Get this people, I am in America, BUT, in a place called ESSEX. I grew up in Essex and there is a second one. Mad times. ‘Yoooou fuuucking SLLLLAAAAAYYYYYGGGGGGG’ does not go down as well with the locals as it does back home, but hey, you can’t have everything. Talking of Essex, listen to this with the volume on. Absolute ‘YOU LOOKING AT MY BIRD’ gold.
Brentwood beer garden vibes here. https://t.co/V0NfIfLGmv
— Le Grove (@LeGrove) July 23, 2020
Finally, the Premier League season is coming to an end. It hasn’t been glorious for Arsenal. In fact, it’s been our worst ever. No Europe via the front door for the first time in a very long time. The best we can hope for is winning the FA Cup Final against a Chelsea side that has some very scary players in their attack.
The coach has called the problems we’re facing a ‘beautiful challenge’, he knows that his career trajectory directly depends on what he brings to the club over the next two seasons, and he will go hell for the leather to up our standards. It’s a scary challenge, but as many folk will tell you… it’s easier to take a team at their lowest ebb, than getting in there after a winning run. The only way is up.
As for the challenge being ‘beautiful’? Well, let’s just say that when I see an ugly baby, I always call it beautiful. The Arsenal challenge is ork levels of cuteness. Someone has to hug it though, I’m glad the person dishing out the faux affection is a man that has such pristine athleisure stylings.
Europe really is massive for us this summer. You can’t make up the gap with free transfers and Whatsapp scouting tips from untrustworthy sources. We need to have a sharp eye to the future this summer and every single player we look to has to have the ability to add something to the club in the longterm.
We’ve been linked with a bid for left winger Joelson of Sporting Lisbon. The young player looks absolutely electric. He’s explosive from a standing position, has all the tricks you’d expect from a Sporting player, annnnnnnnd… he’s with Kia. The story is that we’ve bid for him because he’s under a contract dispute. Some worry Kia is using us for a bigger pay packet at Sporting… but whatever it is, the player looks good and it’d be the first future-facing name to come from his portfolio.
There’s a view that this sort of signing is why you work with super-agents. The crass idea is if you take some dross, you’ll eventually land some gold. It’s a fucking abomination of a ‘process’ that only the amateur mind would look at as smart. You have 24 spaces in a squad, if you want to be elite, you don’t sacrifice any of them in the hope of a future deal. Doing quid pro quo signings is Del Boy Trotter stuff, it’s just not how a club like Arsenal should ever act, so hopefully, that’s not been the case.
I genuinely hate the way people look at dark arts in football like it’s clever. The type of people that purr over this sort of thing are the types that like to tell you who the hard men are at the local shit hole pub. Being smart is the best way to win at football, doing things properly, underpinned by good decisions from talented people. That is what should be revered… and look, don’t take my word for it, look at how many clubs are trying to move away from super agents reccos. Look at the state of Barcelona these days, The Athletic reckon they barely use a scouting department.
‘Among a host of concerns, The Athletic can reveal that scouts feel alienated from the recruitment process. Barcelona, quite remarkably, held just one first-team scouting meeting over the past year. Barcelona, as well as rivals Real Madrid, declined to comment on all points presented to them for this report. There is also frustration that the club’s world-renowned data scientists are not trusted or involved in the recruitment strategy, while several figures around the club stated they felt the club had become overly dependant on certain agents for recommendations.’
Sound familiar? Super-agents are bad news. Still, at least we know that Mikel knows what he’s after this summer… creativity.
“You go back to (Santi) Cazorla, to (Tomas) Rosicky, to (Andrey) Arshavin when he played there, to (Aaron) Ramsey when he played there, to (Henrikh) Mkhitaryan when he came in. Even Jack Wilshere used to play in those pockets all the time.
“That is a lot of players who are now not here. We have to renew that cycle, because if not, those kind of players won’t be there for us anymore.
We need a real infusion this summer. We need a marquee creator, but we also need at least two other players that are on the up that can help us. We can’t have just one Jack Grealish this summer is what I’m saying.
Still, that makes things very exciting. We’ll be addressing the fun positions which. I mean, we need players everywhere. An 8, a 6, a new centre back. The list is vast, but the most important areas are in chance creation because things are dire at the moment.
I’m not sure what Arteta is planning against Watford this weekend, we know he’ll want to win, and he’ll have had some time to think about how bad we were in the final third. Does he practice setting up a deep block again? Does he try something new in the pockets we’re lacking? Or does he see the game as a dead rubber?
Who knows, but the Chelsea game is going to be very difficult and if we play like we did against Villa, we’ll be handsomely beaten.
Right, short post today, see you in the comments.
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Freddie
Your ego is laughably fragile, at literally every opportunity you make an attempt at some witty disparaging remark.
You’ll nail one eventually I’m sure, law of averages and all that. Enjoy the rest of your evening.
“Your ego is laughably fragile, at literally every opportunity you make an attempt at some witty disparaging remark.”
Oh CC, the irony of this coming from you is exquisite.
That’s pretty much you in a nutshell. Nice try at deflection though. Enjoy that nap.
We all need to smell the cheese that xhaka is the worlds best player at finding incriminating blackmail material on each of his managers 😂
He will be the first name of the arsenal team sheet deep into his 30s.
Zaha is good but not likely to improve
70+m for good is not money well spent for a club with financial limitations
That’s almost enough to buy two quality players to improve the team significantly. Instead we lumped it on Pepe as a gamble that he’ll be a real game changer for the club. Hasn’t done it yet but let’s see next season
What a strange opinion to have…….. you can’t compare two wingers’ numbers unless they play for two clubs of identical stature?!?!
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more bizarre defense of player’s poor performance over a season than saying he plays for a shit team…….even though his numbers in seasons past were twice as good for the same shit team.
Weird.
well tomorrow is it…
hope we smash Deeny to pieces
watford will be playing like rabid dogs. ( their usual selves)
I do see Auba getting a brace and laca or Eddie grabbing a third.
We need to go out on a high….. confidence is so important going into a cup final
Pepe vs Zaha
I’ll choose Pepe everyday . And as for flop of the season ? its still Ndombele.
Pepe also played for a shit team until about January haha
My single hope for today is to see Deeney cry like the weasley bitch he is
If Chelsea lose they can still miss out on CL qualification.
And if that happens and Spurs lose I think that means we can knock the swamp dwellers out of Europe by winning the cup next week.
Other than Watford being relegated in a flood of Deeney tears that’s all we need from today!
Freddie
Thats some serious numbers right there.
Zaha has had only 1 season where he’s got into double digits in goals (10 last season).
He’s failed with his big money move , therefore saying Zaha would put up high numbers if he was at a bigger club is speculative at best.
And at best he is a 45-50 m player( that was last season ).This summer after his woeful season , no team should pay above 35m for him.
Apparently he is on the market for 40m.
Chris
Chelsea still got EL. Dont knows how knocking out would work.
Tho id love to see Chelsea miss out on CL.
Wasi
I mean we can push Spurs out of Europe qualification by winning the cup, results allowing today. An extra bonus!
It’s reminding me of lasagne gate haha
Wasi Yeah, that was kind of my point, we can’t spend 80m on a 27 year old that has only ever shown that he’s good, not exceptional, and has no real upside, he’s hardly going to improve leaps and bounds at this stage. You pay that for someone you hope will put up some serious numbers and be a game changer on the regular, something Pepe will hopefully be after this season. Not to mention that Palace wouldn’t agree to a payment plan anyway so it was impossible for us to buy him even if we wanted to. I’m glad… Read more »
Freddie Arteta is playing Pepe as a touchline winger to allow Auba to play as the inside forward , closer to the goal. Thats probably the main reason his numbers arent as high as last season. Because Pepe too is an inside forward. , who likes to operate in the half space between LB and the LCB. If Arteta were following a Klopp system with two bombing wing backs and 2 inside forwards ( which we have seen a little bit of in last 2-3 weeks ) I’m sure Pepe would produce more numbers granted he gets enough service which… Read more »
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Wasi
Yep, we lack the players to make our attack work, too many square pieces, especially when Eddie or Laca has to play every game. Eddie in particular should be a bench player at best.
Also heavily lacking in midfield to feed our attack and like you say RB has been sketchy this season too. Hoping we smash the window and come out flying next season. FA cup win would be great first though.
Honestly I would have preferred Ziyech over Pepe last summer because he was a available at 25 mil and he was very creative and in my opinion the better player. Pepe is the better Dribbler though. But Pepe vs Zaha is silly to me. Zaha isn’t going to be Mane or Gnabry.. Same type of players but he lacks the intelligence in his final balls and doesn’t have enough impact. He reminds me of Gerviniho in some circumstances. Pepe needs freedom and to play higher up the pitch in his RWF position. He is always coming deep to receive passes… Read more »
Champagne Charlie “You’re really riding this non-negotiable thing hard aren’t you?” Yesterday was the first time I mentioned it. Unless I’m mistaken it has been you who has been ” riding this non-negotiable thing” over the past few weeks with your defence of Arteta using the non- negotiables to discipline Guendouzi. Champagne Charlie “All comes across very scornful because Ozil is in the bad books.” Ozil has been out of the side for over 2 months and I haven’t said a word for or against the decision, though I did think it strange how a player can be an ever… Read more »
For today I don’t care about the performance at all I am only interested in seeing that gormless twat deeney weep salty tears of abject failure
Please let it be so
Ozil is in the bad books because he’s a lazy twat in training and nothing special in 4/5 matches
It’s not a good combination by any stretch of the imagination
Add his cost and he’s less of a footballing asset and more just a boulder chained to the club’s neck
A week before lockdown..superb analysis from Hargreaves.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.planetfootball.com/videos/watch-hargreaves-brilliant-tactical-analysis-of-arsenal-under-arteta/&ved=2ahUKEwiKvMDbw-rqAhU-ShUIHelbDnU4MhC3AjAHegQICRAB&usg=AOvVaw2phz1xeUbIdPeescl0xOnB
Interestingly he says, the one player that Arteta has built the team around was Mesut Ozil.
Yet Arteta cites pure footballing reasons reasons for leaving him out..
China
“Ozil is in the bad books because he’s a lazy twat in training and nothing special in 4/5 matches”
Arteta
“”To be fair, his attitude in training since the day that I walked in the building has been incredible,” Arteta told reporters.”
Freddie Agreed . We need 2 top quality midfielders and I think we will get at least 1 top quality and 1 high potential youngster. But can’t see the club upgrading af RB this window. We don’t have a lot of funds and Arteta seems to like Bellerin ( for whatever reason). I personally dont think he has the technique required to play in a free flow flowing possession based side. His first touch is poor , he cant spray long passes a la Arnold , his crossing is inconsistent. ,his pace has gone. We’ll most probably see a lot… Read more »
There are clearly issues with Ozil, which are not just football related. My guess is that the senior management want the player offloaded this summer and that is the primary reason that he is not playing. The decision not to play Guendouzi was taken originally because of his poor discipline , but has been followed by a decision to sell him following the player’s alleged statement that he wants to leave the club. My real concern now is that Arsenal have “waifer thin” midfield personnel on the books when you factor in that Ceballos may not return next season and… Read more »
I wouldn’t expect Arteta to say anything else.
I still think that a matured manager would cover up the problem until the season is over. Arteta is complaining that the heavy schedule is causing injury to happen. On the other hand, he dropped two midfielders. If we want to rest Xhaka, Ceballos, Pepe, Auba and Laca today, I couldn’t find five premier league experienced players remaining in the team to replace them. I could only count Torr, Wilock, Reiss and Eddie.
Final day of an unprecedented season or, is this the start of things to come (Lockdowns, empty stadiums etc)
Would really love MU to cock it up against Leicester. Vardy to be on fire today.
Watford have to go down. Think Villa will get a result at West Ham, so it’s bye bye Bournemouth.
Pierre let’s be serious, lol
If ozil’s attitude had been good and he wasn’t injured he wouldn’t be exiled from the entire match day squad every week. Considering how obviously talented ozil is in the one aspect our entire team is awful at (creativity) there’s no way in hell he wouldn’t make even the bench if he was professional in the training ground.
Use some common sense mate
Ozil has more creative genius and technique in his little finger than the rest of our squad combined but he can’t even make the bench despite being very professional in training?
Honestly think how unlikely that would be Pierre
I wish all you obsessives would stop forcing Pierre to talk about Ozil.
Diet Pep is to blame for Auba not getting the Golden boot
If Emery is to blame for Ozils perfomances then the same applies for diet Pep,
Lets be consistent
If Ozil was performing well under Wenger it shouldnt be hard for Saucy to brung the best out of Ozil
Im telling you for free!
Buendia is a better option than Ziyech
Pepe is a better option than Zaha
You’re charging for 3 of your last 4 comments Sid. Not impressed with the value I’m getting for my money
Jesus every time I come in here, it’s always about ozil, and guess who is at the heart of it.
Our dear Pierre. It’s like the word ozil is his calling beacon.
StatDNA needed to include parameters like whether the player is being pressed when deciding Xhakalson the best passer
Marc
“I wish all you obsessives would stop forcing Pierre to talk about Ozil.”
Just trying to educate them that’s all …impossible job I know.
I’ve sat here reading the usual uneducated clap trap from the obsessives for the last 2 months whilst we fall further and further behind our rivals without Ozil ..
Will repeat
WE HAVE GONE FROM OUTPERFORMING ALL OUR RIVALS
THIS YEAR WITH OZIL IN THE SIDE TO UNDERPERFORMING ALL OUR RIVALS WITHOUT OZIL IN THE SIDE.
“WE HAVE GONE FROM OUTPERFORMING ALL OUR RIVALS
THIS YEAR WITH OZIL IN THE SIDE TO UNDERPERFORMING ALL OUR RIVALS WITHOUT OZIL IN THE SIDE.”
Is that the mantra you chant while wanking furiously into Ozils discarded sock you spent a fortune on on ebay?
Ffs, he’s a has been that contributes minimally when he plays inbetween his back aches and various other maladies and his insane wages are holding the club back. Let it go.
Keep the sock though, doubt anyone else wants it.
China1, Very likely if as stated by ESPN the objective by upper management is to force him out. Show him that what come may he will not be given an opportunity to play and that this summer he must leave. The so called non-negotiables have only really enforced again Guendouzi, who may be a prat off the field. In my view, being unprofessional off the pitch is a bigger crime than being petulant on it. Not attending video meeting, take recreational drugs, inviting a mistress to some professional journey, … if consistent, all should have led to some temporary suspension,… Read more »
Valentin may have a point on Guendozi – if he’s been caught taking some type of drug then the club have to drop him out of the team and the last thing the club would want to do is advertise that the player was supporting the economy of Bolivia.
Pierre Only you would equate holding the players to a standard as a backing of Arteta, what a daft little view. Arteta might be the person enforcing such a thing, but I’m supportive of meritocracy itself. It’s nothing to do with backing a particular person or choosing sides. Every player should be held to a certain professional standard, and if you can’t meet it then fuck off and play for another club. Dead easy. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more bizarre defense of player’s poor performance over a season than saying he plays for a shit team…….even though… Read more »
ESPN reports that Arteta will be given just £30m to spend. He’ll have to sell a lot of players if he wants to close the gaps to other top EPL teams.
Nelson
Guendouzi ( not a good decision) and Torriera for 30 mil+
Niles and Holding for 15 mil+
Elneny, Miki, Mustafi, Sokratis, Balgoun 40 mil combined
Raul will have to be salesman of the year.
Yeah Sid,what’s the damage?
Habesha
You think in the current climate someone’s going to pay £30 million plus for both Torreira and Guendozi?
We might manage £25 million for them but that’ll be top end, as for the £40 million for the other players – no chance. Miki’s going for free, Elneny and Sok will go circa £5 million each, Mustafi maybe £10 million max and Balogun for somewhere between £5 and £10 million.
Your £100 million will be closer to £70 million and that’s if we’re lucky.
And as for flop of the season ? its still Ndombele.”
How dare you?? I assure you Marko will come for your ass!
Marc
Sounds about right, but then there’s Kola and Laca that could be sold too. And the reported 30m we have in cash for the summer. That’s more than enough for us to cone out swinging next season, or at least give us something serious to build on. Just have to stay away from the big name/big fee players.
Where do you come up with your figures (Torriera and guendouzi (40m least)?
Prices remain the same this window if you’ve got the cash you meet stipulated prices
Atletico isn’t budging on their valuation of Partey
Leverkusen aren’t budging on havertz
I trust The clubs valuation in sales over what y’all think…. Christ sakes
“I trust The clubs valuation in sales over what y’all think”
The same club that allowed Mhkitaryan to leave for free?
Trap
“Atletico isn’t budging on their valuation of Partey
Leverkusen aren’t budging on havertz”
Atletico arent budging because its a release clause.
Leverkusen have actually budge, with Chelsea set to pay €75 million (including bonuses) when they were asked to pay €100 million. I believe after today’s match, every club would know what to do in the market.
It will be a happy day today if we send Watford and that twat called Deeney down today. Let’s see if he has the cojones to apologize. COYG!!
Freddie
My worry is that we could be in a situation with no European football, we’re then either buying from a poorer selection of players or having to pay higher wages to attract the players who can push us on. Those players don’t work out and you’re stuck with another round of Xhaka’s, Sok’s and Kolas who are difficult to move on.
Trap
Oh dear – Atletico don’t want to sell Partey so why should they lower the price.
We are desperate to unload a swathe of players in a market where very few clubs have money to burn.
You figure it out.
Extra 5.4 mil if we finish 8th instead of 10th.
Does Mikel even need to do a team talk with that beauty over head?
Marc I think PSG set the tone for the market with Icardi. A 30 year old Lovren is going for 10 mil. Napoli bought Osimhen for 60 mil euros. So I think we will get 30 mil for either torriera or Guendouzi. Sokratis would go for 5 mil. Mustafi will go for 10. And Elneny will go for 10 too. Holding and Niles are still going to for the English premium. Any way even with your estimates 70 mil + huge wages of the wage bill and a 30 mil budget will have us at 100mil+ to invest. Ceballos loan… Read more »
Habesha
I hope you’re right I just have a impending sense of doom around Arsenal at the moment.
Something is seriously wrong with club. I mean just the whopping 30M as summer budget for a squad that is struggling to finish top 10,and to think relegation fodders have bigger amount to splash! lol.. Good luck Mikel in your quest to bridge the gap Buh you’re going to need a truck load of sauce if u’ll be successful.
I wish the Americans will sell up before they completely ruin the club.
Marc
Yeah I get that. But I have faith in the selling ability of Raul after last summer’s ruthlessness. We sold Iwobi for 35 mil, Beliek for 10, Dominik Thompson for 3 mil. I think he can do it again. Big Bad Wolf Raul will sell them all.
Oh Forgot Laurent Koscielny for 6 mil. And Bennacer also provided 5 mil. We should have brought him back seeing his performances now. Oh well you win some you lose some.
I see City have been linked with Ceballos….
I’m sure Pep wouldn’t mind spending £30m to fuck us over.
Victorious
The money issue is two fold – the part of it we’ve been slowly dealing with ie a CL wage bill whilst playing in the EL. What’s killing us now is COVID related – our match day revenue is £100 million a season – what’s it going to be next season? We’ve also got the possibility of a self inflicted loss of a further £30 odd million revenue by not getting any European football.
All of that is taking place whilst we were losing £20 odd million a season prior to COVID.
andy
Stand by for Ceballos to be the greatest CM available and it being Sanllehi’s fault he didn’t tie Madrid down to a fee.
Let City have Ceballos, too slow and lightweight to cut it as a top level CM in the league, watched him against Villa and struggled badly to move the ball even after beating his man
We need very strong and rapid midfield players who can dictate games for ages, Partey or Doucoure will elevate us.
Marc
We sold some high earners last summer,and did a few loans as well,I agree the wage bill might be overbloated but we should be doing better than 30M seriously
The covid issue isn’t perculiar to our club, how come Chavs are splashing the cash like confetti? We could be permanently marooned as a midtable club for ages if serious cash isn’t somehow injected to the club this summer
Victorious
“how come Chavs are splashing the cash like confetti?”
Because Abramovich is subsidising them. Something Kroenke is not going to do.
Fuck me some you love abit of drama….. let’s wait and see what the transfer activity is before slitting our wrists.
The problem hasn’t been spending the money, it’s been the shower of shit (in the main) that we’ve spent it on.
Victorious
You’re also missing off the loss of match day revenue. Season Tickets have usually been paid by early June right now the club cant’ offer ST’s because no one has any idea about when fans are going to be back in the ground.
ST holders are already owed a 6 match refund from this season so that’s almost a quarter down on the usual value.
UT
I do agree with you on that – last summer people were having complete meltdowns because we’d hadn’t spent all the money in the world 20 minutes after the window opened.
Pierre
You still, after all this time, come across as a rather arrogant and patronising individual.
You couldn’t “educate me” on my golf knowledge, let alone my football expertise.
Now I sound frigging arrogant!🤪
Legrove is a very funny place….so someone can dismiss a winger’s stats because he is playing in an inferior team when the same winger’s stats when they were playing in the same inferior team last seasonwere good?Things like losing possession and winning headers has nothing to do with how good a team is.
Graham
I just wish he’d put his “great knowledge” to some positive use and go and educate Pep or someone so they put a £150 million bid in for Ozil.
Would massively help us out.
If iwobi playing for Emery brings in 35m, a rejuvenated Xhakalson should be minimum 40m,
If championship Bielik went for 10m, Mustafinovs on sauce should bring in 30m
Im telling you for free!
Champagne Charlie I’m afraid you have lost me with this post.. Holding the players to a standard? Backing a particular person or Choosing sides? Saha ? Pepe? WTF are you on about. “Pierre Only you would equate holding the players to a standard as a backing of Arteta, what a daft little view. Arteta might be the person enforcing such a thing, but I’m supportive of meritocracy itself. It’s nothing to do with backing a particular person or choosing sides. Every player should be held to a certain professional standard, and if you can’t meet it then fuck off and… Read more »
Leicester knocking Man United out of CL contention will make my day.
Pierre
Not a hard one Pierre, I value meritocracy and the fact Arteta is the one enforcing it is of no relevance to whether I agree or not. Meanwhile it’s more and more apparent you develop issues with such a practice when Ozil is a major failure of such.
Dani Altos
You’re another one that’s not followed the premise of the debate about Zaha and Pepe. I’m not going to bother rehashing what’s been said about 5 times now, waste of time.
TR7
The perfect outcome for the end of the season would be the following.
As you say Leicester knocking ManU out of the CL places, then us relegating Watford – fuck you Troy Deeney just a shame the fans aren’t in the ground to give it to him with both barrels, with the Spud’s finishing 7th.
We then win the Cup securing EL football for us and denying them any European football.
That in what has been a crappy season would be a pretty good outcome.
Marc
While we are at it what about Levy sacking Mourinho at the end of it all ?
TR7
Nah Levy gives him a new 3 year contract with no clauses (you’d have thought Levy would’ve learnt with the stadium) and then sacks him 6 games into the new season with a £45 million payout.
CC True, you never mentioned Zaha’s poor numbers this season but half of your argument with Freddie was based on how shit CP are, and therefore Zaha’s numbers should never be compared to Pepe’s since there’s a gulf in quality between two clubs. The other half was about his game being better suited for Arsenal, which I don’t necessarily disagree with. Basically the part of debate you and others who wanted Zaha at 80m( doubtful Palace would’ve allowed the same deal structure we got with Pepe btw) want to emphasize is the speculative one which can never be proven, while… Read more »
SAVE MAUREEN
Graham
You still, after all this time, come across as a rather arrogant and patronising individual.
Pot. Kettle. Black. Wanker
Who is this Matt Smith? He was in the squad the past few games.
Cc is a twat.
Arsenal XI Confirmed: Martinez; Maitland-Niles, Luiz, Holding, Tierney; Xhaka, Willock, Ceballos; Pepe, Lacazette, Aubameyang
Martinez
Maitland-Niles
David Luiz
Holding
Tierney
Xhaka
Willock
Ceballos
Pepe
Lacazette
Aubameyang (c)
Substitutes
33
Macey
5
Sokratis
17
Soares
31
Kolasinac
11
Torreira
57
Smith
77
B. Saka
24
Nelson
30
Nketiah
Substitutes: Macey, Sokratis, Cedric, Kolasinac, Torreira, Smith, Saka, Nelson, Nketiah
Need Mourinho to remain in charge next season! Let him continue to bring dirty spuds down! They deserve each other.
No Ozil again, seems MA isn’t impressed by Pierre’s arguments.
Am I cracking up or are we playing AMN as LWB and Willock as RWB?
Arteta is switching back to 4 3 3 formation. Don’t tell me he’ll play that for the FA Cup final.
I think that’s also the FAcup final team
Decent team TBF
Absolutely need to make that twat Deeney cry like a baby today
Don’t think so, looks like 4-3-3 to me
Where’s Bellerin?
Who is Smith? Smith-Rowe? Isn’t he on loan?
Different Smith
Where is Saka????
Marc
Clearly AMN is RWB and Tierney LWB
Oh! Saka is on the bench.