I would like to raise the stakes for the cup final. Winner gets to take Luiz for the next year.

HAHAHAHA He said 'respect'...too funny. Must be trolling

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/footbal ... -Guardiola

Hi Bernard, no I’ve never watched a game of his, only YouTube type videos showing that he’s a good finisher and has scored lots of goals at youth level. But that would be no different to Nketiah or Afobe.

I would hope the really exclusive talent, like Saka, is fast tracked and moved to the first team quickly to show the trust the club has in the players ability. The rest we should be a) selling for good money and b) putting buy back clauses in if we’re slightly reluctantly selling - usually because the player can’t see a pathway to the first team

Thanks for the info Rich.

Hmmn

Woke up today with a feeling we might win this one for some reason. Once more into the breach

Good luck guys

Wahayyy.....Cup Final Day......feel the buzzz....


No I can’t either.

...and no Mustafi as well. We've lost.

I've prepared myself mentally at some point in the game to leave it and see what is happening elsewhere. Totally different feeling than the one I had when we played in them in the final in 2002.

Good to hear, because I have a really bad feeling. There's just too much at stake and 2020 isn't the year where good things happen.

Özil on a holiday break for Eid Mubarak possibly.

Interesting how the Mail broke a story today that Aubameyang supposedly was trying to get a transfer to Chelsea in January but his high wages put Chelsea off the deal.

What a scummy paper to time that nonsense on the morning of the cup final.

The Guendouzi and Coutinho rumours are picking up pace. The latest being £9m plus Guendouzi gets us Coutinho. Is Coutinho a £40m player? He probably is, and is a type of player we're crying out for.

The difficulty I have with it is the astronomical wages Coutinho must be on.

We'll be getting Mkhitryan's £200k per week of the books but we'll pressumably be putting some of that towards convincing Aubameyang to sign a new deal. It is those damn Özil wages which are killing us. Get them off the books and you've got the wages for 2 top class new signings

Martinez, Bellerin, Holding, Luiz, Tierney, AMN, Ceballos, Xhaka, Pep, Lacazette, Aubameyang

Looks like Chelsea are matching up our formation with a back 3.

Same team that played Man City in the semi?

Let's hope we can achieve the same performance......

7 of the 20 man squad from the academy today. 9 if you include Martinez and Bellerin

My expectations are low, but I really hope we somehow manage to win today.

Weirdest Cup Final ever. Very nervous remembering Baku. A win would mean a lot. Come on Arsenal.

Form book and recent history means I've not got a good feeling in the old stomach. Really need a good start. A strong middle performance is also probably important. A decent finish wouldn't hurt either. COYG!!

14 make it 14. Coyrs

its going to be a long night.

Well they look up for it and we look f*cked

Can't cope with Glenn Hoddle talking absolute *%^@ all day, switching from BT to BBC1. Great Danny Murphy...

Lacazette has got to sit on Jorginho surely. Just picked his pass for the first goal. We can get back into this. Aisnley will get another chance in behind, just hope he can find a final ball of some sort.

Awesome goal. Shame it was offside.

Surely that has to be a red.

Penó!! Surely no attempt to play the ball!!!

Someone please explain why that isn’t a red?
No attempt to play the ball, denying a clear goal goal scoring opportunity

Luiz sent off for that twice this season

G T F I

Beautiful pen Aubameyang!!!!!

Come on!!

Foul continues into the area definitely a pen. Only question is if it’s a red. Clear goal scoring opportunity and no attempt to play the ball. We get *%^@** on these decisions so often!!!!!

How was that different to the red for Luiz?

No idea why that isn’t a red. None whatsoever.

Well done Aubameyang for holding his nerve. Back in it.

Arseblog said someone should kick Giroud to put him off his game...

So annoyed with that decision. Should be a red and we should be playing 10 men for 60 minutes of the cup final.

Arsenal have responded really well. Our pace and balls over the top are giving Chelsea nightmares

whats with the old timey font on our kit?? Has it been that way all season??

Shame that they’ve lost Azpilicueta. We had the beating of him down our left - and he was on yellow.

I was thinking that. Looks a bit too Dungeons & Dragons for my liking. Bit two bob.

I’m hugely impressed how we’ve recovered in this match. Very very good indeed.