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I’m not sure where this news about us needing money is coming from. We’re not looking to sell Schmeichel, Schmeichel is looking to sort out his next club as his contract comes up at the end of the season. The talk has been on for the last year about us sorting out his replacement as he had a shocker last season, so if that’s the basis for your thinking we need money, it’s misplaced.
Fofana is contracted now until 2027, he’s incredibly young and has suitors galore after him if you believe the press, so there is no way we would let him go for anything other than silly money and in this market 70m is not silly money, so expect our valuation to be even higher. Remember, we don’t need to let him go, so Chelsea will have to really add on some fat

N1xer, they are in a far worse position than you guys in my opinion. You guys are well aware of your problems and are in a form of rehab. Arsenal are still deluding themselves they don’t have a problem. They all believe Arteta will take them to the promised land. Arteta and Ole are one of the same, pretenders. Both survived in their roles far longer than they should have. Also, you guys are still able to attract a more useful calibre of players, they simply cannot.

Arsenal this season are exactly the same as you guys last season. Arteta is a pretender, much like Ole was. This is a false dawn. They’re getting results, but my god do they get lady luck on their side. If it wasn’t for Ramsdale this season they would be nowhere near the CL spots and basically flirting with the same positions they were in last season. Relying so heavily on your GK too often is a dangerous game. He will get backed this offseason and will again spend big to prepare for the CL assault and will fail miserably, mark my words (sound familiar?). They will be out of Europe by November and he’ll be possibly without a job come Xmas.

Outsider’s take on Arsenal this season

Arteta seems to have tightened up a bit in defence this season, but other than that, I really don’t see much improvement. Arsenal’s lofty position compared to the last few seasons in my opinion is a red herring, one completely down to one man: Ramsdale. He has easily won you guys 12-15 points this season and IMO has masked the fact that in reality you guys are where you were last season (if you take away those points). Some might say, well what ifs are pointless, but when you are relying so heavily on your keeper to win you games that cannot be sustained over a consistent period and sooner or later that will cost you

That’s a very pro-Liverpool way of analysing that game, AK! As a neutral, it was an incredible game of skill and tactics to watch (from both teams), but without doubt City were the more dangerous of the two out there. I can’t think of Ederson having many saves to make, whereas Allison was your saviour on many occasions.

Gotta commend the overall display by Arsenal. Individual stupity today cost you a win. I thought you guys were the better team overall. As for the pens, it’s tough but I actually think the right calls were made. For the one you guys had turned away I don’t think there was enough evidence to say Ederson didn’t get the ball, remember there has to be conclusive evidence to overturn an on-field decision. As for the City pen, had Xhaka not had a fistful of his shirt I think the on field decision would have remained. The refs have been fairly consistent with shirt and body grappling in recent weeks. If it wasn’t for that I think they would have said Silva is diving (which he still did really).
Gabriel’s red card I can’t help think is cultural. When you have senior leaders like Xhaka getting stupid yellows week in, week out and arguing with refs, well other players are going to do the same. absolute stupidity.

Yeah, I’m baffled by the tactics today. Going a goal up and then sitting back is just asking for trouble, especially against a team that has ridiculous firepower riches in its ranks. The way to hurt Manure is to attack because they have a soft belly.
This tactic may have worked against us, but quite frankly you guys got lucky that day. When your goalie is man of the match you know you were up against it.

I said this back when Spurs kicked out Poch that you guys should move for him immediately and now, by all accounts it is sounding like that is exactly what is happening, just 2.5 years too late. What a waste!

If your board had any sense they would get in Hiddink right away as a caretaker, he has a brilliant track record of turning teams around in a short space of time and getting results as a caretaker manager. There is no one better at it in the world game. The priority, you would think is to secure CL football for next season and the new manager that joins in the off-season.

But given the decisions your board has made so far I wouldn’t be surprised if you appointed Rooney

TomK, that’s the point. The things you just listed are nothing special. They are what you expect from most teams (except applying pressure by Man U).

Liverpool never got out of third gear, Man U coughed up the ball far too regularly and were just chasing shadows all game. Liverpool would not have beaten Chelsea or Man City playing like that.

Here’s one to cheer you up @happyhurling

I watched one of those spoof porn films last night, you know the ones where they take a famous movie and turn it into a porn film and the lead actress gets f#cked over time and time again.
It was called When Harry Met Salah