Quasimotoᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠ

The last of a dying breed||Gunners

[Quasimotoᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠ @_Jorgi3]

Where I'm from, I'm a blood on an island,
surrounded by blue water, sharks all around me.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Brighton bought a teenager for about £4m and sold him to Chelsea for £115m. The man running the club is a professional gambler. This week he did it again, paying £21.5m for an 18-year-old from the Swedish league.

The gambler is Tony Bloom. Before football, he made his money at the poker table and in sports betting, where the whole skill is spotting something priced too low and betting big on it. He bought Brighton and ran it the same way.

Caicedo is the one everyone remembers. Brighton signed Moisés Caicedo from a club in Ecuador for about £4m and sold him to Chelsea two seasons later for £115m, the most a British club had ever paid for a player at the time. Marc Cucurella cost £15m and left for Chelsea at £62m. Liverpool paid £35m for Alexis Mac Allister, a £7m buy from Argentina. João Pedro went the same way last summer, £30m in and up to £60m out, also to Chelsea. Same move every time. Buy a kid cheap, give him a season or two to get good, then sell him to a giant at the peak of his price.

The trick is that Brighton barely guesses. Bloom owns a sports-betting company, and the club runs a private piece of software that scans players across the planet and flags the ones going for less than they are worth, usually teenagers in leagues the big clubs cannot be bothered to watch, in places like Ecuador, Argentina, Japan and now Sweden. They look for the position they need anywhere on earth, plan a year or two ahead, and have a cheap replacement ready before the star is even sold. In late 2024 they let go of most of their human scouts and leaned on the computer instead.

And it works. Brighton made the biggest profit any club has ever posted in the Premier League, around £123m in a single year, and the Caicedo money had not even come in yet. They pulled it off with the 13th-biggest wage bill in the league and one of the cheapest squads in it.

Chelsea alone have now handed Brighton about £237m for Caicedo, Cucurella and João Pedro. They are paying for the very machine that keeps beating them. And two of the four clubs Brighton held off to sign that Swedish kid this week were Chelsea and Newcastle.

So an 18-year-old from Stockholm, bought for £21.5m, is just the next chip on the gambler's table. If the pattern holds, some giant pays over £100m for him in a few years, and Brighton starts the whole thing again with the winnings.

[Premier League @premierleague]

One week on from a Premier League party on the streets of north London ❤️

[Former Jedi Master @muya_gichigi]

Man China has made electronics affordable for third worlders. I never thought I'd see the day when washing machines, laptops, big fridges/freezers & oven cookers could be affordable. When only big brands used to make this stuff you needed to sell your soul in Kenya to afford one.

[Architectural Association of Kenya @Arch_KE]

STATEMENT ON THE ODPP CHARGES IN THE MANZILTOWERS COLLAPSE CASE

[mumbua_kenya @themumbua1]

Jameni nimeitwa mfungwa yaaani😅. Na vile i thought nimepiga luku😫.

[Quasimotoᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠ @_Jorgi3]

On FT you have farmers who tweet anything contrary just for that Elon bag.

[Mod @CFCMods]

Tottenham are a scarier team than Arsenal but I don’t think you’re all ready for this conversation.

[💫 @tinyinehh]

Losing on pens will NEVER be the most embarrassing defeat in UCL history.
Inter drank 5 goals against this same PSG and they weren’t even clowned this much.
Desperately forcing it. 😂😂😂

When all of you are bored you will rest.

[Quasimotoᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠ @_Jorgi3]

@CFCMods Again, your pathetic football knowledge has been exposed

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

Still not over it 🤩

[afcstuff @afcstuff]

William Saliba: “The first season I arrived, we were playing incredible football. That was the season where I said we deserved the title. We finished second - as usual, people made fun of us.”

“The second season too, we were playing good football, finished second. People made fun of us, ‘Bottle, bottle’. Last season too, we were playing well, even if we weren’t playing as well as the first two seasons, we still finished second.”

“This season, even if I don’t agree with everything they say, as if there was only one team that was playing. Well, we’re playing football, except it’s true that sometimes we score a lot more from set-pieces.”

“Now, in the Premier League, you see everyone does long throws, focuses on corners, it’s NOT just us. We just do it better than the others, so we’re going to continue like this.” 🏆🇫🇷 [@lequipe]

[Mr.Reliable @RealEdwin_88]

Early in the morning uko Maperas

[Goaldata - Arsenal Zone @ArsenalZNE]

If you're an Arsenal fan and never got the chance to watch Arsenal's trophy lift, you can relive all 44 minutes of Arsenal's title winning celebrations here 😍

[Quasimotoᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠ @_Jorgi3]

@EricKingoo @Collolitamoi @Alvin_0103 Ndo naona, kwani mtu hawezi nunua GLE na kuuza laptop?😹

[Donna Mugoh @Eddie_Mugoh]

Where is the Xenophobic South Africans with Leopard skin when you need them?

[WhoScored @WhoScored]

Highest-rated centre-back in each season since Virgil van Dijk made his Premier League debut:

🇳🇱 Virgil van Dijk - 2015/16 ⭐️
🇳🇱 Virgil van Dijk - 2016/17 ⭐️
🇩🇪 Shkodran Mustafi - 2017/18
🇳🇱 Virgil van Dijk - 2018/19 ⭐️
🇳🇱 Virgil van Dijk - 2019/20 ⭐️
🇫🇷 Kurt Zouma - 2020/21
🇨🇲 Joel Matip - 2021/22
🇯🇲 Ethan Pinnock - 2022/23
🇳🇱 Virgil van Dijk - 2023/24 ⭐️
🇳🇱 Virgil van Dijk - 2024/25 ⭐️
🇧🇷 Gabriel Magalhães - 2025/26

Virgil van Dijk has finished as the highest-rated centre-back in six of the 11 seasons since his Premier League debut. 🤯💪

[Dr Branice Munyasa @Branicemercy]

Who would have known

The mighty Oluga would turn into a mutina
Sad times indeed

[Dr Branice Munyasa @Branicemercy]

This one I will never forget 🤧

[Dr Branice Munyasa @Branicemercy]

Rada ? 😅

[Quasimotoᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠ @_Jorgi3]

@WelBeast @CFCMods Unacheza rough