Michael K - Think Tank

Before the 2025/2026 premier league season began, Newcastle splashed the sum of £55M on Yoane Wissa . Today, he has two goals across competition for Newcastle In the month of September 2025 , Manchester United paid £71m for Bryan Mbeumo. So far , Bryan Mbeumo has 9 premier league goal and 10 goals across all competitions Liverpool paid the sum of £79m for Hugo Ekitike . Currently, he has scored 17 goals for Liverpool across all competitions Manchester United paid £74m for Benjamin Sesko. And so far, Benjamin Sesko has scored 11 goals across all competitions for Manchester United Liverpool paid £130m British record for Isak . Currently, he has scored 3 goals for Liverpool Arsenal paid the sum of £65m for Viktor Gyokeres. So far, he has scored 14 premier League goals and 7 other goals in the cup competition. 5 goals in 11 appearances in the champions league competition In all , Viktor Gyokeres has scored 21 goals and 18 of which are none penalties From the following figures, Viktor Gyokeres is the fifth most expensive striker who arrived Premier League in the 2025/2026 season. Viktor Gyokeres is the only new striker in the premier who have scored 20 plus goals this season He first striker to score 21 goals for Arsenal since Sanchez in the 2014/2015 season There's something about these figures. Viktor Gyokeres is the only player who is criticized, dragged and trolled every day by the British media Viktor Gyokeres is the only striker who is questioned and over analyzed if he is good or not . He is the only striker who has been labeled a failure in his first season in Arsenal Viktor Gyokeres only offense, because he is playing for Arsenal. He would have been a great player if he had gone to Liverpool, Manchester City or Manchester United. But because he is an Arsenal, he is being questioned on daily basis That's h@te, prop@ganda against Arsenal by the media. Any Arsenal fan who still don't know Arsenal is the most h@ted club should open his eyes

🚨🎙️| Jamie Carragher on the impact of both Bukayo Saka and Noni Madueke after each played 45 minutes against Fulham yesterday: 🗣️ “Sometimes we overcomplicate football, we start talking about systems, shapes, all of that… but yesterday was the clearest example, you had 45 minutes of Bukayo Saka and 45 minutes of Noni Madueke, and honestly, it looked like two different levels of the game. Saka starts, and everything makes sense. The tempo, the timing, the decision-making, he doesn’t waste football. He hurts you every single time he gets the ball. Goal, assist, always combining, always thinking one step ahead. That’s not just talent, that’s understanding the game at the highest level. That’s what top, top players do, they make it look simple because they’re decisive. Then you watch Madueke… and I’m not here to disrespect the boy, because he has ability, we can all see that. But ability without control, without intelligence in your decisions, it means nothing at this level. Too many touches, slowing the attack, dribbling into trouble when the pass is there. You beat a man okay, good but then what? Where is the end product? Where is the impact? This is the difference people don’t want to talk about. Saka plays for the team and still shines. Madueke plays for himself and the team suffers. That’s the reality. One is making the game easier for everyone around him, the other is making it harder. And let me tell you something, this is not a small gap, this is a huge gap. People will say ‘give him time’… time for what? At this level, you have to learn quickly or you get left behind. Because what Saka showed in 45 minutes is what elite football looks like. What Madueke showed… that’s potential, but football is not played on potential. So when people try to compare them, I shake my head. One is already delivering at a world-class level, the other is still trying to figure out when to pass the ball. And if that doesn’t frustrate you watching that game, then honestly, I don’t know what you’re expecting from top-level football.”

I think going forward we should agree that Eberechi Eze plays the number 10 position better than Martin Odergaard. That pass to spot Viktor Gyokeres's run who later found Bukayo Saka to score our second goal you can't see it from Martin Odergaard. I know you will say that Martin Odergaard is better because he presses more than him but I believe the number 10 should possess the creative aspect more than pressing one. We have been asking for a midfield trio of Declan Rice, Eberechi Eze and Martin Odergaard but others thought it can't work claiming Eberechi Eze doesn't press but after watching Myles, Declan Rice and Eberechi Eze trio I think it should be our starting midfield going forward. Eberechi Eze makes us play better than Martin Odergaard when he's in the midfield. I always tell people it was a mistake benching Eze for 5 consecutive games back then when Martin Odergaard came back from injury and I think it also contributed to the situation we are in now.

Two goals, one assist, the Viktor Gyokeres show 🤩 @Arsenal

Look how good we look without havertz, zubimendi and odegaard. These 3 happen to be arteta’s favourites. Telling

Viktor Gyokeres is now the first Arsenal player to score 20+ goals in all competitions in their first season at the club since Alexis Sanchez in 2014-15, 11 years ago! Not bad for the “worst player in Arsenal’s history”

❤️🤍🦸🏼‍♂️ Viktor Gyökeres has reached 21 goals on his first season as Arsenal player.

Just the third time in the Premier League era that an @arsenal player has scored 20+ goals in their debut season. Viktor Gyokeres is shining for the Gunners 💫

Arteta only seems to make the right decisions when his back is against the wall, and he's forced to. He'd be a better manager if he was actually under pressure at this club.

Not to be a downer but a reality check needed. This manager benched MLS and Eze for huge stretches of this season. He should not get a pass for that and should leave end of season regardless

Miles Lewis skelly has been top class today💪🏿, energy, always trying to be positive on and off the ball, fearless performance…exactly what was needed today! Saka 🌟 is the man of the match for what he produced and brought to the team today

🚨🎙️Roy Keane goes hard on Arteta for not introducing Myles Lewis Skelly in the midfield early on in the season. 🗣️“Nah, this is exactly what I’m talking about with Mikel Arteta — sometimes he makes it harder than it needs to be. Myles Lewis-Skelly steps into midfield and straight away you see it: energy, drive, bravery… everything Arsenal have been missing in spells this season. So why’s he been sat there this whole time? You’re telling me it’s taken this long to trust him? Come on. This isn’t a maybe — this is obvious. Fans can see it, pundits can see it… but the manager’s been hesitating. And now, against Fulham F.C., he finally plays him and you’re thinking, ‘well, yeah — about time.’ But it’s too late to act like it’s some masterstroke. The real question is: what did it cost you waiting this long? Points? Momentum? Maybe even bigger things. That’s where the frustration comes in — because at this level, delays like that can define your whole season”.

Which record is the hardest to break?

Goals in the last three PL seasons: 26 — Eberechi Eze 26 — Bruno Fernandes Eze scored 2 penalties from those 26 goals. Guess what the number of penalties the player of the season scored.

A fiery speech by South Africa's🇿🇦 EFF leader Julius Malema, over xenophobic attacks targeting foreign nationals. “You say Zimbabweans take your jobs. Nigerians take your jobs. You march, close shops and beat up people. Tell us after doing that how many jobs have you created, by beating up these Nigerians, Zimbabweans and Ghanaians? You beat people because they took your jobs. You close a shop that hires people. How many have you created after beating and chasing them? Unskilled men, with no skills, none whatsoever, say somebody took away their jobs. I don't want your votes if you behave like that. Take them away. Pushing out of school an African child that looks like you, I will never do that. You can take your votes. Make me die with my conscience very clearly. I will never refuse a pregnant woman of African descent to give birth in the clinics of South Africa. Never!”

🚨 Luis Enrique on criticism about 5-4 result: “You shouldn't respect all opinions… because if it's a shitty opinion you shouldn't respect it”. “There will be people who like to play football this way, which is the majority, and here I include myself, and others who don't like to play like that”. “I don't care about those opinions. What we show is that most people who love football enjoyed it and that's the important thing”.

Everyone talks about how Mbappe has scored 40+ goals & Harry Kane has scored 50+ goals. No one ever asked them to separate the penalties from the open play goals. But when it comes to Gyokeres, Arsenal fans will start separating the open play goals from penalties scored. These same Arsenal fans never separated Saka's penalties from his open play goals when he was taking penalties for us. The standard are different only when its Gyokeres.

Not having this discourse that the Premier League’s physical and mental exertions mean conservative football has to be a given when we’ve actually experienced the opposite. The style is absolutely a choice. Manchester City and Liverpool were involved in the most exacting, no-margin-for-error title races but still played ridiculously good football. Pochettino’s Tottenham were a marvel too. The 2018-19 Champions League was one for the ages: Tottenham 4-4 Man City quarter-final The Spurs 3-3 Ajax semi CORNER TAKEN QUICKLY in the most insane comeback What about the intensity of that LFC-MCFC quarter-final in 2017-18? And Liverpool beating Roma SEVEN! - SIX! in the semis. 2021-22: Chelsea 4-5 Real Madrid, Benfica 4-6 Liverpool, City 5-6 Real Madrid The list goes on. For so long it was held against both PSG and Bayern that they wilted when it mattered in the Champions League because their domestic seasons were a walkover. They didn’t have tough games to prime them. We can’t pick and choose narratives when it suits.

🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Koke got his entire arm around Gabriel but there was NO penalty given!

🚨🎙️| Ian Wright on the penalty decisions in yesterday’s Arsenal vs Atlético Madrid match, with reference to the current IFAB Laws of the Game and UEFA VAR guidelines: 🗣️ “Listen, watching this game, I have to say, this kind of refereeing and VAR chaos is ruining football. It’s becoming unwatchable. First, Arsenal’s penalty, the one on Gyokores. By the book, it’s a foul all day. You come through the back, you don’t play the ball, you disrupt the player’s balance, that’s careless at minimum. The law is crystal clear on that. So yes, penalty. No controversy there. Now Atlético’s handball… and this is where I have a problem. The law says if your arm makes your body unnaturally bigger, you’re taking a risk. Fine. But it also talks about context, deflections matter. The ball hits the leg first, then the arm. So now you’re telling me we ignore the deflection just because the arm is slightly away from the body? That’s a selective reading of the law. If you apply the spirit of the rule, that’s not a penalty. If you apply the strictest possible interpretation, maybe it is. But you can’t pick and choose when to be strict. Then the second Arsenal penalty on Eberechi Eze, and this is the one that exposes everything. The referee gives it in real time, meaning he judged the contact as meaningful. The law says VAR only intervenes for a clear and obvious error. So explain to me how is that a clear and obvious error? There’s contact on the shin, the player is impeded, it’s not imaginary. At that point, VAR is re-refereeing the game, not correcting mistakes. So what’s the pattern here? When it benefits Atlético Madrid, we go strict on the letter of the law, arm slightly out, penalty. When it benefits Arsenal, suddenly we go ultra-demanding ‘is the contact enough? let’s overanalyse it.’ That’s not consistency. That’s interpretation depending on outcome. And this is why fans lose their heads because the same rule is being applied three different ways in the same game. Don’t tell me about laws if you’re not going to apply them the same way every single time.”