Alex Donnelly

The minimal “drop off” factor from Raya to Kepa, when comparing Raya to Neto makes this deal so so good on many facets.
Given how cooked Raya looked late in the season too.
Also good by the club / recruiters to see an opportunity and swoop on it instantly.

Knowing Levy and how he operates. It feels as if the trigger being pulled today has a financial aspect behind it, as to why he wasn’t sacked before today. He was appointed on June 6, 2023.

“Ahh that’s a mighty fine BBQ;
WHY DOESNT MINE LOOK LIKE THAT”

If you have him, Trossard, Martinelli, (new striker) & Ethan on the bench.

Doesn’t it finally give us the depth & punch off of the bench that we have lacked in the past three seasons?

When we needed a goal against Bayern in 23-24, it was Eddie.
That didn’t instil the opposition with fear.

Backed Doue FGS. He has two. Yet it was goals 2-3. Brutal.

I’m knee sliding like it’s my first born.

I would suggest shooting

Sad to think what a fully fit* Arsenal does to PSG and then to Inter in this final.

* just Havertz and Gabi back.

Neto gets a 10 for his attempted “save” in the champions league surely

Amazing!

The only in the land 🏆🏆

Genuinely cannot believe we’ve done it. Those players are heroes. Stunning performance against incredible opposition.

Wow wow wow. Incredible.

GET IN AWFC !!!
Champions League winners

Manchester United’s downfall beginning with Alex Ferguson having an argument with John Magnier & JP McManus over Rock Of Gibraltar will never not be funny.

The other reasons are the main one.
But his play has been beyond awful.
Hardly fit in 23/24 we get 89 points.
Hardly misses a game in 24/25 - max we can get is 74
A full 5 wins less.

Arsenal's Premier League win percentage in the last three seasons:

With Partey starting 63%
Without Partey starting 67%

He's started 59% of matches. Big wages. Turning 32 in June. Lots of other reasons not to renew.

Well that was brutal

Huge game for the Sydney Swans today, a win puts them on the precipice of the top 8 and their season is well and truly back on track, with multiple players due back imminently.

But when there are mitigating circumstances around 2 of the 3? Or are people too lazy to actually look under the covers and just go purely on results?

It’s amazing how harshly we are analysed.
+ when you look at City needing to spend 200 million to get out of a hole.
How poor Chelsea can be, with Palmer going missing for months. Villa’s form.
How shambolic spurs & united are.
Yet it’s Arsenal with 7-8 players missing that are judged hardest?

I am concerned about the vitriolic nature of the media and fans if Liverpool were to hammer us on the weekend.
Personally it wouldn’t be a shock & I’m half expecting it / already forgiving for it. This group have everything and have hit the wall.

Henry Winter banging on about Arsenal underachieving.

PSG spending:

2024-25 - 240 million Euros
2023-24 - 454 million Euros

Arsenal fans: "Arsenal at the Bernabeu, Ipswich Town are going down"

Booing Saka because he got studs raked down his ankle ?
Stay classy Ipswich.

Genuinely depressing.
He was one I was banking on signing.
But shows the kid has a good level head.

Glad to see the Lewis Skelly red is being roundly condemned but we can’t treat it as a black swan event or a one off aberration. Webb is trying to create a culture of referees being stars and it needs to stop and it needs to be called out.

We have to wait and see what explanations come out. But I am interested to see how the justifications for red for Lewis-Skelly vs yellow for Gomes differ.

Watching the replay this morning in Australia.
That first 15 or so minutes it felt so blatantly obvious as there was no ‘flow’.
It looked very disjointed.