• I_am_the_grass@lemmy.worldM
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      No announcement apparently. Apparently all the ITKs were bullshitting. He’s doing the second part of his medical today and hasn’t even done any media work or contract signing yet. TNAT says he’s expecting the signing in the later half of next week.

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          It’s in the know. Its certainly am ironic term because most believe they don’t know shit.

          Like James said though, there are some exceptions like TNAT that clearly have inside information. My general feeling is that the ones you talk less know more. Those that tweet every two hours clearly don’t know shit because 1) things don’t move that fast 2) even if they did, their source isn’t going to give them live updates.

          James isn’t an ITK though. He’s a journalist for the Athletic. Journalists have inside information, some of which they report on and some they don’t (either because they can’t validate the information or they’ve been asked to hold off, etc).

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            @I_am_the_grass
            Yeah, ok - ironic and derisive, I guess.
            Not heard of TNAT. I don’t really follow news updaters on Twitter, well I definitely don’t at all now cos I don’t have an account.
            I do feel like there is a level of elitism &gatekeeping that goes on with these kinds of terms&discourses, when it comes to the established/establishment Arsenal podcasts.
            James isnt an ITK but he is literally ITK, but that’s the point I think, he uses the term to create separation&prestige for his ‘brand’.

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            it’s interesting cuz i’ve found a lot of people that probably know a bit of actual stuff based on what they’ve said

            like Purple Panel definitely has some sources as much as I don’t trust that their reporting is as accurate as their arrogance about it suggests.

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      Big season for him. I really hope he’s up for the challenge.

      Tbh I would love to see regular rotation of our attacking players, provided they are all firing. Exciting to see how the boss can vary things up.

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      Imagine a front line of Martinelli-ESR-Nketiah-Nelson-Saka (yes I know Nelson isn’t a midfielder but let me force him in for the sake of hale end ok)

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    Testing a comment from a different Lemmy instance for no other reason than being a nerd.

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        Most excellent, seems to be working. Just wanted to test out a smaller instance.

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            Yeah I know haha. The main reason I created it was because Lemmy world was giving me so many issues but they seemed to have stabilized it. So this is just a back up account methinks. (Though I do like the suffix more than Lemmy.world haha)

            • I_am_the_grass@lemmy.worldM
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              Lemmy.world was having problems during the upgrade to the latest version of Lemmy. They fixed it now and I believe everything is going much smoother.

              Follow /c/lemmyworld for updates on the instance

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      Sounds like the kind of thing our club would have done back when Usmanov was still part of the ownership.

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      I hear that. I hope he can meet up with the team in Germany - the sooner he starts working with the others the better.