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Mikel Arteta reaches agreement with Arsenal over new long-term contract. Existing deal expires at the end of the season but fresh terms set to take him into a decade at the Emirates. via [ @SamiMokbel_BBC ]

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One Arsenal player pulls out and it's a full meltdown online. Their players pull out? Dead silence. Double standards never miss. Lol 😂

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🚨 Cole Palmer poised to withdraw from England squad due to load management. Marcus Rashford will be assessed for hip issue handled by Man Utd since World Cup but expected to pull out. Kobbie Mainoo also among likely absentees through injury @TheAthleticFC https://t.co/ivund8rXPg

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Hincapié left out of Ecuador's squad, sounds like he's carrying a knock and not fully fit. Better he rests up properly with us than risk making it worse on international duty. We need you sharp for when we're back.

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Wild stat 👀 since 2016, FIVE different Premier League clubs have made a UCL final : Chelsea,Man City, Spurs, Liverpool, and Arsenal. La Liga's whole contribution in that time? Just Real Madrid. One club.

The Premier League isn't just the most watched league, it might genuinely be producing the best football too.

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Happy birthday, Rob Holding!

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Happy birthday, Rob! 🎈

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That was arguably our worst performance in years, we were nowhere near our best today. Credit where it's due, Brighton were the better side in every department.

We stick together in the good times and the bad. Three weeks to recharge before Leeds. Still 7 wins from 8. we learn, we move on. COYG

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We go again after the international break.

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Arsenal Starting XI vs Brighton : Raya, Timber, Konsa, Gabriel, Calafiori, Rice, Guimarães, Ødegaard, Saka, Tzolis, Havertz.

Arsenal subs: Arrizabalaga, Hincapie, Eze, Gyökeres, Madueke, Merino, Zubimendi, Lewis-Skelly, Dowman.

Let's do this boys, COYG !! 5/5 🔴⚪️

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It's MATCHDAY Gooners!! Last one before the break. Brighton away, let's finish this stretch strong!!!

🆚 Brighton & Hove Albion FC
🏟️ Amex Stadium
⚽️ Premier League
🕔 03:00 PM (UK)

Your predictions, gooners?? ⚽️

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Man Utd players, pundits and fans they all belong to the same category. 🤡

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Found another one 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Rice, Raya, Timber and Havertz added to a team that almost won the league the previous season.

And they was predicting us to finish 8th

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@trossaka hopefully,.. let's see

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It's MATCHDAY Gooners!! Last one before the break. Brighton away, let's finish this stretch strong!!!

🆚 Brighton & Hove Albion FC
🏟️ Amex Stadium
⚽️ Premier League
🕔 03:00 PM (UK)

Your predictions, gooners?? ⚽️

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Marli Salmon's emergence has been one of the nicest surprises of pre-season and the early cup games this season. Saliba-esque composure, wise beyond his years.

Keep an eye on this kid. 👀

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Woww.. THIS IS INCREDIBLE. Never leave my club , mikel!

[Rilwan @Real1_balogun]

“For Mikel, the game doesn’t start in the dressing room – it starts in the team meeting a few hours before. On that day, it was the most interesting meeting of my life. I have never seen
something like that before and I don’t think I’ll ever see it again,”

Zinchenko said in his book, “Believe”.

“We had lunch in the hotel where we stay before home games. It’s always
the same waiters, the same familiar faces of the staff, whom I guess are
chosen for being very discreet. There was one guy, though, I had never seen
before, a waiter serving hot drinks. I didn’t think much about it. He must have been a new guy.

“In the final match-day meetings, we rarely sit down to watch any clips or
look at a tactics board. Mikel is doing them very differently, in his own
way. He will have us playing cards or little ball games to get those competitive juices flowing. He wants to switch us on, activate our minds. In
the first part of that meeting, he laid out lots of cards on a big table. They
had football terms like ‘man on’, ‘set piece’, ‘win your duel’ and so on
written on them. He said, ‘Okay guys, we need to start the game with
winning your duel. Who’s going to take that first card?’ You had to pick it
out before the other team at the other end of the table got there. It doesn’t
sound like much, but footballers are such a competitive lot, even a simple
game like that becomes fiercely contested.”

This is where it gets interesting.

“Then, for the second part, Mikel announced it was going to be another
‘players vs staff freestyle battle’. The other day, it had been me against
Nicolas ‘Nico’ Jover, our set-piece specialist, and I had won. So the
manager says, ‘It’s rematch today. Alex, let’s see if you can do it again.’ So
I get up and do a few tricks and so on.

Then it’s Nico’s turn. But he’s
holding his hamstring, saying he’s injured and can’t play. Mikel looks
around the room and says, ‘We need a substitute. Anyone?’ At that moment,
that waiter raises his hand. Mikel says, ‘Okay. You can try.’ And guess
what? This guy is killing it. He’s basically destroying us. He even nutmegs Saka. Everyone’s is looking at each other like, ‘What the fuck is this?’
Everyone’s cheering him on and laughing.

“Turns out he’s a professional freestyler with millions of followers whom Mikel had planted at the hotel as a waiter. You realise how much work must have gone into that behind the scenes. That guy was there for at least three hours undercover, serving up coffee and cakes and waiting patiently for his big moment. The mood in the camp was incredible after that. People were buzzing on the way to the bus. That whole thing really pushed the right buttons. But it happens so often. Every one of Mikel’s meetings is special.”

You cannot stop finding a way to win.

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"That Englishman we had, he was honestly the worst coach I've ever seen in my life." 😂

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@kombolanii teknikal league they say

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We need to have a real conversation about this Laliga man. 🧐

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A memorable away day for Bournemouth 🙌

#UEL

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@Kukayesolomon we'll get it done bro.. calma

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Last time Man United got knocked out the Carabao Cup in the 3rd round, Arsenal won the league title. Football's telling us something here 👀

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Lol 😂

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Man United interim managers when they get the full time job

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Beautiful.

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Ezri Konsa, Myles Lewis-Skelly, Declan Rice, Eberechi Eze, and Bukayo Saka called up by England. Congrats boys..!! No Madueke or Ben White.!