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[Uncle Chu @datchuguyy]

“There was a time we had 90 million turnover and we had to pay back 22 million per year for the stadium, I couldn’t sleep because we had to qualify for the champions league to pay back the money. We had to sell our best players. Other clubs came in with lots of money but we were on the same level from 2007 to 2016”

Arsene Wenger

[NEW YORK KNICKS @nyknicks]

THE GREATEST COMEBACK IN NBA PLAYOFF HISTORY.

[Tobi @_Tobolos_]

Arsenal since signing Rice

Season 1: Most goals scored by an Arsenal team in a PL season EVER. 2nd highest points tally by an Arsenal Team EVER.

Season 2: Most goals scored in the UCL by an Arsenal team EVER. Most wins in a UCL campaign EVER. First Semi Final in 16 years. Closed Real Madrid’s roof

Season 3: Premier League CHAMPIONS for first time in 22 years. UCL FINALISTS for the first time in 20 years.

“Decline”

[🧛🏻 @yslvertz]

@AVChappy @PeakSxnti @David_Ornstein @sheymanishere @TheAthleticFC @SamWallaceTel We gotta put deccers on dembele minutes huh 🫩

[🧛🏻 @yslvertz]

@rl_fz1 @JuiceBilla @Ozinho___ Footy slander is peak when its something true about your club and you can laugh and not just agenda slop

[🧛🏻 @yslvertz]

@AfcGoatanelli @Patrickmuweng3 We had 2 90+ minute winners on them the 2 matches before at the ems goes both ways tbh

[DailyAFC @DailyAFC]

Mikel Merino on IG 📲😂

[🧛🏻 @yslvertz]

@Patrickmuweng3 We are always going to be 50/50 in who’s going to win the match no matter the form or squad the past decade ibr

[🧛🏻 @yslvertz]

@JuiceBilla @Ozinho___

[ARGK4T @JuiceBilla]

@Ozinho___ There was no build up because he plays for real madrid

[🧛🏻 @yslvertz]

Please God.

[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

🚨💣 𝐄𝐗𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐕𝐄: Mikel Arteta has asked Arsenal executives to attempt the signing of Vinicius Jr.

Vini is Arteta’s dream target, viewing him as the missing piece in their attack.

[AFCAMDEN @AFCAMDEN]

The Knicks are on the verge of their first championship in 50 years and their players are parading Arsenal shirts around MSG. Just a massive institution.

[🧛🏻 @yslvertz]

I physically can’t see this man leave. He has to retire here please just pattern up my boy

[🍒 @mariyamx_]

he’s a sensitive topic 😭

[Kai Havertz @kaihavertz29]

🤷🏻‍♂️ Next stop WC!

[🧛🏻 @yslvertz]

@odqaard We can only hope.

[🧛🏻 @yslvertz]

@getready2fly Prosjecni hrvatski goyim opinion u nogometu 🫩

[🧛🏻 @yslvertz]

@BiggarsInParis @BodegaaCat This might be the best somewhat niche shared experience I will ever have in my life

[🧛🏻 @yslvertz]

Compare this to the bums we had before. Forever grateful for Senor Arteta.

[ع @guapisimaxo]

I think this might be one my fav GIFs ever

[Gian Maria Volonté @obisingledigit]

You're older than Arteta.

[Amara Nwankpa @Nwankpa_A]

The idea that Arsenal became a cultural phenomenon because it signed Black players is too simplistic.

Like much of London, Arsenal positioned itself as a club that extended belonging towards the margins. Not racial margins alone, but the margins of football's imagination.

Kanu arrived after heart surgery that could have ended his career. Bergkamp arrived carrying the weight of a disappointing spell at Inter. Henry arrived as a talented but unsettled player still searching for his place. Kolo Touré was potential before proof. Arteta arrived as a midfielder many thought was entering decline, only to be entrusted with the captaincy. Wenger himself was a foreign manager challenging the assumptions of English football.

The pattern was not diversity for its own sake. It was recognition before validation.

Arsenal repeatedly seemed willing to see people not simply as they were, but as they could become. It trusted before consensus arrived. It built a reputation for offering a second chance, a fresh start, or a path to fulfilment where others saw limitation, uncertainty, or decline.

That is why former players, injured players, and out-of-contract players so often found their way back to Arsenal. The club developed a reputation for treating people as more than their immediate utility.

Representation matters. But recognition creates loyalty.

People did not just see players who looked like them. They saw an institution that appeared willing to enlarge its definition of who belonged.