I tend to define world class as best in class. I don't think he is.

It's the product of overhype in the first place.

World class is a term that's thrown about casually.

The £100m plus market for players of his type always felt absurd. They need to be prolific scorers, creators and matchwinners to merit that type of money imo.

His passing isn't top level either.

Genuinely? Over on the Arse site Cool, 4 years and 700m later and still not ready? Fraud When will Arteta handle an April run in? why does he capitulate in this month. All comes down to poor squad management and not rotating well and too busy running our players down to the ground, also the poor re...

OFT wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:57 pm really?????

Had a sneaky look at arsenal-mania earlier. Saka was getting a real caning.

Amazingly bad penalties, always good for the shootout.

Bernardo Silva goes for the Ademola Lookman

In bar after bar in Madrid there are Spaniards saying, "it's just like watching West Ham"

A world without Breakfast TV and 24 hour "news" channels. It adds nothing positive and fuels all manner of negative mindsets.

A world where people weren't filming, photographing and recording everything. It triggers the vanity, narcissism and Stasi informant in too many people.

The exaggerated mannerisms and vocal affectations of Robert Peston and others of the same ilk.

10 players to improve us requires a budget of £250m-£300m.

If the budget is about 50%-60% of that, so is the sensible level of recruitment, imo.

Unnamed PL club bid just over £50m for Raphinha.

As Shakespeare once scribed in Act 3, Scene 1 of Henry V, "it's **** or bust now lads, let's 'ave 'em".

Dortmund 2 up.

The 5xCL places and 8xEuropean may not be dead yet but it's in need of some life support.

"We are going for 20-23 year olds" "He'a an attacking manager, who wants to dominate possession and control the ball" It's cliche-tastic, isn't it? It reeks of herding without any thought of how X manager is going to be any different to the very many others that all spout the sam...

r99c wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:14 pm Wouldn't mind saturating her.

Barking up the wrong tree, unless you're a Rachel or Rosie.

I think the only chance we have is if we keep a clean sheet. I’m not sure we are capable of that. We've scored in almost all the games we've played against English Champions league clubs this year , and have bagged 2s or 3s in more than half the games :shocker: Kept a couple of clean sheets too.

He has been training since Friday, be interesting to see if he is training tomorrow based on this news. That 91st minute goal on Thursday was a proper kick in the nads. At 0-1, with Alvarez and Bowen to come on in the second half of the tie - something the manager would have known/suspected - the a...

Sad news A great bowler one of the best,Used to go and watch Kent back in the days with Deadly,Knott,Luckhurst all playing in a great side. Had a quick chat with him once as we passed the changing rooms and he was hanging out the window having a fag :grin: Strong team in that era iirc - Woolmer, De...

TheHandOfDog wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 10:08 pm
For what