Odegaard out until mid-November at the earliest.

[redgunamo]

Just scored a nice goal for Brazil against Japan.

Very nice, even though his boys did take a hell of a beating.

[redgunamo]

Wash your mouth out with soap, P. Saka embodies the project - no way do we sell him - I suspect he'll stay at The Arsenal for his entire career (or very close to)

Maybe. If we win everything. Or if we don't.

It's complicated

[Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult]

In football, anything 5'10'' or under is effectively a midget. Which is fine, as long as they are tricky....

Also, I am perfect evidence that you can be tall and ****ing useless in the air

John Hartson, too.

Btw: "So, if all goes to plan, we'll have four top class, left footed right wingers"

B, Noni and the Doctor. Who's the fourth? Oh, I guess you mean Ethan - I thought he was great there but it seems MA wants him at inside right. He was fine in both roles in the second half of last season. Ridiculously so for someone who'd just turned 18. But he then sees us spending ?120m on players to cover both roles.

We really do have to make sure we keep Ethan and MLS happy. At 17/18 they had B levels of talent. Yet we realised after one season of Willian he should be given the place in the team. Big Willy went on loan for 3 years and then straight into the team. I just don't know how this is gonna work unless we go to playing a squad game the whole time. Rotate them all. I'd rather like that but would the players come the final? If everyone is fit, we have a squad of 25 players {if we count Jeez and the Doctor.} With 9 different front three players. XI plus 8 subs is 19. So we could have great players not even making the bench.

But anyway, under 5'10" isn't a real midget like JW or AA. Or Maradona. MA wants his team of "basketball players" [(c) MnM] who all have the skill of midget no.10s. Dec's really skilful, though his main thing is his drive, stamina and energy. But that's why I think Kai is such an MA player. A skilful no.10 who's 6'3".

[redgunamo]

Wash your mouth out with soap, P. Saka embodies the project - no way do we sell him - I suspect he'll stay at The Arsenal for his entire career (or very close to)

Me too. Though selling him for two hundred million quid would embody the project too.

[redgunamo]

If I remember correctly, Peter Crouch was never great in the air. Good feet for a big man though. Kanu is another.

If you're very tall, you don't actually need to be good in the air; just because at a casual glance, everyone will presume you are. You never need to really work on it.

Small goalkeepers have similar, though opposite, issues. They are all mostly excellent at catching high balls and crosses because everyone's always told them they can't.

[Peter]

If you're very tall, you don't actually need to be good in the air; just because at a casual glance, everyone will presume you are. You never need to really work on it.

Small goalkeepers have similar, though opposite, issues. They are all mostly excellent at catching high balls and crosses because everyone's always told them they can't.

Being good in the air with either head or hand is not really about height so much as anticipation and aggression. The goalkeepers who are best at reaching high balls and crosses are the ones who attack them with everything. Jens was the best example. He threw everything at it and took out everything in his way.

Raya is extremely clever and knows how to use his reach and leap. That and magnificent hands.

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

Being good in the air with either head or hand is not really about height so much as anticipation and aggression. The goalkeepers who are best at reaching high balls and crosses are the ones who attack them with everything. Jens was the best example. He threw everything at it and took out everything in his way.

Raya is extremely clever and knows how to use his reach and leap. That and magnificent hands.

Jens would occasionally patty-cake the ball back into the danger area to give himself something to do, especially when was bored. I loved the mad Kraut

[Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult]

Jens would occasionally patty-cake the ball back into the danger area to give himself something to do, especially when was bored. I loved the mad Kraut

And he shooed away a squirrel in front of the North Bank while the game was still being played.

[redgunamo]

John Hartson, too.

Btw: "So, if all goes to plan, we'll have four top class, left footed right wingers"

B, Noni and the Doctor. Who's the fourth? Oh, I guess you mean Ethan - I thought he was great there but it seems MA wants him at inside right. He was fine in both roles in the second half of last season. Ridiculously so for someone who'd just turned 18. But he then sees us spending ?120m on players to cover both roles.

We really do have to make sure we keep Ethan and MLS happy. At 17/18 they had B levels of talent. Yet we realised after one season of Willian he should be given the place in the team. Big Willy went on loan for 3 years and then straight into the team. I just don't know how this is gonna work unless we go to playing a squad game the whole time. Rotate them all. I'd rather like that but would the players come the final? If everyone is fit, we have a squad of 25 players {if we count Jeez and the Doctor.} With 9 different front three players. XI plus 8 subs is 19. So we could have great players not even making the bench.

But anyway, under 5'10" isn't a real midget like JW or AA. Or Maradona. MA wants his team of "basketball players" [(c) MnM] who all have the skill of midget no.10s. Dec's really skilful, though his main thing is his drive, stamina and energy. But that's why I think Kai is such an MA player. A skilful no.10 who's 6'3".

Yes. Agreed. But we've got to keep the *******s fit! All of them!

[Peter]

Yes. Agreed. But we've got to keep the *******s fit! All of them!

We don't need to keep all of them fit. Just the vast majority of them, and particularly the good ones.

A small number of injuries is actually fairly healthy in a squad. It shows people are putting the effort in