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@kimmoFC Ridiculous. What are you even on about

What a coward Ryan Manning is. Trying to hurt a player half his age.

@scoutingindoors First team prem level

@scoutingindoors Rio currently as he's the only one we've seen do it at first team level

Who is the most talented in the tier below Dowman out of this lot?

@mattypoop @DarrenArsenal1 It has to be Raya. And if that makes Kepa decide to leave in the summer, so be it. That's the life of a #2 keeper. We can thank him for the year and move on. Raya is playing well and deserves his first cup final. If we have ambitions at the CL, this is a great dry-run for it

@DarrenArsenal1 He will play Raya, he has no loyalty to Kepa, he could he gone in the summer. Kepa was here to do a job and get us to a final, Arteta will want his best team playing.

On the debate i would have said 10yrs ago Raya should start. But times have changed. The squad has to be competative. Competition has to be viewed by all players that when they get thier chance they will and deserve to play. It keeps a squad mindset where everyone remains happy. So I am going to say, knowing Mikel mindset, he will think that Kepa should start. We will win as a team / squad, and will lose as a team /squad

@themagic_tophat Would clubs who suffered at the hands of these deals and Chelsea's rapid rise to success be able to now take them to court for damages?

🚨 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗲𝗮’𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗟… Chelsea cheated for over a decade - that is now fact. And the penalty for this cheating? A mere £10.75m fine that will be taken from Ukrainian war victims, a suspended transfer ban (that won’t happen if they’re not caught breaking more rules) and a short ban on academy transfers. The academy ban applies to inappropriate academy recruitment but it’s nothing to do with the First Team. Under Ambramovich’s ownership, Chelsea regularly paid people “off book” to secure first team transfers (i.e., not from Chelsea’s bank account but from other bank accounts, so that the transaction was never reported - it was hidden). They did this to secure the transfers for key players such as Hazard, David Luiz, Andre Schurrle, Ramires, Matic, Willian, Eto'o. Players that were instrumental in securing titles and major revenue from Champions League spots. The Premier League Board chose to settle with Chelsea, getting their agreement rubber stamped by a Disciplinary Panel, rather than actually putting them through a hearing. And effectively, Chelsea has suffered no actual consequences for the cheating they undertook with the First Team. And how did the PL Board justify this insanely lenient sanction? Using two reasons: 1., They re-calculated Chelsea’s historic accounts to see whether the supposed money spent off-book would breach PSR rules. It did not and as such, they implied that no sporting benefit had been achieved (applying the logic that they could have simply paid the money through the accounts and it would have all been OK). 2., Self-reporting and co-operation, making the PL believe that they know all of the wrongdoing and that the new ownership will not repeat it. Chelsea’s new ownership self-reported the breach to the PL after they took over. They claim they became aware of the breaches during the acquisition diligence process. They then co-operated with the PL to uncover as much as they could. However, both these reasons completely fall apart when examined. Reason 1., entirely relies on the deeply flawed assumption that they could have moved the transactions on-book. You remove this assumption and the whole rationale falls apart. Chelsea made the transactions off-book because they were bribes. They bribed player agents to act against their clients’ best interests and manipulate a move to Chelsea instead of other teams, including PL teams. This is an egregious breach of the rules (and illegal I might add) and it came at both a cost to other teams and massively advantaged Chelsea in sporting terms because of the players they were able to secure. Reason 2., entirely relies on the assumption that the self-reporting and co-operation were complete and from a place of good morals. But again, this is flawed. Much of what Chelsea’s new owners reported was made public shortly afterwards due to a hack of professional service firms known as the “Cyprus Confidential”. The hack took place just 2-3 months before the Chelsea sale was completed. It is highly likely that the professional service firms notified key clients, like Abramovich, of the hack. He would have been able to inform Chelsea’s buyers and cultivate a paper trail that they could use to self-report to the PL. One that limited its revelations to what the hacks would have revealed and other minor infractions. And the problem? We can’t ever know the truth because it was all done off-book. There could be even worse dealings. But why could one suspect this to be the case? Because why would there be any paper trail in Chelsea’s records to be found during DD if the transactions were made off-book? It’s a bizarre notion which goes entirely against all experience of these situations. It also begs the question as to why Chelsea’s auditors never found it! They have not been mentioned here, at all…

@SkySportsNews Shame on you @SkySportsNews for stealing another's hard work without credit

🗣️ ''The English sides face tougher opposition in their domestic league'' Why the competitiveness of the Premier League is affecting English sides’ chances in the Champions League.

@JosiahhMichael @DaleJohnsonBBC Probably best to look in the mirror before accusing other teams of cheating...😅

@DaleJohnsonBBC They're doing everything to cheat their way to glory and the FA and Premier league is helping them.

Brighton should have been awarded a penalty in their 1-0 loss at home to Arsenal, the KMI Panel has said. Gabriel Martinelli held back Mats Wieffer. The KMI Panel also ruled that Chelsea should have got an on-field penalty against Arsenal. bbc.co.uk/sport/football…

@DarrenArsenal1 And what's the song that will reverberate around stadiums next match day; same old arsenal... Make it make sense

So to put it right the 6, league titles that Chelsea have won in thier history, 2 were won while all thier known illegal payments took place Strike off those titles The owners knew The management knew Other clubs knew We all knew

@YankeeGunner What Raya does well is deal with deep and open play crosses where there isn't a host of bodies to fight through. Elite at that aspect

@YankeeGunner When you were talking about getting nervous with Raya and dealing with crowd scenes from corners. I don't think there's a keeper in world football who consistently deals well with those scenarios. It's why they are so effective, it makes life unbelievably hard for the keeper.

As you can imagine, this was a hell of a fun chat. Academy pod for patrons coming later today as well.

@themagic_tophat Does this set a precedent for what we can expect city to receive?

Reading this, it sounds like the PL sanction and not the FA sanction (they’re separate). Given an Independent Commission has not been empanelled, this must be a sanction agreement between by the PL Board and Chelsea, that 3 members of the Disciplinary Panel have ratified. It’s absurdly light in the context of the offences. It also incentivises cheating before a sale. It will be interesting to see how the other clubs react.

@DailyAFC Oh shit, we lost again! The owners will start noticing soon. Let's make this completely unrelated event about everyone's favourite topic; Arsenal

🗣️ Liam Rosenior: “Before the game we had a meeting with the referee. The first thing he talks about is when I complained about Arsenal being in our half. It wasn’t the goalkeeper coach, and people who were at that game will know why I said what I said.” ❌

@DailyAFC Waffle 🧇

@timstillman_ Not only that, we've got the 16 year old scoring from set pieces! Not ours set piece, but let's not let minor details get in the way of narrative

I think the next crisis for the Premier League is how we stop 16 year olds from scoring goals. It’s basically child labour and should be stopped. I think we need a well meaning campaign of discerning pundits (who are definitely concerned about the good of the game) to stop this.

@footy_talksPL @BigBearKentlaar Utd fans talking about diving. Self awareness levels remain at zero I see

@BigBearKentlaar Because they know you guys dive to get decisions. Easy choice tbh.

Arsenal are victims of the media backlash from mid week. Stone wall penalty on Havertz somehow turned down. Don’t tell me VAR aren’t influenced.

@_PhilCosta You think that was bad, imagine being Irish at the end of that six nations 🙈🤣

The last few minutes of this City-West Ham game have been torture. It’s killing me but I can’t stop watching.

@ArsenalBallots I have zero sympathy for early leavers

I can’t believe people left early today at 0-0! This couple next to me were leaving I told them stay!! But they still left I get it people have trains to catch etc but my word what an end to the game One guy missed the Nelson goal and told himself he’d never leave again, he was glad today!

@FabrizioRomano This the same Get out our half Rosenior from the Emirates a few weeks ago? What a clown

🚨 Liam Rosenior: “My players made a decision that they wanted to huddle around the ball to show unity, it's not my decision”. “I’m disappointed by the referee”. 😡 “There's nothing disrespectful about it”.

@afcDW Regardless of the circumstances, nobody ever wants a close up of that

Around a minute of build up to a Wrexham free-kick and then we miss it being taken because they’re giving us a close-up of Garnacho. Being in the ground and being able to look at whatever you want is just so far superior.

@themagic_tophat @Vardarov94 @YankeeGunner UCL? I can only assume you mean uefa conference league 🤣

@Vardarov94 @YankeeGunner He’s a UCL level player. Their only one IMO.

There wouldn’t even be a player worth taking off spurs if they went down.