My timezone here has played tricks on me. Very glad to see the commentary starting now.

*extremely* disappointed with the on going silence from many prominent arsenal fan content creators surround #5. Don’t bite the hand that feeds I guess.

Extremely concerning. Serious questions have to be asked here.

@arseblog.com you better give him a 10.

The @gunnerblog.bsky.social on the whistle is going to hit like CRACK LEEEESSSSDOOOODISSS!

Imagine if we’d bought a striker in January. We’d be feeling that we’re in this title race.

Kravatskhelia Mathys Tel Marco Asensio Marcus Rashford Evan Ferguson Alvaro Morata Kolo Muani Donyell Malen Jhon Duran Stefanos Tzimas Joao Felix Omar Marmoush Xavi Simons Mika Biereth All moved in January. And Arsenal did NOTHING.

“Yeah, Real Madrid came knocking. Offered the chance to win Champions Leagues, league titles, earn loads of money, and play with the best. But I said no because we’d won a pissant competition with a three-handled piece of shit as the trophy” - nobody, ever

@charleswatts.bsky.social @david-ornstein.bsky.social @gunnerblog.bsky.social is there anyway you can attempt to find out what the hell is wrong with Tomiyasu?

An 18 year old English superstar talent was wrongly sent off, then comes back in a massive fixture, in front of the world, and dominated full grown men defensively and scores a brilliant solo goal. The English media line up to call him a villain and to “rein it in” You decide why

Well, this is pretty damning.

Here is a list of attackers who have moved on loan this season: Osimhen Kolo-Muani Felix Tammy Abraham Ferguson Tel Asensio Alvaro Morata* Zaha …Fabio Vieira. Nothing doing there? No-one who could relieve Havertz to close the odd game out? To throw on when we need an extra attacker? *imagine!

Before Xmas, Arteta said he has one of the thinnest squads in the league. That was before the Jesus injury. He said the same thing in the summer (before we let 3 first team attacker leave). It’s really hard to reconcile what he says with what we have done in these transfer windows.

I genuinely wish I didn’t know about the Morata link. That’s pissed me off more than signing no one.

I feel sorry for the Arsenal players. They’ve been completely hung out to dry by the recruitment team this month.

Told you.

MYLES LEWIS SKELLY & ETHAN NWANERI THANK YOU FOR CHANGING MY LIFE

Genuinely can’t believe there’s people who think Jesus is a better striker than Watkins.

Mate.

The PR puff pieces are dropping today! Power dry FC

West Ham trying to sign Ferguson. Spurs agreeing fee for Tel. Nypan staying at rosenberg. Completely shambolic from Arsenal.

loooool apparently Villa approached Arsenal for Watkins hahahahaa it’s even WORSE ffs. Absolutely abject from Arsenal and if they hire Jason Ayto they deserve nothing.

@alexcollings.bsky.social hello; I need to know why on earth clubs are not clambering all over each other to sign Rayan Cherki. I simply cannot fathom it.

It's great when individuals who work for broadcasting outlets that have shows like 'Ref Watch' and who focus so, so much of their match coverage on refereeing decisions start wondering why there is so much focus on referees and conclude that it is because of Mikel Arteta.

You’re at Starbucks. What do you expect? Why don’t you grow up and make your own coffee or better yet, visit different businesses that actually do good stuff?

Typically when organizations like PGMOL act the way they act then get their hands slapped they react really maturely and equitably towards the party they wronged. They grow and learn and things move onto a trajectory of improvement. Hahahaha I am kidding they never do that.

“No options in the market in January”

Americans are insane.

I demand as little referee in my daily existence as physically possible | Jonathan Liew

“Tiresome talking about referees” says @23carra.bsky.social. I agree. What time is Ref Watch on tomorrow ? Mike Dean on soccer Saturday next week? The Howard Webb show? Is Howard back on the otherwise wonderful ‘Stick to Football’ again anytime soon? Tiresome.

The narrative around MLS red card has completely shifted now. I promise you no one will care about it if every challenge is treated equally. But everyone knows that is never going to happen.

I don’t really mind that MLS was shown red for that if they think it was foul play. He’s lunging, studs up on the side of the calf. Fair enough. I want refs to protect players more. Just be consistent. It’s always about consistency. The amount of violent conduct that’s gone unpunished is a joke

Can someone who watched the game explain why MLS was sent off? I watched highlights only and genuinely have no idea.

So then how do you explain clubs that do the inverse?

Man City going for Douglas Luiz on loan too? Christ.

People are talking about all the injuries like we weren’t 9 points behind before they happened.

I find it hard to believe we would be worse off this year if we had done NONE of our summer business and just kept the squad exactly how it was last year with ESR and Vieira and Nelson and Nketiah. Which is a dark realisation to be coming to tbh

I don’t like to doubt Scott Willis on these matters but I am beginning the think that maybe we aren’t the 2nd best team in the world? However, who am I to argue with a pie chart or excel spreadsheet.

So like…are we even going to try to sign an attacker or nah. It’s the 19th of January.

*transfer room.

There should still be some big questions over him. Need our next DOF to be a strong character and be able to push back on some of these transfers

Partey at fullback. No Saliba. A front three of Martinelli, Havertz, and Trossard. Only one senior attacker on the bench. Late stage dictatorship football. The people are only eating meat once a week while the President says that we must all make sacrifices for the good of the country.

Let's not allow the handball discussion to divert too much attention from the fact that Thomas Partey's atrocious defending was to blame for both goals today.

Way too much chat on the TL about the VAR call. It’s very clearly a handball. It’s also not the talking point of the game. The talking point is dropping points from a two goal advantage again this season.

Another two goal lead dropped?! Cba anymore with this season