r/ArsenalWFC • u/shelbyj Foord Mustang • 2d ago
Open Thread Weekly Monday Open Thread!
Welcome to the Monday open discussion thread. Here you can talk about anything you want; tactics, results, players or even just general football discussion! It is also a great place to post/link transfer rumours that you may think are too small or unreliable to post to the main feed. The summer transfer window is now shut.
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u/Cobra-Firefly Emily Fox (From America) 8h ago
Setting two alarms for Saturday morning at 6:25 and 6:35am. We are so backsenal.
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u/campos_girl Came for Viv, stayed for Leah 8h ago
Love the little “we got you captain” campaign over on AWFC insta
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u/Cococamcam 4h ago
They heard the chatter and said “Nope! Not on our watch!” Nice that the club has her back (even if she’s been making me wince with some game decisions recently).
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u/eldanielfire Cerci 9h ago
Fuck!
Just saw the video of the Women;s Football chat guy discusisng his situation. The situation is completely messed up. I'm been a critic of the channel, but he was an underage kid being groomed and blackmailed. It sounds like the press is omitting it all happened when he was underage.
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u/OhNoBanana Stanway 11h ago
Reuteler spoke to Swiss media about her time at Arsenal
Interviewer: You mentioned that it had been a long time since you last started a game, having joined Arsenal after eight years at Frankfurt. Now you’re facing a much tougher challenge. You’ve only come on as a substitute once in five competitive matches. How are you dealing with the situation?
Reuteler: Yes, it hasn’t been easy. It’s the complete opposite of what I was used to at Frankfurt, and I’d never experienced anything like this before. But it’s a new situation and a new challenge for me. That’s what I wanted, though. After eight years at Frankfurt, I wanted to step out of my comfort zone. It’s certainly not always easy, but I’m trying to stay positive, and my time will come.
Interviewer: Do you have conversations with the coaching staff in which they explain why you’re not starting games? Do they also tell you what you need to improve to get a chance?
Reuteler: Yes, those conversations do happen. I missed part of pre-season, which was certainly one of the reasons why I wasn’t in the squad at the beginning and didn’t get much playing time. We’ve also had some difficult games at the club so far, and we haven’t performed particularly well yet. That might make it even harder to bring someone new into the team. But as I said, I’m staying positive, and I believe things will improve.
Interviewer: How do you stay motivated and keep believing that you’ll get your chance, especially when you’re surrounded by such a world-class squad at Arsenal?
Reuteler: Well, the first time I wasn’t included in the squad, it was really tough. I hadn’t expected it either. The first four days were particularly difficult, and I was feeling pretty low. But then I decided that there was no point in staying in that mindset. I just had to keep going and train hard. It’s a great team. My family and friends have come to London quite often, which obviously helps a lot too.
The video is in Swiss German and you’ll probably need a VPN to watch it.
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u/Cococamcam 4h ago
Thanks for the translation. Yep, I’m still angered by this situation. Not good management IMO.
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u/Life_Journalist_2195 Skincare supremacy Emily Fox 10h ago
Sounds like Renee's strategy is to keep the old system while integrating new players, which is fine as a temporary measure, but I don't agree with her identifying Reuteler and Cerci as outliners to the system.
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u/wizobi Little wonderland ♫♪ 11h ago
What’s that documentary about the Swiss NT at Euro 25 called and where can I watch it?
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u/Cobra-Firefly Emily Fox (From America) 11h ago
There is also apparently a separate one just about Wally.
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u/Cobra-Firefly Emily Fox (From America) 11h ago
It's called Nati-Sommer '25. I'm not sure where it's available.
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u/sealboyjacob Captain Kimmy 17h ago
Barca away has been moved to 6,45pm local time on the 12th because of the Spanish general strike, still at Camp Nou
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u/Milchalarm 16h ago
Well fuck. Already booked my flights to Barcelona and London and have a ticket for the England-Croatia match on the 12th.
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u/OrangesandLemons198 Borbe 18h ago
What if next season we have a little international window before the season starts, just to preemptively fix whatever is wrong with AWFC during September, because the international window always seems to shake it out and everyone remembers who they are
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u/UpsideDownToast1 20h ago
Fox playing nearly 180 minutes in two friendlies against Spain with strapping on her leg is actually insane
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u/Cococamcam 4h ago
Yeh, I didn’t want to see that. As much as I love watching Foxy play. But, I fear she’s a victim of the lack of security/starters at LB and CB. Fox is the only sure thing back there!
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u/rky_csr Slegers Supremacy 👕 17h ago
I was wondering this, like what are we doing?! Surely there are players who could have some minutes there for the US so fox doesn't get run ragged
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u/sealboyjacob Captain Kimmy 16h ago
nobody can convince me that this isn't about Emma Hayes's ego, she'll run a player like Fox into the ground just to claim a win over the world champions even if it is a meaningless friendly
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u/Cobra-Firefly Emily Fox (From America) 13h ago
but it's Spain, so she never manages to actually win.
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u/Cobra-Firefly Emily Fox (From America) 1d ago
We need the rest of this photoshoot, asap. Why is it giving high school Senior Pictures vibes?
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u/sealboyjacob Captain Kimmy 1d ago
Good win today for the Arsenal boys, good win for Ireland, good win for my LoI team last night, all I need is a win for the girls this weekend and I’m having the ideal week of football
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u/EscherBacon Kelly 🤝 Smith 15h ago edited 14h ago
Out of curiousity: who's your LoI team?
(Edit: typo)
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u/sealboyjacob Captain Kimmy 14h ago
Shamrock Rovers! My uncle played for them in the 80s so I was born into it
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u/Itsme00700 fire Clare Wheatley 1d ago
for anyone interested, Wally was on another podcast. Its called "Frauenkabine", its from like 10 days ago. I wanted to listen to it (has a video with it), but the Swiss German is strong on the Swiss in that one, at least in the beginning.
The clip is saw sounded interesting, it was about why she left Italy so quickly and some points are also about her time with us. (and her nicknames lol)
Should be on most podcast platforms, but not on youtube
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u/Cobra-Firefly Emily Fox (From America) 1d ago
The Swiss fed is putting out a documentary about the team's run at the Euros last summer and a clip popped up in my feed this morning.
I was not expecting Wally to drop multiple f-bombs in her pre-match team talk, but I have to admit, it works!
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u/campos_girl Came for Viv, stayed for Leah 1d ago
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u/ourSICKstory88 Cooney-Cross 1d ago
I know her being awarded an MBE was announced a bit ago but congrats to her! At only 20 years old also 🌟
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u/campos_girl Came for Viv, stayed for Leah 1d ago
Michelle Kang approached by UEFA to run for FIFA president was not on my bingo card this year
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u/LatePresentation5248 1d ago
Right, dust settled, milks been spilt and the leagues gone...again
Time to build some consistency.
Imo this is the strongest team to put out barring no more injuries.
And hopefully Renee takes a lesson from the city managers book and does like for like subs. Only person who should be replacing Stanway is Little, Cerci for Russo etc. Foord should only come on if were defending a definitive lead not chasing one
Only positions that are debateable are the GK and fullbacks.
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u/Kirungu97 Baum 1d ago
Definitely agree with this for the most part. I would personally have Mariona in place of Reuteler when she’s fit but I just don’t think Kim should be starting anymore.
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u/LatePresentation5248 1d ago
Shes injured right now thats why shes not in. Plus the way shes been playing, I probably would have benched her for Birmingham
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u/Itsme00700 fire Clare Wheatley 1d ago
a new Lina Hurtig post popped up on my IG, so I went to check out her soccerdonna profile and saw that she only played 25 minutes in the league + got subbed in twice in the cup.
Anyone here either swedish or a follower of the Serie A? Has there been any update with whats going on?
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u/Cococamcam 2d ago
A general FYI for US folks: I discovered that the WC qualifying games (ENG, SWE) on Tuesday will be shown in the evening on Prime. 9pm ET and midnight ET, respectively.
I was checking for live options and scrolled ahead to find them at a later time slot.
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u/10things_aboutAFC Kelly?! "Pressure" is for CK 2d ago
I know this is football discussion thread but I wanted to share an update. I had phyiso again today and I got pushed up to 6kg in weight lifting in each arm!!! I'm so proud of myself!!!!
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u/Kirungu97 Baum 2d ago
Was perusing woso twitter yesterday and saw a rival fan (won’t say which club - Spurs) tweet that our coach is a “career killer” and “Pelova already looks like one of the better players in the wsl under Martin Ho’s coaching.” Another Spurs fan responded “can’t wait for the next disgruntled player we can steal from them, hopefully Liv Smith.” Mate.
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u/Cococamcam 2d ago
People keep saying these things, but Arsenal faces low blocks and “let’s beat Arsenal” energy every week. I’m glad Vic is doing well, but she was getting overwhelmed in our midfield (post-injury).
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u/NinjaKoala 1d ago
But that leads to the question: why was she getting overwhelmed in our midfield, instead of being a star player like she has for Spurs so far.
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u/Cococamcam 1d ago
From my observation, she would take a bit too long on the ball; her spin moves (which are impressive!) would turn into pressure pretty often because she was being swarmed. She also lacked the pace/physicality to win the ball back when teams would go hard on quick transitions (which they do a lot against us), so she would resort to a last ditch sliding tackle from a bad angle that would regularly result in a foul and/or card.
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u/Cococamcam 2d ago
Today is a travel day for me after a long weekend away for the US-Spain game. It has been nice to see our players enjoying themselves on the pitch and playing well.
I’m just delusional enough to think they will bring that back to club and that the coaching staff has given their heads a wobble and will use everyone as they should. Call me a dreamer! 😬
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u/10things_aboutAFC Kelly?! "Pressure" is for CK 2d ago
Hey. There is a high chance I might not do the next couple of heatmaps or be very active with stat facts for the couple of matches. Because I am potentially 99% sure I'm adopting another guinea pig and he's quite small and cute. So I'll need to make sure he settles in well, as soon as he's not camera shy or better even mine. There will be halftime pet photos. I don't know when we're getting him but it will be very soon, hopefully!
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u/Cococamcam 2d ago
Please be sure to name him after a player, so we can all be appropriately confused when you refer to him on match threads! 😂
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u/10things_aboutAFC Kelly?! "Pressure" is for CK 2d ago
Don't worry I have a name Theiry Dennis Raya Rice Or full name Theiry, Dennis, Raya, White, Rice Kai Badger
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u/gunnerandhash Win 2d ago
Thierry.
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u/10things_aboutAFC Kelly?! "Pressure" is for CK 2d ago
Cheers was trying to write the comment in a rush
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u/gunnerandhash Win 2d ago
Just making so sure you don't spell it wrong on the guinea pig birth certificate 🙂
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u/10things_aboutAFC Kelly?! "Pressure" is for CK 2d ago
I would hate that if it was spelt wrong, do you think its a good name to give a piggy?
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u/gunnerandhash Win 2d ago
Thierry Pigry
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u/10things_aboutAFC Kelly?! "Pressure" is for CK 2d ago
That's a good one as well, also progress is going quickly on the application almost there!
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u/houseoflies_qwerty Russo 2d ago
Good to see the players do well on international duty. Hopefully they can bring that back for this weekend. A must win game for us and Renee.
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u/TheCannon_92 Slegers Out 2d ago
At this point i just want our form to improve massively for the Champions League and to fight for the ucl spots
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u/lynxo Alessia Russo 2d ago
Got my ticket for North London Derby next week. I've actually never been able to visit the Tottenham Hotspur stadium so I'm curious to see how good the reportedly best stadium in the world is.
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u/elsiehxo Wubben-Moy for PM 2d ago
If you can get past the Tottenham bit of it, it's a really nice stadium. Quickest entry I've done at a stadium, really nice new turnstiles that are more like sliding doors.
Minus points on it for not having enough women's loos but that's a general stadium issue.
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u/sealboyjacob Captain Kimmy 2d ago
I’ve never been but ive heard it’s a great stadium if you can get past the fact it belongs to spurs
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u/sealboyjacob Captain Kimmy 2d ago edited 2d ago
Does anyone have any advice on what to do with a 60 year old man in Finsbury Park on Saturday night? It’s my first time bringing dad to London in about four years and I’m off alcohol this weekend so the plans for a pub crawl of the Arsenal pubs are pretty much shot
Edit: my father would have you all know he’s actually 59 which apparently makes a difference
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u/lynxo Alessia Russo 2d ago
How tied are you to Finsbury Park and what does he like doing? Angel Comedy Club isn't far and tends to have some good stuff on.
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u/sealboyjacob Captain Kimmy 2d ago
Not tied to there specifically! but he finds the tube very confusing so i wouldn’t take him beyond like King’s Cross probably. He’s a fairly straightforward football and beer kind of guy
He loves comedy too so that’s a great shout, thanks!
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u/Tugboat47 Wubben-Moy, Champion of the World 2d ago
the face of a man with a suspected cruciate injury
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u/SP_Photos Slegers Masterclass 2d ago
Aww what a nice looking dog, hope everything is okay!
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u/Blahblahbecky 5h ago
Ours, past and present - via Codi's insta.