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I must be dead inside cos I've seen the positive reaction to it online but I think it looks shite purely from an aesthetic style, but that is art so not my main issue.  

 

It's exactly what large corporations do when trying to show how much they care about their customers & brand history while trying to flog them more Socios fan engagement tokens and charging £100 for a ticket for an 815pm midweek kickoff to accommodate TV.

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I think they’re a mixed bag, but will reserve judgement until I actually see them in person*. Might actually do a lap of the stadium to look at them all, which would be sort of funny, seeing as I’m not sure I ever did that with the original artwork/the stadium when it opened.

 

Given the intensity of the rumours/twerking he’s doing at us, has anyone developed any opinions on Mudryk? I’ve not seen enough of him to have an informed one of my own, so I have the usual ‘ooh, shiny’ feeling about a prospective signing, even though the numbers being handed about give me slight PTSD (with the ‘P’ standing for ‘Pepe’ in this instance).

 

 

* Assuming I actually manage to get tickets - strangely enough it’s gotten a bit trickier to get them again (especially for games when we’re not already on tv) now that we’re back to being good.

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Art Vandelay

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He’s obviously a good player, but it’s not like we can get too upset. £20m more than we bid all up front, and they didn’t even match the terms we offered and he agreed on. It’s somehow something like an extra £50k a week on a contract that keeps him there until he’s 30. For a bloke who’s barely had fifty games in the Ukrainian leagues. Honestly, he’ll be good, but that’s investment best spent elsewhere.

 

Saying that, two bodies in now and we win the league by 7 points. If we get no-one we’ll drift to third. This season is the opportunity of a lifetime.

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Yeah, I jinxed that one pretty hard, fucking hell.

 

Again, it’s notable that I’m not that bothered though. We could definitely do with some reinforcements, but if it’s not him (especially at that price) then I’m still thinking I’ll cope.

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Yeah money talks. A lot of the usual types on twitter saying Edu's fucked it but from the sounds of it Chelsea were willing to guarantee more up front and offered longer terms with better wages to the player. You have to have a limit.

 

Shame though as Arteta has got a really good record of improving wide players. 

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There has to be a point you walk away from a deal, not just for that player in isolation but to demonstrate in future to other clubs & agents you won't just keep going up and up endlessly.

 

I felt we'd already gone too high on the fee and it was veering into expensive punt territory, Chelsea adding loads more to the transfer package and a 7y deal on higher wages isn't something we should be looking to match.

 

We've spent years as a transfer joke getting out pants pulled down repeatedly and have through a load of hard graft by Arteta & Edu started to turn that round and become an attractive team players should want to play for, just not see us as a payday. 

 

Mudryk may be great but isn't a guaranteed thing so they need to now prove there is a plan B and other targets identified. Clubs get far too fixated on 'the one' like Utd with Antony and that gets exploited.

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It definitely hurts to lose our number one target like, but I agree it was silly money. Chelsea have totally inflated the market for us now though. Hopefully we didn’t have all our eggs in the mudryk basket. 

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It's a double inflation after Antony to Utd, who they dithered over and ended up paying way over at the end of the window when they could have got him for far less earlier in the summer (seem to recall they did similar with Fellaini, but they missed a release clause date then paid loads more a month or so later).

 

The unit clubs now quote for a winger with potential who is unproven in a big league is Antony, Shaktar kept saying they wanted a package bigger than the fee Utd paid as Mudryk is better than Antony (of course they would). Chelsea obliged. 

 

The next one is now better than Antony & Mudryk - bearing in mind how few games Mudryk has actually played it's all a bit silly, but football transfer business often is. 

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I think Mudryk’s been badly advised here. Chelsea are all over the place at the moment and their scattergun approach to transfers this last year doesn’t look particularly well planned out. 
 

Whereas, Arsenal seem to have a pretty decent structure, strategy and focus in place under Arteta. Potter is a decent manager but Arteta seems to have done a really job in nurturing and improving the young talent at his disposal. Plus, you only need to see how those in similar positions to Mudryk have done in recent seasons at Chelsea and under Potter to have some concerns - none of Pulisic, Ziyech or Sterling have exactly impressed. 

We’ll sell you Harvey Barnes for £40m. 

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It doesn't stink that much, he is going to a huge club with multiple CL/PL and even a world club champ win, not like he's going to China or Saudi.

 

Sure this season is a write off almost for them but his agent has him a 7y deal on huge wages at an elite club, that would seem job well done. 

 

If you remove the supporter view from it then it's easy to say Chelsea is a bigger and better club just having a blip, whereas Arsenal are unproven and the jury is out on whether this is a permanent return to the top table or a false dawn in a weird season. 

 

I was always quite mercenary in my career and I'd take the higher wages and longer contract.

 

We should try to sign Lukaku and see if Bohely tries to sign him.

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Art Vandelay

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Tottenham 1 – 0 Arsenal

Kane 82 (pen)

 

Following a scramble in the Spurs box Bukayo Saka is nursing a knock after Dier appears to perform a 619 one him using the near post as leverage. The game continues but the ref signals there has been a VAR intervention. Cedric Soares, who is not in the match day squad, has emerged from the changing rooms but it appears he has left his fly down. The ghost of Herbert Chapman is sent to the stands during the protestations, but the penalty stands. Son Heung-min lays stricken for some reason. Kane steps up confidently but skies his effort somewhere down Seven Sisters high street, Craig Pawson however orders the retake as he looks a bit sad and that was just a practice go. Burying the second attempt we’re told that counts for two as Harry is such a nice boy. Will this dent Arsenal’s title ambitions?

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It's really turning into that season again when Leicester won the league, not that we are plucky underfunded journeymen or anything like that, just nobody who was fancied to is taking hold of the league and performing consistently, really opening the door to somebody not fancied like us and even Utd or Newcastle.

 

Always imagine about now that Kane is greasing the soles of his boots to ensure zero friction in the penalty area and Son will be sharpening his elbows to wedge into Saka (Saka will of course be booked for his head impeding Son's elbows progress).

 

Read on F365 that over the last 10.5 seasons, so over 400 matches, Spurs & Arsenal are only 2pts apart in total points accrued in that time. 

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