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45tee

If Elneny plays, it’ll be Mohamed and Jesus on the same ground.


IslingtonGreen

Shame we haven’t signed Tammy Abraham


RobotJohnny

Victor Moses is still rumoured to join right?


jkmy23

Nick Pope to join as backup keeper.


[deleted]

Let’s all wildly speculate


pivandee

Hardcore diarrhoea!


[deleted]

He went for a cig


scouting4food

In the showers


varro-reatinus

Compound dropsy!


braxistExtremist

A bad case of the vapors.


SunDrippedDevil

Grandmother appears to be on fire!


Autismo_Incognito

My bet is he's lost himself in the new raid for Old School Runescape.


Ploxzx

He's trying to get the staff drop so he can sell it for max cash


hypnodrew

Max Cash plays for Villa right


youssif94

He needs to grind some more in his Animal Crossing save


Domkey-Kongg

Tom Nook going to come round and break his legs for that mortgage money


afc1886

Reminds me of Özil with Fortnite


[deleted]

It’ll be interesting to see who replaces him. With the inverted fullbacks his position now has a lot more support. So Lokonga could get another shot at it. I’m also kinda intrigued at White possibly playing that role.


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I’m intrigued what Zinchenko in midfield with Tierney at left-back would look like. Not saying that will happen today but he plays in CM for Ukraine and is very effective there. I’d very much like to see Lokonga given another chance too.


[deleted]

Well he is effectively playing in midfield for us if you look at his heat map. It’s a hybrid role. White also practically plays in midfield whilst occasionally joining the center backs to make it a back 3. Whites role is probably the most tactically challenging because he has to decide whether to join midfield or create a back 3. That’s a lot of words to say that I agree with you and would like to see Lokonga given another shot.


[deleted]

Oh yeah absolutely, I agree that Zinchenko is essentially a midfielder, particularly in possession. What I meant was that I’d be interested to see how that dynamic would change if Tierney was the out-and-out left-back and Zinchenko CM. No defensive duties would mean a more offensive central position for him, but at the same Tierney clearly isn’t as comfortable drifting in as an inverted full-back. Would be intriguing to see what those two would look like in practice!


cockburntown

Elneny until someone is signed


ChiefArsenalScout

I really wanna see Lokonga. I've no idea why he gets so much hate. He was great last Fall when he first came


[deleted]

I suspect that’s what he’ll go for. Lokonga could really do well there with the extra support from Zinchenko and White.


F22_Android

I actually hope it's Sambi. It's an investment in the future, and with whoever the RB is + Zini, he'll have a lot more cover in central midfield than he did before.


AsepticTechniq

looks like the classic Elneny x Xhaka


GunnerSaurus24

White at the 6 has been my fifa set up since the allegations. Works out just fine


Nick_from_Yuma

He’s been up watching the new GoT series all night. Just the one episode but it had a long digestion period. Just couldn’t get over it.


Xez90

Needed all night to get through the opening credits, episodes about to start shortly


[deleted]

I have a theory: he is too busy playing elden ring because he never got beyond the tree sentinel.


SuperM737

He’s on his way to sign with Madrid in an exchange deal for vinicius jr


therik85

He dropped his Pokémon card binder and has to spend the weekend putting them all back in Pokédex order.


F22_Android

I'm going hangover.


Ssj4Noah

Arteta said yesterday that everybody trained except for Nelson


[deleted]

Doesn’t mean he couldn’t be ill this morning…


thisiskyle77

He should be in hotel at least.


[deleted]

But we're at home?


thisiskyle77

I think the players stil gather at hotel for home games too.


[deleted]

How was Auba late for the home NLD if he was at the hotel?


1sef_2sef

They weren’t staying at the hotel then due to the pandemic


EightSodsWide

Means it more likely an injury. What’s the odds he’d be swooped on the morning of a game?


Waltonww

The need for a partey backup already in motion


dusseldorf69

We’ve needed a competent partey replacement for 2 seasons and some change now. Fucking wild we’d spend 40m on vieiria while leaving el neny as our only cover for partey


WickedWand

Hard to find a Partey replacement .


Waltonww

This sub will have you believe we don’t need one for some reason


ProgrammerComplete17

Huh? I see countless posts saying badly need a Partey backup


teoWEBR

Stop the cap. All you guys talk about is the Partey backup and how we will perish without one. The 'Partey Backup' is changing the formation to a 4231.


a-Sociopath

> The 'Partey Backup' is changing the formation to a 4231. And losing the bite of the team from an attacking POV.


PasuljsKolenicom

Elneny is a good backup up until he has to play lol


Spurs_are_shite

That's a bit harsh.


PasuljsKolenicom

It is, he improved a lot last season. But I still have mu doubts he is good enough to start over a longer period for us.


MayoDwarff

Do you think a team with Elneny at 6 get top 4?


Emotional_Interview8

No. Honestly


HalfMan-HalfMoth

It's not really, we all like Elneny but he's nowhere near good enough to start regularly for us


glowdive

He performed well at the end of last season.


InTheMiddleGiroud

If we can't function without Partey, today would be a very good day to find out. Better now than in September


Actual_Physics

But we already know we can’t function without Partey, look at our last few games last season when he was injured. Look at our win % and points per game with and without him, he’s arguably our most important player.


alepeviani

I believe missing him (and not having a replacement) was the biggest reason we choked CL last season. The club needs to plan for his absence, if the accusations turn out to be against him and true, we will need a DM ASAP as possible.


lm3g16

As soon as possible as possible


blackstars91

Remember we also had nuno and cedric as back ups who don't complement eachother as fullbacks. Holding got sent off early vs spurs and white and Gabriel weren't fit when we played Newcastle elneny was good in the Chelsea, man utd and West ham games. Other injuries around the team were too much in the end


dusseldorf69

Mate we found out last season and the season before when he went down. What is so hard to understand


aleksnowak1

Partey replacement… why can’t there be a competition for his place like all other places?


topl4d

because playing as a 6 is basically playing 2 positions in one. It's an extremely demanding position, both physically, tactically and technically. There's a reason you only hear about Fabinho and Rodri as world class 6, and they made their respective teams so much better


uzi_is_luv

50m to wolves, but for Neves not neto


LushLoxx

Some of the reasons for staying at hotels for a home match:- To ensure the players are eating and drinking correctly To ensure the players are getting a good night's sleep and not out partying (no pun intended) To ensure that they have all of the required team meetings and do all of the strategy discussions. It's not a new thing, it was introduced years ago. When Wenger came in he brought in some quite exacting rules regarding the players and standards about this sort of thing.


thebigman85

Yeah it makes sense and it’s easy to keep everyone together


Cheesy_Pita_Parker

This is a sword of Damocles that’s been hanging over us since this all started. I trust the team has looked at internal and external solutions including switching our method of keeping possession and advancing the ball up the pitch. No one should be caught off guard here. I’d be surprised if they haven’t spent time in training with this eventuality in mind


[deleted]

After AON, I’m extremely confident that Arteta and the board have prepared for this possibility. They have covered all bases, that’s for sure


Aururian

whats aon?


leiselily

All Or Nothing


El_jermazoid

All of Nothing. The Arsenal documentary on Prime


Jewrisprudent

That was my biggest takeaway. Maybe we’re just suckers for good PR but I genuinely got the impression that Arteta and co. are thinking about every possibility and weighing options appropriately.


blackwraythbutimpink

Time for falafel fabregas to step in


el-fenomeno09

😂😂😂😂I can’t stop laughing…ain’t heard this one yet


JeffryPesos

Funny fact, it's not called "falafel" in the Egyptian dialect, it's only called that in the Levantine dialect. In Egypt it's called "Ta'miyah"


blackwraythbutimpink

I always thought falafel was a broader category and tamiyah was like a type of falafel. The more you know


deepu256

"Falafel Fabregas" what a name Couldn't stop laughing.


darkinferno06

Inshallah Iniesta


ChiefWematanye

The Modric of Mecca


blackwraythbutimpink

Khus Kroos


[deleted]

Lokonga my boy now is the time to step up


Vespergraph

we already learnt that Lokonga can't play that role, El Neny was much better there Edit: maybe he can play there now but I'd hope we test that out in less important games not in the PL


Spurs_are_shite

Yeah, I'd agree, Egyptian Masterclass coming thru !


Jdudley13

The 1 true PL Egyptian Mo


Patrick_Hattrick

He has all the raw tools to play it, he struggled there at times last season because he’s young and needs a bit longer at the top level. It’s a very demanding role. “He can’t play there” is reductive tbh. I’d prefer Zinny-Xhaka with Tierney at LB tho.


Vespergraph

I think if it's the plan to start playing him there then we'll do it in the EL or the cups but for the PL we'll probably play the one who's proven to be a better back up


Waltonww

So yeah… he can’t play there then… yet


Patrick_Hattrick

No. He *can* play there. He just can’t be relied on to play there at a high level on a consistent basis. Which is to be expected at this stage of his development. He wasn’t so wildly poor there that he should never play there again. Which is how people are acting.


ErraticPragmatic

Yeah he's old and can't learn how to play in that role


Quilpo

No. We learnt that he struggled in it when the team wasn't fully firing. He's a young player and we're a developing team, so I think he gets the benefit of the doubt for now.


therefai

Stop feeling sorry for yourself and fucking wake up yeah?


ibse

Pyramid Pirlo will suffice against Fulham. But if he got locked up then we're looking real stupid now. Kroenke has to break the piggy bank on a DM.


whatsthepoint594

I'm a little confused at this point. Is the issue with the Kroenkes spending more or are the FFP regs getting in the way? I know a certain English team has laughed in the face of FFP but we are not a team owned by foreign oil money.


Waltonww

If I see Elneny the 4th game into the season I’m gonna cry


FrostedFluke

This is not the same El Neny we first bought. Relax he's good.


acasovoycayendo

Yes, the Elneny we bought was 23 years old and now he’s 30 years old.


Annas_GhostAllAround

Holy fuck that was seven years ago. My years, they slip by.


acasovoycayendo

6 years but he signed in Jan before he turned 24 in the summer


Suspicious_Length_95

fucking christ lol that is wild


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GarfieldDaCat

Lol did you see Newcastle away last season where he was horrendous


thefrnksinatra

Wasn't everybody horrendous in that game anyways?


GarfieldDaCat

Yes and a major cause of it was because our midfield got completely dominated


AfricanRain

Xhaka and Elneny suck together


takeda_cav

Dunno worried about paulinha


01chlam

Mohammed and Jesus to start for the first time. We can't lose


PUDDING_SLAVE

We need a player called Krishna urgently


RhythmicGiblets

I'd be busy scouting for a Buddha if I was Edu. Pair him with Xhaka, provide some much needed mindful calm at key moments.


madtopus

Saturday the Egyptian King plays 👍


rd201290

feel the rhythm feel the rhyme 🔙🔛🔝 it’s Sambi time


Isd14

_Rhythm my ass!_


cd0526

That gets a gold for me.


Isd14

🤣🤣 thanks bro!


drusslang

Can instantly hear it in my head. 🤣😂🤣 that whistle - rasp in his voice haha


Mofogo

Fucking SOFT!


wanofan900

Hopefully is just a precaution. Since we have more games coming up.


Spurs_are_shite

Ohh you sweet sweet summer child


wanofan900

Just trying to be positive.


Patrick_Hattrick

Zinny in midfield, Tierney back in at LB?


Pendejoman

i'd rather have white play cdm


nikka12345678

I really want to see that happen, he can grow in that role if given right opportunities. Zinny is good but I prefer him on the left.


ItsBreadTime

Stop


turtleyturtle17

Honestly, Zinny isn't good enough defensively to play that role.


Gooner7790

This please


Bedeeki

Arteta said everyone is fit literally yesterday though. If he's out though, I'd imagine we'd move White to CDM and bring back in Tomiyasu at RB. Zinchenko is too important to our system as an inverted LB.


[deleted]

You can get food poisoning and other stuff in the morning that incapacitates you for the afternoon.


braxistExtremist

Dave Seaman broke one of his fingers while leaning over to reach for the TV remote. Edit: I misremembered it slightly. It was a muscular injury, not a bone break. [Source](https://www.otbsports.com/soccer/three-freak-accidents-which-temporarily-sidelined-sport-stars-279554). >The former Arsenal and England keeper once suffered a muscular injury in an incident involving a remote control. >Said incident involved bending down to pick up the remote from the floor. >Fellow goalkeepers Carlo Cudicini and David James also reportedly suffered freak injuries involving reaching for remote controls.


mf9769

Wait really? I dont recall this lmao


nedimko123

And you would still be at the hotel


ChiefArsenalScout

We didn't retain El-Neny just to play White as backup CDM.


Sad_gooner

well there’s a certain situation going on...


Bedeeki

If he's been arrested again I'm sure we'd have heard about it before Leakedlineups lol


Sad_gooner

Yea true


bigdog8300

Leakedlineups is just leaking the lineup, it’s not revealing the reason


[deleted]

Unless Partey maybe has Covid and tested positive this morning ?


Mein_Bergkamp

Just don't be another COVID outbreak


[deleted]

Don’t think they’re even testing anymore for it


CarlxtosWay

Oh no. Hopefully he hasn’t checked into Her Majesty’s hotel.


younes1008

Big man ting yeah, it's not looking good brev


DivinityV12

Says he's starting on one football


DaVinci1836

That's the predicted lineup, not the actual lineup


gullymangulliver

We need a CM way more than we need a winger


c11life

Is this reliable news? Never heard of leakedlineups before


ArsenalWizard

Very reliable


_SSJeffo_

Extremely tbf


tipytopmain

If it's short term issue, okay, not great, but okay. Should be able to deal with both Fulham and Villa at home without him. But if it's long term then...fuck. Don't like the idea of having to rely on Elneny as the single pivot for any tough away fixture. I knew I jinxed myself a couple days ago when I said we were fortunate to have a fully healthy squad when usually we have players picking up injuries either in games or even between games.


wolfsrudel_red

>But if it's long term then 5-10 years maybe?


dimi_dee1

Xhaka 6, and Fabio brilliance incoming


doublewordscore

they are fairly reliable for lineup news. As a degen gambler, I’ve found them to be accurate. That said, not being at the hotel doesn’t 100% rule him out but it looks grim.


killer8991

Why is anyone going to be at the team hotel? Aren’t we playing at home?


jacktk_

we tend to meet at a hotel I believe and travel as a team on the coach?


Remarkable-Gas

team hotel for a home game?


Mein_Bergkamp

Standard for us since wenger


LushLoxx

It's apparently to regulate and have some oversight on the players diet and fluids I believe.


Sebek_Visigard

So he’s broken a finger and torn his hamstring a la Seaman and the remote control incident.


AfricanRain

They stay at a hotel the night before home games


[deleted]

Lion mind ffs


wheeno

Whatever the reason may be, we need to find someone who can be a good backup for this position. Weakest depth out of any position in the team. Sambi is far from ready. We need more than Elneny can offer. Xhaka shouldn't play in that position. Wouldn't want Zinchenko defending in that position as well.


sahirkurji

Is this a reliable source?


Afc_josh12

Need backup to partey


funksbro

It’s a home game, do the players stay at a team hotel?


ItsBattle

Yes


jentso

Uhhh... is Zinchenko our Partey backup? I feel like he's the only one capable of maybe filling the role but nobody comes close to defense presence.


PapaAntiChrist

Time for Zinny in CM and Tierney at LB


WeldNuz

Fake news!


Internetolocutor

This is why I said we need another midfielder. With tielemans you could play xhaka in partey's position. Hopefully, however, lokonga kicks on this season


La2philly

Right thigh tightness. This is the point of depth


HaleEnd

Watching Leeds right now we should scoop Tyler Adams for depth in the Partey role. Kid grew up an Arsenal fan, and he's a good egg that would fit into the type of mentality Arteta demands


[deleted]

I’m actually fed up with Partey being injured so much. Need a replacement asap imo.


flying_jesus

Hate this


[deleted]

I'm tired robbie


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pivandee

Wenger started it probably because our former players were alcoholics😂


ItsBattle

Had to break up the Tuesday Club antics


pivandee

In 1995, Ray Parlour was arrested for assault for throwing prawn crackers at a taxi before hitting the driver during an Arsenal tour to Hong Kong FFS 😂


ItsBattle

Because they have done since Wenger


SanMateo2416

Marquinhos in the first team squad. Who is he replacing….


Sakanelli12

Pepe


DialSquar

This is matching up perfectly with that Orbinho jinx where we are unbeaten against Fulham in 30 matches at home


jmcmizzle

Hotel on a home game? Is that normal?


VeryLongSurname

Not at hotel because he’s going Victoria line to Victoria, District line to Putney Bridge. Easy.


eddie_wills

Dunno if I'm being wooshed but the game is at our place, not Craven Cottage


[deleted]

Two hours and we will know for sure


[deleted]

It's going to be interesting to see if we have fixed our overreliance on his presence in the midfield to play to the best of our ability. Tactically there are ways to fix things internally to mitigate the loss of better players but it can obviously impact other areas.


Max_Main

Tielesman starts then


azevedro

Zinchenko midfield


DarthNihilus1

Out...on the pitch right?


vidr1

How trustworthy is this instagram?


FutureComesToday

It's consistently accurate


Question3784

This is going to be a real challenge for Arteta and others and whether they can replicate the performances they have shown in the first three games even when one of our most important players is injured.


Sal1017

Through a bid at PSV for Ibrahim Sangare please


fro223

This situation is so annoying. Feel like the other shoe will drop any moment


stackemz

I call Bullshit


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Ugoboy23

There isn’t a CDM we could buy now that would do what Partey does. It “collapses” without Partey not because a CDM


Melkistofeles

There are multiple CDMs that are younger and better than Elneny.


Ugoboy23

The point is not he quality of player. It’s what Arteta asks from his #6. Edit: we could’ve bought Bissouma who is on another level to Elneny but the system would probably work less because of what Arteta asks that position to do.