Arsenal have conceded fewer goals from open play than any other team this season in the Premier League. 15 Arsenal 23 Liverpool 25 Bournemouth 27 Chelsea 29 Man Utd #ARSCRY

2025 feels like a good year to win the UCL.

⚽️🇦🇪 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲-𝗿𝘂𝗻 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗔𝗘 Story can be found for free in my substack, here: open.substack.com/pub/themagic...

The Christian way of throwing shade?

2025 feels like a good year to win the UCL.

⚽️⚖️ 𝗣𝗟 𝘃 𝗠𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝟭𝟯𝟬 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘀 - 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 📊 An explainer of some of the evidence against Man City. open.substack.com/pub/themagic...

Well… you may have blinked and missed it but Arsenal fans certainly did not. It felt like a lifetime.

Anyone else excited for a couple of seasons of Arsenal v Liverpool for the title? After 35 years, I am!

Haha.

The below was mostly without Ø, Timber at RB, Calafiori at LB. The 3 keys to our creativity. All 3 come back in and Arsenal go wallop the most in-form team in Europe 5-1 away from home. It’s good Liverpool got a big headstart. It will make the league more interesting. Credit @markstats.club

⚖️🥊 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝟭𝟯𝟬 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘀? Just posted about this on my new substack (it’s free). open.substack.com/pub/themagic...

@scott.cannonstats.com I think I’ve seen you post transfer fee analysis in the past that factors in inflation. If so, you use CIES as a source for rate of inflation in fees (see below) or something else? football-observatory.com/Inflation-in...

The rise of EPL international TV rights ⚽️ 1992-97: £8m p/a ⚽️ 1997-2001: £25m (⬆️ 213%) ⚽️ 2001-04: £59m (136%) ⚽️ 2004-07: £108m (83%) ⚽️ 2007-10: £208m (93%) ⚽️ 2010-13: £480m (131%) ⚽️ 2013-16: £743m (55%) ⚽️ 2016-19: £1.0bn (39%) ⚽️ 2019-22: £1.3bn (29%) ⚽️ 2022-25: £1.7bn (26%) ⚽️ 2025-28: £2.4bn (41%)

Arteta talked about the build-up to this game and says it was the first time in weeks they could train with 19 players.

2:0 Odegaard and Saka UTA!

🤣👍

Apparently I’m both a dick and a magic tw*t. So when they tell me to go f*ck myself… they really just want me to have a good time 😉

Fundamentally remains the biggest ‘why’ tactically that we don’t platform our wide men who consistently give Arsenal their greatest progression. Credit: EPL-Analytics on X (@DataAnalyticEPL)

Arsenal should be going after Rico Lewis this summer if Hato is off the table.

Premier League continuing to fly away from the competition. TV and commercial agreements for the three year cycle 25/26-27/28 up 17 percent to £12.25bn. Time when European leagues like Italy and France in trouble

#FollowFriday Some fine Arsenal stat people @goonerak.bsky.social @harveydownes92.bsky.social @scott.cannonstats.com Some fine Arsenal people @adrianjclarke.bsky.social @amylawrence.bsky.social @eastlower.bsky.social @billycarpy.bsky.social @robsuddaby.bsky.social @samjdean.bsky.social

The PL has effectively bought time here… to stop Man City securing a monsterously inflated sponsorship deal that could not be stopped, which could keep it alive even without PL income.

I can see a rainbow, see a rainbow, see a rainbow… cartel 🌈

⚽️⚖️ 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗴𝘂𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗔𝗣𝗧 𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗲… 𝗮 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗠𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆? 🥊☠️⚰️🪦 The PL and the ‘Rainbow Cartel’ just achieved a resounding victory in its battle against Man City for the soul of English football and, I suspect, dealt a death blow to the club under this ownership.

For any Arsenal fans out there and was wondering how today’s vote effect the club. Arsenal took the shareholder loans between summer 2020 and summer 2021. So before the December 14th 2021 rule change. Arsenal already pays FMV interest under UEFA rules. 1/2

Ok… sonwho wants a mega thread on the implications of today’s PL vote on APTs and the changes voted in… including how it impacts City’s 130?

Wow. The PL convinced the clubs with S/H loans to convert to equity. Including Everton. Brighton… This was big

And now the APT vote has gone against City. Tick tock…

I am now 90% of the way through - it’s a fantastic read. And if you care about the future of the game, I’d consider it a must-read. Looking forward to listening to the pod later!

A great night. Huge thanks to so many of you who listen and mean the world to us. I’ll stop before I get too sentimental. And there’s a pod to record tomorrow! @clivepafc.bsky.social @tim-stillman.bsky.social @poznaninmypants.bsky.social

Massive congratulations to @yankeegunner.bsky.social @clivepafc.bsky.social @poznaninmypants.bsky.social @tim-stillman.bsky.social @arseblog.com @poorlydrawnarsenal.com And everyone else for their awards today! 🎉🥳🍾👏 Y’all put out truly fantastic content week after week and it’s so appreciated.

Welcome a schooling here too.

Adding more voices all the time. If you, or others you know of, should be in here then please flag. go.bsky.app/2YmEYac

@martynziegler.bsky.social just posted on X that he has heard Wolves and Everton intend to side with the PL and not City in the APT vote. Think Khaldoon can get his money back? 🤣🤣

Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund Mubadala (whose CEO is Man City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak) has just invested £2.3bn into Wes Eden’s (Aston Villa’s co-owner) investment fund. And you want to know something crazy? The stick’s even bigger than the carrot. (tks to @jmhart1 on X for heads up)

The “only posts” and “mentions” feeds are helpful ones imo The former gives you your following timeline with just posts (no reposts etc) so it’s easy to quickly scan. The “mentions” feed gets rid of the notifications about likes, reposts and follows etc so you just see the actual replies.

See. This is all they have. Baseless accusations and projection. They can’t even answer the question. All they do is say: -The emails aren’t real (they are) -They don’t give enough context (which they do and just shows they have never read them) They deserve what’s coming. 🤷‍♂️

Earnest question to Man City fans adamant that City have done nothing wrong and will be exonerated. How do you reconcile the evidence that your Board Director explicity writes that he’s done what City are accused of and Etihad’s Chief Commercial Officer admitted complicity? No-one has ever shared.

Battle lines being drawn. Sawiris doing MBZ’s bidding with Simon Pearce’s hand so far up his arse that he can straight up operate his mouth. And the noose tightening around City. No wonder they’re working so hard to stop the vote. This is their Alamo.

See… This is why I mostly engage on Bluesky now. Mind you, I’ll be engaging a plenty on Twitter once the verdict’s in 😏

I see Sawiris But I hear someone else’s words

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Leicester City's main sponsor BC.Game has been declared bankrupt in Curaçao, where it held an offshore gambling licence, after money owed to bettors disappeared during a corporate handover. A short thread. tribuna.com/en/news/2024...

MBS "abusing position via PIF to fund projects that harm his citizens". sportingintelligence832.substack.com/p/new-report...

👀Looks like government ministers have had to answer questions raised by The Pitch Inspection's investigation on Premier League teams allowing gambling sponsorship to appear on web pages aimed at kids - a clear breach of the rules. Read our full report here: open.substack.com/pub/thepitch...

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𝗣𝗲𝗽 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗻 ✍️ Had a lot of folks crow that Pep’s 1-year extension, without a relegation clause, is proof that City are innocent. Lol. Pep might believe them. Maybe whole-heartedly. Means nothing to the outcome. But I suspect he doesn’t anymore. So why the contract…?

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