Jase

By the way, what's with the Emerson sub? Where's Chilwell?

Thought we were so slow and a tad ponderous till we got the goals.

Aye, he did go through a barren run last season but do we just ignore the context of him losing confidence during that period before getting somewhat better after Tuchel came in? Did he not contribute to the team under Tuchel last season? Sure, the goals were lacking but the assists weren't. We'll see what happens this season. He only played 2 pre-season games and just 4 games overall. Are you really expecting progression so fast immediately after the summer break? Has anyone showed clear signs of progression so far this season, besides the goals?

The stats do back that up actually.

Can I just say that you would make a very fascinating Liverpool fan to follow?

His wayward goal radar aside, you said it as if he doesn't contribute assists (okay there is none today but still) to the team. I shall say so no more for fear of getting an essay-length reply. 🤣

Netherlands. France. England. Belgium. Spain. Quite a Euro journey there. Really though, are we extending his contract by another year again with this loan or are we gonna lose him for free? His contract expires next year.

Good win. Didn't know Crystal Palace are still being managed by Roy Hodgson...

Regardless, Kante was more influential in our Champions League run than Jorginho. And hard to complain about Messi not being nominated when the main 3 nominees are Haaland, Lewandowski and Mbappe. All 3 had more of an impact.

Not sure why the Euros is brought into the equation when the nominations concern the Champions League specifically.

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If Kante's popularity and consistency are anything to go by, he should win that award. Any other winner would just be dumb.

Cats gif? Oh how adorable! 😍

But what's life without living in the moment and enjoying it...?

🤣 If there are gonna be murders, only one is gonna do it. 🤭

🤣 The ban hammers are collecting dust. Need to use it for real at some point...

Seriously, just let them fight. If they keep on going like forever, we can just drop the ban hammer on them. We admins need some fun too.

Really? The guy literally had no managerial experience before he took the Arsenal job but was deemed to be like a WOW candidate just because he worked as a coach under Guardiola. Arsenal have been a mess for ages for now - long before Wenger and Emery were gone - but he took the job anyway. What's more is that he has a lot of say at the club such as getting a lot of, if not the full say in how he wants to be build the squad and the way he has gone about it has been bewildering to say the least. One minute he's looking for experienced players like Willian and Aubameyang and the next he's leaning more towards younger players and there's the sudden obsession with No.10s, like the old Wenger days. Since Arteta's been at Arsenal, he's bought players like Mari, Soares, Willian, Gabriel, Runarsson, Partey, Ceballos, Odegaard, Tavares, Lokonga, White etc. Out of those names, Partey is arguably the only good player as the rest wouldn't even get anywhere near a top side. Arteta has had 4 transfer windows, including this summer, and it's hard to know exactly what kind of squad, what kind of direction he actually wants to take Arsenal towards to.

The season hasn't even started in earnest and Tuchel already reported fitness issues with Kante...

Gotta post the summary when posting an article from The Athletic. Not everyone is rich, Steve. 😛

Because Lukaku will channel his inner mojo and Werner will end up scoring 100+ goals this season. 🙃 In all seriousness, has anyone actually said what you said? Think we can all agree that having Lukaku in the side means he's the main goalscorer now and it will take the pressure off the others. However, it doesn't mean the others shouldn't be scoring and it's down to Werner and the rest to produce at least a decent conversion rate this time around.

Let them fight, SJ. It's all very amusing...

We fans expecting it is different to everyone else expecting. It's still not a common move after all. Ferdinand might have wished Solskjaer had the balls to do the same in the Europa League final. May well have won that instead.

It's likely because managers don't often do this, do they? I mean, the highest profile of such sub was Van Gaal with the Dutch at one of the recent World Cups. Can't remember any other examples.

But doesn't seem to play like one.