Your favorite tacticos complaining about Lille demanding €70m for Ayyoub Bouaddi are completely exposing their tactical illiteracy. You are not paying for a raw prospect; you are paying the structural tax required to protect a €105m asset.
You cannot run Declan Rice for 60 matches a season without causing physical regression, but you also cannot rest him because nobody else in the squad possesses his physical floor. Bouaddi is the market anomaly.
For years, the running joke was “Arsenal 4th”
Then the running joke was “Arsenal 2nd”
Now they’re making fun of Arsenal for winning the Premier League and losing in a Champions League final on pens to the reigning champs
Our rivals’ biggest games this year were watching us 😂
Many people said PSG will score Arsenal lots of goals bla bla bla.
You see that Arsenal’s defensive structure, it is well drilled. It is unbelievable.
PSG needed a penalty to score them, Atletico Madrid needed a penalty to score them.
You cannot break these fuckers down. Kudos in that regard.
We're actually finally witnessing the downfall of Fabrizio Romano. Even clubs calling him out for being the shit stirring little weasel that he is.
I prayed for times like this.
Liverpool FC can confirm Arne Slot is to depart his role as head coach with immediate effect and that the process to appoint a successor is under way.
He leaves with a Premier League title to his name and our deepest gratitude and appreciation.
🚨 Marcos Senesi to Tottenham, here we go! Deal in place after the verbal agreement reported since March.
Four year contract for Senesi who’s set to put pen to paper soon and join #THFC as free agent.
Another one after Robertson. 🇦🇷✍🏻
🚨 The situation may yet see both Junior Kroupi & Morgan Rogers end up at Arsenal, with the club pursuing both players. Arsenal want to bring in three or four players this summer, with the same number expected to leave. 🕵️♂️ [@MiguelDelaney]
Bournemouth sold *check notes* Zabarnyi for £57m, Huijsen £50m, Kerkez £40m, Ouattara £45m and Semenyo for £65m in January for a very grand total of £257m *checks maths. not a strength*. Bournemouth continued playing attractive, winning football, ending the season unbeaten in 18, sixth in the table and qualified for Europe for the first time ever in their 127 years.
Iraola has done a magnificent job – and so has Bournemouth’s recruitment department. Kroupi and Scott the latest gems being polished. Senesi, a £12m signing from Feyenoord four years ago, leaves a free agent to Spurs with plenty of good wishes following his fine defensive service over 128 games. Bournemouth get good value out of players and/or good value for them.
Well-run club. Pity that Iraola is leaving and missing out on the European adventure that he helped secure. Leaves team in good shape for incoming Rose. Coaches and players...it's all in the succession planning. #AFCB