Morning.
06.45am: The training ground pictures game is now an established Arsenal fan tradition. First up, you can see who is in them and who isn’t, perhaps giving us an insight into a player’s fitness if there’s some uncertainty. Then there’s the bib aspect as we try and work out if that gives us a clue as to the starting XI for a particular game.
Now there’s a new game: Media Day Pictures. Arsenal’s took place yesterday, with the head-shots and action shots of players in the new kit ahead of the new season, and one particular absence has caused some speculation. While there are pictures of Kieran Tierney and Reiss Nelson, for example, there don’t appear to be any of Eddie Nketiah.
What does it all mean? What is the subtle or not so subtle conclusion we can draw from his absence? I don’t know. Maybe we’re not posting any Eddie snaps because we think he’ll leave or he’s on the verge of leaving. Maybe Eddie had a cheeky Nandos and it was a dodgy Nandos and he’s ended up with a dose of the splats and couldn’t make it in for the photo-shoot. Or perhaps Stuart and Pricey were called away on an emergency to take pictures of Edu’s BBQ after he reverse-seared a tomahawk steak to perfection and needed professional pics to capture the moment for all eternity. Your guess is as good as mine.
07.30am Update: I’ve just seen pictures of Eddie. Drama over. I’m glad he didn’t have a dodgy cheeky Nandos, nobody needs that.
I am curious as to what’s going to happen with Tierney, by the way. There hasn’t really been an update on his fitness, mostly because Arsenal seem replete with left-back options, including the emergence of a young talent in Myles Lewis-Skelly who everyone is very excited about. There are still a couple of weeks to go in the window, but it’s hard to envisage any club coming in with an offer to take him on a permanent basis. After witnessing him suffer that injury on the European stage, you would be somewhat cautious about…
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