Arsenal thread | 2025/26

bluethrunthru said:
Its taken them years but they seem to have found their Darren Anderton

www.bbc.co.uk

Bukayo Saka: Arsenal forward set to miss up to four weeks

Bukayo Saka is set to miss Arsenal's game at Liverpool on Sunday as well as England's World Cup qualification double-header next month.
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As usual injured just before an international break, but will be fit to come back against City.

According to Spanish media we've submitted a £67m bid to the Spanish Rags for Rodrygo. Not sure we need him and surely with what we've spent we will need to shift a lot of players out the door.

Also supposedly in for Piero Hincapie from Leverkusen.
 
bridgeno1 said:
As usual injured just before an international break, but will be fit to come back against City.

According to Spanish media we've submitted a £67m bid to the Spanish Rags for Rodrygo. Not sure we need him and surely with what we've spent we will need to shift a lot of players out the door.

Also supposedly in for Piero Hincapie from Leverkusen.
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I'm thinking of swapping my second team from Chelsea to Arsenal and the Rodrygo deal could clinch it.

Hopes and prayers :)
 
Arsenal’s playing of a 15 year old is worrying. Men grow until they are 21 and overreaching physical activity in the teens is likely to cause permanent damage.
Trevor Francis carried Birmingham on his back for several years from the age of 16. By the time he was 23/24 his life had become a never ending round of injury and recovery. Before he joined us he had been off injured for 6 months and he only played twenty odd games for us that year. At Sampdoria he played just over 60 games in four years, a worse record than even Johnny Stones.
The kid at Arsenal should be getting protection from the regulations but the restrictions needed are just not there. The Olympics have age restrictions as does pro tennis and many other sports, but football I think has none. If he is as good as they say, let us hope they do not wreck him.
 
bridgeno1 said:
As usual injured just before an international break, but will be fit to come back against City.

According to Spanish media we've submitted a £67m bid to the Spanish Rags for Rodrygo. Not sure we need him and surely with what we've spent we will need to shift a lot of players out the door.

Also supposedly in for Piero Hincapie from Leverkusen.
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Mmm, yet more interest free loans. Hopefully, all will come out soon.
 
KS55 said:
Arsenal’s playing of a 15 year old is worrying. Men grow until they are 21 and overreaching physical activity in the teens is likely to cause permanent damage.
Trevor Francis carried Birmingham on his back for several years from the age of 16. By the time he was 23/24 his life had become a never ending round of injury and recovery. Before he joined us he had been off injured for 6 months and he only played twenty odd games for us that year. At Sampdoria he played just over 60 games in four years, a worse record than even Johnny Stones.
The kid at Arsenal should be getting protection from the regulations but the restrictions needed are just not there. The Olympics have age restrictions as does pro tennis and many other sports, but football I think has none. If he is as good as they say, let us hope they do not wreck him.
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Whilst a 15 year old playing weekly would be worrying, we won't see much of this lad. Are you claiming they shouldn't play regular until 21? Load of tosh and a weird angle to bash Arsenal which is funny but it seems anything they do just gets pelters. There are examples either way of younger players either fizzling out or having a great career.
 
jimharri said:
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Excuse my scepticism (it's an Arsenal fan account, after all). But if that's actually true, fair play to the fella. Yes; I realise that he can well afford it. But he didn't have to do it, did he? With the obvious minus point re who he plays for, I always thought he comes across on the media as a decent enough bloke off the pitch.
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Genuinely, he seems like a nice lad. Comes across the same way on the pitch too.
 
thegoatsthegoat said:
Whilst a 15 year old playing weekly would be worrying, we won't see much of this lad. Are you claiming they shouldn't play regular until 21? Load of tosh and a weird angle to bash Arsenal which is funny but it seems anything they do just gets pelters. There are examples either way of younger players either fizzling out or having a great career.
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It's also to show him he has a genuine key player status future at Arsenal. He's not signed professional terms yet - any club can waltz in and get him on a free and many will be trying to do just that so by giving him minutes early on the club shows he has a clear path to being a 1st team regular. His key position is as a 10 but we are playing him on the right as he doesn't yet have the physicality to play in the middle of the pitch against PL players.

The lad who scored for Liverpool last night came in the summer from Chelsea's academy - all the Chelsea focus on FFP 'profits' on selling homegrown players on and buying in billions of players may well have contributed to the lad thinking he'd get a better chance of making the 1st team at Liverpool instead of being treated like a sellable asset at Chelsea. So nurturing talent is key - these guys are also less likely to leave. Our star players are people like Saka, Saliba etc. Saliba I reckon will leave to go to Madrid in a year or so as in his mind that's the ultimate dream. For the home grown lads like Saka, Lewis-Skelly etc they are already living their dream playing for their hometown club and far less likely to want to move on which is why youth development is so key for the culture of the club.
 
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bridgeno1 said:
It's also to show him he has a genuine key player status future at Arsenal. He's not signed professional terms yet - any club can waltz in and get him on a free and many will be trying to do just that so by giving him minutes early on the club shows he has a clear path to being a 1st team regular. His key position is as a 10 but we are playing him on the right as he doesn't yet have the physicality to play in the middle of the pitch against PL players.
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As we can see by his inability to stay upright when a player goes near him. Especially in or around the penalty area. To be honest, looks a little like cheating to me.
 
TonyColemansbagofapples said:
As we can see by his inability to stay upright when a player goes near him. Especially in or around the penalty area. To be honest, looks a little like cheating to me.
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It was on the softer side and he was looking for it, but it was a pen. But I agree it's sad that players are coached to gain these advantages but Dowman isn't the 1st and won't be the last. VAR is there to check and if a player is deemed to have dived a yellow card will be issued We only got 2 penalties all of last season so if we are teaching our players to look for pens we are doing a bad job of it.
 
thegoatsthegoat said:
Whilst a 15 year old playing weekly would be worrying, we won't see much of this lad. Are you claiming they shouldn't play regular until 21? Load of tosh and a weird angle to bash Arsenal which is funny but it seems anything they do just gets pelters. There are examples either way of younger players either fizzling out or having a great career.
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You’re making up stuff I never said. Nor is it tosh, there is loads of research on the subject. Look it up.
 
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