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07 Feb 2025 23:42:07
Gabs is better than Saliba in my eyes.

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06 Feb 2025 22:16:58
Gary Neville on Haaland throwing the ball at the back of Gabriel's head before running off when celebrating a last minute equaliser:

"Me and Carra laughed when we saw it because it's funny (he did say it could have been a red card) . "

Neville on Gabriel shouting in Haaland's face after an Arsenal goal:

"I think it's a bit disrespectful. I just didn't like that, it made me feel a little bit uneasy, it was a little bit disrespectful. "

Make it make sense.

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06 Feb 2025 17:43:12
Just seen this Dennis Bergkamp quote:

"When you start supporting a football club, you don't support it because of the trophies or a player, or history, you support it because you found yourself somewhere there; found a place where you belong. "

šŸ˜Š.

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06 Feb 2025 19:43:21
Smart man, helluva player.

06 Feb 2025 20:06:21
A winner.

06 Feb 2025 20:43:14
My wife stopped going to the Arsenal after The Dennis retired. Last game she went was his testimonial against Ajax at the first game at the Emirates.
I know what he is driving at because I was bought up about a mile from White Hart Lane but my first ever professional game I saw was Arsenal way back in 1964 and that's where I felt I belonged.

06 Feb 2025 22:10:30
Hi Bill I think once you've made your choice (usually at a very young age) the commitment and bond just gets stronger and stronger with the passing years.

For me my passion for football has become 100% dependent on my passion for The Arsenal, if ever I lost my passion for the Arsenal me and football would be done too.

07 Feb 2025 07:40:51
Same here John mate.

06 Feb 2025 07:33:45
Thought Iā€™d change my name that suits certain members same old live chat Iā€™m the brunt of a few members anger when we lose or have a different way of thinking, I did have a giggle at them tho seeing as ā€œI lost the plotā€ when they were very angry AGAIN hahah.

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06 Feb 2025 10:55:45
I'm going to take credit for this name because it's rightly my credit to take. I gave him the name voddy. This is brilliant!

06 Feb 2025 11:44:23
VodkaRicharlison.

06 Feb 2025 12:02:31
Sharpe Iā€™m all for a laugh and a bit of banter, but when you got clowns like this numpty above trying to get you banned because you disagree with them, thatā€™s not on, I know your having a laugh shape and a few other but this clown above and mal the bounty hunter threatens to hunt you down is constantly trying to get you banned is a joke, mal the bounty hunter was off again last night and the numpty above put his 20p worth in again, the chuckle brothers tried it last night I was crying laughing at how upset they were, then tried to say I was the one that lost it go and read the live chat funny as hell.

06 Feb 2025 12:26:26
Voddy, my life is already sad that I have to take credit for giving you your nickname. No need to make it sadder by reading yesterday's live chat.

06 Feb 2025 12:34:52
i did call him vodkaricharlison in the livechat after he said he wanted spurs to win the cup, i didn't anctipate it would provoke a complete breakdown.
Victimhood is a weird hobby.

06 Feb 2025 14:24:31
Oh oh and i actually said Iā€™d rather spurs win it than Newcastle because I have my reasons for hating Newcastle more than the spuds, so get it right next time your feelings are hurt from someoneā€™s words hahahah.

05 Feb 2025 23:45:29
Question to the Arteta knows best, believe in the plan clan.

Which argument do you support:

We are moving in the right direction and competing. So get behind him.

Or

We don't need a striker now because we can't win the league this season.

Surely it can't be both.

I remember a super book I read as a kid, I recommend it:The Emperor's New Clothes.

"Finally, the weavers report that the emperor's suit is finished. They mime dressing him and he sets off in a procession before the whole city. The townsfolk uncomfortably go along with the pretense, not wanting to appear inept or stupid, until a child blurts out that the emperor is wearing nothing at all. "

Let's see what he's wearing next season as that needs to be his last if unsuccessful.

Success means properly competing, a trophy of some description and playing football like a big club again as Liverpool do and City did.

That's not a big ask for a big club that's spent a fortune on players and wages. Our net spend and wage bill are both up there and need a return on investment.

Go get a decent number two who will challenge you. A top top striker who doesn't defend and has a little attitude problem. A. Comfortable world isn't a winners world. You need a bit of friction. None of this singing songs around the fire holding each others hands talking about a lightbulb creates a winning mentality. We simply don't have one and we need that next season. Do that and i'm happy competing and coming a close third as we will win the year after. Look at Liverpool over the years. They've won plenty as they got that right.


This isn't a reaction to the game tonight but to reading multiple posts - COYG.

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06 Feb 2025 00:44:05
Option C: Arteta does not have sole, or even majority, control of transfers.

We definitely need a striker.

06 Feb 2025 01:04:42
enough for me.

06 Feb 2025 07:39:21
None of them for me, Iā€™m happy where we have come from, but we should have never bought Kai we should have bought a striker instead of him and I do believe we would have had a title by now if we had bought one.

06 Feb 2025 08:11:56
Since sakas injury we have gone out of both cups and lost Jesus and dropped points. Arsenal had all of January to try and find an attacking options and did precisely nothing but never mind we will go big in the summer. We need to wake up to the fact that it is always jam tomorrow for arsenal fans but what about now, what about the present, does that not matter? Sadly for us tomorrow never comes!

06 Feb 2025 08:36:36
Next year is always our year Oā€™Leary and itā€™s getting a little frustrating now.

06 Feb 2025 09:43:05
The most infuriating thing about it voddy is we are so close and they seem so unwilling to take the final step.

06 Feb 2025 11:21:54
Oā€™Leary - spit on. Thatā€™s my frustration in a nutshell.

06 Feb 2025 12:56:15
After last night and SY's post above I've been thinking.
Are we good enough to attract top strikers at the moment? I've seem a post suggesting Kane might leave in the summer so Bayern could be looking at Sesko or Gykores. Could we compete if big teams are looking for strikers? I don't think it will be easy. Our strength in depth is pretty shallow and we seem to struggle against physical, committed teams like Newcastle. A lot of teams play like this now and they seem to have worked out how to block any attempt we have at scoring. I think we had such a good result against City because we play similar possession-based football and we were superior that day. Obviously City are not at their best.
I wonder if this style of play will ultimately become obsolete and that direct, break-up-the-play football will become the norm. We have plenty of big strong players who could adapt I reckon.
I think losing Saka and Jesus has shown us how short we are in attack and this definitely needs addressing. Maybe we have a little gem coming through from the academy.

06 Feb 2025 14:25:15
Good post sally maybe we have missed an opportunity maybe we should get Kane lol.

06 Feb 2025 17:36:35
could you imagine lol.

06 Feb 2025 17:48:55
Hi Sally, but we are a big club.

We have finished top 2 in England for the last 2 season and are currently 2nd again plus top 3 in European football, I'm guessing most players around the world would have watched our game against City on Sunday and wouldn't have been put off joining us from what they witnessed, especially given we did it without Saka and others available.

In my opinion some people are painting us in an a completely exaggerated negative light when in reality we are currently the best we've been in two decades.

06 Feb 2025 18:25:23
G62 if you listen to the media and other fans we are awful and the worst team around but as you say we have come along way in 5 years, but we need that extra push that should have been addressed 2 years ago I personally think if we had a 25/ 30 league goal striker we would have won the title last year and this year.

06 Feb 2025 20:10:01
I totally agree we are a great club 62, my point being would we be able to compete against Real Madrid or a. n. other huge club who might be after Isak or any of the other top strikers. There aren't too many of them around!

06 Feb 2025 20:17:34
If we had a striker we could have won 1 of 2 titles coming into this year. For some random unknown reason he signed Kai. Not a solution to the obvious problem. He made a rod for his own back their and tied up money that could have been used to get a striker. Top of the league at Xmas by a long way and we just needed that investment to remove any doubt of winning it. As Henry said - heā€™s too conservative full stop.

06 Feb 2025 22:42:56
Hi Sally, internationally can anyone compete with Real? They have long been the ultimate club worldwide for players to play for.

As for the rest of Europe, if you discount money I believe it's all about a player chosing the right club at the right time for them.

NAME DROP ALERT ( well sort of)

I was once on a week long course with the Ox dad Mark Chamberling and in the bar one night the conversation inevitable turned to what happened, and he said I had the choice between Liverpool or Sheffield Wednesday, I chose wrong and the rest is history, that was around 25 years ago but something never change and for the right player we are most definitely the right club.

07 Feb 2025 17:29:39
Hi Guys

To say this was unexpected would be a lie. I didn't think we would sign anyone significant and mainly outgoings.

For me right now our biggest problem is replacing Edu its been a few months and we have still not replaced the person who gets us the players. I have said this before and will say it again we need a David Dein to bring in the players.

To bring someone like David Dein we need new owners that can match the supports ambition. We have a quality manager and a quality starting 11, someone to keep bringing in what we need is a must, and we won't get that under Kronke.

The difference between what 1st gets you compared to coming 2nd is a couple of millions the way Kronkes brain works (and you can see that in his other sports interests) why would he spend 60-80 mill to get a few millions extra to them its a numbers game. Peopel may start saying they spent 700 mill in in last 5 years etc but what have they done for the previous 20 years.

A few years back people though we were contenders for the relegation battle we are now at the other end of the table. Its much better place to be and yes we need investment but Arteta and the team won't be bringing that investment that lies with Kronke time to get them out.

07 Feb 2025 20:53:13
G4 - agree. We need a Dein to keep the club, board and manager competitive. Same as Wengers last few years. We can spend X and still get top 4 but zero appetite to spend 4X to compete.

Arteta needs someone to push him as heā€™s so frustrating. Heā€™s to comfortable and needs pushing.

The players need a number two who shouts at them a bit more. Way too comfortable.

A Dein would shake things up and wouldnā€™t have allowed us to sign City and Chelsea rejects. How can you win buying players that arenā€™t good enough for competition.

08 Feb 2025 08:05:26
When city rejects came in they came because of their ability to create a team spirit and make us contendors again. They respected arteta and played for him. Mission accomplished. The Chelsea rejects that came in where due to back handers to edu.

We are no longer in the same position we were in a few years ago. We are now contenders and we need a bigger investment into the club that takes us from contenders to winners. If the owners are happy with us being contenders and letā€™s be honest no fan, no player or manager with any ambition would regularly be satisfied with being contenders regularly and not winning anything. It would be interesting to see what goals and objectives Arteta was given in his latest contract. If it was to be a challenger than we donā€™t need a striker and we wonā€™t keep hold of our key players.

I believe Wenger is the perfect replacement for dein. Loves the club and the fans. Excellent scouting network, excellent football knowledge, has an eye to find hidden gem, is greatly respected in the footballing world, keeps things very close to his chest. Would he come back to the club not while the kronke is about or is given complete control of incomings and goings with a very good budget.

We fans need to realise where the problem lies and I honestly believe itā€™s the owners rather than the team or manager. The owners will continue milking us ghe next step will be to start selling players to maximise profits. After that it will be replace manager who will take the blame and new manager will be bought olin to restart the building process. The sooner we get our owners out the better.

08 Feb 2025 17:20:44
Sorry but I donā€™t agree G4 - I just donā€™t see Arteta as having it in him. He bottled it the last 3 seasons playing safe rather than playing the style that got him there. Heā€™s still doing it now. Heā€™s done a nice job but like the ā€œrejectsā€ he signed. They werenā€™t good enough to win the league but promote a harmony by easy to manage players rather than harmony thru winning.

05 Feb 2025 22:10:13
Let's push on in the league and Champ League - let's see where we get to šŸ’Ŗ

Liverpool away to Everton and still to play us.

Need to beat Forest šŸ‘.

{Ed025's Note - as much as i would like to i cant see Everton doing you any favours SY, its a possibility i suppose mate but i feel they are too strong for us.

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05 Feb 2025 22:20:43
Forest away will be tough - need a favour from you boys and an my old home. They are having a blast this season and attacking opponents, fun to see and great for Nottingham. Watching them is enjoying the ride and the moment. We are above them but a different story.

06 Feb 2025 01:35:28
All form goes out the window whenever Liverpool and Everton play, Ed. And even though Liverpool has the stronger team, games are never won on paper. Considering that Everton has the chance to scupper our league hopes, you lot will be up for that game and will make things difficult for us. I wouldn't be surprised to see us drop points when we play you.

{Ed025's Note - oh you can bet your life that we will be trying Drac, you only have to look at last season when we deservedly beat you with an inferior side, but we are coming into this on the back of 3 wins and that scares me mate, if we believe we can beat you playing good football then as sure as eggs is eggs we will lose, we have more chance with the dogs of war spirit because man for man this liverpool side are just too strong for us..

05 Feb 2025 21:59:21
Well done Newcastle

Some of us want you to win the cup.

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05 Feb 2025 22:17:53
It would be nice for them to win. Although we wouldnā€™t hear the last of it for a decadeā€¦. but the alternative doesnā€™t sound great either.

Thatā€™s a poor score over both legs.

I bet the live chat was cheerful xx.

05 Feb 2025 22:19:45
To be fair they deserved it over the 2 legs, we were shocking in the 1st leg and worse in the 2nd. Good luck to them.

05 Feb 2025 22:23:48
I canā€™t believe Vodkamartenelli wants Spurs to win it!

05 Feb 2025 22:32:06
does he really though, you know people say things in the heat of the moment all the time.

05 Feb 2025 23:18:01
If anyone but Arsenal are going to win this Trophy I'd like it to be Newcastle.

Love them or loath them they have fantastic supporters who the overwhelming majority of have never seen their club win anything other than promotion.

06 Feb 2025 07:37:01
Still angry malababy pmsl.

05 Feb 2025 15:15:55
See the fa have said your not allowed to copy someone's goal celebration now. otherwise there could be consequences.

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05 Feb 2025 16:11:46
Hi wilf, hope alls well. what a load of nonsense. canā€™t copy someoneā€™s goal celebrationā€¦ old rubber face from city. (stay humble eh) . also has the same celebration as wissa from Brentford (never seen anyone complain about it before) . itā€™s because itā€™s arsenal. and city canā€™t handle the fact that we ainā€™t no pushovers anymoreā€¦ for years we have had them turning us over then taking the p! $$ out of us. well we ainā€™t having it no more, the red tide is turning. long may it continue. and all these pundits I, e Gary Neville and co saying its disrespectful to copy rubber face celebration. should be concentrating on things like erling cowardly smashing gabi in the back of the head with the ball at the end of the 2-2 draw in the reverse fixture, or bernado silva smashing into Leo then kicking him on the ground. we are THE ARSENAL and we ainā€™t no soft touch anymore. so other teams and thier fans best get used to it. ARSENAL TILL I DIEšŸ”“āšŖļøā¤ļø COYG/ VTHā€¦.

05 Feb 2025 16:41:32
Agreed Gabi. Absolute farce. Thereā€™s a difference between Ade running the length of the pitch to celebrate Vs a bit of fun. The ref has it in his remit to address today ( taking shirt off ) without more fun extracted out of the game or the powered that be looking even more out of touch. Joke.

05 Feb 2025 19:00:53
What about when lots of players skid on their knee's after scoring? Is that now the sole right of the first person who did it? There are countless ways in which players mimic how other players have celebrated after a goal.

The FA need to think again sharpish before Donald Trump sues them for breaching his copy right to make irrational crazy announcements.

05 Feb 2025 21:23:58
For me John it's one of 3 things
1/ Bollocks
2/ All Bollocks
3/ All load of Bollocks.

05 Feb 2025 21:34:42
Didnā€™t maupay do Maddisonā€™s dart celebration fa didnā€™t say nothing about that.

05 Feb 2025 22:00:26
You'd think they'd have better things to do with their time Bill mate, if not perhaps they are overstaffed and the nutcase who came up with should be sent out to buy some tartan paint, and not return without it.

05 Feb 2025 22:17:41
Just as well we don't have a striker who bangs goals in constantly and has a recognised celebration then!

05 Feb 2025 22:40:03
I would copy Kaiā€™s but hardly seen itā€¦ šŸ˜‚.

06 Feb 2025 07:37:02
I'm a Liverpool fan lads and honestly don't see a problem with it

Would it have happened if Haaland hadn't bounced the ball of Gabriel's head or his 'stay humble' dig? No, and let's be honest, if you're going to dish it out you got to be ready to take it

On another note though, is it not entertaining as fans to see that though?

05 Feb 2025 15:06:03
So, with regards to recent discussions/ opinions, I think I'm split. Am I pleased with where we are compared to 4yrs ago, absolutely I am. Could it of been better, yes.
Regarding Arteta, he's bought a connection back between fans and the club that threatened to boil over, so, again thankful for that.
Could he manage team and his own emotions better, 100%. And I (think) he knows that.
I'm not for one minute saying he's a messiah, but, he did have to clear out some players that were living purely for a wage. He's changed that mindset. We've all been literally crying out for a striker which hasn't been addressed (as of yet) but we had the most prolific scoring season last year in recent seasons. I'm not sure if it was more edu's imput than his, really don't know. And are PSR rules holding us back a little bit.
We might of bought a forward in the summer or Jan, with the biggest reputation in the world, but who's to say it would've worked out. I kind of like the fact we weren't willing to throw money away on a gamble for 6mths and wait for what we believe will be the right player. But again, if we sign a certain striker we would all crave and think would make us better, who's to say it wouldn't fall flat (think torres chelsea) example.
I've got an opinion on how my sons team should set up and perform better, would I be right? Who knows, but it's the opinions that matter, and most of the time we're all wanting the same outcome, just have a different view on how it might be achieved. But most decisions are a heads or tails, it'll either work or not. but absolutely no harm in trying
Really love everyone's input and opinions on here.

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05 Feb 2025 16:26:30
I read SY saying below we lack ambition. I just think we are being very picky. I bet Arteta is set on signing Sesko and is prepared to wait for him. Is this the right call? I'm not sure. I think we should have loosened our criteria a bit. Not getting the second best option may well end up costing us a trophy this season. But this should have happened in the summer. Even if we were more open to other options this January it was always going to be very difficult to pull off.

Now that we have made our choice i can kind of see everything coming together in the summer. Sesko, Zubimendi and Williams all look ready to move in the next window and we could finally see the squad being completed. A "complete" Arsenal squad sounds a bit surreal though so let's see if it really happens or not.

05 Feb 2025 16:43:14
Ramsgate, that's the whole point of competition though - taking calculated risks. Of course, every player a team buys can turn out not to work, but you learn by doing.

If no one ever took a risk, we'd all be living a very different reality.

If you're not willing to take risks, then it's time to step away from the business of competitive sport.

I'm not saying I'm not pleased, because really, I am. We're playing some lovely football, most of the time.

My issue is not even really about this winter window. My issue is, in 5 (or is it 6?) years we've never really replaced adebayor. Seems strange when I say that out loud.

And to be honest, I don't even care for a marquee signing. I didn't know Martinelli before he played for us, or seen much of Ode before he played for us.

Hopefully Kai stays fit.

05 Feb 2025 20:02:12
Iā€™d rather wait and signe a striker in the summer than sign a 30 year old for 60m and inwas desperate for us to sign one, but I think we should have signed a winger people have there own opinions like sy said above, but some people donā€™t like it and come up with some stranger comments like sharpe said, am I happy where we are yes would I rather win than second of course and whoever says otherwise should never post again football is about winning not coming second you play to win trophyā€™s and donā€™t get one for second place,

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05 Feb 2025 07:39:09
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04 Feb 2025 21:16:23
Whoever made this video has way too much time on their hands, but also, I love it! šŸ˜‚

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