I thought it was me being paranoid. The definition of begrudging praise.

Injury in the warm-up apparently 🙄

If there's one thing I've learned from @davidallengreen.bsky.social, it's that it's Magna Carta rather than "the Magna Carta"

He did tbf. I wonder if they thought he was over the problem...

Fewer goals and has looked isolated yes but hold-up play and runs, no...

And Emery considers an injured and bang-out-of-form Watkins as his no.1 striker over Malen

Not a striker though is he, at least not one that can play as a sole striker.

He’s fine to fill in occasionally but he doesn’t make the runs of a proper no. 9, can’t hold the ball up well and gets isolated easily.