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By Tony Attwood
We seem to have spent quite a bit of this transfer window thinking that Arsenal was not buying anyone. Now we are wondering how everyone is going to fit in. We now have the news that EZRI KONSA has finalised his move to Arsenal, with the latest recruit signing a four-year deal at the Emirates.
And we still have another week to go. The Premier League transfer window l closes on September 1 at 11pm. What’s the betting it will slam shut? It always slams shut. It’s part of the tradition.
Sports Illustrated give us a line up for this opening match (which quite a fw of the papers remind us is the champions of the Championship against the champions of the Premier League) as….
Raya
White Mosquera Gabriel Calafiori
Odegaard Guimaraes Rice
Saka Havertz Tzolis
The Independent goes with
Raya;
White, Mosquera, Gabriel, Calafiori;
Guimaraes, Lewis-Skelly;
Saka, Odegaard, Tzolis;
Havertz
So there is a fair array of choice. But there is a general consensus that Arsenal will win.
The analyst gives us
David Raya,
Ben White, Cristhian Mosquera, Gabriel Magalhães, Riccardo Calafiori,
Bruno Guimaraes, Myles Lewis-Skelly, Martin Ødegaard,
Noni Madueke, Kai Havertz, Christos Tzolis.
If this blog didn’t come to you free of charge, I would be tempted to say “you pays your money and you takes your choice”, but since Untold remains as free as it ever was, that is obviously not true.
The game is on TV if you didn’t get your ticket in time.
If we win by lots, I might even publish a league table afterwards, but if not, I suspect the thinking would be that such an action would be far too silly this early in the season, especially for such a serious and dedicated blog as this one.
So, here we are again, here we go, here’s to us, and so on and so forth. I’ll go with 4-0 to Arsenal.
We would have to be over-confident to play with only 10 men, as suggested by the Independent.
I always hesitate to forecast a result, especially a big win, as things can easily turn out differently and I am sure that coventry will not be as easy an opponent as was MC115 last weekend,
Does anybody know if Arsenal are no longer doing the match day on line progrma, Live From N5. I cant find it anywhere on Arsenal.com.
I really hope not as I used to listen to that comentry as opposed to the numpties on TV.
Tony
I’ve looked around the web and it appears I am not the only one.
It looks like the live stream from N5 has gone down again.
Honestly this is really embarrasing. The app gets 2.5 stars, because it is crap at the best of times, let alone because it keeps going down on match days.
AND I still haven’t recieved my refund for the pre season bundle I paid for and did not get.
The whole thing is a joke.
A good first win of the season. Now a very long 10 day period to get the whole team completely match fit. I think this will be the longest period between two PL matches this season apart from the international breaks…
3-0 to the Arsenal! 3 points and a clean sheet. Good start.
Tzolis reminds me of Marc Overmars…. but a bit bigger 🙂
31 August at 8pm UK time Walter. Away to Aston Villa.