https://x.com/clivepafc/status/19633256 ... -j6VVZXEoA

Nice video of our out of possession vice like grip on teams. I was pleased to see the CB be super brave and follow the forward in to deep positions if teams try to play over our press.

By the way - this high press is not a team who are not trying to win a game. Why has this suddenly got lumped in with the same accusations people put at teams who literally sit in their own box with 10 men behind the ball?

Anyway, we know we are elite at this stuff and we can change personnel and they all get it and can do it. The test now is can we be as good in attack - but less structured than is needed out of possession. Given how good we are out of possession, how well we recover and how good our defenders are defending 1v1 and defending big spaces there is every reason for us to be able to be more free and risky in our attack. The platform to cover for it is there

Zinchenko left out of Forest’s Europa league squad. Late signing by Edu as a power move. Nuno picks the squad so left him out as his power move. This doesn’t end well for Forest and almost certainly for Nuno.

Edu deserves credit for what he did for us to get us back on track, but he was far from perfect and it seems that already Berta is just a better fit and operator for us, more experienced and more mature perhaps.

Zinchenko must be delighted. Imagine that,

Their owner is like a Greek Suge Knight,

On the Edu thing I do wonder if he would have been seen in a more positive light right now if he had been given the 300 million quid Berta had to spend. Nobody in their right mind would get a loan for Sterling at midnight on deadline day if they had the cash to spend.

Hey divvy Chris.

Here’s an idea. Just stop commenting to posts you don’t like with stuff like..

iF yOu dOnT LiKe oUr FLaG yOu mUsT be A pAedo I ToLd u I WoS rIgHt

It makes you look a complete wanker. Keep schtum. I know you think I’m taking the piss but I’m actually trying to help.

Of course I will do as you say but in the meantime could you keep your pathetic childish comments to yourself, stfu and go and play hide and seek on the M25.

I do do so enjoy your brilliant wit but can you just try to tone things up a bit and forget you had your sixth birthday recently so you should really grow up.

Thanks, good lad

*%^@*** *%^@...........

Besiktas have made an offer worth €22m for Leandro Trossard. Arsenal have not responded to the offer yet.

The Turkish Super Lig transfer window does NOT close until Friday, September 12.

Daniel Levy has quit,

there can only be one choice to replace him. Peter Ridsdale

Ryan Mason as caretaker.

Calafiori nominated for player of the month.

I agree with regard to Edu/Berta. Berta had a massive budget this summer. All the focus shifted to Liverpool because of Isak but we have ended the window with the biggest net spend in the league.

Kepa, Mosquera, Eze and Zubimendi look like excellent pieces of business. Zubimendi because we certainly had competition from other big clubs and the Eze one was superb.

Gyökeres and Nørgaard were reasonable and he gets credit for the negotiations with Sporting.

I think we could have done better on the Madueke fee as Chelsea needed to sell. The Hincapie one might only be a loan for now but the fee seems incredibly high.

Added to that our sales were awful.

We have fantastic depth in the squad now and credit to Berta especially for the Eze deal, but it's easier when you have a huge budget.

On the Madueke signing I felt the same at the time but now I’m at peace with it. He looks like a player who plays a lot for us and will offer something different to Saka.

If you look at Garnacho who is a player with a similar profile but slightly worse reputation his saga dragged on all summer negotiating and he was eventually sold at the last minute for 40 million plus a 10% sell on clause. Doesn’t seem far off the 48 +4 for Madueke

I can’t really criticise any our summer business at all. Some good business. The only question I have is actually around Eze who is a player I have admired for years but I think we will try and play him wide left because he has better ball retention than Gabby but I’m not sure if that will suit his style. If you need to sign a left winger and have 68 million to spend would Eze have been the best option ? I’m not sure on that. I think he’s a brilliant player but it might be a case of the profile of signing has been prioritised over what the actual team needs most right now. Only time will tell.

Btw I would prepare for spurs getting bought by some American or Arab over the next few years. I would suggest levy’s departure is the start of putting a structure in place for identifying a buyer.

Joe Lewis is now 88 and his kids have pretty much taken over.

To be honest I’ve always been awaiting for them to get sold to an owner who finally gets their *%^@ together my whole life! I’m assuming they would be very attractive to a new buyer. New stadium with untapped potential, growth of playing side as they always under achieve, London club with big support and international appeal.

It’s gonna be *%^@ be I think it’s inevitable this is on the cards.

There is often the claim that the big 6 dominate the league and the spending. Big 6 being Arsenal, Liverpool, City, Chelsea, Man U and Spurs.
However, I've seen a set of stats that show the percentage of total prem spending by the big 6 over the years and it shows that the big 6 are spending a smaller proportion of total prem spend as the years go by, its trending down.

Proporiton of total spending by big 6 clubs
2010 - 68%
2011 - 66%
2012 - 60%
2013 - 60%
2014 - 62%
2015 - 54%
2016 - 57%
2017 - 54%
2018 - 38%
2019 - 41%
2020 - 52%
2021 - 48%
2022 - 47%
2023 - 56%
2024 - 34%
2025 - 49%
So despite the huge spends by the big 6 this summer it still accounts for a lower percentage of overall prem spend than 10 of the last 15 years.

With the current PSR rules and assuming various loop holes like selling yourself a hotel or your womens team get closed (and those are used by teams in PSR trouble rather than to raise income), are Spurs actually going to be able to really push on that much?
They already have a high turnover, 5th/6th in the league - well ahead of the team in 7th. In order for Spurs to really invest under the current rules they have to increase their income.

They already have lots of non football events at their stadium so not sure how much more they get out of that short of just putting prices up. They can obviously get naming rights for the stadium but we only get £4m a season for Emirates (I'm surprised its that low to be honest - in comparison to our adidas deal at £75m per year and the shirt sponsor at £50m per year and even the sleeve sponsor at £10m per year)

Their wage bill is quite low, but splashing the cash on big name players will push up that wage bill. Their training ground and stadium are already state of the art so there is no investment needed there.

I'm sure there will be change if they get sold but I don't know how much change. Newcastle for example seem to be struggling to invest

They could push on massively. Newcastle have wages to revenue ratio of 68% spurs is less than 50% pretty massive. Spurs revenue is a couple hundred million more than Newcastle per annum with a larger fanbase I reckon they would be very attractive to potential buyers.

I think it’s absolutely certain they are getting bought by the Saudis or Qataris.

I’m assuming they still need to pay off their 2 billion pound stadium so must have quite the debt hanging over them?

I think you're right but its better not to dwell on things like that and death.

I don't really think he was doing it for clickbait. He's just not the type to mince his words and he's not exactly unbiased as you say.

I also think there was also an element of him having a point. 3 games in and we haven't clicked. Leeds caved in but for while it looked like we were going to struggle against them too.

Yes I think you are right, Schmeichal is emotional and has *%^@ takes but means what he says. It does seem ‘clipped up’ as click bait by the programme/social media. I don’t think he has a point at all though. Feels tantamount to saying anything negative people say - “Arsenal only ever launch set pieces, wait for opposition mistakes and aren’t trying to play football - which is what he said - can be funnelled into “well we haven’t clicked yet so they have a point.”

We haven't clicked yet, true and Gyökeres doesn’t look match fit, but Schmeichal seems to have been dropped on his head as a young child, or participated in a scheme with Fergie to swap 25 IQ points for command of his area and shot stopping.

He’s a hun b****** ignore his shite opinions. Probably the type that burned ants with a magnifying glass when he was a kid and nicked old ladies pants off the line.

Oh I won’t be losing any sleep over it

When it happens it will be interesting. If spurs are valued at 3 billion dollars the deal would make Levy a billionaire for his 30% stake and one of Britain’s richest men. (He’s already loaded)

Yeah he's definitely taken a couple of blows to the head. Occupational hazard for a keeper. He's a grumpy *(fk too.

I quite enjoyed it when he was a pundit with Wrighty on an Arsenal Manure game. If you have two genuinely partisan pundits it can be ok. It can get old quite quickly however,

On whether he has a point: I suppose I do agree with you. I'm just feeling very grumpy after that loss. Hopefully good humour will be restored soon. Forest look a bit soft (touch wood).

Jeez

City's owners really are scumbags

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/worl ... sudan.html

https://www.sudanspost.com/new-york-tim ... e_vignette

Mansour clearly directly supporting a horrific genocide in Sudan

I just noticed the Donnaruma transfer. City getting him for 26 million seems like a *(&$ing steal. Am I missing something?

Damn ... also just noticed the forest game is next week. What a downer. Saturday plans down the bog. I suppose I'll just have to drink that beer and braai that kudu steak anyway.

Money and power rules. Its not a very pleasant world, is it?

it really isn't - I'm not naive enough to think that history is a load of lovely romantic stories, but when the world's major powers drift towards the far right and act purely in self interest - we are not in a good place

Trump is no FDR, that's for sure

Max Dowman won a penalty for the Eng U19’s….driving in from the right and the Spanish team couldn’t live with him and just took him down.

The kid is super special

4 Arsenal players starting for England.

Remember the days when we were absolutely slated with regularity for not having English players? Guess which top team hasn’t started an English player in any of their 3 games so far this season…..

He is, however, a POS.

Madueke englands best player so far

Definitely. He’s a weapon against deep defences

Saliba out for 3-4 weeks.
We’ve already had more injuries to first 11 players than Liverpool had in the entirety of last season

I think the Saliba time frame is speculation from outside of the club

No doubt you are suggesting that there is something Arteta can learn about rotation and training methods from Liverpool.

Rotation. It was our third game.

Are you suggesting saliba should have been rotated for an away match at Anfield

What people seem to not understand that there is an accumulation over seasons. Overplayed players eventually suffer. I think it was quoted on TV that Saliba had played 76 of our last 78 EPL games. Then add in last seasons LeagueCup and CL games. And then look at other players who were used relentlessly. If you think you start fresh because we’ve played 3 games you are incorrect. Did Saliba and Saka play a fair bit of pre-season as well.