Martin Ødegaard

[hydrofluoric acid]

I'm already expecting to see The Cruyff turn and Elastico from him every game. Hopefully, he has been watching videos of Omari Hutchinson and Andrés Iniesta!

 

[Taneruit]

More noises about today, get ready folks.

How could Fabrizio possibly know the exact moment this ended FFS.

Sometimes I wonder about these sources.

 

[dashsnow17]

More noises about today, get ready folks.

I'm guessing they're busy taking photos/videos of Ødegaard in the snow to use for a whole 'Norwegian at home in the snow' kinda theme. That's what i'd be doing if I was the guy in charge of these things. Once they're done with the edit there'll be the announcement.

 

[dashsnow17]

I'm already expecting to see The Cruyff turn and Elastico from him every game. Hopefully, he has been watching videos of Omari Hutchinson and Andrés Iniesta!

We've signed Ronaldinho? Cool, didn't know he was out of prison already.

 

[A_G]

I'm already expecting to see The Cruyff turn and Elastico from him every game. Hopefully, he has been watching videos of Omari Hutchinson and Andrés Iniesta!

I'm expecting great stuff from my 2nd favourite Norwegian behind Carlsen!

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

I'm expecting great stuff from my 2nd favourite Norwegian behind Carlsen!

Yeah, Carlsen not been doing well in Tata steel chess 2021. Terrible.

 

[Trilly]

By your logic Fergie can't take credit for the class of 91 then. They never played for anyone else prior. Therefore we can't say Fergie was an important part in developing the Nevilles, Butt, Beckham etc. It's a clearly silly argument to be honest and I doubt you'd use in it any other context other than to nit pick at a Arsenal manager you don't particularly care for.

I'm going to make this very clear...

Fergie has a track record of developing young players. He was United manager before the class of 91 and remained manager for years afterwards, he showed that the class of 91 wasn't a fluke and that he can develop young talented players.

I've said that time will tell if Arteta has played a key part in developing Saka and ESR but for now we can't tell because he is new and they are new. The only data that we can use for comparison is the senior forwards and they've all tanked under him.

That suggests and may I stress I said suggests, that Arteta isn't actually good at developing players. Why? Because Creating conditions for players to thrive is something that usually really applies to senior and young players. Most of the managers who are known for developing youth are also known for enabling players in general.

Wenger did just as much good work for Walcott and co as he did for Sanchez and Özil. Pep raises the level of every squad he goes to not just the young players, Monaco's golden generation of a few years back were lead by a revived Falcao, countless examples.

But it's cool, rather than ask why or actually read my posts, just come up with your assumptions as to why I say the things I say. My posts aren't agenda-driven and you won't catch me doing the stuff you like to think I do. If I make a point there's logic behind it.

If young players perform well as Saka and ESR have done the manager deserves a portion of the credit for that. It seems totally bizarre to argue otherwise to me.

I've credited Arteta for playing Smith-Rowe (despite him being basically forced to) but I won't credit him for playing Saka when he was already a key player before Arteta even arrived.

 

[Trilly]

If you're going to leave your brain at the door then don't post at all.

Yes sir, sorry sir!

 

[Trilly]

I'm guessing they're busy taking photos/videos of Ødegaard in the snow to use for a whole 'Norwegian at home in the snow' kinda theme. That's what i'd be doing if I was the guy in charge of these things. Once they're done with the edit there'll be the announcement.

I hope you don't get hired by any media/advertising/branding company, ever.

 

[SA Gunner]

Whats wrong with this club of ours FFS.

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

Arsenal moves slower than I did in my first run after covid and pneumonia.

 

[HairSprayGooners]

Whats wrong with this club of ours FFS.

I mean it doesn't matter all that much, we know he's signing and will be here for the game against United. Match day today and then announcement tomorrow.

Pretty mad that we can announce Ryan completely under the radar and this takes ages tho

 

[lamby22]

Fully expect Madrid to announce it first - Comunicado Oficial.

 

[dashsnow17]

I hope you don't get hired by any media/advertising/branding company, ever.

Me taking a break after i've told my assistant to go buy a Viking hat with horns for Ødegaard to wear in the announcement video:

 

[Trilly]

Me taking a break after i've told my assistant to go buy a Viking hat with horns for Ødegaard to wear in the announcement video:

At 9:05am.

 

[dashsnow17]

Fully expect Madrid to announce it first - Comunicado Oficial.

Heard it's gonna be a 4pm Offisiell Uttalelse

 

[Tosker]

club's too busy at the moment trying to shoo Mustafi out the door to worry about this lad

I hope ...............

 

[al-Ustaadh]

#TheNewMØ

 

[SA Gunner]

Excuse the non news bump folks, but thought this was an interesting one.

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

Is that true that you almost died from covid in August hydro?

I had to go to a ventilator for 5-6 days and was then 2 more days in ICU. I don't know if I was ever truly in a danger. When I was put to sleep the doctors were pretty sure I would wake up again but I don't know if that is the way they are posted to behave to give patients hope or not.

I'm dealing with a lot of health anxiety and stress after it. It's very difficult to be at peak of my health at 31, no overweight, nonsmoker, or underlying problems. I'm constantly worrying about what could be wrong with me, something that will come out down the road like early cancer or Alzheimer or something.