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PaddyPower trolling Arsenal hard.

Happier that he went there than to Arsenal tbh. Going to have a quick dekko at Arsetwitter.

Well quite . Not sure what people think is gonna happen. There’s going to come a point when the fans realize that Saudi Arabia buying Newcastle means that you’re actually an elite club with as much money as you want, and no longer an outsider.

Naah. Bottom line - English clubs in general just have so much more money than most other European clubs. If they want to offload a high-earner who’s surplus to requirements, free up some wage bill and balance the books under the new “FFP” then there are a limited number of clubs you can sell to. They’d have sold to you if you were willing to pay and if Sterling was willing to go to you. Arsenal basically had to suck it up and write off Auba, Ozil and Laca to get them out of the league.

If he scores 12 goals and they fail to get Top Five then he’ll have been a failure tbh. For the wages he’s supposedly on too? It’s not just about Jesus, it’s about opportunity cost. If Arsenal could have spent that money better elsewhere (fee and wages) - and I hope that’s the case - then it might not matter. If they spend all this money and then don’t get into the CL then I really don’t know where they go from here.

This is it, tbh. I don’t think it will stop Newcastle at all. Might conceivably slow things down a touch, but I don’t think that’s a bad thing either. Lest we forget, it essentially took Spurs 18 years to get to this point - let’s say 15 accounting for COVID. You might not even need 3. It definitely makes things harder for the next tier though. Probably the one other team with the immediate potential to break through would be West Ham with their big cheap stadium and the subsequent potential for matchday income. It puts Everton in all kinds of trouble, and possibly Chelsea too - although they have an ongoing strategy of buying loads of players, shunting them out on loan, then making money on transfers which will help. Leaves Arsenal in a precarious position too, possibly. Their continued high spending despite poor league position would be even less sustainable under this regime. They do still have the global profile that might bail them out.

They’d be well chuffed. Saka was their top scorer last season with 11. Even Leicester had two players who scored more.

The usual excellent breakdown from Swiss Ramble - this time of the new FFP regs (or whatever they’re called now). Would be really interested to see him analyze what that would mean for you guys going forward (over the next 3/4 years, say). Edit: Sorry, didn’t see all the stuff in the other thread. As you were.

For a team that’s not finished in the top four in the last six seasons, they don’t half spend a lot of money. More in net spend over the last four years than any Premier League club is this is to be believed: https://www.transfermarkt.us/premier-league/fuenfjahresvergleich/wettbewerb/GB1

Rumour is that we’ve put in a firm bid for Raphinha, but also that you and West Ham have thrown your hat in the ring. Sounds like a proper old-fashioned bidding war. Except he wants to go to Barca

Just feels like it’s way too early to be having these discussions. A lot of Arsenal and Spurs’ strengthening is just on paper. Arsenal have already spent all their Champions League money and have only actually got in Marquinhos and Fabio Vieira (while losing Lacazette). Spurs have only signed three players, and one’s a backup keeper, plus they need a significantly bigger squad. Chelsea and Man U are bound to spend some money…surely. I’d rather wait and see who’s in place for the start of the season. A week ago Arsenal looked like a disaster area. Now some divvy on Arsenal-mania is posting this: I mean, sure .

Womblemaster says hi.

I’ve never really looked at Arsenal Twitter before. It’s very entertaining.

That phrase is a pet hate . Me and at least a couple of others on here. Only good-humoured

There’s probably a really good in-depth article on this out there. There are so many factors. On the one hand a team with lots of internationals might not get a break, but a team with few internationals might be rusty. Someone made the point that it might actually be better than a number of mid-season internationals because they’re all flying to and staying in one place (rather than, say, Bruno Guimaraes flying back and forth from Europe to South America). Is, say, Ben Davies worse off now than Kulisevski? Chances are he gets three games in the sun and then a couple of weeks off, versus Kulusevski just taking an extended break. Injuries are obviously a massive concern, but presumably bigger teams have both more players involved and a bigger squad to deal with it. If, say, it’s a Korea vs England World Cup Final then Son and Kane will be knackered and whoever loses will be devastated. But if they both go out in the first knockout round (infinitely more likely) then they’ll get a really nice mid-season rest.

But you probably do have to include NY just on population.

Link worked for me. And bloody hell, that was some read.

This season is going to be so bizarre. Guessing the wildcards and specials are going to be tweaked again.

My early thoughts are I should stop doing it because there are bound to be half a dozen times when I forget and get annoyed.

Won by a Spurs fan https://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/2022/june/spurs-fan-jamie-crowned-fpl-champion-from-9-million-entries/

Not any more…

Presume it’s basically an aggregator.