In a week when the rats have looked for way off the ship, well one of them anyway, the one that looks like a rodent, Ade came out and said this.
‘I’ve assured the gaffer Arsene Wenger I’ll stay because I believe in the team and I want to assure the fans my concentration is here.
I have no reason to leave so I’ll stay to ensure that together we’ll win silverware. Mathieu’s a good player but his departure doesn’t mean Arsenal is about to collapse. Our team is a deep well of talent.
I am confident we are capable of winning titles and we will return for next season hungrier to be successful.’
The Sun.
At last a player reassuring the fans, well done Ade!
Well sorry Ethan, but I know that even you are beginning to warm to him, if he can learn the offside rule and become more of a team player, I think he can become a legend, too many teams want him for him not to have something, time will tell, but I have a feeling, with Bendtner a year older, Theo becoming what we bought , Robin and Eduardo fit and Ade banging them in, we could have the best front line in football next term.
Onto the centre back situation, 19 year old Gavin Hoyte is saying that Nordtveit could be the answer to our woes next season, I would prefer to fill the void with a home grown, but only if he’s good enough, what do you all think? Gavin himself is highly rated and now he’s 19, he could be an answer at centre back, just as cover though because I think he’s a left back.
Nasri is becoming a boring story, I mean how long does it take to sign someone? Is he for sale? Yes, does he want to join us? Yes, has he passed his medical? Yes. Pretty simple really, don’t you think?
We need to sign Barry and quick, his value will soar after the Tobago game, so a quick swap with Justin and we’ll have our Flamini replacement, sign up Velosa as well and we have the centre back and Gilberto role covered, get this keeper from Wolves in and we’re done, Benzema and Villa won’t happen so I would think that’s it.
You know even if we sign the above and we sell Hleb, we still won’t have spent the £25 mil were were told that we had.
I don’t want Makoun, especially if Song kept him out of the ACN, and I really don’t want anybody I’ve never heard of and after last night I’m not convinced that Richard Dunne is the answer (especially that the Spuds are now after him) not saying no, just saying maybe we should look at our own or push the boat out and sign Mexes, don’t forget, the clubs we love to feed can’t buy everyone.
I’d also get in there and pay Cardiff what they want for Ramsey, we didn’t hesitate with Theo and this kid looks to have it all already, finally I just heard that West Ham have put Ferdinand up for sale at £5 mil, anyone?
Let’s hope today is good news day today Grovers.
May 30, 2008 at 8:59 am
1st one to comment?, woooooooow!!
May 30, 2008 at 9:03 am
I pissed the bed again !!!!!!!
May 30, 2008 at 9:06 am
Are you seriously suggesting you want Miguel Veloso to play as CB for us?? He’s shorter than our current pairing. Can’t really see how that’d help cutting out high balls over the top. I’ve seen him play numerous times & never been impressed, he’s like Flamini but with slightly better passing, he isn’t commanding & still wouldn’t be able to control a Drogba!!
May 30, 2008 at 9:07 am
hi gooners.pleased to take the bronze myself.agbanlahor has been offered another and so has young but for barry still pending i guess his future is to the emirates
May 30, 2008 at 9:08 am
Nordtveit looks ok so far in the few games he’s played (due to injury), but looks like he needs to spend a few months in the gym before he’s ready for first team action. Still I’d prefer him to Veloso.
May 30, 2008 at 9:09 am
sorry i mean offered another contract
May 30, 2008 at 9:09 am
Nordveilt is a bit slow in my opinion, but fuck it, it’s early. what do I know?!
May 30, 2008 at 9:11 am
Morning all,
Agree! Nasri story is becoming a bit boring, and can we please sign someone already!!
A bit off topic but please see the link below
http://www.liverpoolway.co.uk/blog/?p=164
I know it’s a scouser blog, but please read the article and watch the clip, and feel free to explain to me how this cnut is still in with a shout of captaining England?!!
May 30, 2008 at 9:12 am
Perhaps Nordtveit could be the answer in 2 or 3 seasons, but now he’s too skinny to be a commanding centre back - imagine him coming up against Dog breath ? He’d snap.
Agree that Veloso is another short centre back that won’t help us look more solid agianst the high central long balls.
But knowing Wenger he’ll probabvly get another guy in to play out of position. Because it worked with Toure going from mid field to CB, he’s trying it all over trhe park.
Does he want a team of Warhursts and Dublins ?
May 30, 2008 at 9:13 am
I like the Nordveit idea, Arsene said he was already mature on the technical side and needed to bulk up. At 17, when he first joined the club, his body was not yet mature enough, hopefully it is now.
May 30, 2008 at 9:13 am
Morning all - good read yet again
now dont shoot me for this, but maybe our boss does know what he is doing after all…
Blatter was a stupid rule to be passed - well it never will because its racist and unlawful, so lets forget that
However, i wont be surprised if the UEFA ruling comes in, and this is where i think Arsene has sorted our club out for the future.
Does he have a crystal ball i wonder
The ruling states that - overseas players must have been with the club for at least 3 years and bought in between 15 - 21 years of age.
2013 this ruling may be in by,
Look at our reserves and youth - i dont think we need to lose any sleep on this…..
Benzema - have been watching the review of the French league this morning - whilst ironing i hasten to add!! Interview with the 22yr old who says - ‘at the moment i am happy at Lyon and have signed until 2013, BUT i still have a lot to do and if i go it will be to a top club who is doing well’
So, my message to AFC - get the right players, show Benzy how good we are then sign him up next summer….
May 30, 2008 at 9:14 am
Excellent post again.
Ferdinand, just a poser with a bad off-field attitude, no thanks, i’d rather go with a chunk Dunne than that waster……
May 30, 2008 at 9:14 am
How tall is Nordveit?
May 30, 2008 at 9:16 am
No, my suggestion is that Veloso is a defensive midfielder that can cover at centre back, he’s 6 foot I think, so not that short, Nordtveit has 3 months to bulk up, so who knows, but as I said, it was a question.
May 30, 2008 at 9:17 am
Rico…
Peter Taylor said the 6+5 ruling was a great idea…
It would be like Labour saying they would outlaw income tax… people would like it… but it wouldn’t be possible.
It is an illegal rule in Europe… Therefore it cannot be enforced.
May 30, 2008 at 9:17 am
how about snapping up Alex from the chavs boyz?
May 30, 2008 at 9:18 am
Geoff, Just when I was primed to roll with the flow, I’ve gotta cook butter chicken for my wife who has worked all day. Not too many chillies this time!!!!
May 30, 2008 at 9:19 am
Pedro -
The European ruling is the one i think will come in, it is different to old Blatters rubbish.
Peter Taylor - what does the manager of Wycombe know!!??
I hope neither come in
May 30, 2008 at 9:21 am
anton ferdinand?? no thanks, he represents everything that is wrong with modern football… total cunt
May 30, 2008 at 9:22 am
Good luck withe chicken mate!
May 30, 2008 at 9:27 am
FIFA (Blatter the Knob) wants 6+5 rule
UEFA have proposed a ‘home-grown players’ rule, which is the bit about signing for the clube between 15-21yrs and must have been there for three years, hence we are fine with all our youth and reserves - (If they are all good enough)
May 30, 2008 at 9:30 am
Ferdinand for 5 mill could be a good buy, but is he any better than what we have got.
We need to sign players that are better than what we have got.
I knwo jack about Nordveit, he made an impression in the reserves last season, but Song played well for the last couple of games.
I am more interested in attacking players coming in.
I would be happy to use Djourou as DM, and bring in a Villa or a Benezema to spend the money we have.
Also if we need cash, why not sell Gallas?
May 30, 2008 at 9:36 am
6 + 5 Wont happen in Europe.
The South Americans can get a Euro passport if they live in Europe for 3 years.
It should be the country the play for, not how many passports they have…
Also UEFA is just the squad of players, FIFA is the team, not sure how the affects subs, if a local player is injured, do they have to be replace by a local player? You would need to double the bench.
May 30, 2008 at 9:37 am
“I came to Arsenal with a mission to succeed,” Adebayor told The Sun. “And I am desperate to please one fan called Ethan, so i am here to stay”
May 30, 2008 at 9:43 am
Well said Arsenal Tom.
May 30, 2008 at 9:44 am
Any rule on foreign quotos has to be bollox anyway, its a step backwards in race relations if you ask me - i personally couldnt care less about someones colur/religion/race etc etc, we all bleed
May 30, 2008 at 9:46 am
can you believe - derby are signing players and we are NOT!!
i have watched Nordveit a few times, he is good and quick, but he is very lightweight, but then he is still young - lots of pasta and trips to the gym in the summer if he is going to be considered
May 30, 2008 at 9:46 am
Blatter, EFA, the FA and partularly the British ‘popular’ press are a bunch of fucking timewasters……….bottom line - if English (youth) players were any good then we wouldn’t need all these fecking cock-eyed attempts at bastardising teams!
May 30, 2008 at 9:46 am
Today is the day guys, the big one !!!!
Today is the day that Arsenal will leave us hanging for another weekend !!!!!
May 30, 2008 at 9:47 am
Bud - you could just be right
May 30, 2008 at 9:48 am
you know in india we have a thing on our cell in which all the news from the epl comes and today in the morning it gave a msg which read-
“Arsenal deny signing nasri ,guzan hopeful of villa move”
i hope it is old and we sign nasri fast now
May 30, 2008 at 9:49 am
i am on a rant - bloody spuds are after Dunne now, 5M they are offering according to the papers!!
May 30, 2008 at 9:51 am
what difference does it make if we have 5/6 english players in the arsenal squad?
England still wont win fuck all anyway!!! We’re the easy target in all this because we have a foreign coach and 95% foreign players, but does it bother the fans?!! No!!
Fine I’d like to see a Ray Parlour, Tony Adams or Paul Davis in the team, but if they aint good enough I’m happy with Pierre Le Twat or Iva Cockovic!As long as he gives a shit when he wears the red and white, I couldnt care less if he’s from Armenia or Zimbabwe!
May 30, 2008 at 9:51 am
I mtoo would like to salute the big Togo lump for his comments; hoorah!
As for the transfers, zzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Soooo effin boring. Far be it from me to criticise Wenger (I’ll leave that to others!) BUT didnt he say in 2-3 weeks we’d have our transfers sorted? And that was 2-3 weeks ago.
Oh well and a ho hum.
Morning
May 30, 2008 at 9:51 am
what the hell is so good about barry?
May 30, 2008 at 9:51 am
Am I back yet?????
May 30, 2008 at 9:52 am
heres a thought - Paul Rogers in defence, big strong, 18yrs old ??
May 30, 2008 at 9:52 am
Does anyone know what happen to Kyle Bartley? Wasn’t he another big hope for CB - and he’s british (help with this 6-5 rule if it ever comes in !)
Wolves keeper won’t happen, neither will Villa (26 million) or Benezema (20-30 million)
May 30, 2008 at 9:52 am
STEVE!
Long time no hear!
How are you?
May 30, 2008 at 9:53 am
morning chaps, any thoughts on Johan D saying he can fill flaminis void, what do you think?
May 30, 2008 at 9:54 am
Bartley is doing well as far as I know.
I thought Gavin Hoyte was 17?
May 30, 2008 at 9:54 am
Someone should post some clips of nortveit in action so I can also judge. in any case we shall still need to purchase another or two strong defenders. Raul Albiol will be finr with me, the guy is so strong no doubt, plus Mexes. I really like mexes.
And for FIFA proposal f strictly homegrowns is just a good way of platini and Blatter wanting so badly to kill arsenal.
For Platini I would say he wants wenger to move to french league.1. Reason being French has all manner of stars in the making, but how wil it work the way he thinks when the whole line-up of les blues is imported from africa. This leaves me suggesting that africa has the best footballers.
In the case of blatter, its’ utter depletion in the brain. This guy says nothing on all matters of football that go wrong. All he sees is arsenal. I feel the guy is too old now, he cannot add one to onother to get two, seriously he is not understanding the trend football is taking. Its’ a proffession now and if players were invoved in voting the presidency of FIFA, then I don’t see the likes of Blatter in that office. I am so saddened by what he is so energetically pushing for. We know the teams he supports most_I mean its’ obvius that he wants to kill the english league since he is a strong support for spanish league.
Please go home Blatter, we do not need you any more. I am a bitter man with this policy.
May 30, 2008 at 9:54 am
kyle bartley was tipped as the next ‘micah richards’!! he was snatched from bolton tho so it’ll take a few years to get all that cuntiness out of him. havent heard anything about him to be honest.
May 30, 2008 at 9:56 am
Pedro, how do we know it’s the real STEVE and not some imposter?!
May 30, 2008 at 9:56 am
Djourou did OK when he played in the DM role for er ONE game! But He could do a job, he’s big, quick, mobile and has decent passing range. He had a nightmare at Brum and got injured.
I dont see why he couldnt be given a go in CB too.
May 30, 2008 at 9:58 am
6+5 does not contravene EU law, Blatter CAN implement it if he wishes. All he needs to do is re-write the football rule book, and that is something the EU can do nothing about
just like if they made a new rule saying football matches will be played for 100 minutes.
Just like getting a red card and being dismissed and suspended from work, even if the ref got it wrong and the player was unfairly dismissed, EU law can do nothing about it, these are game rules.
6+5 has it’s pros and cons. First of all to adress Rico’s point, I disagree that it is “racist” because if that were true we can already argue that the rules are racist. Let me explain;
If a player wants to join a Premier League club from outside the EU, they must have played in their national team for two years or more and in 75%+ games. That means, the British government discriminates against players who are non-EU nationals and only allows them to be employed under certain conditions. This is called protectionism as a opposed to a free market model. Most European countries have protectionist rules regarding non EU workers. It is anti-free trade.
6+5 is also protectionist because Blatter is quite correct, this rule will benefit the national teams because the best clubs would be forced to develop a policy of hunting the best youth in their country and developing them rather than going for cheap foreign alternatives. This will even out prices in the global football economy as well. It will not make the game any worse and his ideas will be effective, but they would be mostly to the advantage of developed countries at the expense of third world countries.
This idea will appeal to jingoists such as Blatter because he believes the interests of the national team should go before the financial interests of the club, so it’s an extreme right wing Policy, national socialist where the state or the governing body of an organisation dictates how a private company should be run. Oh but we already have that….yes, like work and safety rules, monopolies and mergers commission, there are national socialist rules dictating to the private sector what conditions they need to adhere to. But some people favour this, it depends on your politcial standpoint because free trade and free market capitalism do not exist in Europe, the EU is a protectionist state and there would be NO law on how many foreign players can be part of your team, just a law dictating how many can play on the pitch, so 6 + 5 would stand. Wenger could keep his whole team, but only have 5 non-national players in the lineup.
May 30, 2008 at 9:58 am
Yeah Steve you fake !!!!!
May 30, 2008 at 9:58 am
steve? no way
May 30, 2008 at 9:59 am
It’s the real Steve… he has a very random surname…
Or does he…?
May 30, 2008 at 10:00 am
what the fuck is a sir name
May 30, 2008 at 10:00 am
I think that we need to sign
1. aqualani
2. ben arfa
3. de la red
4. diego
5. eto’o
6. gomez
7. kranjcar
8. martins
9. robinho
10. richards
11. toure (yaya)
12. villa
13. veloso
14. barry
just some of these would be good enough we need to get rid of bentdner, hoyte and hleb (i’d like him to stay but we all know that it aint gonna happen). if we get some most or even all of these we would do the double, treble or quadruple next season.
May 30, 2008 at 10:01 am
haven’t the SPL got a rule about the number of players that need to be from Scotland in their league?
I think they need an amount of U21 players as well.
Bit vague I know..
May 30, 2008 at 10:01 am
CMB alert!!!!!
May 30, 2008 at 10:01 am
Morning all.
Firstly Thanks to Odub for posting that great link to the LFC blog. What a great article and very funny to boot.
Anton Ferdinand ….. total talentless twat
Not good enough for WHU, probably not good enough for the EPL.
May 30, 2008 at 10:01 am
Yeah I was about to ask the same chris!!!
I’ve suggested Djourou b4 and been shouted down!! He’s bigger and quicker than any other CB we’ve got so what’s not to like?!
May 30, 2008 at 10:02 am
Finestcuts it does contravene the law !!!!
What you are saying is I can bring in a rule in my company whereby I do not employ women and because its my company law it is legal………. ITS NOT !
You cannot make a law as a company or as an instituation or a Governing body that contravenes law, and especially Employment Law, that my friend would be illegal !
Apart from my brother being Head of Employment Law for a highly reputed Legal Firm, I own my own employment agency……… so I know I am right…… FACT !!!!!!!!!!!
May 30, 2008 at 10:02 am
Get rid of Bendtner???
Sign Krancjaar???
Martins??? I presume you mean Steve martins and not the 45 year old Toon shit house.
And |Yaya is so Ka ka.
May 30, 2008 at 10:03 am
I think Diaby is the replacement of Flamini. He Can hold balls and dribble, he is also tall. Don’t right him off, it is time he shows us how much is worth.
May 30, 2008 at 10:03 am
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=DxrKONCIXZk
good video on him and 2 million wenger didnt even pay tht much on ZIDANE!! calling him too expensive
May 30, 2008 at 10:04 am
he is 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
May 30, 2008 at 10:05 am
I had a heavy heavy night on the booze… fourgive my pour spelling…
May 30, 2008 at 10:05 am
so next year flamini is going to holding balls and dribbiling, i can only hope that is the case, perhaps in the same surroundings as joey barton,
May 30, 2008 at 10:06 am
lol Chris
May 30, 2008 at 10:07 am
12 players Gooner1992!
Ambitious!
May 30, 2008 at 10:08 am
Thuram!!!!! = )
May 30, 2008 at 10:09 am
Unfortunate expression….holding balls!!!
You’re welcome Big R, a fellow gooner sent me the link and it just made me cringe really!
May 30, 2008 at 10:09 am
Very interesting discussion Finest and Bud.
I haven’t a clue about the legality of Blatter’s cause. But both your explanations seem plausible.
May 30, 2008 at 10:09 am
The way we’re going all the good players will be gone!
May 30, 2008 at 10:10 am
Bud, so you already know employment law in the UK is protectionist, and that if a non-EU national wishes to work for one of your clients, they must obtain a work permit and
the government only grant them to people within a certain criteria, not everyone can get one. Therefore the economy is protected, it is not a free market economy. You can make laws about uniforms, things like that, and the law cannot overturn that, if you’re talking about women then yes, it depends on the issues, so no it is not as simple as that.
Blatter does not say he will stop clubs from employing foreign talen, he can impose a 6+5 law where it’s part of the game, just like you can only play for England if you were born there or have English ancestry, game rules.
May 30, 2008 at 10:11 am
CMB ?? Explanation for Old Fart please
May 30, 2008 at 10:11 am
Maybe AW was being truthful when he said we’d have our transfers sorted in 2/3 weeks, and by that he meant we ain’t buying anyone………….
May 30, 2008 at 10:12 am
CMB - Championship Manager Brigade the ying to AKB’s yang.
May 30, 2008 at 10:13 am
Big Raddy, As much as I respect my learned friend Finest, his argument has absolutely 0% plausibility……. you cannot contravene employment law as stated as a company/corporation an institution or an affiliation, or in fact if aliens landed on earth somewhere in Europe it is the same for everyone the moment you step on European soil.
It is simple, and as the saying goes, “the law is the law” !
May 30, 2008 at 10:15 am
actualy big raddy we by default are all CMB’s as we are not AKB’s,
but that assumes you only deal in absolutes
May 30, 2008 at 10:15 am
whats up bloggers, and great post.
Less talk of this Nasri fella I’ll say cos its beginning to smell fishy.
A big No No to Anton Ferdie, lacks speed, determination and hes the exact opposite of his brother,Rio De Jeniro.
Nordtviet needs abit of experience but I think he can handle the pressure ,provided he’s given a few games to exhibit what he can do….maybe a loan spell for a few months?
Read 2 days ago Hleb claimed he wasnt interested in a move and doesnt know where the stories came from….Yet in yesterdays evening papers, it is claimed he wants to leave to win silverware.
That icecream-cone-licking prat can p!ss-off from the Emirates with my blessings, the sooner the better!!
May 30, 2008 at 10:15 am
I’d like to bring another one to the table.
Arsenal.commers… (If anyone has a better spelling?)
The people who don’t believe in transfer rumours or anything that isn’t on the online Arsenal bible…
May 30, 2008 at 10:16 am
But Bud, they don’t; you can hire as many foreign players as you want within existing laws it would not limit the amount of foreign players in a squad, just the lineup……no law contravened.
May 30, 2008 at 10:17 am
Oh fuck off Bud, if Aliens landed on earth, we’d have in a heartbeat, house the cunts and pay them benefits.
May 30, 2008 at 10:17 am
Will you 2 stop with the flipping employment law debate at 10 in the morning!! It’s too early!!
May 30, 2008 at 10:17 am
Bud
Then why is a highly intelligent man like Blatter pushing this through? These guys have the finest lawyers in Europe working for them. They must believe they have a case.
At Blatter’s age, one doesn’t take on an unwinnable cause, and those that say it is purely ego-driven are mistaken. Blatter is nobody’s fool
May 30, 2008 at 10:19 am
Pedro, I am an Arsenal dot commer. Does anybosy believe what they read in the papers and other media sources.
Hlebs agent said he wanted out, and that he was leaving weeks ago. He is still here, and HLEB has personally said he wants to stay.
You need to take with a pinch of salt everything you read.
May 30, 2008 at 10:20 am
Finest, what are you on about????
You are basing your argument on non EU nationals…… As they are not European, I do not underatand where you are going with this???
(forgetting my joke about Aliens for one minute !!!) We are talking about Employment Law for Europeans in Europe, so what has a Non EU national got to do with Blatters idea…. please explain????
And in reponse to your argument, you are right, there is no European Law on Uniforms, so it is not the law, if there was a law on Uniforms, it would be the law….. get it???
May 30, 2008 at 10:20 am
My brain hurts !!
May 30, 2008 at 10:20 am
I’m off to Moe’s until you lot sort yourselves out.
May 30, 2008 at 10:21 am
Because he’s jealous that England has the best league, it was OK when all the best players went to Italy or Spain, remember those days, Gullit and Van Basten or even Figo , Cruyff and Zidane, no fucker said a word then, even that twat Platini went to Juve, fucking hypocrite.
He’s a cunt and he hates the fact that we’re the big cheese now.
May 30, 2008 at 10:22 am
i think its quite funny to hear Adebayor calling Wenger “the gaffer” lol. i didnt know his english was so good he had learned slang! I think its class though and i think he should maybe learn rhyming slang and do interviews using it! how funny would that be? ahhahahahahahahah
May 30, 2008 at 10:22 am
Hey Mark, why don’t you ask Arsenal.com to refresh their page more than once a week, boy that must be a boring week.
May 30, 2008 at 10:23 am
it will be interesting in the world club championships when this is implemented.
This is a FIFA tournament, therefore all clubs would have to play 6 + 5.
Some of the South American clubs have Brazians, if they are Argies and so on, they may have issues as well.
May 30, 2008 at 10:24 am
I was pretty sure that SSN were saying FIFA has agreed the ruling, but it cannot be implemented?
Am I wrong?
Didn’t the EU vote it down 457 to 50 a couple of weeks back?
May 30, 2008 at 10:24 am
Raddy, Blatter wants it and is looking into whether the EU would sanction such a ruling. It would however be immediatelyy challenged in court as a restriction of trade forgetting any infringements on human rights and have its big fat hairy arse overturned and kicked out !!!!!
Please trust me on this. I do not know a lot of what I am talking about, but I do on this as apart from doing what I do, as mentioned, my brother is a pretty top employment lawyer and it is something we have discussed !!!!!
May 30, 2008 at 10:25 am
You know I think Ethan really did have a coronary when he read this post, he hasn’t been on all day, and what happened to Steve and EduardO, nothing for weeks, a quick appearance then nothing again???
May 30, 2008 at 10:25 am
HAHA…fucking hilarious Geoff.
Morning guys… So today is deadline day for Wenger to make 2-3 signings… I feel like a lepper caught with his pants down… not confident at all.
I’ve seen Nordveit play a couple of times and every time he has looked very solid… for his age, he still makes a lot of silly mistakes and telegraphs his passes a bit too much.
May 30, 2008 at 10:25 am
We knew Flamini had left 4 days before Arsenal.com Mark… it’s like getting your news from a history book…
May 30, 2008 at 10:26 am
First of all I have to say that I didn’t rate Adebayor that high, but with his performanses this season and ESPECIALLY his comments about staying with us have made him one of my favourites..! now Arsene go for Nasri, Yaya Toure, Ben Arfa and possibly a CB (if we can get rid of Senderos!) also i’d like Hleb to stay, after all..
May 30, 2008 at 10:26 am
Bud your brother is in prison for bringing in illegal immigrants.
May 30, 2008 at 10:26 am
give mike a nudge as well geoff,
May 30, 2008 at 10:27 am
I think his wife has banned him, he said he’ll be back next week!
May 30, 2008 at 10:27 am
There may be alternative angles on this 6+5 thing. This is FIFA, one of the most corrupt governing bodies in world sport (and that is saying A LOT). Finestcuts makes a good point for it not being illegal. But consider:
- if the prem isn’t bringing in the finest talent from abroad, that talent stays abroad. this impairs the quality of the Premiership, and our clubs’ financial competitiveness, since domestic talent is already a lot more expensive than foreign talent, and if there’s even more demand for it, without improving supply then it’s only going to get even more expensive; with wages showing no signs of plateauing either, this could ruin many a club that doesn’t have total financial muscle. A PL in crisis is a PL that is subservient to the desires of FIFA/UEFA; so Platini can have his way with the CL, cutting the number of teams making it to the CL from the PL from 4, to 3 or even 2. The crisis deepens.
- if the foreign talent we used to bring in stays out there, foreign leagues will vastly improve. France is decimated each year when its finest head abroad; this explains why clubs like Auxerre, who have churned out some top notch players, still struggle to compete against clubs like Lyon, who have dominated for YEARS due to the increased financial muscle allowing them to bring in Brazilians, and stop their best players from leaving.
- improved foreign leagues shifts global football audiences from focusing on the Prem, to paying attention to the top notch talent trapped in France, Ivory Coast, Belgium, Serbia, etc (in theory); this FURTHER breaks the dominance of the Prem, and slashes TV rights money - giving us less money to buy more expensive players.
Now, many believe that money was the undoing of the PL and is wrecking English football. Depends how ‘old school’ you are. What this move threatens to do is throw the PL into huge crisis roughly ten years from now, and (hopefully) be reborn, poorer and more oldschool.
How that rebirth happens is largely down to who’s in charge of the FA and FIFA when the crash comes - because an alternative strategy might be to ‘americanise’ the game (making it gimmicky just like in the Budweiser adverts) to try and boost audiences - something which would almost certainly fail, and would definitely alienate all of us.
May 30, 2008 at 10:30 am
Ok Bud, you have players on your payroll and they have duties to do. You employ them all within the law, they’re getting paid on time etc., and you give them different duties. Blatter does not say a team can have x amount of players within a squad from other countries…..and the boss chooses which ones he wants in the line up…get it?
Everyone is hired as a football, as they are now.
Everyone is given their duties as they are now. If a player is not included in the lineup is it unfair discrimination? There you go……
There is no proof that the player would have been played if 6+5 did not exist, the player has a chance to play in the squad, so the fact he didn’t get picked doesn’t break any rules.
The Police already have quotas of officers they’d like to recruit from ethnic communities etc. so quota systems are already in place as we speak…
May 30, 2008 at 10:32 am
Jesus & the burglar
A burglar broke into a house one night. He shone his flashlight
around, looking for valuables; and when he picked up a CD
player to place in his sack, a strange, disembodied voice
echoed from the dark saying, ‘Jesus is watching you..’
He nearly jumped out of his skin, clicked his flashlight off,
and froze.
When he heard nothing more after a bit, he shook his head,
promised himself a vacation after the next big score, then
clicked the light on and began searching for more valuables.
Just as he pulled the stereo out so he could disconnect the
wires, clear as a bell he heard, ‘Jesus is watching you.’
Freaked out, he shone his light around frantically, looking for
the source of the voice.
Finally, in the corner of the room, his flashlight beam came to
rest on a parrot.
‘Did you say that?’ he hissed at the parrot.
‘Yep,’ the parrot confessed, then squawked, ‘I’m just trying to
warn you.’
The burglar relaxed. ‘Warn me, huh? Who in the world are
you?’
‘Moses,’ replied the bird.
‘Moses?’ the burglar laughed . ‘What kind of people would
name a bird Moses?’
‘The kind of people that would name a Rottweiler Jesus.’
May 30, 2008 at 10:32 am
Pedro, with Flamini, we heard from the player he had left, and then from Milan that he had joined. I think that is different.
You were talking about is signing players, not players leaving…
There was an article going round yesterday, quoting the Trabelsi move, where for two Summers we had signed him, but didn’t. Same could be said of Babel
May 30, 2008 at 10:33 am
on hleb…
he never really mentioned that he ‘wanted to stay’ all he said was that he didnt know where the stories came from about leaving… its classic bit of PR work… tell the fans the stories are bullshit and ur happy then make it look like it was arsenals decision to sell you.
May 30, 2008 at 10:34 am
Cracking joke Chris!!!
May 30, 2008 at 10:35 am
Finestcuts, I think it is naive to think Blatter will get away with it… you are discriminating who is in your line up by nationality…
What about a foreign player who claims his appearance bonus was slashed becuase of the ruling? He could demonstrate loss quite clearly.
How about if the police said only Asian police could walk the beat… all other ethnicities had to be station based?
Are you saying there would be no case for discrimination because they are being paid?
May 30, 2008 at 10:37 am
Arsenal Tom
Read the Hleb article again.
He said he wanted to stay at Arsenal, and sort out a new deal.
He did not mention leaving as he said he wanted to stay.
May 30, 2008 at 10:37 am
Arsenal.commers… (If anyone has a better spelling?)
The people who don’t believe in transfer rumours or anything that isn’t on the online Arsenal bible…
I didn’t say that mark… transfer rumours could be either way…
We found out the evening of his last game mark… the photos of him in Italy, we did not hear from flamini until way after.
May 30, 2008 at 10:39 am
Norttveldt looks and plays like David O’Leary, who came into the side at 17. O’Leary had a small frame but he was faster than Tony Adams and a better passer. I think he is a little too light for start next season as the standard has risen a lot since O’Learymade his debut
May 30, 2008 at 10:39 am
Mark… you’re clearly not an Arsenal.commer if you blog on here…
May 30, 2008 at 10:41 am
mark
u got a link? i must have read a nice press edited version or somthing
May 30, 2008 at 10:41 am
im here geoff! i read every day just soooo much fucking work to do before the start of euro 2008 so not so much time to write.
however, as my boss is away……ha!
sep blatter appears to me to be one of the usual european anti-british cunts, slagging off the fact that teh EPL dominated the champions league and yet no one said fuck all when italy dominated and to a lesser extent spain. surely we shoudl celebrate the best teams NOT castigate them and try to clip their wings.
did anyone else fancy keita for us before he went to Barca? hes proper!!
May 30, 2008 at 10:42 am
great post geoff, and i agree mostly. would like mexes to be signed though, and anton ferdinand would be a bargain at 5 million pounds! snap him up quick imo…
gonna watch the juventus vs melbourne victory game for as much as i can before i have to work, but i’m hoping to watch some awesome soccer! no del piero though, bit of a suck… oh well.
May 30, 2008 at 10:43 am
Hey… is it school holidays?
May 30, 2008 at 10:43 am
Not having something to look forward to is boring, everytime I pitch for an account I like to think I won it, so we all speculate, if I said to my staff, no, no speculating until it’s official and on my website, life would be boring and I may well have topped myself by now.
That’s what separates us from the animals, imagination, that’s what separates this blog from most others, imagination and the ability not to be spoon fed bullshit and accept what we’re given.
May 30, 2008 at 10:43 am
must be pedro after a bank holiday
May 30, 2008 at 10:44 am
Pedro, fair point about Flamini.
Remember from Jan 1 2008 he was allowed to speak to any club, so therefore there was no transfer, as no cash was paid for him to us.
Yes he was playing for Arsenal and by saying he was going to stay, he only did that so he played games, so he had a chance to attract attention (more money), and give himself a chance to play in Euro 2008.
It is the same with Lehman. He is not an Arsenal player at the moment, he is a free agent, and that is the same as Flamini.
I am not saying I dont believe in transfer rumours, but they are just that, a bit of paper talk, agents talking up their players and so on.
Flamini probably signed for Milan, and then told Arsenal.
I wouuld love some big signing, so perhaps I am a CMB member, but I dont take too much notice of what comes out in the press.
May 30, 2008 at 10:44 am
Good Man
http://www.thespoiler.co.uk/index.php/2008/05/30/wenger-caught-with-a-stripper
May 30, 2008 at 10:45 am
Pedro - Re Arsenal.commers…………how about ACKB, Arsenal.Com Knows Best……….?
May 30, 2008 at 10:45 am
“What about a foreign player who claims his appearance bonus was slashed becuase of the ruling? He could demonstrate loss quite clearly.”
Pedro, there would be two classifications of players. National players and foreign players.
Because only 5 players would be eligble to be on the pitch then no they wouldn’t just like a Goalkeeper can’t claim loss of appearance bonus because you can’t have 2 keepers on the pitch, or 12 players on the pitch.
Say you have a non-football based company and you hire a 3 CEO’s and 3 chairmen. Everyday there is a task to do, and the owner can allocate only 1 CEO and 1 chairman to do the job. A chairman cannot complain he was kept out by a CEO because he was hired as a chairman and is eligble to compete with other chairmen for duties, but not other CEOs. Therfore foreign players would be hired as such in their job description and competing for the duties available to foreign player within the squad.
May 30, 2008 at 10:45 am
The 6+5 is a load of bollox. Are you telling the EU commision is going to give special dispensation to one of their most lucrative industries and deny any European citizen the opportunity to earn as much as his English counterparts based on the fact he weren’t born or trained in the UK. Yeah right. What if a club had a team of EU nationals but could’nt play 5 of them because of the ruling or worse still, they all have a British Passport but choose to play for the country of the parents birthplace like Argentina or Brazil, how would this help? What about the Irish, Welsh and Scottish that play here in England, would they now be foreign?
Blatter is a stupid man, he might as well as say all goals scored in England by a home grown count as three, EU nationals count as 2 and all others just 1.
May 30, 2008 at 10:45 am
do you think we could coax parlour out of retirement?
May 30, 2008 at 10:47 am
Explains a lot…
I just had someone using the term ‘Batty boy’ in the spam…
May 30, 2008 at 10:47 am
We had an AKB on this morning Grovers, he’s so dim he keeps coming back, but he doesn’t realise he goes straight to trash without being read, all I do know is he has no guts because he doesn’t use his real name and address, what a coward.
May 30, 2008 at 10:48 am
All of these are companies that didn’t spend quite enough time considering how their online names might appear - and be misread…
1. Who represents is where you can find the name of the agent that represents any celebrity. Their Web site is http://www.whorepresents.com
2. Experts Exchange is a knowledge base where programmers can exchange advice and views at http://www.expertsexchange.com
3. Looking for a pen? Look no further than Pen Island at http://www.penisland.net
4. Need a therapist? Try Therapist Finder at http://www.therapistfinder.com
5. There’s the Italian Power Generator company, http://www.powergenitalia.com
6. And don’t forget the Mole Station Native Nursery in New South Wales, http://www.molestationnursery.com
7. If you’re looking for IP computer software, there’s always http://www.ipanywhere.com
8. The First Cumming Methodist Church Web site is http://www.cummingfirst.com
9. And the designers at Speed of Art await you at their wacky Web site, http://www.speedofart.com
May 30, 2008 at 10:48 am
Geoff… he’ll be bragging about it in another Arsenal forum later…
May 30, 2008 at 10:49 am
Finest - This could go on all day. Everything you say, justifies what I say, such as “if a player is not included is it unfair discrimination?”………. yes it is if he is not included because he is French or German or Spanish !!!!!!
Its a nice ideal you have, but you have based your statements on just that, IDEALS and what YOU think, NOT ON THE LAW.
Shall we drop this now though, otherwise I suspect we will be here all day ?!!!!!!
May 30, 2008 at 10:49 am
Little shirt lifter probably had boyfriend write it.
May 30, 2008 at 10:49 am
geoff you mentioned pitching to clients, you work for an agency?
May 30, 2008 at 10:49 am
I sure do EduardO
May 30, 2008 at 10:51 am
It was getting a little crowded in Heaven, so God decided to change
the admittance policy. The new law was that, in order to get into
Heaven, you had to have a really bad day the day you died. The policy
would go into effect at noon the following day. So the next day at
12:01 the first person came to the gates of Heaven.
The angel at the gate, remembering about the new law, promptly told
the man, “Before I can let you in, I need you to tell me about the day
you died.”
“No problem.” said the man. “Well, for some time now, I’ve thought my
wife was having an affair. I believed that each day on her lunch hour,
she’d bring her lover home to our 25th floor apartment and have sex
with him. So today I was going to come home too and catch them. Well,
I got there and busted in and immediately began searching for this
guy. My wife was half-naked and yelling at me as I searched the entire
apartment. But, damn it, I couldn’t find him! Just as I was going to
give up, I happened to glance out onto the balcony and noticed that
there was a man hanging off the edge by his fingertips! The nerve of
that guy to think he could hide from me! Well, I ran out there and
promptly stomped on his fingers until he fell to the ground.
But wouldn’t you know it, he landed in some bushes that broke his fall
and he didn’t die. This pissed me off even more, so in a rage I went
back inside to get the first thing I could get my hands on to throw at
him. And oddly enough, the first thing I could grab was the
refrigerator. I unplugged it, pushed it out onto the balcony and
heaved it over the side. It plummeted 25 stories and crushed him!
The excitement of the moment was so great that right after that I had
a heart attack and died almost instantly.”
The angel sat back and though for a moment. Technically, the guy DID
have a bad day, and it was a crime of passion, so he announced, “OK,
Sir. Welcome to the Kingdom of Heaven,” and let him in.
A few seconds later the next guy came up. “OK, here’s the rule. Before
I can let you in, I need to hear about the day you died.”
“Sure thing” the man replied. “But you’re not gonna believe this. I
was out on the balcony of my 26th floor apartment doing my daily
exercises when I got a little carried away and accidentally fell over
the side! Luckily however, I was able to catch myself by my fingertips
on the balcony directly beneath mine. When all of a sudden this crazy
man comes running out of his apartment and starts cussing and stomping
on my fingers! Well, of course I fell. I hit some trees and bushes on
the way down which broke my fall so I didn’t die right away. As I’m
laying there face up on the ground, unable to move and in excruciating
pain, I see the man push his refrigerator, of all things, over the
ledge and it falls directly on top of me and kills me!”
The angel is quietly laughing to himself as the man finishes his
story. “I could get used to this new policy,” he thinks to himself.
“Very well,” the angel announces. “Welcome to the Kingdom of Heaven,”
and he lets the man enter.
A few seconds later the third man in line comes up to the gate. “Tell
me about the day you died,” said the angel.
“OK, picture this, ” says the man. “I’m naked inside a
Refrigerator…….”
May 30, 2008 at 10:51 am
are we done with employement law yet?!
May 30, 2008 at 10:52 am
cool, advertising? i work with Eye Candy, you know us? lol, talking about work and not afc feels like giving too much personal information in a AA meeting!
May 30, 2008 at 10:53 am
Hey if anyone knows how to do something funky with IP addresses:
90.205.22.31
This guy is abusing everyone from the spam bin…
May 30, 2008 at 10:54 am
Bud, I’m sure Blatter can twist the law and work within it and implement 6+5 using the models above, using it as a commercial job description. On the moral ground do I agree with you? Yes, I am against discrimination within the game based on nationality, I would like to see all protectionist football laws abolished, and a manager should buy and sell players anytime he likes, and I’d also abolish the transfer window and have complete free trade, I am against any form of centrally controlled capitalism, and believe a free market would put us all on a level playing field, protectionism stunts growth.
May 30, 2008 at 10:56 am
Quality joke jay!!!
May 30, 2008 at 10:56 am
Pedro, if you want you can get a nuker, you can download em anywhere.
May 30, 2008 at 10:56 am
It’s friday after all
A man is in a hotel lobby. He wants to ask the clerk a question.
As he turns to go to the front desk, he accidentally bumps into a woman
beside him and as he does, his elbow goes into her breast. They
are both quite startled.
The man turns to her and says, “Ma’am, if your heart is as soft as
your breast, I know you’ll forgive me.”
She replies, “If your penis is as hard as your elbow, I’m in room 436.”
May 30, 2008 at 10:57 am
Pedro, let’s have a look at his abuse if you may kind sir?
May 30, 2008 at 10:58 am
Pedro i work with an expert hacker… i’ll see if he fancies a challenge
May 30, 2008 at 10:59 am
There once was pirate captain who, whenever it looked like a battle would be imminent would change into a red shirt. After observing this behavior for a few months, one of the crew members asked him what it meant.
“It’s in case I get shot. I don’t want you crew members to see blood and freak out.”
“That’s very sensible, sir.” At that moment, the crew member spotted eight hostile ships on the horizon. The captain all of a sudden looked very concerned.
“Get my brown trousers.”
May 30, 2008 at 10:59 am
Illustration right? I know what you mean though with all these morons looking in.
If anyone can get this little twat through his ip that would justice done.
May 30, 2008 at 11:00 am
Goonerjay… that would be much appreciated!
Off out!
Happy blogging!
May 30, 2008 at 11:01 am
I can tell you for a fact the twat’s in Gray’s in Essex if that helps
May 30, 2008 at 11:01 am
Ahhh Finest, this is where the problem is. My argument is not based on Morals they are based on LAW…. this is like hitting my head against a brick wall.
It is Blatters ideas are based on Ideals and as corrupt as you say FIFA are, if the UK Government cannot overrule EU LAW, why do you think FIFA will be able to????
Right, that me done. You can come back with any amount of unfounded and illegal arguments on your side, I am not going to comment any more, so please feel free to have the last word, even though it will be wrong !!!!!!!!
Who said I am righteous??????????
May 30, 2008 at 11:03 am
A thief stuck a pistol in a man’s ribs and said, “Give me your money.”
The gentleman, shocked by the sudden attack, said “You cannot do this, I’m a member of British Parliament!”
The thief said, “In that case, give me my money!”
May 30, 2008 at 11:03 am
Grays not Gray’s!!
Bud I can think of a lot of things to call you…..righteous aint one of them!!!
May 30, 2008 at 11:04 am
What a shit hole… no wonder he is angry…
May 30, 2008 at 11:05 am
How did you know that Odub, it makes sense though, he’s obviously off school as no one works in Grays.
OK Bud are you saying you were wrong?
May 30, 2008 at 11:07 am
Geoff/Pedro, I’m going to send you a site I use to trace nuisance emails via IP addresses, it’s normally 85-90% accurate.
May 30, 2008 at 11:08 am
Bud, subject dropped, each to their own, I still believe Blatter could do it and make it legal by using job descriptions and using existing quota laws that govern employment in his favour, it’ll be an interesting story if it happens, and it is controversial and nationalist so it is very politically motivated, Blatter is playing the national pride card, have a look at
what he says about it:
Goebbels couldn’t have done a better job:
http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/federation/president/news/newsid=762500.html
May 30, 2008 at 11:12 am
Thanks Odub, I’m sure the Police and his mummy would like to see the filth he’s been sending us.
May 30, 2008 at 11:13 am
It’s joke time fellas………….
I received a phone call from a gorgeous ex-girlfriend who This morning called ‘out-of-the-blue’ to see if I was still around.
We lost track of time, chatting about the wild, romantic times we used to enjoy together.
I couldn’t believe it when she asked if I’d be interested in meeting up and rekindling a little of that ‘old magic’.
‘Wow!’ I was flabbergasted.
‘I don’t know if I could keep pace with you now’, I said, ‘I’m a bit older and a bit grayer and balder than when you last saw me. Plus I don’t really have the energy I used to have.’
She just giggled and said she was sure I would ‘rise to the challenge’.
‘Yeah.’ I said. ‘Just so long as you don’t mind a waistline that’s a few inches wider these days! Not to mention my total lack of muscle tone…everything is sagging, my teeth are a bit yellowed and I am developing jowls like a Great Dane!’
She laughed and told me to stop being so silly.
She teased me saying that tubby, grey haired, older men were cute, and she was sure I would still be a great lover.
anyway, she giggled and said, ‘I’ve put on a few pounds myself!’
So I hung up.
May 30, 2008 at 11:16 am
Fuck me, has anyone seen Arsenal.com, its so fucking exciting - I just pissed myself with such immense excitement (again!!!!), with the current headline of “Getting to know…. Wojciech Szczesny” I think the arsenal.commers have the right idea…… who needs blog sites with Earth Shattering stuff like that to fill your day ?!!!!!!
May 30, 2008 at 11:17 am
lmao!!! Good one Dennis!!!
May 30, 2008 at 11:18 am
LOL PMSLl!!!
May 30, 2008 at 11:19 am
Thanks Bud, I’m off to Arsenal.com right now.
I might also ask why we haven’t signed Dos Santos while I’m there and why a shit side like spurs have always signed more players than we have.
May 30, 2008 at 11:21 am
CMON ADE U FUCKING LEGEND!!
I’d love to see Barry replace Flamini but I can’t see it, how much would he cost?
we got to get someone i can’t see song/ denilson/ diaby or gilberto being upto it
I always enjoy reading your site but don’t I agree with what you say about not wanting anyone you’ve never heard of - another Wenger special along the lines of Sagna or Eduardo will do nicely - does that make me an AKB?
May 30, 2008 at 11:21 am
manure,liverpoo,chavs,spuds have all signed players for next season!!!
May 30, 2008 at 11:24 am
I have no reason to leave so I’ll stay to ensure that together we’ll win silverware.
i had to think about that statement for a while ..
so ade’s saying he will be the reason we will win silverware
next season ?
CHOKE !
May 30, 2008 at 11:25 am
Did you here about the cross-eyed teacher?
She couldn’t keep control of her pupils.
May 30, 2008 at 11:25 am
jay…your fired!
May 30, 2008 at 11:25 am
so I’ll stay to ensure that together we’ll win silverware.
SO does that mean he WAS going to leave ?
BUT HE’LL STAY !!!
fuck dont do us any favors
id rather see 25 million LARGE !
wenger could buy 2 SKILLED players for that price
May 30, 2008 at 11:26 am
There’s still hope Odub… Wenger said he would have 2-3 players finalised by today.
What do you call a female sex change?
An addadictomy!
May 30, 2008 at 11:27 am
you know keeping ade might actually be the time when the arsenal curse bites back !
May 30, 2008 at 11:29 am
could-nordtveit-be-the-special-one?????????
NO , i dont think ive ever seen a player at 19 look the finished article
we are doomed ….
May 30, 2008 at 11:30 am
Cassano will be crowned kings of Europe
May 30, 2008 at 11:31 am
Ethan’s one man crusade continues!!lol Although I must add I’m not an Ade fan either.
Goonerjay don’t hold your breath buddy!!