Transfer crackheads wont like it but with these exits I am very much looking forward to more game time for Nwaneri & Dowman this season.
And yes the investment in mins for them this season is far more worth it than the overpriced mids some of you lot are begging for.
🚨🔵⚪️ BREAKING: Gabriel Martinelli to Al Hilal, here we go! Verbal agreement done for fee over €65m add-ons included.
Martinelli will sign a long term deal as he just had authorization to travel in 24h.
Watkins + Martinelli, plan confirmed.
Deal agreed - @MatteMoretto. 🫱🏻🫲🏼🇧🇷
Footage published by Al Araby TV documents Israeli forces carrying out a field execution, shooting children with sniper fire in Al-Shati refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.
I've been informed Trump's Board of Peace is paying the expenses of the IDF's covert transfer of rubble (mixed with dead bodies) out of Gaza. The money is taken from Gaza's reconstruction funds!
🇵🇸 Israel Kills Four Palestinians in Attacks on Tents, Bicycle and Homes Across Gaza
Israel killed 4 Palestinians and wounded several others, including children, in attacks on civilian areas across Gaza on Thursday, August 27, according to Felesteen News.
🔹 Israeli aircraft bombed a tent sheltering displaced Palestinians west of Gaza City, killing one person and wounding others. Another airstrike hit a bicycle near Al-Sinaa Junction, killing one Palestinian and injuring several. (🎥 video)
🔹 Israel killed Azzam Rifaat al-Abadla by bombing his tent in northern Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis. Bilal al-Ruqai was killed in an attack on the roof of a home in Al-Shati refugee camp, where another strike wounded several civilians, including a child.
🔹 Israeli forces shot and wounded another child in Qatar Camp, east of Hamad City. Israeli warships opened heavy fire along the Khan Younis coast while artillery bombarded Beit Lahia, Shujaiya and Tuffah.
Staunch Arteta advocate as you’re probably aware, since he’s joined the club. Equally, I don’t portray the man as infallible. Nonetheless, he is elite.
But I’ve always believed (and still do) that Gabriel Martinelli is the one player he hasn’t been able to unlock post 22/23. Doesn’t mean the player is absolved from responsibility. Nuance exists.
But I feel he could have got way more out of Gabi. A shame really.
I’m only happy with selling him because I’ve accepted Arteta was never going to use him centrally, which basically makes him redundant. But there’s still a special player there for someone to unlock
It’s crazy this even needs to be said, but if you are a westerner your ONLY job is to oppose the abuses of the western empire. Not Iran. Not China. Not Russia, Cuba or North Korea.
If you live in the US or one of its allied nations, then you live under the single most tyrannical and murderous power structure on earth, and that’s where your focus belongs. You do not have any legitimacy in squandering any of your energy and attention criticizing human rights abuses in empire-targeted nations while living under a globe-spanning empire that is fueled by a nonstop river of human blood. It is not okay for you to use your western privilege to attack the nations your own government is working to help absorb into the power structure you live under.
Whenever I say this online I’ll get some Trotskyist or anarchist babbling about the need to express “solidarity” with Iranian political prisoners or whatever, but whenever I press them on what actual, material benefit those expressions of “solidarity” bring to the people they’re meant to help, they can’t point to anything solid. Whereas I can point to some very obvious ways in which contributing to an imperial war propaganda campaign can help grease the wheels for real material actions which hurt actual Iranians.
If you’re a westerner, you have an obligation to use your voice responsibly. If you are feeding into the latest “the people in the empire-targeted nation need liberation from their evil tyrannical government” war propaganda narrative with your expressions of “solidarity” and your blind insistence on treating all bad things as equally bad, then you are using your western voice irresponsibly, and you are morally culpable for the mass slaughter you help facilitate with your recklessness.
It’s not okay to be a citizen of the western empire and act like human rights abuses in an empire-targeted nation are of equal or comparable concern to the far more egregious abuses of your own leaders and their allies. It’s also not okay to be a fully grown adult and believe the use of force in empire-targeted governments is happening separately from their targeting by the empire, as though Iran would look the way it looks today if the US and Israel had not been working to collapse and control it for generations.
Iran has only survived the latest imperial onslaught because Tehran tightly controls what happens in that country. The only reason we didn’t see Xinjiang absorbed into the western power umbrella with the help of CIA-backed separatists is because Beijing waged a sweeping crackdown on the extremist factions who’d been launching attacks in the province. The only reason North Korea has gone relatively unmolested by the western empire in recent years is because its government obtained nuclear weapons. It’s baby-brained analysis to pretend such things happen independently of the US and its allies working to take control of unabsorbed nations and force them into compliance with Washington’s capitalist world order.
The western empire therefore makes the world a crueler and more abusive place not only by its direct acts of cruelty and abuse, but by the way it forces its targets to choose between (A) annihilation and (B) using extreme amounts of force to retain their sovereignty. The empire we live under is responsible for the vast majority of the dysfunction and misery in our world, and yet you as a westerner want to spend your time yelling at Iran? Fuck off, man.