Kate Abdo posts a loved-up photo as she goes public with her relationship with Deontay Wilder's trainer Malik Scott... after months of teasing from pundits on her US TV presenting gig!
Anne Hathaway on Ethan Nwaneri's profile:
“He (Nwaneri) understands rhythm on a natural level. Very few players can play as a primary controller with metronomic efficiency, as well as a box-to-box blood hound with output focus.”
Nah man he delivered, he came here with a target on his back from ours and theirs and took responsibility once he was used in his correct position. Unreal passion and commitment and I have big expectations for him next season
"Sometimes it's not fair in football but we have to accept it..."
Kai Havertz says he "feels sorry" for Arsenal fans and looks ahead to next season to "give them what they need"...
🎙️
@julesbreach
📺
@tntsports
&
@discoveryplusUK
Jimmy Aggrey endured years of racism and bullying by
#CFC
coaches Gwyn Williams and Graham Rix.
In 2022 he was one of four youth players to be compensated by the club.
Today, he waives his anonymity to tell his story.
📝
@DTathletic
Despise this way of thinking, Kanté and Makélélé gave us art, the art of destruction. If you only recognize the "pretty" and "beautiful" you have a limited aesthetic sense IMO.
Mikel Arteta:
"I watch all the games in the Premier League, all the divisions, all the leagues.
You have to ask my wife how upset she is, because I have 3 kids as well, that always football is on our TVs." [TNT]
Ben White being accused of not doing work when he plays every minute possible thanks to his unreliable teammates, runs the entire length of the pitch, inverting, carrying, overlaps BUT he loses some 1v1s
I don't mind Tifo because it's nice that casuals have good tactics content but once in a while I watch their videos on us and agree with basically none of it. Wonder if other fanbases feel the same.
Insane player. Shielding a questionable backline, covering acres of space for his team lacking principles and proper selection, brings his team up the pitch with carries, but also held to the standards of the best possession players of all time.
Folks calling him racist when 90% of his teammates are black is genuinely just hating on y’all’s parts
You’re slow if you think it meant serious harm, and…. if you’re slandering Enzo
Slander the goat, the entire team and the coaches.
🚨 Excl. - Riccardo
#Calafiori
to
#Arsenal
from
#Bologna
for €50M. Contract until 2029 (€3,5M/year + 0,5M as bonuses guaranted). The centre-back will sign for
#AFC
after July 19 when he will return from Holiday (he is currently in Maldives).
#transfers
🗣️ “Pick three non-Portuguese players you’d have in Portugal’s Euro squad.” 🇵🇹
Manchester City’s Bernardo Silva picks Kylian Mbappe, Declan Rice & William Saliba. 👀
🎥
@ESPNUK
It's true he's a shooter but something that's under looked is he's by far Arsenal's most mature forward in terms of age and experience. Everyone else is a baby in comparison.
I’m very glad Soccer Aid raised a lot of money today. Always brings a smile to my face every year.
However as football match, that was an awful and boring watch. It was literally ex pros just passing amongst themselves, dribbling past people and shooting from anywhere constantly
What I’m trying to allude to is the fact that for the large part extremely talented forwards tend to be out of touch with football because their entire game is predicated on their individual brilliance, hence the transition into coaching is a struggle because they can’t
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🗣️Michael Owen: “I would now start Cole Palmer over Bukayo Saka (for England). I don’t think you can ignore Palmer’s form and quality any longer.
“I had him in my squad a few months ago but now he’s one of the best players in the Premier League. He might even get Player of the
Rodri. Famously a neutral, level headed analyst who always tells it like it is. Never known for chatting shit about how the game should be played in front of a microphone, especially when his team doesn't win the game.
Hey I never said it's the reason you didn't win, I just said it mattered, you guys said it didn't. A City player said it mattered, you maintain it didn't. There's definitely some bias here I'm not sure it's mine or about confirmation
At the end of the day Ødegaard is Madrid's biggest fumble and that's my opinion. It's the right opinion because it's come from my account. Sorry Madrid fans you're going to have to deal with it.
Bissouma. Comfortably. Bissouma mobility and suppleness gives him a huge advantage over Rice. It means you can give Bissouma the ball at any angle and he will open the game up. Rice still struggles massively to receive and turn fluidity. Not technically but athletically.
NEW FROM THE SUN: Yves Bissouma filmed himself inhaling deadly laughing gas just days before the new season kicks off.
The midfielder last night apologised for his “severe lack of judgment”.
Possession of laughing gas with intent to get high was made illegal last year, with
Let's turn our attention to Fulham.
Do they have what it takes to take points away from Manchester City & potentially help decide the outcome of the title race?
Below, in an in-depth thread, I preview Fulham's chances of upsetting the apple cart against Pep's City..
THREAD! 🚨
Good reminder that no matter how much you think you know about some random tingus pingus from Taquitos Platter FC your clubs already received 45 scouting reports on them from the first time they kicked a ball and they do NOT care.
You see this? Proper football. End to end. Noise in the stands. The game I was bought up on. Not ‘Pep’ and ‘Arteta’ with their ‘inverted’ and ‘hybrid’ bollox.
The stuff id read during this period was insane. "Set pieces team" was a classic theme. Meanwhile we'd lost almost every player who could progress the team through passes and carries and it was somehow taken as intentional.
Turns out that having injuries to Zinchenko, Timber, Partey, Jorginho, Vieira, Jesus could temporarily affect a team's creative output.
No, they didn't sacrifice possession for defence. They simply had injuries. No one is trying to be ahead of the curve, you are just behind.
This convo reminds me of the discussion on the clip below from a couple months ago. Everyone cooked him for missing the final ball despite changing the direction of the game singlehandedly and neutralizing the press.
Modric doesn't just create a potential chance here, he's also effectively changed the picture and the flow of the game.
From pressing high, PSG are suddenly having to defend their own penalty box. Why do you think likes of Frenkie, Gvardiol are rated?
🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Manchester City’s legal dispute with the Premier League has put the £900m funding deal for the EFL at risk.
Top-flight clubs fear court action will affect their ability to contribute to the sum earmarked for lower leagues ⬇️
ESR fat and lazy ideology is lowks accepted for truth on here nobody wants to acknowledge the hurdles of a huge growth spurt, new position, year off and a couple injury setbacks and just the challenges of learning all Arsenal's OOP stuff hitting at once....
Are Ben White’s set piece antics legal? And how do teams stop him?
Opponents and referees will need to be sharper to stop Arsenal’s chief disruptor | ✍️
@garyjacob
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Arsenal youngster Louis Zecevic John has joined SEG agency. The winger, who has represented Serbia at youth level, is set to be part of Arsenal’s scholarship intake next season.
This tweet is a great example of how football Twitter can produce takes that are far worse than your average ignorant casual can. Sometimes basic self evident ideas like "Mbappé is an elite footballer" a FUT addict would say are just right.
Mbappe is simply not the player a lot of people on here would lead you to believe he is, incredibly one dimensional footballer vs top competition, B grade outlet asw bc he can’t hold the ball up as a striker
They are cooking him for this after watching Vertz all summer being used almost exclusively to stretch and pin backlines. All the complaints about language 🥱
Havertz in MF is the perfect example of people caught b/w FIFA positions & role;
Havertz is a dynamic stretcher who needs pairing with a technical facilitator behind him to be free of buildup + next to him in the final third so he hurts you off the shoulder vs in the halfspace.
Arsenal responsible for leaking details of City's upcoming case against the Premier League. Coincides with Director of Football, Edu, having a pop at City last week.
Our fans are backhanded complimenting this award talking about not having to make saves, that makes sense since they're too stupid to understand he's helped make that happen. Well deserved for a debut season, especially in the face of criticism from Rammers hive
"The first half was brutal. When we're struggling the staff can usually see solutions, but I remember being on the sideline finding it really difficult to think of one."
Managers, players, coaches and analysts tell
@JordanC1107
what it is really like to face Arsenal.
@_Ventfull_
All these clubs trying to land their own Arteta is they think the key is all the fancy pants rotational de Zebra central access poopoo peepee bullshit. If that was the most important thing Sarri would be the best manager in the world.
Simplified, compact, direct football.
🚨🔵⚪️ Olympique Marseille are closing in on Eyle Wahi deal with RC Lens!
Agreement very close, OM working on final details… they didn’t want to match €30m package for Nketiah.
Green light from the player and €25m fee plus add-ons offered to Lens, as
@FabriceHawkins
reports.
According to Enzo Fernandez, sometimes people just get caught up in the moment of a win against Colombia and sing a very specific chant aimed at 🇫🇷 African immigrants that you and all the boys know by heart and sing at the top of your lungs
🚨 BREAKING. Raheem
#Sterling
is very close to becoming a new player for
#Fenerbah
çe. Only a few details remain to finalize the agreement. If all goes well, he will be presented after the Turkish club's elections. 🏴🔵🟡🇹🇷
#Mercato