Arsenal Thread | 2025/26

manimanc said:
Legohead has lost it.
Pens?
What next?
Crystals?
Rabbits tails?

It's used to focus on two things?

Piss myself laughing.

As if being top of the league and into the quarters of the champions league isn't enough focus.
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We did the two things at once drill at football. Lads were in a large circles, they passed a rugby ball anti clockwise with their hands whilst they passed a football clockwise with their feet.

All this time we should have been using pens, I feel so fucking stupid now.
 
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Vienna_70 said:
I don’t remember Count Bartelli at all, but I recall Billy Two Rivers, with his tomahawk chop and Johnny Kwango and his headbutt, though both were coming towards the end of their respective careers by the time I started watching them.
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Bartelli Came from Crewe sold second hand cars
 
TonyColemansbagofapples said:
They are already capable of doing two things at once. Falling over whilst holding their heads or faces.
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It’s actually 3 things don’t forget one hand frantically waving in the air just in case the refs not buying it,
Just saw the vid on sly sports of the arse training running around jumping like spring lambs, we should tap up their medical team.
 
Just rewatched the league cup final. City absolutely spanked them. They were crying about Cherki taking the piss, doing keepie ups. They were 2 nil down with 20 mins to go they should have been all over him. As Alistair Mann said on commentary, only one team tried to win the game.
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
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Two things at once . Dear oh dear. It's a bit late for that ain't it? You don't get near Pep's team unless you can think in four dimensions at once . Name me one current Arsenal player who is on the same level in terms of football intelligence as any of our team ?
 
surprisedbygrass said:
Two things at once . Dear oh dear. It's a bit late for that ain't it? You don't get near Pep's team unless you can think in four dimensions at once . Name me one current Arsenal player who is on the same level in terms of football intelligence as any of our team ?
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If I had to answer that question, I’d probably go for Raya and Zubimendi. Mostly because they’re Spanish and have learned some of how Pep plays through osmosis in the national team.

It’s an interesting one though. Arsenal obviously play by numbers, in a compact system with few gaps to exploit. You don’t need much intelligence to carry that out. See Forest last season.
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
If I had to answer that question, I’d probably go for Raya and Zubimendi. Mostly because they’re Spanish and have learned some of how Pep plays through osmosis in the national team.

It’s an interesting one though. Arsenal obviously play by numbers, in a compact system with few gaps to exploit. You don’t need much intelligence to carry that out. See Forest last season.
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I did think about Raya after I'd posed the question , can't say I've seen enough of Zubimendi to form an opinion . Maybe Ødegaard? The difference, of course, that in our team we'd probably name the same number who might lack the intelligence Pep demands .
 
surprisedbygrass said:
I did think about Raya after I'd posed the question , can't say I've seen enough of Zubimendi to form an opinion . Maybe Ødegaard? The difference, of course, that in our team we'd probably name the same number who might lack the intelligence Pep demands .
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It’s hard to know with Odegaard. It’s been so long since he’s been properly fit that he looks a shell of his former self.

He’s had a good footballing education though.
 
surprisedbygrass said:
Two things at once . Dear oh dear. It's a bit late for that ain't it? You don't get near Pep's team unless you can think in four dimensions at once . Name me one current Arsenal player who is on the same level in terms of football intelligence as any of our team ?
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Ben White and Madueke must have great football intelligence to be able to fool so many people into believing they are footballers.
 
Gingers Dad said:
Just rewatched the league cup final. City absolutely spanked them. They were crying about Cherki taking the piss, doing keepie ups. They were 2 nil down with 20 mins to go they should have been all over him. As Alistair Mann said on commentary, only one team tried to win the game.
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It's a great watch knowing the result when you can relax ( no match tension) and actually study the tactics and enjoy the lesson Pep gave Legohead.

I think in time the keepy uppys will become as happily notorious for Rayan to Arsanal supporters as Bernardo's brew antics are to the Dipper cult.
 
surprisedbygrass said:
Two things at once . Dear oh dear. It's a bit late for that ain't it? You don't get near Pep's team unless you can think in four dimensions at once . Name me one current Arsenal player who is on the same level in terms of football intelligence as any of our team ?
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Which Pep team? The treble winners are miles ahead of the current City team (and current Arsenal side) but even so I'd argue some of the Arsenal back 4 would get into that side and Raya would have a shout too.

If you are talking about the current City team a lot of the Arsenal team would get into a combined XI and if Pep was manager of the current Arsenal side they'd have wrapped up the league weeks ago.
 
roach3 said:
It’s actually 3 things don’t forget one hand frantically waving in the air just in case the refs not buying it,
Just saw the vid on sly sports of the arse training running around jumping like spring lambs, we should tap up their medical team.
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Ha ha. One of the great sights in football is the Arsenal players synchronised arm lift every time they think they have been wronged. Almost as good as the pretend arguments with each other at set pieces. I wonder who is their drama coach.
 
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