I’m happy with the winners. This is Saka’s second young player award. Congrats to all three men. A preview to the season awards.
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QuincyAbeyie Saka would be my winner, but then maybe we wouldn't have gotten all three awards.
Saka best players, Martinelli best young.
Ode deserves recognition as well though so what they chose is fine.
Øde is one of those guys who won't win too many of these, because there will usually be some showboat with higher GA or a fancier hairstyle, so I'm glad he picked this up. As a pure footballer he's class, must be one of the best technicians Arsenal's ever had.
Øde and Saka—two guys who've spent the whole season making each other better. It's a good year to support the best football club with the greatest history in the biggest city in the country with the strongest league.
QuincyAbeyie Not sure what award this is
It was started up by Bob Wilson to fundraise for his charity, Willow.
I have to say if we go onto win the league I don't think you could argue much with all of these guys winning the national awards.
Well, a few wins will be required in April too.
We only lost 3 games in 2007/08, but the spate of draws we accumulated in the immediate aftermath of Eduardo's injury at Birmingham properly killed us.
RocktheCasbah that's the bonus in not relying on a single goal scorer like we were with Adebayor though. Our 3 top scorers are all evenly distributed, and we've got 3 more now coming into the side in Jesus, Trossard and ESR who all have decent goal scoring pedigree too.
Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert Mental, I know, but also true. Can't remember who the third game was, but we lost at United and Chelsea - a win against United would have given us the title by two points...
goon Oh, absolutely - no arguments there. I was just making the (obvious) point that it's not enough to not lose our games in April. With 18 points for grabs, if we could somehow manage to take all 18, we would be almost home and hosed. 6 draws and the world will look very different indeed.
RocktheCasbah I didn't remember either, so had to check. Our first loss of the season came to Middlesbrough. Aliadiere got the penalty they scored from.
QuincyAbeyie bloody Aliadiere! Thanks for the reminder, he scored the opening goal for Boro in a 1-1 draw at our place too...
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“Honestly, I love him. I’d just love it if he was my child,” Luke Shaw said during Euro 2020 — and somehow it didn’t sound weird.
It is weird, but I think I said "If I had a daughter, I'd like him to marry her" the other day so I've got your back this once, Luke.
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Nice round-up from The Athletic about how Saka is world class, at what stage of his career a gaggle of sports writers figured that out with some good little memories, and about how he's England's favourite son.
Burnwinter wow. What a tribute. Some lovely stories.
some other people on twitter are saying 15 mil per year.
That'd make him the highest earner at the club.
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no issue with the salary being bandied about. it will probably seem like a bargain in a couple of years.
im finally seeing rival supporters accept that the hype is real (apart from the mancs, who are salty that hes better than their wingers and getting picked for england ahead of them). his talent was always more subtle than the typical English wide player. he the feel for space and time between the lines of an attackind mid, but also can morph into one of the most dangerous one-on-one dribbling wingers around. add his physical robustness and workrate, and his skillset puts him well ahead of guys like grealish, rashford and sancho
the salary mentioned includes bonuses. Typical journos trying to inflate stuff.