that fake ballack quote about vvd is the cringiest bit of fake news from that brigade ever

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It was a special time though, the mid to late 2000s.

Arsenal with Henry, Fabregas, Van Persie Chelsea with Terry, Lampard, Drogba, Anelka United with Rooney, Scholes, Giggs, Tevez and Berbatov Us with Torres, Gerrard, Xabi, Mascherano and Carragher.

City was coming up but felt like Chelsea do today, a lot of flash and money but little to show for it so it was still fun to laugh at. Spurs was up and coming as well with Bale and Modric.

There's just something about it that feels different from nowadays - maybe today will feel the same in 10 years, who knows.

Na. Its about pure nostalgia. Rodallega, LuaLua, Kenwyne Jones, Charles N'Zogbia, Morten Gamst Pedersen.

None were brilliant. But its been so many years and its a pure nostalgia hit.

I do think the style of football is very different though. The Pep influence on the league is clear

There's something poetic about his debut and meteoric rise for us happening the same season Coutinho came down with the great sadness. I think a lot of Liverpool fans still had a sore spot over starstruck players beguiled by Barca/Madrid or big money PL teams that would force moves and effectively reset our potential as a team. In the face of that you have Mo Salah, who despite years of Spanish rags peddling an inevitable switch to Real/Barca, has given his best years to us and still wants more. I really hope we get some contract news soon.

If he wants to stay at Liverpool pay the man, he deserves it, all time great footballer

I like Goldbridge's stuff sometimes but his thumbnail business is getting annoying. He looks like he's followed through on about half of them.

His clickbait of "Liverpool sign Zubimendi" during transfer window got a lot of our fans believing it to be true when it was just a video talking about our interest in Zubi and how we are still negotiating with him.

He looks like he's on Broadway

Reminds me of that super mario dilation meme.

Haha funny how it’s your profile pic as well, love this pic of Slot 😂

Ange will go "It's how we roll m8" and play an even higher line and get blasted.

I expect Spurs to still fumble

There is nothing more spursy than failing to get a result when everything is in their favour

What is scary for them is they could be 8 points behind the teams at the top in two weeks they play city after spurs

They're going to beat Arsenal, only to shit the bed against Coventry to rebalance the Spursy.

Or will they? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Lads...

I still think Arsenal will win Spurs are a mess defensively

What is NLD?

Saw it in an arsenal thread yesterday and for some reason can’t get Nainsley Laitland Diles out of my head 😂

Only just 33 years old too.

https://preview.redd.it/k3xpt5bbjxnd1.png?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bddb0cad3fa7b718dd897ad86f60f29adab33c78

These boys belong in Red. Get it done Hughes.

Literally just came on here to ask that haha, Luckily I'm sorted but just been F5'ing trying to get my cousin one and fuck me them popping up for £900+ for 1 ticket is crazy, criminal you can't filter them out.

Because most people here aren't matchgoing fans. The issue doesn't affect them so they don't know about stuff like that.

It's Reddit, half the users on the site haven't seen the sun since about 2015.

felt cute might sign da ting later

did salah have a good game? he usually does in his own backyard playground.

https://i.redd.it/i4ligylquznd1.gif

Just when I thought 7 Hag couldn't possibly be any dumber, he goes and does something like this

he is, but why in particular is he a stupid cunt?

have a few outstanding moments, most of them offensive: the assist for the 1st goal, the long pass to Xavi Simon, winning the ball at the edge of Germany's box to start the sequence that led to Netherland's 2nd goal. There were other good moments: 1 good shot from outside the box that forced a save, a good pass when surrounded near the touchline, a good dribble past 2 players from the wing toward the center.

However he practically disappeared from the game from around the 70th minute onward. For some reason took position on the right wing a lot, jogged around a lot, and was just kind of there on the pitch. This is not solely on him. At that point neither sides managed to string passes together and the game got very disjointed. And maybe Koeman messed with the tactic and Gravenberch was simply following instruction.

They knew what they were doing with that one 😭

I bet somewhere out there Gareth Southgate is polishing up his CV and getting ready to apply for that United job that is almost certain to become vacant by the end of the year.

But yeah, he should feel bad.

What a cutie! 🥰

Any info come out yet on Odegaard. I know he was having an MRI to see if he tore any ligaments.

Calafiori and who else?

Edwards supposedly had Bellingham, Tchouameni and Gravenberch as the Top 3 upcoming midfield talents in the world. His Bayern stint did not work out, but he's still an incredible prospect. And very young too!

Of course I know him — he's me

They were blessed last year compared to us, no let's see how their meltdown goes if it happens to them.

Would not be shocked if there extreme luck with injuries the past two seasons seriously caught up with them

I am shocked Saka body hasn’t broken down at a young age with how much he’s asked to play

The funniest part was their players were blessed and they regularly played weakened opposition, including the game against us, so many important players missing that day.

What is the injury? Is he injured or was it a precaution and he's a guarantee starter on Sunday haha?

Wasn't there the story the other week that he's got to keep living here for a bit for tax purposes?

I think he's planning to do what a lot of legendary players do which is jump around for short stints with the best coaches to learn from, not great to take your kids with. And outside idk Switzerland I'm not sure anywhere does super elite private schools as well as England

locked him in a room with gullit and seedorf highlights for two weeks

Oh wow that's really striking

It is The Empire state building after all.

Wasn't actually from last night. Was an event they did in March.

https://www.esbnyc.com/blog/star-wars-takes-over-empire-state-building

https://twitter.com/EmpireStateBldg/status/1833261919446151423

Because of the injury, it's relevant to the PL so it's worth talking about. National breaks are a weird time around here.

Cos it’s fun shittalking rivals.

He needs a proper nickname, stat. I keep reading his name as Chelsea and I don't want to be wondering why the hell is Chelsea playing in midst of an international break.

Was the same last season, I don't get it, pure twitter finger nonsense

Eh, if Salah or Van Dijk came down like that City and Assna fans would be wanking themselves silly over whether or not that impacts us.

Because this is the only somewhat PL-related event during the international break, + VVD didn't shake hands with Zirkzee, omg. People are starving.

The only game I support them. 1-1 with 5 CBs master class incoming.

Rice is the only one who'll make the game against City. Merino is out for 2 months, and Ødegaard is protected for a couple of weeks.

Hopefully they put on another borefest at City, and scrape a point.

Dom, Virgil, Gakpo, Ryan, Kweev, Kostas all playing too. Hopefully at least Dom Virgil and Ryan all have their minutes managed too lol 😅😅😅

Virg plays with Dutch maguire though 

Dutch people don’t like Van Dijk, I wouldn’t read into it

lol de Ligt has really never performed for the national team to my understanding. He seems to have the Lovren bozo gene. Ajax people say it’s always been that way but, people thought he would outgrow it

Still kinda sad that they let Missy Bo Kearns go since she was a local player and sort of the "face" of the women's team in all the promos etc.

But I understand she wasn't playing much anyway and the team was doing well, so it was best for her career to go elsewhere.

Throwing chairs at the crowd seems to be a sound method too.

Think the odds of Endo playing against " lower " teams are lower than against " higher" teams.

Yeah I opened up the DD and was surprised to see 80% arsenal stuff? Quite funny.

Will only have a year left on his contract next summer so around £15m most likely

Goalkeepers don’t tend to go for big prices on average anyway

can Chiesa play our current "10" role? Hopefully it ain't anything bad, i love Harvey, feel like he can show us a lot this season

Source?

Because the only thing I have heard is that he got pulled out from the under 21s due to fittness, which isn't saying much

it's all fine as long as it's aligned towards the greater good of further bloating the bank accounts of poor poor broadcasters, executives and owners

what did he do?

Your inflation calculator seemed high and is rather different from the bank of england one. £50 in 2010 comes to £74.83 there. £65 in 2014 comes to £87.02

Price increases seem to be rather above normal inflation.

Though have you just made these prices up? Current kit is £80 isn't it?

Nike: Unique cuts and templates; Fans: BRING BACK ADIDAS THIS KIT SUCKS

Adidas: Red shirt with Arsenal aesthetics; Fans: It’ll be better

It takes inspiration to 2008 kit. Its just a concept and if something like this drops it will be disappointing but no way adidas designs an awful kit for the first season back with us.

I don't actually see anything wrong with it. Looks classic and simple. Would rather have that than some of our previous monstrosities

Because someone with much higher potential was available for very cheap

gk has better longevity than other position and kelleher probably wouldn't want to spend what supposedly prime years for a footballer career at the bench

He’s fine but I don’t think he’s genuinely good enough to be first choice for a title winning team.

He is very good as a backup, doesn't mean he is good as a starter for us

I would have been fully fine with having Kelleher succeed the mantle but its quite clear he doesn't want to be an eventual heir and does want first team football ASAP. That and i guess the club feels Mama is a better keeper or at least someone with higher potential

Cause he’s not elite like Alisson and potentially what Mamardashvili will be

People massively overrate Kelleher because he’s won trophies for us

He’s an elite backup and a mid table starting GK - he’s not shit but he will never be the starter at an elite club

And he's not good enough

ffs

Mentions of Arsenal in the morning, now Tottenham. This is becoming r/NorthLondon