Eli Junior Kroupi is the most obvious striker signing for Arsenal this summer. I genuinely don’t think any other club should even be competing with Arsenal for his signature at this point, he’s already an Arsenal hero.
Kroupi profiles more as a traditional goal-poaching number 9 than a second striker or false 9.
Low centre of gravity, physically robust, excellent in tight spaces, strong ball retention, elite finishing, and outstanding ball striking from different angles. He draws comparisons to Sergio Agüero.
As things stand, he’s already a top 3 pure finishers in the Premier League at just 19 years old, and he’s still far from his peak.
This will be Arsenal’s striker for the next decade.
@pastygas@samuelluckhurst English teams who come 5-8th in the PL have budgets way above teams who finish in those positions i Europe. Before the format change you'd have people coming out of the CL group stages into the Europa League, so you could have had champions or people who finished 2nd or 3rd
@samuelluckhurst I don’t see how the league format gives any team an advantage, considering there’s still a round of 16 knockout phase to navigate. The true issue is simply too many English clubs in Europe.
Wonder if it’s dawned on Uefa how much the dire format change has weighted the Europa League and Conference League in favour of English clubs. Premier League clubs have budgets to blow counterparts out of the water and Villa are blowing Freiburg away.
@inHighburyN5@sambo2690 I'm just saying, they weren't playing to win, or even draw. They were just throwing themselves in every challenge. like a daft 1980s Championship side.
@sambo2690@RaduFrancu Spot on.
The fact that they had no shots on target isn’t a reflection of them playing poorly.
Arsenal have conceded less shots on target that any other team in the league, by some number.
@sambo2690@inHighburyN5 They didn't play well, they had no shots on target. But they were playing like they were in the thick of a Championship scrap. Flying tackles and bodychecks everywhere.
@AFC_Monty_ Didn't Saka take the ball and then kick it away to delay a restart in the second half.
Can someone explain why VARsenal "fans" aren't outraged the "letter of the law" wasn't applied and he wasn't yellow carded?
Hannibal Mejbri kicked the ball away to delay a restart in the first half whilst on a yellow card.
Can someone explain why nobody is outraged that “letter of the law” wasn’t applied and he wasn’t sent off?
@AC_MilanFR@afc_starboy77 Par contre sans mentir j'ai l'impression que la commu la plus "objective" c'est toujours ceux du milan.
Toujours sympa de lire un peu d'honnêteté dans les textes.
I am surprised how many people are earning money from football and they have no idea what the rules are.
I am talking about Gary Neville here, if that wasn’t clear.
Get him off commentary for United games.
Ball bounces off Mbeumo hip to arm. If he was the scorer, no goal. But incident counts as open play so ref entitled to see it as ‘accidental handball’ if he thinks Mbeumo did not deliberately control the ball with his arm.
Mbeumo has practically caught that, it’s a categorical handball, and shouldn’t have been given.
VAR gave the official more than enough chance to have a rethink, and correct himself.
But he didn’t, he stuck with his abysmal decision.
He has absolutely bottled it.
@Arsenal From now until the Champions League final, all training should consist of Mosquera doing right back drill against every attacking player in our team