Let’s get the minor moan out the way… Arsene Wenger / 2 match touchline ban.
Now, I’m not pretending I know how to manage a football team, I’m not pretending I understand the true merits of a false 9, but, if I’d been told I couldn’t communicate with the dug out, the last think I’d have is Pat Rice flapping hand signals at me like a retarded seagull caught in a fisherman’s net… I mean honestly, what were those two thinking?
Solution
Now, I’m not sure how Colin Lewin communicates with the bench. But I’ve seen him talking into his jacket. So I’m assuming he’s either insane, or using a radio. Why the hell couldn’t Wenger sit with a radio hooked into his jacket, then when he needed to speak to the bench, walk inside and contact Colin, who could relay to Wenger, or speak to someone else on the bench that wouldn’t be too obvious. I mean honestly… am I being too harsh here? Surely in the pre-match meet up that wasn’t the best solution an Arsenal brainstorm session could offer?
Anyway, he could be on the bench for Wednesday as we’re appealing it. God knows how that appeal is going to look!
Leaked UEFA Appeal
Commercial Deals
Manchester United tied up a deal worth £40million a season for 4 years with Logistics powerhouse DHL. Now, I used to work in the logistics game, DHL have a similar reputation to United. They’re one of the biggest, but pretty vulgar at the same time. I don’t want to go into detail because I’d get sued, but I could tell you a few stories about why United and DHL are a perfect brand fit. So United make £24milllion year from their shirt deal, Arsenal sit 7th, one place behind Villa, one above Fulham on £5.5million. Marvo… still, at least we struck our 8th commercial deal with Bettson last week. Only 15 more and we’ll match United’s 23 commercial deals.
Just for your reference, the opportunity cost of our weak commercials according to the AST was £35mill way back when. Now United clear £39mill more than us a season! That’s one Kun Aguerro!
Samir Nasri…
The deal for out piggy little Frenchman should be concluded before Wednesday, apparently it hinges on Samir’s Dad wanting to take £3million for his part in the 3 week deal. It’s a struggle to see where Sammy gets his lust for the mercenary lifestyle eh? Arsenal are posturing over the final part of the deal, but good riddance I say. I’m sure we can find someone else who can give us more than 3 months value in 3 years. I struggle to see how he fits into their system, but who cares eh? As long as someone like Eden Hazard replaces him, I’m not fussed.
The Times are reporting Wenger might field Sammy against Udinese in defiance of the board… they’re also reporting City and Chelsea are in for Parker.
United vs Spurs
Spurs were pretty much dealt a spanking last night. Without Modric, they’ll struggle this year. Defoe was terrible. I do worry how they’d look with Diarra and Ade in their set up though. Two squad changing players regardless of their reputations.
United didn’t dazzle, yet still had 24 attempts on goal, they’ve got a young and powerful team there who have a very good attitude to the game. Their youth team players have come through slowly and they’ve been blended perfectly with experience. They’re a stronger outfit than last year, which isn’t what I wanted to see.
In 98′ Wenger was the benchmark for Fergie, same in 02 and 04. Trouble with Arsene is that he didn’t kick his philosophy on past 98′. What he needed to do this summer was shake up the set up, hand over control of first team coaching to someone else and work on what he does best, bringing in talent.
We needed a shake up of personnel in the back room. Pat Rice is still running warm ups the same as he was in 98′. He’s an old boy now. We’re expecting miracles at the club when the main back room power brokers/decision makers are the same.
Why do you think Wenger strong armed Pat into staying on? Because the thought of someone coming in and telling him how it is was too much of a worry. If the mind-set of a manager is he knows best about everything, progress becomes harder and harder the further away from reality they find themselves.
This is why Wenger’s eventual replacement becomes interesting. The club can go one of two ways.
Senior Manager
We appoint a Louis Van Gaal or a Guus Hiddink and allow them to bring in a full squad of backroom staff. Journeymen managers like that have expensive teams they take with them and big clubs allow them to recruut for themselves because they are proven quality and success usually follows them.
Trouble with this is you face a huge bill should you remove the manager. England have this issue now. Fabio’s backroom staff are all legible for a bus pass, all on monster deals and they’d cost a bomb to sack. Club owners lose an element of control when they recruit like this.
Young Hot Shot
Now this is the more modern method. You approach a manager like Owen Coyle or David Moyes and offer him maybe two members of staff. The club directly employ the medical team, the GPS staff and the specialist coaches as well as the Youth Team coaches.
Now this means that if your young upstart bombs after 5 months all the infrastructure remains. It also gives the CEO and the owners more say over how the team is run. Some say that is a managers nightmare scenario, others would say that this stops a manager taking control of a club.
That Article…
Arsenal responded to the site who published that story yesterday to say that it was nonsense. Incredible how many people chose to believe an article that even if true, had absolutely no bearing on the outcome of a summer that hasn’t seen us target any player who earns £150k a week. We don’t offer mega money as a basic, but that’s not to say we don’t top up salaries with bonuses if we need to. Regardless, we can vastly improve our team with players who earn far less than £100k a week.
It’s also amazing how many people criticised Katie in the press office for responding. She’s e-mailed me plenty of times to correct my inaccuracies. She’s so helpful, she even proof reads my posts.
Blogger outreach has to be part of any clubs strategy. Combined we probably generate more traffic per article than most of the news agencies Arsenal stories. That’s a powerful reach. Like we’ve said many times before, the club read the blogs… they’d be stupid not to.
Udinese
Players are sneaking back to fitness. By my reckoning we’ll have JD, Djourrou, Song, Gervinho, Frimmers and Jack all in contention. This my friends is both a gift and a curse. Rushing players back for important Champions League games has stifled us in the past. Remember away in Portugal last year with Cesc? Or Barcelona away with Cesc? Bloody Cesc…
Anyway, there’s no choice really. Unless we can control the game with possession, we could find ourselves in trouble. All we need is one goal really. Then they’d need 3. That shouldn’t be a major ask, however, with a team on the floor like ours, it might be.
Mata
Apparently Mata went to Chelsea as they had a better footballing offer. A bit gutting. But good to know it wasn’t because we weren’t in for him or that he wanted £6000million a year to come to us. Simple solution there, make the team more appealing to imports Arsene.
Marketing Mag
If you’re in marketing, Charlie Allen and Mark Gonnella gave me some quotes for a football and social media piece I wrote for The Drum. Arsenal do pretty well out of it, well worth a read if you find that type of nonsense interesting.
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hint: THE BEST PLAYERS, who are not necessarily the best in the Prem and these players are paid more money for a reason…
Walcott is not a bad player at all, just no footballing brain. If someone could teach him when he has to cut in and play a pass or shoot at the right time, or even time his dribbling then no1 can ever catch him.
Suga3,
I thought we talk again in may, so do me a favour and just ignore my posts till then.
Incesc,
I have no words for you.
I will respond or ignore your posts whenever the fuck I want to!
and if you think that a fluke cup win is anything to go by when you are discussing the league, which is a long run thing, well…
er ok then
Suga3,
Whats wrong with you? No pussy for a long time, eh? Go manual, it will help you to cool down. The only thing that is on another planet is YOU.
Night every1.
RIP Nasri, I will enjoy seeing you and your dad going down in Shiteh.
tumbleweed. blog. hallway.
KKG,
do yourself a fucking favour dude…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXgyVHRMFV8
Walcott has a brain. Wordsworth’s brain actually.
Feo’s alright, he got heavily marked out of the game against Liverpool, lets not forget who wasn’t running our midfield against them shall we… admittedly he can’t pass a man 1v1 but at no point was a great pass made into space for him to really work with.
Even RVP looks gash when we don’t have a world class CAM and we know he ain’t.
i have always stuck up for walcott.
be nice to see him push on at last, we need him to this year.
he missed a sitter vs udinese last week, so frustrating…
Yeah, Cesc was fucking unbelievable at getting the best out of Theo.
I know he isn’t the most popular but I honestly think Gourcuff is a punt worth taking. He just could be absolutely spectacular. I still stand by my saying that he’s the most talented attacking midfielder of his generation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdVzzvMEG08
Sadly I think Ryo and AOC will have his number within 3 years.
LOL…Save The Children is now an affiliated charity on pravda.com
We have! We sign nothing but kids and give them superstar lifestyles!
Wenger+Board = Cunts
i wonder why no newspapers link us with gourcuff any more?
fans stopped mentioning him on forums probably…
yeah I’d give Gourcuff a shot, only because our hopes have been crushed of course.
gourcuff links in thursday’s papers then yeah?
we should start it trending on twatter and have a laugh.
he didn’t miss a sitter it was a cracking save from where i was sat.
Lille says no to selling Hazard. We fucked about on Mata. Who the fook is left?
I can’t imagine Sneijder leaving Inter to come to us. And Gourcuff is a touch overrated.
Bendtner would’ve scored that Lurch.
http://www.tribalfootball.com/Arsenal-advanced-talks-Valencia-Spain-winger-Mata-Juan
if we offer them 32 million i wonder if they’ll budge? still 58 to spend then.
cahill, baines 25 million
then the rest on modric?
33m on modric
hmmmmm
fuck it
arsenal need a reckless boozer on the board like me.
Cahill, Rodwell, Montolivio
I take that for granted Rohan. I expect your love for Bendtner to be at its zenith in these tough times.
touch overrated sure Zeus, but its a number game at the minute.
that’s what happens when you leave it late…
#wetoldyouso
http://onlinegooner.com/article.php?section=exclusive&id=2415
brilliant article!
yeah great read suga.
night.
Ryo joined Feyenoord when they were in the relegation zone and was very influential in their rise up the table.
Nice find suga.
That was said with a very heavy heart. Only ever been to Highbury once, never the Emirates, but I can still relate to the emptiness, the sentiments, and the injustices so delicately and articulately expressed.
Is it time for a (another) Manchurian Candidate? Or is the Manchurian Candidate staring us in the face; the one who is actually pulling all the strings?
4:20 in the morning and I am still refreshing newsnow. All in the hope that we have done a sneaky one and signed 3 world class players during the night.
I am a sad deluded c**t who believed that we would sign players early and bed them in. What has become of Wenger? And what the fuck is silent stan doing in the background?
We are being treated like kids who should be seen and not heard.
The word ‘Disdain’ is not strong enough.
A win in Italy is desperately needed, otherwise I can see a collapse of the proportions of last season, only this time it will last the full season. Remember the bindippers under Hodgson!
Oh and good night fellow goons. Dare say a few are going through nightmares at this moment in time.
It is like a fucking nightmare on elm street.
1886-2006
T-8 m8. More worried about qualifying tomorrow than anything else though.
Pat says:
August 24, 2011 at 03:12
Ryo joined Feyenoord when they were in the relegation zone and was very influential in their rise up the table.
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Lets hope he can help us with our relegation battle.
Come on Udinese!!!
https://twimg0-a.akamaihd.net/profile_images/1329076615/FacebookHomescreenImage.jpg
Guess who?
Fucker looks exactly the same.
Udinese on their approach to tonight’s match
“explode and overwhelm everything and everyone. We all have to fight together to conquer our dream”
Wenger on tonights match
“Its not cruitial”
Cunt
good morning night birds,
stop cheering up udinese, this is pervert…..
even with the tight squad, playing the right formation will bring us the game and the CL money….
chesney
jenkinson-djourou-vermaelen-sagna
song-frimpong-rambo
arshavin
theo/gervinho-robin
even with away game, we have to shift from the useless 4-3-3
we can play 4-1-3-2, 4-4-2, 4-3-1-2
i would count on arshavin doing a bit of defence, and with song frimpong and rambo we have enough power in midfield to cope
robin and gervinho or theo have to play strikers, two bodies in the box is very much needed, and with the counter we’ll be playing it’s way better to have alongside robin who isn’t the quickest on the game, as very small and quick striker…..
robin can be the main feeder in this game when played as second striker….
At this point in time, I’d probably take Hleb back
pat,
hleb? he’s done and dusted, he fucked his own career and we shouldn’t be giving him any rope to help his career back
we should go for schweinsteiger, de rossi, hazard
this howard webb is true cunt
just saw his stupid dis[lay from yesterday, effectively changing the game between genk and haifa, giving genk a second goal from so clear foul situation, then sending haifa CB out with second yellow, for nothing, when the genk player just fall down with no one touching….
so at least we know now he’s not only stupid when we play there eh? :lol”
morning…
have you cleaned behind your sofas ahead of Sunday yet?
as for today: come on you Gunners!
Schweinsteiger is cup tied as Bayern played and won their qualifier yesterday. So he’s not going to be brought in
Morning Goons
A whole day of nerves ahead.
I am now convinced we will now lose RvP next season, but don’t worry the Book Keeper will promote from within……
For “promote from within” read bank the money, earn personal bonuses, make more personal wealth for a select few, and continue to struggle on the pitch.
Repeat the cycle until RvP, LJW, Ramsey, Vermaele, Sagna etc have all been sold, and the Yank parasite and his gimp manager have bled us dry.
LJW out for a further three weeks, minimum!!
TV5 revisited?
If we are remotely interested in Schweinsteiger, cup-tied or not, what does it matter?
Like we’re going to do anything in that competition.
Schweinsteiger should be purchased for the league programme.
Forget the ECL, should we scrape through against a very mediocre Italian side, it only delays the inevitable embarrassment further down the line against a decent team.
I wonder if our intelligence and mental strengths will see us through today!
Schweinsteiger, de Rossi, Hazard and a good quality CD is about the minimum Wenger would do before I even 20% forgive him for his disgraceful summer and mendacity. But, you know what? We would still need a left back and a striker to replace the dross we currently have in those positions: that’s how far away we are at the moment.
However, does anyone still think that a player of Schweinsteiger’s standing would really consider joining us????
Let’s be honest here, moving from Bayern to us is a step backwards.
To which i’d like to thank Wenger for, and his insane and ruinous youth project that has got us to this point.
ddm, we couldn’t even afford him. I think he’s a one-team man anyway. He would have been a great replacement for Freddie a few years ago, but we played the embryo theo Walcott out there instead
MoTM Song;)