Martin Walker

[Martin Walker @martinwalkerpt]

@ltarsenal Look you dead in the eye and say Artetas a bad coach too. These opinions dont even make sense 😂

[Tim Stillman ⭐️⭐️ @timstillman_]

Last season Spurs and Chelsea didn't qualify for Europe, Brighton, Bournemouth and Sunderland did. The reigning champions finished 5th. Manchester United only played 40 games and weren't in Europe. The PL champion hadn't won the league for 22 years.

[Martin Walker @martinwalkerpt]

@ETM0824 Irony being we can spend from the success of it actually working out really fucking well 😂.

[afcnewsroom @afcnewsroom]

SCENES OUTSIDE OF THE EMIRATES STADIUM RIGHT NOW! 🔥

🎥 @ArtdeRoche

[Guillem Balague @GuillemBalague]

Two things bother me about the narrative building around Arsenal.

First, we're told constantly that the Premier League is the most competitive league in the world. Fine. So what does it mean to be consistently fighting for the title in that environment? You can't celebrate the league's brutal competitiveness and then dismiss sustained title challenges as not good enough. Pick one.

Second, and IMO this matters more, failure in elite sport is not losing. Luis Enrique said it. Many others have said versions of it. Failure is not trying again. It's accepting the ceiling. It's going through the motions. Arteta has never done that. Every setback has been fuel for the next attempt.

The problem is social media runs on binary outcomes. Win or fail. Hero or fraud. No room for nuance. No room for the manager who rebuilt a club into genuine title contenders and is still hungry for more.

Simeone has been at Atlético for over a decade. Two league titles, two Champions League finals. Still no European Cup. Nobody serious calls that failure. They call it one of the great managerial tenures in modern football. And I'm convinced that given 14 years like Simeone, Mikel will win more leagues than him.

Arteta may or may not win the league this year. He may not lift the Champions League this year or next. But as long as he keeps pushing, keeps trying, keeps competing at this level, failure isn't what this is.

Find another name for it

By the way, if City wins the league, the achievement would of course be enormous.

[Martin Walker @martinwalkerpt]

@DeadlineDayLive I mean Madueke is arguable. Chelsea fans saying he was better than Saka just season ago. It's agenda based opinion. How much they going to make back on Mudryk?

[Martin Walker @martinwalkerpt]

@HeavyFarda Had to unfollow this guy when he started going in on Politics 😂.

[WelBeast @WelBeast]

Arsenal:
•Petr Čech: ~£7M
•Willian: Free
•David Luiz: £8M
•Jorginho: £12M
•Havertz: £65M
•Sterling: Free
•Kepa: £5M
Total: £97M

Meanwhile, Man Utd spent:
•Matic: £40M
•Mount: £60M
•Mata: £37M
Total: £137M

So who’s really helping Chelsea more?

[Martin Walker @martinwalkerpt]

@HeavyFarda Also got to remember football prestige probably doesn't exist as much from where they're from. Like Villa won't have any sentiment. Probably only Madrid and Barca do to these guys. I completely get it tbh.

[Martin Walker @martinwalkerpt]

@AFCBenjh @Adebay0r__ @AFCLjB @RDS90Design @ThePeakSanti Yeah I 100% agree. I'm on your side tbf 😆. But these same fans arguing will literally be on the other side next week realising that it's a pretty poor decision. If the ref doesn't send him off noone talks about that touch. NOONE. That's how I determine its the wrong call.

[Martin Walker @martinwalkerpt]

@Stillmanator @cricketjim1 I often look at decisions (mainly Arsenal ones as its who I support) and think would it be talked about if the ref didn't do it. He doesn't send Rice off there and noone is saying after he should of gone. It literally wouldn't of been mentioned.

[Martin Walker @martinwalkerpt]

@MrSamWilson Brighton fan

[Martin Walker @martinwalkerpt]

@AFCBenjh @Adebay0r__ @AFCLjB @RDS90Design @ThePeakSanti Genuinely Twitter is a place of wild bias. Same fans will be moaning about a similar decision about their own club next game with completely different logic/viewpoint. I think there's few sane people who will look at a decision completely neutral. Even pundits.

[Martin Walker @martinwalkerpt]

@HeavyFarda Either we have Chelseas pants completely down or we don't bother with this 😂

[Martin Walker @martinwalkerpt]

@GarySmithJnr @AR96_ Ahh mate people would rather protect their avatar to death than just use common sense. These footballers are living the dream, top medical professionals by their side, earning crazy amounts. We all understand their point, just hard to listen to them moaning so much openly.

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Crumbling schools don't matter if your kid is at Eton, two-year NHS waiting lists don't matter if you use private hospitals and the housing crisis doesn't bother you if you own four homes including a holiday house on Malibu Beach

[Martin Walker @martinwalkerpt]

@ltarsenal The interesting thing here, is how we so flippantly say 'Just pay what the extra €10 mill they want' when buying players, yet selling players the €5mill determines if it's a good deal. I think we obv got the best we could, probably other benefits away from the fee.

[Martin Walker @martinwalkerpt]

@HeavyFarda Every team thinks their players are the best in their position. That's football Twitter 😆

[Martin Walker @martinwalkerpt]

@VirajReddy6 @DeadlineDayLive I'm done after this tbf as can't be bothered. But you buy someone for 100 million, and sell them for 50, generally that's a loss. Unless the odd example where the player has fulfilled value in other ways. Pulisic/Havertz have not, and sold at loss. Not talking FFP.