, but maybe using the five substitutes could compensate for a second half fade
Kroenke making the club unsalable in the future.
DEBT DEBT DEBT..?
A draw .
Lamella and Kane who looked totally pissed
off the other night reds.😳.
Yahoo
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Someone messed up his wiki badly
Lol
Somewhere on Arsenal twitter, I read that when Tierny first showed up last summer, he trained as he played, full throttle, but other players were used to more lax training regime of Wenger and Emery and so Tierney was asked to not train so hard.
Apparently Arteta likes how Tierney trains and has allowed to him train at full speed again. We need more players like the Scot.
ESR offers less than Iwobi at similar age
Im telling you for free!
Chambers should go on loan and sold before his next injury
Mustafi new deal totally deserved. If he keeps on playing like he had under Artets then he will be a starter for years to come.
Just hope the deal doesn’t come with a pay rise as he is already on near about 100k a week which is more than fair for him
I think it’s a big mistake to offer mustafi a new deal You don’t go from being somewhere between average and awful to a quality player in a few months. He still has a calamitous error in him and he’s been lucky recently that they’ve not been punished is all. I think Arteta has the wenger style dreamy idea of coaching average players into a title winning team which is imo really naive. New contracts for everyone as long as you have a good attitude. It’s all far too easy imo If we want to be a club competing for… Read more »
I think people forget that mustafi was always a very professional player with a great attitude and a very hardy battler kind of playing style He also always played well for 85 minutes in most matches. That’s not new to arteta’s reign But none of that means anything if he makes one or two really dumb mistakes a game which he’s made plenty under Arteta. The only difference is he’s been very lucky that mistakes he’s made in recent months didn’t usually lead to a goal because of factors entirely outside of his own making I remember when Arteta first… Read more »
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jul/10/mikel-arteta-has-arsenal-players-on-right-wavelength-in-time-for-spurs
Good read
Also mustafi’s credit is based on what? A handful of quite solid performances? 3+ years of not good enough can be erased in a handful of decent games? Not for me Any player can have a good run of form, just like any player can have a bad run of form. Play well for 18 months and you can be taken seriously as a quality looking player. A couple of good games here or there means absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things. If we think back to our title winning teams, we didn’t have any players like him… Read more »
If they give Mustafinovs a new deal and sell Holding thats acceptable replace him with Sarr
China1
Being totally honest , Mustafi has always been a very good defender. The question under Wenger then Emery always was can he iron out his mistakes.
And he has to a great extent done exactly that under Arteta. The mistakes are few and far between. The last game he wasn’t playing well Arteta subbed him off at half time.
Lets not forget Mustafi has always been a starter for us since joining bar a spell under Emery.
Happy birthday Elneny,
He would be better for our midfield than Xhakalson if not for his tone
‘Got to be up early to catch me son’ Clearly not aware that there is a world clock, Don. Let me educate you Thailand is 6 hours ahead of the UK in your ‘summer time’ – 7 hours ahed in your ‘winter time’. Unlike you Le-Grove is not the first thing I read when I wake up; it’s something I read when I have free time, which isn’t much these days. Mustafi is not the ,one term future for us, but he can fill in while we deal with more pressing, important midfield issues, such as getting rid of Xhaka… Read more »
long*
We haven’t won at Spurs since the Rosicky stunner in 2014. We won’t have a much better chance to end that run than tomorrow, they were absolutely awful the their night and even though ‘form goes out the window for a NLD’ and they will raise their game etc this is a great time to win and in doing so more than likely result in St.Totteringham’s Day again. Also without a crowd behind them that is one advantage they will lose. However it wouldn’t surprise me to see them get given a soft penalty as they had a stonewall one… Read more »
“the Papa Bouba Diop template”
In England and Spain, there is an obsession with West African hard-working midfielders
Laurent Blanc
“You have the impression that they really train the same prototype of players: big, strong, powerful … What is there that is currently big, strong, powerful? The blacks. That’s the way it is. It’s a current fact. God knows that in the training centres and football schools there are loads of them,”
Jack Charlton passes away.
‘A true legend.”
R.I.P
Arsenal love centre backs who you Just know are a mistake waiting to happen. Think Luiz, Mustafi, Sok and Kos in more recent times and how many games did the likes or Djourou, Senderos and Cygan play for us. I’m never confident in any of our centre backs. It’s like Arsenal want the monopoly and unreliable centre backs.
‘And don’t bullshit Tony. You’re on here most evenings, glass of whiskey in hand, sifting through the comments for someone to aim a bitchy comment at.’ I’ll remind you, Don, I gave up drinking early last year. Must be a day off as you’ve popped off 10 comments, which is really low numerically speaking for you, as you’ve only occupied 37% of the blog. still the day is young for you, so I’m sure you’ll improve that % as the day progresses. Funny how it’s pretty much only you and ES who I have disagreed with lately in the last… Read more »
Hey Pedro any idea why MA doesn’t wear our colors even though he wore Man Citys colors with no hesitation?
I’m just asking questions.
Versus – because he was an underling there and he isn’t here. Privilege of the Head Coach
Mustafi hasn’t been good at all. He has misjudged the flight of the ball,lost duels when he charged out of defence line and misplaced passes in his own half. Retreats into his own half when defending in a settled shape. Its just that what he does is usually not punished in this back 3 system which is well coached by Arteta. He shouldn’t be given a contract,all our shit players’ contract finishes in 2021 and then finally we can start to spend properly. Right now,Coutinho is looking to move into the premier league and we should move Heaven and Earth… Read more »
If Arteta can’t deal with Guendouzi, he would not know what to do with Aouar. Temperamental, moody, arrogant, pain in the but to work with are just the most polite way he has been described by his former coaches at club and international level. He has also the habit of sulking on the pitch and not play to his full potential if things don’t go his way. https://www.jeunesfooteux.com/Pierre-Menes-se-defoule-sur-Houssem-Aouar_a37891.html Coming from Lyon Houssem Aouar would also be a lot more expensive that people think. In fact of Lyon the player I would take from them is … Jeff. Hard working professional… Read more »
Jesus my lord. Mustafi getting a new deal is awful and AFC would stay doomed for longer, if true. What’s his supposed improvements under Arteta really? Fuck up at times rather than regularly? Latest case in point. Either Mustafi didn’t know how VARdy plays or he knew but still slow enough to let him get pass to score the equaliser, setting aside it’s an inch offside. Mustafi is not the future and wasting precious little funds we have on his extension is criminal. AFC management isn’t good enough, as most of us would agree, however, this also calls into question… Read more »
To the right buyers Mustafi could fetch more than the like of Sok, Chambers, Holding, (and Mari.) etc Wot a wasted opportunity to raise 15 to 20m
Anyone suggesting replacing Guend with Aouar is clueless
Unbelievable reading fans with the idea of giving Shkodran Mustafi a new contract. Meekel need to focus on what he’s paid to do and stop trying to reward mediocrity. No other Club in the top 4 would have Mustafi even as a squad player
Valentin
Well said.
We have three times as many CBs as we need. We need to be getting rid and improving quality, not offering people like Luiz and Mustafi new contracts. If Arteta thinks he can change the unprofessional mindset of this team without getting rid of clowns like Ozil’s, Xhaka and Mustafi, then he is dead wrong. These are players that have conceded 13 goals from set pieces and 6 from penalties this season. Even the basic discipline is beyond them. If we bring Saliba in and make him play next to Mustafi or Calamity Luiz then what is he going to… Read more »
To get a grip on Stan’s motives you have to separate the self-made multibillionaire money-maker from the sports enterprises ego-tripper.
Stan the money-maker would not have bought AFC, kept Usmanov at arms length, refused his offer to invest, pumped up the value of Arsenal shares prior to an Usmanov buy-out, kept Wenger on as manager, ignored the Arsenal fans…well, everyt stupid thing that he’s done. No, it was Stan the ego-tripper.
Mustafi looks like he’s shitting himself on the pitch. I hope we don’t find out he’s been Praying not to be picked through raw fear, like Mert was.
I like Arteta but he’s got a huge cultural change job on his hands. Rewarding players like Xhaka and Mustafi who have been serving up plates of shit since they joined is not the way you transform the club. It’s also not how you win the fans over.
@englandsbest, I don’t believe it’s an ego trip with Stan. I don’t actually think he cares that much. And why would he? He’s exploited loopholes And weak FA regulation And governance to Make a leveraged buyout of the club, which basically guarantees he can’t lose, even if we do become a mid table nothing. Same as those pricks did at Man Utd, Liverpool… Now we are a large jewel in his portfolio which allows him to get bigger loans from the bank to buy up land to build supermarkets, casinos, knocking shops and such like. Hence his interest in keeping… Read more »
Moray
“I like Arteta but he’s got a huge cultural change job on his hands. Rewarding players like Xhaka and Mustafi who have been serving up plates of shit since they joined is not the way you transform the club. It’s also not how you win the fans over.”
lol Teets is gonna sort ’em out.
From zeros to heroes they will be under Teets.
Sling ya hook Hammers.
Norwich toilet.
Benhranma is very good..would love him here next season
For £30 million i believe it would be a steal.
The Backpass
You’re right, he’s a really good player.
Brentford also play some great stuff.
Norwich are absolute shite.
Watford winning 2-1.
@Ishola, I’m still bullish about Tets. The club is a complete mess, so who knows what the fuck is ahead of us. I don’t have faith in any of the management however. But I think Tets has a decent managerial presence and a good idea how to get players motivated. I think we have to be aware though that the current health situation is likely to be around for another year at least. European qualification only means something if the games can happen, monies taken and the trophy delivered. I doubt we will see much from next season In terms… Read more »
Looks like Villa and Bournemouth will be joining Norwich.
Moray
It’s tight down to 11th position up to 6th position.
Arsenal need to put points on the board just to ensure they don’t slip below midtable.
I’d hate to finish below a team like Burnley. They are such a basic side.
Just watched a replay of the 2014 Cup Final against Hull.
Anyone that still reckons that Mertesacker was a top defender, are clueless.
As for Sanogo! 😩
Graham Sanogo actually came on and made a huge difference.
I was at that match and I’ve never been as emotionally drained from a game of football as that one. It was unreal.
Ishola and moray agreed. I think this is Arteta showing his inexperience. He gets bad players putting in 6/10 or occasionally 7/10 performances for a handful of games and I think he in his mind this progress is some kind of self sustaining thing where the dross will keep getting better and better until they’re great. As long as they have a professional attitude in training they will keep improving etc You can’t polish a turd even if you can put it in a bag and hide the smell a bit… As well as a rookie manager I think he… Read more »
Right now AFC is losing money. £90 mill pa gate money
And the small voice of Stan the money-maker must be whispering in his ear: careful how you go!
The way things are the LA Rams will cost Stan a helluva lot more money.
I’m surmising here, but the economic downturn worldwide must be sending shivers up his spine. Can Stan the money-maker afford Stan the ego-tripper?
Centreback conundrum… Luiz here for another season at least 😀 Saliba will arrive for the new season and looks like he could be a mainstay in the defence for years. Sokratis looks likey he will and hopefully sold. Arteta just doesn’t seem to fancy the greek. Maybe get 5 to 10 million. Mustafi. Ohh, where to start… Since the restart he’s probably been the best CB but can we excuse the pain and mistakes in the past. ???? Obviously reports of a new contract but is there any truth in it. Only Arteta knows Mavropanos. Can’t really see a future… Read more »
The unfortunate reality China is this trying to make good on dodgy players tell us that Arsenal are still only gunning for 4th place at best atm or best case scenario 3rd place if others fail badly and enough of them.
Of course it is just as likely or even seen as more likely that Arsenal will not finish in CL places again next season. So long as they don’t address dodgy players. The ultimate solution to dodgy players is to get rid of them and replace them.
Ishola
It’s obviously dictated to by finance. Would Arteta prefer upamacano? Of course he would but if you have a budget you have to focus on the main priority which is midfield.
As mentioned it’s cheaper to
Extend (and avoids the player walking for nothing) than to buy a new player.
Yeah ishola the problem when you aim low (4th) is if you miss your target slightly you fucked up big time Mustafi, xhaka, Bellerin would not be starters or regular players in any of the top 5 teams and we’re possibly walking into next season with all 3 in and around the starting 11. And there will be the usual shock and horror when we fail again. We need revolution not evolution to make the jump to the next level. This is why I’m really hoping this reported contract offer for sarr comes to something. We can sell mustafi and… Read more »
@China, agreed. We need to be filling the squad with Young high-bar players like Sarr. They will make mistakes while they develop of course, but I prefer that to mistake-prone players in their late 20s/early 30s such as Mustafi and Xhaka. We have spent way too much on mediocre mid and late career players and it doesn’t reflect where we need to be heading as a club. We need to shed some of our high wage earners and Mustafi is a great example of that. Even if he commits to a 60% Reduction on his basic Salary he is overpriced… Read more »
It shouldn’t be a shock that a back line of Kolasinac, Mustafi, Luiz and Bellerin is making basic errors and shoring up a team in the bottom half of the table.
What is a shock is if we go into next season with even three of these still in place.
Ishola “Of course it is just as likely or even seen as more likely that Arsenal will not finish in CL places again next season. So long as they don’t address dodgy players. The ultimate solution to dodgy players is to get rid of them and replace them.” Have you ever stopped to think that the continuous changing of personnel in the last couple of years is one of the reason we are struggling. We have let go Ox Sanchez Walcott Sanchez Schezney Giroud Coquelin Paulista Gibbs cazorla Wilshere Ramsey Coquelin And have regressed. When we were winning cup finals… Read more »
“Real fans have patience”
Sánchez so good you named him twice Pierre.
Personally I didn’t want Alexis to leave, I didn’t want Oxlade-Chamberlain to leave, not Ramsey.
Others you mention such as Paulista, Szces et, Coquelin and Gibbs were never going to be good enough for Arsenal’s ambitions and so were part of the problem, and needed moving on.
What the club didn’t do was replace with better players in a lot of cases, and that has hurt us. This summer we still need to sort out the midfield as an absolutely priority, with at the very least one baller of a midfielder.
I can’t comment on Aouar’s attitude and off field problems. If Arteta decides against swapping Aouar for Guendouzi because of potential attitude issues,that’s fine. I can only talk of what I see on the pitch. Its ridiculous argument to say Aouar is overrated because Guendouzi was picked ahead of Aouar. Coaches can drop players for any number of reasons. It is not necessarily an indication of quality. Jose has dropped Pogba,Pep has dropped Sane, Low chose Brandt over Sane for Germany etc. Jeff is a final 3rd player. He is not a CM. Aouar is a CM. So they aren’t… Read more »
Pierre, all of these players were either not good enough, out of contract or injury cases, and therefore unreliable.
What we have been missing is a proper strategy behind our transfers, where we buy to strengthen the areas we need rather than simply buying what is available.
Pierre It’s called selective pruning and not that many in numbers. Not chopping the whole tree down. But as long as Arsenal refuse to do the selective pruning that doesn’t even equate to that many players then the chances of CL are not that good atm. It’s called freshening up a few positions in the first team with new arrivals. Of course you are one of the eternal believers and Arsenal are only failing to you not because of a need for better players in a few positions but because of corrupt officials, grass too long etc. Wenger has a… Read more »
“We won’t need significant improvement defensively over the next year or two“
Why don’t we put in place a defence for the next 5+ years, rather than simply extending the overpaid ex pros that we have now clogging up the squad?
Moray
“Pierre, all of these players were either not good enough, out of contract or injury cases, and therefore unreliable.”
And they still won us trophies and qualified for champions league every season, all with a tactically inept manager who let the players stroll around at the training ground as if it was a holiday camp.
@ Pierre, Won us trophies? Which trophies? If it’s FA Cups they don’t count for me any more.
All those PL and CL trophies we’ve won with the last few squads hey Pierre.
Wouldn’t want to do any better than Wenger in his prime. Absolute blasphemy
I suppose it’s going to be a case of wait and see again. Like it has been for a few good years now. Wait and see if Arteta is so saucy that he can reverse the teams fortunes of the last few years while still having a few of these players still around. Surely if Arsenal fail next season as well to get CL there will have to be a proper clear out of those that have been failing with the team for a few good years now. Or will it be a case of wait and see with too… Read more »
Moray
So you wouldn’t like to win the FA cup this season, or would you prefer the club were trophyless again.
The defenders we have currently are fine enough in back 3 to get top 4.
More important is to score 70-75 goals.
Getting top 4 is mostly about beating bottom 14 teams.
Scoring against a low block.
The important thing in this regard is to get a creative LW
Hope Auba doesn’t decline
And coach Pepe to make runs in behind.
If he does that,he can get 20 goals in the league.
Coutinho-Auba-Pepe can potentially score 50 goals in the league.
Get this done and top 4 is very possible next season.
The fashion we were qualifying for and “competing” in the CL was embarrassing. The only one’s who won in that situation was the players getting their fat pay cheques and the owners who’s bottom line increased just by getting 4th.
You absolute beauty. Couldn’t get much better as a fan seeing your team concede 15 goals in 3 games to Bayern.
We can’t even beat Olympiacos in the EL and you still say we don’t need an overhaul.
My goodness
The only ‘people’ who won***
We’ve been shit for nigh on twenty years. Absolute shit. Our squad quality and balance has been destroyed and our culture has become weak and embarrassing. That’s not taking Anything away from what Wenger achieved in his prime, and I was lucky enough to have enjoyed those years, but we’ve been shit for many a year and have regressed in every way since. Both on and off the pitch. I shouldn’t really need to point this out as the facts speak for themselves. Considering where we were and where we now are, with all of the advantages we had with… Read more »
I am sure if Arsenal could clear out our shit players,they would.
But who will buy them at the wages our players will demand?
Pierre, I couldn’t give one shit about the FA Cup. It’s meaningless.
Lefty, you’re not wrong haha. Not even Pedro and his marketing expertise could sell xhaka or mustafi, let alone Ozil 😂😂
Same with the Milk Cup or whoever is sponsoring it now.
But pretty well said there Moray ^^
Moray
“We’ve been shit for nigh on twenty years. Absolute shit”
Of course we have.
Leftfootcurler That really isn’t the way to look at it to say we can sneak top four by getting by in having a better attack than defence. Why not try to improve the defensive aspect of the team as from now. People are saying Arteta has improved the defensive nature of the team but we won’t really know this until we see a whole campaign under Arteta rather than half a season. But this would be the way to go instead of keep postponing and postponing getting this team better defensively in favour of attack. This idea has not been… Read more »
“But pretty well said there Moray ”
And gobby agrees with you ..
Sorry moray this comment is embarrassing
‘ Pierre, I couldn’t give one shit about the FA Cup. It’s meaningless.’
How can it be meaningless if it’s one of only 3 domestic trophies and English club can win?
This comes across as very entitled I’m afraid.