Zak Joshua

Challenge is that if you bring in an elite LW and Martinelli becomes a backup, you potentially tank Martinelli’s value. I’d love us to keep him, but feels like now’s the time to get maximum value. Unless we can convince him to sign a new deal at a squad player salary and accept the rotation role.

Are there any legitimate links with Arsenal?

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He doesn’t say anything outlandish, its just unnecessary

@migueldelaney.bsky.social what do you make of Nasser Al-Khelaifi appearing on CBS coverage at the end of the game? Felt like a dark cloud on the back of a deserved victory.

Such lame analysis including a completely different uncorrelated set of fixtures. In the QFs, we scored more goals than Inter and tied with Barcelona.

PSG overspending has been a phenomena the last decade, it feels like this season in particular they finally spent well - you’d take any of Kvaratskhelia, Neves or Doué in a heartbeat

Worst part for me was the second half - think the atmosphere / team picked up at the end of the first. Fans really seemed up for it after the break and the disallowed goal sucked the air out again. I wonder how it would have gone if the Merino chance had never happened.

Makes sense - he said it twice during his pre-game video message. Hard to rally fans around a relatively inorganic slogan. These are all minor points though, in general I thought the pre-game atmosphere was phenomenal.

Received less press but the constant regurgitation of “Make It Happen” from the fan banner to the stadium announcer felt incredibly canned

Ugh someone put Rob Green down

Rob Green is the absolute worst

Wild that during Paramount / CBS marque UCL game of the season they land on Rob Green as the color commentator. My ears are bleeding.

I’d love to see a Casamiro worldie to shut Neville up

I think people forget how competitive the Premier League is.

I think a better way of framing it is which top clubs would bend over backwards for Arteta to be their coach: Chelsea, Man United, PSG, Barca to name a few. Could even see City making a run at him if Pep ever leaves…

Absolute nonsense from anyone calling for his head.

I’d be more concerned about him leaving if the board don’t back him to the hilt this summer…

Reminder that Arsenal paid £34M for Fabio Viera, had the option to recall him in January and he came off the bench for Porto against Rio Ave 4 days ago 🤷🏻‍♂️

I just don’t see it happening - seems like all the obvious options have already moved this window, worth lobbing an offer over to LAFC for Giroud?

That Fabio Viera loan looks more and more like our worst piece of business from last summer.

Two things can be true here: 1) Arsenal are signing a world class player this summer, 2) This is an odd time to drop the Zubimendi news, if you think the club are going to be very active this window

It’s like watching a failing state sell off all its natural resources to the highest bidder, complete madness…

Would love a smarter mind than myself (e.g. the always brilliant @swissramble.bsky.social) to shed some light on how much damage Barca are doing to their long-term future / ability to compete. Surely at some point the asset sales have to stop.

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100% - I’m just always weary with Barca-transfer-shithousery.

It’s not about replacing Saka, to your point it’s not possible to just replace a top 3 RW in the world

It’s about it’s about adding differentiation to the attack so that we have options both when Saka is / isn’t available

I don’t see anything happening with a Prem club in Januarys.

I don’t think the pitch is “sit on the bench 70% of the time”. The pitch is “we don’t have a nailed on ST or LW, come fight for it”

Agree that January is tough, but look at Liverpool signing Diaz & Gakpo the last few windows. He’s not a frontline forward but I’d be all over the Olmo situation.

You need 5 starting caliber attackers to win a league. Look at the City teams that dominated and Liverpool’s team this season. We have 4-ish: Saka, Kai, Martinelli (?) & Leo (?) - Sterling & Jesus clearly aren’t at that level anymore / unreliable and there isn’t enough diversity in that rotation.

Is the tactic really just to lump it to Trossard and hope for the best?

It’s almost offensive.

Honestly doubt we’ll do much if anything in January

Have a sneaky suspicion the relatively low net transfer spend and PSR-accretive academy sales this summer, where to put us in a really good position to jump on him before the PSR deadline next summer and take advantage of Newcastle potentially not making UCL