Brilliant effort!
Champions of Europe! :bow:
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Brilliant effort!
Champions of Europe! :bow:
:trophy:
:trophy: at this point we'll take anything :scarf:
But seriously, this win is quite remarkable as both Lyon and Barca are usually unbeatable at this stage...and they overcame both of em !!! :scarf:
BTW I wonder if they'd had been able to turn around their season so spectacularly and achieve this if they didn't have the "balls" to move on their manager who was always managing to get away with just achieving the bare minimum.......oh well.
On closer inspection this seems like quite an achievement from the ladies. Huge underdogs throughout and overcame the two teams that have dominated the competition. Only English club to win it and they’ve done it twice now. Fair play.
Now go and make coffee, FFS!
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Originally Posted by Letters
I mean it does beg the question. Would you swap places with that chimpanzee?
It was the best of seasons, it was the blurst of seasons.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaqiri Is Boss
Stupid monkey!
Gabriel Magahat has signed a contract extension it appears
Always good to hear. He and Saliba are arguably our most irreplaceable players along with Saka
“Everyone thinks he’s a nice guy but in fact he’s a son of a bitch. He has a history of incidents that all too often have gone unnoticed. We hate him and have real reason to do so”
- Vieira on Ruud Van Horseface
:lol:
Van Nistelrooy was actually quite an underrated striker, one of the best finishers and predatory front men there was. But he was Dutch, the Dutch are dirty bastards. And it felt like at times the non existent refereeing at Old Trafford meant he was given licence to be a vicious shit. Stray kicks, dragging his studs down people’s legs, even punches and elbow.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
Vieira was foolish to react the way he did that day especially as a captain, but it was just sheer frustration at the way that dickhead threw himself into him and threw himself backwards like a rabbit trying to avoid being run over when Vieira again foolishly but understandably kicked out.
Players like Keown and Lauren knew the score, they were getting digs in because of what he’d done to get Vieira sent off
Upgraded stadium plans are gaining pace apparently
While it would annoy Daniel Levy, who pathetically made sure their toilet had 61k seats just because ours has 60k, as someone who goes to the games it sounds like it will cause a lot of disruption
https://sportsrender.com/2025/06/25/...o-80000-seats/
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/a...s/cr4we9z2l42o
Liverpool forward Diogo Jota has dies in a car crash, aged 28.
This puts everything into perspective, what a terrible thing to happen :(:rose:
Yep shocking news - reminds me of Reyes.
Indeed :rose:Quote:
Originally Posted by IBK
Interesting. I remember at the time there was debate on here about whether there was any potential for further expansion. Some on here said there wasn't, I said I'd be surprised if that's the case as it would have been a bit short sighted. So...as always...Letters woz right :cool:. Unless I wasn't and it's going to be a massive ballache to expand it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mac76
The impression I always had was that Islington Council had a veto on expansion (but then again they were opposed to it being constructed in the first place).Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
We aren’t allowed to have concerts at night time. Robbie Williams performed at the Emirates about three-four weeks ago but it was a late afternoon start time.
It always feels like we do our bit but the local authorities don’t reciprocate. For example we were asked to build a railway bridge for the Northern City Line at Drayton Park, but did TFL expand the facilities at the station to make it usable on match days? Did they fuck.
I think personally the stadium needs renovating anyway. Seats need replacing, larger screens need putting in, need to either put in WiFi or improve the 5G coverage.
And just a general lick of paint and facelift
Islington Council have been pricks about this from the start. Given the money we must generate for the local economy you'd think they'd be more amenable.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football...s/cedgv61x9j9o
Have to say this is a bit of a pity, rarely had a bad game when he did play but just couldn’t stay fit. Hope he’s able to pick up his career elsewhere
Also Gabriel Heinze, ex Man United left back and Arteta’s mate from PSG is joining the coaching staff after Carlos Cuesta left to become the coach at Parma
It had a facelift with the murals etcQuote:
Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn
The wifi's improved but could still better, the seats are fine, the main thing for me is making the concourses better, IK it's a football stadium but there's still not enough places to rest your overpriced beer while you eat your overpriced pie
Yes let's hope he has a Cazorla style renaissance elsewhere - although if he does it perhaps casts yet more doubt on the Arsenal medical setupQuote:
Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn
Yeah this is a shame. Thought he was generally a reliable performer when fit. Think his absences at the end of 21/22 and 22/23 were felt.Quote:
Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn
I’m also quite happy the club have opted to cancel the contract though, it’s brutal but we can’t carry players like this. As you say hopefully he’s able to have a career elsewhere once his injury problems clear up.
Agreed - it's sad things worked out this way. Very talented player but his fitness let him down.
yes, I think they gave him a contract last summer as a goodwill gesture in recognition of his situation, so they've done the right thingQuote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
You have to wonder about the difference he could have made if fit last season, could have taken some minutes off Saliba at least, plus helped out Timber and White, neither of whom were really fully fit.
Looking forward to how this case unfolds as the part highlighted is something I've been wondering about for a while.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mac76
Wishing you the best Tomi :scarf:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39zr7y9ep3o
Somehow I think our failure to agree a new contract wasn’t about money
It was clearly reported that we refused to increase his salary and that we were in contract negotiations ....so trying to retell that story this late in time in order to make the club smell of roses is a bit pathetic.
I wondered a bit about the timing of the charges, but it kind of makes sense when you think about it. The Met is notoriously known for taking their time in these kind of cases and clearly the realisation that we are not offering him a new contract means they know that he could be out of the country soon and need to act now.
We were a bit lucky here and I'm sure Partey is regretting in more ways than one not signing that extension.
This has been brewing in the background for a very long time and let’s just say we’ve had a stroke of luck that he isn’t our problem anymore. :wave:
PreciselyQuote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
Yeah, we were definitely lucky with this, would have been the perfect excuse for another "coming 2nd" campaign.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
We should still expect a lot of blowback though from the matter....definitely more reasons for the same set of people to go on their anti-Arsenal drive.
Don’t think that would have worked. We’ve all known for three years that he was a sex fiendQuote:
Originally Posted by 21_GOONER_SALUTE
Oh and who gives a fuck if people get angry with us over this. The fact is he was kept anonymous for years. We did the only thing any sensible club would have done.
We’ve got what we want out of him, let the law deal with him now
My assumption is that if he had signed the extension and then been charged during the season (which now looks like what was planned), it would have been the perfect excuse by some for why we couldn't compete towards the end (obviously we'd need to suspend him and all the media brouhaha).
So quite likely the charge has come as a result of him leaving Arsenal where he isn’t tied to England and possibly moving to a country where they wouldn’t extradite him back to the uk
Also explains why his departure was never announced with the usual well wishing statement.
I'm inclined to agree, I think there were sound footballing reasons to let him go, we could replace him with someone on lower wages and also while he stayed injury-free last saeason there's no guarantee it would have happened again.Quote:
Originally Posted by 21_GOONER_SALUTE
I think the CPS has charged him before he leaves the country. The fact is they’ve had three years to charge him, so before that it would suggest they didn’t think they had sufficient confidence of a conviction to take it to court, yet at the same time found his accusers compelling enough not to let it drop.
So most likely had he signed a new contract with us, he wouldn’t have been charged because an investigation would have been ongoing
To put it bluntly, if you’ve got a player of Partey’s quality and you know he’s under investigation for serious crimes but you also know he’s protected by anonymity this whole idea that you were going to drop him is for the birds. We did the right thing from the club’s perspective.
People whether from rival clubs or from our own club pearl clutching about this can get to fuck, we aren’t running a women’s refuge shelter. If Partey is guilty, nothing we did or didn’t do has any bearing on that fact…I’ve said many times we might want to consider cutting him loose to spare ourselves a headache if things went south. Now either we knew what was coming and decided to cut him loose, or as I think is more likely to be the case the charges have come because he’s no longer any reason to stay in England.
https://www.skysports.com/football/n...inancial-rules
Clearly, adherence to UEFA FFP rules are for losers.
No wonder Villa couldn't be bothered to offload more players. I really feel like sporting authorities everywhere are becoming a bit of a joke. Though I like the sounds coming from the Spanish FA and the way they've stopped cuddling both Madrid and Barca.
Bluesky is full of po-faced crap about it, I've no doubt the club co-operated with police or whoever if asked, that's all they can do, it's not for them to become a kangaroo courtQuote:
Originally Posted by 21_GOONER_SALUTE
That said I think Arteta's comments in May were ill-advised and he'd have been a lot smarter to be more reserved about the whole thing