I was reading a lot of pundits talk about how we were soft in defense against West Ham. I didn’t really see it (though TBF, I didn’t watch the entire match). Their first goal was shoddy defense for sure. But their second was basically an unstoppable rocket. Meanwhile, we looks so damn sharp in attack.

I’m hoping we do offer Jorginho a 1 year extension, as the rumours are suggesting.

All my uni friends are UK or Europe based. I live several hours time difference away from all of them. It’s not especially easy, but it’s possible.

It’s been 20+ years since I graduated college, and I still regularly talk to my mates I made in my first year. Making close friends once you hit the workplace can be tough. It always surprises me which coworkers become long-term friends. Usually it’s not the ones you’d think when you’re working either.

No offense Gilberto, but that’s Michael Owen calibre wisdom right there!

Best of luck to you!

It’s such a joke. So much spin, double-speak, and lying from potential employers. And that’s when the job market is decent. When the job market is tight a lot of that goes away the underlying dismissive/shitty attitude towards candidates shines through.

Good grief, I hate international breaks!

You can’t fault the spuds’ determination to out under-perform us.

Us: were just going to put in a half-hearted effort and settle for a draw against Chelsea.

Spuds: oh yeah? Well we’re going to bottle it against Ipswich and give them their first PL win in 20 years, so suck it!

I suspect they are planning to move Per up from the Academy, and then recruit Tomas to fill that Academy position.

I don’t recall right now, but there were several decent ones in the summer transfers list that I maintained here during the last transfer window.

I see this as a symptom of our mediocre attacker recruitment during the summer. We brought in Merino (while I know he’s capable of scoring, it’s not his biggest strength), and Sterling on a loan (who I had low expectations of but he has still underperformed overall IMO). Meanwhile we got rid of ESR and some others (Nelson, Vieira - though TBF they were dead wood).

We have excellent resources in defense, but we are thin in attack. And the strategy seemed to be to hope we got no major injuries, which was incredibly naive. So when Odegaard got injured we were screwed. We need 3 or 4 quality attacking players to challenge for the title. But honestly, with 3 losses already, and the fact that the January transfer window is notoriously difficult, and now with no Edu… our title challenge is likely done for the season.

Good to see Area is giving the likes of Nwaneri and MLS more play time. That’s a good idea. Hopefully they can both come of age this season and add a whole new dimension. But we can’t hope for a good if teenagers to full in like that. Spend big in January, if we can. Or just resign ourselves to trying to get a CL spot and regroup for next season.

Nope. He’s gone gone.

I haven’t been able to watch any matches live in weeks, due to youth coaching and then running errands. The fact that only about half of our matches are live on Peacock doesn’t help either. But the youth season is nearly over, so I’ll hopefully be able to watch more lives matches in a couple of weeks. Hopefully our form has picked up by then.

WTF?!

I definitely will. The lack of consistency and terrible man-management he brought led to some hilarious losses. Goodbye sweet prince.

Let’s hope his replacement also fails.

What’s this I’m reading about the spuds having to warn their fans about homophobic chants directed towards… Arteta??? Good that they are trying to crack down on such chants. They have no place in football. But I’m confused why they are directing them to Arteta. I guess to the clowns following that joke of a club assume every Arsenal manager is gay? How weird and pathetically childish.

So, Tommy Tuchel is the new England manager, eh? I haven’t been paying attention to the chatter sounding possible candidates, so I was not expecting that. It seems like a weird appointment.

Maybe they fell back to the etiquette of bygone centuries where the biggest, ugliest Viking warrior was the defacto leader?

Why do I feel like fate is telling us we need to fast-track Nwaneri’s transition into becoming a first team regular. Seems like with Odegaard now likely out until December, we will need a younger player to step up. And he’s the perfect candidate.

This reminds me of when Arteta had no other choice but to give ESR a run in the first team because of injuries. And Emile used that opportunity to not only stake a claim, but also to revitalize our flagging season. We’re playing well now, but still, this could really jump start Ethan’s development. Start him there in some of the easier fixtures and see how he does.

We also have Miles Lewis-Skelly available and keen to get a chance. Though I see him as more of a winger. Every time recently Nwaneri’s come on it’s been in that 10 slot.

Fuck, I hope this injury Saka picked up playing against Greece isn’t serious.