As much as I hate to admit it I would swap the invincibles season for a treble.

Actually I think I would swap it for just 1 champions league.

City are going to stroll that final. They are becoming tiresome

City are already 23 unbeaten. They will eventually beat the 49 games on this current trajectory. They also stand a more than decent chance of going unbeaten at some point. Only once they have made a total mockery of the so called competitiveness of the PL will people even start to have the conversation at the higher levels. It's F1 now. Utd get Qatar in all probability, Newcastle have the Saudi money. What's the point? We knew this but I think we've only really felt it so acutely as we've found ourselves on the receiving end this season. Liverpool fans were saying this a while back and we just laughed at them etc. It's such b%*&s%*^, it really is.

They’ve disputed all charges now

https://www.londonworld.com/sport/footb ... ks-4148358

Rambo signs a new contract

More “faffing around” next season

Well that’s very humble of him but I was in Paris in 2006 for that final and I bet many of the fans who went and are still haunted by that loss would swap it in a heartbeat. Unfortunately the champions league is the pinnacle of all club football achievement. We really haven’t made much of a dent in that competition either. It’s really the elephant in the room for Arsenal really as we have a fine domestic record really.

I think you need to take off the tinfoil hat, Zed.

Not just the CL , our European record in all competitions is very poor and needs addressing , lost too many finals

City are undeniably a fantastic team but maybe the media should stop with the superlatives until the outcome of the 100+ FFP charges levied against them.

They may well be innocent and exonerated, in which case the PL are going to look like a right bunch of plonkers for even thinking the charges would stick. If they are guilty of mass FFP rule breaks then their legacy will be forever tainted by the fact that they cheated to get where they are and they should be stripped of titles and kicked out of the league.

City are already 23 unbeaten. They will eventually beat the 49 games on this current trajectory. They also stand a more than decent chance of going unbeaten at some point. Only once they have made a total mockery of the so called competitiveness of the PL will people even start to have the conversation at the higher levels. It's F1 now. Utd get Qatar in all probability, Newcastle have the Saudi money. What's the point? We knew this but I think we've only really felt it so acutely as we've found ourselves on the receiving end this season. Liverpool fans were saying this a while back and we just laughed at them etc. It's such b%*&s%*^, it really is.

Feels like there are a lot of outgoings this summer: I've put what I think we can realistically expect for them in brackets
Mari £6m), Cédric (£0), Tavares (£10m), AMN (£0), Nelson (£0), Pépé (£0), Trusty (£7m), Runnarson £0) Patino (£7m) Holding (£8m) and Xhaka (£13m). That would be £48m but only 1 and a bit of those contributed anything to this season

I've put Pépé at £0 because I can't see many teams affording his undoubted high way so may be one we need to shift. Ideally we'd get £10-15m but after years of hoping we get more for our unwanted players the reality is we won't.

I expect Tierney to leave (£30m+), I also think Balogan will go (£30m+) The price depends on who you're selling to. For these two I'd hope we can drive a harder bargain because we're don't need to sell them.

If we could raise £100m+ from sales and inject £200m from our budget we could be in for a very interesting summer

The one you haven’t listed is lokonga who I think we might cash in and I wouldn’t be shocked at all if we did something like loan vieira back to Porto or a French club

For all the talk of the games which lost us the title, if you take out the two games v City then the records vs the other 18 teams in the league are virtually identical. If we both win our remaining games then City have been 1 point better against 'the rest' of the league

So for every point Arsenal frustratingly dropped against southampton, everton, west ham and liverpool, Man City have all but the same amount of points dropped against the likes of Forest, Everton, Villa, Spurs, Liverpool.

The games that really decided the title was the 6 points up for grabs in the games between the two sides

The one you haven’t listed is lokonga who I think we might cash in and I wouldn’t be shocked at all if we did something like loan vieira back to Porto or a French club

No way will we get 7 million for Patino. Off the back of a very mediocre season on loan. No chance

Honestly if we got more than 4 million for holding I would be shocked too but you’ll get a fee for Pépé but not anywhere near 72 million though.

I think we might see Nuno back at our place next year though.

Saw a podcast excerpt with John Barnes and Simon Jordan.

Barnes made a decent point about city which is that to play their system you have to have the best players. It doesn’t work if you have 2 or 3 inconsistent ones as everything falls apart so that pep isn’t a manager that would function well in the lower divisions. I have to say I agree with him and think it also applies to us right now. We essentially play a very similar if not identical set up to them. I think if we suffer the absence of 1 or 2 players it hurts us as the tactical set up kind of falls apart and is so visible. Even swapping out Xhaka for vieira is catastrophic as it requires such a blend of abilities and strengths to play the system. City kind of smoulder their opposition and if you give them a lead it just becomes impossible because they don’t commit players forward. They are actually quite a defensive side that scores lots of goals if that makes sense.

I think you will see more incoming signings that specifically are for the set up. Maybe 2 specialist midfielders and a right back or player that can cover 2 defensive positions. I think we’d need a striker but I don’t expect to see one coming in

That's a really good point. I noticed it in the WC. You have to have 11 players who are comfortable with playing out from the back for it to work. If the keeper or one of the defender is not comfortable with it, it doesn't work and you are better off reverting to more old-fashioned methods.

It doesn't always manifest as the uncomfortable player making the mistakes. A keeper who is wobbly or a CB who is a bit slow or prone to lapses in concentration sends a tremor of uncertainly though the whole team.

I cant believe we will get both but it would be a huge statement to get both Duckling Rice and Moises Canciedo. Given how our defence has started leaking goals it would probably go some way to fixing that while providing dynamism and grit to our midfield.

As has been widely acknowledged, the atmosphere over the past 2 seasons has really cranked up at Arsenal. Even at the Brighton match where I actually thought the atmosphere had finally waned, the singing on the North Bank concourse before the match started was reminiscent of a cup final. A lot of this is down to having a likeable, title challenging team, and probably a slighter younger fan base since covid. Much credit has also gone to the Ashburton Army, who sit behind the goal in the clock end and sing non stop in every match. By my estimates there can only be a 100 or so of them, but given the level of support they provide, I really hope the club can facillitate giving them more tickets. Interestingly, the group found themselves in a spot of bother as the club/police took issue with their usage of antisemtic terms for Sperz on a social media site, which is why they boycotted the Chelsea home match.

You say something silly, you're quickly proven wrong and instead of admitting you were wrong you just go on how people replying to you are too precious, triggered or you've managed to get a rise from them.

Fortunately, there's no-one on this forum who ever acts like that.

Not since Daz left, anyway.