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@danstapleton89 Class

She did it again 🤯 Olivia Reeves clean & jerks 155 kg to set another world record and close out the World Championships 🇺🇸

@goronology I have no idea what you're on about

When I saw Lucy Bronze taping up I said she was destined to take the winning penalty, wish I had tweeted it instead of just saying it to a tired @ducnans

I gathered a legion of sympathy for Misha, & none of it was soft enough to cushion the blow of my dreams for him. But alas, in the temple of his potential, I would've tossed a thousand roses to the tomb of his CFC career just to see him rise into a mural of my expectations. 💔

@ohlookitswill_ Oh that's kind of you. Hope you're well!

@ducnans Cheers king! Missed you on here

@ohlookitswill_ happy birthday will

Xherdan Shaqiri is taking us back. 15 goals and 20 assists in the league. The kit isn’t the only thing on flames this season. Finds holes in your defence like he’s slicing up an Emmental. Built like a Minecraft character and he’s pulling up on every block. You love to see it.

@thesquareshape happy birthday!

@jcw163 I feel like you have to concede that the guy who's managed about 15 seasons in 3 different countries and won a dozen titles is actually good at managing

Love this lad getting sent off within 5 minutes of his senior debut for kicking a bloke in the balls

@ohlookitswill_ Why do referees have a competition to see who can give Arsenal the weirdest red card away to Wolves

That is a hilarious red card for Lewis-Skelly hahahaha

@_mjk17 I keep wondering about whether we'd overlook his personality because otherwise he feels like an incredibly Arteta purchase

@SebC__ I was very impressed last season by his efforts to carry a mess of a team. Doesn't have the talent to do it from attack but he tried anyway, he's made of good stuff

🇦🇷Alejandro Garnacho This would be my professional assessment. - He's one of the most impressive athletes I've seen in recent years, volume of runs is phenomenal. He's been starting every game for over a year. - You can't have relentless players without the associated behavioral traits. His confidence is sky high and criticism is like water off a duck to him. - He keeps trying, regardless of the (low) success rate of his 1v1 and combination play, which is an extremely impressive trait for a 20 year old winger playing under that kind of pressure. - Taking on defenders creates momentum, and rebounds, second balls. Ideally you want success and volume. - He also makes runs to rattle the backline and can ideally win penalties and free kicks just because he goes the extra yard to get in front. Gets in the box, follows up rebounds in the 6yd box etc... This is valuable Low success high volume can stand a comparison to high success low volume as far as winning contribution goes. Why would Conte want him? - Garnacho looks very hard working, all his movement mechanics is brutal, he's very muscular (and balanced, doesn't run all over the place) and he can get the ball in the box. Looks the kind of player who absorbs technical feedback and puts it into action. - This is a player that you would usually find at the other end of their career, after 27; with experience and fitness to handle the demands Conte would put. - I think he's a right wing back in waiting, because he can run box to box and the crossing technique is good. - He's not a 29 year old Candreva or Dario Srna, he's 20 He has to work under a manager who likes pattern play and fitness. Not a manager who plays football where he has too many decisions to make. Why would Chelsea want him? - long story short; he's a second rate attacker (in terms of output), U23 so that can throw glitter for the brainwashed internet fans whilst the club is asset stripped of actual worthwile assets clubs want (Womens Team, Conor Gallagher, Nkunku etc...). - Would take a 8 year contract and be content having his circle leaking team news - who cares, your own bosses leak transfer news to influencers on instagram. - Chelsea try their swap deals because they think people are stupid enough to exchange good players against scrubs, just like they assume people are stupid enough to not cross reference their favourite player agencies to make transfers with for the past two years. - Chelsea have zero defensive balance on transition, they're disgracefully open. This is a squad building shortcoming, that Maresca thinks he adressed by asking wingers to pass the ball back and take zero risk. Problem, Chelsea's wingers can't be arsed (because they're second string attackers who will try to score a Goal of the Season to justify their price/wages). They have 3 goals combined, and don't defend. - Garnacho would be a budget Mason Mount (who was also a set piece taker, chance creator and got shots on target from wide - as well as the workrate). That one attacker in the band of 3 that runs for two. Personality assessment from the outside: - Nature abhors a vacuum, scrap a team off their leaders and charismatic characters with sporting achievements and any next guy fills the room with their sense of self entitlement. This is something that normally self regulates itself ecologically; through squad building (but experience and quality cost money; - BlueCo aren't prepared to spend - the U23 project is a gimmick, they don't want to waste money on wages. Just have to find the demographic dumb enough to get tied to a contract like that: - might be good players who are flawed to hack it at this level, like Lavia and Mudryk - or good players who are properly dumb enough to accept to bury their ambitions, to start every week and earn 60% of what they'd earn elsewhere, against a 8 yea contract. Don't want to give the names, but some of them kick shinpads and are happy to be there. - Is Garnacho a Social Media 2.0 version of Dirk Kuyt? Not really *good*, and coming up with that extra play and yard. - Easy to hate, yet hard to take out of a team. - leaking team news, liking tweets against a head coach (who thought he'd bargain some buy-in by giving him a run over Elanga) ; all these things regulate themselves in big clubs. Think Bayern or Juventus, wear a suit, learn the language, listen to the former players in the galaxy who'll put you in your place. Then again, the purpose of a system is what it does : they've forced out institutional knowledge and have signed enough problem players like Enzo, Mudryk, Gusto, Jackson, Felix, Cucurella ; all massive dickheads in their own right - for it not being something they're especially looking for (to meet an end). Surely they can't be incompetent to not realize their team is undersize, unbothered and full of bellends. Garnacho makes sense for whatever they think they're doing. And from a sporting side, he might provide "tactical" solutions albeit that's not what was initially planned. Just like Neto being an auxiliary left back. Or Wesley Fofana's speed being crucial despite them wanting to nuke his contract Would I sign him? No; 60 million and CL wages is stupidity for a marquee attacker he's not. He has to go to Italy where his services will be appreciated and brought to a new dimension by Conte Would I swap 6 shit signings against him? United wouldn't accept it, they're not as badly run as Chelsea are.

@McNeilGeorge Do you have like a farmyard or something, it's what I think when I read animals instead of pets

Is sol clap bells in financial trouble

Fucking cursed kit

Manchester United and Ruben Amorim knew they had to bleed to dent Arteta and Arsenal's season with one hefty gut wrenching cold blooded bow, and boy did they bleed to the very end. Arsenal are in a vacuum of their own mess & the stench is spreading faster than a go-cart.

absolutely gone at ray parlour and alan brazil talking about the war

@evdokios I just assumed you were joking

eat ya heart out bobbler

@janhopi @McNeilGeorge Yeah he's a bit shit lately. Was he one of the ones that got ill? Or maybe he's up with the new baby or something. I doubt it lasts but matches are very rough when neither him nor Saka is out there playing well

@ducnans @McNeilGeorge I don't mind if he doesn't rediscover his scoring but I'd like him to at least remember how to do everything else