No VAR. Its a friendly. Mariner as poor as our defending.

comment by Gunnerthru (U6675)
posted 16 minutes ago
comment by Nickasaurus (U9257)
posted less than a minute ago
How you doing lads? Anyone see the game? How was it from an arsenal perspective? Close game?
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Honestly it was an even game Nick.

We gifted you the first goal and it was your first or second chance of the game in the first half. Effective.

Second have we manage to put you under pressure. Your second goal was another gift, this time from Bellerin which was converted by Abraham.

All of our chances came from mistakes at our back. Leno alone made 3 of them alone.

Willock scored a clear goal. Think we deserved at least a draw.
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was Werner as bad as they say? Apparently should have set up 2 or 3 first half and missed a one on one.
I hear you were strong last 15 minutes

comment by Serial WUManiser™© 🇵🇸 (U1410)
posted about a minute ago
comment by Gunnerthru (U6675)
posted less than a minute ago
Dont think that Bellerin is moving though. Only my gut feeling saying that.
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I agree with you. PSG and Inter have had a look and figured out he's fairly sheite.
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Willick should get a run this year surely. Especially with Lacazette and auba on the wane?

comment by Nickasaurus (U9257)
posted less than a minute ago
comment by Gunnerthru (U6675)
posted 16 minutes ago
comment by Nickasaurus (U9257)
posted less than a minute ago
How you doing lads? Anyone see the game? How was it from an arsenal perspective? Close game?
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Honestly it was an even game Nick.

We gifted you the first goal and it was your first or second chance of the game in the first half. Effective.

Second have we manage to put you under pressure. Your second goal was another gift, this time from Bellerin which was converted by Abraham.

All of our chances came from mistakes at our back. Leno alone made 3 of them alone.

Willock scored a clear goal. Think we deserved at least a draw.
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was Werner as bad as they say? Apparently should have set up 2 or 3 first half and missed a one on one.
I hear you were strong last 15 minutes
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Werner is just Werner from the last season. He gave the pass to Havertz for your goal on the counter though.

comment by Nickasaurus (U9257)
posted less than a minute ago
Willick should get a run this year surely. Especially with Lacazette and auba on the wane?
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Nope, he'll get sold and the money used to hand Xhaka and Bellerin pay rises

I hope for your sake that that’s not true

Joe looked lively to me. We need to keep him. I would at least.

comment by Gunnerthru (U6675)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Nickasaurus (U9257)
posted less than a minute ago
comment by Gunnerthru (U6675)
posted 16 minutes ago
comment by Nickasaurus (U9257)
posted less than a minute ago
How you doing lads? Anyone see the game? How was it from an arsenal perspective? Close game?
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Honestly it was an even game Nick.

We gifted you the first goal and it was your first or second chance of the game in the first half. Effective.

Second have we manage to put you under pressure. Your second goal was another gift, this time from Bellerin which was converted by Abraham.

All of our chances came from mistakes at our back. Leno alone made 3 of them alone.

Willock scored a clear goal. Think we deserved at least a draw.
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was Werner as bad as they say? Apparently should have set up 2 or 3 first half and missed a one on one.
I hear you were strong last 15 minutes
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Werner is just Werner from the last season. He gave the pass to Havertz for your goal on the counter though.
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Just saw him trending and thought “ah sh!t here we go again”

Auba is more of a concern to me than Laca to be honest.

Nah, would rather we just let Laca run his contract down, than extend it. Have we learned nothing from Aubameyang?

Regards Arteta and Xhaka, what do people expect him to say? We tried to sell him, but there were no takers, so we’re all stuck with him for another season?

Besides, as Serial says, any player that keeps Elneny from the starting XI is okay by me.

Auba is dusted. Handed him a mega contract and he's turned to Xhaka. We won't be able to sell him either

comment by Nickasaurus (U9257)
posted less than a minute ago
comment by Gunnerthru (U6675)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Nickasaurus (U9257)
posted less than a minute ago
comment by Gunnerthru (U6675)
posted 16 minutes ago
comment by Nickasaurus (U9257)
posted less than a minute ago
How you doing lads? Anyone see the game? How was it from an arsenal perspective? Close game?
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Honestly it was an even game Nick.

We gifted you the first goal and it was your first or second chance of the game in the first half. Effective.

Second have we manage to put you under pressure. Your second goal was another gift, this time from Bellerin which was converted by Abraham.

All of our chances came from mistakes at our back. Leno alone made 3 of them alone.

Willock scored a clear goal. Think we deserved at least a draw.
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was Werner as bad as they say? Apparently should have set up 2 or 3 first half and missed a one on one.
I hear you were strong last 15 minutes
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Werner is just Werner from the last season. He gave the pass to Havertz for your goal on the counter though.
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Just saw him trending and thought “ah sh!t here we go again”
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And rightly though. He is quick on a counter but Havertz is really more deadly allthough he disappeared again after this goal.

comment by Lexington 125.2 (U8879)
posted about a minute ago
Nah, would rather we just let Laca run his contract down, than extend it. Have we learned nothing from Aubameyang?

Regards Arteta and Xhaka, what do people expect him to say? We tried to sell him, but there were no takers, so we’re all stuck with him for another season?

Besides, as Serial says, any player that keeps Elneny from the starting XI is okay by me.
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Keeping him is one thing. Giving him an extension is another. Are we really hoping he’ll get any additional value in the coming years?

comment by We got our Arsenal back (U10012)
posted 7 seconds ago
comment by Lexington 125.2 (U8879)
posted about a minute ago
Nah, would rather we just let Laca run his contract down, than extend it. Have we learned nothing from Aubameyang?

Regards Arteta and Xhaka, what do people expect him to say? We tried to sell him, but there were no takers, so we’re all stuck with him for another season?

Besides, as Serial says, any player that keeps Elneny from the starting XI is okay by me.
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Keeping him is one thing. Giving him an extension is another. Are we really hoping he’ll get any additional value in the coming years?
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I’ll wait til we extend before going into a meltdown about it.

comment by We got our Arsenal back (U10012)
posted less than a minute ago
comment by Lexington 125.2 (U8879)
posted about a minute ago
Nah, would rather we just let Laca run his contract down, than extend it. Have we learned nothing from Aubameyang?

Regards Arteta and Xhaka, what do people expect him to say? We tried to sell him, but there were no takers, so we’re all stuck with him for another season?

Besides, as Serial says, any player that keeps Elneny from the starting XI is okay by me.
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Keeping him is one thing. Giving him an extension is another. Are we really hoping he’ll get any additional value in the coming years?
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Thing is, Xhaka would actually be fairly decent in Italy. Perhaps the thinking is they'll hand him an extension to protect his value, so that when things pick up financially in Italy he'll go for a decent amount?

I'm scraping the barrel a bit but can't think of any other reason

My only hope is, if Xhaka stays, Elneny goes.

No way are we signing another CM otherwise this summer.

Having said that, maybe this isn’t the summer for us to do that business anyway.

James Benge
@jamesbenge
· 28 Min.
Asked Arteta about whether Gabriel would be available for the start of the season. He says he doesn't know but it seems "unlikely".

Xhaka staying we heard now. But we need another CM in.

comment by Serial WUManiser™© 🇵🇸 (U1410)
posted about a minute ago
comment by We got our Arsenal back (U10012)
posted less than a minute ago
comment by Lexington 125.2 (U8879)
posted about a minute ago
Nah, would rather we just let Laca run his contract down, than extend it. Have we learned nothing from Aubameyang?

Regards Arteta and Xhaka, what do people expect him to say? We tried to sell him, but there were no takers, so we’re all stuck with him for another season?

Besides, as Serial says, any player that keeps Elneny from the starting XI is okay by me.
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Keeping him is one thing. Giving him an extension is another. Are we really hoping he’ll get any additional value in the coming years?
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Thing is, Xhaka would actually be fairly decent in Italy. Perhaps the thinking is they'll hand him an extension to protect his value, so that when things pick up financially in Italy he'll go for a decent amount?

I'm scraping the barrel a bit but can't think of any other reason
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A bit?!

Come on, only one club seems interested in him and that has nothing to do with the pandemic. This window is our best chance to sell him. If he’s not sold now, he’ll be with us until the end of his contract

And Torreira....no one talking about him.

Arteta on Partey.

"I just had a talk with the doc. He'll have a scan tomorrow. At the moment it's not looking good."

comment by Gunnerthru (U6675)
posted 13 seconds ago
Xhaka staying we heard now. But we need another CM in.
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Forget it, Gt. If Xhaka stays, and we don’t sell Elneny, that’s midfield done for this summer.

I can't believe we haven't signed or got rid of midfielders yet

Yeh, I agree with Lex. We're not selling Xhaka or Elneny, especially now Partey is out for 1-2 months.

10th place max.