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@Arsnl_Exclusive Yep, we have definitely not had any central midfielders making headlines for the wrong reasons in recent years.

Fair point tbh; one thing about Arsenal FC is that the club has largely stayed clear of those kinds of scandals over the years. While others have had issues like Adrian Mutu, Mark Bosnich, Daniel Sturridge or Luis Suárez making headlines for the wrong reasons, Arsenal’s reputation has mostly been about football first. Not perfect, but definitely one of the cleaner records at the top level.

@afcDW No surprise given the author of the articles.

2 BBC articles about 2 VAR incidents: The pen not given to Havertz, & the red card not given to Gabriel. In both cases, the KMI panel ruled that the ref’s decision was wrong, but that VAR was right not to intervene. Yet both headlines only highlight the anti-Arsenal ruling.

@kevinhatchard Can you name which clubs are included in the handful? that might answer your original point.

There’s no doubt that the Premier League is enormously competitive, and that takes a toll, but the counterpoint to that is that English clubs can bully all but a handful of continental clubs in the transfer market.

I’m really not buying this “boo hoo, the Premier League is so hard” narrative. The top PL teams have enormous resources, and there’s no excuse to not be able to rotate their squads. PSG played every game there was to play last season, and then went to the final of the CWC.

@Andyjoneswrites @martynziegler That is a choice not an obligation

@martynziegler Just as PSR forces all clubs to sell their young players.

NEW: FIFA's radical plan for every professional club to be obliged to have at least one homegrown u21 player on the pitch at all times. Not one Premier League club has done that this season. thetimes.com/sport/football…

@SkySportsPL An ominous warning about how England are about to perform in the world cup...

Arsenal have the top five players in terms of league minutes played this season out of all the Champions League semi-finalists 🪫👀

@chrisw333 @SwedishRumble @FPLfrasier The point is net spend is too much of a simplified analysis, ignoring key factors such as wages & agents fees which can be quite considerable in determining (a) where a player goes & (b) player retention. It also targets specific transfer windows ignoring historical context.

@SwedishRumble @FPLfrasier So in your eyes if Villa sell Rogers for £100m this summer and spend £60m on his replacement the only relevant metric is the £60m spend? Meanwhile our rivals keep their £100m player and spend another £60m on a prospect. Your analysis is that this business is identical? Righto

I don’t get why people use “net spend”. It’s not net spend, it’s only transfer fees. The below transfer window led to PSG making a world record loss of 386m in 21/22 — still they only “spent” 80m? To be brutally honest, people who think ”net spend” means what they think it means, must think a little harder. 😅 People like Dougie Critchley fall for Pep’s nonsense about net spend. The City Football Group has spent billions on creating a global academy that funnel sellable talent to Man City. Last summer Man City sold Bobb, McAtee, Couto and Perrone for 90 million. This reduces City’s “Net Spend” with 90m. So what does that tell us? Arsenal have invested more in their squad that City. Okiii….

@HarrySymeou Lets be real, Norgaard is not at the same level as the other players. He hasnt shown that he is, which is why he isnt trusted to play much. You can bleat all day about why he was brought in, but with PSR he was all that could be afforded. Merino, however, is the big miss.

I think there’s a few reasons for the decline in our performances lately. Fatigue is definitely one of them. It’s clear looking at the midfield pair in particular. I struggle to feel sympathetic towards that issue though when you’ve signed Norgaard in the summer & he’s missing out on squads altogether having played less than 60 PL mins all season. x.com/SkySportsPL/st…

@thearsfamily97 If his personality and wage demands could easily be sorted, he would be playing in top 3 league right now. But clearly nobody wants to go there right now.

Osimhen is the closest thing to a fusion of Gyökeres and Havertz His finishing isn't elite, but it's better than Havertz. He's also aerially on par with Havertz (Havertz slightly better at headers from goal kicks. Osimhen better at headers in the box to score) And even though his finishing is worse than Gyökeres, he is as fast as Gyökeres (you could argue faster) while being stronger and more technically sound. The glaring concern is obviously his personality and wages, but if those two issues can be sorted, he's the best of both worlds.

@EBL2017 x.com/i/status/20485… There may be some truth in this tbf

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@Sp1thfc Completely agree. Players are dropping like flies, its too much. The higher ups will only think about acting if someone like Mbappe gets ruled out of the world cup due to injury.

Hate the way football is going. - Every game with like 6+ mins added time. - Super high intensity - Euro WC AFCON and Copa America years with 70-80+ games - lack of protection for players because the higher ups block their ears with money - increase in ACLs, serious hamstring injuries, achillies and other serious injuries The whole domino effect since they brought in the nations league alongside the increased European games is nuts honestly

@BenObeseJecty Be honest, do you only have a problem with this, because you can't get through a working day without a drink? Why should the public trust you if so?

Hannah Spencer hasn’t spoken in Parliament once since her maiden speech six weeks ago. A woman who claimed she’d already done more than some MPs will do in a year. She has no idea what “Westminster is really like”, she’s a NPC. Meanwhile the Green Party want to legalise drugs.

@afneil I dont know many bankers who have pints during the day, those days are long gone. I think it is you who needs to check which planet you're on and also probably what decade we are in.

“Smell the alcohol”?! Wow. I wonder what she thinks it will be like when she and the Greens get their way and legalise heroin? Also, she says that, unlike MPs, she doesn’t think bankers would have a drink then go back to work. What planet is she on?

@Hek_ky @TikiTakaConnor If a defender brings the striker down with only the keeper to beat its a red card, so why not the same if its reversed?

@TikiTakaConnor it was right decision for yellow. because even if nick doesn't obstruct viktor, there's still 1 defender ahead viktor. so it's not a completely golden chance

🗣️ Mikel Arteta on the decision not to give Nick Pope a red card after the foul on Viktor Gyökeres: "In my opinion, it’s a clear red card. I’ve watched it many times. If you’ve played football, you know it’s a red card. "It’s the second time in two games, including the situation against Manchester City with Kai Havertz. These are the margins. In crucial moments, when everything is at stake, you need decisions to go your way, and they haven’t." 🎙️ Reporter: "Are you frustrated with those decisions?" 🗣️ Mikel Arteta: "I’m not making excuses. I didn’t talk about it when we lost. But today, even in a win, I still believe it’s a red card. If it happens the other way around, it’s given."

@TheAthleticFC Perhaps the world cup needs to be relocated if the US are planning to apply arbitrary and subjective visa revocations which one could argue would be designed to impact the Iranian team's sporting performance.

Iran’s soccer team will be welcome at this summer’s men’s World Cup but anyone deemed to have links to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) will be denied entry to the U.S., Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned. President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House his administration “would not want to affect ⁠the athletes” of Iran but Rubio said anyone deemed to be “terrorists” who “pretend they are journalists or athletic trainers” would not be allowed into the country. Iran’s participation at the World Cup has been in doubt since the American-Israeli strikes on February 28 triggered the ongoing war in the Middle Eastern country. More from @Millar_Colin bit.ly/48jjc4O

@David_Ornstein @FPLFocal @TheAthleticFC This is the moment when his team lost all respect.

🚨 BREAKING: Chelsea part company with head coach Liam Rosenior. #CFC wanted to give 41yo much longer but results dictated otherwise. FA Cup + CL push key factors. Calum McFarlane to take interim charge before permanent appointment in summer @TheAthleticFC nytimes.com/athletic/72186…

@_NobleHelium @TeleFootball @SamJDean There's a reason why his hair is always the same length!!

@TeleFootball @SamJDean I have much bigger concern that leak, why is he going for haircut if his hairs are always same length more or less

Chelsea’s team news ahead of their 3-0 defeat to Brighton was leaked by Marc Cucurella’s barber. An image of Cucurella getting his hair cut was posted on X prior to kick-off with the caption: “[Cole] Palmer and João Pedro both injured tonight. There’s your exclusive.” @SamJDean has more ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/…

@MAA_Gunner How you can reference that particular game without mentioning Mustafi is crazy.

7 years ago today, Unai Emery controversially started Carl Jenkinson & Dinos Mavropanos as Arsenal lost 3-2 at home in a crucial game against Crystal Palace in the Top 4 run in. Before this game, Mavropanos had 1 Premier League start that entire season, while Jenkinson had only started 1 Premier League game in the last 2.5 years. Many journalists have said they thought they were being pranked when they were shown the line up. This was part of a run where Arsenal were 3rd but only picked up 4 points out of a possible 18 from 6 games, which meant they would finish 5th.

@thearsfamily97 Too right. This agenda against him has blinded too many people.

We should allow Arsenal players flog some Arsenal fans once a week for the stupid worthless takes they have on this app.

@YankeeGunner Big Gabby didnt complain one bit from what I remember, so he clearly had no problem with it and probably thinks its just part and parcel with challenging with a tough opponent.

In general I think we whine too much about every little call when we lose. And it was a well reffed game imo. But this angle shows that without a big pull of the shirt, Haaland can’t get to this ball. I think if a ref looks at that again there’s no way the goal is allowed.

@ShadyGooner420 @HACKETTREF @talkSPORT Yeah, the whole conversation is so disingenuous. Haaland was the aggressor, sure Gabriel should have kept calm, but everyone wants to act like it happened out of nowhere, and that one action is 10 times worse than another, when in reality there was barely any physical difference.

@HACKETTREF @talkSPORT Was he lucky ? Yh but everyone acting like he full of headbutted him ffs Haalad was the aggressor gabriel pushed his head further into haaland after their heads were already together while backing off

He was only shown a yellow. 👀