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Adam Rae Voge

@adam.cannonstats.com

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One half of www.cannonstats.com, your blog for all things Arsenal and numbers. I won’t rest until people understand the transfer market.

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Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 7h

Mikel Merino's now got 16 goals since the January 2025 transfer window closed

Ollie Watkins has 8

they were saying £65m 🤷‍♂️

Fabrizio Romano (MIRROR) @fabrizioromano.yopro20.com · 7h

⭐️🇪🇸 6 goals in the last 4 games for Mikel Merino, as Arsenal midfielder has delivered a brace for Spain tonight.

Image uploaded from tweet

Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 11h

United are prepping a £55m January offer for Jaidon Anthony

Opta Analyst @optaanalyst.optajoe.com · 12h

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐱𝐆 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐬

Erling Haaland's shots in the Premier League this season have been worth 7.77 xG.

That's more than double the non-penalty xG of any other player in 2025-26... 🤯

For loads more key insights from various xG metrics, click below 👇

theanalyst.com/articles/prem...

Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 12h

Not especially

Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 13h

Correct, it’s not just Haaland

Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 13h

Yeah I’m sure we see some Rice-Eze-Merino this period or even Rice-Merino-Ethan

Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 1d

People aren’t saying heen-kuh-pee are they? 🫣

Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 1d

what a way to tell on yourself not having watched a single Bayer Leverkusen match for ... FOUR YEARS?! JFC

Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 1d

yeah although he ended up getting one more header inside the box after i posted - put on target but saved

Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 1d

only one of these on target? my 9 would never

Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 1d

Sweden losing to Kosovo is crazy...maybe let the other striker take some shots

Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 1d

Needless to say this is by far the strongest squad build Arsenal have had under Arteta - just took a long time because who can actually afford to restock the barren shelves that quickly

Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 1d

Probably not much with a regular starter, pendulum has swung more into a control the game direction. But a sub for sure. He did also peter out pretty hard after that season

Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 1d

well we see a lot of games where subs come on and make a seemingly immediate impact, and that leads to a lot of "x is better as a sub" talk - I would imagine it's relatively universal that fresher is better and the art is balancing that with maximizing results i.e. as much star time as you can

Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 1d

yeah I think it's probably the best way to look for it. but there's bound to be some causation/correlation stuff mucking it all up, as well as, for instance, things like struggling with real fitness being the cause of the lower minutes. therefore when played, the output might be smaller anyway

Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 1d

It’s a good question! Not sure whether we’d have (m)any good case studies on this one, load management hasn’t been all that much of a thing in football historically and the one club I can think of (City) has seemingly been a bit more consistent with their superstar iron men

Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 1d

they would be the most progressive midfielders at Spurs

Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 1d

#neverforget Jorginho-Partey pivot won at Spurs last season 😉

Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 1d

yeah both the breaks and the fixtures!

Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 1d

Sucks. Probably a healthy dose of Eze-Rice-Zubimendi coming, with some Merino as well. If you're Ethan Nwaneri, an opportunity here to make an impression. Take it!

www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Martin Odegaard injury: Arsenal midfielder out until mid-November with knee problem

Arsenal midfielder Martin Odegaard will not return to first-team action for the Gunners until after November's international break.

Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 2d

a man sitting in front of barrels with the words this guy gets it on the bottom

ALT: a man sitting in front of barrels with the words this guy gets it on the bottom

media.tenor.com

Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 2d

Even chances created, which is a garbage science statistic, doesn’t put him top. So not sure what Nagelsmann means here…maybe “player in the Premier League who has historically created the most chances” ? Still a stretch but more defensible

Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 2d

I’m all for not blaming creators for their teammates’ not finishing, but also not sure there’s any metric of actual value that puts Wirtz in this convo.

xAG/90, 5th
xA/90, 3rd
Key passes, 2nd
Passes into the box, 3rd
Live pass shot creation, 2nd*

*All ranks within this post are among LFC players

The Athletic | Football @theathleticfc.bsky.social · 2d

Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann is the latest high-profile figure to come to the defence of Florian Wirtz following his slow start to life at Liverpool.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/671...

Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 4d

They put a 5-0 whupping of one of the worst teams in ligue 1 in the water 🤪

Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 4d

(also bears pointing out that someone like Ekitike, for example, also had significantly less talent playing *against* him most of the time at his former club, while we're here. but his main running mate is at City now, too, so 🤷‍♂️)

Adam Rae Voge @adam.cannonstats.com · 4d

yeah that's usually true of the guys who didn't pan out as well - complex game!

20 g/a is good and all but it's a far cry from 47! and there's a lift from him getting that money for your Gakpos as well IMO. But can't ignore Trent (6 a), Diaz (18 g/a) and of course Jota (9 in just 13 games)