Goes against the fabric of the Cup itself though. Also when a big team draws a big team early on, chances are a lesser team makes it marginally further in the competition too.

I get it, but don’t think it will change and personally don’t think it should

This MoArsenal86 fella might be legit

Yesterday was just the fucking best. Got to witness an Onana disasterclass then the boys absolute batter some poor Uber Eats team. Wonder how long the Lens fans were kept in the stadium after they decided to chuck flares into the home end

Forgot most of it but Black Country New Road, Turnstile & Casisdead all featured

Why am I seeing Mbappe links from big bald Duncan Castles

Not sure there ever was an experiment, it was just an upgrade and getting the guy the club wanted about 4 years ago. Raya will likely be our keeper until he’s in his thirties.

Mikel probably assumed the comments he made when he bought him would fend off the English hyena journos about upgrading on Ramsdale, instead it didn’t work and the Ramsdale family’s media tour hasn’t helped out either.

Don’t think there’d be any financial problems with trying to get Osimhen in the summer. Who else would we really need alongside him apart from a midfielder?

Even that’s probably an outlay of ~£160m combined if ADL is reasonable (I know he’s not) plus the potential sales of KT, Ramsdale, Partey, ESR, Eddie, Sambi, Marquinhos (obviously we won’t be able to sell all of them nor want to) - it’s not an over the top total amount for a title challenging team to spend.

Unless he wants pure money there’s not many other options at an elite level for him other than Arsenal. The rest of the top clubs have their strikers.

MoArsenal86 is giving me exactly what I want to hear, tier 1 source

Raya’s homegrown and better with the age gap not significant, so I don’t think he’s worth more.

Also you have to look at the suitors, are Chelsea going to move on from Rob Sanchez already (He’s also homegrown)? If not there’s not much appetite in the market who can pay a large amount - maybe bar Newcastle if they’ve had enough of Nick Pope’s flipper feet

This guys performance in goal versus City in the Carling Cup is an underrated moment in terms of comedy

Matt Turner was our backup last season and we survived

Anything that’s close to £30m gets accepted and we’re happy

How are Chelsea fans still pretending Enzo is amongst the best midfielders in the League, I’ve never seen furore over such a plentiful footballing archetype.

A player of a similar level can’t get into Aston Villa’s midfield at the moment.

Really like the performance as a whole today bar the individual errors. I think our ability to break these deeper blocks as the game goes on is starting to be improved, Saka’s ball across the box is such a consistent danger & Martinelli is starting to get it too. If you have people like Havertz occupying the back post it can become a very effective tool, even against mountainous teams like Brentford.

Not too worried about the attacking concerns, felt it was always a personnel availability issue as opposed to a systematic one.

Didn’t think he was outmatched physicality at all really despite him having the presence of Stuart Little. He was ok in a tough gritty game where the ball was in the air for 10 minutes at a time.

Definitely serviceable there for me

I knew saying Kai Havertz will land the minerals in every daily discussion thread before a match would work one day

You’re right I should be acting like a normal functioning human being by posting about women problems to randomers on the internet as opposed to having real life mates

Just coming to say that Phil Foden will never have the minerals to be considered anywhere near a world class footballer

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