Son needs another Son to pair with

First time?

Corruption. You’re asking for it when you allow gambling in sports.

This is going to be a controversial game. Caicedo gets away with a 2nd yellow after 2 back to back foul’s worthy of a yellow, then an arguably soft pen gets given to Chelsea

Brain dead decision

He deserves it, one of our most important players. Fingers crossed he can stay injury free.

Ivan Toney to Arsenal has been pushed for years, I’m certain it’s from the players side. I also think pundits in the UK are pushing it because they know Toney is a red herring signing, he’s excellent for what Brentford do and what they want to achieve, but he is not what Arsenal need moving forward. Several years ago I’d have welcomed Toney, when Auba was stinking up the joint (even though he was quite similar to Lacazette), but we need to be aiming higher now.

I’ve felt that the push for a new striker has come mostly from those outside of Arsenal. I personally don’t believe Ivan Toney to be worth the pursuit, when you exclude penalties he isn’t prolific in any way. He suits Brentford and is the kind of red herring signing you see desperate and clueless teams make because the media hypes them up and prints story after story linking you with the player, often times it’s rumours pushed by the players agent.

Nketiah is not ‘the one’ but Toney is not a significant enough upgrade on him either. If we aren’t getting a certain level of upgrade then I wouldn’t make the move. We shouldn’t be going after strikers who aren’t world class or have world class potential. Victor Osimhen, Lautaro Martinez, and Dušan Vlahović, those kinds of strikers, not the likes of Ivan Toney, Ollie Watkins, and Jonathan David.

It would void everything that was achieved during the relevant periods. Financial doping is what it is, doping. If you cheated to win in a sport, you didn’t win, and you may as well have not played at all.

It’s a case by case basis, depends on the player and the circumstances at the time but what tends to be mutual and consistent is that we wish whoever makes the switch nothing but the worst (at club level).

Christ, it’s like people just throw this out to virtue signal. YES we all know how notoriously hard sexual assault cases are to prove and prosecute, but you can’t use that to smear everyone that is accused. You have no idea how many of those 97% of cases were true, and you can’t prove a negative. We can’t operate a society where you are guilty until proven innocent, as admittedly broken as the system is.

The eyes of the footballing world will be on this. The Premier League better not fuck this up and effectively legitimise financial doping after FFP rules were introduced.

I believe this anti-VAR narrative is coming from groups interested in a return to the days of rampant bullshit decisions, and you can all speculate as to why that would be something that anyone would be want.

The fact is that we get more decisions right because of VAR, and should be working to improve the process in order to lessen the negative impacts it is having, which are still better than the negative impacts that wrong decisions have on the sport.

There will still be a lack of consistency between and even during games, so this will just add yet another layer of ambiguity and controversy.

Oh great, another tool for the ref’s to dictate the flow/results of games. At a time when fans want less subjective decisions determining the outcomes of games the powers that be want to introduce more. All we need is semi-automatic offsides and an improved VAR process.

So give the ref’s another tool to dictate the flow/outcome of games. What could go wrong.

Release it to who? A sanctioned individual? And you sure as hell can’t just take the money without turning the heads of all the other billionaires who use London as a laundrette.

Christ, yea lets make sure to bring in people who have long and deeply ingrained biases, that’ll improve things.

You really can use stats to tell whatever story you want. Carragher decides to focus on the league ranking changes in attack/defense, while the xG story points to an overall improvement because the drop off in goals is negligible while the improvement in goals against is significant.

Something like that, but then they realised it takes many decades for grassroots investment to take effect at the professional level, and by then all they’d have achieved is making foreigners stupidly rich with no guarantees that Chinese born players will ever be as good. It’s better to just invest in grassroots football and wait, it’ll be a lot cheaper, more rewarding, and politically much more popular.