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  1. also no i’m not done. you make a great point about Chambo being our largest ever sum for a player sold. that’s how it was before arteta. we not only lost our best players in their prime (cesc, nasri, rvp, song, vermaelen, that’s literally three consecutive club captains leaving arsenal in their prime), the good players we did sign (santi, alexis, ozil, auba, laca, etc) were all losing value by the minute from the time that we signed them. it was the stupidest model for winning you could imagine. i still don’t know how wenger was so unrelentingly successful under those circumstances. but look at us now. saliba, gabriel, saka, rice, odegaard, raya, martinelli, MLS, nwaneri, dowman, et al. all of them will either stay here through their entire primes, and/or be sold for 5x, 10x, 50x what we paid for them. i would never in a million billion years trade what arteta has done for this club and its future for an alphabet soup cup trophy. you guys have completely lost the plot, but you’ve given me every reason to talk about how amazingly better everything is at arsenal since arteta took over, and for that, i thank you.
  2. if you just went by reading these boards you’d swear that arsenal fc is insane for not having already fired arteta, and that tottenham was insane to sack ange because tRoPHi3z!!!!! i cannot even explain to you how vastly superior arsenal is now compared to where we were when arteta took over, beyond which is the fact that 85% of our squad are in/approaching their early prime and are locked down long term. literally only a PL or CL title could make his first five years here any better. we are the absolute inverse of what we were when he showed up, and thank god. when he showed up, every match against the likes of city, chelsea, and united felt like an inevitable bloodbath, a match that we had zero shot in. now those teams can’t even beat us for years running, and im supposed to be upset with mikel arteta, and he’s supposedly under pressure this year, as if it’s a zero sum game where only trophies matter. i can’t count the number of y’all whom i otherwise respect, who have gone full retard when it comes to downplaying anything gnat arsenal/arteta does. full retard.
  3. lol, people on this forum seriously act like arteta is in hot water. “put up or shut up year”. as if winning the fa cup in his first year, taking over an arsenal team that was in shambles and out of europe with no valuable players to sell and turning that into a team that’s finished second three years in a row, a team that is now chock full of some of europe’s most valuable players, a team that just got done trouncing real madrid on its way to a very impressive ucl semifinal run, and most importantly and notably, taking a team that regularly lost 8-2, 6-1, and 4-0 to the “big six” and turned it into this: is “literally nothing impressive”. i don’t know how to break this to y’all, but arteta is in as much hot water at arsenal as sark is at Texas, and this season for Arteta is as much of a “put up or shut up” year for arteta as this UT football season is for Sark. in fact in fact Sark is probably the best analog for arteta in all of world sports. but yeah, he’d better win the league lest he be fired!!! lol. i would pay money if i could somehow get through all of your thick candy shells and allow you to see for yourselves how insanely petty and delusional y’all sound when you say that arteta has done nothing impressive at arsenal, or insinuate that his job is even remotely in trouble. it’s 100% crazy talk.
  4. the yankees have three errors in the second inning. annnnd as i type this to make fun of them david hamilton, who just got called back up, gets picked off at third while not paying attention. ugliest inning of baseball i’ve watched this year.
  5. why are they not showing drunken nights out and bus hookups anymore? some of the most legendary clips have come from the bus. off the top of my head: brad’s ultimate wedgie, cara doing hand stuff with that twin, tony and camila slobbering all over each other, and jordan telling jemmye she looks like she has downs. that’s just off the top of my head. sucks to know that this kind of stuff is still happening, but mtv just doesn’t want to show it for some reason.
  6. arsenal wins the fa cup 3/4 years and 5/8 years and it’s not a big deal, it’s a lesser-than trophy, we have nothing to celebrate. y’all literally made fun of us for having a parse in 2014. during that run in 2014 we beat tottenham, everton, and liverpool; in 2015 we beat man u and then blanked villa 4-0 in the final; in 2017 we beat city in the semis and chelsea in the final, then in 2020 we did the exact same thing, and how did this board/epl fans at large react? tottenham does this: and what is the reaction from the very same people who downplayed four fa cups? the fact that y’all invented this whole “you haven’t won a trophy in five years, how embarrassing!!!!” thing out of thin air at the very moment that other clubs were winning their first (tiny, unimportant) trophies in decades (or ever) says so much more about you as a person than it does about anyone/anything arsenal related. every single time you guys make these jokes and then look around and high five each other you’re just making yourself look like a flaky, goalpost moving dumbass. just fyi.
  7. it’s so funny how when arsenal won four fa cups and four community shields those were small time trophies not worth celebrating, and arsenal were still losers for not winning either of the two “real” trophies. now the goddamn carabao cup and the alphabet soup tournament have the exact same crowd pounding their chests and beaming with pride and talking mad shit about how amazing it is to win those second and third tier trophies. funny how that works.
  8. me, every time the cpu completes a pass: ”should i switch to the nearest defender so i can overrun the play, or should i do nothing, and watch as my 11 ai defenders move at half speed, take diabolical angles, and generally give up on the play?”
  9. clip of Arch from his intro to sociology class:
  10. thirsty goat w/dream team larry bird. haven’t had this since my buddy did some plumbing for them ~5-6 years ago and dropped by afterward with a couple of cases for me. about to take my first sip now.
  11. Derka

    BB27

    “you don’t get to leave me. you don’t.”
  12. Arch’s entire life he has been bred and raised for this exact moment. this is not your run-of-the-mill stud qb with lots of hype. this isn’t even trevor lawrence, this is a step above that, especially given Arch’s meaningful playing experience from last year, playing experience that came with its share of mistakes and blunders. he’s more ready than any newly named starting qb i’ve ever seen, yet he knows he still has lots of growing to do, and the moment will never be too big for him. he’s got the aura, and he’s got the bona fides. 10 more days y’all. then we unleash hell.
  13. Arch will be the strongest and most athletic qb we’ve had since VY, and the biggest play maker we’ve had at qb since at least Colt, possibly VY. hes going to have the strongest arm since chris simms, and be the biggest alpha/leader since, again, VY, the greatest qb of all time. there will no doubt be hiccups, and definitely a learning curve being that we’ve got one of the toughest schedules in the the country, but with that said, Arch is going to pop off the screen in a way that we haven’t seen in two decades. he’s going to have people saying “wow” like it’s 2004-2005.
  14. lol dude you are so obsessed with me. why don’t you go make another announcement about how above all of this you are, only to then turn around and manically lose your shit over me day after day after day while i’m just over here minding my own business. christ the lack of self awareness is profound.
  15. the dbacks have had 14 different guys get a save this year, an mlb record.
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