True but they could have made a loan signing at less risk and cost

Fabulous performance reminded me the Invincibles 1:5 drumming of Inter in 2004. Result was so good even Sofaking was MIA with his usual disparaging comments. Hopefully the team can go on and beat Real in the qf just like the 2004 team did.

the only cup Spurs fans will see this year is the one the manager held to his ear during his team’s defeat at Chelsea last week

Now that is good journalism!

I've laid us tonight. Brentford are useful and there may be a hangover from Tuesday. Slightly funky line up too. Could be a strange game with all eyes on Wednesday.

Pleasing performance, though shocking pen by Bukayo and a terrible Saliba error. Stupid booking for Partey too - he should know better with 85 minutes on the clock and nothing at stake.

PSG look like the best team left to me - young, dynamic and athletic, but they do concede a few. A tall order to progress, I feel, but you never know. It's the hope that kills you.

PSG look fabulous but two flying full backs and a dodgy Pacho at centre back. I thought they were great to watch, exciting. I mean it was scary at times they moved it round the back. Arsenal have the best press and will not leave holes like Villa’s press did.

I am confident Arsenal will overcome depending how they replace Partey who has a lot of nous is tough as teak and dishes it out liberally.

Inter will provide some classic Italian defending. Barca do not have a great defence.

Arsenal ought to be confident but this is a tougher match. I could not believe how poor Madrid were. Maybe Arsenal got lucky 3 good defenders were injured but Madrid were poor all over the pitch.

Partey getting booked late on in qtrs certainly came back and bit us. At least we know we have to go for it at the Parc des Princes and will have our best shape back with his return. If PSG don't score early on it might get interesting. Just a shame we are missing influential players due to injuries.

Good luck in Europe lads...

Arteta has done very well with these players, esp with the frontline which is quite poor at this level. The Inter manager has done similar but better with his players.
He is still learning his trade against much more experienced managers often with better players and is punching above his weight. Every top manager gets schooled at this level at some point, learns from his mistakes and gets better. It's called experience.

He should be little more humble imo and not talk about being better after being well beaten and behind for 177 mins of the tie. He also needs to address the frontline now, something which he's paid little attention to since he joined.

All this talk about how much he's spent - he has generated a lot of that money himself by getting CL football back and going deep into KO stage. Record CL revenues this year, so should be plenty more to spend. And you have to look at the value of the squad too and the squad he inherited. How much is Chelsea's, Man U's, Spurs' squad worth compared to what they've spent? They are the top 3 net spenders over the last 5 years, Arsenal are 4th. The squad he inherited was worse than all of theirs. His squad now is nearly all young players with great top level experience who haven't reached their prime.

Cheers Aspro, nothing wrong with some banter between rival fans. Arsenal on the whole excellent in CL this season, some outstanding performances inc PSG before Christmas. Regressed in PL this season; Liverpool were relentless until they won it.

Arteta needs to change tactics again as teams will work out how to combat set piece play. Need a forward for next season and less injuries….

Nonsense, Mes. Chelsea Man U and Spurs have spent more in the last 5 years. You don't hear about that because all of their managers have failed and been replaced after a year or two, so they've all spent a lot less individually, would you prefer that? I doubt any of them would get rid of Arteta.

You get rid he'll take a good few players with him, just before he and they hit their prime too. He's been operating in the Pep/Klopp era and nobody else has got within a sniff of those two and he challenged in his 3rd full season. Another manager could come in and win a league after Pep leaves and it's not going to be the level of football Arteta reached last season.

Klopp won a league when City were poor and there were no other challengers. He won the CL by beating Porto, a poor Barca and then Spurs in the final.

Arsenal look over coached to me Lurka,

They play format football. It is becoming incredibly boring to watch. I love the way Inter and PSG attack with pace, desire and intensity.

Feed the monkey ffs! and do it much more quickly!

I don't think Inter are renowned for their attacking football in the CL at least, they are not usually a high scoring team and are more renowned for defensive solidity. F11 A 1 in 8 group stage games for example. Rarely score 3 in the CL.

The reason why there were 13 goals in that tie was almost totally down to the way Barca play - ultra aggressive in both attack and defence but wide open at the back with poor defenders, especially when they regain possession and try to get it forward quickly but lose it. The reason why the likes of Pep and Arteta play slow and cautious out of defense is precisely to avoid what Barca got caught out for multiple times v Inter. It was a freak tie, the tie against Bayern where they were outplayed in both legs but more clinical is more Inter than the Barca tie.

I don't think the Kroenkes are the tightarsés we all thought they were under Wenger. I think some of that was down to Wenger being an economist and the boardroom stalemate with Usmanov, Wenger had a lot more to spend than he actually did for years. They haven't pumped money in but that's fine -  that shouldn't be needed at a club the size of Arsenal and they have certainly not acted anything like that since they became full owners.

Last summer was the third year in the 3 year FFP period after 2 big spending years. They had to sell youth players like ESR and Nketiah to generate funds just to spend a lot less than the previous two years, if they hadn't got to CL KO stage this year they might have been in trouble. This year the first of those 3 years falls away which allows us to spend more than last year + there's €100m+ coming in from the CL this year. I'd expect a big spend and on a top attacker or maybe two but someone to play the left side midfield role like Xhaka did is more important than a second attacker imo.

Will be concerned if he doesn't sign a top attacker and/or isn't given a lot to spend. The squad still isn't equipped to challenge for both PL and CL and with injuries this year is wasn't good enough to win even one of them. Happy enough til we see what happens in the summer.

I would have taken Klopp 10 years ago

Looks like we're going back to Wembley, plans to make the Emirates bigger. I remember we were there for Champions Leagues games late 90's, and our record wasn't good, pretty sure we lost to clubs Lens when we were double winners with all those star players, don't know how that happened.

I always remember thinking 20 years ago when I first heard the Emirates would be 60k how short sighted that was and seemed to demonstrate a lack of ambition given at the time Old Trafford was 68k and the fact we could even back have easily filled an 80k stadium given the huge catchment area, the tourist factor and over 100k on the waiting list for a season ticket, there was also no thought at all of developing the Emirates into a multi use stadium to generate far bigger profits.

20 years later our stadium looks dated already in terms of modernism and aesthetics thanks to other stadia including those mugs up the road as much as I don't like to say it, proposed new re-development apparently was the reason why we never put the Emirates forward for 2028.

We've also never been chose to host a Champions League final even though capacity wise we fit the criteria, apparently this is something to do with a a lack of (car parking spaces for the UEFA fat cats and all their chums, sponsors, free-loaders, acquaintances, etc.), instead we appeared to use nearby space to build private housing instead.

I'm no expert on construction but I'd imagine we'd be better of demolishing the Emirates altogether and starting again to build our own Red wall, making it multi purpose, retractable pitch and making it far more pleasing on the eye, I also how struck I was by the depressing grey concrete that wrapped the Emirates when I first saw, I honestly thought it wasn't finished, turned out it was.

Course one of the downsides of greater capacity would attract more tourists types and they contribute to a sterile atmosphere by all accounts by those who actually go to games.

The ridiculousness of now spending more money (apparently up to £500 mil) on increasing capacity to just 70k and some other minor improvements, than what the original of the stadium cost in 2006 (£390 mil), is just breath taking. It was a real lack of foresight - unless they were told by local authorities that was the limit thanks to pressure on local infrastructure at the time, but I don't ever remember that being the case.



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There hasn’t been that much to smile about for Malaysian football fans in recent years, so there was real jubilation among the 60,000 home spectators upon the final whistle in Kuala Lumpur on on 10 June. A 4-0 win over regional rivals Vietnam not just kept the Harimau Malaya (Malayan Tigers) on course for the 2027 Asian Cup but well and truly confirmed they were dining back at the top table in southeast Asia. Four months later, they are still the talk of the region of 650 million people, but not in a good way.

The story starts, as it does increasingly in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) football these days, with naturalisation. In January, the crown prince of Johor, Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim, the owner of Johor Darul Ta’zim football club, and former president of the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM), wrote on social media: “We have identified 6-7 heritage players … and hope the Malaysian government could assist in the process of obtaining Malaysian passports in order for them to play in the Asian Cup 2027 qualifiers.”

Seven players from Argentina, Brazil, Spain and the Netherlands with a grandparent from Malaysia were naturalised. All seven played against Vietnam; two scored. The day after, we now know, Fifa received a complaint about their eligibility and started investigating.

EPL's in the bag.
We're under strength right now.
New players only just finding their feet - like Eze.
Will only get stronger when we have a full squad.

Madueke has looked a right fecking Donkey against Brentford. Pub team quality.

Turgid stuff tonight. Begging to drop points playing like that. Villa the form team in the league, 8 wins in 9 after an awful start. White did well and should be starting in home games like that, attack and get a comfortable lead, then rest a few. Get a lot more out of Saka with him too.

My god this fred still about