SimplyThePest We've been saying that since November though and they haven't. I think they are just a really good side riding a tremendous season from their best player and also getting almost every 50/50 decision and injury luck to go their way. They can both be very good and really lucky unfortunately- they aren't mutually exclusive this season. The xG difference table is quite stunning right now. I think they are almost double the second place team, which I believe is us. That doesn't happen just by luck.
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Claudius Sooo around 6 hours left for us stateside?
5 hours
samthegooner I didn't say they're not a good side - they are. Even so, you still need things to go your way, e.g. major competitor A being ravaged by injuries and questionable refereeing decisions and major competitor B having a spell off the PEDs (lol).
That said, if they canter to the title with 90+ points, there isn't much to be said other than fair play.
samthegooner We've been saying that since November though and they haven't.
There's still time. I know it doesn't seem likely now, but as Simply says, it happened to us two seasons ago. It happened to Liverpool (and quite brutally) last season, which is something everyone seems to have forgotten in rushing to crown them champions in February - although I do also think the fact it happened to them last season may prevent a recurrence this time around.
But yeah... If they get to 92 points, there's not much we can say about that.
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SimplyThePest I think part of the frustration for me is Arteta and Arsenal need to get a 90 point season that's what we've needed to target on at least a couple of occasions because if you deliver that you would be incredibly unlucky even in the City era not to pick up a trophy. As good as we've been we haven't been able to achieve that yet
Wow. Really thought I'd see at least a tenuous deadline day link posted here over the last couple of hours.
awooga83 I hear ya, man. Look, our points per game is trending up. We were tracking for low-mid 70s not long ago. We're tracking for about 80 now. We've just got to keep the pressure on.
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We kinda gotta beat Newcastle now.
TambourineMan Personally I could not care less about the Carabao Cup. But since we don't have a match for a week and a half after it, hopefully we go for it just for the impact that overcoming a 0-2 first leg would have on top of this weekend's win. I care more about continuing momentum than I do about winning a second rate trophy but that may just be me.
Do away goals count in carabao cup?
We will scalp them.
Manchester United refused to pay the £5m (€6m) loan fee Bayern demanded for Mathys Tel
May also have been why we didn't bite. That's a hefty fee for a player who might not even break into our starting XI. Boys will get some good rest after Wednesday and can come back fresh.
Good night, folks. Glad we can get on with rest of season. Nothing I loathe like the transfer window
Fulham are looking to re-sign Willian.
I first read that on the Sky Sports transfer programme, there it was badged as Willian returning to one of his old clubs. Nearly had a heart attack.
pay the aaking price for isak in the summe. job done
Not even a single link to a defender
This window has been a massive failure by the transfer team.
I’m 50/50 on this. One one hand nest time we drop points everyone is gonna point to this window and say we should have bought someone. They won’t be completely wrong either but where we fucked up imo was the summer, this window is hard to do good business in.
On the other hand who really moved this window that would have elevated us? It is a sign of poorly run clubs who go out and make panic signings and all future business ends up being more expensive once clubs clock on that is how you do business. We may have also received indications from players that summer moves were a possibility and unlike city we don’t have endless amounts of money so need to make sure we don’t waste money now and then regret in the summer.