Thank God for the Kroenkes.
People don't get it when it comes to ownership. Casual fans think the Kroenkes are responsible for our decline but real ones know it is the club's executives. Bad handling of contracts alone fucked us out of a Coutinho-sized bag.
(a massive thread).
Everyone has had to accommodate Foden in this team.
—Kane playing without his signature runner
—Jude Bellingham forced to play LW
—Saka has been forced to play wingback
All for nothing. A tournament wasted on proving a 2nd-tier talent.
List of managers who have achieved 89+ points in the history of the PL
Sir Alex Ferguson
Arsene Wenger
Pep Guardiola
Jurgen Klopp
Jose Mourinho
Mikel Arteta
Arteta is 41 years old.
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Note is needed - “in the history of the PL” implies this is a list of all managers to get 89+ points in a season. However, Antonio Conte and Roberto Mancini both have achieved 89+ points in a premier league campaign.
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Ballon d'Ors are about stories, not performances.
And Erling Haaland has written the most boring script ever in the same year Lionel Messi, the Lionel Messi, wrote his greatest.
Why Are Arsenal So Good?
Part of it is 'the basketball rule.'
Mikel Arteta and his team of young ballers are drawing inspiration from basketball to power themselves to an unprecedented title challenge against Pep Guardiola's Manchester City.
A Mighty Thread 👇.
It is not just aura. It is the stuff of history. Declan Rice is aura and history in one body. England's future. Arsenal's present. And 105 million of the king's finest.
Ronaldo is not bad. People just expect too much of him now at this age. He is simply nothing but a box CF now. Just feed him balls in the box and he'll score.
Kane needs runners
Palmer needs to play inside
Foden needs God
Gordon needs to be fed in transition
Saka needs nothing. Just give him a block of wood to bounce the ball off.
100 wins. First managerial post. 1st in the Premier League. Youngest team in the league.
This is what you call greatness. An all-timer manager in the making. Mikel Arteta, take a bow.
Only 3 strikers in the league have been more productive than Kai Havertz since he moved to CF at Arsenal.
Isak—37
Haaland—35
Watkins—30
Havertz—29
Never appreciated, never praised. Only his misses are highlighted.
And that is why Declan Rice is going to retire an all-timer.
He's just got it. That captain's aura. You can see it. Nights in Moscow, Munich and Manchester. 90+5 winners, 55-yard screamers, heroic tackles again and again to ring the drums of history. He's got it—Mr. Declan Rice.
I don't think Maguire has ever looked this memeable and funny in his errors.
Look at him here. He looks like a blind old man in New York City trying to cross a street in rush hour all by himself.
I don't know how people watched Lionel Messi ball for 15 years, playing like an impossible dream come true and decide that a hattrick against Tottenham is what's going to determine their GOAT.
People need to rate their own intelligence more.
Here is Saka going past an entire team to open the score but because he's not light skinned or pacy, he doesn't move certain men on Twitter.
25 G/A last season to match Mané and Sane's best ever EPL seasons. 17 in 19 this season.
22 years of age. 22.
Mainoo slander hit-piece halfway through the match, Saka put up as the poster boy for England's loss. Remember how they treated Raheem Sterling, too.
The hate lives on.
Do you now understand why Pep Guardiola, Thomas Tuchel and Mikel Arteta were all ready to drop 100 million for Declan Rice?
Do you now understand how crazy effective he is? How he can dominate the best players in the world like it's nothing?
Do you now understand?
I'm struggling to see why this is not the GOAT GK.
He is an anomaly. No keeper should move like this. Gives me nearly the same feelings as watching Messi at times.
Villa's flat win today is PGMOL punishing Mikel Arteta, players, the Arsenal board of directors and trustees and the fans for daring to question the credibility of an old boys institution without any diversity, honesty or capacity to not narrate games.
This is PGMOL's rebuttal.
“League has fallen off.”
I promise you, between the pressure of rising prices, your grind, TikTok, etc, you have simply lost the ability to genuinely appreciate things as they happen
Arsenal didn't score 4 but don't get it wrong: that was a humiliation.
Chelsea were outfought, outballed, outclassed, completely dominated and humiliated at Stamford Bridge in front of their home fans today.
And one man built the team that did it. His name? Mikel Arteta.
You watch tonight and you understand why the likes of Martinez, Konaté, Romero, top CBs in their own right, should never be compared to William Saliba.
What he does at his age, how he's pushed this team to title contenders in a new league, how he plays..
Virgil Van Dijk's heir.
Arsenal have basically bitched Liverpool in front of the world today.
Reminiscent of City reeling Arsenal in last season. Just basically a show of all-round superiority.
People will tell you that it was a boring game. But that 2nd half was the highest level of football tactically and physically.
Two of the most athletic teams in the world, the best defences in Europe, coached by the best tactical minds... what did you expect? A goalfest?
VVD's violent conduct this season with no cards
1. Double stamps Havertz off the ball
2. Shoulder slams Gordon’s head
3. Plants his studs into Solanke’s calf
4. Throws elbow into Ouattara’s head
5. Now, another elbow into Richarlison
When will it stop?
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Enzo's pricing destroyed the CM/DM market.
When it was Pogba for 86, it was at least Paul Labile Pogba. When it was Frenkie De Jong, we were talking about 80. When Aurelin Tchouameni was to move, he moved for 86.
But Chelsea had to get their guy, yunno, and for what?
Gabriel Jesus. What a player. Never lets the standards down. His work enables us to play where we have no right to.
Leadership, work rate, quality and bravery. A revelation from the heavens.
This is the difference between Liverpool and Arsenal as clubs.
One is for artists, dreamers and romantics. Acts like it.
The other belongs to the worst of the working class. Acts like it.
Kai Havertz is 24. UCL winner. Never injured. False 9 + targetman capacity. Runs in behind as well as Haaland & Nunez. Can play deeper. Comfortable receiving on either flank & between the lines. Absolute bastard at winning duels, fouls and setpieces. Clutch performer... Hmm
No refereeing conspiracies against Arsenal football club. Definitely not. Season after season after season. Ignore what happened in just two games so far. Ignore.
They were angry at Arsenal for drawing 2-2 with 10 men at the Etihad. They are now angry at Arsenal for winning 5-1 at home.
The common denominator is Arsenal. They hate that we are good. And this is the last gimmick they have.
And that is Bukayo Saka for you. You simply cannot fully control him 90 minutes. You do your best and pray it is enough for the day.
Marc Cucurella thought he'd seen the best of him last two games at the Bridge. Bukayo assisted the decisive goal both times. It was not enough.
Suarez was unquestionably, unquestionably, a much better striker than Benzema.
Don't let Ballon d'Ors outside of the Messi-Ronaldo era deceive you. These two eclipsed a whole generation of great players.
They got what they wanted. Just like at Brighton.
Please remember that Arsenal should have 15 points this season if not for officials forcibly intervening in games. That they only have 11 points is how Pep wins the league.
Same scenarios last season at Newcastle and Villa.
Phillip Lahm gave advice to ‘stop’ some of the best wingers in the world (Vinicius: ‘Push him wide’/Yamal: ‘Get him on his weak foot,’) but when it came to Saka, he folded his arm and dropped his head.
‘Just cut off his supply if you can.’
This is how they talked about Messi.