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I wanna become so financially stable that God uses my pockets to bless others

Saka holds so much responsibility for getting Arsenal to pin teams back consistently for large parts of the game. As good as Arsenal are defensively, lots of that comes down to Saka's on-ball stuff.

Steph hitting clutch threes, Draymond clamping Kawhi in crunchtime, LeBron has to carry his team again, Bieber is topping the charts Welcome back summer 2016

Any fans leaving the stadium before the final whistle here when there’s a chance of extra time should have their name banned for a year. What on earth are you doing

We saw you park the bus for 90 minutes at the Emirates, don’t hide now.

Wenger was here for 18 years and only gave us 2 semis, but let's chop off Arteta's head for the same in 6 years and just *3 years* of playing CL football with us. Amazing people.

Mohamed Salah single handedly gave Slot the greatest achievement he will ever receive in his entire career by becoming a Premier League winner. And he has fucking betrayed him. Making him a scapegoat, forcing him out the club, causing his drop in performances. Fucking disgrace

A 13-year-old Canadian kid uploaded R&B covers to YouTube in 2008 from his bedroom. A talent manager named Scooter Braun stumbled on the videos and signed him. For the next 15 years, Braun controlled everything. Tours, branding, business deals, public image. The kid became the biggest pop star on the planet, sold 150 million records, racked up 32 billion Spotify streams, and had three Diamond-certified singles before turning 25. Then in 2022, he got hit with Ramsay Hunt syndrome. Partial facial paralysis. Cancelled the world tour. Disappeared from public life entirely. Here's where it gets interesting. In January 2023, he sold his entire 290-song catalog to Hipgnosis for $200 million. Every song he'd ever released. "Baby." "Sorry." "Love Yourself." All of it. Gone. At 28 years old, he cashed out his past. Then he dropped Scooter Braun. After 15 years. No manager. No agent. For the first time in his career, nobody was making decisions for him. Fast forward to this weekend. Coachella calls. He picks up the phone himself. Rolling Stone confirmed he negotiated his own headlining deal directly with Goldenvoice. No agent commission. No manager cut. $10 million for two weekends, and he kept all of it. Then he walked onto the biggest stage in music, sat down behind a MacBook, and pulled up YouTube. He played "Baby" from 2010. He played his bedroom covers from 2008. He harmonized with his 13-year-old self in front of 100,000 people. Katy Perry joked about whether he had YouTube Premium. Half the internet called it lazy. The other half called it genius. They're both wrong. It was a receipt. He sold his catalog for $200 million. He fired the man who discovered him. He negotiated his own deal. And then he went back to the exact platform where it all started and said: I built this from a laptop. I'm headlining Coachella from a laptop. And for the first time in my life, every dollar is mine. The kid from YouTube just closed the loop.

🚨Guillem Balague has said it perfectly… absolutely spot on. Two things bother me about the narrative building around Arsenal. First, we're told constantly that the Premier League is the most competitive league in the world. Fine. So what does it mean to be consistently fighting for the title in that environment? You can't celebrate the league's brutal competitiveness and then dismiss sustained title challenges as not good enough. Pick one. Second, and in my opinion this matters more, failure in elite sport is not losing. Luis Enrique said it. Many others have said versions of it. Failure is not trying again. It's accepting the ceiling. It's going through the motions. Arteta has never done that. Every setback has been fuel for the next attempt. The problem is social media runs on binary outcomes. Win or fail. Hero or fraud. No room for nuance. No room for the manager who rebuilt a club into genuine title contenders and is still hungry for more. Simeone has been at Atlético for over a decade. Two league titles, two Champions League finals. Still no European Cup. Nobody serious calls that failure. They call it one of the great managerial tenures in modern football. And I'm convinced that given 14 years like Simeone, Mikel will win more leagues than him. Arteta may or may not win the league this year. He may not lift the Champions League this year or next. But as long as he keeps pushing, keeps trying, keeps competing at this level, failure isn't what this is. Find another name for it.

Fucking shit club one game a week and they chat the most shit about everyone else

Definitely a hot take but I’d genuinely consider dropping Gabriel for Cala and then running MLS or Hincapie at LB. One thing we can’t have at the back against City is panic and Gabriel treats the ball like a bomb. Takes lots of the responsibility off Saliba also to progress it

Fucking iconic

What a surreal situation we find ourselves in.. Some of our fans want Arteta ousted, irrespective of whether we win a trophy, while others are clinging on with heartfelt optimism. We’re two wins away from a UCL semi and title win. Two defeats away from crisis. What a club.

Only those who arrived post Wenger will turn on the club, abuse the badge, and question the manager when it gets hard. Some of us have lived this, stayed through every collapse and pain. We don’t flinch, we don’t fold, and we don’t flip. With the club and gaffer. Until the end.

City went and spent £100m in January to buy two of the best players in the league to win them another title when they are still awaiting punishment for cheating 115 times. Premier League is a shambles.

We had a big squad but Mikel didn’t manage it well and most important players are in the red zone. Zubi in his first year outside Spain is playing week in week out and Norgaard watching. Timber/Saliba/Gabriel/Rice kept playing all competitions. We look physically shattered

@1_2spaces Stable injury yeah looooooool

I don't think people are deeping how much of a fyck up a non-title year would be. Golden Arsenal generation, best squad in Europe, players in their prime, stable injury year, no real competitors, clean PGMOL year.

Amen

Look at Gabriel here. I’m sorry man. It’s pathetic

This is no excuse. But it’s mad (European football or not) that we played 3 days ago and Bournemouth played 22 days ago. The scheduling can’t see an International Break followed by a FA Cup only weekend. At this stage of the season, it’s just daft. For every club.

I had a bloke next to me today filming the game on his phone (we had words),I had a young couple in front of me eating a burger and chips at 1 all and with 15 minutes left-countless people leaving. North London Forever my arse. As bad as the team today.