Sol Campbell looks like being the first player in Premiership history to sign three times for the same club, fat boy Bruce looks to have signed equally fat old boy Titus Bramble, which leaves the way clear for Sol to sign for us, that now would explain why Wenger hasn’t yet signed the monster we so need.
Now I wouldn’t use Campbell as back up, I would start him, he will be 36 soon, that’s the same age as Keown, Adams and DB10 were when they retired, so he won’t get better than he is, play him and let the others get better, by Christmas one of the younger ones may be match fit and ready.
It hasn’t been announced on Pravda.com yet but neither was Nasri, Arshavin, Kosclielny, Vermaelen or Chamakh until they had their locker room keys and seat name plaques first. So expect that news before next weekend.
Eduardo has gone and had this to say on the Shakhtar website…
‘I had some very difficult times with my injury, but Arsenal was always there for me – the medical staff, the management, the players and the supporters. Thank you everybody. Although I have now left the club, Arsenal will always be in my heart. I will always look for the Arsenal results and of course, I wish Arsene Wenger and the great players at the club well for next season and the future’
…What a class act you are DuDu, my only regret is I couldn’t show you my appreciation from the terraces and say goodbye properly, my other is I wish the manager would be as ruthless with a few others that share your parentage.
We at Le Grove wish you all the success you deserve in life, Eduardo sir, you are a gentleman and a scholar.
I had a run in yesterday with a serial AKB who thought it was fine for us to sign and nurture players that always eventually wanted to play for another club, their argument was we’d never sign top players if we wanted loyalty. Hmmm, Chelsea don’t get that problem, Liverpool held onto their stars and Rooney doesn’t bang on about wanting to play for Everton all the time (don’t ask about his DNA!) For me all Cesc has ever felt like is a loanee, so…
…Cesc, are you listening? Time to come out and tell that pikey rabble at barca that you are a big boy and they don’t speak for you, you’ll never be loved as you are at Arsenal, you won’t play as much and you won’t be captain.
If you need more advice speak to your mates, who all saw the greener stuff somewhere else, ask them if they did the right thing leaving and if they are happy now.
Flamini, Petit, Henry, Hleb and Senderos. You aren’t stupid, do it now before you make the third biggest mistake of your career, think about it, if Barca are so wonderful, why did you leave in the first place? (The other two mistakes were wearing the barca shirt and laughing at gobbing boy on the bus)
It seems that the reason we didn’t get Schwarzer yet was because we only offered £2mil, come on Ivan, get real, do we really think the answer to our defensive woes can be solved with £2mil? I thought we could now compete with the big boys, show some ambition and buy a keeper that will shore us up at the back and instil some confidence. Stop trying for everything on the cheap.
Eduardo isn’t being replaced, I wonder if he is thinking about using Theo as a front man and pushing JET out wide? Personally I think JET is way too big to be a winger, I can’t work out where to play him yet, he’s like Paddy but with more attacking skills, maybe we should play a 4-4-2 and put him in the middle.
Finally I at least hope we sign a quality DM, I thought DM’s like Melo and Van Bommel gave their teams some steel at the world cup, to be honest, we got pushed around a lot last year by teams because we lacked an enforcer, with players like we have coming through a bit of protection may be just what we need, instead of the 400 new signings I’ve been calling for, maybe these kids can blossom, Nordtveit has caught my eye as has JET, maybe if Arsene spent his dosh on a keeper and a DM then re signing Campbell with be enough, what do you all think?
Finally it was great to see Thierry scoring on his New York Bulls debut against title chasing Spurs, ha, ha TH14, I will always love you!
Enjoy today Grovers only a few more days until we see our team back, maybe Cesc will say something soon and we can all move on.
UPDATE FROM DUKE:
Le Grove is now smart phone compatible!
Pedro
Geoff
Sup!
AW is signing one more defender and that’s it, very disappointing…
Special Guest Appearance!!
1st?????????????
Oh well….Still, a qualifying spot is always good!
ddm!! where and how you been fella?
any more inside info??
Sol and one other defender I reckon, although I almost don’t want us to sign someone else now – high hopes for Nordveit, so signing just Sol could work.
Hello everyone
MP – How are you dood? Long time….
I’m not listening to any more insider info pal, that AW fuckup over Joe Cole has finished it for me. Whether or not you think JC could’ve done a job for us or not, AW wanted him, the player wanted to play for us, but AW dicked him around with a two year fucking deal, so he pissed off to the ‘dippers
Morning all,
Geoff no way will that be enough, to compete we need a top class keeper, a defensive midfielder and a centre back. Even that might not be enough, add a winger and another midfielder to that and maybe we are in with a chance.
I also love Thierry, fuck the yids. Did you hear the commentator on the US channel though? “That is what Henry does best, he got on his blind side” hahaha only in the US.
alex song to get number 9
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http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/austria-training-pictures
Geoff – I’d be happy with a quality GK and DM alongside Sol resigning……
However, how nice would it be to also get Hazard, a proper winger….
Good post Geoffro!
I think switching to 4-4-2 could be a very good idea. I think we failed to get the most out of the 4-3-3 going forwards and I think it allowed to many players the opportunity to skimp on their defensive responsibilities. BUT with the players we have I think 4-4-2 would be impossible. Wenger’s recent signings or have been with 4-3-3 in mind. Its too hard to find suitable positions for our best players.
This is the one I am talking about:
Geoff
I’m expecting big things from the Englishman!!! Cripes, maybe there is a good English player afterall.
Theo is starting in my dream team. Oh Fantasy team sorry
ddm, Hazard is okay, wouldn’t your prefer Ozil though? He is going for 15 million.
he defo could’ve done a job for us and i was so sure we would get him….i hold gazides just as responsible for the fuck up, he is not as good as we have been told imo.
Sol is signing. And that is good, but it should not stop us buying class where we need it. Fuck me, im really getting bored of this, i think im gonna ignore the transfer side of things and just wait til the season starts. Its like I give more of a fuck about who we sign than ANYONE at Arsenal.
FFS
We have better players than Joe “I AM GOD GIVE ME MONEY” Cole imo.
Nordveit is class, so I wouldn’t mind only resigning Campbell at CB. A GK is what we need, make Sczcesny no.2 this year and no.1 next, we’re set.
Also, I wouldn’t mind if we got Honda (as some rumours are saying) regardless of Cesc’s situation, he is a “genius”.
I would love it if Cesc came out and said something just like Gerrard the other day, that guy is a real captain.
Good old Thierry
Whats with Arsenal and its number 9 players? This number sure looks cursed!!! Reyes anyone?
I have to admit, that to date, i’m seriously worried and dissapointed. I was told in no uncertain terms that Arsene has SERIOUS money this summer, that the only ones who could now outbid us are the Chavs and the Northern Chavs, and that we are in for some serious players, soooooooooo w’appen then, show me the fucking moneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey!!
DDM – If we had Hazard on our books then that would be awesome! The 4-4-2 becomes a lot more feasible with a proper right winger! I have said for about 3 years now that we must have the only manager in the world that think its ok to have about 5 left sided wingers and zero right sided wingers!! And Wenger bangs on about balance in the team! What a dick!!
Its time to exorcise that number 9 with Song if its true.
Sol, Schwarzer, That’ll be it.
It wont be enough, we all know it.
I think we’ll fuck up after a handful of games, if we don’t then it’ll be by january.
Either way Wenger is taking the piss & will have no where to turn & the ALL AKN’s CAN FUCK OFF TOO !!
DDM, the players I was told we enquired after would total about £40million… so whoever told you that is probably right.
I just don’t believe that after all the shite we’ve gone through with Cesc this summer, he’d just leave the squad as it is.
He needs to lift the Spaniard.
”I wish the manager would be as ruthless with a few others that share your parentage.”
Lol
No prizes for guessing who that referrs to
Doublegooner – You should read my prediction for this coming season in yesterdays post! One of the first comments on there. Have a read….
Duke – I love Ozil, and would love him to join us, however, i’ve got great hopes of Ramsey and Wilshere really coming good. So, for meour team lacks true balance, balance that could be gained by fielding a proper winger, not some pale imitation of one.
For the record, i’d be happy to let Walcott go, or play him down the middle Chamacktheknife, either way having a player like Hazard on the wings would give us another dimension, enable to get behind packed defences, instead of passing the ball to death and getting nowhere……..
Morning lads. Off to Leeds to play in a footy tournament for an Arsenal fans team I manage v about 63 other sets of clubs!!!
Will keep you updated on our progress. Group stage Saturday, knockout rounds Sunday!
Give us a virtual cheer when we kick off at 09:40 tomorrow v Glasgae Rangers.
i do not Arsene will think sign Melo. He showed during the World Cup he lacks discipline, firstly against Portugal and then his next match at Netherlands. Is so easy to wind him up. Ramires, although smaller built is a better player.
Schwarzer!!! What more could you want. A hat with bloody corks dangling off it as well. Be happy FFS.
If we just sign Sol & Schwartzer it would be the most embarassing transfer window performance ever from LeSenile.
He promised signings, said we could compete with Chelsea, and is yet again doing things on the cheap.
Gnarley
Hes the Mick Dundee of the premier league.
We are heading for that final day fuck around where we lose players and then can’t replace them. Why the fuck do we do this? We are talking about a multi million company here – where is the strategy?
And so it begins we play two wank teams in pre season friendlies and suddenly people think the likes of JET and Nordveit are ready for a title + champions league challenging team, Absolute bollocks,Wenger must love this time of year,
Pedro
U r too optimistic. Le boss will sign maybe Schwarzer and Campbell. He loves bargains and there is no chance in hell that he will buy other more expensive players. If Cesc goes, i believe he might buy Honda but thats if. He has told Little Jack to fight for his spot and he loves Frimpong. Apart from that, Nasri is having a superb pre-season and that means there will not be any more signings in that area.
Brian it will kill Song, the omens are not good. How about retire the number? LOL
taig – Exactafuckingmundo my friend……
Would take Ozil over Hazard everyday
So this is the players we should sign:
Neuer – 24 years of age, 6 ft 4 in – 15 million (Keeper)
Mertesacker – 25 years of age, 6ft 6 in – 10 million (Centre Back)
Khedira – 23 years of age, 6 ft 3 in – 15 million (Defensive Midfielder)
Ozil – 21 years of age, 6 ft – 15 million (Winger/Attacking Midfielder)
Schweinsteiger – 25 years of age – 6 ft – 20 million (Midfielder)
That makes 75 million, then we can sell Denilson and Diaby and whatever for a few quid, make back some money and sell of some reserves and bring that down to about 60-65 million and then when we subtract the 40 million we got from Ade and Kolo that makes us only 20-25 million in the red, which is a nothing amount for a club like Arsenal.
Pedro – Every year the optimists come out and say ‘he has to sign players this year’, ‘he knows what he needs to do’ ‘he cant survive without strengthening’ and so on. But every year he fails to deliver the goods. Every year he doesn’t work hard enough. After the season we just had the last thing Wenger should have been doing is going out to line his pockets in South Africa. This team in turmoil. Like I said to Geoff yesterday, Manicini is doing for City what Wenger could be doing for Us. I’m not talking about spending £100m, I’m talking about using what ever resources (budget) he has available to its absolute maximum to provide this club with its best possible opportunity to win a major trophy. Trust me, he’ll give project youth/marmite one more year, fail and fuck off at the end of it whilst blaming the fans who forced him to quit! Fact!
I’ve also been impressed by JET and Nordveit I want to see them do well this season. Hope Sol Campbell signs with us.
And I jumped for joy when Titi scored that goal. Glad to see his disdain for the Spurs hasn’t faded the least bit.
DB10
The number with the bad omen is usually 13 but for arsenal its 9. Instead of retiring it, why not just give it to denilson?
TAIG, the only reason I don’t agree is that I’ve been told we’re are definitely looking at big name players…
Otherwise I’d be thinking the same…
As good a player and servant Sol has been for us, the fact is he’s 36, is not as pacy as he was, and because of his age is likely to get injured more often.This is NOT who we should be relying on as our first choice c.b.
For Gods sake Wenger,splash some cash and sign a “top, top quality” defender as you SAID WE WOULD.If not,and you can’t bring yourself to let the moths out of your wallet, then have faith in Nordtveit.Give the kid a chance.He could be our next Tony Adams.
“In Arsene we rust”.
I really really hope I’m wrong but,
If we look to be struggling by december I hope there is a campaign set up on here to say.
‘Thanks Arsene – but Please GO..WE’VE HAD ENOUGH’
Thank You Geoff for the fine goodbye for Eddy.
And thank you Eddy.
Pedro – but we are gonna wait until the final day to try and get them on the cheap and then……..?
4 4 2 al the way.dont like the 433 at al.where are wingers like overmars,pires,ljunberg.awesome times
Pedro – What like Schwarzer? Its just people towing the line and feeding the public what they want to hear….
You know Geoff is referring to me as the serial AKB as well…
Pedro – I was actually given a name, a serious name, and was told we’d made a British record bid for a ‘keeper! That if even one of the deals AW is trying to arrange comes off EVERYONE will be astonised, that was/is the level of player we’re currently in for!!
Ha fucking ha, yeh right.
Pedro, told by who if you don’t mind saying? How is their track record with previous transfers they told you about?
Duke
Id say youre looking at £80-85m for them lot, but we would be the strongest team in the PL, no doubt.
Sell Cesc £50m, sign them for £80m, we would significantly improve and for just £30m.
jonathan de guzman is without club, i remember 2 years ago he was holand’s best talant behind elia and affelay, however in the last two seasons he has just played 15 games due to injuries, anyway i want him to be new number 9, NOT ALEX SONG
TAIG, not like Schwarzer… I’m talking names no one would argue with.
… and towing the party line is definitely not what this guy is about.
Still, you don’t know what we bid for these players… so it might all be pointless.
Rohan, i remember gerrard flirting with the chav’s a few years ago and it was common knowledge he wanted to leave the scousers but was made to stay by his wife’s mafia family, then he comes out and tells the fans he never even thought about leaving,you cant compare cesc with that fucking jobby.
DDM, I had a name as well… and I think we’re singing off the same hymn sheet here.
No top team will play 4-4-2 for a while now. It seems to go in phases, but every big side has three central midfielders now, and to put in two central midfielders against the opposition’s three would be suicide.
A top club needs a top keeper. It is, arguably, the most important position on the pitch. Almunia, Fabianski and Schwartzer are not world-class keepers. To buy the Fulham keeper so another young player can be bought in sometime in the near future is just crazy. If he is good enough, let him prove it. For Gods sake Arsene buy a world-class goalkeeper and let him slug it out to remain in goal. As for the rest I don’t want to get too hasty before the transfer window shuts but I have this awful feeling that Wenger is in a kind of trance of self-delusion and sleep-walking into the new season while repeating the same old mantra that the squad is strong enough. Whether this is borne from a lack of vision and judgement or some bizarre desire to bring pressure on himself I don’t know and can’t work out. The Cesc thing hasn’t gone away as far as I can see and I would hate to think that, once he gets back, the club find themselves in a position where they sell him, leaving zero options for players to be bought in. Knowing the way that Arsene operates though I’m afraid it remains, to me, a distinct possibility. When i think of how ill Wenger looked at the end of last season after the terrible displays the team put in I am staggered that he has done absolutely nothing to address the shortcomings. Especially as he bragged about the club finally having the money to do so.
I would be suprised if no GK or CB are signed. In fact I’d liked to hear an explanation as that would be criminal. For me Sol does not count, we need another CB who possibly is versatile for squad reasons. Jagielka would have been a good signing.
We always look at big name players and it ends there. We never sign then or even attempt to. The only way that Wenger will sign a big name is if he sells a player he has for like 55-60 million. What is our record buy for a player? 15 million. Thank u.
Duke, I can’t say who… I want the goss this year!
He gave me the Kozzer shirt number 2 days before Arse.com and he gave me the Chamakh number prior to that… He’s also given me some other little bits here and there that have come true that couldn’t be published.
Needless to say, he’s usually right and he’s not in the market of feeding me crap…
Its all right Nordveit and Jet will be riding to our rescue they will turn a team of serial chockers into a lean mean fighting title winning machine
, For fucks sake get the cheque book out and sign a couple of proven winners that they can learn from !!
PS. I was also told that we don’t need to sell Fab to actually pay for his replacement(s)!!
So, fuck it put your cunting money where your mouth is Arsene, buy Ozil & Schweinsteiger and let them and Fab fight it out for a starting place. Do what’s right for the club for once rather than the fucking individual….
I was also told that we had turned down a straight cash bid of £50m from City for Fab!
TA is God:
I’ve been doubting Wenger for 2 years but tried to stay balanced, but I am getting to the end of my tether.
I’m arguing with blinkered Goon pals who still make excuses for Wenger & still back him cos we went unbeaten in 2004 !!
I’m 50, still a mental Goon, still sing my heart at most games, home & away, can still ‘sell’ The Arsenal to people who saw me wearing my t.shirt on my holiday in China & Japan last week.
But, I’m so fucked off with Wenger, more so because I defended him when I was told money was zilch & now we definately have money the cunt doesnt appear to want to spend it.
Good to have you posting again, Gambon. Let’s get stuck into these AKB’s !
“In Arsene we rust”.
Great post Geoff. Read it somewhere yesterday that O’neal is ready to sell Milner if a right price come along. Does anyone think we need him?
£50M upfront? Is that even possible.
Pedro:
Are you saying your man is suggesting we’ll make or seriously trying to make a couple of ‘real’signings other than Sol Man ?
A – You could argue that it would be suicide to play 3 central midfielders against a team deploying 2 wingers who would have total freedom down the flanks. It goes both ways.
Double – The money is and always has been there. Can you ever imagine the board rejecting ANY request made by Wenger? he is obsessed with trying to win a trophy with players that everyone else thinks aren’t good enough for no other reason than him being able to say ‘ I told you so’. EGO-FUCKING-MANIAC!!!!
New goalie
Sagna——–Verminator—-Mertesacker———-Clichy
Cesc Song
nasri/walcott/wilshere/JET arshavin/rosicky
RvP Chamakh
Is that too much to ask, Mssrs Wenger and gazidis?
Apparently it is, even for the 2nd highest earners in the EPL
DG, I’m talking super top class signings.
I’m not talking about a top player in France who might make it, I’m talking about world class talent that would make an immediate impact in the team.
TAIG – The only position the 4-3-3 weakens is upfront. YOu trade off penetration for possession. All the other areas are strengthened if everyone does their job.
Doublegooner,
Im pretty much the same mate, I defended Wenger and still do at times because i dont trust the Board one bit and dont think we had a pot to piss after the move and for a couple of years after, but in the last 2 seasons ive started to sway and am now starting to think he is not buying just to prove a point and its fucking stupid we are now the 8th biggest sporting team when it comes to worth and the 3rd richest yet he still wont buy a fucking proper centrehalf or goalkeeper its bizarre,
Pedro – I’ll email you, and you can reciprocate….
Anyway, just to defend myself against Geoff’s accusation of being a serial AKB.
We had a bit of a debate on the phone… he reckons we shouldn’t bother signing players like Cesc because we’ve only had two good seasons out of him and he’ll only end up fucking off.
My argument was that top players move around the continent… I’d rather have Cesc for 8 years than no years…
Discuss…
nah taig, it doesn’t work like that.
or at least, the top managers don’t think of it like that, as they wouldn’t play any big game now without three central midfielders.
in the big games the wide forwards just play more like midfielders, so it becomes more 4-5-1 than 4-3-3.
certainly won’t be experiencing any 4-4-2 though
Pedro
Schwarzer will be the best Arsenal goalie since the bloke with a head like a horses arse, Seaman
Pedro, why don’t you give us the name so we can have a collective blog hard on?
I you’re afraid we won’t sign him and we’ll make fun of you I promise you we won’t. Honest.
I await your correspondence DDM
Getting anxious about our transfer dealings AGAIN, it’s like groundhog day with our club.
The headline is missleading, Sol to return great but we need more experiance and a hard strong centreback.
We all knew that Chamakh was coming, but the squad needs to be added to, to compete with Man u/ chavs.
And why does it allways run so smoothly when we sell our players, like Eduardo but when we buy it’s a whole messed up affair
Lol, In Arsene We Rust.
Best saying ive seen.
Pedro – There is too much that goes against what your source is telling you. Big names? We’ve signed 1 guy on a free, tried and failed on another, Spent £10m on what is essentially a player for the future not now, we’re chasing Mark Schwarzer (too much smoke n all that), we’re trying to get Sol to re-sign and he looks like he’s going to promote Wilshere and maybe JET.
The only superstar signing we will make will be if, and its a big if, Cesc stays and Wenger gets to use use his best ever tag line of ‘He’s just like a new signing’!!
Eduardo is being replaced by the new signing – Carlos Vela!
Pedro, fair enough, I really hope your man in the know is right.
You only need to look at Luiz Ronaldo’s discography of clubs to get an idea of loyalty among top, top players. These guys think they deserve to be at what is the best club at that moment. And maybe they do, but that’s what contracts are for.
I’m not saying Cesc is like that but he ain’t too different. He joined us after the invincibles and want to join them now.
A – if you want to argue 4-3-3 then do but don’t change it to 4-5-1 to suit your argument. No, 2 wingers would not work against a 4-5-1 but they would against a 4-3-3.
Pedro, what position do they play, if you can’t give us names?
Time for some people to come on and say “we have 5 weeks until the window is shut, so calm down, you guys are unbelievable”
Its been happening for quite a few transfer windows now.
TAIG,
Umm Wenger actually calls it a 4-1-4-1. It all basically means the same thing. Sacrificing a CF for a CM.
the 4-3-3 and 4-5-1 systems that the big teams employ these days are almost identical systems taig, the wide men just play a bit deeper in the latter
What’s been happening for quite a few transfer windows Sam? Us being 5 weeks away from it closing?
Mayank – I know. I even said that we don’t have the players to play a 4-4-2 so we’re stuck 4-1-4-1 or 4-3-3 or 4-5-1 anyways……
Pedro…
I was actually given a name, a serious name, and was told we’d made a British record bid for a ‘keeper! That if even one of the deals AW is trying to arrange comes off EVERYONE will be astonised, that was/is the level of player we’re currently in for!!
I really hope your man in the know is right. A couple world beaters in from Wenger in GK and defence and im sure even the hardest sceptics would change their tune….it just feels the longer we leave it we will start with flapianski in goal and denilson as a midfield option..
Nope Peopla coming on and saying we have 5 weeks and we will be signing.
Ends up we dont sign anybody as they predict. This Jan for example.
People*
I heard about the goalkeeper, I also heard about a top draw DM but very difficult to get those players and hope they can pull it off.
A – So its different then. I’m not arguing the fact that you need to flexible and able to adapt to the oppo’s formation. But if you had to play against a team that had 3 lumpy CM’s then a player like Hazard who is a natural winger could do well. Like I just said to Mayank this is a pointless topic anyway as 90% of our players have been bought with 4-3-3 in mind.
We dont play a 4-3-3
We play a 4-1-5, cos apart from Song, no one takes any defensive responsibility, and Arsene doesnt seem to care about this.
We’ve always had wingers that cut in hence our system is more of a 4-3-3. Whereas Man U’s would be a 4-5-1 based on wingplay.
Arsh is just playing where Pires used to, albeit with lesser running.
Adam – They play in goal. For Fulham. And his name ryhmes with Mark Schwarzer.
Mayank – I think it is beyond essential that we get Arshavin playing behind the front 2. he’s so fucking wasted on the left of the 3 and he hates it too! the front 3 should be this:
– Arshavin –
Chamakh – van Persie
??
Mick Dundee
For the record, Australians think that all English are like that Mr Bean 
Clumsy. Oh no that was Mr Green 
2 year ago we would had to sell Cesc for the money but not now so if they do want him so bad get 50 mill eu + and am sure this saga will run until the end of Aug
TAIG, even by Arsh’s own admission he was surprised how well he plays on the left. Cesc is better than him in that position so he can’t play there. His current position requires hard work and that’s why he doesn’t seem very effective.
taig, I didn’t know fulham had a top keeper whose name rhymes with mark schwarzer.
TAIG , if you add Cesc to that front 3, wont we be playing too much of an attacking formation with 2 so-called wide men as well.
Gnarley,
See youve started to fight back in the cricket
If that Aussie keeper signs and then fucks at least we can always send him downunder on a convict ship never to be seen again
Dave, IMO Barca had no intention of really buying Cesc this window. All they wanted to do is drive a wedge between his and the club to get him on the cheap later. They’ve put in a few cheeky bids but they know Cesc’s market value and they know they can’t pay it.
Another great post…
People were mentioning banners at games – can we have one that says “Bring David Dein back!” please? lol
Pedro i hope they do bid serious money for them and not the usual derisory offers! Well here’s to hoping!
Yes it would be better to have Cesc for 8 years than not at all – but it would bet better not to have diaby and denilson at all!
pedro can you give at least some infos about the positions for the world class signings we are looking for?
thx
The only reason the Schwarzer deal is dragging on beacuse they have no manager
Mayank, Arshavin is better than Cesc in that position.
A4E its a GK and DM.
Apparently Schwarzer was all set to sign but then dropped the pen
What really annoys me is when guys come on saying that Wenger hasn’t tried to sign anyone. Some of you spin together a bunch of names that you think we should have and then assume that because we don’t have them we didn’t try. As an example, we were all hoping for Villa last year, and Wenger confirmed that he had bid for Villa and his club weren’t willing to sell. Believe it not, just because you ask for a player doesn’t mean you get him – ask Barca re Cesc, even if the price is too low.
I’m not saying don’t sign anyone, but I am saying don’t base your “truths” on your assumptions.
Where after Buffon.
Pedro / Geoff – Irrespective of whether Cesc fucks off to his homeland now or in 8 years time AFC is a business; we need to find these gems hidden away at other clubs to create wealth within AFC. With the £50m we mite get for Fabregas we can buy other players. Fabregas can be replaced; other clubs cope without him so we can!
AFC have the facilities to churn out stars!
Will Jack Wilshire make it this year at Arsenal?
Does Arsene trust him?
Mayank – £50m up front, why not? It would mean as much as me giving you 50p, these mo’funglers are obscenely wealthy…….
Erichero, how many players we should sign and in what positions more this window in your opinion ?
I dont know if this transfer window actually feels worse than previous ones because it was believed that the tide had changed and Wenger would actually put his hand in his pocket. Well he hasnt so far and even if there is 5 weeks left until it closes, I dont think he has any intention of signing these world class players that people are speaking about.
The only changes to the squad seem to be every fucker changing their number!
Fucking joke!
Is zapata a possibility even if Sol signs?
I’m new to this, so just like to say how much I enjoy your blogs, always first thing I read in the morning.
My main comment this morning is on Campbell, his re-signing would be a great disappointment to me, and a major backward step. At best he can only play one game in 2 and is frankly well past his sell by date, one long term injury amongst or CD players and we are stuffed again. Usual story of Wenger dealing on the cheap! Still need a keeper and midfield enforcer, no sign of either, can’t help feeling we are all going to be let down yet again by our no action manager, I’m already getting that deflated feeling.
I am proposing that Arsenal fans World wide post letters once a week for the next four weeks to UEFA & FIFA complaining about Barcelona FC’s persistent public ‘tapping up’ of Cesc Fabregas.
Also post a letter just once to Arsenal FC requesting that they formally complain to UEFA & FIFA about Barcelona FC’s rule breaking disrespectful behaviour.
I have drawn up 3 template letters that I will email to willing participants. All that you will need to do is type in your own Name & Address before printing off & posting.
A momentum is needed in this regard & can be boosted by you forwarding the email I send you to every single one of your Arsenal FC supporting family & friends and encouraging them to post letters off once every week for four weeks to UEFA & FIFA and just once to Arsenal FC.
The aim of repetitive letters would be to create an Administrative headache for UEFA & FIFA with hopefully thousands of letters received from all over the world. It would be a great way to display the strength of feeling from Arsenal FC fans.
The purpose of the single letter to Arsenal FC is again to display the strength of feeling from Arsenal FC fans.
The Arsenal FC hierarchy seem to exist in an ‘Ivory Tower’ immune or just simply ignorant to the feelings & wishes of their fans.
My email address for this campaign from where I will email you the letter templates is ……..
ArsenalFansHateBarcelonaFC@gmail.com
COME ON !! …… Lets DO this & be taking substantive action for a change instead of simply bleating on web blogs which achieves nothing as it goes unnoticed by those who should hear the complaints the most.
I will post this on the anti Barca facebook group ………….
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=116042895106146
& also on as many Arsenal blogs as possible via ……………
http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/Spo…..ll+Sources
My fucking sanity is being maintained by Pedros rumours, they better turn out to be true.
lol chippy
Goonerman your ideas are the same as what Ajax did, look how that turned out?
Mayank – I think Cesc should be playing behind Arshavin as a midfielder not a forward. He can still surge through the middle but that doesn’t mean nullifying Arshavin’s position. defences would shit themselves trying to stop the sort of clever passes either of those 2 can deliver let alone both of them. And Arshavin is way, way better at shooting from distance.
I don’t even know why I’m saying this though as Cesc is as good as gone in my eyes….
Howdy grovers!
Great post as usual Geoff. Word purrrfect tribute for the DUDU meister. Hope he comes back to THOF for a round of love.
As for signings, I’d be prepared to risk Sol being the only CB signing on the proviso that Nordveit doesn’t go on loan again and we spend the £40 on GK and DM. My guess is that’s what AW’s been waiting on, Sol’s commitment.
wtl….same boat here
same here WTL – hoping they turn out – like i do every pre-season….
TAIG, I wouldn’t tell you about it if I thought the person telling me was a liar.
Take it or leave it, but I’m choosing to believe that we’re going to make an impact this summer.
I think it fits perfectly with what Arsenal need to do this year… Cesc wants to leave, RVP and Denilson will follow if we don’t make investment in the team.
If gallas can wear 10, then song can take 9.
But still 9 on a DM. Cant think of previous.
Kipmonster – As most pointed out when you posted this yesterday all you will be doing is wasting everybody’s time. by the letter of the law Barcelona have done absolutely nothing wrong. All they can be accused of is having players who want one of the worlds best to join them. Your reaction to this baiting is just giving the Barca players exactly what they want. I am convinced it is now aimed at winding Arsenal fans up more than it is an attempt to sway Cesc. No to mention that for every one comment, a 1000 different articles are published on it.
Pedro – I hope your right mate but if we are willing to spend the cash then why the fuck hasn’t it been done yet. Penny pinching is the most logical explanation.
a gk and dm for 40 mill??? Man this would be awesome!!!
TAIG, becuase the players are on holiday from world cup duty…
In
Neuer £10m
Westermann £10m
Schweinsteiger £30m
Spent £50m
New Team;
Neuer
Sagna Westermann Vermaelen Clichy
Song Cesc Scweinsteiger
Chamakh RVP Arshavin
Pedro is it this whole Ajax/Suarez package that we’ve been linked to in the past?
Do they take their agents with them? Not many players these days are willing to let family time interfere with making obscene amounts of money unfortunately. Unless we’re just waiting on medicals? But again, we’re leaving it late to bed new players in. My fingers are crossed though. I’ve always said our next best manager would be the arrival of the old Arsene Wenger.
Pedro,
Love the Denilson maggot see who bites first lol,
Erichero and yet your basing your truths on what Wengers said Do you really believe we tried to sign Villa ?
Pedro
So when exactly are we gonna make this impact?
We are well into pre season training now, the Emirates cup is next weekend, what makes you think anyone apart from Schwartzer is coming?
Gnarley.
I think of you lot more in terms of Wal Footrot and less, Mick ‘this is a real knife’ Dundee!
Stonroy – You can’t compare Ajax to Arsenal; PL incomes are massive. All football must be able to develop stars. If some want to leave, as they become too big for the club, then so be it. Unfortunately, Fabregas can see his future at Barca, which at the moment, are the best club side.
Arse fans are so frustrated; and so would you be if you were Fab. This is what happens if no trophies are won for 5 years.
so pedro
its casillas and de jong?
neuer and fuck who played dm for uruguay or germany?
Does Scweinsteiger speak english? No german speakers on the team now that Philippe is gone.
And when during all of our pre-season training and matches does Wenger have the time to make these signings? Gazidis certainly isn’t up to it!!
it better not be busquets.
Chippy -
Yeah we are desperate for a goalie, for years no less, and we are haggling over £2m for a 37 yr old grandpa.
Yeah we tried to sign Villa, probably on fucking loan!
Arsenes a tight cunt.
Goonerman too big for the club! We’re Arsenal FC, feck me our club has a superiority complex.
Someone did mention yesterday that Gaizidis was in Austria,So lets hope they are working on some deals as there would be fuck all other reason for him being there, Unless Nasri ordered a curry to be delivered,
Could be stekelenberg.
You wouldn’t think by all this talk going on that we are one of the richest clubs in the world would you.
Please let it be Neuer.
Stonroy – We are Arsenal; but are we at the same level as Barca, RM, AC Milan and, I hate saying it, Man Ure? Nope mate.
So fab can see himself at a higher level, time to cash in next year.
if the keeper we are after is still on holiday from the world cup.
hmmm
must be Hans-Jörg Butt
aha pedro so it could be the brazilial bloke and probably the netherlands GK?
I know you wont tell us but really hopeful you are right in these things!!!
Keep it up together with Geoff. Your blog get the most posts ive ever seen!!!
Is it Iniesta ans Xabi – how fucking funny would that be???
stonroy – like it or not Cesc has become bigger than a club that has not won a trophy for what will be 6 years. he is much better off (in his eyes) joining a team that won 7 trophies last season alone!! We forget that this kid was the reason Spain won the World Cup! And yet fans still get mad that the Barca players want him to play for them! I’d be more pissed off with them if they told us he’s not good enough for them!
WTL,
Eaxctly and add to that we wouldnt pay the extra few mill for Chamakah last summer but he wants us to believe we bid over 30mill for Villa lol
I base my “Truths” on what me eyes and ears see and hear and for the last few years theyve heard and seen fuck all with regards proper investment in the side, Im hoping this summer will be a surprise but the way its going is just a mirror image on the last few
Morning Grovers!
I’m back and fired up for that new season…
And praying Arsene spends the cash on Frey and Vertonghen.
Have a nice day!!
Lol.
I hope it wasn’t Khedira.
http://www.sport.co.uk/news/Football/41155/Khedira_covets_Stuttgart_leave_as_he_finally_reveals_his_hand.aspx?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-J%C3%B6rg_Butt
this keeper is sick!! hes scored 30 top flight goals
Could be stekelenberg.
I doubt it Pedro dosent really rate him and has spoken of that fact so id be shocked if it was !
If it is true my money would be on Adler or Lloris,
stonroy
khedira on moronhole:
“His tactical plans are spot on, with a well organised defence, quick counter-attacks and clinical finishing. That’s the only way to be successful nowadays.”
that rules us out then
Arsenal is a big big club financially, we have a huge international fan base but if we continue to act like this it will die very quickly.
Taig, my man, you speak the truth. We all know what’s coming, don’t we? It’s quite obvious that you don’t overtake anyone by staying in the same lane … which is exactly where this senile old cunt is driving yet again.
Nothing says that your shit at football then Stoke trying top sign you.
They are bidding £12m for Carlton Cole
chippy, I do believe Wenger. We know full well that Arsenal try to operate behind closed doors, so when Wenger actually goes as far as releasing a name, it’s a decent bet he tried. That’s why he came out with his phrase “never have a worked so hard and been criticised so much”. I think Wenger’s got more class than to come out and say: oh by the way I tried to sign these 15 players and I got the door slammed, sorry boys.
I think like everyone else here that we need some quality signings, but I do think that Wenger has gone out and made a lot of enquiries. When he says we are “looking”, for me that’s the same as “enquiring”, not watching YouTube!
Why does this site never listen to me. You (Grover) consistently call for a huge monster to play next to TV5 but am I the only one that knows that Djourou is 6′ 4″? As a matter of fact, look at the team picture and see that he’s the tallest defensive player we have (except for our young Pole WC). I admit he’s not world class but he’s huge and could be great when fit. Perhaps that’s why Wenger isn’t buying anyone yet. A GK, DM, and Campbell would work beautifully with me. Especially considering the progress some defensive reserves have been making.
Guys stop harrassing Pedro – if he doesn’t want to tell u its up to him!
Pedro, what would be your team line-up for nxt season?
it still might happen as the Joe Cole deal only went through a couple of days ago and still a couple of weeks before the season starts…
i just wish they would pull their finger out though! lol But if these things need to be done in private and they come off then i will be happy to wait – although the not knowing is driving me mad lol
I hope it is not Khedira Pedro as he has now said he is only thinking of Real Madrid
Brent, I reckon we don’t listen to you because this is your first ever post.
InCesc.
Like the stats on him. Seen him play?
Right age for the serial Chesney lovers.
And another day and another Barca player mouths off about Cesc. David Villa get fucked.
Do you think they have a rota??
Gooner ( at 09:53 ) – ” a couple of world beaters and even the hardest sceptics would change their tune”. Speaking for myself – no, I wouldn’t. That’s too simplistic. New players are necessary and welcome, (if Wenger ever gets round to signing any). But that ISN’T THE ONLY PROBLEM. It goes MUCH DEEPER than that. Most of it is down to poor judgements and decisions/non decisions by our coach. This applies to most areas of the team. Tactical, man management, personal obsession and ego issues are involved as well.
The situation is compounded by a Board who give seemingly blind and absolute loyalty to him. Add an assistant coach in Pat Rice – who seems to be a permanent fixture and obedient yes man with little tactical input, and you can see the malaise the club has been stuck in for some years now.
” In Arsene we rust”.
The signing isn’t Khedira…
Gambon, we’re into preseason and we’ve signed two players so far.
Chelsea don’t have a partner for Terry, Liverpool have signed a crock for a bundle of money, Spurs haven’t strengthened nor have United.
I’m not saying we’ll defo get these top players… all I’m saying is that if we did, they wouldn’t need a preseason to make an impact.
Their are so many keepers out their on the market that are gettable and DM, CB and we can’t find not one we can start negotite with, madness
Stonroy
i agree with u mate
our best players are:
Arshavin – who was rejected by Barca
Cesc – nicked from Barca as a kid
RvP – a troublemaker at Feyenord and they wanted to get rid of him
Other than that we haven’t got any players who’d walk into any of the Top 5 teams in the world
Agree with that Spectrum, very well put,
People keep saying that all the Barcelona players, by talking with Cesc constantly about joining them, is not tapping up, why not?
Even if, “the laws” suggest that tapping up can only be doen by defined members of the Barcelona board, I’m sure if Arsenal lodged a complaint, then by what they have been doing (going all Queen of Suburbia) they would be found guilty and Case law would change the law as it stands
Pedro -
Im starting to love you and hate you in equal measure.
Let me put it this way. We say: Lucio is great, go and get him. So we don’t get him and we say Wenger is a failure.
Now Man City fans like Vermaelen, so they say to Mancini go and get him. He comes to us and offers 20 million. What should our response be? Obviously, eff off. Now is Mancini a failure for not getting Vermaelen. Because they offered good money is that sufficient reason to demand the player be released? As such, is it the manager’s fault that he couldn’t secure the player that we all agree (including him) would do the job?
Dam, Denilson is not badly injured
PTG
LMAO @ 10.33
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Brent
Djurou is fucking useless….imo he’s a lower league PL player
Erichero
You place too much trust in a man who fiddles while Arsenal is burning. He must have been breaking his balls calling the World Cup for French TV … good work if you can get it.
http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/bendtner-and-denilson-injuries-not-big-?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arsenal-news+%28News+Feed%29
And there was me hoping that Denilson was being lined up for a transfer
Great another season of mediocrity rewarded by a continued presence in the team and probably a new undeserved contract.
Djourou is class and in Wengers opinion he’s an Arsenal player
Spectrum
i’m with u buddy
Wenger only knows how to attack – he hasn’t a clue abt the defensive side of the game
if they want me to play DM i will make myself available lol
If Djorou plays over half the season this year I will eat my hat.
Erichero
Yes it is the managers fault when he bids a poxy amount for the player or does not go the extra mile to sign him, or fucks around for too long and the player goes elsewhere.
i’m still a bit annoyed about the chamakh saga.
we wanted him last year, needed a striker last year, had the money from the Ade sale and still he didnt come leaving us desperately short in attack.
it makes it difficult to get excited about his arrival and makes me doubt wengers willingness to splash the cash on a DM.
man, i hope Pedro’s right…
If Hleb is sold we must stand to make a couple of mil on the deal no? More frakin profit!
You know with Villa now coming out and saying Cesc wants to come, look it’s clearly obvious he’s telling them he wants to leave Arsenal and he will not come out and say anything till he is 100% sure (back at pre-season training) about wanting to stay. The lad clearly wants to go and therefore he should not be our captain next year, he is not fit to lead. Also I find it strange that our Captan is not featured on the club website at all.
WTL @ 10.36
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I think this is a ploy by Pedro to boost his ratings
charlie, we’re not burning. We’re not where we want to be, but we’re not burning.
We have a huge crop of young players, of which a third to a half will take a significant step forward this year. Chelsea on the other hand have a huge crop of players who will take a step backwards this year, and I really am stunned that they aren’t putting more work into the transfer market, given the homegrown rule.
I posted the Djourou thing yesterday…but I was being a little sarcastic today anyway. The bottom line is Djourou being 6′ 4″, 23 and already a full international (albeit for the Swiss) bodes well for him. Just look how fast Pique went from tall bench warmer at Man U to starting treble winner for Barca. That being said I hope Wenger has a trick up his sleeve just in case…
Stonroy, it seems pretty clear to me that Barca have instructed their players to speak to the media about Cesc. How many have not said something yet? I wonder if tapping up rules include club players speaking about a target?
But Spectrum the board must know that if we win nothing this year and he signs a new contract with us the fan backlash will be huge. Wenger must know that this is his final year or he is out.
I know a very reliable source who has passed me a list of transfer targets….. very very interesting….
Hi Guys,
Pedro, is your contact saying he is still actively trying to get those world class players. Wouldn’t they need to be signed in time for the Emirates Cup at least to give them time to get integrated into the team?
I am frustrated with signings as much as any one else and I get frustrated with Arsene but can people please stop calling him a cunt. Yes it was in the past, but he has been fantastic for this club, so why call him that?
Lets hope for Schweinsteiger, Honda, Hazard, Sol to re-sign, Cahill, Schwarzer or Steklenburg with Scjezny(?) as no 2, Ozil. I would get rod if Denilson, Diaby, Rosicky and bring JET and Wilshere into the side
Shaun
i think if we get sole to stay and decent keeper alot problems will be sorted this have no real problem scoring goals,if you think about every single one our strikers were injured at some point of season but they still mananged to score just leeked to many goals.i think is looking certain players like delinson diaby thoe vela fabianski i think this last season for these players produce and wenger had held off signing players to give them a final chance
morning all, anyone know what the clubs plan for bartley is next season?
Erichero
Chelsea will always be sniffing around, it’s in their nature. We just procrastinate to the point of apoplexy. I don’t believe our youngsters are as good as you think, so brace yourself for another round of musical chairs.
alfie
well at least u can share them mate
Brent – No one in their right mind would go into a new season relying on the fitness levels of Campbell and especially Djourou!! Guaranteed Djourou will be crocked again in next to no time!!
Stonroy -
People in positions of power lose all sense of reality very quickly in some instances.
Lokk at the way he reacted when questioned at the end of last year. It was as if he was saying who the fuck do you think you are, how dare you question me. Then like a little spoilt brat cunt of a child he flirted with Real (how I wish he fucked off) and all the little sheep feel back in line.
Point is niether him or the board have any sense of reality which leads to all of them having said over the last four years “the fans would have bite your hand off for fourth” including Gazidis.
Tapping up is actively contacting the player and asking him to assist them in pushing through a deal. Just telling the world that you want a player is NOT tapping up.
For fuck sake Cesc is one of the best footballers in the world! Why on earth would Barca not want him? I’d be more pissed off if they said he’s not good enough! If you’re angry with Barca its because you are worried that Cesc will leave. If you are worried that Cesc will leave then you should be angry at Arsenal for not showing him that they have the ambition and ability to win major, nay any, trophies!!
GET OVER IT!!
Charliegeorge I agree with you mate, I don’t think our youngsters are anywhere near ready, if most will ever be ready. I think waiting for his little invincibles is a very dangerous game to play.
His reaction was to people insulting his players (Silv) not him. He’s never been one to listen to this kind of talk about Arsenal players. Don’t you think you’re hollywoodising the situation a bit.
Watford Gooner
He is what he is.
Erichero,
Thats where you and me differ then, Ive not believed anything thats come out the club for about the past 5 seasons its all smoke and mirrors and designed for one thing only selling season tickets,
Its got to the point know that i dont know whether he can tell fact from fiction and whether he actually believes some of the stuff hes saying,
I mean the cracker about there being no better players out there than what weve got was bizarre as was the statement that their is only maybe 10 players out there that we couldnt afford talk about contradicting yourself,
Im not blaming him entirely as i think the Board have got a shit load to answer for and should stop hiding behing him and start telling some truths,
Players from the latter stages of the World Cup are not back in pre-season trainig and are still on their holidays, so that tells me that if we are to make any of these type signings, then although fees may have been agreed, personal terms may not yet be finalised.
Wenger has stated that he prefers to have players in for a full preseason and the seasons we have started well, have been when he has had the squad together from an early stage.
No need to panic (yet) Grovers it is still understandable if Wenger hasn’t signed the players that we want, but the longer he leaves it, my arse will be twitching like a rabbits nose
We will sign Ozil and Steklenburg before the Emirates and will sign Schwarzer as soon as Fulham appoint a manager.
if we get campbell it’ll be our last CB signing, his presence will be massive to us though, finally no one will get an easy ride when they fuck up
Barca are not tapping Cesc up in strict legal terms. But behaving like cunts should be a legal offence.
Lurch LeRouge says:
July 23, 2010 at 10:41
If Hleb is sold we must stand to make a couple of mil on the deal no? More frakin profit!
Dood, you do realise that those pikie fucker still actually owe us money from the Henry and Hleb deals, regardless of a sell-on clause or not…..
alfie…. 2 GK’s? cant see that mate… who from those 2 is gonna come to sit on our bench!?
i reckon schweinstiger is one of pedro’s names
All the AKB all say the the same thing “watch what will happen to the club when he leaves” bloody hell have more faith in the club than that, this must come from supporters who started in the Wenger era and don’t know that we have and will continue to win trophies even if he does leave.
Need sol just to scream at the others when they fuck up/ dont perform
weve missed that for years
sol’s the only one at arsenal who gives out a bollocking… wenger only seems to do it once a season max (liverpool this year)
pat, there’s a lot of wrangling that goes on behind the scenes that we don’t give Wenger credit for. To assume that we didn’t sign a player because we made a pathetic offer or because we were slow to move is exactly that … an assumption.
For instance, can anyone here tell me exactly what we offered Joe Cole? Or can anyone here say exactly what went on with this supposed big fight with Arsenal that Rosell was referring to?
I do agree that at the end of the day, if you have signed what you need, that’s a problem, but do give room to admit that in the process Wenger has put some work into it.
in my opinion wenger needs to be alot more rufeless and sell certain players and bring top class ones,sometimes you just have to admitt defeat in my opinion thoe delinson having said that these players are not reason we fell short it all defensive and delinson although has not been as good as song he has not been complete desaster either
Alfie why sign two keepers mate.
the bad feeling at the end of last season will, i believe, push wenger and the board’s hand regarding making a few signings. it was pretty much rampant through the support that reluctance to sign in key areas, for two seasons, had left us embarrasingly short of our rivals.
whether the memory of being questioned so openly by the fans has faded may be a problem.
i mean, Wenger has had fantastic support, for a long time, the clash between him and the fans must have made him and the board think long and hard about going into another season relying on Almunia, Fabianski and Denilson.
Pedro
We have signed 2 players, and lost 5 players in the same positions, so we arent stronger.
What do i care about Chelsea, last time i checked they won the PL with 103 goals, we have to catch them up, not just match what they do.
Too many people are comparing our spending to UTDs and Chelseas, which is silly.
chippy, we can agree to disagree. You hate Wenger, I don’t. I believe most of what he says, you believe very little. I am happy, you’re miserable. I’d like things to get better, but not for a moment am I taking for granted what we have already.
STWG,
Yep agree with that hes many things but not that, He could have fucked of at anytime over the last 10 years but stayed loyal when others would have deserted and for that i will always be thankfull, Just as i dont think theres another manager that could have done the move whilst keeping us semi competitive, that in itself was some achievment but that dosent mean he shouldnt be questioned on certain things,
never seen him play lurch, the kid in me just likes the name…
Erichero the proof is in the pudding mate, Words are just that, nothing. Either he signs or he doesn’t the rest of it is all useless.
Erichero, we know for a fact that Arsenal always come in with a derisory offer when bidding on a player.
We bid £4mill for Christiano, united came in with £10. We gave up…
Alonso was worth £15mill, we bit £13mill, then gave up.
I’ve no idea what went on with Villa, Di Maria and Ribery… but more of the same I’d guess.
Wenger doesn’t agree that any player is worth £20mill plus… as a result, we’ve missed out on plenty of top drawer players over the years.
Pedro, are you still sure AW is going to sign those two quality players? I would love it to be true, that’s for sure…
Now Villa is mouthing off, it really does seem the Barsa PR guy is running down the complete squad for them to have their say…
Last week it was “Xavi”-week, this week “Villa”-week, next week it’ll be “Pedro”-week… it’s getting boring!
Shaun, apparently Ivan is working hard behind the scenes to get players…
TAIG
SO therefore if Cesc hands in a transfer request and goes to Barcelona, they are then guilty of tapping up, especially Villa saying he will do everything he can to get him to go to Barcelona.
Surely there has to be some commission of the offence, even if the transfer does not go through.
Not that I care either way. Cesc has never let us down on the pitch and nor do I think he will ever let us down, when playing in an Arsenal shirt, and if we get the right money for him, and sign the right player ot replace him, then fine.
stonroy, absolutely. I’m just giving room to admit that in the middle of the process between start and end, Wenger is working hard and working on particular signings, unlike a lot of the whingers on here. It’s like 55 kids in the school bus going every five minutes: are we there yet? And I’m not necessarily talking about signings, I’m talking about winning trophies, whether with signings or with some of the youth stepping up to the plate this season.
Its the info I have been given. The same guy told me bout eddy 6 weeks ago and also we will apparently we will DEF sign Jagielka (sic)
Erichero
It doesn’t really matter whether you are in the inner sanctum or not. Look at the ledger: that will tell you how successful/unsuccessful we’ve been in attracting big names. I’d rather look at the results and leave the machinations to others; it’s results that count.
B… I’m not sure if we’ll get the players I was told… but I’m hoping Wenger has a plan b… as he usually doesn’t if a deal doesn’t go to plan. Remember Baptista after Paddy left?
Erichero,
Cool, In no way do i hate Wenger ive started to question some things hes doing and saying that dosent mean i hate him, Id personally like to see him stay and win the Champs league but for that he needs to change some of his habits and mindset,
Im not at all miserable the suns shining its Friday and ive got a weekend to look forward to, Ive also seen Arsenal win every major honour bar 1 its not about that,
No Pedro, we don’t “know for a fact”.
the fact we dithered around with ronaldo and offered less than united is a fact erichero.
everyone knows that mate, even ronaldos mum has said it…
I think as well as new players we need a new assistant and we need to look at the medical team also.
Ronaldos mum is a liar.
Arsene Knows Best.
Pedro if it’s not the player you thought you have to tell us in the end who it was mate.
Erichero, we do… becuase I don’t see any big name signings at the Arse for over £20mill and I’ve seen plenty of big names miss out on a move to North London due to derisory offers.
Fact is, Wenger won’t pay a premium unless they are under 18, which pretty much only happened when other clubs got smart with their scouts and Arsene couldn’t buy out the bargain bin.
Now he’s taking wild risks on players like Kozzer…
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The Barcelona Tea Lady, a senora Tealida Pot, has stated her desire for Cesc Fabregas to join her in the kitchen, and help her with the Barcelona Boards afternoon tea. She states “i wait with open arms and a warm pot for my long lost tea boy”.
Alfie
i like it – hell i love it
But if Ozil is coming in does that mean Cesc is leaving?
Ozil will be brilliant to alternate between LF and AM
But we still need a DM imo
Plan b itself didn’t work out (referring to Baptista after Paddy…)
But if you say Ivan is dealing behind the scenes, then that’s good
Marca in Spain are saying that Ivan is now ready to talk to Barsa, but they print a load of crap as well…
i also agree with getting Stekelberg & Schwarzer
a club of our stature needs a top keeper and then a good one (schwarzer) as his backup. Our young pole can be no.3
This would mean both Flappy and the clown leave
When we play Chelsea and the Mancs we def need another DM
Erichero
You are so spot on, with the “are we there yet” thing
I’ve always been labelled towards a AKB
So who of the posters are in the AWTY brigade? Jaguar for a start!
TO assist….
An AWTY is someone who is generally annoying and rants because we haven’t signed anyone NOW!!!!
Pedro
is your ‘sauce’ on the same wavelength as Alfie’s?
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alfie says:
July 23, 2010 at 10:53
We will sign Ozil and Steklenburg before the Emirates and will sign Schwarzer as soon as Fulham appoint a manager.
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pedro
although the board will never comeout and say this its common knownedge that since moving to emirates wenger has had 15 mill max a season to spend the club will not entertain going in red at all evon if means missing out on winnings this its tough balancing act chelsea and manu are straped for cash and in red but because they have winning things top players cost money and manu and chelsea stance is buy these players evon ifthe go into debt arsenal on the other hand are in profit and zero debt but both wenger nad the board have common under extreme critizme for this stance including from me i dont care about thee balance sheet i wont see titles and most fans will say the same
Walking Wounded – No. They haven’t asked him to hand in a transfer request. They haven’t asked him to do anything. All they have said is that they want him to play for them! It would have to be an official representative of Barcelona as well. There would be chaos is players weren’t allowed to tell their mates to try and join them as that must always go on. I’m not saying they aren’t annoying but they certainly haven’t broken any rules. I really don’t blame them for wanting him and for him wanting to go. I just want the deal done and a manager brought in who will re-invest the money into the team.
Arsene Wenger is god !
I joke !
Pedro – Mak your mind up dude, now he’s taking wild risks ?!
Agreed incesc, although United had an arrangement with Sporting, so we don’t even know if it was an issue of price in the end. In that case we were the first movers on the matter, not dilly-dallying. We had three meetings with Ronaldo and his mum already before ManU pitched up late. It’s a similar story with Galindo in the reverse – Everton had all the trials and then we marched in and stole him. Not sure what that proves, but anyway
On big names, I don’t think we really tried for them until recently. Wenger did try and make project youth work while money was tight. I think now it’s a different ball game, because some of the youth haven’t stepped up and there are others almost ready. Wenger’s gamble is whether to give them a chance of a flump or to crush them by signing a replacement.
If anything, the real decision Wenger has to make, talking of mindset, is whether to manage by squad harmony, or whether to develop a ruthless streak like Ferguson or Mourinho. It’s a tough call – team spirit can be elusive – ask Capello.
Nope and I wholeheartedly don’t believe we’ll be signing those two.
Yeah Denis, I’m very much aware of the balance of debt those cunts have racked up….
Yup InCesc, the name had me thinking you were pisstaking until you came in with the link. Nice stats though.
Erichero – “Wenger is working hard and working on particular signings”
Was this before or after he fucked off to line his pockets in South Africa?? Working hard?? Do me a favour…..
AW: We don’t buy stars we create them…Bergkamp was a star before he came, are we going to argue how that one turned out. If Wenger was in charge we would never have got him.
i’m depressed again now Pedro lol
Wengers just out of his depth at this level.
Pedro
Ok, how about Melo and Zapata?
Hopefully if we mention enough names, the truth will come out!
I think that’s brilliant – the AWTY brigade!
Keyser, £10mill on a centre back without international or European experience is a wild risk.
Unless of course you think that’s a wise way to spend our money?
Especially when City signed a German international centre back / right back for the same price.
TAIG – should be ‘wanking’ and not ‘working’
LLR – I posted this on the back end of yesterday’s post…..
Maybe it’s about time that shit stabber Platini put his money wher his stinking mouth is, clubs for instance like Barca can only buy a player when they can actually pay the asking price. Hey i know, a bit like buying a house, the money (in full) must be transferred into the seller’s account before the keys & deeds are released…….
Otherwise tell them fucking gypo beggers to fuck off, and come back when they are solvent….
Alonso and Neuer!
My source tells me that we missed out on Titus Bramble because Steve Bruce was willing to pay him a giant toblerone. I’m sick of how unambitious we are in the transfer market.
I heard that david villa would love to see cesc in barcalona.and I think that its funny cos two years ago villa wanted to play for us.and fucking wenger could’nt even made an attempt on signing him.
UTD didnt have any arrangement with Sporting when they signed Ronaldo.
UTD offered more, and more wages.
Just like the silly myth that Fergie didnt even know who he was until Wenger was interested. All lies.
Pedro
cant u just put us out our misery
Pedro – You’re talking yourself in circles, just like you did with backing Hart mate, Citeh also play ridiculous wages.
DDM.
Word.
If we go into the season with the team as it is now, but add shwazer and sol resigns and that’s your lot.
We will without a shadow of a doubt win nothing.
It’s not even a debate.
It will be groundhog day.
All those people saying, be paitent seem to forget that every single season for the last 6 years our transfer windows have gone EXACTLY like this one.
Lot’s of promises and no action.
So maybe, JUST MAYBE the reason fans are getting anxious is because they have seen it all before and NOT as people are suggesting because we are impatient and want everything like children now, now, now.
It literally cracks me up that all the fucking AKB’s forget that this BULLSHIT has been going on for 6 fucking YEARS!!!
Lol Honest Bill
Pedro,
Did Lurch and I at least get one right between us?
You people are like little kids travelling on the 279 asking if we are there yet.
We have only had 5 years of transition, 5 years where youve had the benifit of seeing Eboue Diaby Denilson and Song feature in the vast majority of games they are fit for.
Five years of transition is nothing and you people should feel grateful that we play such great football. Whenever I see Eboue playing on the right it reminds me of Messi.
Five straight summers all I have heard from you lot is NOW NOW NOW.
Five years of going into the season with no chance of silver wear and youve all become spoilt little children.
You people think spending money is the answer to everything. Look if we pay £4m for a goalie we will probably end up like leeds, I say much better we give Almunia a chance to show what he can do, hes a year older and a year wiser.
We are only 1-2% away from dominating.
Arsene Knows.
Chris Beef
LMAO @ 11.20
the funny thing is i can see Wenger doing that as well
WTL – Great post there, and you didn’t mention sheep once.
gambon, United did have an agreement. You’re changing the story to suit your agenda. And you DO have an agenda.
gambon it’s no myth, Utd 100% had an arrangement with Sporting, and now City have the same thing.
http://watchmanchesterunited.com/2010/01/11/manchester-city-replace-united-in-partnership-with-sporting-lisbon/
LOL Keyser.
Keyser – Is it ridiculous wages or another step in the inflation ladder? Wages still seem to be going up last time I checked. I know City are at the top of the money spending pile but when Wenger says a player is not worth more than £15m and 4 other managers are battling it out around £20m then who is wrong in their evalution of the price?
Wait a minute, I’m going to read through it again, just to check, it’s pretty amazing..
Stonroy ( at 10:45) Yes, Wenger must know he’s on his last chance this season. That’s why it’s bizarre that he hasn’t addressed the weaknesses on the playing side of things.
What’s MORE bizarre is that I recall the Board saying they would likely extend his contract if he wanted!!! Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t this said towards the end of last season ? Amazing thing to say, ain’t it ?
“In Arsene we rust”.
Alonso???? hmmmm – quality player
Khadera in – Alonso out?
However dnt think Alonso and Song would make a good midfield partnership. Both too similar in terms of pace and build.
Keyser, talking myself in circles?
Do you mean you are looking at a way of arguing the toss without actually putting a point across… wow, no change there.
A, you can’t have an agreement with a club that dictates where a player goes… that’d go against employment laws.
United offered more money and more wages…
KM,
It would make a much better one than Denilson and Song
WTL
Time for your daily Lithium dose buddy.
WTL, I’m not sure we’re going to dominate, although we did think that after the Invincibles, and we had a brilliant squad then.
But I do like the AWTY brigade – brilliant, I’m going to use it from now on.
A
Ronaldo said it was purely a £££ thing.
tonyadamsisgod – For one it depends who the other 4 managers are and secondly Pedro mentioned Boateng, because in comparison Citeh have arguably got more for their money transfer wise.
Even if it was the inflation ladder, how many clubs are on that rung of the ladder ?!
TAIG, spot on… Wenger seems to think he defines market prices.
A player is only ever worth a lot of money if he’s selling…
I think this is the first Arsenal team that i don’t relate to in anyway shape or form.
All of our previous sides i have loved and the sides have had a great affinity with the fans.
This one has no soul at all. It has no affinity with the crowd, the shirt the fans the club.
Wenger has sucked the soul out of the team – by constantly buying mild mannered babies.
Even Cesc isn’t a big personality.
Henry was an arrogant fucker but he brought life to the team and we LOVED him because of it, same with Viera, Adams, Dennis etc..etc..etc..
There is nothing in this team that excites me at all, because i know the players don’t care and the board don’t care and that we are going into every season without a chance of winning anything.
People point to Chelsea and City and the money, which i agree is a problem and it gives them a massive advantage.
But that means we need to get someone better for the job that CAN get results even in the face of all this money being thrown around.
Keyser, you’re dodging the question again by asking questions. That wasn’t an answer was it?
In 12 months time there will be a few on here that will need to find a new club.
Where will Wenger go is the question they need to ask themselves.
Pedro alot of clubs have arrangements that give other clubs first option on players. If he had decided that he didn’t want to join Utd because he wanted to join us, and we had matched their wages and bid then it could’ve happened, but Utd always had first choice
Pedro – Heh, yeah could be, just keeping you in check before you contradict yourself completely, though at some point you could go full circle.
are we there yet , are we there yet..!!!
I thought Sporting and ManUre had a agreement like us and bereverren Belgium something or other
Great non-point there Keyser… surprised there wasn’t a question in there.
Wash yer mouth out KM. Alonso would make Song look amazing. Cesc would wait 2 years by which time guardiolla replaces AW and we rule for a decade!
Yep
Wenger is the kind of person that would go into McDonalds and ask for a £2.88 meal, cos thats what he used to pay and thats what theyre worth.
Then he’d see Nasri buying 4 Big Macs and bemoan the youth of today & financial doping.
A, Christiano is all about money… United offered more on the transfer front and the wages front.
We were the club more suited to him for style and cultural make up.
Pedr o- I’m not dodging anything, straight answer, it’s ridiculous wages, but I’m not sure what Citeh did pay him exactly in wages, but if you consider other players who say they want ‘Champions League football’ only to join Citeh, I’m guessing wages played a part in the deal.
Erichero -
We will dominate mate, Jet Nordveit Gibbs Simpson.
Add them to Diaby Denilson Eboue and we are set for 10 years.
If we sell cesc for £50m we could even bring back Quincy Uwosu and Lupoli.
Arsenes a genius.
Keyser, or they could want to play with some of the best players in Europe and be part of the set up before they dominate?
gambon – I don’t think the analogy quite right, but wouldn’t raising the issue of obesity and how it’s ok for his players to be extremely fat be more succinct.
Pedro – stop being a tart please and give us a clue……..
I think im pretty well informed.
I dont think Alonso will come KM, we had the oppurtunity to sign him a couple of years ago for £15m but we opted to go for the 7 year old Gamboz Fumbra of Calais
Keyser – Yeah I know most can’t compete right now, I just meant that the money in football is still rising and it annoys me that Wenger, on a very regular basis, won’t match what others can because of his own principles. It seems he’s happier playing up to his degree in economics than being a football manager. What annoys me most is that he treats the money like its his rather than acknowledging that the fans pay extortionate prices for tickets and offering them something in return. Its pretty scandalous I think and up there with fat cat bank managers taking home huge bonuses while their customers are left to rot!! It also annoys me that he doesn’t use the full extent or even half of the resources/budget that is undoubtedly at his disposal.
Perhaps Pedro, although Utd had first choice anyways, so we couldn’t have gotten him without Utd having an option to make him an offer as well.
I’m not that fussed about Ronaldo, would’ve rather gotten Messi when we got Cesc!
Alonso is an overrated cunt anyway.
first of all no deals could be done because it was the world cup, now its because the players are on holiday….come on surely it’s not going to happen, denilson is back soon, cheer up guys!
Pedro – Like Tevez ? Boateng might be different of course, but I’m still guessing that the wages played a part, unless 10.5m is the going rate for a player of his class.
Taig
It’s the economist coming out in the nerd. Be that as it may, he ought to be crunching numbers for Ernst & Young, not derailing Arsenal’s chances of winning anything for a SIXTH year.
erichero…
kids on the school bus…
are we there yet?
perfect analogy…
henry14 – Great post mate and I really feel your pain man!! Watching Arsenal used to make me feel so proud in the days of Ljungberg, Pires, Henry, Vieira & Co. They all had that swagger because they all had belief in themselves and each other! Football was almost warfare to those guys and they gave it their all 110% of the time!! The team has no heart, no passion, no desire. The only player I can remotely see possessing it is van Persie.
Any economist would tell you that a player is worth exactly whatever price you can sell him for and no less. That’s the price mechanism at work.
Carlos Queiros sealed the ronaldo deal, and the caaaashhh.
Keyser, Tevez was desperate to stay at United but Fergie didn’t think he was good enough.
Did you not take note of that on going story last year?
A, Arsenal were in first… the United gazumped us. It had nothing to do with first choice.
WTL. I’ll be honest, I didn’t see your name and you sold me left, right and centre as an AKB
At least a bit of comedy on what is largely a miserable site.
“Are we there yet? Are we there yet?”
henry14 that is a good point. Too many mediocre bland players in this squad. Cesc has spoilt his reputation and needs to address it quickly. Otherwise the closest we have is TV and RVP – but not huge players like we used to have.
I hope Pedro’s tip will turn into fruition.
I tried Wenger’s approach to buying a house and offered £100K on a £350K house but for some reason they turned my offer down and accepted another offer of £350k….don’t know what their problem is? lol
taig – Come on dude, Scandalous ? I don’t think it’s a streigt up comparison, how would us being frugle in the transfer market match up to what bankers do ?!
It varies from league to league, Chelsea paid ridiculous wages a few years ago, Citeh are exceeding them, in Spain they can agree their own tv deals, the tax restrictions are different and the leagues’ probably less competitive.
Still how many clubs could match Citeh for money ? At some point Citeh will reach the Champions League, then it’s left down to factors like the club they are, the stadium, fans, tradition and the quality of life living in Manchester, I’d say those come further down the list then the wages a player is offered.
Erichero, the acronym doesn’t work at all… no one ever asks that question.
If you wanted to take a typical LG opening question it would be something like…
‘Have we signed anyone yet?’
It still wouldn’t work because it doesn’t roll off the tongue…
It has nothing to do with Wenger being an economist, an economist could see we have a lot of money, and spending it would provide a return in terms of tickets/merchandise bought, and marketing benefits.
Its cos hes a self serving snake, taking a huge salary out of the club, that he wouldnt get if he insisted on spending the profits.
LOL Erichero.
Mate you have to look through the misery and pain on this site.
What will really make you laugh is that most of these guys work for the samaritans!
Pedro – Desperate, yeah, it really showed.
The problem with Tevez was he was very much like a loan of a car.
You are driving around in it for a year, but then you have to pay for it, and suddenly it is not as shiny as when you first picked it up, and you start looking at a new one.
charliegeorge – Some will say that he should move upstairs but to me that’s just giving the man more power to tie the hands of any new manager to stop him spending. his annual budget for transfers would be £37 and a bottle of Lucozade!
taig, your point is valid about fighting. That’s why the last three Wenger signings have all been fighting. Wenger’s well aware of the problem. Let’s see if his new signings solve it.
At least a bit of comedy on what is largely a miserable site.
steady on !
A
Just like Arsenal’s arrangement with Beveren and a world-beater in the guise of Eboue. Worked wonders that one. Gotta love Arsenal’s world-famous scouting network.
gambon – Yeah, I guess so! I love how he preaches about strict wage structure when the cunt is on a £6m contract for doing absolutely fuck all! just like when he says he won’t pay over the odds for a player but sells Adebayor to City for £25m!!
Gooner Tim, what do you mean a miserable site? We’re talking football… there’s nothing miserable about that.
Erichero – Koscielny? A fighter? I’m confident I could take the skinny rake down so fuck knows what will be going through Drogba and Rooney’s minds!!
Taig, he really is small in the flesh… honestly, he’s got to be one of the slightest players in our squad.
Yes Pedro, we were in first, but we couldn’t do a deal without Utd having the option of making an offer to the club and the player themselves, which was the whole point of the agreement between the two clubs.
TAIG, I don’t get the point about Adebayor – that’s reverse logic.
Taig
Bang on. He never should be allowed within 500 yards of a football pitch.
Keyser – Its pretty simple. We shovel money into the club. The club gives nothing back in return or at least very little. Meanwhile, the big boss man is lining his pockets. It doesn’t get much simpler than that.
I reckon Pedros players are Schweinstieger and Lucio.
Anyway, Pedro, if they don’t happen by 1st September, will you tell us who they were supposed to be?
We’ll need some form of excitement
I’d rather have an overrated cunt than Denilson….
A… so basically, what you’re saying is that it was like any other transfer deal? And that unless Arsenal are the only team interested, we struggle to get players (unless they are kids of course).
Villa’s added himself to the kill list
Erichero – What’s not to get? Wenger spouts on about the fact that the money in football is ridiculous. he insists he’ll never pay over the odds for a player but then sells Adebayor for £25m to City? Are you telling me that you think Adebayor was worth £25m????
Maqitlarge… deal.
shirt number 9 is fucked oh oh oh oh oh reyes gone in the wilderness oh oh oh oh oh now edwardo oh oh oh oh oh.who will be our next number 9 oh oh oh oh oh.zizizizi oh here comes number 9 but whoooooooooooooooooooooooo??????number nine make us proud bafikala le grove ….go well sweet edwardo.
taig
Calm down son….its not like Blackpool have spent more on transfers in the last 5 years.
Oh wait, they have!
As have Wolves, Fulham, Birmingham, Leeds, Hull.
taig – So you’re saying you go into your local bank and you’re expecting them to be competitive with other banks because you have what ? Emotional ties to a certain branch ? You follow their economic reasoning carefull and want them to succeed ?!
No of course not thats just fucking idiotic, you go to a bank that’ll give you a loan, or a competitive interest rate, or just to have somewhere to put your money.
Lucio would be amazing, I couldn’t ask for a better player
deal its Lucio and Schweinsteiger? Done deal? They’re at the Emirates now posing for Pravda.com? Pedro I love you.
haha! You know I jest.
gambon – Yeah but that’s because they are trying to find the world’s next Denilson! Hang on a minute…I’ve just had a great idea for a TV show!!
A, again, we don’t know that. All these sites pretending they have exclusive information… All these posters pretending the same.
As for fighters, Vermaelen isn’t exactly WWE material, but no one here can deny he’s a fighter. The point still stands – that Wenger is now stressing fighting qualities in his signings. Whether or not the players turn out to be fighters is a separate point.
i dont get the miserable thing people point at le-grove.
Surely if your team underperforms on the pitch or in the transfer market pointing it out is honest not miserable.
I think we can see we need a GK,DM,CB and a proper winger
But i can only see us buying a GK and a CB.Probably promote Nordveit or Frimpong which wouldnt be a bad idea. Love to see Elia or Hazard, But cant see it happening. Wenger clearly doesnt give a toss about the fans. Whats happened to the Marquee Signings that gets the fans excited. We will probably only see that when the crowds start dropping below 50,000 a game.
Keyser, I think what he’s saying is that you should practice what you preach.
Don’t moan about inflated transfer fees when you’re flaming the fire by demanding massive money for your players.
maqitlarge
we are after a keeper and a dm so its not lucio
Erichero, he’s built powerfully, he’s compact, he’s hugely aggressive, he was the captain of Ajax, he’d played in the champions league and he was an international.
If the Koss is that small wouldn’t it be best if he became a DM instead?
Keyser – That’s a pathetic attempt mate. The point, any which way you try to gloss over it, is that a team/manager should always TRY to reward its fans as they are the ones who keep the club going. Wenger/Arsenal are not even trying. They have a wealth to spend and have been simply choosing to keep the money for themselves be it in bonuses or investments into stupid fucking property projects that provides the same result: More money for them to pocket.
taig, we’re talking about buying players, not selling. The opposite rules work for selling. Buy low, sell high – that’s basic economics. The kind that ‘Arry Whiteknapp doesn’t understand.
as long we are after a GK and DM I am glad as I dont want to see Flapianski or Denilson in first eleven. Denilson should play more offensive if playing or sell him!!! Diaby will come good!!!
have we signed anyone yet??????????
alonso was substituted in the world cup final…
his replacement provided the assist for the winning goal in minutes…
he plays for us, alonso doesn’t…
thank goodness.
Erichero, Harry wouldn’t understand? What, the same Harry who bought Diarra for £4mill then sold him for £20million… the same Harry whose pay was based on how much he got for players?
Pedro
You are right, of course. Arsenal could have taken Ronaldo, even Basil said as much by saying that he COULD have signed RONALDO. Money, wages and Carlos Queiroz were key in the end. Make no mistake, Arsenal had first dibs and the old codger bottled it.
PEDRO- when are you going to give out the info for the metro league thingy ma jig????????/
How about buy high, sell high… or is that not in your book of economics?
Alonso could have been bought for £15mill… then sold for £30million.
Rooney cost £28mill and is now worth £60million…
Ribery went for £20mill and attracted £60million last year…
Keisuke Honda on verge of move to AC Milan???????
Dan, when the guy gets in contact with me!
Dam straight DDM.
Alonso is just the ticket. Overrated is bollix just look at liverpools epic fail since he left. Oh and he’s first drop from the world and euro champions! Overrated my arsehole.
Agreed Pedro, but Vermy is not that big, really. I’m sure you can all agree that it’s too early to say too much on Koz. Even Myles Palmer admits that, and that’s saying a lot. Can we at least agree to hold judgment on Koz for a while. We’re shouting out for signings and then slate them when they arrive. Seriously, are we there yet?
cool pedro
Blazon, that guy you’re talking about wants out… hardly a bragging point.
yeah we are shouting out for proper signings,not cunts like kozzer
This is meant to be a football club not a business. Our results that we are meant to judge Arsene on take place on the pitch no in our annual reports.
Buy low sell high is bollocks, for a football club the mantra should be buy quality sell the dross.
Every last penny that the club has should be put into increasing quality on the pitch.
A football club that has such shit turning out week in week out, a football club that hasnt won anything in the amount of time we have gone withoyt a trophy (most seasons not even coming close), a football club like ours shouldnt have 9 fucking figures in the bank.
Its a joke.
Pedro, are you defending Harry Redknapp in order to argue with me?
Erichero, that’s because we’ve haemorrhaged a lot of experience and the signing we’ve made there looks like he’s lacking the physicality needed.
pedro- it wasnt me, i was protesting the comment.
Incesc
No!!
When fans say we wont win the league they are miserable and should support Spurs, Chelsea or Citeh.
When fans said predictions are right, they still dont know what you are talking about.
Above all, you are absolutely NOT ALLOWED to question Wenger, because before 1996 there was no Arsenal.
Erichero, I’m making the point that Arsene Wenger isn’t the only manager who knows how to wheel and deal.
Harry took Spurs from bottom to 4th inside a year… he’s a good manager regardless of how dodgy he is.
taig – Ah give it a rest, it’s not even fucking close, so you’re saying nothing ? and I mean absolutely nothing has gone back into the club in any way whatsoever and they’ve kept it all for themselves.
They all swim around in a vault full of money like Ducktales.
Funny thing is, you probably think that’s a perfectly reasonable argument.
Gambon, that’s a good point… no one came back and congratulated Le Grove on making many correct predictions last year.
Erichero – Oh my god! So Wenger is right to protest at the high transfer fees put on players heads whilst doing exactly that himself??
pedro you heard anything about rosicky getting sold??????
Buy low, sell high has literally nothing to do with economics.
Pedro,
With the 2 possible acquisitions. Do you think that will give us a chance of winning the league?
Nothing Dan, but it wouldn’t surprise me. He’s had a year of fitness and he was less than average.
This will be our last chance to cash in on him…
The arrogance of some of the people commenting here – amazing!
Whom of you have ever managed a football team to a couple of EPL and FA Cup titles? Whom of you have lead your team to a CL final?
Thought so…
1. AW, and The Club, have build a youth system to produce exceptional players. They are coming into the first team now (Wilshere anyone). We’ve had a very young squad for a couple of years – guess what – young players mature and develop.
2. “Inexpensive” signings aren’t the same as bad signings (Fabregas, van Persie, etc)
3. “Expensive” signings are NOT the same as good signings (Berbatov, Keane)
4. Using money isn’t always smart (Portsmouth, Leeds)
5. Have faith in the team! I for one will support The Team. Does that mean I wouldn’t like a couple of players out there playing for Arsenal (Messi, Torres, Vila), no but we do have a quality squad. The defensive problems it looks like we are still struggling with is probably just as much with the way we play as the players we play.
6. GK: We currently don’t have a “match-winning” GK but they are good goalies.
7. RB: Very good set up (BS/EE)
8. CB: Probably the weakest spot just now depending on LK’s qualities when adjusted.
9. LB: Very good set up (GC/KG)
10. DM: Acceptable. Song was among the top, top DM last year. Who else? Maybe Djourou… Get Flamini back.
11. AM: “Too many” top players competing for a place
12. Strikers: We are now getting to the point where we, if Chamakh is a success, we do have a plan B. Better off than e.g. ManU and Liverpool
Gambon, it does in Romford Market economics.
Pedro! How’s it going?
Taig, got any good odds for me, your last tip on Jcole was a duff my friend
Keyser – I’m saying though don’t give back nearly enough compared to what they take in! What have they given us? And please don’t say the stadium because that takes care of itself with plenty of money left over! And I mean plenty!
Yeah we don’t win trophies or give you guys nice players to watch but look……your seat now has some padding on it! Whoop de fucking whoo…….
*they
gambon,
Yep there was no Anfield,Copenhagen or Donkeys winning derbys before “96″, Graham also nearly went a season unbeaton but that seems to be forgotten as Arsenal have only exissted in the Wenger years,
T2T, have you managed a premiership club before?
No…?
I choose not to read your comment then, becuase you’re clearly in the same group as us.
Wenger is like the crack dealer complaining that crack is too widespread.
My understanding from my shareholder is that Ivan has got the message, the club seem to have got the message, now it is time to deliver that message to the fans and deliver us top quality players across the pitch and try to keep our top players.
Did Wenger get that message ?
FUCK ME THE TRUE AKBs ARE OUT NOW!
YOU ARROGANT CUNTS!
WHO HAVE YOU EVER MANAGED.
LOLOLOLOLOL.
We should get the Flamster back….NOW!!!
Afternoon Master P!
Chippy, Geoff was asking the other day whether GG has a better trophies per year ratio than Wenger yet?
…im also guessing he’s raiding his own stash if he thinks Denilson is a prem player.
GG definately has a better ratio.
Did Wenger get that message ?
nope,he didn’t.
You hypocrites! Adebayo barely said a word about leaving and you all crucified him; why can’t you do the same to Fabregas who has never shown any loyalty to this great club since his issue came up. Don’t ask me about quality, because if you do, I will ask you how many people have been able to score 30 goals in a season for Arsenal in the past 10 years. As far as I am concern, no man is indispensible at Arsenal, not even the great AW. Any star that leaves will be missed for a while, but we will get on with our lives. For a good price, sell any disloyal player. While I do not begrudge Fabregas’s ambition to go back home, my only concern is that he should have thought about that when he signed a contract renewal just last year with a hefty salary increase. I feel he has used Arsenal so much for his career, at the very least; he should give something back to the club and a good fee UKP50m will palate us.
T2T
so whats your point mate?
Ooh sorry forgot to put Arshavin on that list. It’s just too many!
Afam, clearly you weren’t about last summer when all Adebayor did was talk about other clubs and leaving…
Yep, can’t deny it. Theirry Henry is a proper gunner alright. Lies that he loves Arsenal but deep down dreams to play for Barcelona. I incl. Overmars, Silvinho, Helb, Petit, Van Bronkhorst and of course, who can forget, captain Cesc Fabregas. How embarrassing.
not even close BIG D!
pedro, can you please give Erichero a yellow card?
if not, I will
I do find the comment about loyalty amusing, ludicrous even in relation to a captain of a side that has pretensions to be a big club- I am sure that making our best player captain is only a ploy to try to lever more money out of Barcelona. Given the annual sale of our best players to that club.
After Xavis comments- should the Arsenal Board market the club as Arseloana- it would be more accurate perhaps?
The AKB ‘s man love for Wenger has clearly stupefied them into agreeing everything that Wenger does or says however inconsistent that may be.
Rosicky out Özil in.
4. Using money isn’t always smart (Portsmouth, Leeds)
oh coooooooommmmmeeeee on!!
not that old chesnut again
as gambon always says, blackpool have a bigger net spend than us.
6. GK: We currently don’t have a “match-winning” GK but they are good goalies.
Now i know your high!
6. GK: We currently don’t have a “match-winning” GK but they are good goalies.
they are good goalies,please do have a day off.
How very dare you! What’s wrong with Romford? We gave you Pele! Half the Arsenal team lived around there! lol
I love it. Suddenly we have the defence of the Spurs manager. Look Pedro, we’re both gooners, we’re in the same camp, and that doesn’t include Arry. He killed two clubs financially. Yes, he did well with them, but he left them in tatters. When Wenger does move on, sooner or later, the club will be in a good state.
And whoever said buy low, sell high has nothing to do with economics knows nothing about economics.
But I do agree that top quality requires top dollar, or at least close to top dollar. Even then buy low sell high is better than buy high sell high, and better than buy high sell low (see Spurs).
where the hell is Franchise????????????
or was he just an alter-ego???????
er afam,
adebayor compared milan to beyonce
taig – You know what, no matter what I say, you’re just going to go completely over the top and just take the mick.
This started with how the wages Citeh pay are so above the norm they are getting ridiculous, and you were wondering if it was that or just the result of inflation.
I don’t think there’s much argument to it, Citeh are doing what Chelsea did to the Premiership a few years and they’re doing it on an evern bigger scale, for the Premiership.
What do I get a yellow card for?
T2T – Nope, I haven’t managed an EPL side and won those things. But in the last 5 years I have won just as many trophies as Wenger has so I look forward to my big pay cheque. Cheers.
So what, we never, ever get rid of Wenger because of what he has won for us? Do you not understand that in EVERY job there is in the world EVERBODY can only do it well for a limited amount of time! One day Fergie will be a shit manager. One day, Messi will be shit at football. It just so happens that Wenger’s time has already come.
I wish people would stop fucking rolling out the Pompey / Leeds argument as a reason not to spend.
It shows high levels of retardedness.
the shcool holidays have evidently begun
T2T, have you ever written a blog? Didn’t think so, so you have no right to comment about someone that does write a blog, your comments are childlike in the extreme.
Afam, don’t be a twat, Adebayor said on Sky Sports News that he was interested in a move to Milan, that prick brought it on himself.
Oh and for the record T2T, if I had managed Arsenal this last 6 years, I would have won a trophy, at least one.
gambon
geoff, how goes it bigbear?
Gambon looking at your list of teams spending more than us doesnt really help your argument as all those teams are below us so you could argue that spending money isnt the answer!!
Hi all,
Never posted here before only just found this site the last few weeks to be honest.
Very decent site and a very balanced comments section. Keep up the good work.
Just wanted to say i too also have an insider. Now i know you won’t believe me but he told me about various stories that have come true, a few that havent either aswell. He is telling me similar things to Pedro. ie that the manager is being pressurised to bring in some proven internationals and show some ambition…
Anyway he’s told me that Sol and Schwarzer will be signed (nothing new there)but that he next bits more interesting. He says that talks with Melo are at an advanced stage. The player whats to come, Juve want to sell, the only problem is, you’ve guessed it…. agreeing a fee.
Next bit is even more exciting. We are in for a very high profile brazillian who is seen as surplus to requirements by the new manager at his club. He’s only been there for a year and the club wants to cash in on him to finance other player purchases. He could be available at a cut price £20m, the bad news is that Arshavin could be involved in the deal. Make of that what you will….
Pedro,
Funny enough your resident Statician Ray done a list, Think it was yesterday or the day before and there is not much in it, Of course Wengers had the stadium built on his watch so that should be duly noted but Graham really did have to build us up from scratch, I only scanned it briefly and think Graham is now ahead, They are both massive influences on the club mind and im not sure certain people understand just how much Graham did for the club before he went bent !!
TAIG
Absolutely.
Id love to know if these fans that think Wenger is unsackable also think we should give Sol a 30 year contract??????
gambon – Hahaha.. Yeah, maybe they’ll stop when you stop with the Blackpool one.
Keyser – Mate. I’m not going over the top at all. All I am saying is that Wenger should have taken a hard look at what he has been doing some while back. He tried out an experiment and the fans stood by him. That’s fine. But to carry on when you have failed on so many occasions is just taking the piss and I think its time he rewarded the fans with some quality signings and showed them some respect. lets forget about bonuses and such. We cannot deny that he is getting paid a huge wage for making us stand still.
Afam
Works both ways, mate. Arsenal’s golden-handcuffs extension was a ploy to bump up Fabregas’s future value, knowing precisely well that he would one day leave. And given Basil’s lack of investment in the squad and deep deceptions, it always had to be sooner than later. How about thanking Fabregas for seven years of outstanding service, with almost diddly-squat to show for it.
————–Neuer/Chesney/Almunia———
Sagna/nordveit–Sol/JD–Verm/Koss–Clichy/Gibbs
Özil/Wilshere–Cesc/Nasri–Song/Alonso
Jet/Theo–RVP/Bendy–Chamackh/Arshavin
Erichero -
I ask all people like you, AKBs
, the same question and I would like you to answer this also:
At what point do you say that Arsene is not the right man for the job anymore
1. if we go into this season with this squad.
2. if we go into this season with this squad plus a granpa in goal and sol.
3. if we win nothing this year.
4. if we win nothing te year after.
5. if we win nothing for another 3 years.
6 – an alternative answer from you.
Keyser
Truth hurts the AKBs like yourself.
Have you got your Bob Wilson top trumps out?!!
I Love Tim Henman – Have you called yourself that just so I feel stupid writing it now!?
Sounds interesting if not a little unnerving!
arsenesabemejor
Everyone spends more than us, teams above and below.
The argument is that if blackpool can spend money why not us? Especially considering we are one of the top teams in the world supposedly.
And spending money will undoubtebly make us better.
Our keepers cost us over 10 points last year.
with a decent keeper we would have been champions and how much would that have cost us? How much on the field did not spending taht money cost us?
I remember when GG was here we were winning trophies but wanted a bit more excitement than the 1-0 trademark result, now Wenger is here and exciting we want a defence like GG had..lol
Erichero, I’m for rational debate. Saying Harry doesn’t understand football and how it works is a bit rich really. It doesn’t matter who he manages.
Who killed the clubs, the manager or the people running the show above him?
I have no sympathy for Pompey or Southampton… a manager only works with what he’s given.
This is where Arsenal fans get it all wrong… football management is about what happens on the pitch. Not the balance sheet…
Who said that ‘Arry bought Diarra for 4mill and sold him for 20 mill?
Well that may have been what Real Madrid paid, but Portsmouth, never got a sniff of that…
First we got a huge chunk of that and second, once ‘Arry took his slice there must have been about £4.53 and a pack of Haribo Tangfastics left.
PS Keyser, I do agree with the Citeh wages….
apparently I heard somewhere that they made Kolo the 5th highest paid player in the world when they signed him. That’s a lot of money for a 43 year old
I love tim henman -
YOU FUCKING CUNT.
Coming onto the blog and dropping in a post saying we are signing KAKA.
WANKER!
ILTH, so we’re going to sign Kaka? hmmmmm….
gambon – Oh shit, not you’ve pulled out the AKB thing, typical you’re such a gimp sometimes, hahah.
Arsenes
So ill ask again….
Why did we move stadium?
Why do we charge the highest ticket prices in world football?
Didn’t we move to The Emirates so that we could compete with the big boys? I’d give anything to be going to watch us play AC Milan at Highbury next week knowing that Schweinsteiger, Hart, Zapata and Hazard had all been signed!!
I Love Tim Henman, great name and an interesting comment.
Spending isn’t the answer… Madrid, Barca, Inter, Spurs, Chelsea, United, Lyon, Bayern…. spending ISN’T the answer.
I Love Tim Henman.
Don’t tell me its robinho?
Arshavin is not leaving for any other player!
WTL – I’ve not understood for a long time now why we haven’t had more links with him! Should we fuck Arshavin off to get him though and would Madrid be asking that? I’m not sure. Personally, if its true, then Kaka is available and we should be looking for a cash deal only.
taig – You are dude, to the point where Citeh paying Adebayor 170,000′s a week and you’re wondering if it’s just inflation.
Mate, leave the point there, if we broaden it you’re just going to upset yourself.
Did you read that as Kaka… I thought he meant Robinho?
its kaka isnt it i love tim henmann
TAIG.
True but how many other clubs would manage to stand still given our stadium transition?
Not many i’d speculate. Anyway Wenger said, that if the team failed last season, then he would have to admit that our strategy isn’t gonna work and that he would address it. He’s stilll got till the end of the window to do so. If he doesn’t then fair play, even i will be exhausted by it
Last season’s ticket prices, cheapest ST & most expensive ST respectively:
Blackburn Rovers £199 – £349
Wigan Athletic £250 – £299
Bolton Wanderers £285 – £475
Fulham £285 – £799
Birmingham City £338.50 – £632
Sunderland £350 – £795
Aston Villa £360 – £520
Burnley £378 – £462
Hull City £385 – £450
Stoke City £399 – £599
Manchester City £419 – £576
Everton £443 – £586
Portsmouth £500 – £650
Manchester United £513 – £931
Chelsea £520 – £1125
Wolves £522 – £630
West Ham £570 – £810
Tottenham £622 – £1640
Arsenal £855 – £1825
hhhmmppfffhhhh…….
AKB Alert –
“Be pretty happy if we found a very good centre-back and that was all that we added.”
Gayser 2010
kaka for 20 million
hahaha
Tim henman is shit.
lol gambon
Pedro if the players are still on holidays then they must have been part of the squads that got to the semi’s at least.Where they in the starting 11 for their teams?Have they ever played in the premier lge?
The thing about Tim Henmans comment is that it is far from beyond the realms of possibility.
I said on here about a month ago that if I was running United I would try and find out about Kaka because his form is shit and I cant see Jose playing hima and Ronaldo in the same team.
However,
Arsene paying £30m + a player, which in reality is what it would take and at least £150,000 a week is about as likely as me winning the euromillions tonight.
Tony, then add Club level seasons, £2600- £4800
I thought it was a good name!!!
Yeah apparently we’ve enquired about Kaka a few times in the last few weeks. A decision is being made on his future soon.
I took it with a pinch of salt too but heres hoping.
I really do believe the Melo one though. Quite a lot of smoke about this one anyway the last few years. Id prefer Melo and a Mertesacker or Zapata then then skinny god botherer but we’ll see…
Also anybody know when Wenger is meeting the shareholders? He’s long overdue another grilling.
Keyser – We can’t really begrudge what City are doing. We just have to try and come up with our own plan that suits us. What annoys me is that while Mancini is using the full extent of his budget, be it £2m or £200m, Wenger seems, as usual, to be refusing to use the full extent of his budget.
LOL Gambon
Taig, very good point but your know Keyser will come back with a question like…
‘But Taig, how do we know the extent of Wengers budget? Can we say for certain he has a budget? Do we know if he has been spending it every year?’
Geoff – And then the extra £199 to be sucked off while you have dinner in the new restaurant…..sorry, I meant the extra £199 where you don’t even get sucked off whilst forcing down a stale yorkie pud, sitting on a garden patio chair in a section of club level that is merely roped off……
ive just put 2 grand on kaka joing arsenal, you better be right i love tim henman!!
… or multiple questions.
Gimp Alert :
“I wish people would stop fucking rolling out the Pompey / Leeds argument as a reason not to spend.
It shows high levels of retardedness.”
gambonFatPonce©
Pedro, Arry does know football and he’s done well where he’s been – we’re agreed from a footballing point of view, even if he is the Spurs manager.
The fact is that Portsmouth spent more than they should have. You’re saying the directors should not have allowed him to spend money – I agree with Wenger that the managers must also hold their hands up. This discussion is not about whether Arsenal should spend money – I agree they should. This is about buy low spend high, and clearly at Portsmouth they got it the wrong way round.
WTL, I’d say a review of Wenger’s position should come up at the end of this season if we’re not in the top 2. I think we’re still well placed to compete this season because of a season’s improvement with the kids. And I’m also confident that we won’t have the injury crisis we had last season, meaning that Arshavin can play his natural role on the right. I also think Chamakh will give us a new option for crowded defences, because I believe that we weren’t scoring enough goals last season.
Right… I’m off… over to you Geoff!
I like the name, but Tim henman is still shit.
Pedro – Don’t get all upset because you got caught out contradicting yourself.
Dani Alves, rather than Kaka
Erichero -
A review?
A review should come up every year.
WHEN DO WE SAY THAT ARSENE IS NOT THE BEST MAN FOR THE JOB?
Keyser, don’t get upset because people call you the questionator behind your back…
if you build it…they will come…
If we just spent what we are given as a transfer budget we might win something, that’s what it’s for, not for handing out long term contracts to players who aren’t loyal enough to honour them.
Gambon we moved stadium so that 22,000 more fans could watch the team, your maths were badly out yesterday and we charge the highesst prices because we can, cant be that bad after all people are paying it.If you are not happy paying it then dont, quite simple really I am sure that there are many would would love the opportunity to get a season ticket
Keyser, all you do on here is fall out with people, try and join in the conversation rather than digging people out all the time, it’s boring.
taig – See. that’s the thing dude, what have we done since day one when Wenger came to the club, He’s used the budget to the best of his abilities, what you’re saying is just spend will you, why don’t you spend.
The thing is football’s changed, if Citeh spend 200 million on players, I don’t us to buy shitty players for the sake of it, I want him to find the best he can for whatever money he has, but players that will actually make a difference to our title challenge.
Loads of players go for 15-20 million these days, but Arshavin probably made more difference then most, would I have been happy with spending that on Barry or just for the sake of it, fuck no.
funny that. We don’t call tennis players from other countries who reach the Wimbledon semi finals shit do we.
Ivan Lendl never won wimbledon. We didn’t think he was shit.
Pet hate of mine that
Tim Henman is a massively under-rated british sporting legend! Yes he was found wanting at the real top level but fuck me only the Henman family played tennis in Britain in the last 30years!
I think im on the wrong blog!
Geoff – or for kids to buy Mercedes SLR’s and drive them without even holding a license!
Kaka?! Remember sheva’s flop anyone?
Id rather sell cesc for £50mil and get Özil and Kaka and keep Arshavin.
Pedro – Thats just silly, how would I get upset if it was behind my back ? Now I know though I’m devastated.
arsenesabemejor, that is such a load of bollocks, we regularly have season tickets for sale on here, we never get any takers though, you and Keyser are welcome to buy one though, I think we have 4 spares right now.
Geoff – We’re just having a discussion.
Pat cash won Wimbledon, he wasn’t shit.
Keyser – of course but there are plenty of players out there who would definitely improve us such as Hart or Lloris, Schweinsteiger, De Rossi, Zapata. No player can guarantee you he will be a wise investment but players such as those I just listed give you the best possibility of it. I guess it just annoys me when the fixes are so glaringly obvious and he refuses to act.
Questionator
I thought everyone called him a cunt.
Keyser you were calling people names and looking for a row, don’t tell porkies, read back.
keyser you say barry but imagine if we bought given, tevez or de jong…
Geoff – If my knees keep giving way with such alarming regularity I think I’ll be interested soon enough!! My thinking is that I’m going to play while I can and then when I’m cooked I’ll get a ST.
Where did Mister P go? I was intrigued by the yellow card story… what does it take to get a yellow card? Being an AKB?
Anyway guys keep up the good work! The comments section is very very good! Some excellent posters here!
Not everything at our great club is perfect right now but it ain’t all bad. Remember that.
I’ll be back when Kakas in the no.9 shirt….. or when Tiger Tim wins Wimbledon…
Geoff – Who am I calling names ? Gambon ? He is actually a gimp, ask him.
Wenger is a magician!
No don’t laugh. Before the start of every transfer window he manages to come out with some upbeat mood music about buying top, top quality players. One minimum, two maximum dee dah, dee dah.
Every year we buy it. Soon splits appear between the fans and really all of us should know better by now. The AKBs hate the Doomsayers, the Doomsayers hate the AKBs.
Clever deflection strategy by good old Arsene.
By week 3, he drips out the first piece of his script. “I do not intend to buy a midfielder”. O.K. we hear but don’t listen. We don’t want to accept it or don’t believe him. He is only being cunning in the transfer market, we think.
So we start imagining and romanticising about a defensive midfielder, Melo (?) a creative midfielder (Ozil), wouldn’t it be nice to have Flambo back, all the usual stuff. But Wenger means what he said!!
Next we fantazise about a new forward/winger. Then part 2 of his script kicks in; “I do not need another forward, I have “can’t shoot straight” Bendy, I have unproved in PL Chammy, I have “no football brain” Theo, we have plenty”. O.K. I made that last bit up, but he might as well have said it. He has so many world class (?) forwards, he’s got rid of Dudu!. He won’t buy a forward. He meant what he said.
He said at the outset that he was not looking to buy another keeper. This time he later recanted and implied he would, after all, look at the GK position.
Away we went fantasizing about Joe Hart, Handymandyovic, Steklenberg, dee dum, dee dum. Such fun! Then the next part of the script pops up. He only wants a 39 year old keeper for £2m. Oh great!
What was left for us to fantasize about? Well, the next part of the script. “Our defence needs strengthening, I will look at the market”. Like lemons we start more fantasizing, Subotic, Zabaletta, Chielini, Merteshifter and on and on. But wait, he has a fantastic scheme, he decides to get rid of the best CH we had, Moody Will, he lets no-hopers Sylvestre and Senderos abandon ship, and big Sol, who doesn’t know what he wants, farts around teasing everybody.
So, clearing the decks for a big new signing, yes it’s skinny Kos who is already giving Drogba a knee trembler. Yea!!
The next parts of the script are yet to come. You already know them by heart. “We are still in the market, we are trying to find the right quality, I am sitting on my arse in Austria”, blah de bloody blah. To be followed by, “I have confidence in my squad, I cannot block the development of my youthful hopefuls” and finally, “I almost got X, we ran out of time, my arse was frozen” (yeah, yeah I know).
September the 1st he will report to Fizman, Kroenke and co; “Job done guys, season ticket sales are excellent, and I only spent £8.5m on Kos; £3m on Schwarzer making £11.5 out, but I sold Dudu for £6m and Almoania for £3m making £9m in, so we had a very comfortable net outgoing of £2.5m.”
“The fans? Ahh, they’ll get over it. They’re too busy arguing amongst themselves, silly basta*ds. Heh, heh!!”
Geoff why is it bollocks, peoples circumstances can be the reason for selling , theres still a waiting list at the club
Arsenes
How were my maths out….
You said 22k people extra get to watch the game….i said it was 17000.
If you’d ever been to the grove you would see that there are 5000 empty seats every game.
Oh and BTW, there is no way on this earth that the board would spend £400m so a few extra fans that they couldnt give a fuck about could watch a game.
So why does gambon not get one for calling people cunts?
Im a gimp, Keysers mum hires me, her nickname is the wizards sleeve.
incesc – Look at each of those players individually, De Jong’s pretty avergae, why they’ve bought Toure.
Given’s a great shotstopper, but he’s shit in the air to and doesn’t really command the box.
Tevez would be great, I just don’t know if we could afford him, if he had been willing then out of the three that’d be the most like Arshavin.
Erichero
You cant get a card for telling the truth, universal blog rules.
Later ILTH
Tim Henman is a great name on this site – so much in common with Arsenal – serial under-achiever
Any news on Zapata?
Austria cant be that far from Udinese.
Because gambon is Geoff’s private Gimp.
Because their cunts!
arsenesabemejor because there isn’t a waiting list, we have tickets on here for sale, care to shell out?
Erichero, get what?
Erichero -
You never answered the question.
No AKBs ever answer the question.
taig – I understand that and I can agree with it, but if you look at these teams they don’t just buy one of them nowadays, they buy a few at a time, I hope we do get a solid defender in, for me that’s the biggest worry, Zapata would be good.
de jong would offer more as a dm than denilson.
toure is a luxury buy, just because he ws at barce.
Hes never worth the wages.
given is a top keeper, without a doubt.
Keyser, that’s the second gay comment you’ve made, are you a homosexual?
Geoff I have checked with the club and the waiting list is for 7 years
gambon – Are you really upset ? Or is your mum fair game ? Seriously dude if you’re really angry then I apologise.
i got offered a season ticket from arsenal last year after being on the list for a few years, but i had gone back to uni to do a postgrad so was too broke. Fooking well expensive!
Well, I won’t stoop to that level (calling people cunts). That’s your choice, and I’d like to say I respect your decision, but I don’t. Is it because I have “mental strength”?
Geoff – I’m sure you’re a nice guy and everything, and you always mention that you have loads of money, but, thankfully, no.
I don’t know how you do it.
Tim Henman gave his all……he never won wimbledon but he is still a legend.
Top professional…….
I use to really look forward to his matches……the bloke had more bottle than people give him credit for.
He just was not good enough but kept his game at world no.4 for years !!!
Andy Murray……now he’s a different story altogether!
Keyser
I am very rarely upset by anything, especially football related.
Keyser – I think a CB and GK are both massively important and that we wont improve enough without both. Anyway’s, regardless of how pessimistic I am by assuming this window will be like all the rest, there is till plenty of time and I hope people like Pedro and I Hate Tim Henman coming out on top! Always good having a banter with you! Cunt.
Keyser – Your faith in Wenger and his management of the club is like a man dying of thirst in the Sahara.He sees what he thinks is an oasis ( a mirage), only to find that after limping for 5 miles, that the sand slips through his fingers.So he carries on to the next one, lamenting the fact he didn’t notice the hole in his water bottle slowly draining the water supply.
Symbolic of Arsene F.C. I suppose.
“In Arsene we rust”.
Wardo
But Murray is a vastly better player, even if he is Napolean Dynamite.
incesc – If we’re buying a keeper I want someone who’s absolutely top class, Given’s good, but he’s just not imposing enough, Samba would love him.
gambon – That’s cool, same for me, just some people draw the line earlier than others.
Presumably TV is an AKB!!!!!
Thomas Vermaelen insists Arsenal can defy their critics to challenge for the Premier League title this season.
The Gunners have been written off by many in recent seasons for having an inexperienced team but manager Arsene Wenger has bolstered the squad by signing Laurent Koscielny and Marouane Chamakh.
Arsenal continued their pre-season with a 3-0 win over Sturm Graz in Austria on Wednesday and Vermaelen believes the signs are promising.
“The spirit in the camp is good,” he said. “We have a good young group who are very aggressive and want to improve. I think people will always say we can’t compete — it is not the first time.
“But we have to do what we always do which is work hard and play our own game. Then we can compete — I hope we can compete for the title this year and I’m convinced we will.”
With William Gallas and Mikael Silvestre set to depart Arsenal this summer, Vermaelen is expected to be the mainstay at the heart of defence.
The 24-year-old was hugely impressive last season, missing only five League matches in his first season following a £10million move from Ajax.
Vermaelen, who has been partnered by Koscielny and Johan Djourou in Arsenal’s two pre‑season games, said: “I have only played with Johan twice but I love him as a player. He is strong in the air and marks tightly, which is good, and Laurent is a little bit the same. He is smart and quick as well.”
Keyser, I never mention I have loads of money, that would be vulgar.
gambon…….prob true mate !! he prob is better….
I just hate it that English people slag off Henman…….the bloke never did anything wrong in his entire professional career !!!
Some people even think he was out of order when he smashed a tennis ball into a ball girls face all those years back !!!! FFS things weren’t going his way so it is perfectly acceptable !!! Also, he did say sorry…….
gambon says:
July 23, 2010 at 12:46
Keyser
I am very rarely upset by anything, especially football related.
Fucking. Lies.
TV is paid by Arsenal, do you expect him to say that Wenger has bought another dud? He wants to be captain, I’m sure he hopes Cesc will go.
TAIG -
Dont get sucked into the bullshit about how youre pessimistic or anything like that.
We go into the summer with the same retard in charge of the team then come out of it with a squad thats worse in August than in June and people expect us to win the league.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome.
You are fine mate.
These days Wenger is so predictable,he has done the same thing for 4 pre-seasons now,promised the moon and delivered nothing,no fucking wonder Cesc wants to leave.
“gambon says:
July 23, 2010 at 12:46
Keyser
I am very rarely upset by anything, especially football related.
Fucking. Lies. ”
hmm yeah thats what i was thinking
Geoff – Also, all I said was gimp, I never related that to being gay.
De Jong is all about fuckin shit up for the opposition. Hes the meanie we need in midfield. Our midfield is too nice.
WTL – sorry, we have different versions of “review” – by review, I meant something more serious like showdown talks. I think top 2 is a good result for any team, top 3 is touch and go. What I do want to see is more attention to the FA Cup – the Carling is a mickey mouse affair any way you look at it, and watching the kids has been fun (it’s not the solution to our problems).
As an AKB, I am very happy with what Wenger has brought to the club, that we’re revered across the world for our style. But I do think our plan2003 has been figured out and I want to see us looking more closely at crossing and headers (Chamakh will help with that) and shots from distance which a number of our players are good at (Rosicky, Vermaelen, Denilson, Diaby).
I’m not miserable like you lot, but I’m also not comfortable with where we are now. I do have confidence that Wenger has solutions, and that’s where we differ.
i think Koscielny signing is realy good one and i dont see it as a massive gamble at all wenger without dought has him scouted several times and for wenger to payout 10m plus means he high quality player,if sole were to resign though it would short term thing and wenger have get another top defender depending on progess on certain players like nordviet and karl bartly and dj ect ,i hope wenger does get another dm player but i think wenger might use eastmond and Frimpong.as i dont think there to many top dm players around i am not sure how good melo is
Remember what he said was the reason for us to built Emirates.So we could compete Several shaftings later by Manure and Chavski we are not competing.
TAIG, Incesc
Behave.
From my experience….my ex wife was a Dom at Salon Kittys in Sydney.
The Gimp plays the role that AKB’s would play on this blog so it’s no surprise that your familiar with the term Keyser
lets hope so leon.
how much did frannie jeffers cost btw?
EricHero -
Mate.
Seriously.
Please just answer the question.
Example:
If we win fuck all this season then I think he should go.
Its that simple and you can put 10 seasons if you want.
taig – I get carried away sometimes, hope you don’t get too annoyed, we’ll see what happens over the remained of the transfer window, I think some of the youngsters, regardless of whether we buy or not, will have to play a big part next year.
Can Wenger handle a big name player ?
Geoff do you really think that TV wants Cesc to leave? come on you have nothing to back that up at all!
Right,
KFC time. Good chat.
Lurch LeRouge – Most of my understanding comes from Pulp Fiction, I bow down (poor choice of words ?) to your superior knowledge.
Van Persie will be captain if/when Cesc goes ahead of Vermy….
Red Arse – ( 12;37) Yep, and don’t forget my personal “favourite” of his ; “I believe”.
“I believe in this team”. “I believe we have the quality”. e.t.c. e.t.c.
“In Arsene we rust”.
he handled bargkamp, vieira and henry the biggest primaddona in the game.
Not slagging thierry, he is god, but he was quite far up his own arse
Keyser being shackled is a way of life for the aussies, they should be experts on it
Using the Mad Jens Index, then Neur and Hart would come close with both at mild madness level. Now that Sol staying put (its called loyalty, Cesc!), its only extra one CB to sign and its done. Frimpong and Wilshere meanwhile promoted to replace Diaby and Denilson. Deal or no deal Wenger!
WTL – If he doesn’t finish top 2 then he should go. If he wins it then he can mess around with the FA Cup. If he comes 2nd he better have given the FA Cup max effort.
That opinion won’t make the AWTY’s happy, but there we go, I’ve put it in the sand for you.
Erichero -
Wow.
I agree with that assesment 100%.
You are the first AKB to ever answer the question, Im impressed.
Keyser. A Gimps role is to submit to humiliation amongst other things, hence the analogy. The Gimp in PF wasn’t playing in character, nor was Machine in 8mm.
Afternoon, have we signed anyone yet?
who realy thinks we can win anything with Wenger? do anyone belives in him anyone? what happen to the 30mil transfer money we had? this frog realy makes me sick. just go back 2 japan and take ur money makein policy with you.
Erichero I dont think its as simple as league position or what trophies as there is always an element of luck in all cup competitions, as seen when Barca beat chelski in injury time after being outplayed, I want to see us playing good football and not being rolled over in the big games
Yeah Stu we’ve signed KAka and sold Arshavin.
Is that all Lurch? Fuck sake Wenger!
TBH, i wouldnt mind being thrashed once or twice a season by our rivals if we won something at the end. I mean, do you think United give a fuck that Liverpool beat them 4-1 when they won the league? Because i dont think it bothers them that much.
If there is really any truth in Zapata rumour, or it’s just another hoax from G STAR vel RT.Z.
What is he takeing all this fairy tales from?
Seeing Almunia inn training makes me nervous. The only thing missing on that guy is a red nose !
KAKA!!!!!
Fuck me! If we got him i would seriously wet my pants
would be a gr8 deal if it happened imo. Cesc going and we get Kaka who can play for 2/3 yrs and then allows Wilshere to step up in time. I would be star struck if we get Kaka because we haven’t had such a big star play for us since Henry.
But would Maureen really let him go?
Erichero – ( 12:51 ) The only solution Wenger has is the one in his hand.
“In Arsene we rust”.
THE GK WILL BE CASILLAS, AS MOURINHO ISN’T CONVINCED BY HIM.
THE CB WILL BE CAMPBELL, AND WENGER IS ALSO TRYING TO SIGN ZAPATA.
IF MAN CITY SIGN MILNER, THEN WE WILL SIGN DE JONG, OTHERWISE THE DM WILL BE FELIPE MELO.
WE WILL ONLY CONSIDERING SIGNING AN ATTACKING PLAYER IF FABREGAS GOES, ALTHOUGH WENGER MAY NOT REPLACE HIM, BECAUSE HE THINKS NASRI IS GOOD ENOUGH OR ARSHAVIN MAY PLAY AMF.
WTL, my thinking is:
Last season was probably the first season we could really spend proper money, but it was also the season where our youth program was meant to start coming to fruition. So basically, Wenger is choosing youth over spending and it’s fair to give him two seasons to do it.
Personally I think that if we don’t see improvement this season then Wenger will personally choose to move on. I do believe what he says, and he’s already intimated that it’s touch and go whether he stays.
I personally think that project youth will work. But I do think now is about the time it will start happening, and this season will prove or disprove it.
kaka,what a load of bollocks,as if we would ever sign kaka wake the fuck up and stop dreaming km.apparently maureen wants to swap him for ibra,make of that what you will.
Fuck me, Pop out for a spot of lunch and Tim Henman appears !! Welcome aboard the nutty train ILTH !!!
If we signed Kaka id personally run down the Holloway Road in a gimp costume doing the YMCA !
Red Arse,
Top summing up mate,
GK – Casillas
CB – Campbell + Zapata
DM – De Jong / Melo
PS
THIS IS 100% A FACT
problem with kaka is that he is carrying what was a potentially career threatening hernia injury. He had it resolved, but has to do an extra 2hrs streaching each day, 1hr before and 1hr after training
not ideal
Stu – ( 13;03) Well, we did get a new cleaner in yesterday.
“In Arsene we rust”.
gooner -
There is no problem with Kaka.
If Kaka lost his right leg he would still be a great player.
gooner,
TBH i dont think we should worry to much about that as theres more chance of Aliens being filmed having a gang bang with Marilyn Monroe than of us signing Kaka
why would we want kaka when we got denilson,he’s just as good if not better,and why waste all that money it will only bankrupt us.
and by fact you mean fiction right?
Casillas = £20 million
Campbell / Zapata = Free / £14 million
De Jong / Melo = £15 million / £20 million
Chuckle vission…chuckle chuckle vision….chuckle vision!!
One summer I convinced myself that we would sign Ronaldinho….
That was the year we brought in Biscoff.
TAIG,
Those two are the most annoying Cunts to ever appear on a TV set !
Must be a spud in disguise….
to me,to you
chippy: Fuck you they are! They are fucking heroes!! The modern day Morecambe & Wise no less!!
ANB – You knows it!
YO PEDRO, I’M CONVINCED THAT WE ARE SIGNING THE FOLLOWING:
CASILLAS
ZAPATA AND CAMPBELL
DE JONG OR MELO
are we discussing gimps now?
anyone wanna know some good websites?
G STAR – Who convinced you? I’m guessing it was yourself??
Contact from Everton says they won’t sell Jagielka and the player “isn’t really fussed” on a move to the Emirates. Interest ended a few weeks ago
now that is a fact……
Is there anymore news on Zapata?
Rubbish…if Bendtner can play wide right I see no reason why JET can’t. Like I said yesterday I’d have him there over Theo. Of course, Theo remains my fav sub
oh your back G STAR
Gooner27 – Plenty! None of it relates to us though!
chippy
id love to see you run down the holloway road in a gimp costume doing the YMCA! That would be hilarious
Here you go InCesc
http://salonkittys.com/
I can tell you for a FACT that we are not signing Casillas…that is a stupid rumour!
Wenger give all this tosh of this being his club and how much he cares about it.
Fcuking go out there and show us and peel the fcuking orange out of your pocket.
G STAR, please mate, get a life.
Every day you write some news, and every day we sign someone else.
In 3 days time you will write that we have signed Messi and Xavi.
I really want to see new players, so just don’t play on my naivity.
Who the fuck would Jose get in to replace Casillas? And wasn’t Casillas voted the best GK in the world or something last year?
Are we there yet?
So we are going to sign Mr Real Madrid world cup winning captain and GK of the tournament because moureen ‘isnt convinced.’
yeah good one..
I’m convinced Gstar is a windup from ACLF. A result of Jag and co’s subversive mischief some weeks back.
You know who you are!
G STAR mate, no offence. I like you, but it’s just boring.
gooner,
!!
You wouldnt
Campbell and Almunia will be like new signings.
“In Arsene we rust”.
Lurch – Fair gusess that……
“id love to see you run down the holloway road in a gimp costume doing the YMCA! That would be hilarious”
fap fap fap…
We have you to thank TAIG.
Good work tho!
Anyone going to the Welling game tomorrow?
Casillas has been poor in the past year, by his high standards, I’ll put Reina ahead of him. Still, he is pretty damne good, a big personality/leader at the Real…with Raul leaving, he is the heir to ‘Raul’ in the level of influence he wields at the club…the guy is a ‘legend’ at the club
Simply put, it’ll take a huge offer and a dramatic turn in events for Casillas to leave. QED
Well Campbell WILL be a new signing….for the third time
G STAR
Not being rude mate but, do you know what “FACT” means ??
Just seen your comment bout signing Cassilas, Campbell + Zapata and Melo etc etc etc etc
Its not a “FACT” as it has not happened…….it is your speculation
might do WW
how much are tickets?
Spectrum
Stop that bloody annoying signing off bollocks.
We all agreed it was a good play on words a few days ago, but how many times can you tell a joke before it gets boring?
Nice trip to the San siro on a Saturday afternoon
Wardo, its not even “his” speculation, he is getting all this bull from rumour sites.
lol Chippy
TAIG & G Star
u both should be comedians
————-
G STAR says:
July 23, 2010 at 13:23
YO PEDRO, I’M CONVINCED THAT WE ARE SIGNING THE FOLLOWING:
CASILLAS
ZAPATA AND CAMPBELL
DE JONG OR MELO
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tonyadamsisgod says:
July 23, 2010 at 13:25
G STAR – Who convinced you? I’m guessing it was yourself??
————
Comedy Friday
“Liverpool will face Rabotnicki in the third qualifying round of the Europa League”
yep Joe Cole, you definatley made the right decision there…
£13 for a seat, looks like good views from all arouond, decent stadium and should be close to the players, you never know Liam Brady might chat about any rumouors if asked
InCesc
i think his decision wasn’t abt money…it was abt being a 1st teamer
They could be a tough game for us to open with, they’ll have had a couple more games with some real competitive edge to give them that extra fitness over us.
Rabotnicki
Is he related to Metal Mickey
Christ showing my age with that one!
To all you Youngsters, Google it, shit comedy but still a classic
Guys
leave G Star alone
he cracks me up
welling used to play an arsenal greats team when i was young for charity.
saw some legends play there.
Sami Khedira 2010
“He plays a style of football which I can identify with — tactically perfect, compact in defence and quick on the counter-attack. It is the only way to be successful today.”
Try telling Arsene that.
KM i never said fook all about money, if he went for football reasons hes an idiot as he turned down champions league for ratboniki and the like…
G Star
how old are u mate?
Stu…….its anoying that he thinks we will believe his bullshite.
too many people on here say “FACT” !! One person yesterday said “Fact” after making a prediction for the future !!! how fcuking stupid can you be ???
Sami Khedira hasn’t been watching Barca and Spain has he?
G star, you’re well behind the times, the latest is….Barcelona will now offer Messi + 50 million for Fabregas.
He wouldn’t know much though would he WW?
So it seems Man City may sign Balotelli & Milner.
They could be some team next year, they will have added;
Boateng
Kolarov
Toure
Silva
Milner
Balotelli
Insect
my point is that he knew he wouldn’t get an automatic starting place at Arsenal because we’v got so many attacking midfielders
Gambon
from that list we should have signed Boateng
brilliant defender imo
Yaya Toure is also world class but he insulted Arsenal
I think G STARS “FACT” ius tongue in cheek, hes just having a laugh…
G star: dont lie this is not funny!!! If you are that convinced I really hope you are right!!!
I think the key Re. Milners transfer to ManCity is price
ManCity offering £24m
Villa want £30m
Imo Milner is worth £15m max – he’s not on the same level as Ozil who is cheaper
KM – Step on him, or get a glass and a piece of card quick..
Probably nothing, but he is Mr Arsenal!
With Man City
They can still only play 11 players though, and they still lack creativity.
Adebayor is just a puppet, he needs someone to pull his strings, SIlva nneds the ball played to him to work aby magic, Milner is like Lampard and Gerrard in that they are dynamic but can’t pick a defence apart.
Balotelli will be the icing on their cake, but the type of cake that has dynamite instead of candles and it explodes in their faces.
GSTAR’S just having a laugh, loads of people come to post their ‘Insider info’, why shouldn’t he get a chance to ?!
would milner be first team for 24 million?
its all a bit silly.
man city is becoming a retirement home for young footballers.
when are fifa going to stop all this shit.
WalkingWounded – As you’d know if you had been reading my other posts, I said that “In Arsene we rust” is my signature theme.It’s not meant to annoy anyone,nor be a joke.It’s a statement I happen to believe in.
Are you disputing the truth of it ?
keyersoze?
The Man City squad is quite formidable but appart from Tevez and maybe Robinho when he feels like it there isn’t any ‘top top’ player there despite all the zillions they have spent. Balotelli is talented but crazy, Milner is overrated, Silva is good but I feel he might be better off in a team like Arsenal with our style of play…Man City’s signings are good but nothing exciting
IF we make the 2/3 signings we need I’d be confident going into the season
I’d like to see Man City’s wages list.
Surprised they didn’t sign Joe Cole. Also, will that list fit into the homegrown rule?
Yeah let G Star share his transfer info, everyone else does. It’s no less ludicrous than some of the other predictions I’ve read on here like a couple of months ago…..that we’re going to have a mass clearout over the summer….
incesc if they want to spend the money to improve their team why shouldn’t they. So called financial doping is an absurd phrase used to stop small teams from ever becomming large and challenging the status quo.
Also investing in the playing squad is an investment in the club because success on the pitch drives off the pitch revenue.
in Arsene we rust – ha ha ha ha
thats so clever its untrue
but why didnt you use it that last time?
Rust is what happens when things get old and decay, in real terms we are doing the opposite, with a new state of the art stadium and young players, you should say “in Arsene we use a metal alloy that isn’t quite up for the job, but looks pretty”
@ Erichero…..it’s MASTER P to you son, and I am busy
Spectrum noone else has a “signiture theme”.
It is pretty annoying, if you insist on saying it EVERY post then why don’t you change your name to it?
So, we’re signing Casillas and Kaka…nice
Are we goig after them cos we couldn’t get Jagielka and Schwarzer?
FFS
MatthewT
The sorts of wages and money they spend puts pressure on other smaller teams to spend more and pay more and will end up ruining football.
How can man u and barcelona the 2 most successful football teams in the last 10 years be making huge losses? What goes up must come down and man city are going to make the fall alot harder.
Look at robinho. They offered him those huge wage, who would say no? Now he isnt in their plans he cant leave because no one else will pay the wages. Career in tatters…
ITs irresponsible to stock pile so many players, and bench word class talent, it makes football worse off.
Wengers big plan in pic 12
http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/33618/pre-season-training-exclusive-pictures
Play 4 goalkeepers!!
latest Arsenal news….Bendy and Denilson are not far from full fitness.
Well thank fuck for that….another 2 new signings!
Go Gunster go son. If your reading that is?
N21 … how pathetic do they look??????
WW,
Thats to long tho !!
All that glitters is not gold !
ManCity and Chelsea/Madrid/ManU/Lazio before them have ruined football by paying crazy prices for talent.
£28m for Carrick?
a crazy fee for Mikel?
WTF happened to Lazio? they were ruined and are lucky to be back.
Madrid & Barca are being kept alive by bank loans
ManCity owners are seriously rich playboys who are bored and wanted a new toy
Master P – I don’t think combined they would make a decent goalie!
incesc…..i would like to see a wage cap for all football professionals under UEFA.
it would mean that wages would not be the deciding factor in players chosing who to join etc etc !!
We would see more Tony Adams type players who play with passion cause of their love for a footie club.
plus, they could all still give it the biggun and buy flash cars/houses etc if they were on £20-30k a week.
City will win the league and maybe even the champions league fairly soon and fair play to their fans.
Look how quickly chelsea became a household name around europe.
But when you already have 7 centre mids why do you buy toure?
or when you have talent on the wings like they do why do they need to spend 24 million on milner?
incesc Well as long as football is better off according some arbitary definition of “better off” that you have then who gives a damn about the freedom of players or clubs to engage in constentual agreements to improve their own circumstances …..
The players that join City and other clubs that spend a lot of money know they might not make the first team and that is and should always be their choice to make.
Why not take the argument to its logical conclusion and just stop teams from making any improvement at all increase it puts any pressure on their competitors to do the same.
As for Robinho its his choice to stay at City his career will only be in tatters if he refuses to take less pay at another club, its a personal decision for him to make what his priority is.
Are we taking bets on when Chamakh will score his 1st goal
bring the wages down slowly to max 20k a week.
even that is too much really.
Incesc – so that other teams can’t have them?
Look you guys should pack your bags and go home we are not signing any goalie…can’t you see the pics of all our goalies put superman to shame?!!?! See the Polish guys are top top top top top quality plumbers oh no I meant goalies
You should call me uncle, i understand, I’m back by popular demand, Outside of Popeye’s, eating chicken & fries….come holla atcho uncle!
Uncle Sol
dey alsho have good shmiles for camera…argh ladies loves it
MatthewT
City are creating a false economy not based on reality.
buying players one transfer window, not developing them at all and replacing them the next. Its a sad situation.
How much longer can football bury its head in the sand whilst it pours millions of pounds down the drain?
Insec
i think this is the ManCity plan: 4-2-3-1
———Tevez (Adebayor)
Silva ——Milner——Johnson
——Toure——-DaBong
—–(Barry)—–(Kompany)
Cholera—Boateng—Zabaletta—Richards
——-
i think this is what the City team layout is going to be this season
incesc says:
July 23, 2010 at 14:19
MatthewT
City are creating a false economy not based on reality.
———–
The matrix?
red pill or blue pill.
what a fuck up they made of the matrix by making 2 and 3.
Honda going to Milan- super player.
incesc – Yep, fucking destroyed it! Right I’m off, laters people…..
zabaletta centre back km?!
richards won’t start for them, it’ll be zabaleta right back
Wenger is just wankin all over arsenal football club. anyone no what happend 2 our transfer money?
Forget Honda, not coming in
A
my team line-up was an assumption…not nailed on.
But City have got a v.good squad imo
Better than ours???
A – It’s only annoying to AKB’s (like you). And if I changed my name to it, you’d still see it each time, anyway, wouldn’t you ?
By the way, “rust” according to my dictionary is ( quote) ; “the result of gradual corrosion”.
Sounds like what’s happening at our club. So again I say…..
“In Arsene we rust “.
I expect them to play a similar system to last season KM, so three DMs will play, Johnson probably won’t
It’s annoying to most people Spectrum, it was negative people saying that yesterday.
Put it in your name, not the content of your post, or it just undermines anything of actual worth that you say, looks silly, and is annoying.
resigning sol is not enough.
we need one more cb..maybe zapata will do…
sol can’t go two matches..with djourou and koscielny/vermaelen injured……we’r doomed..
Mancini is a mainly 442 man, against the big teams might play 451…Richards will do well to get into the squad
finestcuts says:
July 23, 2010 at 13:57
Yeah let G Star share his transfer info, everyone else does. It’s no less ludicrous than some of the other predictions I’ve read on here like a couple of months ago…..that we’re going to have a mass clearout over the summer….
I can’t believe i have to spell it out yet again, Jesus! Yes it was me that came forward with the list.
HOWEVER, this was a list of players the manager had finally lost faith in, ergo he would let them got, HOWEVER to let them go some fucker has to make an offer!!
The bigger picture, and hopefully more meaningful picture, should be that players like Denilson will be marginalised should they stay AND the manager buy or promote from within another player in his position.
Fucking Hell people!
Spectrum
No it’s about as annoying as the sound your namesake made when loading a game for about 20 minutes and then, it crashes.
Think 48k rubber keys
buys or promotes…….
In Arsene they Lust;
You know who you are!
It’s not meant to undermine what I say – rather to underline it.You’re entitled to your opinion, but I don’t agree with it.And I will still use it, (sorry).
“In Arsene we rust.”
Fuck me you cunts are moaning about city and spending and salary caps:
Look if thats what you want just fuck off to north korea.
I’ve got Atari, Amiga, then NES, where did Spectrum come into it ?!
Actually Mega Drive and Neo Geo in there aswell, can’t remember Spectrum.
SInclair ZX Spectrum 48k
More use as a door stop then a computer
“Fuck me you cunts are moaning about city and spending and salary caps:
Look if thats what you want just fuck off to north korea.”
bit extreme
Atari 2600
Amiga 500
Amiga 600
NES
SNES
Playstation
PS2
Laptop with Porn
…FACT!
Keyser
It used tape cassettes to load games, about as reliable as Almunia!!
DDM
did you and pedro have the smae player in mind earlier when you gayboys emailed each other?
haha gambon
next its 3d porn so you can get right up close!!
If we wanted to sell Denilson how much would he be worth? £8M – £10M? £25M for Man City?
A and WalkingWounded – Why don’t you both have the courage to state YOUR beliefs, in the form of a catchphrase ? But then we KNOW your views on how the club is being run.
“In Arsene we rust.”
Shit, I think my cousin had one, but I must have been like 4 or something, fast forward to Golden Axe, Sonic and Mario for me.
Great post Geoff on Eduardo, could not agree more with you, why don’t Wenger show his ruthless side on the likes of Denilson ( the cunt has been with us 4 whole years now and he has not improved, in fact he’s got worse) and the Almunias of this world!! Please, please someone tell me we will sign a keeper anyone? Can you imagine the season starting with them clowns in goal? If that ends up the case, the season is fucked, so you may as well play young Chezzer there and give him the experience.
incesc – gayboys never tell tales………
Yeah that spectrum was a useless piece of kit that was so slow, never really lived up to the hype, It was pretty much always out of date
Sorry started on the computer and went off topic
I believe in nothing, but the here and now.
I hope that we sign the players we need before Sept and we have a season where the football is excellent and results mean we win something.
If Wenger produces this then so be it.
Though I could believe in Karma, especially if you continue to use your theme tune bollocks, and I would laugh if you got something rusty stuck up your Arsene
Afternoon people… so, I have a company interested in running a Le Grove fantasy league and the prizes they are talking about are better than a box of Peroni… how can this be? Well, trust me and I’ll tell you next week!
Walking Wounded – No, you wouldn’t, either because he’d tell no-one about it, or because if he did he’d probably post pictures of it and it’d be sickening.
So this fucker will do his maximum to get Cesc.
http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/premier-league/2010/07/23/2038419/david-villa-insists-hell-do-the-maximum-to-ensure-cesc
Hehe. How much of his millions will he put up to make up Barca’s short fall.
David Villa = official cunt.
I know it’s not meant to Spectrum, but it just does, and is pretty silly and juvenile, but fair enough!
“Why don’t you both have the courage to state YOUR beliefs, in the form of a catchphrase ?”
Seriously?! Because I’d rather debate backing up points and giving logic behind my points of view, than come out with meaningless drivel
Hey Spectrum
I bet you got a Vuvuzela and keep playing it, because you think it is fun and all of your school chums are threatening to ram it somewhere where the sun don’t shine, and I don’t mean Shite Fart Lane
Some people need a catchphrase otherwise they wouldnt be noticed at all
“Who else hasn’t spoken out yet on this issue? Fabregas himself will disguise as an unknown Barça player with a beard and moustache and glasses and will claim his dream is to play alongside cesc at Barcelona . Only IBRA hasn’t opened his mouth yet, but we all know why (Hint: He wants to keep Piqué)”
********
hehe.
arsenesabemejor, tell me about it, Bruce didn’t get where he is today based on his dancing…
WW maybe he could write the theme tune and play the theme tune from it
Zeus
I’m sure Ibra has opened his mouth but not for anything to come out of it, but for Pique to …..
Let Gambon fill in the rest from his laptop collection
With Boruc signing for Fiorentina I think its very likely Frey will sign for us as with Blanc taking over France that opens the door for Frey to return and where better to be seen playing than in France Mk2 the Arsenal team.
I fear we wont sign another CB but what about signing Mascherano and using Song as a CDM/CB? I would nearly prefer Song to Masch but what do you guys think.
With Kederia going to Real one or both the Diarras and Gago will be free to leave Real also so other intresting options there.
OOOh
Where’s me washboard? What Lamb on a mutton day?
I agree RockyP but I was told on here when i chucked Frey in the hat that Boruc knows hes gonna be number two……I dont think so and havent seen that written anywhere but…. I would take Frey in an instant
Dan
haha
That video is so fucking funny…
Arsenesabemajor -
Youre so insulting and for your information not everyone uses silly catchphrases.
“Just like that”
“wenger is building a team for the future”
“Mickey Mouse cup”
‘You’ve got no english players’
‘RACIST!’
How many times have I seen that topic come up! haha!
Freys agent had said he would stay even if Boruc signed a while ago but dont really belive that as Boruc could have signed anywhere and been no.1, why would he play second fiddle,put his International career a t threat and warm the pine.
Ok he left his wife and has a young un on his arm but surely he could have been a no.2 in Spain or somewhere else, no he is signing there as a no.1 . Frey is up for grabs.
Oh my, sensitive things these AKB’s, aren’t they ? A – if logic was your forte, you wouldn’t even be arguing the case for Wenger, surely ? WalkingWounded – Maybe it would take a blast from a vuvuzela to get through to you ?
Better block your ears, now fellas – “In Arsene we rust.”
why we always going on about frey.
we seemed to have been linked with him every window for years.
DOnt people realise arsenal prefer to pull a weird signing out of no where thna sign the one every one talks about
RockyPires
i think for the DM option we need a tall player to add more height to the team
Did you see Redknapp talking up Spurs chance of winning the league!!! They will be lucky to hang onto that 4th spot. One top 4 finish in what 20 years and now they think they can win the league. Twat!
WTL @ 14:48
Not calling for a communist state or anything. Just think footie players get far too much money especially as it is the fans that mainly pay for the silly wages.
no need to get out your pram and call people cnuts etc……makes you look like a right prick
Lets face it Wenger has lost his marbles, lost the plot. WTF was the new stadium for? Was it to rip people of for extortinate prices? Before the stadium was built, we were told by wenger and the fat cat board members how it was going to enable us to compete with Barcelona, rela madrid, amn utd etc etc. WTF has happened to all that crap. We are looking for players between 2-10 million, wtf is going on? Wenger has blatantly been told by the board whatn to do, he is a yes man, and the board members are hordin g their shares and selling them at multi million pound prices. Its a scandal whats happening at Arsenal. We pay the highest prices out of any club, yet we cant even compete financially with a brand new spanking fucking stadium. Its a joke whats happeneing. Wenger spend the money or GTFO same with Fabregars, fabregas if you dont like it at Arsenal you can fuck of with WEnger the cheap bastard as well.
You can add Frey to Yakubu and Yaya.
“Its the way I tell em”
Arsenesabemejor – ( 15;04 ) – Obviously you haven’t noticed much for the last five years!
“In Arsene we rust”.
CSKA after Rosicky!
Am up for the Fantasy football.
surprised how quite the spuds have been in the transfer market.
“i like boobs”
Whats wrong with the Peroni?
wilshire is going to be like jesus with a football lol
Yes Wenger loves those kids…lol
how funny is that video. It’s like the conversations that go on in here with a couple of the commenters lol
lol didn’t know we had greek gooners in ealing…oh well
the bad thing about the vid is its so true, arsenal fans are becoming a parody of themselves.
“i like boobs”
Lets have a song Friday,Add you old Favs that are very rarely heard anymore this was one of mine
!!
We went up to wolves we took their northbank
we went down to derby they aint worth a wank
But take my advice theres nothing as nice
as kicking the Fuck outa Tottenham !!
To Messing about on the River
Web Design Agency London – Spurs taking 4th spot – no way – that’s all ours !
“In Arsene we rust”.
Wardo -
Looking like a right prick online, yeah alright mate.
So you think footballers get paid too much, thats the free market economy we live in.
Seriously you need to get out your pram and grow up, moaning about what other people get paid makes you look like a right prick
Tony Adam’s magic,
He’s got a magic knob
And when he saw Caprice,
He stuck it in her gob,
He stuck up her fanny,
He stuck it up her bum,
And when he went down Shite Hart Lane
He f*cked Glenn Hoddle’s mum.
“i like boobs”
Whats wrong with that Man?;-)
Hey guys, I’am back from holiday.
Are there some inside rumours from last week???
Can someone say who are good in pre-season??
P.S. benik afobe is only 17 and he will join to leeds or something. Big experience for him, if this is true then i think he will be arsenal’s new number 9.
LOL @ incesc
Dan
Can someone make a response to that video.
If i had the wings of a Sparrow
If i had the arse of a crow
Id Fly over Tottenham Tomorrow
And Shit on the barstards below below
Shit on shit on shit on them barstards below BELOW !!
Go to youtube and leave a comment in the comment section under it Zeus.
WTL – dont need to grow up you silly cunt !!
Fuck off and do one !
All you do is moan bout AW anyway……your comments are bollocks anyway
Nothing much, Nick the Greek gooner from Ealing, I’m the Guatamelean gooner in Middlesex
Honda plays for CSKA
Rosicky to CSKA and in return we pay some cash for Honda
Lol @ the catch phrases.
Wardo -
LOL
Retard.
WTL – lol….just pulling your strings.
fair play for not taking the bate and going nuts
I just wind ppl up sometimes……..
Can someone answer my questions from my 15:33 comment??
Can someone answer my questions from my 15:33 comment??
no
altho….your comments are still bollocks but that your opinon – haha
rosicky to zska moskow? Why Wenger not trying to get Honda then? He wants a good start but with this bunch of players I think we will get robbed again!! He is deluded as always. Said we were near last year!! What??? We closed 11 poionts behind Chelski!! Is that close??
Wardo -
When I said the cunts comment I wasnt being serious anyways mate.
I like you probably do think that its fucked up that these guys earn so much and then some guy with one leg thats just back from iraq doesnt get any money.
Its the shit world we live in.
The catch 22 fans pay money to see great players in a great stadium that can fit more fans in. Paying for the stadium means more space but no money to buy players worth seeing = not as many fans and an ever decreasing circle of money to buy players = empty stadium, no revenue and no great players.
At some point this has to be corrected and one player would do it just one in the DB10 TH14 somebody to get the fans excited and yes Arsene he will cost more than £20 Million but it would be worth it to turn the tide.
KM Honda is about to sign for CSKA apparently.
Dutchman Nasri, JET, Nordveit, Wilshere have impressed me the most in the games so far
yep Dutchman.
According to someone on here today who gets inside info ……. we will sign the following
Cassilas
Campbell and Zapata
Melo and Kaka
Oh……and its all fact
appy days
Not far from me then Man? I’m more Hanwell really, but Nick the Greek Gooner from Ealing sounds better than Nick the Gooner, fuck knows it was the 1st thing that came in my head and i stuck with it. Mum is English, dad is Greek. Live in Ealing, job done.
Please can we stop LOLing…this is no bebo or some teen website
JET looks really good.
Ha, ha that video is Keyser having a conversation with Mayank and A.
I love the bit on the end, bear1) ‘Wenger is building a team for the future’
bear2) ‘You’re a cunt’
So funny!
dutch man no really
rumours are we are in for a top keeper and dm but names cannot be revealed. – pedro
tim henman said we are in for kaka, melo, and some others.
arshavin looked sharp vs barnet
nasri apparently vs sturm
jet looks strong, koz looks shit and weak as piss.
Weve got the Best team in the land
At Number one is Manuel Almunia oops
while youre at youtube….
Is lansbury good???
Le Grove – Best Arsenal blog by myles (excuse the pun) – keep up the good work guys.
Very impressed by JET – a little worried by Chamakh first touch but far too early too tell and he has to be better than NB52. Fond farewell to Eduardo and hope is joined with a less than fond farewell by Denilson & Almunia – still believe in Fabianski.
I am still worried Cesc might go and AW puts the money into the bank and the only thing we win next year is best performing company on the PLUS market !!
A
u mean Honda is abt to sign for Milan?
fukk Milan, they are a retirement for overpaid grandads
I thought Honda played for CSKA?
Thanks Melvyn, glad you like it, go back a few comments and watch the teddy bear clip, it’s so funny!
Koscileny hasn’t looked shit in the slightest, just looks far from big and tough in appearance!
He’s been better overall though than vermy was last year!
Man
lol
hahaha
sorry couldn’t help myself
Better than Bendtner? PAHA! No chance!
JET was cracking out on the wing against Graz. Tore their left back apart, showed Theo how it should be done.
incesc, a DM and a GK, surely we can’t rely on shit koscielny. We have to buy a CB to, wenger will sign a CB too.
Dutchman, he has the ability, and better than Denilson, that’s for sure. Not sure of his position though.
oh and i heard that frimpong was great too, right??
Some Watford fan was saying Lansbury is more of a winger? But i always thought he was a classic box to box CM.
A, according to the Arsenal mag, he is 6’2″, hmmm doesn’t look it to me.
Lol Dan thats Hilarious!
WTL – its crap isn’t it !!
Dual DMs, Song billong and Frimpong. Get De Jong and we’re sorted.
A
koz is shit by default as he is from french league
I seriously thought Mickey Mouse cup was an esoteric arsenal thing. Why do the spuds know this?
stu
song billong, de jong and frimpong.
its almost a poem!!
Wardo -
tell me how you see the rest of this window going.
yellow card yourself KM
Thats the problem with JET isn’t it, versatility is gonna fook him up. Wenger even played him as a lone CF last season in the CC.
Guy is an Dibay type Mid.
‘You are racist’ ‘Wenger is building a team for the future.’
shit
when did the blackpool game sell out?
I’d be happy if we were at least third again and had a good run in the CL, i.e., if we didn’t win then we at least went out heroically, not with a whimper like the last couple of years
Chelsea and ManU had unusually poor years by their standards and may revert to type this year, City have strengthened (at least on paper), TH are improving, everton and villa are hard to read but ambitious
if this pack have strong seasons, third won’t be too shabby, I’m not settling for third, but even third will require a serious investment in the squad
David Villa insists he’ll do ‘the maximum’ to ensure Cesc Fabregas leaves Arsenal for Barcelona
http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/premier-league/2010/07/23/2038419/david-villa-insists-hell-do-the-maximum-to-ensure-cesc
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Villa is a brilliant player but a cunt of a person.Who’s next?..the Groundsman or is he already on the list?
The city of Barcelona has more cunts than the rest of the world put together!!
WTL – to be honest, i am not sure now.
I did think he would make 2/3 signings at least.
We have let players go so need to replace. He must get a keeper and a DM……..if he doesn’t then more fans will turn on the club/AW ! and rightly so (unless they give a bloody good reason for not spending)
I think the kids coming through have a chance of being great. We still need proven quality now tho…..
feel like i’m sitting on the fence but….i just dont know and hope the club has 2/3 surprises.
it was much easier to warrant spending £100-150 on a day out at Arsenal when you had DB10, RP7, PV4, TH14 etc etc in the team……not value for money at the mo.
What do you think ?? Any more signings ?
As a straight verile young man you’d like to be in a land of cunts… maybe that’s the draw for Cesc
i would not be surprised if Arsenal don’t make any new signings this summer. Thats what we’v come to expect under Wenger
lol Man
good Vid dutchman, not sure about the track, should have been more like…
Wardo -
like you I would want to see 2/3 signings and I keep telling myself it will happen but the clock is ticking.
I dont see things getting better than last season, I dont see the progress.
Manchester City up bid for James Milner to £24m but deal turns ugly
• Midfielder reacts angrily over Martin O’Neill’s comments
• Villa seeking higher bid plus Stephen Ireland in part-exchange
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jul/22/manchester-city-james-milner-aston-villa
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thats a lot of money. City would be fucking stupid to pay that much……but their recent history suggests they are pretty stupid
Geoff – he must have been standing on tippy toes when they drew the line on the wall….
I wish I could smoke the same crack the AKBs, honeslty, to still support that cunt of a manager, …well i will wait till we begin the season and we thomp Liverpool and Blackpool with our mental strength. Gosh, how annoying is Wenger and the board? I mean the insult of taking us as morons.
WTL – still time to sign a few players.
only thing that is good is that the situation will be clarified either way. i.e. we make signings = Appy Days !! We don’t = major erro that can not be swept under the carpet like usual !!
Anyways – off now. Good weekend all
Hopefully, Wenger is just waiting to see who gets put up on the Clearing House floors at Real Madrid and City and he will get the best of their cast-offs…
I don’t know what’s worse, that I have to delude myself into thinking that might happen, or that we are at the point that I’m hopeful we get another teams cast-offs.
France suspend WC squad
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12025_6276273,00.html
Skysports.com understands four Premier League clubs are in the hunt for former Manchester United and Arsenal defender Mikael Silvestre.
Ha ha ha!
Ah pity da fool that signs this sucker!!
We lost our groundsman to Real madris a couple of seasons ago didnt we ??
Haha.. that means diaby, sagna and clichy all get a rest!
The teams hunting Silvestre want to shake his hand for the way he played against them last season!
Le Blanc has suspended France’s 23 WC players
a new broom, etc.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/8849972.stm
lol @ darrenchallis
Great cartoon – now we know why some people cant bear AKB Arsenal fans.
One of the posters on here is called Arsene Lies and he is dead right – if Peter Mandleson is a spin doctor AW is a Spin Surgeon and every year we , including me , but into it only to find that in 2010 our next three new signings will be Ramsey , Denilson and Bendtner back from injury and why is he resting Almunia – so he can tell us when he is back from injury that he is just like buying a new GK – I love AW for the success he brought us in the early years but I am tired of the AW that believes coming 3rd or 4th is the equivalent of winning something – that is Spuds talk not Arsenal talk.
oops sorry 78692
in that case Nasri will get a chance to shine… and eat…
http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/wilshere-i-just-want-to-play-this-season
what harm could sticking him in denilsons spot do?
no point Incesc, Denilson will be at Juve as Melo comes the other way!
Lurch
If Carlsberg did Le Grove Posts, then yours would be it.
Denilson to Juve with Melo coming the other way….
Jesus I would carry the useless muppet there myself
completely different type of player incesc!
Prediction …. Wilshire to be playing against Ramsey in the Euro qualifier. That’s how much first team football they are going to get. Especially if Cesc is really only with us for one more season. Bringing in Wilshire and Ramsey is the cheaper therefore the only Wenger option. Only cheaper old GK and maybe CB coming in and possibly any other free player, He will also work on Ozil for January pre contract sign up, Wenger will be like a dog in heat on that one.
Lurch -
Thats the stuff of dreams
ill drink to that Pat, not Carlsberg tho…
if wenger continue with his mad policies with youth can you see some protests like the anti glazer movement developing at emirates ??
my guess is Melo is half of Pedros inside tip…
of course A
Midfielders
different planets…
nice gravatar santino! alan moore fuckin rocks!
lol yeah incesc, lets play wilshere as dm, and we could stick song right wing as well, both midfielders after all….
Wilshere will play as a wide forward for the first team if he’s kept around this season, rather than in the midfield three
Right the time for copious amounts of Erdinger, Belvedere and other things has arrived.
Have a good weekend grovers. Catch you soon.
since when is denilson a dm?
denilson plays as one of the creative mids in our 433
song is our one and only dm
denilson is just a useless midfielder
you too gambon, laters
Almunia in pic 21 with his eyes closed
http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/33618/pre-season-training-exclusive-pictures
Since his entire career incesc?! he doesn’t play as a creative mid ever, he plays as either the dm, when song is out, or the diaby role, putting his foot in but getting forward as well.
Denilson is back up DM, or backup for Diaby, neither of which are roles Wilshere could fill.
Lansbury though regarding the Diaby role maybe….
Id pay for Denilsons ticket to Turin
denilson is back up?
57 league games in 2 seasons mostly in one of the supposed vreative roles in front of song
Wilshere, JET, Frimpong and Djourou are “LIKE NEW SIGNINGS” They have mental strength. ……until the go out on loan for the cash pot.
http://younggunsblog.co.uk/2010/07/arsenal-step-up-scouting-of-defender-mbodj/
Versatile it seems, but another unknown name. Anyone’s thoughts on this??
Yes incesc, denilson is back up. Two seasons ago he was first choice, last year he was back up, and just played when there were injuries to Song or Diaby.
How many games do you think he started last season when Song and Diaby were both fit?
I remember Utd and City, because we tried to be defensive, which other games?
Other than the few Eastmond matches, Denilson usually played when Song was out, no?
As I said before, one of the main weak links (other than injuries to our front line) in our 4-3-3 was that the player who was supposed to be a hybrid between Cesc and Song was usually Diaby or Denilson and both, on a good day, only put in full effort 80% of a match and most often drifted out of trying to help Song or on the sides in defense.
The only other ‘excuse’ is that Cesc was/is supposed to be more of a Xabi Alonso and Diaby/Denilson are supposed to be true attacking mids.
If that is the case, I’m equally sick with the decision to use one of those 2.
YO PEDRO
THE GK AND DM YOU MENTIONED ARE THEY THESE 2
GK – Casillas
DM – De Jong / Melo
PLUS WE ARE SIGNING
CB – Campbell and Zapata
I think Wilshere will do better i the middle, in Cesc position, but trust Wenger to play him wide and out of position.
Dunno A my memory is shocking, any way
who cares.
stick wilshire in the midfield next to cesc so he can learn the role a few times this season especially at the grove where he can get more support.
Ramsey and wilshere can take over and be our xavi and iniesta, next year and for the next 10 years.
unless iniesta and xavi are completely different players to ramsey and wilshere?
READ MY COMMENT @ 17:01
G STAR
it would crack me up if your FACTS came true
FACT!!!!!
READ MY COMMENT @ 17.05
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23 starts last season, he replaced/role he played was -
Diaby
Song
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Diaby
Diaby
Song
Diaby
Cesc
Cesc
Song
Diaby
Song
Diaby
Song
Song
Song
Diaby
Song
Diaby
Song
Song
Song
http://younggunsblog.co.uk/2010/07/arsenal-step-up-scouting-of-defender-mbodj/
Any Norwegian posters on here know anything about this player?
him replacing song is a square peg in a round hole imo.
no wonder he looks so shit when hes played as a dm.
but well done on the research
A*
Like I said before fellow gooners expect same old same old obviously I did not say those exact words but you get the point…..We’re fucked!!!
and wilshere for me looks like the srot of player who can play anywhere, he has the vision, touch and feel for the game.
much like cesc.
him and ramsey are our future if ramseys leg is ok. stick them in the middle…
I wouldn’t go so far as square peg in a round hole, but he certainly isn’t ideal in either role imo
really he should be playing as a normal midfielder somewhere like osasuna or espanyol
its friday night peeps….
mood starter
G-star… sorry… no.
One of Denilsons early games against spuds, were he looked a brilliant prospect
as mentioned on wed denilson is off next week to italy, the deal has been finalised all weekend,
this is from one of the highest sources possible
i hope you are right mark otherwise you are going to look like a cunt
.
which club MG? Juve??
G STAR – can you confirm this ?!
Alex
Classic Almunia. hehe.
How the fuck does le-grove have so many people with inside sources but no business is happening.
MAN CITYS WANT 2 CLEAR OUT THE FOLLOWING
Richards
Lescott
Wright–Phillips
Adebayor
Santa Cruz
Bellamy, Barry
De Jong
Onouha
Bridge
Given or Hart could be sold for the right price.
Denilson off eh. Brilliant.
Wenger slowly but surely realising what a few select fans have known for years: If he wants to win things he’ll have cut loose the clowns he bought during 05-07.
Denilson off to italy would be a dream
but i rather have inler than melo
ITS TRUE KEYSER
Not gonna lie, I only recently learned how great this song is. Couldn’t stand it when I was a teen.
Mark, do you have more “inider” news, mate?
Thanks dude, you’re a legend.
ill take Inler Swedish but only if he promises to turn the agro up a couple of levels.
Who is G STAR?
Really, can someone say to me what the hell is going on?? Denilson off??? for who??? And pedro do you know the names of that two players???!!
LL
i thought he was pretty agrotastic against the spanish cnuts
Keyser, G-star is some 10 year old boy who is just kidding.
It’s Ivan and he’s here to f___ with our heads.
Vidic has signed a new deal at united,pity we cant get a centre back like him
not sure if roma or lazio but he is moving to rome so one of the two, he was close to joining last summer but it never materialised, this summer however its all but done, we cant guarantee him first team football
not sure if that means a player coming in, but i can confirm he is going, cant reveal my source but its a current first team player, who said he’s goodbyes before going to austria
Denilson is leaving? Oh thank you god,all my prayers have been answered. What fool would want to sign him? It must be a joke
Swede,
true that, not in the earlier rounds tho, seemed a little lost i felt. but loads better than Denilson. I have a soft spot for Melo – i want a boxer turned football mongrel in there!
to be honest, frimpong look like he could be the real deal in a couple of seasons as well.
Yeah, frimpong was great!!
But pedro, do you know the names of that DM and GK??
Mark Gooner, Denilson is not going anywhere, trust me, wenger is giving one last chance., he’ll have song season!!
Can someone tell me why we would want Melo? Any time I’ve seen him he is a disaster and wont play for Brazil again now that Dunga is gone. I’ve seen alot of him and i really dont rate him
GSTAR is GAZIDIS
FACT
AZIDIS is star in Afrikaans
thought you could fool us Ivan, didya?
All hail the great one.
Denilson should do well in Serie As’ slow paced game. I thought he would have left fot Spain but i guess noone bid for him. Finding it hard to believe top teams like Lazio and Roma are after him. Maybe it means De Rossi is leaving?
cant reveal my source but its a current first team player..is he french?
i could tell you 2 players that have posted on here before one of which even posted from austria on monday
i wont say the names, ill let u speculate
but goes to show that certain players actually care
nice one Mark!
you made my weekend!! er year!!
it has got to be some of the youth players then i reckon
wenger is clearly certain players like delinson diaby vela thoe fabianski one last season,delinson is not going anywere i dont know were that rumour came from
Mark
Give his initials in mixed up order.
Denilson’ll do well anywhere where he’s protected by the referee, lads got skills but just aint right for the PL.
Yeah Mark as if they would post on a blog and risk their arsenal career then tell you about it
mark, what names can you tell me, which players leaving or coming???
players posting on here?
haha really?
was it a negative or positive kinda post?
Why would posting on an arsenal blog be risking their career Tomtom?
I know who posted here, eboue and bendtner.
You know whats gonna have to be done. SOmeone is gonna have to go back to mondays post, read through all the comments searching for new names and then we try to predict which player it was from.
Begs not it!!
For the record, I don’t think Denilson is going anywhere. We would have heard some speculation in the press about it already.
Denden unfortunately stays.
I wonder what the doe-eyed plonkers on ACLF will make of that?
See that’s what happens when you blindly rate players just because Wenger once deemed them good enough. End up looking like a bit of a mug.
Sol’s back…excellent
now get the GK, CB, DM and defensive coach in
come on time is ticking away, they need to here and practicing with their new team mates
WHat they will make of Denilson leaving, Paulinho? I think they will be devestated at first but then realise he isnt good enough because the boss let him go.
Wenger would go crazy if he thought players were posting comments on a blog,especially this blog that is really negative against Wengers decisions. Although Eboue would probably be stupid enough to do it
Stu
I suppose what happens in the dressing room, stays in the dressing room. big time betrayal to talk about those things.
Ray
Sol being back isn’t good news. It means we won’t be buying another CB. Its gonna be Kos (who isn’t ready) and TV5 who could do with a wiser older head.
Stu – Use your head. How else could you find out if it was true in the first place ?!
I hope zapata is signing for us!!
Actually scratch that, it could just be one of the fans in Austria at the moment, too many ways around it even if you ask Pedro.
Im gutted as well that campbell is gonna re-sign no monster signings for this season then!!!
Dam, monday wasn’t a slow day 1104 odd comments to get through stu! get going!!
Was it his first post MARK GOONER
screen name begin with a Z?
Stu – Exactly. Now master Wenger has spoken all the bullshit they used to prove his greatness – like Carling Opta – will be quickly forgotten and swept under the carpet.
Yeah, I nominate Stu aswell.
Lurch i’ll get the beers in you get looking.
my first guess
ZacCY says:
July 19, 2010 at 10:21
Hi first post, followed you guys for a while now. Excellent stuff.
Steven Taylor? Think he’s shockingly bad.
Interesting you mentioned Reina, cos heard from a fairly reliable source, a cheeky bid will be on the cards. The thing is a week later he’s got Cesc in a headlock with a Barca shirt on, got a feelin even he doesn’t know it yet.
West ham want to sign Silvestre,oh how sorry they will be……
Joe Hart will sign next wednesday,it’s a done deal people
i would like sole to stay on but i still thaink wenger needs to get another top class centre back but suspect he will use nordviet
Im confused as to what people are saying to be. Keyser, whats your 18:38 about? Same goes to you, Zeus, at 18:35.
oracle, you’re kidding. Fuck off with this shit rumours.
So Mark Gooner, mate. Denilson is going, but do you have any info on if we sign someone?
Zapata?
Inler
Frey?
Pleaser answer. I would LOVE to see some QUALITY. I’m just tired of this rumours and hoax.
Please respond, mate.
Best wishes.
The Oracle you was wrong in the matrix as well!!
Is he the ONE!!
not sure if i believe MARK GOONER but its not like these players wont have loads of spare time on their hands and laptops…
i bet most of them have read le-grove before, if anything im sure they google their names…
yup send one my way InCesc – make it dam cold!
how about?
marzouca says:
July 19, 2010 at 09:26
I don’t know what I enjoy more. Watching The Arsenal play, or reading this blog. haha cheers!
Traore?? i like the throwing us off the sent with ‘watching arsenal’
Stu – Instead of searching through the comments I was just going to suggest ‘ask Pedro to check the IP address’ but then it could just be a fan in Austria or there’s loads of ways around it.
Mark Gooner could just be giving us something to think about.
Guys, stop it!!!
Just stop this stupid thing with all “insider” view. Do anyone really have any source.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=13669630&op=2&o=global&view=global&subj=160938123470&id=783125402
Isn’t that pretty. I might actually buy this one.
or
SecretArsenal says:
July 19, 2010 at 09:31
Well, no No.1 at The Arsenal… that’s great AW, so please, pleeeeaasssee surprise us with the signing of a solid/seasoned GK that can command the area for 2-3yrs!! Maybe a quality CB too… there’s money there… you know you can spend it… all of it even!!
Mark, I believe the players read and I don’t see why they wouldn’t post… if you wanted to find out what the fans thought of you, there’s not a better place to get an honest view.
They’ve all got FB pages… so why not.
I wonder if their posts got through?
imagine if QOS turned out to be Sol Campbell!
haha
Pedro, do you know the names of the DM and GK what you said??
incesc – I bet most of them spend their time on Facebook trying to get themselves someone to massage them after a hard days training.
Especially in Austria they could go off on their bikes and find some young Fraulein from one of the farms.
someone whose jealous of nasri???
hmmm strokes chin…
Brighty says:
July 19, 2010 at 14:45
Nasri is shit!
I do Dutchman.
Mark, yellow card for giving us a rumour that would bring a tear of joy to my eye if true…
Pretty sure Marzouca is a semi regular on here. Im fairly certain i’ve seen his name before.
Keyser, right, yeah i was thinking of that, asking Pedro to check for people that only left 1 comment all day (and it being their first).
Reggie, the oracle is either fucking retarded or a fake because is she knew those agents were coming to kill her why the fuck didnt she hide or something.
thats one sexy queen! i think A would get freaked out a little he’s been grooming that one for a while now.
Stu
18.35 cooment………just saying Wenger would frown upon any player going on to a forum an giving away ‘insider’ info. You know how secretive he likes to be when he is conducting business.
hahaha
Pedro, why don’t you say the names??? If i guess and say the good player, do you say then that he is the player we are after??
Incesc
That would mean Sol has a crush on Honda and Henri…..
Stu, get me the Austria IP digits and I can search!
how would wenger know zeus
i doubt the gps follows their browsing history.
I bet almunia looks at some proper fucked up shit on the net!
Incesc
That would mean Sol has a crush on Honda and Henri…..
haha true
Stu – Don’t think you understand, but it’s ok.
What is a red card offence and how long are you banned for?
Dutchman, I don’t want to kill a source!
A DM and a keeper though… which is good news.
Pedro, are we going to sign those players, or are we after them???
ZacCY says:
July 19, 2010 at 10:21
check him first pedro
£10 cyber quid on it!
MG is probably sitting back laughing his head off at this
Pedro – How does it work with phones ? What trail do they leave ? Do you know ?!
Austrial IP? I dont even know my own IP address.
Zeus, i dont think the player gave away info on here. Mark just said they left a comment, i dont see a problem with that personally..as long as it wasnt criticising his teammates or manager.
What dont i understand Keyser? Check for comments left with an IP address from Austria. Thats what you means, wasnt it?
if he is! bloody barsteward.
*austrian, not austrial.
Keyser, you leave a mobile IP address… all I get is that o2 mobile have left a message.
They aren’t entirely accurate either. Some people work behind a proxy server to escape the work Nazis… so you could post from one of them and I’d have you down as being based in the states.
Dutchman, it’s nothing that concrete… generally, no one knows who we’re after as the coaching staff are kept in the dark.
Mark might no something if he’s spoken to a first team player becuase the deal is done outbound…but players in… well, it’s very difficult to get good info. My goss is either good info or club gossip…
Well what if someone decides to find out using browser history, IP digits………
It would take time but its not impossible.
Pedro, this DM and GK. Are we just interested in them or have the club actually make an inquiry as to their availability?
Also, who are they?
Heh, didn’t even think of proxy servers, so basically no way to prove anything.
Stu
In the heat of the moment you can’t tell what one would post. Cesc said school boy defending after we dropped points (I forget who) and Wenger was stunned.
Some were jokingon here when at Wenger response when he found out Cesc had said that. It was ‘errrrrrr’ in a scooby doo accent.
I bet he had a chat with Cesc for that.
That Cesc comment was after the Porto game Zeus.
haha zeus – swap JJ for diaby
or
BennyTheJet says:
July 19, 2010 at 12:18
Congratulations to Sagna on getting hitched !
http://www.lequipe.fr/Football/breves2010/20100719_120935_quand-sagna-regale.html
Stu
it’s Neuer and Inler.
because thats what I would do and I know best
GSTAR IS GAZIDIS
FACT
AZIDIS IS STAR IN AFRICAN
PS
I COULD BE, MIGHT NOT BE, MAYBEEEEEEEEEEEE.
YOU’LL NEVER KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
or
Cunt says:
July 19, 2010 at 13:17
Stop picking on me fuckers!
actually i think we are after Melo but i rather have Inler cos he is europe based and not a lazy primadonic partyboy
Yeah i remember thinking that comment from “cunt” was odd. Its either a player who everyone thinks is a cunt, or someone from a rival blog thinking its clever because Le Grove is forever calling people cunts.
this is prob ebway in disguise
Baafuor from Ghana says:
July 19, 2010 at 18:20
Wenger should just fuck off and sign a damn Goalkeeper and a defender.I don’t really care how much it cost to sign Schwarzer even if he is 100.After all we have a lot of our transfer kitty still sitting there.We even wasted money on renewing Denilson’s contract.
i think it was Telarse Stu, same Gravatar.
your onto something with the cunt one!
who is it tho???
fabianski?
especially with ultrasurf software.
this is it, its JW
The Ruler says:
July 19, 2010 at 19:39
I don’t think we needed Joe Cole, good player but I am a big Wilshere fan, I feel he could possiby be even better than Cole.
The Ruler says:
July 19, 2010 at 19:39
I don’t think we needed Joe Cole, good player but I am a big Wilshere fan, I feel he could possiby be even better than Cole.
big ego calling himself the ruler? could be a footballer but the excellent spelling and use of a commar tells me otherwize
MEMBERS OF LE GROVE, WOULD YOU BE HAPPY WITH THE FOLLOWING PLAYERS:
GK: Casillas or Schwarzer
CB: Campbell and Zapata / Mertersacker
DMF: Melo / De Jong
AMF: Honda
WITH THE FOLLOWING PLAYERS LEAVING:
GK: Almunia / Fabianski
CB: Silvestre / Gallas
CMF: Denilson and Fabregas
AMF: Rosicky
CF: Eduardo
YOUNGSTERS THAT CAN LEAVE:
Vito Mannone
Giles Sunu
Sanchez Watt
Mark Randall
Kerrea Gilbert
Jay Simpson
Nacer Barazite
lurch i promise i never read that!!
it must be it!
if anyone id id say it was Denilson himself Incesc. that would harmonize with MG’s knowledge!
Plus “The Ruler” has been posting on here for a while.
Pedro, I certainly was around and following events as best as I could; and if you recall very well, what Adebayo said about Milan was that it will be great to play for a team like Milan. AW has made similar quote about R Madrid and Ashavin about Barca. None have asked to be cut loose. If we are to go by your standard and Geoff’s, then we should be calling Fabregas names and not defending him.
Charlliegeorge talks about service, please tell me which of the Arsen players hasn’t put in his best these past years. When you are employed to do a job, you do such with the best of your abilities. If you are honest with yourselves, you will agree that Fab’s body language has been to say the least questionable for some time.
Will you want your captain to be the player whose ambition in life to play for a competing team? Mark my word, if he is forced to stay, he will not and cannot be focus in Arsenal.
Going back to the standard I had earlier referred to, you guys do not seem to get it. If you treat your players with doubly standard, they will not understand what you expect from them. The simple point is that Fabgreas says he wants to leave and has never cautioned his Spanish team mates to respect our clubs feeling and integrity on that matter. He may be proud to play for Arsn, who wouldn’t, but he should also be proud to come out publicly and caution against the incessant nuisance that barca are constituting of themselves. I hope when he goes he will remember to collect his salary upfront from the near bankrupt Barca.
MEMBERS OF LE GROVE, WOULD YOU BE HAPPY WITH THE FOLLOWING PLAYERS:
GK: Casillas or Schwarzer
CB: Campbell and Zapata / Mertersacker
DMF: Melo / De Jong
AMF: Honda
WITH THE FOLLOWING PLAYERS LEAVING:
GK: Almunia / Fabianski
CB: Silvestre / Gallas
CMF: Denilson and Fabregas
AMF: Rosicky
CF: Eduardo
YOUNGSTERS THAT CAN LEAVE:
Vito Mannone
Giles Sunu
Sanchez Watt
Mark Randall
Kerrea Gilbert
Jay Simpson
Nacer Barazite
WHAT DO YOU LOT THINK – YES OR NO
Stu, MG could have thrown us off the scent with first post?
anyhow done em all now so thats our lot.
none the wiser.
fuck me this guy is relentless
its like rumour tourets
im prepared for a yellow… its a tactical foul….
FUCK OF WITH THIS MINDLESS SHIT GSTAR!! WE DONT READ YOUR SHITE. EVER!! REALLY, NEVER EVER!!!!
IN
Casillas: YES !
Mertesacker: YES !
DMF’s: not sure about either of them
AMF: YES
OUT
ok with all of them but would prefer Fabregas staying for one more season ’till Ramsey/Wilshere are there
LLR: LOL ! (though it’s touretTEs)
YO YO YO ITS ALL TRU FO SHO, YOU GET ME BLUD
i get that the space bar is thicker than your cock. fuckin jockey.
you know what
im so sick of the transfer market if i was offered a choice of tommorow we sign pele, maradonna and ray parlour in their prime or the season starts tommorow and we go next season with the squad we have.
Id take pele, marradonna and parlour.
But i would think seriously about it.
yeah man thats a real connudrum… pele marradonna and parlour would already have signed for city though if that makes it any easier.
*conundrum
im dreaming of that first sip of bear….hmmmm
work is killing me.
im dreaming of that first sip of beer….hmmmm
work is killing me.
stutering
Do’s any one really think Wenger will buy some quality players? or is it only a pipe dream!!
Cesc an Jacky boy would be awesome together
Too many people are coming on here with their “Inside” info, dont beleive a word of what they are saying
Pass the pipe Ivan!!
thank you zeus (18:52) for the insights into Jenas
“if a tub of Marmite suddenly became self-aware and had to choose which to spread on his toast, jenas or a maggot-infested pigeon – he would choose the latter!”
Pedro … i can write a quick script that gives u all the australian IP’s based on MAXMIND’s database
want it ?
Thanks for pointing that out about wilshere and cesc Big Dave
i said that earlier but A shot me down on a technicality to do with my arguing style, or something like that…
reggie
it would be nice to start the season with some bragging rights about new players and some positivity for once! I hope he gets some quality
lurch
nice sip of bear! haha way to start the weekend.
BEWARE THE ILLUMINATIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
hope Geoffrey missed that one! last thing i need to be accused of is bearophilia.
yo wasteman
I think at this point, it will be Schwarzer (after they take another 2 weeks to hammer out the fee and the whole player/coach thing) and either Melo or De Jong.
The Melo option because he’s not wanted at Juve and Wenger expressed interest before
De Jong option… well.. not real clues other than he might be excess at City and they might want to make some money back.
Sol will be the ‘experience’, Koz the ‘defensive reinforcement’ with either of the DM’s.
Arsenal tv will be returning to our screens by the end of this year
i cant see schwarzer anymore
i think if it was going to happen it would have by now.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-10744897
Arshavin says we’re not signign Shitzer!!!!
WOOOO!!!!
what about the first comment of the day b,does he post on here often
DONT LIE
yoooooooooooooo
Hi
agreed Incesc,
not going by what Pedros implying with big names etc…. I think we prob were in for schwarzer but someone else has taken the bait now or the board have come in and told wenger to up his game.
Dan, The Gooner is really MARK RANDALL
Pedro, I expected better of you.
Blatantly made-up ‘sources’.
did Chelsea play only youth vs Ajax ? or was there some kinda balance in their team. Ajax might be a real threat this year if they get into CL
fuck me we should have signed him as a DM!
when did arshavin say we werent in for schwarzer jimbo?
READ LEON – 12:52 – WHO COULD HE BE
Have people seriously been suggesting we sign Casillas…
why don’t we go and sign sneijder, robben and maicon at the same time…
lurch
i hope so, i really think its reina too, but i think that hes going to be hard to pry away from liverpool.
they need the cash and reina is easier to replace for the fans than gerrard or torres.
unless pedro is putting this stuff on to up ratings!
Sagna + £15 million = Maicon – COME ON ARSENE – DO IT
I think Fulham are just waiting on hiring a new manager first!
Sagna + £15 million = Maicon – COME ON ARSENE – DO IT
complete waste of 15 million
we hardly need to replace sagna and 15 million could be used much better
THIS IS MY SOURCE
http://www.auravita.com/PopUpImagesV3.aspx?HealtheCode=NAST17779&ImageID=0
I’d be happy with :
Hart
Mertesacker
Toulalan/Veloso/Khedira
I don’t know if I’d find it ironic, karma, or irritating if we got Reina but Cesc leaves after that whole jersey incident.
Casillas
Maicon Subotic Vermaelen Clichy
Song Schweinsteiger
Fabregas
RVP Chamakh Arshavin
Why would Casillas leave Real Madrid?
Only reason I can think of is if he finds out that hot reporter he’s dating…
is really a man, baby.
man utd unable to sell season tickets
Lurch LeRouge says:
July 23, 2010 at 19:26
this is it, its JW
The Ruler says:
July 19, 2010 at 19:39
I don’t think we needed Joe Cole, good player but I am a big Wilshere fan, I feel he could possiby be even better than Cole.
—————————————————–
The Ruler is a friend of mine. He’s not Jack Wilshere lool
The only person holding the m.s deal up is wenger,noone else.
Sion De Freitas – Yeah and you could be Chesney or someone.
http://www.wherehasourarsenalgone.webeden.co.uk/
from the website Dan posted:
Then came the period when we were told of the need for a new stadium. We had huge numbers of fans wanting tickets to matches and our beloved Highbury simply wasn’t big enough. The real bonus of a stadium move, we were told, would be that we’d get a lot more income – income which would let us compete with anyone in the transfer market, and income which would elevate us to (in the Board’s words) “European Super Club” status. We were told not to worry – that the new Holding company set up would take the strain financially, and that the playing side would not be affected in any way. Moving stadium would allow us to continue improving, and ensure we led the way in English football for the foreseeable future.
We moved stadium and since then the team has been on a downhill path. Punching above our weight to reach the 2006 Champions League final was all we have to show for moving ground. We’ve lost world class players and replaced them with promising kids. The balance of the team flipped completely and the manager set out on a project to prove that you don’t have to spend big to win things. To date it’s failed. 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 have been and gone with no trophies. We’ve been overtaken once again by Manchester United but even worse by Chelsea. We’re no longer London’s top club, let alone the country’s.
cont…
We were told moving stadium would allow us to buy top players. Compete with anyone in the transfer market. The financial burden of the move would not affect this. Yet since the move we’ve been on a mission to save money wherever possible in the transfer market. We’ve scrimped and scraped and despite Wenger trying to unearth the odd gem, we’ve ended up with players who are distinctly second rate compared to the ones before them. Good players, possibly – but certainly not good enough for The Arsenal.
Since Wenger took over, when a player left The Arsenal it was usually downhill for them from that point. Now the best players we have simply see The Arsenal as a stepping stone to something better. Balanced with this we have a number of players beset with complacency. Handsomely paid, lacking ambition (or is it just talent?) and happy to turn up, stroll around the pitch for 90 minutes and not care if they lose. They show no appreciation to the crowd supporting them, the people who contribute millions of pounds revenue every home game and in turn pay their wages. The fans who spend a lot of their very hard worked earnings to travel up and down the country to support their team. No ‘thank you’ after the game, nothing. Off they stroll, sometimes even smiling and joking with the opponents after being beaten.
Would George Graham tolerate behaviour like this? Would Bertie Mee? Would Herbert Chapman? This is THE Arsenal you are representing. Know what it means to pull on that red and white shirt. Know the history and what this club is about.
I have nothing in common with these mercenaries and feel nothing for them. In fact it saddens me to say that I openly despise some of them. Lack of ability is one thing but lack of pride, lack of passion and lack of humility is inexcusable.
good read Dan
heartfelt stuff!
It’s the Glaziers setting up another Scarf business.
Keyser
Hahahahaha
indeed it is incesc.
Anyone listen to Up For Grabs the arsenal podcast?
No Incesc, post a link on here. Go’on!
Just type it in google, don’t be lazy, ah go orn now.
so fuckin true it fuckin hurts … that writeup above.
fuckin shit
incesc – You been listening to it all year ?!
http://podcast.playbackmedia.co.uk/arsenal.xml
type it into your Itunes stu
yeah keyser listened to a few last season.
was just seeing if they had done any preseason ones…
its like a funny le-grove session…
Black Scarf AFC?
Wonder if they can see me wearing it from another continent.
The Phil Brown one was hilarious, Stu would love the Bendtner is David Copperfield one.
Yeah wasnt the phil brown one the one where they got drunk and shouted at him all game??
haha
wonder what they would make of A Cunted Left Foot…
C’mon keyser, dont be mean. Post a direct link. I went into the link you posted and got lost and all confused.
That website is joke, this going to far, common, let not do a united!
Stu – That website has a list and a description of all their podcast, try the December one ‘Is Phil Brown White ?’
Or any of them really.
incesc – Yeah, if they really said all that they must’ve been proper pissed.
Up 4 grabs is good, listened to them all last season
WAIT. There is a new podcast?
stu open i tunes, put in up for grabs in the store and it downloads them all for free and subscribes so you always get the new ones.
simple
Dear Mr Wenger, please stop signing all these supposed world class players (?) and give the gifted youngsters a chance. I am sure they will play their hearts out more than the mostly tepid displays by people such as Arshavin and a few others. You have had a few years without a trophy, one more year will not make a difference. Build a side – let the youngsters see the light, not go, oh they have signed another player in my position.
Ah, now i’ve got the hand of it.
There’s nothing new there. Loved how they coined the term ‘Mugabe Media Lockdown.’
Best one was the Grabbies.
‘Alex Demetri SONG BIllonggggggggggggg.’
Brian, Cesc is behind you. BRIAN, Why did you lie.
Zeus – I think they had a few for the World Cup, but I don’t think so.
pedro and geoff should do a podcast.
get some guest grovers in, jaguar vs Keyser, A vs Jimbo
get a celeb gooner in to host, Jay Z maybe…
easy
*Hang!! I hate typos!
Incesc, im as shit with computers as anyone you’re ever met. Literally all i can do is type..really fast and inaccurately
. I will probably break my laptop if i try to set up Itunes.
Nah the Diaby song’s class.
Dont forget about QoS v CharlieGeorge.
Stu – All you do is click on the title of any of the podcasts in the link I gave you and they open automatically in Windows Media Player.
does anyone listen to the online gooner ones with kevin witcher and others
Id pay money to listen to A vs Jimbo
Keyser
They did. Arm chair WC but it was for the BBC.
WHy am i listening to “is Phil Brown White”??
Or AA23 vs Ethan
Isnt it usually Sixx pac vs Ethan? Handicap match.
Are you listening to it Stu ?!
Xeus – Nah, Tayo did some himself and they had people like Eamon Holmes do some for the World Cup, I can’t find where they are, I’m sure I saw them though.
Yeah i am Keyser, because you told me to and i have no reason to think that you are misleading me. Right?
Zeus – This is it, I missed most of them and instead just listened to armchair World Cup, but playback media had their own version.
http://podcast.playbackmedia.co.uk/worldcuppodcast.xml
Stu
you dont have ITunes?
I know your irish but come on…
Stu – Nah, wouldn’t do that, it’s better if you listen to it during the season though.
I did have it Incesc, but every couple of months the harddrive on my laptop fails and needs to be replaced. So after about 3 times of having to re-install itunes i gave up and havent had it in about 6months to a year.
I probably will do from this season on Keyser.
fair enough
the phil brown one is genuinely funny as a stand alone from what i remember. Pure phil brown and hull bashing.
It will go to penalties wasn’t really Tayo. They had diff guests hosts a week. Only listened to the one with Keith Dover.
incesc – You remember you were talking about Henry being a bit arrogant ? Well in the Phil Brown one do you remember the Danny Mills and Colin Cooper story about when he firt came over from Juventus?!
Tango, TANGO. Stop toucking your cock. Stop masterbating on the touchline.
Your a long way from home, A LONG WAY FROM HOME.
haha just listening to one. they keep singing:
“I am Viiiito Mannone”
to the tune of
“I am the one and only”
they hate our keepers the same way we do!
Keyser
Yes.
“What have you won in football? I’m going to tear you to shreds.”
Diaby, Diaby, DIaby Diaby, he knocked out JOhn Terry, Diaby.
haha yeah keyser
didnt he foul henry and henry got up and asked
“what have you won in your career?!”
Mills or Cooper i cant remember which one said
“er Nothing”
and Henry said
“I am A french champion and i will tear you apart”
and then he did.
haha
or something like that
Never noticed that Fabianski seems to get shorter while he jumps until Alan Davies mentioned it.
they also talk about blogs.
every now and then they mention a moaners blog.
wonder who that is?
They ripped the shit out of Almunia after the Birmingham mistake, calling him a Morris Dancer and Davies brought in some bells I think.
Also the shawcross one was class, exactly what most fans were probably thinking.
haha
listening to the shame the humiliation
bring keown back as a coach…
how many centre back should we buy?
8
class!
eboue on the right wing.
no goals no assists
Yeah
The Morris Dancer.
” Almuniaaaaaa. U Clown.”
They ripped Fabianski as well. On more than one occasion. After Porto they couldn’t help it.
They called the ‘better than a penalty goal’ the funniest sequence of events they’d ever seen.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEmanuel Ebouuuuuuuueeeeeee.
When they interviewed Ebway for the World Cup one he just kept laughing but he said he liked that one better than the ‘You’ve only come to see Eboue’
DONT PICK IT UP FABIANSKIII!!
inter vs barce
2 types of footballers in south america
skillfull ones messi and murderers inter defence
thats why inter won
diaby
not his fault hes stupid and not his fault he getss picked
maybe alan davies reads le-grove!
incesc – You hear the Abou ooh oooh Diaby, Vassiriki, Vassiriki one to Rock the Kasbah ?!
“we need another cb next to vermalaen with a right foot”
“what do you think of chamakh
davies: “brilliant another striker? we need a keeper and a cb!”
eduardo?
“i hope it doesnt happen to ramsey, love eduardo hope he does well in another league.”
davies is a grover!
WHere are you getting these Quotes from Incesc?
We signed any fuckers yet!? What’s the latest GStar?! Dam that bear was fine. Beer.
dont remember that keyser?
stu
the podcast…
just listening to an old one while big brother is on…
its great stuff, forgot how good it is.
Lol. So the Ruler isn’t jackie boy. Oh well. Time for the other posters to discredit our theories….
Big Bother? I thought that had finished? Its unbelievably shit.
i live in a big brother dictatorship. Its why im alway on here when it on
incesc – It’s in the Bendtner – David Copperfield one.
‘Walcott crossed it and I was like, goal !! OOh where’s the ball gone, he’s like David Copperfield’
When Bentdner kept missing against Burnley.
Last thing i remember about Big Brother is some fella, Ahmed i think, trying to do a military coup by taking someones jacket.
What about ben!
Ben tener do you think he will succeed next year!
That depends Jay. WHo the fuck is he?
bIG GAME bENDTNER. Only scores in big games.
i am 100% certain wenger will not be signing dm player particualy melo 25 mill is out of the question.i know wenger will get another defender but i feel realy needs a keeper with experience and class ,at moment i think there 3 good cbs just need 1-2 more that all,last season we 3 good cbs and 2 were injured and a keeper position a major problem not so much dm as i dont think delinson was not a destaster i just dont think he is top 4 capiber.not sure how many top class dm players there in the market.in my view nordviet will go into first team he has been on loan at least 3 years and knows how to play under pressure,but eastmond and JET will go out on loan.but i have no idea what wenger do about keeper position
And the Classic ‘He’z got yellow boots on.’
Has G star gone to bed?
‘Did you know that in the last decade there were more men killed by pulling a condom over their head as a practical joke, than there have been Tottenhan Hotspur victories over Arsenal’
stu
one good thing happened in big brother in its history.
some girl put a bottle in her … on live tv.
it wasnt good because she was fit, it just summed up how classy the whole thing is.
Jay
how are you doing mate?
pissed up?
haha keyser
1?
Leon. Take a breath mate.
All the intel suggests otherwise. DM inbound as Den outbound. CB, alas is likely sorted by Sol…..Keeper, no smoke without fire so expect developments.
is this true?
when bentdner crashed his aston martin he got out, took most off most of his clothes off and picked up the broken wing mirror to check if he had got any injuries.
Incesc sober has a judge how are you mate?
had a quiet one mate
sorry
i enjoyed our pissed chat last time
Yup it’s true.
Those cars should come with advanced driver courses! It’s like giving a box of matches to a pyromaniac.
Remember the old days;
Rice Young O’leary Nelson
Price Talbot Brady Rix
Sunderland Stapleton
Quote ‘were what to win the league in stile’
Now they were the days!
Incesc, i didnt see that, thank absolute fuck because she was fat and noone wants to see that. Fucking hell i even remember that ones name. Kinga (thats how its pronounced, havent a fucking clue what it actually is).
Terry Neill circa 1979!
‘judge me in may’ wenger August 2009!
lurch by intel i think you meean roumours and speculation which i have to be 95 % bulshit,sorry but delinson is not going anywere as i know there is no way wenger will payout anymore 12-15 mill on dm and not player would have to top top quality essian standerd or and will never payout 25 million on melo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfhl8JWzBfU incesc tis is for you!
u guys still up
Pac your jealous1
Arshavin is turning into a massive AKB. First he says city has absolutely no chance at the title. Even I know they are one of the favourites. Then he says we dont need a new keeper cause we havent conceded in pre season. Wtf!! And he’s basically saying we should promote Frimpong and Havard in the team.
Andrey I know i called you a miserable git last season but this is too positive for my liking
The Real Arsenal men Are now awake. The people who just follow have been in bed for a while.
Sixx pac tis is for you you hunk of sex http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ehden6aPl0
Come on the lads!
Jay
right back at you!
Sixx pac
have you got a link to that article? few people have mentioned it but i havent seen it…
incesc do i hint a little bit of jealousy!
My only love is Arsenal fc!
judge me in may…
haha i guess it worked when he said wed go unbeaten.
gotta love his positivity agaisnt all the odds.
wenger will be arsenal ,manager till 2020 at least.
jay
put them in order of love
le-grove
arsenal
boobs
incesc
alcohol
[...] Arsenal sign top centre back, 3rd time lucky? Thierry, thanks for continuing to do the spuds, great… Sol Campbell looks like being the first player in Premiership history to sign three times for the same club, fat boy [...] [...]
Incesc i am a believer who is starting to disbelive its almost that pires henry viera campbell lehammnn are a fantasay of love!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOjG91LX8Wg&feature=related
Your are tops incesc!
Stu is second!
And G star you are and ass hole!
here ya go incesc.
Arshavin – Forget Schwarzer, its not on the agenda!
Posted on July 23, 2010 by admin
The Arsenal midfielder Andrei Arshavin has been speaking to the press today, and he seems to be pretty certain that Arsene Wenger will not be signing another goalkeeper this summer, as he already has four of them in the squad.
“They say that the signings haven’t finished.” said Arshavin. “We have four goalkeepers and we conceded none the two matches played so far.
“But, seriously, if we’re talking about Schwarzer, it looks like that is off the agenda.’
The Russian star also seems to think that Wenger will be promoting a few more youngsters to the first team this season, which would negate the need for any new signings. He is especially hopeful that Jack Wilshere will become a regular first-teamer.
Arshavin said: “Wilshere, Frimpong and Nordtveit have trained with the first team from day one, so no one considers them beginners.
“If Wenger calls them up to the first team, it means each has talent. The rest depends on themselves. Wilshere is only 18, but he has worked with the first team already for two or three years – longer than me. He went on loan last season, but I hope this season that he really helps us.”
Nordtveit is a 6ft 2in centre-back that has been gaining experience on loan at Lillestrom and Nurnberg, so perhaps he could be the natural partner for Thomas Vermaelen this season. He has just turned 20 so he can hardly be considered a kid? He is also currently in negotiations with the Gunners over a new improved contract as a reward for his massive improvement this year.
caravan of love
Dont know what list im second in but i dont wanna be on it.
doubt arsh actually said that
he did say this
2. From dmi3y
I saw your pictures taken during training on the Arsenal web-site, and I figured that you are a very cheerful man, just like me … So my question is: what does space smell like? And another one (only I want you to answer “yes , you’ll marry, you will have a family, kids, lots of happiness , and you’ll love each other for the rest of your lives ” so that I could show her your reply and say” Look, honey, Andrey knows, he doesn’t lie” . So the question is: Will I marry my Milana?
Arshavin: Space smells of eternity. Will you have a wedding? I do not know, I’m not a fortune-teller
Felipe Melo would add needed steel to the midfield but judging by his lack of discipline. He’d wear the carpet out at the FA in his trips to answer red and yellow card cautions!
stu you are on jays list of love
who wouldnt want to be there?
arsh said this too
From Russian … English … French … ??? What tongue do you like?? Thank you! Good luck in football and in your personal life!
Arshavin: Beef tongue
Me. I dont want to be there.
are russians insane? i think so
12. From Polina95
Andrey, I have your name carved on my arm with a knife! Did I do it for nothing or not? What do you think? And this is not a joke; I spent the whole day carving it!
Arshavin: I do not understand it. Actually, I do not even like when people make tattoos. If it is not a joke, it’s sad. There are many other ways to express your sympathy to me.
more
Andrey, have you ever held a live hedgehog in your hands?))))))
Arshavin: In one of the photographs, I hold a very small hedgehog in my gloved hands. There is another picture in my family album, which was taken when I got a bit older and held a hedgehog in my bare hands.
That ones pretty old Incesc, a few weeks at least. Are you sure your reading the newest one (or is that the newest one?)?
Guys im sorry but i love this guy!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G2lqY3Nuk0
arshavin is such a breath of fresh air
Andrey, if I came over to you on the street and gave you a teddy bear as a present, would you take it? Would you throw it away afterwards?
P.S. Andrey you are the best, the most good-looking, the most intelligent and I don’t even want to mention the way you play )))
Arshavin: I would take it and put it very gently in the car.
Im not there jay
Guys i love this guy and i also love women http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G2lqY3Nuk0
Come on the arsenal!
just choosing my favourites stu
imagine if henry did the same thing.
Not sure what you mean by Henry chosing his favourites but whatever…
henry answering weird questions with a sense of humour.
i like the fact hes down to earth
i think arshavin will be an absolute legend if we embrace him
Foreign tougue non comprhend vou!
Stu and Jay sitting in a tree
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSh6SQd8UrI STU/INCESC i think you like!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1297120/Arsenal-contract-rebel-William-Gallas-pricing-Panathinaikos-claims-Greek-clubs-chief.html
might look pretty stupid if he cant even get a place at panathinaikos
Easy
sucez mes boules
iS THAT THE FORMER aa23 ! WERE TO FUCK DID HE GO!
AA23
got a book recommendation for you
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jermain-Defoe-Biography-Michael-Perkin/dp/184358252X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1279931857&sr=8-1-spell
sTU KEEP YOUR COCK UP ! DO NOT BE SAD!
gUYS CESC IS STAYING ! JUST GOT THE WORD!
think you got the caps lock the wrong way round mate
just got word from a source, i cannot name him but he is an ex player
diaby is actually 33
Here’s one for ya Jay.
nICE ONE INCESC! THATS THE BUS!
wHAT CAN ONE SAY LURCH LEROUGE YOU ARE ONE HORNY FUCKER!
THIS FUCKIN SITE IS SO GAY AND I LOVE WOMEN AND ARSENAL!
cAN THE GUYS KEEP TALKING ALL NIGNT!
Sharing is caring Jay.
wE ARE GOING TO WIN THE EMIRITES CUP FOR CESC! THIS IS REAL MUSIC!
yOU JAMMY BASTARD!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSh6SQd8UrI
iF THE GUYS DO NOT REPONSE THEN I AM GOING HOME !
jay
lurch
goodnight
I’m responding with video entertainment.
Later incesc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ipGhzrIi3s&feature=related
WELL I WANT FUCKIN MARMILADE ! GUYS THIS GROUP IS NO/ 1!
NOW COME ON GIRLS YOU HOLDING IT BACK! LETS HAVE IT GIRLS!
i’ll leave you with this. theo walcotts take on wing play:
lOURH LE ROUGHE WHO TO FUCK ARE THEY!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ipGhzrIi3s&feature=relatedwHAT CAN A MAN SAY!
This ones for Ivan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ipGhzrIi3s&feature=relatedlURCH LEROUGE NOT BAD BUT LISTEN TO THESE FUCKERS!
They were cold chisel in answer to your q.
Ok last one
aND THEY NOT THE OUTCAST FROM HOLLYOAKS!
Yeah Jay I’ve watched like 3 times already. Next?
cOPY FUCKIN PASTE!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ipGhzrIi3s&feature=related
LURCK ARE YOU INTO THIS MATE ? i WILL BE BACK Mate
Can’t resist one more. This at 300 decibels at my funeral.
Yeah Jay I can spare time for the jam. I favour my guitars a little dirtier and faster though it must be said.
We are losing ground. Out of the top teams, Man U, Chelsea, Spurs, and Man City we won 1 game out of 8. We LOST 6 and had 1 draw. Now we have spent maybe ten million on a question mark CB and got a good free swap Chamack for Eduardo. We’ve lost our senior CB and replaced with ????? yes question marks. How can any right thinking person think we have improved. You want to see improvement, look at Man City, that’s improvement.
Lurch its good music but not at your marrage i may be having sex!
Jermaine you are correct in what you are saying.Yes look at Man city that is improvemenT! I wish Arsenal could improve as much as us!
Glad you like it. Clearly a man of class and distinction.
Have another.
Ho;;yoaks is the next big thing ! Why because the women are so sexy! Sex on the beach in newtownards!
This ones for sex and marriages.
Lurch LeRouge videos and mountains of sex is a young man like you readY1 I am!
Lurch i was warned about you!
This ones for childbirth.
This Cesc/Barca saga has been pissing me awf. Combine that with Winter, & merger of 2 companies (I have to learn a new system & still do my thing/no work no pay) I have been a bit scratchy on here lately, taking it out on Blightysiders. BUT
CESC FABREGAS will not be bullied by Barcelona into handing in a written transfer request to Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger.
Barcelona are becoming increasingly desperate in their attempt to land Fabregas after Arsenal rejected a £30million offer and refused to negotiate.
Fabregas told Wenger of his desire to quit the Emirates for a return to the Nou Camp in a face-to-face meeting ahead of the World Cup.
Barca believe a written transfer request may force the Gunners to relent. Despite still wanting to rejoin Barca, however, Fabregas is not willing to show Arsenal any disrespect and believes a written transfer request would be a step too far.
With it looking increasingly likely he will have to stick with the Gunners for at least another year, sources close to Fabregas have told him not to burn his bridges and make a return to the Emirates for the coming season uncomfortable.
He is due back at Arsenal next week after being granted extended leave, along with fellow World Cup finalist Robin van Persie. And Wenger has warned that it may take Spain international Fabregas and Holland striker Van Persie until September to start reproducing their best form.
Wenger, though, believes the omission of Theo Walcott and Samir Nasri from the England and France World Cup squads will work to his side’s advantage.
YIPPPPPEEEEEEE & CHAMONEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE TO THAT.
Sorry to Geoff & Pedro for my scynical pommy bashing, but now I am fresh & ready for a brand new season.
No warnings could prepare you for this Jay.
Where’s ethan?
No sign of, gg9. How’s that new prime minister treating yA?
Samir defo looks a new man. Same can’t be said for awestruck theo sadly.
One drink for my homies…
Nasri & Theo in my Dream Team. Its great to have Cesc “back on loan”
too Lurchy
i SEE YOUVE PLAYED KNIFEY SPOONEY BEFORE.
I’ve gotta draw a line on this “home boy” stuff. I’m old school, thats s.c.h.o.o.l.
Gotta love Dave…;
Dave is god. However he should stick to what he does best. And that’s beating the living shot out of pig hide!
This old school enough for ya gg?
is it a full moon tonight?
Howlin. Yup it’s full. Great tune that.
First Post in a year or so, still been reading and completely agree that AW is in last chance saloon this season. Sceptical we’ll sign anyone else, but hopeful that i’m wrong.
On a side note, Gnarley ready for the Tigers to get demolished this afternoon?
Yep.
Time
To
Die
Yawn
Later grovers.
This is Bennos team.
Q. What do you do for a drowning Collingwood player?
A. Nothing. You could drag him to the top, but he’ll choke anyway.
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Q. Whats the difference between Collingwood and an arsonist?
A. An arsonist wouldn’t waste 22 matches.
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Collingwood are bringing out a new bra!
Plenty of support, soft and no CUP!!!
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Did you hear that the Post Office has had to recall their latest stamps?
They had pictures of Collingwood players on them. People couldn’t figure out which side to spit on.
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Four surgeons are taking a coffee break. The first one says,
“Accountants are the best to operate on because when you open them up everything inside them is numbered.”
The second surgeon says, “Nah, librarians are the best; everything inside them is in alphabetical order.”
Third surgeon says, “Try electricians. Everything inside them is colour-coded.”
The fourth one says, “I prefer Collingwood players. They’re heartless, spineless, gutless and their heads and arses are interchangeable.”
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A man meets a friend and sees that his friend’s car is total write-off and covered with leaves, grass, branches, dirt and blood. He asks his friend “What’s happened to your car ?”
“Well,” the friend responds, “I ran over Nathan Buckley”.
“OK,” says the man, “that explains the blood… But what about the leaves, the grass, the branches and the dirt ?”
“Well, he tried to escape through the park.”
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Q. If you see a Collingwood fan on a bicycle, why should you never swerve to hit him?
A. It could be your bicycle.
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Q. What do Collingwood fans and sperm have in common?
A. One in 3,000,000 has a chance of becoming a human being.
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Q. What do you have when 100 Collingwood fans are buried up to their necks in sand?
A. Not enough sand.
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Q. What’s the difference between a dead dog on the road and a dead Collingwood fan on the road?
A. There are skid marks in front of the dog.
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Q. You’re trapped in a room with a tiger, a rattlesnake and a Collingwood fan. You have a gun with two bullets. What do you do?
A. Shoot the Collingwood fan – twice.
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Q. How many Collingwood fans does it take to change a light bulb?
A. Seven – one to change it, five to moan about it and make excuses and Mick Malthouse to say that if the umpire had done his job in the first place the light bulb would never have gone out.
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Q. What’s the difference between a female Collingwood fan and a Pit bull?
A. Lipstick
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Q. Santa Claus , the tooth fairy, an intelligent Collingwood fan, and an old drunk are walking down the street together when they simultaneously spot a $100.00 note. Who gets it?
A. The drunk, of course ; the other three are mythical creatures.
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Q. What is black and brown and looks good on a Collingwood Fan?
A. A Doberman.
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Q. What do Collingwood Fans use for birth control ?
A. Their personalities.
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Q. What is the difference between an Collingwood Fan and a trampoline?
A. You take off your shoes to jump on a trampoline.
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Q. What do you call 5000 dead Collingwood Fans at the bottom of the ocean?
A. A good start.
Gnarley, I’m in the west, I hate the Pies. Unfortunately I still think they’ll spank you this afternoon.
HELLLLLOOOOOOOOOOO
Well benno I seem to recall the Tiger Cubs demolishing both your hybrid teams from the west.
hellooooooooo6pac. Helloooooooooooooo Cesc. Its good to have you back “on loan”. Braca are broke Cesc. They can’t give you what The Arsenal can, going forward
*barca
g’day
Morning all, new post!
last!
No.