The Official Arsenal - 14 x Cup Winners Thread (Vol 5)

[Carl_Manchester]

Saliba getting paid about the same as Rory Delap

[Puzzles]

Those wages seem very low

[Wonderman]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65117724

Sigh

Arsenal and Aston Villa staff members charged by FA with improper conduct

[Wonderman]

Article in the Metro…
Arsenal fans paying £53,000 for final day tickets amid Premier League title race in hope of seeing team lift trophy

Too soon, and too much!

[StonedRollin]

Wonderman said:

Article in the Metro…
Arsenal fans paying £53,000 for final day tickets amid Premier League title race in hope of seeing team lift trophy

Too soon, and too much!

Maybe the article should read 'tickets advertised at' as I don't believe anyone in their right mind would pay that.

[Wonderman]

StonedRollin said:

Wonderman said:

Article in the Metro…
Arsenal fans paying £53,000 for final day tickets amid Premier League title race in hope of seeing team lift trophy

Too soon, and too much!

Maybe the article should read 'tickets advertised at' as I don't believe anyone in their right mind would pay that.

Seen more sensible articles with £28,000 I can't imagine why wouldn't put it on Ticket Exchange and get £28 for it instead (or if we've collapsed before then £2.80)

Anyway Arsenal "cracking down on touts" https://www.arsenal.com/news/acting-against-ticket... I had email convo with the lead for this back when we made the Champions League final, good to see they are quick to respond and not motivated to get fresh blood spending in The Armoury pre match...

Arteta manager of the month and Saka EPL player of the month...goes off to check on odds for Leeds win 1 nil with Saka OG ETA from Ramsdale clearance...

ETA Ramsdale got EPL save of the month DOOOOMED I TELLLSYA DOOOOOMED!!!!!

Edited by Wonderman on Friday 31st March 14:34

[TikTak]

StonedRollin said:

Wonderman said:

Article in the Metro…
Arsenal fans paying £53,000 for final day tickets amid Premier League title race in hope of seeing team lift trophy

Too soon, and too much!

Maybe the article should read 'tickets advertised at' as I don't believe anyone in their right mind would pay that.

You'd hope not. Honestly a 10th of that seems extreme to me. So crazy people out there though.

[Wonderman]

From Pre-match press conference:
https://www.arsenal.com/news/every-word-mikels-pre...

William Saliba is still progressing but has "some discomfort in his back" and is not fit for this game.*

Arteta, however, is "hopeful" midfielder Thomas Partey will be back this weekend.

Forward Gabriel Jesus is "very close" to being "100% fit" and has made "big steps" in the past 10 days, with Arteta adding: "He is in a really good place."

https://www.arsenal.com/news/arteta-rules-saliba-o...

*on whether Saliba’s injury was one that he had been managing for a while:
No, it’s something that happened - we don’t know if it happened in the previous game because he had a very awkward landing against Fulham but before that he was fine.

on why he can’t give a better extent of the injury:
That’s one more for the doctors to answer and be more specific about the area and the load he puts into the area, how he can cope with that and what kind of pain he can handle, and the risk that we can make it worse.

Edited by Wonderman on Friday 31st March 16:28

[Wonderman]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65073189

If we win tomorrow that will take Arteta to 100 wins in all competitions (in 170 games)

The Gunners could register seven successive top-flight wins for the first time since August to October 2018 under Unai Emery.

Hoping we start brightly as Leeds were looking lively before the international break.

[Radec]

Another win with a couple of nervy moments along the way.
Just have to keep doing what we are doing.
Trossard has been a brilliant addition.

[Wonderman]

Radec said:

Another win with a couple of nervy moments along the way.
Just have to keep doing what we are doing.
Trossard has been a brilliant addition.

Classic post international, Partey looked stiff in the warm up, Saka got a bit of rest and didn’t over do it when came on, so hopefully a nice warm up/ down.
Leeds almost pulled a Bournemouth from the kick off, and Ramsdale had to pull off a couple saves.

Agreed Trossard was good and not just going forward, was almost Partey level nipping the ball away to stop a couple chances.

Martinelli is just a machine!

Hopefully Jesus can keep up his disrupter role and be more relaxed in his shooting now he’s scored a couple.

One of Xhaka better games as well, and took the chance that Odegaard put a plate for him after Saka nullified about four defenders that was surrounding him.

On to Anfield next; they play Chelsea pensioners on Tuesday so we will have a couple extra days to recover for the Sunday match

Edited by Wonderman on Monday 3rd April 11:05

[Carl_Manchester]

I was poorly yesterday so listened on the radio and then fell asleep after half time.

the commentators tried to make out it was a close game but we seemed to be able to score at will.

[TikTak]

Seeing what City did to Liverpool, we've got to make sure we in that game.

Also not specifically Arsenal but more managers out the door. Crazy.

[aeropilot]

TikTak said:

Also not specifically Arsenal but more managers out the door. Crazy.

11 of the 20 clubs now changed manager since the start of the season.....(some more than once!) ........ as said, crazy

Is that a PL record?

[Wonderman]

aeropilot said:

TikTak said:

Also not specifically Arsenal but more managers out the door. Crazy.

11 of the 20 clubs now changed manager since the start of the season.....(some more than once!) ........ as said, crazy

Is that a PL record?

Yes, previous record was 10.

[Radec]

Wonderman said:

aeropilot said:

TikTak said:

Also not specifically Arsenal but more managers out the door. Crazy.

11 of the 20 clubs now changed manager since the start of the season.....(some more than once!) ........ as said, crazy

Is that a PL record?

Yes, previous record was 10.

Arteta being the 4th longest serving manager in the league is mind boggling, an even better stat is Chelsea have changed managers more times since the start of the PL than Liverpool have since they were created in 1892.

[Puzzles]

it's insane truly mind blowing

[Wonderman]

I've seen a couple articles say Jesus pen was soft, from watching MoTD he should've gone down with first challenge stomping on his foot but he beat them then top-knot muppet slides and instead of pulling leg back sticks the studs on the knees and knows he's fked up so feels like media stretching to find some bs. I wonder if any of the clubs surrounding the refs / failing to control players will get charged from this w/end, if any had been us we'd have had the sign here for direct debit...

Anyway link to Arse.con for a stream our U18 Youth FA semi against Man City Tuesday in case of interest:
https://www.arsenal.com/news/stream-our-fa-youth-c...

[Wonderman]

Saliba out for Liverpool but confident will be back before end of the season...

And Arteta off to Real Madrid in the summer

[Glassman]

Wonderman said:

Arteta off to Real Madrid in the summer

No chance.