Arsenal Thread | 2025/26

[TheBlueCat]

You've hit the nail on the head. All the Arse squad have eaten some dodgy chicken (maybe from The Green Man) and they've all got the shits so pulled out of the international squads.

Couldn’t agree more. Arsenal are terrified of fulfilling predictions of another complete bottle. They know that to shit the bed from this position and win fuck all would be even more embarrassing than the last few seasons. And that resulted in the footballing world laughing their heads off…

They are shitting it…!

 

[bridgeno1]

Kai Havertz is in the German starting XI tonight.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Kai Havertz is in the German starting XI tonight.

Must have missed his flight home. ;-)

 

[surrounded by idiots]

Pep and red nose tbh. Please tell me you aren't saying City have never done this and keeping a straight face at the same time!

BTW I've nothing against it. Rather the players get rest at the business end of the season.

We are talking 10 - 11 players, please don't put Pep in the same group, or any other manager, Arteta, is even out red nosing, rednose.
Regarding the straight face, I'm an excellent poker player

 

[Gray]

They really are a thoroughly unlikeable Club.

 

[CC1]

Pep and red nose tbh. Please tell me you aren't saying City have never done this and keeping a straight face at the same time!

BTW I've nothing against it. Rather the players get rest at the business end of the season.

Tbh - Pep encourages players to play for their country

 

[OntarioBlue]

Just reading that 10 Arsenal players have withdrawn from International duty this week and that even little Tommy Tuchel thinks “it’s suspicious “

I wonder how many of them will make miraculous recoveries in time for Arsenal’s next game including the guy who apparently left his team camp in a knee brace but whose injury is now “not as serious as feared”

Despicable Club !

 

[bluemoon32]

Good luck to them if they are all feigning injury, wish our players had done it

 

[mcfc315]

I fucking hate these cunts. 11 out of 18 players called up have cried off feigning injury. privileged footballers with millions in the bank can't be arsed to play for their countries. it's fucking pathetic and really dislikeable

 

[carlosthejackal]

Don’t blame them one little bit in withdrawing players , international football is shite , the clubs lay out huge transfer fees and wages , national teams lay out very little. I wish City did exactly the same .

 

[TonyBookEnd]

If players withdraw early from their International camp, they should be automatically banned from playing in the next domestic fixture

 

[bluetonium]

BBC News - Arsenal injuries: Are Gunners facing a crisis or being cautious? - BBC Sport

Arsenal injuries: Are Gunners facing a crisis or being cautious?

With 11 Arsenal players withdrawing from international duty, are the Gunners facing an injury crisis or are they simply being cautious?

www.bbc.co.uk

Of 18 arsenal played called up, 61% have withdrawn. I think that's what gets people's back up about this. We hear that everybody does it, nobody mentioned it when it was so and so, but nobody else does it this blatantly and on this scale. The figures prove it.

It should be like yellow cards, if you get more than a certain amount over time then your conduct is called into question, with fines and eventually restrictions taking place, either on players being called up or eligibility to play domestic games.

I'd say it's quite clear what is going on. I doubt the FA will do anything however. But, they could well play a weakened team now at Southampton to throw people off the scent, get knocked out of the FA cup, and make the impossible possible for us on the league by cacking it harder than a tourist with Delhi belly. This Arsenal team have the mentality of chocolate fireguards, and it shows in way like this.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

I've said it before but all this shithousing just shows how much they're throbbing.

Absolutely bricking it that little City will catch and do them over.

 

[Andy TheCatalyst Morrison]

They weren't withdrawn, they were sent back by national team medics after having already been in the squad. Unless the national team doctors are all Gooners I suspect there's nothing dodgy going on.

That is ridiculously naive to the point of ludicrous. Player goes to national team doctor and says “my knee hurts” - what is the doctor going to do, say “no it doesn’t, now go and play in that meaningless friendly”? Or is the doctor just going to send the player home? It’s a toughie for sure but I think you’ll work it out

 

[GunnerGer]

That is ridiculously naive to the point of ludicrous. Player goes to national team doctor and says “my knee hurts” - what is the doctor going to do, say “no it doesn’t, now go and play in that meaningless friendly”? Or is the doctor just going to send the player home? It’s a toughie for sure but I think you’ll work it out

I also think is naive that in this day and age of medical assessments, sports science and technology that's available, that it would just solely come down to the hearsay of a player.

The Brazilian FA said something flagged up in Gabriele's knee scan for instance. Madueke and Hincapie actually had to leave the field after being injured. Zubimendi had strapping on his knee in the training pics.

Again, I'm not saying these players are 'injured', but it's more a question of is it worth taking the risk in meaningless friendlies if they are carrying something and there's a higher risk of an injury off the back of it. Tuchel even said as much.

 

[Andy TheCatalyst Morrison]

I also think is naive that in this day and age of medical assessments, sports science and technology that's available, that it would just solely come down to the hearsay of a player.

The Brazilian FA said something flagged up in Gabriele's knee scan for instance. Madueke and Hincapie actually had to leave the field after being injured. Zubimendi had strapping on his knee in the training pics.

Again, I'm not saying these players are 'injured', but it's more a question of is it worth taking the risk in meaningless friendlies if they are carrying something and there's a higher risk of an injury off the back of it. Tuchel even said as much.

So the player says his knee hurts, they do a scan and can’t find anything. The player says “but my knee hurts”. You really think they are going to ignore the player and make him play in a meaningless friendly???

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

So the player says his knee hurts, they do a scan and can’t find anything. The player says “but my knee hurts”. You really think they are going to ignore the player and make him play in a meaningless friendly???

Go out and buy some strapping and wrap it round your knee.

Tell your boss your knee hurts. You should be home by 3.

 

[GunnerGer]

So the player says his knee hurts, they do a scan and can’t find anything. The player says “but my knee hurts”. You really think they are going to ignore the player and make him play in a meaningless friendly???

There's all sorts of things come into play here. How many minutes has the player played, are they carrying something, do they need minutes managed because they are just coming back from injury, have they a lot of games to come, are they playing for a place in the squad like Madueke or White, or are they almost guaranteed to be going like Saka or Rice, is it a competitive game or are they just friendlies?

I think folk forget that Tuchel doesn't want them turning up for a World Cup burnt out or worse injured any less than Arteta doesn't.

I say all that with the caveat that I'm Scottish, and if they are 'at it' I don't really give a flying feck! :-)

 

[Andy TheCatalyst Morrison]

There's all sorts of things come into play here. How many minutes has the player played, are they carrying something, do they need minutes managed because they are just coming back from injury, have they a lot of games to come, are they playing for a place in the squad like Madueke or White, or are they almost guaranteed to be going like Saka or Rice, is it a competitive game or are they just friendlies?

I think folk forget that Tuchel doesn't want them turning up for a World Cup burnt out or worse injured any less than Arteta doesn't.

That is totally missing the original point

 

[bridgeno1]

So the player says his knee hurts, they do a scan and can’t find anything. The player says “but my knee hurts”. You really think they are going to ignore the player and make him play in a meaningless friendly???

You seem to know the ins and outs of what happened within the England medical setup better than I do so I'll defer to your inside knowledge. Fact is they turned up to the camp and were then sent home - surely if they were being withdrawn they'd have done so before sending them to England.