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Cake day: November 13th, 2023

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  • Depends heavily on how you define it.

    Saliba, Rice, Saka and Odegaard are the best 4 players at Arsenal.

    For me world class means the player would not look out of place starting for Citeh, Barca, RM or Bayern.

    If that’s world class, then every single player who starts for Arsenal would be world class. Arsenal have arguably the 4th strongest squad in Europe after City / Bayern / Real. So, the entire starting XI wouldn’t look out of place there.

    There’s certainly better players in some of the squads, and worse ones.







  • It wasn’t that long ago when Arsenal finished 8th.

    Which was an incredibly shit season for Arsenal who were widely criticised for it, and Arsenal hadn’t spent £1bn on new players in 3 windows.

    Chelsea have taken a team that won the Champion’s League just 3 years ago to an 11th place finish last season, and now 10th almost halfway through this season.






  • You have to take your pick, accept that it’s a project that will take time, or keep your expectations high and be consistently disappointed when it isnt working.

    I see this but it’s utter bollocks.

    It’s highly disappointing regardless of which one you view of it. Just because something is a project doesn’t mean there aren’t minimum expectations and if after spending £1bn over 3 windows, that minimum isn’t at least European football then I have no idea what you’re doing.

    Look at Arsenal. 2 years ago, they faced Brentford away on the first game of the season (and lost). From that game, the only player starting in Saturday’s match against Brentford was Martinelli. The squad has been heavily changed. Their results since that game were 5th, 2nd and currently top. The season before that was 8th which was seen as a big disappointment.

    Chelsea in the last 18 months have spent more money than Arsenal have done under the entirety of Arteta’s management tenure.

    Has a single player they bought actually improved since moving?





  • Isn’t the whole point of the offside rule so offensive players can’t just get absurd head starts on defenders with momentum as defenders need to turn and then start to pick up speed?

    No, the point of Offside is to stop people goal hanging.

    Just seams really dumb tbh and doesn’t make any sense.

    It makes the game flow better, stops these ridiculous mm Offsides that give absolutely zero advantage to a player and will create more goals which is better for the sport.