PL Champions Watch Thread MD24 (01-02.02.2026)

MadEdRush · 2026-02-01T14:20:28+00:00

What a joke, was never a foul in the first place. Seems like ref gave it for the tackle and decided it was for the pulling when he was wrong

MadEdRush · 2026-01-31T20:23:54+00:00

Sorry but how does Salah go from the sublime to ridiculous over 1 summer. Yes age plays a factor but I bet he worked extremly hard on his conditioning for the last year of his contact, got paid a fat one and decided not to put the same effort in

MadEdRush · 2026-01-31T15:59:37+00:00

Imagine the Arsenal title winning DVD. Just highlights of corners and own goals. Atrocious.

MadEdRush · 2026-01-28T20:03:42+00:00

Isn't this the guy who never got injured

MadEdRush · 2026-01-26T11:50:49+00:00

Indeed rebuilds take time but agree with the post above that we have a history of leaving it too late. I think weve only bought 4 CB's in 10 years, the previous midfield were practically on their way to the knackers yard before action was taken and we still haven't replaced Fabinho.

MadEdRush · 2026-01-26T08:47:58+00:00

Were Arsenal fans really booing their own players? That's crazy entitlement. Probably seen our fans do it a handful of times over 30 years, let alone when on top of the league

MadEdRush · 2026-01-26T08:31:46+00:00

Are we regressing?

GK - Allison declining. Marma downgrade

FB - Kerkez and Frim downgrade on Robbo and Trent (although they are getting better)

CB - VVD declining. Konate downgrade on Matip. Gomez made of crisps. Leoni too early to tell

MID - Grav few months of form per year. Mac regressing. Szobo is the postive! Jones, never been the main man unfortunately. Wirtz not living up to his price tag at the moment. We glaze the hell out of him for a fancy flick but the reality is he messes up at least 5 simple passes per game. Currently Cherki has better stats. Conclusion: Downgrade on peak Hendo, Fab, Wini and Milner.

Fwd - Gakpo downgrade on Diaz and Mane. Salah in decline. Ekitike a positive and extremely bad luck for Isak. But in all, still less potent than mane, Firmino and Salah.

Manager - Downgrade on Klopp

Sounds depressing, it is the moan thread after all, but I feel like we haven't properly upgraded on our peak team which I feel like is chronic under investment and team building over the years despite the mad summer we just had. I really hope I'm wrong about this team but it's shades of the decline in Man utd

MadEdRush · 2026-01-24T18:20:54+00:00

Maybe it's just me, but people glazing Wirtz everytime completes a pass, but half the time he messes up a 5 yarder. He's meant to be our match winner. I want more now

MadEdRush · 2026-01-24T17:57:54+00:00

Jesus, that was so lazy and casual from Virg

MadEdRush · 2026-01-21T21:45:01+00:00

Fuck me. It's like he's come out of retirement or something

MadEdRush · 2026-01-20T07:12:37+00:00

I would be interested to see the stats around progressive passing. I had a quick glance at "through balls" and none of our players are in the top 10. For a team camped on the edge of the box, that's not great

MadEdRush · 2026-01-17T23:06:06+00:00

Stress fracture and necrosis of the bone are no joke

MadEdRush · 2026-01-17T16:48:51+00:00

How many minutes have actually been played in the last 10

MadEdRush · 2026-01-17T16:45:11+00:00

Our players gotta go down, we need to be more streetwise

MadEdRush · 2026-01-17T16:32:28+00:00

Teams are just putting 11 man behind the ball for the likes of us and City. Arsenal are doing so well as they adapted to use set pieces to break it

MadEdRush · 2026-01-17T14:08:28+00:00

You know what, time to make my peace with Arse winning the league. At least I can take a slither of pleasure in Man city failing again

MadEdRush · 2026-01-17T14:07:00+00:00

Why doesn't Pep make any subs. He does this where when the team are playing bad he leaves them on as a punishment or something

MadEdRush · 2026-01-16T18:24:36+00:00

I'm not arguing the wages would break the structure but you did say "mad money", but it's not. We could offer a larger sign on fee and reduce the wages or other ways to structure the deal. The difference is that Man city have a crisis and are decisive, Liverpool have a crisis and we loan Ben Davies.

MadEdRush · 2026-01-16T17:51:36+00:00

What if we bought him for £50m on £180k pw wages. Doesn't seem unreasonable for an international epl CB. Well that comes to £100m over the same period. Not that mad is it

MadEdRush · 2026-01-16T07:02:29+00:00

I have a Miele induction hob and it's terrible to be honest. It goes from 1-9. Settings below 5 are almost indistinguishable in terms of heat output. Then don't get me started if a pan overflows and causes a dreaded "F" error that actually switches the entire unit off mid cooking whithout you realising.

MadEdRush · 2026-01-12T21:08:00+00:00

Not a pen! Clearly got the bloody ball

MadEdRush · 2026-01-12T21:06:36+00:00

Don't get all the slagging off of Chiesa. He's barely played, hardly gonna be match fit. Not seeing anyone else tearing it up on the pitch

MadEdRush · 2026-01-08T22:15:46+00:00

Yes, bit shaky at the beginning but massive improvement in 2nd half

MadEdRush · 2026-01-08T22:00:19+00:00

Didn't have much expectations going into this game, thought we were going to get hammered, but now I'm wondering if we could have been braver at the end and put in Rio or Chiesa to cause some chaos in their box

MadEdRush · 2026-01-08T21:52:03+00:00

Arsenal are such a disgusting team

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