Being suggested by a reporter that Ramsdale is signing for Newcastle.

To be honest it makes sense as he played under Eddie Howe at Newcastle so you can understand the connection.

Will be interesting to see who the replacement is.

Gonna have to watch more of his games. Bologna are 3rd level on points with Juve.

Bit strange as they have Pope who is their pretty well established No.1 (injured for a fair bit of this season), but many will say there isn’t much between Pope and Ramsdale.

We must recoup our money on Ramsdale or at least get a decent discount on Guimaraes or Isak if we want them

Remember that Arteta’s contract runs out in 2025 the same time as Pep’s. If City are preparing for Pep leaving you can be damn sure Arteta will be on their list. We MUST tie him down to a new deal asap

Hi AG - thanks - all well here, just a bit busy with various things. Gunners have done us proud this season - Ødegaard is wonderful.

Yes that was an unforgettable performance - the crowd singing "One more year!" for Dennis as he lit the place up.

Obviously he renewed every other contract at City at times left it late to renew but he gave assurances, etc. The podcast said he had a source who was "very well placed' inside City who said Pep has strongly hinted he was out after the end of the next one. He doesn't need to use negotiating tactics and supposedly, didn't want to leave it late so they would have scramble for a new manager or do the caretaker route.

Maybe be back page dribble, but this very big podcaster was pretty confident. I don't think Arteta will go there. Seems tailor made for him. I also think City will go for a big name. Zidane or someone of that stature.

Staying busy is always a good thing. Fantastic season. Tinkled pink we ended the season beating our 2 biggest London rivals and Man Utd away and no worse than runner up 2 years running.

What they are saying about The Arsenal

It's been a magnificent season in many ways. To take City to the last game is an amazing achievement given the juggernaut that they are.

The only real disappointment is that we didn't go further in the cups, this season deserved a trophy. Not really giving it our best shot against Bayern was one of the few regrets I think.

Even given our amazing performance there are still obvious areas for possible improvement. A LB, CB cover, a CM, a winger, a striker. I hope we get the deals we want to do done this summer.

Hi Rich,

In may ways Pope is the better keeper, he's just shite with his feet and in this day and age if you want to play out from the back your keeper has to be almost like an outfield player with his feet.

The gossip is that they want to pay £15M for Ramsdale. We should get double that.

One weird stat I see is ‘days spent top of the table’. Obviously used in a way to give stick to whoever doesn’t win the title that they were top for a long time. But, yes we were top but City had that game in hand over us for 10 weeks or so, reality is now they’ve won that game in hand that they have really been top for all that time.
A better metric would be for how many weeks of the season you were considered favourite for the title by the bookies

The prem trophy with red ribbons on will be at the emirates tomorrow, highly unlikely that it will be needed sadly but how far have we come in such a short space of time. Arteta has sprinted Arsenal to be title challengers, proper title challengers and it’s just been completely normalised as though we were always doing this and it isn’t Arteta’s first job in management.

Anyway, you never know in football. I doubt we’ll get the refereeing mistake but a City mistake, a daft red card, who knows. The only small things I cling to for West Ham is they can be dangerous on set pieces with Ward-prowse delivery, they may just play the 11 man defence which is typically always difficult to break down no matter who you are and they do offer a counter attacking threat with Bowen and kudus. Obviously there are a hundred times more reasons why they’ll just get steamrollered 4-0 but I’ll keep the hope until it’s over

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/20 ... -ramsdale/

15 million. Seems low.

Congratulations Granit

Incredible season by Leverkusen aka Neverlosing....90 points, 28 wins out of 36 games, 6 draws, 89 goals, 24 goals against, 65 GD, all competitions no losses. Unheard of.

The story that no one talks about though is Stuttgart, runner up, the one club that put Leverkusen under the most pressure. Were up 2-0 late at Leverkusen a few weeks ago. Trust me, we don't want to see them in the CL.
Their manager will get sought after.

Anyway, Xabi has a great strategy going. Hoping they win the Europa final and the German cup final

I recall this game. The referee was completely wrong

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iETgbPJ96To