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I basically think changing your system to incorporate a low touch striker only makes sense if they're as good as Haaland, and I think he's quite far below that

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James 💝🏏 @jamesash89.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Honestly the biggest positive might be the refs not deciding the game. Legit glad neither of our weak penalty appeals were given

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Schrödinger's Premier League:

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Very disappointing how many have decided to anchor their analysis to Gary Neville. It was tight, we lost, Liverpool essentially held serve, game on

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I agree on Gyokeres. I'm worried

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James Morgan @mulletrider.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Martinelli was crap but I think Madueke was a huge threat especially in the first half. He could have made chances quite easily. Re Eze, I'm pretty sure we've bought him as a winger and not a #10

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I agree. Get it done (for you, Danny and all of us)

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James Morgan @mulletrider.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Actually WelBack would be the best

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James Morgan @mulletrider.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Jackson on loan would be ideal. Watkins too but even more unlikely

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@AAllenSport @aallensport.arseblog.com · 12/08/2025

I was rifling through the loft and stumbled across a pile of old Arsenal membership packs dating back 20 years. Amid the bits of tat, you could see there was once a genuine effort to give supporters something extra that made you feel part of the / a club.

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Lovely stuff. As ever my excitement will melt into indecision when I'm hungry. Hopefully my panicked ordering decision is a good one

Yep, think we should hopefully get out of work for both games. im also hoping and praying for a fine array of food trucks

Will let you know how it goes. Mostly going with ppl not hugely into cricket to check it out

James Morgan @mulletrider.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Ooooft. Do you ever bother with the hundred? I'm going to Lords for it this Thursday?

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Love the traffic lights example. Australians love to see themselves as a bit anti authority, but they slavishly obey pedestrian traffic controls

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*hopefully DOESN'T derail things

Heh, when I saw agreement I guess it would be with point 5. I think this so almost inevitable but hopefully does derail things

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My positive thread on why I actually think we'll be good next season. 1. We came 2nd and narrowly went out of the CL despite cataclysmic injuries. By standing still we could actually get better.

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My positive thread on why I actually think we'll be good next season. 1. We came 2nd and narrowly went out of the CL despite cataclysmic injuries. By standing still we could actually get better.

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Yeah we have protected the floor pretty well. Although cluster injuries have a great tendency to reveal squad weaknesses nobody was aware of

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13. A clear summer and players missing chunks of last season. Liverpool maxed out their players last season while ours chilled on the treatment table. Chelsea and City farting around in America for the CWC over summer is mad

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12. Norgaard as a perfectly adequate backup and great closer. I don't want him in the xi for 3 months but there's games where can rotate out Zubi. Most of all we can sub off Zubi to save his legs, and Norgaard will be great for holding onto a lead

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11. As the younguns would say, we're sleeping on Havertz. I get the frustration but as well as all the build up and and pressing work, he always gets chances. And despite looking like a horse when he fluffs his lines, he hits his XG over a season

10. We probably ain't done yet in the transfer market and I reckon one more probably comes in. An Eze or a direct winger would make us better, both would make us much better

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9. Everyone else's business is a bit weird. I don't believe in City's recruitment at all. My lukewarm take on Liverpool is they building a generational attack at the cost of a solid backbone next season. Again, us standing still can be moving forwards

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8. Merino as super sub. He's primarily a Rice backup and he we need him to deputise for 3 months we're in trouble. But crashing the box as a late sub his late winners could become cult and legend

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7. Zubimendi, and maybe Calafirori, can transform our attack simply by doing things quickly. The former should also allow us to play further up the pitch. If the latter becomes a regular starter he scores serious goals

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6. Nwaneri had a massively impact despite being incredibly green. Another area where by standing still we can improve. He can't replicate Odegaard, but he might offer something different

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5. Going back to depth, we never had power up options off the bench last season. Nwaneri at best. This season we might see Madueke, Gyokeres, and Eze as a triple sub when the chips are down

4. Most often we had one serious full back option available but it's a role that needs minute sharing within and between games. The full back profiles are wonderfully varied, Arteta will relish the chance of horses for courses

3. We've got the best defenders and best defensive shape and these things are unlikely to change. It's a young defence too, so again, standing still improves us

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2. Last season' problems were the floor bottoming out during injury and fatigue crises. We've addressed this with depth, we should have a better January because of it

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Yep I bolloxed up the threading so deleted. I'll paste add the 12 remaining posts now

It'll be so so depressing if we get the 'cluster casualties' and see everyone out of position or with massive skillset shortages in the xi

I'm optimistic on rice and Zubimendi dove tailing, but it's a bit of an awkward fit for sure. And remains a mystery to me whether in an ideal world Arteta plays two attacking 8s

Use Nwaneri make chances and finish them. I'm not sure how we achieve that without other players going deeper

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Nwaneri, Gyokeres, Madueke, Eze if he comes all lime a shot. Pretty clear difference. I guess my thought with Nwaneri is he needs freedom to Roma rather than holding structure and he needs to be further up than ode tends to be. We'd need to channel possession through other ppl.... And

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I guess I. Saying Nwaneri a bit further up, Rice a bit deeper. But you're right, fluid attack and moving the ball quicker might be key (with or without Nwaneri)

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Tom @tomvictor.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Yeah it's a big worry. I haven't watched all of pre-season but in general we don't look physically ready. Maybe the same for all teams I worry Nwaneri isn't ready for the role - maybe if we go 4-2-3-1 it would help accommodate him

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1. You 2. Can't 3. Predict 4. These 5. Premier 6. League 7. Tables 8. With 9. Any 10. Accuracy 11. Before 12. Crystal Palace 13. A 14. Ball 15. Has 16. Even 17. Been 18. Kicked 19. In 20. Anger

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Yeah that's the tldr of my posi thread. Managed 13 posts in the posi thread Vs 8 in the neggy. So we're clearly winning it all

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By ignoring them. Positive thread coming up

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8. Raya and Saliba's concentration slips from the end of last season persist, while neither are droppable

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7. Issues with the left hand side and Zubimendi bedding in make Rice look normal and questions grow over whether he's suitable to be our talisman

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6. We don't find takers for either Trossard or Martinelli meaning no new signing on the left and continued frustration

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5. MLS experiences a wobble in his development, gets sent off a few times and we concede big goals with him caught on the ball. Meanwhile Ricahiro Caliaysu becomes a perma-croc so we can't take MLS out the firing line

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4. We suffer reffing nonsense and the carra/Neville industrial complex gaslights us to oblivion. Talking about football outside our bubbles becomes insufferable

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