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maclean

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There's a video going around on tiktok and other platforms about how Olivier has never given Man City a red card. They go through similar plays and how He's given other clubs red cards and Man City, absolutely nothing. He's the only ref in the entire country that has never given City that and then UAE gave him 20k to ref matches in the Abu Dhabi. I'm not saying conspiracy but the the visual evidence is pretty damning.

It's never a good look when the owners of a club have the opportunity to pay referees. You would think there'd be some rules against that, but then we're back to the issue of nation-state ownership
 

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Why else would he leaving the Arsenal project mid-season, especially if he is going to the Forest project?

He built the Arsenal team, and is leaving while they in ascendency, before they’ve even won anything? When they are one of the teams that are best positioned to do so?

Something is obviously going on behind the scenes there. There is zero reason to leave especially if he is going to take another job.
 
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bluesfan94

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Why else would he leaving the Arsenal project mid-season, especially if he is going to the Forest project?

He built the Arsenal team, and is leaving while they in ascendency, before they’ve even won anything? When they are one of the teams that are best positioned to do so?

Something is obviously going on behind the scenes there. There is zero reason to leave especially if he is going to take another job.
The behind the scenes is that his role has diminished some with additional executives being brought in/having their role expanded and also he wants to be part of a multi-club model
 

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The behind the scenes is that his role has diminished some with additional executives being brought in/having their role expanded and also he wants to be part of a multi-club model
Sounds like everything Michael Edwards said when he (also) wanted to get away from Klopp. Neither one of them is/was going to explicitly say the quiet part out loud though
 

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Also why he wants to leave:

Sources have told ESPN that Edu has been approached by Nottingham Forest and Olympiacos owner Evangelos Marinakis to lead their multi-club group with an offer that would include a considerably increased salary.

Forest are giving him bank. Arsenal, probably rightly, believes that their model is bigger than a single person and thus they aren't gonna break the bank to keep a sporting director.
 
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Also why he wants to leave:



Forest are giving him bank. Arsenal, probably rightly, believes that their model is bigger than a single person and thus they aren't gonna break the bank to keep a sporting director.
That coked up slob will probably forget the salary he offered him in the morning.

Strange move for Edu, money or not.
 
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Guy leaves for triple salary.

HE MUST HATE HIS COWORKER!!
I mean I’d say he’d rather stay at Arsenal to win things, but he hasn’t done that and he’s leaving for a team ahead of them in the table so yeah that extra money probably is extra good.

I’m sorry, I’m not leaving the Arsenal project, leaving London to go to Nottingham team that (should have) flunked PSR and does not have the long term potential. If we are criticizing players for taking dumb money to go to the Saudi league, the same thing applies here
 

AlanHUK

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leaving arsenal for a club with proper european pedigree ;)


On a serious note he's not leaving for Forest, he's leaving to take a controlling position for multiple clubs, including one that won a european trophy last season
 

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