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This feels very editorialized to manufacture drama where there is none.

On the England situation:

‘The manager here is brilliant, he trusts the players he’s worked with before as we’ve seen in different types of ways - you’ll see Kalvin and Harry haven’t played the most amount of minutes but when they step up for England and are given the opportunity, they perform.

So if if that’s the case for myself and I do get shown that trust to play another game if I haven’t played for my club then I will have to repay him.

‘But of course, I want to get back into my club team. I want to get into my club team and be able to give the manager a headache rather than just have Jordan [Pickford] as the England number one and me fall by the wayside.’

That doesn’t sound like fearing for his place in the England squad, it’s more like he wants to push Pickford and himself to be their best and make the decision tough on Southgate because he has two good options.

And on his “suffering” at Arsenal:

‘We work professionally really well together. We push each other in training and there’s days where I come in and I’m down because of the situation and he picks me up.

‘And for whatever reason there might be a day where he’s down and even though I’m suffering and hurting for not playing I have to stand up and be able to push him and make sure he’s ready for the weekend if he’s picked to play.’

He is clearly saying in both situations that he wants to challenge for more time, but is also picking up and pushing his competition to be at their best. Interpreting that as “breaking his silence on the ‘suffering’ he has endured” is clickbait.

3 men of the match tonight, they were all incredible.

These are so nice, thank you for putting it together 🍻

A lot of people have decided that Arteta’s comments were out of line, and are twisting their brains into pretzels to make his complaints look unhinged. I’m so over the entire thing honestly, the bootlicking of referees is astonishing.

Every chelsea game is a can’t miss

It’s very likely we draw if Gordon’s goal is disallowed, neither team produced much of anything

I can’t imagine being more satisfied with a new signing. He’s had a good argument to be MOTM in about half the matches he’s played thus far

Uh huh, sure it is

I swear these things always go the same way.

1. Allegations drop. Fans of accused club go on the defensive while fans of rival clubs gloat.
2. People tire of hearing the story constantly, neutrals slowly start to drift from “punish the cheaters” to “I’m sick of hearing about this”
3. Wait 2 years
4. Slap on the wrist, cost of doing business punishment is handed down.
5. Fans of accused club gloat, fans of rival clubs cry foul and corruption. Nothing fundamentally changes.

Nobody said it isn’t his choice, just that the choice he made is disappointing and spits in the face of the LGBTQ community that he pretended to care about.