Morning people, and glad Monday to you all.
I suppose I ought to begin by speaking about yesterday’s Premier League motion. I’ve nothing to say about Man Metropolis (ugh), and I simply don’t care sufficient about Aston Villa to cross remark, however Liverpool’s 2-1 over Newcastle is certainly value a point out. 1-0 down, and with 10 males, two targets from Darwin Nunez gave them a sensational late victory at St James’ Park.
And look, it’s hardly as if I’m a fan of the Mugsmashers, however objectively that was very, very humorous – and one other instance of simply how mad soccer really is. When Newcastle’s assistant supervisor Jason Tindall – a person who should seethe day-after-day of the week that he performs second fiddle to a person with marshmallow for a head – shushed Jurgen Klopp, you needed to hope it will come again to chunk him on the arse, and so it did.
The defending for the primary Nunez aim was horrible however the end was good. He had a glance, then bought his head down, and as an alternative of blasting the ball to Sunderland as you might need anticipated, he rifled in a shot which cracked in off the submit. Extra terrible defending gave him one other alternative in damage time, and his end past Nick Pope was wonderful once more. Time waste that, you filthy magpies.
Right here’s the factor. Newcastle are going to construct one thing with all that PIF cash, so they’re going to be a ache within the years to come back. Like, unbearable. So I’m leaning into the disdain early. I counsel you all do the identical. It’ll simply be simpler within the long-term. Get on board the Hate Prepare, there’s loads of room. I’m not right here to see Liverpool glad, but when Newcastle are unhappy, I can deal with that. Perhaps Newcastle would possibly remorse the actual fact they didn’t use 0.00000000000000000000000000000001% of their proprietor’s wealth to purchase a left again, you already know, like Kieran Tierney or one thing.
In any occasion, I’m glad he didn’t go there. As a substitute he has formally joined Actual Sociedad on mortgage at some point of the season. I watched the video of him talking to their official website, and completely loved him talking English in a really sluggish, extremely pronounced means. Very similar to the Spanish they’ll communicate to him as he settles in, I suppose.
He mentioned:
My first impressions are so good. Everybody I meet is so pleasant, the town is so good and the stadium is gorgeous as nicely. Sure, it’s an enormous change, however one thing I’m trying ahead to a lot. An thrilling problem and I’m delighted to be right here. So Martin [Odegaard] and I communicate rather a lot and he says the followers are so good, the individuals are so good. Everybody may be very welcoming and also you’ll simply love your time right here. The membership is in place, particularly the previous few seasons and this season’s Champions League, so a tremendous membership.
And, as we mentioned on the Arsecast Additional on Friday, San Sebastian is the Scotland of Spain!
The Basque Nation is just like Scotland and it’s a spot I all the time wished to come back go to at one stage in my life.
Haha!
Hopefully he does nicely there. Tierney had his damage points throughout his time at Arsenal, however was a participant who by no means gave lower than 100% when he did end up for us. His state of affairs is sort of one thing when you concentrate on it. When he arrived, he was like a type of left-back messiah. We had suffered for thus lengthy. There’s solely a lot of Sead Kolasinac a standard particular person can take. He introduced us out of the darkness and into the sunshine. It was like chowing down on gruel each evening, then any person brings you a scrumptious home-cooked meal, and the distinction was so apparent.
However, as I discussed above, soccer is in essence a bit psychological, and right here had been are a number of years down the road and issues have moved on to the extent that somebody touted as a possible captain not too way back, is now surplus to necessities. Don’t get me flawed, I believe he might have remained a squad participant simply. Whereas the crew has undoubtedly moved on, I don’t assume he turned so redundant that he’d have been ineffective or something near that. Nonetheless, his minutes would have been restricted and he wanted to go some other place to play.
Now, he has a season in one of many world’s greatest cities, with Champions League soccer and an opportunity to broaden his horizons each footballistically and culturally. I actually hope he has a good time there. Now, we wait to see what else would possibly occur this week earlier than Friday’s switch deadline, however that’s one thing we’ll cowl over the following few days.
James and I’ll have an Arsecast Additional for you a little bit afterward this morning. Maintain an eye fixed out for the decision for questions on Twitter @gunnerblog and @arseblog on Twitter with the hashtag #arsecastextra – or if you happen to’re on Arseblog Member on Patreon, go away your query within the #arsecast-extra-questions channel on our Discord server.
For now, have one.
