Twiggy from The Royle Family makes an appearance in that one.
Quite like Carry on Abroad meself.
“Stewart! Stewart Farquhar.”
“Stupid what?”
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I love the Royale family.
That is pure gold.
Get that will ya Barbe
The sad thing is , just how close to reality is that programme ?
Cheryl next door 
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“Anthony’s been a while at the chippy, hasn’t he?” 
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RIP Caroline Aherne
Genius
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Honestly, she was so good. So young when she passed, too.
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I still think the one thing we’re missing is another fast, dynamic, dribbly forward who can play on the outside in place of Saka or Martinelli.
Trossard seems destined to play more on the inside, either one of the attacking midfield roles or as false nine. Vieira has played well in pre-season in that right 8 position but he offers zero threat when put at RW. The ball goes to him, some silky touches, and it goes backward. Marquinhos just isn’t good enough overall. ESR is really another interior player and can’t be relied upon physically. Nelson can’t stay healthy and profiles more as a 4th winger than a 3rd winger for a club with ambition. Jesus can play on the wing but moving your best CF out of the middle isn’t a great solution to this kind of problem.
I keep coming back to Chiesa, who continues to have transfer rumors around him (although not to Arsenal). I realize he had the cruciate injury and has been slow to recover form but his numbers last spring weren’t terrible even when coming back and it could be a real buy low opportunity. His top level at Juve and during Euro 2021 was really high and his profile is perfect for this position as a guy who can play both wings, is naturally comfortable operating very wide, and has the technical level to play our football at our pace.
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I would love us to sign another RW to provide backup/competition for Saka. Personally, I think Diaby would be perfect for us, but I can see this evening that Villa look close to agreeing a deal. The difficulty we face is Saka is one if not the best RW in the league, so it may be a difficult sell the opportunity to some players who think they won’t get enough game time, however we need to be able to rest Saka through the season. Nelson will not be able to fill that void IMO.
The links to Kudus over the last days seemed genuine though, and looks like another very strong prospect. I could fully get behind this move.
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Unreliable rumours are saying Locatelli is available on the market for €25m
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Are the unreliable rumours talking about the structure of the deal?
Not keen on Locatelli anymore. Seemed to have a Purple Patch.
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We really don’t play that different from City… A lot of similarities, 3-2-5 in possession, box midfield etc.
The main difference is how our striker position is occupied. A more traditional box player like Haaland (he can obviously do more) or somebody like Jesus who is less firm in staying in position. Without Jesus scoring 20 we need Saka/Martinelli/Odegaard to contribute 45 League goals every season. Hence I do understand why people would ask more from him in that regard. We will have to see if especially Odegaard can hit 15 again.
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Initial reaction was “I swear Newcastle just signed him already ye cunt”
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A goal keeper should not be the priority right now. We should be looking at offloading some dead weight and bringing in a target man to compete with Eddie/Balogun for 2nd option striker.
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We’re on it, Mokbel and TNAT said we’re after Kudus to play on the right.
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I think this will still happen. We’ll get a wide player & Raya.
Arsenal’s problem for 2-3 years has been our GA, more so than our GF. Ramsdale is unfortunately a cause for concern on that front.
If there’s an opportunity to improve upon the first 11, without sacrificing our other needs I think we should do it.
If that’s true and we got both Raya and Kudus then this has to go down as our best ever transfer window doesn’t it?
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Already is tbf.
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YES although I’d still be disappointed that we didn’t bring in a quality option to battle with Jesus.
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I’d personally wait to see the players we’ve signed actually play some competitive fixtures for the club first.
Might be a bit early to make that call.