Better start getting comfy here. Hello new home
Also 09 July 2016
: unreal prediction lol
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So when are we gonna start? Excited by this new adventure 
I would be excited by it if we were tackling it under a new manager.
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Isnāt there a big chance we miss out on this as well?
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Weāre 10 points above West Brom with 2 games in hand so itād be some collapse to finish 8th!
Unless Leicester win the CL then 7th place is defo in the EL.
A weird and not important question, but if we do finish 6th or 7th and have to start our season in June/July, will the Emirates Cup be cancelled again? 
Iām looking forward to the Europa League and some new destinations. Luckily my OH feels the same way. Iāll goto them all in the unlikely situation we can both get time off work. I just hope Wenger will give it a go and not decide its ābeneath himā
Mourinhoā managed to win a domestic cup and go deep into Europe so for those that like winning stuff over mere league position then itās doable
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I donāt buy the EL difficulty hype. We are better than every team left in the EL apart from United (arguable but Iād say we were better) so thereās no reason to think if we were in it that we wouldnāt have a realistic shot at winning it even with Wenger. Heās won 2 FA cups and this is just another knockout tournament.
There is no Bayern Munich and no Barcelona in the EL. We wonāt be 5-1 down from the first leg and then game-over for the second leg. Weāre not going to have 29% possession against any EL team. Two legged ties give you the chance for redemption and we came close at times with Bayern, Milan, Monaco and weād build some momentum with Rostov and St Etienne.
Even if we faced some of the ābiggerā teams like Villareal weād have to be really down in the dumps to not fancy a win over two legs.
As a neutral I love to watch some EL knockouts as itās a competitive tournament with some good football but at the end of the day itās a competition for 5th/6th placed clubs and CL dropouts. As an Arsenal man Iāve looked down on it because weāre neither of those things but now weāre going to deservedly be a 5th/6th (right now it feels like 6th) team then this will be our level and in that case Iām all for it.
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OH FFS! Letās try to be positive about the Europa League at least, lol!
I think Lyon would definitely beat us at the moment and Schalke Oh Vier as well
I think Manchester Unitedās tag as favourites is based only on club size and on form I think itās Lyonās to lose. If we were there in place of United Iād have us 3rd favourite of 8
Not if we are getting Goretzka from them :santi2:
I will take 3rd favourite of 8 over getting beaten 10-2 in the Round of 16 in the CL.
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I feel like the Europa League is a touch underwhelming this season, which might mislead us into thinking itāll be a walk in the park. But last season, Sevilla, Liverpool, Villarreal, Athletic Bilbao and Dortmund were all in the last 8. I wouldnāt fancy us against any of those teams right now.
Cāmon! We are not good enough for the Champions League, but if we canāt really match (match, not beat) all the teams you have listed we truly deserve to disappear.
I genuinely do not care about this competition. It lost a lot of its former glory when they changed the UEFA Cup to this.
Itās certainly underwhelming going from the Champions League into this, although thatās hardly been a pleasant experience in the last few years.
Not sure Iāll have the stomach to sit down on a Thursday night and watch us play away in Ukraine or somewhere (but lets face it I probably will 
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WTF in Lyon!? Crazy scenes!
Besiktas fans throwing āmissilesā down upon the Lyon fans from the upper tier so the Lyon lot just walked onto the pitch to protect themselves.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/steward-hurt-violence-ahead-lyon-besiktas-185018557--sow.html
Turkish supportes 
Last year might as well be the exemption though. Dortmund usually is in the Champions League. Same goes for one of Sevilla/Villareal too.
We donāt need to fear Bilbao.
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