2024/2025 Premier League - The Drive for 5

Heā€™s a lovely technical footballer. Not sure is it his lack of pace or physique that lets him down @neilld

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Anthonee Robinsonā€¦ heā€™s the bulb off of Alexander Arnold

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Former Toffee :grin::grimacing:

Antonee a real Limerick sounding name.

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The header came off his shoulder. First goal was brilliant.

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Good player, kept going there when it looked bleak. Powerhouse with loads of football. Theyā€™ll all be in for him.

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fair enough

Heā€™s 4/5 years older than Ait Nouri. Liverpool had a sniff around Robinson last year. He was excellent when I went to the Liverpool 4-3 win last season.

Iā€™d be going with Ait Nouri

Arteta messed up selling Smith Rowe, he was really good tonight before tiring. Heā€™d remind you of a young Ross Barkley.

Did the football tourists watch brentford vs fulham

It was a rough one for us; it is tough to know how to feel about Harrods these days.

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https://x.com/kevinaraujof/status/1853503040390910114

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I must tweet this to Miguel, shocking. The sooner the Super League comes in the better. Kevin Fernandes is right.

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It was all about getting money in from the transfer Iā€™m sure, Arsenal are one of the few big clubs who have to live within their means. Whatever way itā€™s all calculated now, selling an academy graduate is much better for meeting the FFP rules. With Odegaard injured though he would have played a massive role had he stayed, showed what a quality player he was a couple of seasons ago when himself and Saka turned the fortunes of the club almost by themselves.

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Iā€™d forgotten about that aspect. Theyā€™d love to have him now Iā€™m sure.

It used to be true but theyā€™ve sold very few players in recent years. Arteta has actually been backed quite heavily by Kroenke. Probably making amends for all those years that they were too tight with money.

Legohead just wants to sign a load of centre backs & play four of them across the back. Heā€™s loathe to sign attacking players for some reason.

They just donā€™t have the dexterity on the ball, pace or directness of traditional fullbacks. He was overly negative/defensive in the market.

They were a player or 2 short last season but ended up spending less than Ā£20m this summer and got rid of 5 players who had played games last season, including selling 2 academy graduates. Money was tight and they are suffering the consequences already with just 1 or 2 injuries severely weakening them.

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Iā€™d say the fact theyā€™d spent around 400m quid between the previous two summers had them a bit squeezed for splurging again.

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