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We are a confidence team aren't we?

Can Burn please get back in position after a set piece, he's not a centre forward.

I'm encouraged personally though we are getting in dangerous positions just the final ball letting us down.

Conceding first against these is less than ideal.

Shitting it for this, really hope we've turned the corner.

This is from 2022-2023 And the thing I find really interesting isn't the gap between say us and the sky 6, it's the "average club" bar. It really is a great visual demonstration of the nonsense which are FFP/PSR rules. "The average imaginary clubs revenue would actually place it 7th which just goes to show how skewed revenue is in the league and highlights the chasm which exists, this gap can't be breached without owner investment weather that be direct investment or through related party sponsors.

Clout chasing at an all time high.

Only until January right? I mean the window was closed so for Napoli something was better than nothing. The contract extension is just to protect the value.

Your right about the motives a couple of points from myself to add on/to discuss. 1, it's important to recognise Richard Masters is just an employee and the "league" are the ones who call the shots his job is to implement said shots. 2, the reason we have this situation is because the status quo is beneficial to the majority of clubs, when thinking about the league as a whole it's important to put all of that kicking a ball on a pitch to the side and put on the suit and tie. The bottom line is most of the owners are happy to have the value of the clubs go up without having to do much, they essentially have a informal cap on cost which is great because they skirt all sorts of rules this way. It's a quid quo pro if you will.

I dont agree. When it comes to revenue over performance over and period of time those who spend the most always place higher than thos that don't. Now of course you have outliers in your example Manchester United but let's not forget last season was the worst they've finished in premier league history and during that time period they were always top 2 in revenue. In order to compete at the highest level you need to have best in class and all of that expensive. Weather it's best in class academy or best in class manager. Individual fluctuations are a given but if you look at the average it becomes abundantly clear.

The 100m player market is very thin. He had a big fallout with Napoli and they weren't going to play him so we're desperate to get him off the books.

Correct without massive investment it's not possible. The growth comes from success it's a chicken and egg situation.

500m behind Manchester red and thinking we can compete with them on a consistent basis Is wild. We basically have to hope they never gee it remotely together.

If Ziegler is correct and if this passes it opens for the door for sure. Will also be a litmus test for PIF. seems like some folks are assuming they plan to do a city but I'm not so sure.

Unlikely I think, they have two expensive strikers already and he will cost a fortune.

It's likely a clause exists to reduce any compensation, it would be utterly incompetent of Arsenal to give him a deal which would cost them so much to terminate.

Aye his garden must be getting full of weeds by now.

Source for this? That can't be true.

People don't leave Arsenal for forest without something going on behind the scenes.

Him running his contract down also opens up so many options for him.

Which is actually nothing to celebrate tbh, just another sign off ffp working as intended. Don't you dare go against our cartel.

Proper naive management by Emery.

Emery learning why teams don't play with two out and out strikers

Resisting the urge to say he's shite and should be sold and replaced with Delap.

Good result proper chuffed for Eddie he needed the players to react and that's exactly what he's got. We do usually seem up for it against so called big teams at home though so we have to find ways of channeling that against smaller sides and especially away from home. Also very pleased to see him using the squad and particularly pleased for Long staff who had a good game.