• little_niggle@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    10·
    2 years ago

    Watching this place grow everyday is amazing, better than reading the same rehashed news from Fabricio everyday - much less amazing

      • little_niggle@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        im sure once the shitposters come over this place will blow up, but of course the level of moderation here needs to be more active as well

        and no worries about that mate, ive been creating the DD threads because it seemed noone else was doing it

          • AlfonsEnglish
            4·
            2 years ago

            That makes a lot of sense, we need active mods more than experienced ones right now i would say

            • Astrealix@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
              3·
              2 years ago

              For what its worth I’ve done some discord moderating so I’m not a complete spring chicken but honestly I think as long as the mods actually do the moderating there’s not necessarily a need for them to be active, and experience is better in some way. I’m never gonna be the guy pulling posts for F5ers or making actual useful shit like Billy Carpenter’s analyses or papa wengz bot, but that doesn’t mean that I couldn’t be a good moderator (though I don’t know whether I will be tbh lol)

              • I_am_the_grass@lemmy.worldMEnglish
                5·
                2 years ago

                Honestly, we don’t have anywhere near enough content to require active moderation. Right now the moderators roles are pretty much cheerleaders - driving content and engagement so that this isn’t some fad people do for a week and remains an active thriving community.

              • AlfonsEnglish
                4·
                2 years ago

                No but you’re here though. That’s what I meant

        • Astrealix@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
          3·
          2 years ago

          You just been waking up earlier than me lol

          And I’m a bit of a shitposter myself but there’s simply not much to post about rn lol

        • Framecode@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          It’s good if we can all chip in with posts to help keep the community active. I posted a few of Romano’s tweets earlier on that hadn’t already been posted.

    • IronEagleBird@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      It’s pretty insane how fast we grew. I tried Lemmy last year and just went back because there was no daily content.

      I’m glad users really took to it. I’m enjoying the smaller size of the community too before we get even larger.

  • Nuggsy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    Gday fellow Gooners! I am a serial lurker, but with Reddit determined to cack its pants and walk around with it, I thought I should try contribute to some content (here) for once (I think I only ever posted in r/gunners once about how I started supporting Arsenal).

    Although disappointed with how the season ended, I couldn’t help but feel positive about where we are from where we were. I was a little skeptical of Arteta, and although it’s not been the smoothest ride, you can’t say he hasn’t brought some stability to the club on and off the pitch.

    It also feels like this transfer window is going to be vital with us now back in the CL. I obviously want to give our Saka’s Martinelli’s and ESR’s game time, but we definitely need some strong depth going into this season.

    So! Other than Rice and Havertz (the later being a little more controversial), are there any other strong links with players you are excited for? Also why are you excited about them?

    I don’t catch much football outside of the English top flight, so I mostly only know of names (sometimes 🙂).

    Edit: Fixed spelling of Gooners. Don’t know what a gooders is…

    • I_am_the_grass@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Any specific reason why they’ve decided to do that?

      EDIT: Seems like their instance is heavily moderated and they are de-federating from any instance that has communities they are not a fan of. With lemmy.world being so big, I’m not surprised we’re part of the axe. Honestly, if you’re part of beehaw and want to connect to the wider lemmy fediverse, it looks like you’d have to leave that instance.

    • BabaDuda@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      How does that work? I’ve got a lemmy.ml acc and am subbed to a few beehaw subs, will I still be able to view them?

      • IronEagleBird@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        I think they are still federated with your instance so you shouldn’t notice a change.

        I think how it works is your instance is lemmy.world you can see the Beehaw subs and comment and I will see it being since we are on the federated instances, but their users and mods won’t see your comment since they aren’t pulling in lemmy.world data.

        It will mostly be a problem for Beehaw accounts because if they were subbed to c/gunners then they will not be able to see the sub anymore.

    • BabaDuda@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Good on you supporting your local, reminds me that I haven’t watched mine since the start of the season lol

  • thatdosbox@mstdn.ca
    5·
    2 years ago

    @Astrealix cute bit of banter between Beth Mead and Bukayo Saka

    https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/jun/18/beth-mead-book-roar-bukayo-saka-mbe-interview

    "Does being an MBE confer any special privileges?

    I haven’t Googled that one. I had a joke with [Bukayo] Saka today when I saw him in the gym. He said: “Oh, do we have to call you by anything now?” I’m like: “No, no. If you just curtsy every time you see me, that’d be great!”"

    #arsenal #awfc

  • I_am_the_grass@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    Suspect the leaks about Partey being available have come from Arsenal with the Saudi negotiation team in town this week.

    There’s no way anyone in Italy can afford his wages and if we were to sell him we’d want a transfer fee which no club in Europe would pay when he is on 250k per week.

    It’s a come and take him plee to the Saudis so we can reinvest the funds on his replacement while he still has value.

  • I_am_the_grass@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    Not a reputable enough source for me to make a post about but I found this story a little interesting:

    https://twitter.com/Transfersdotcom/status/1670482752720781320?t=E7wWH9aNB8ETVmq4TUevIw&s=19

    The journo says:

    • Tierney was discussed as part of a player + cash deal with Man City
    • Arteta sat down with Tierney and convinced him to stay as he’ll get a lot more playing time next season
    • Reason he’ll get more playing time is because Arsenal will play a back 3 more often which suits Tierney’s playing style

    The reason why I think this story might actually be true is because if a journo is making stuff up, there are a lot more safer stories to write than to insinuate Arsenal might have a change of tactics.

    I honestly can see Arteta experimenting with a 3-4-3 when we move forward with one fullback tucking in to the CBs and the second one joining the midfield. This year we tried something similar but because Xhaka was more defensive than attacking minded, White would push up and Xhaka would sit back - creating our famous overload in midfield of Zinny, Xhaka and Partey crowding out teams. Next season I think our number #8 will push higher up, putting more pressure on the #6 and the full back that pushes up (Zinny or new RB) to hold the midfield. I wouldn’t be surprised if we also employed a tactic similar to Man City of pushing Gabriel up to create an overload as well.

    The key though is to create more attacking options higher up.

    • IronEagleBird@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Tierney has been one of my favorite players since he joined. There was even talk about him being up for captain when Auba left.

      As much as I think we need to do better on player sales, I think Tierney still has a lot to offer at Arsenal. Champions League and cup matches will definitely give him more playing time and offer Arteta more tactical flexibility.

  • I_am_the_grass@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Rumours that Arsenal are about to sign former PSG defender Amanda Ilestedt to play Williamson’s CB role as she recovers from injury. Not sure if she could play alongside her as a Rafaelle replacement as she’s a right footer but you’ll never know.

    • AlfonsEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Would prefer bringing Lord Bendtner out of retirement

  • Astrealix@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Wondering when’s the last time we played against Messi given presumably he’ll be in the MLS all stars…

    • Astrealix@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      looking at google, we last played messi’s team in the Joan Gamper trophy in 2019 but he was on the bench and didn’t come on so the last time we played him was 2016…

      • IronEagleBird@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Oh wow. I think that was when they beat us 5-1 on aggregate… I am a lot more optimistic about this upcoming Champions League.

        • Matt_Sams_314@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          My first CL away game was at Camp Nou - El Neny scored a shinned volley from outside the box and for a minute I tried to convince myself we could get back into the tie… It didn’t work out that way