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Season imploding. Arteta needs to get in an assistant manager with experience to bring a cool head for the second half of the season, someone who’s maybe been one of the most important managers of the last century, someone who has 1,000+ games managed under his belt

I’d also like to give thanks to Bruce for getting Bruno and Isak over the line

Unbelievably grim

Leicester away was very enjoyable because we got it all sorted in the first ten mins but you could totally relax by 30 mins. It’s so rare for us to be able to enjoy a match in that way. Not our best performance for the full 90 but enjoyable to not have any tension

Ooof, genuinely is kidney garden football stakes

Shame it’s not the Prime Cup

What kind of fat stacks do we receive for getting to the semis, anyone know the prize money / TV cash? I know it won’t be huge but if we finish top 6 and have this extra cash as well, it will surely help us to speed up our spending power a bit

Agree that it would be nice to have options but feels a push to integrate them into the team so they’d have a significant role by Feb. Especially as we’ll likely do late business if we do any. Would still be great to have more bench options

Ikon doing his level best to compensate for Neesy not being here anymore with that post

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/jan/11/graham-potter-claims-managing-chelsea-is-hardest-job-in-football

Maybe they’ll take it literally

The fact it’s over two legs is massively in our favour

Yes, get in. This is huge

He’ll be weighing up how many views he can get if he films it and uploads to YouTube / RedTube

I think over two legs we’re favourites by a distance against Forest and Southampton. Against Man U I think it’s around evens

Can’t even put into words how massive this is for us

Boehly: “Howdy there boys, I like me the look of that there player, $100m says I wants him.” Southampton: “We signed him days ago” Boehly: “I says I wants him and gimme a looksie at them other quarterbacks and wide receivers while we’re at it, I gots another hundy burning a hole in mah goddamn pocket”

Eurgh, any one of those could change the game in ten mins but especially Haaland

Watching PSG, Ekitike looks like an absolute baller in fairness

When you think about money spent it’s clearly a very poor return. I think you’ve got a bright future now that Emery’s there though

I think another element to our success in keeping clean sheets alongside Pope’s outstanding ability, our defensive shape and quality, and how much the rest of the team tracks back to stop attacks building is the fact that because we restrict teams to few chances they snatch at them more. Take a look at the chances Vardy had last night, when players know they have to score because they might not get another chance they put more pressure on themselves and are less likely to score

Will Smith gif - Take Willock’s name out of your goddamn mouth

He was given a lot of stick when his performances dropped under Bruce, granted. I think people have backed him a lot this season, especially over the last ten games. People are seeing more and more what he offers but there are still two major areas where he can focus on improving his game. Hopefully he can do it

Wouldn’t exactly call Longstaff a whipping boy, I think he has some people who back him more than the average player because he’s local, a minority who complain more because he’s local and a lot who just respond to his performances based on the good and bad. Obviously, it’s far more obvious when something goes wrong like a skied shot than when he tracks back and kills an attack just past the halfway line. Everyone knows what he’s good at and poor at, if he improves the areas he’s poorer at (holding onto the ball too long, missing shots) then he is a massive asset. If he doesn’t then it’s hard to see him being more than a squad player in future seasons

You may have seen different matches to me but I’ve seen Bailey have some shockers. I feel like Digne was made out to be an amazing signing, but has generally been a let down, maybe down to injuries. Ings actually has a lot more goals than I realised but whenever I’ve watched him for Villa I’ve seen him miss all his chances so maybe he’s been fine