Jack Abela

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We played a Saturday 3pm kick off at Leeds.

We have a 3pm kick off on Saturday against Sunderland.

Do you think not having an intense Sky/TNT coverage of these matches is a welcome break, and might be less pressure? #arsecastextra

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Best performances this season:
Spurs at home 4-1 - no Ø
Villa at home 4-1 - no Rice
Bayern at home 3-1 - no Ø
Inter away 1-3 - no Rice or Ø
Newcastle 1-2 no Ø

When will Arteta accept that the Rice, Ø, Zubi trio isn’t working?
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Saw chatter pre-game about resting Rice. Do you think Arteta thought this game was more important than Liverpool at home for Rice?

Control the game at a tough away ground. We found it okay playing at home without him vs Villa #arsecastextra

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We’re half way through the season now, our top scorer (Gyokores) has 5 goals.

Next best is Saka 4, Eze 4, Trossard 4, Merino 3.

Does that feel too low? And what do you think it’ll look like at the end of the season. #arsecastextra

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Hypothetically - A 50 million pound offer comes in for Nwaneri:

A) What would you do?

B) What do you think the club would do?

C) What do you think Nwaneri would want to do?

Aware we’ve had very tough away fixtures already, but are we winning enough football matches?

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This season we are averaging 2.2 pts per game. This would put us on 83pts by the end of the season.

We got 89 last season. Do you think we’ll beat that, and has this team actually improved? Or have other teams just got worse. #arsecastextra

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Agree/disagree with the following:

Trossard has turned into a top 3 Arteta signing.

Gyokores’ absence showed how important he is and doesn’t get enough credit.

Myles Lewis Skelley will get enough minutes to get an England Call up for WC.

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I don’t want to count our chickens too early…

But do you think it’s possible we might win the league with the worst version of Saka we’ve ever had? (still very good) - and does that reflect how good our recruitment has been?

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Goodly morning! Despite a great result the atmosphere at the ground was awful.

I think it has something to do with the family friendly build up pre match/HT. I love that we’re a family club, but all the announcements feel a bit ‘CBBC’. Thoughts? @arseblog.com @gunnerblog.bsky.social #Arsecastextra

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Bit silly, but would you like to see a total football midfield trio of Zubimendi Ødegaard and Eze, with Rice at LB?

It would be fun to watch and have Rice as the free role charging around LB. Plus Arteta gets another LB. #arsecastextra

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Everyone says Eze isn’t a natural LW. Is him playing as an inside LW an evolution?

It allows Gyokores more space in that channel, and we saw Califiori overlapping as well. He can then link up with Rice, Ø and Z like prime Barca? #arsecastextra

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Do you think Gary Neville, and other pundits pick Arsenal to win the league every year as an excuse to keep digging at us? It seems so transparent to me #arsecastextra

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Arsenal moving to a transition based team, should suit Martinelli. He looked way off it. He just seems like a player who is destined to leave the club, should we pull that trigger now? #arsecastextra

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With Mosquera looking advanced, Arsenal have spent 200m this summer - but has our first team quality improved? Or has this summer been about building a roster? For me, adding Eze would bring that quality, but we’d have to sell first now, surely? #arsecastextra

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bafta update: my sister won Best Lead Actress. She, like me, is an Arsenal fan and has won a trophy before spurs…

So there’s that good news!

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Just a quick word on how nice it’s been to see Tierney play a role in this season? I just love it. #arsecastextra

Sadly evening. I think we’ve never been in a title race this season. While we’ve been second best, Liverpool were 6 points clear at Christmas (+game in hand), and we never closed that gap. If Liverpool win by 10+ points can we even say we challenged this year. Am I being reactionary? #arsecastextra

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Preparing for a very quick ‘absolutely fucking not’ from Andrew.

I know we hate him, but would you be tempted to bid for Bruno Fernandez in the summer?

He’d work as a left 8 and we wouldn’t be relying on Ødegaard, Saka to create everything.

How long will he say at UTD?
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This is an emotionally charged question today - But Is there any possibility whatsoever that Edu was pushed rather than jumped? In hindsight, the summer window was a really shocking one.

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We seemed to start time wasting very early, after scoring. Do you think it frustrates officials?

I think consciously or subconsciously, Taylor gave that penalty because he thought we deserved it.

Is our ‘dark arts’ doing more harm than good? #arsecastextra

@arseblog.com @gunnerblog.bsky.social Are you worried Califiori could turn out to be Tomiyasu 2.0?
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Sell Gabriel Jesus please. Offers absolutely nothing to this team.

Don’t think the substitutions helped the team at all.

Martinelli so, so lazy being offside there.

Califiori is giving me Tomiyasu vibes.

Fabio Vieria has scored two goals in two games for Porto

Watkins looks like he’s lost a yard of pace this year.

Just rusty.

Almost an overwhelming amount to take from that game today. But that first half an hour was exceptional.

Hope Gabriel and Calafiori are just precautionary substitutions.