Arsenal look out of ammo.

Well that’s a bit of a turn up. No-one saw this one coming. Edu is leaving.

That’s all we know right now but you can be sure more of the details will emerge over the next 24 hours or so.

It’s funny - I’m not suggesting for a minute that I had any idea, but I was going to ask the question ‘what’s really wrong with Arsenal’ today.

I intended to make the argument their slump couldn’t simply be because Odegaard is missing. A club the size of Arsenal should be able to absorb the loss of one player - no matter how good he is. That’s why I don’t buy into the argument that Rodri is irreplaceable at City.

Arteta has looked out of sorts recently. Having said that - I’m not convinced that knowing Edu’s plans (Arteta will definitely have had knowledge) should’ve affected things in any way at all on the pitch. It’s just all a bit odd. But there’s definitely something not right.

They were way off the pace you expect from a team with title ambitions at Newcastle. The Toon didn’t really have to work that hard to beat them. Arsenal had just one shot on target over the 90 mins - nothing in the second half when they were trailing. That’s poor. Really poor. They were completely out of ammo.

As Arsenal appear to be running in mud, Liverpool impress more and more. Brighton were terrific most of the afternoon and might have got out of Anfield with a win but for two minutes and two seconds of madness.

That’s how long it took Liverpool to overturn Brighton’s lead and they weren’t really ever in trouble after that.

I keep saying there will be sterner tests to come for Liverpool - and they keep pushing back on that brushing aside every challenge they’ve faced.

Mo Salah’s latest cryptic tweet has caused a bit of a stir, which is exactly what he wanted of course.

Two seasons back he was definitely leaving the club - that was until Liverpool had a dramatic of mind  - sold Mane and decided to make Salah the highest paid player at the club.

The article in Saturday’s Mail, based on Simon Hughes’ new book Chasing Salah, must have made interesting reading for some. It confirmed what I’d been saying during the period the two of them played together. Do you remember? Liverpool fans used to hammer me for it. They didn’t like each other.

My information now is that Salah wants to stay, but it’ll take a 3-year deal to settle him down.

Broken City? Seriously? Broken? I’ve read one headline after another like that all weekend. Broken? They started 11 internationals at Bournemouth.

Amongst their subs were de Bruyne, Lewis, Doku and Savinho. Guardiola chose to make only two changes during the game. Broken? No. Nowhere near broken and to suggest that undermines what a fantastic performance Bournemouth put in.

And more credit where it’s due - well played Forest. Well played Chris Wood - again. What a season he’s having. Forest won’t finish anywhere near the position they hold now, but for the time being they should enjoy what they’re doing.

Leicester keep plugging away. I’ve always thought they might just have enough, but there’s clearly trouble at Wolves and West Ham.

West Ham’s problems are all of their own making and I don’t have an ounce of sympathy for them. It’ll get worse there before it gets better. They’re certainly going in another direction since forcing David Moyes out. It’s just not the one they wanted to go in. Frank Lampard?

Wolves is a difficult one for me. I like Gary O’Neill and I thought they might have turned a corner by now - but it’s not happening. 

Palace stumble on. One minute you think they’ve sorted things out then they slip up again. Gareth Safegate?

And of course we can’t finish without a word on United. Why has it taken so long for every pundit working to wake up and admit how bad they are? We know why don’t we? Because doubtless they were all asked to go easy on ten Toast - just as they were on the subject of Sancho last season. And the PGMOL this.

This is how bad it is at United. It’s going to take £1b to get the team right. They are way off. There’s little or nothing for Amorim to work with, although I must say I’m looking forward to seeing his ‘pressing pentagon’ in action. Perhaps the brains trust should re-sign ten Toast’s ‘pressing monster’ Nout Workhorse to help him with that?