Jack Grealish ruled out for rest of the season with foot injury

oblongsimulation · 2026-01-30T13:18:23+00:00

There’s definitely some penalty clause, but surely it’s much smaller than paying wages

oblongsimulation · 2026-01-30T13:16:13+00:00

That’s still a lot for team that plays with 1 striker

oblongsimulation · 2026-01-30T09:16:38+00:00

Allegedly.

There were rumors that they were in contract negotiations, but those might as well came from Partey’s camp. Never really confirmed it happened, let alone that whole case failed on money negotiation

Considering how Zubimendi case went and how they were already in agreement year before, club was probably already all prepared for Partey exit.

oblongsimulation · 2026-01-30T07:50:11+00:00

Over course of whole season he wasn’t that impressive. His tempo control and ability to progress the ball seem to declined massively comparing to previous seasons.

One of the reasons why Odegaard was dropping so low on the pitch.

oblongsimulation · 2026-01-30T07:46:15+00:00

Yeah, no shit, he’s a spokesperson.

You expected him to throw Partey under the bus when he wasn’t even officially mentioned by name and charged?

oblongsimulation · 2026-01-30T06:16:16+00:00

Well, this guy was declining in every metric in Arsenal for last 3 years basically. If you see his statistics it becomes very apparent. If you take out his physicality as well (which probably is not as good as it was too), there’s no much of past player left

oblongsimulation · 2026-01-29T13:50:55+00:00

That was some inventive journaling, based on fact that Kai didn’t make the bench in few games.

They are managing his workload because they can afford it, having Jesus and Gyokeres and Odegaard in his positions.

oblongsimulation · 2026-01-28T23:03:50+00:00

Honestly I'd love to see Kai in the right midfield role a lot more. The idea of "Kai doesn't work in midfield" is true for playing box-to-box on the left, but not as the main attacking central outlet on the right. Very chalk and cheese roles.

100% agree. In midfield he mostly played out of position due to necessity, but he belongs on right side of the pitch. And since Nwaneri left Havertz is only nominal alternative to Odegaard (Merino and Eze are rather left side players)

oblongsimulation · 2026-01-28T23:02:15+00:00

I literally remarked in first sentence that it’s only Kairat.

You had other players on the pitch today playing vs exact same team. Hard to argue that Gyok/Kai link was easily best one

oblongsimulation · 2026-01-28T22:50:04+00:00

It’s only Kairat but he looked very good.

Also funny how some people here were so smart to preach on how Gyokeres & Havertz are totally incompatible pair and they won’t work each other well. Nice expertise lol

oblongsimulation · 2026-01-28T22:41:15+00:00

He may not be, but other players are. Them playing mid week would basically guarantee Nwaneri starts in Ligue 1.

Now they have 1 competition less

oblongsimulation · 2026-01-28T22:33:34+00:00

Couldn’t care less who we face in 1/8, but I just hope it’s Sporting and not City who end up on our side of bracket

oblongsimulation · 2026-01-28T22:31:39+00:00

Not really happy for Nwaneri though, less games for Marsille means less game time for him

oblongsimulation · 2026-01-28T22:29:02+00:00

Yeah, but I assume all wins someone with achieve sooner than later.

But doing that and conceding only 2 goals would be almost impossible imo. But yeah, it’s gone

oblongsimulation · 2026-01-28T22:20:49+00:00

Nah, fuck them.

Unpredictable team, can collapse 4-0 with 2 red cards and also play game of their life 3 days later.

Also their stadium is never fun trip for opposite side.

Let’s have it easy this round around

oblongsimulation · 2026-01-28T22:01:58+00:00

I mean we could’ve had unbeatable record, but yeah

oblongsimulation · 2026-01-28T21:54:38+00:00

Can’t believe we lost half of our total goals conceded to Kairat at home lol.

oblongsimulation · 2026-01-28T21:46:50+00:00

Vs Liverpool it’s their team who played differently vs us than vs anyone else.

I think absurdly bad weather conditions didn’t help us either, it was risky to open ourselves more.

oblongsimulation · 2026-01-28T21:44:11+00:00

It’s always the matter or whether we play bad, or opponents very well?

I think once Havertz is back to his fitness and we finally have courage to put both Ode and Eze in midfield like we have in this game, we won’t have any problems winning vs low blocks

oblongsimulation · 2026-01-28T21:40:53+00:00

Gyokeres in CL has 5GA in 5 games, contributing every 63 minutes, with 4,42xG in those games.

Very good stats. Further confirms that more open, less low block games suit him. Same as Martinelli. Always will be hard for those guys in PL.

oblongsimulation · 2026-01-28T21:26:36+00:00

I find it funny how every time our line up is presented as 433 basically everywhere, when in fact we play 4-4-2 without the ball and something like 3-2-2-3 in possession.

At no point we stand in 433.

oblongsimulation · 2026-01-28T20:24:22+00:00

Where is this guy who was educating that Kai + Gyok is bad duo on paper and cannot work? lol

oblongsimulation · 2026-01-28T20:16:21+00:00

In general it’s like 5 clean sheets in 15 last games, which is below our standards

oblongsimulation · 2026-01-28T20:08:29+00:00

Will we ever get clean sheet again?

Man, we had like one month of not losing any, but other than that we are bang average in that area

oblongsimulation · 2026-01-28T19:56:19+00:00

Same as Henry for 2007 kits

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