Arsenal (A) Post Match Thread

City health warning said:
It's going to be strange when we play Arsenal next season without Wenger in charge.
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Upon what evidence would anyone assume the board will do anything but renew him for another two years? I'm 100% serious -- even though you are probably right that eventually the fan cacophony has to have an impact.

But the entire institutional football knowledge at that club is tied up in this man, just as it was at Utd with Ferguson. The American ownership which knows zip about football (just like at Utd) has been only too pleased to allow a single, iconic figure to run all aspects of football operations -- even better at Arsenal, because unlike Ferguson, Arsene has the same ultra-risk-avoidance personality as an owner would (selling his best players for peak value, a lack of willingness to take a chance on youth or pay huge money for clear game changers). Arsene and Kronke knows the fans will turn up again and again and again -- they're sheep, and the club owns the leverage-able brand. The ambition level is tied to FINANCIAL performance, not trophies.

I've said it before -- City are like a venture capital backed disruptor -- Google to Utd's Microsoft, Amazon to Arsenal's Wal-Mart. FFP tried to make venture capital structurally illegal, which is what pissed me off so much (as man in the land of technology and capital). Arsene was the public face of this effort. I will never feel sorry for him, ever.
 
No Fernandinho.
No Mendy.
No Raz.
No Delph.
Jesus not back to 100%.
Incredible quality. And more to come.

1 away win at Arsenal from what 32 matches and now we completely dominated them.

2 titles within 5 days. Wow.
 
Pep: "It's so difficult to win two games in a row, in a few days, especially against a team like Arsenal. And we did it."

Pep: "We scored nice goals, but also Ederson was outstanding."

Pep: "The way we started the second half was poor - really poor, but sometimes it's not easy to be focused for 90 minutes, especially when we won a title days before."
 
Carra23: "What we're seeing, not just tonight but this season, is the best football in Europe. This football is breathtaking and certainly some of the best football I've ever seen in this league." .@ThierryHenry: "What we're seeing is just magnificent."
 
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