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Dutch

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  1. Reiss loan had better 100% be contingent on the club getting the Sterling deal done. Unrelated… last year’s 3rd kit was damn sharp. The 22-23 one, too.
  2. Thought we were the only ones; Chiesa for £10m is a hell of a great deal by you guys.
  3. So he’s on track to be the safety car driver at some point, then. George did a good job of not letting his thoughts show.
  4. Yeah. Sigh. Arteta and Edu:
  5. We were incredibly lucky that Saka, Havartz, Ode, Rice, Gabriel, Saliba, and Benny Blanco were able to play 95% of the minutes last season. The likelihood of all of those players doing that again isn’t great. There is at least some cover at defense. Up front? We best pray, light candles, and say our Rosaries, top off Jobu’s rum, etc all day every day. Sterling for cheap (~£ 10-15m) and Chelsea covering most of his wages could actually be a good signing. He’s worked with Arteta before, knows the basic system, and is an experienced winner in the League at a position we desperately need reinforcement.
  6. Merino (when healthy) will be a really good addition. I think it was underestimated just how much Martinelli thrived by playing infront of an experienced left 8 (Xhaka); adding an experienced pro should help him. Calafiori is what we needed: a left back who’s solid defensively and has ball skills and can play across the defense (Tomi’s injury looks worse than initially thought, since Arteta gave no timeline). Offloading ESR and Eddie for £60m of pure PSR profit and loaning off Fabio was good business, especially since they were out of favor with Arteta. The Ramsdale saga was a debacle; we could’ve sold him last summer for £50m, had Arteta brought in Raya early. Instead, we sold for less than we bought him for. Replacing three attaching players with no one, though…. Arteta must be banking on the he fact that we have Mr Miyagi as a trainer to do that hand clap trick every week, because we’re one more injury to an attacking player from being turbo fucked Overall window grade: C+. With you it’ll rise to a B+ if we somehow (unlikely) add a winger.
  7. Maybe Timber or Penne Blanco can play winger?
  8. We’re dangerously thin upfront. Trossard/Gabi and Jesus (when healthy) are the only difference-makers. Not enough, especially with two extra CL group matches and a possible two-legged play-in for the round of 16.
  9. Hope I’m wrong, but fractured bones usually take the number of weeks that add up to months.
  10. Nice. Better to save that €30m for an attacking player.
  11. Maybe we should’ve, I don’t know, not sold Ramsdale without a deal in place? Everyone knows we need a keeper, so the price is going to double on anybody. FFS indeed
  12. Could’ve been worse. No one we can’t beat on our day; no one we can’t drop points to, either. COYG
  13. Make that happen; Comen would COOK in our system. We desperately need to add attackers before the window closes. Currently, our attacking depth is perma-injured Jesus, Trossard, and…. Nelson. That ain’t going to win the League or anything else.
  14. €30m (£25m) for a #2 keeper? Damn Arteta likes buying GKs
  15. Or, there’s always this…
  16. So that means we’ll possibly have four matches in seven days, three of which are very high leverage: • ⁠Shit (A) September 15 • ⁠Bolton (H) September 17 • ⁠??? UCL (presumably) September 19 • ⁠City (A) September 22 Damn. And we seriously need some attacking reinforcement.
  17. Obligatory:
  18. 1000000000%.
  19. We’ve taken an Italian out of Italy and a Spaniard out of Spain. Beat Juve and Barça & Atléti, respectively, go the players. Arteta and Edu are cookin.
  20. Three big points. I remember thinking we should pull Thomas for Jorginho to see out the final 15’ then Thomas does that. COYG!!!!
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