Arsenal contract rebel solution | My banner for the Spurs game

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It does have to be said, it’s marvellous waking up on a Monday not having to launch a Spanish inquisition into the weekends collapse.

We won!

Yesterday saw a return to form for Armani Traore… He managed to get himself sent off for a second bookable which had Neil Warnock declaring stupidity and heavy docking of wages. Accountability is top of the agenda in the lower reaches, every point is vital. I wonder how many weeks wages were docked from our boys when they picked up their reds recently?

The shame of today is that most of the back pages are dominated by Robin and what we’ve been telling you all summer about his potential departure. This will be a familiar pattern. When Theo has a blinder the press will talk about his deal, same for Song and the same for Vermaelen if he ever returns to the game.

They’re all down to the last year of their contracts come what May. They can all see the direction the club has been taking over the past 3 years, so understandably, they’re all going to be too busy to sit down and talk about deals. After all, they do train for a whole 8 hours a week.

This is why I was torn on the captaincy. Once again, the focus isn’t on how he’s playing it’s on whether he’s going to leave. That’s not stability and that’s not respecting the prestige of the arm band.

Now from what I can piece together the Dutchman is doing a great job. He’s brought back player meetings and social events. He’s also brought back the passion that should drive clubs. Remember Cesc saying the team didn’t do shouting? Remember Le Grove telling you the atmosphere was the same win, lose or draw? A thing of past if dancing in the changing rooms after the game is anything to go by…

The shame now is that I can understand why the players would want to go, we’re not a competitive vehicle for a career. If Arsenal can get £40mill for Robin, we’d be foolish to say no regardless of the length of contract. He’s a top player, but if he’s never fit he’s next to pointless anyway.

If our contract rebels don’t sign by Christmas, we need to assume they’re gone and we need to start making moves for their replacements sharpish. I’m calling this now because unlike Wenger, I can see what’s coming and I can see the excuses next September 1st.

‘We were not expecting them to leave, they gave me their word. In football, your word is your spirit and the spirit was good.’

I’m not quite sure how Robin not being from Barca has an effect on things. Hleb wasn’t from Barca, Flamini wasn’t from Milan and Nasri wasn’t from Manchester… blaming Barcelona for Cesc leaving is ridiculous and I don’t see why people keep sucking it up like it’s true. We had the long term contract, yet we flogged him on the cheap. Spurs, who don’t even pay well, stood strong on Modric and he’s there for another year.

One trump card Wenger does have this year is the European Championships. If he has any sense, he’ll employ negotiating tactics and bend some arms.

‘Theo, the deal is on the table, if you don’t want to sign, we’ll field AOC from Jan onwards. We’ve got to build for the future, if that’s not you, you’re a waste of an appearance fee. You can train with the reserves. See how Capello feels about you then.’

I’d do the same with the rest bar Robin because if a City deal is on the cards for him, we need to make sure he’s firing, he doesn’t have age on his side. We might as well use the 2nd half as a test run, at least then we’ll know if Frimpong and AOC are the real deal, if they’re not, we’ll buy Hazard and M’Villa.

Ferguson pulled a similar move on Rooney. He dropped him in it with the fans as he’d caught wind he was up to no good. The fans protested on his garden, he signed out of fear and was dropped for 10 games for messing around.

Where there’s a will, there’s a way…

Banner time…

So the Arsenal marketing department have developed this cool new app where you can design your own banner, you should have a go, I did, this is what I produced for next Sunday. Click to enlarge, print a copy and leave it on Spurs fans cardboard box this fine autumnal morning (Or send them this link to remind them of their shame)!

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382 Responses to “Arsenal contract rebel solution | My banner for the Spurs game”

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  2. frenchie

    josip-

    yes, i rate him. may not be a popular sentiment…i would not say that he is a miracle worker, though. however, losc does play some nice football.

  5. IvoryGoonz

    as soon as AW will be out the club, the “sustainable model” which was his will be reviewed, and we need someone to come ASAP.
    We already cleared out a big chunk of our wage bill, few more will follow next summer, as long as the attendance doesn’t drop too much, compared to Highbury, we should be ok.
    This should allow any new manager to bring in 2-3 world class players of his liking the first year. Guardiola would definitely change the way our coaching is done.
    Let’s look :

    Barca FC:
    Director of Football Txiki Begiristain
    Head Coach Josep Guardiola
    Assistant manager: Tito Vilanova
    Goalkeeping coach: Juan Carlos Unzué
    Fitness coach: Lorenzo Buenaventura / Paco Seirul•lo / Aureli Altamira / Francesc Cos
    Doctors: Ricard Pruna / Daniel Medina
    Physiologist: Esteban Gorostiaga

    Arsenal FC:
    Manager: Arsène Wenger Manager
    Assistant Manager Pat Rice
    First team coach: Boro Primorac
    Goalkeeping Coach: Gerry Peyton
    Fitness Coach: Tony Colbert
    Assistant Fitness Coach: Marcus Svensson
    Club Doctor: Gary O’Driscoll
    Physio: Colin Lewin
    Assistant Physiotherapist: David Wales, Simon Harland
    Performance Nutritionist: James Collins (should check this
    Football Analyst: Ben Knapper (Pedro/Geoff, I’d put my candidature forward for this one, seriously, check this guy)

    I only put first team coaches for both, ignored masseurs for Arsenal.
    Barca has 4 Fitness Coaches. We have 1+assistant.
    Our Football Analyst is out of a coaching school, not data analysis school or instrument and measurement school, and he was born in 1987.

    Any one wonder why we have so many injuries compared to say Barca?

  8. Josip Skoblar

    Frenchie

    I respect Losc. They play great football and may become a major French club in the future (they’ll play in a new big stadium as of next year). I was speaking to a French bloke the other day, a guy in his late 60s, and he told me that Losc was the most successful French team in the 1940s and 1950s. According to him, the greatest clubs in French football are: Losc, Reims, St-Etienne and OM. Do you agree with that?

  10. Gooby

    klopp is a top manager, let’s see if he keeps them up top this season. In germany it works that way, it’s either bayern are in great form and win everything or they struggle and one of the in form top 4/5 clubs win it ala werder a few years back, wolsburg or dortmund

  11. IvoryGoonz

    Josip: I’d had Auxerre and PSG to that list. Reims is an old-odd ball, was probably the greatest french club until 1980s. then nothing.
    they have gained their promotion last year to ligue 2 though.

  13. frenchie

    i would agree with asse, stade reims (the 50′s), om, and add ol (their dominance the last decade). bourdeaux has snuck in now and again.

  17. IvoryGoonz

    bade: knowing the difference between predictions of our doctor(s) and the reality, I’d count end of season if I were you.

  21. Stephen Walnuts

    Gambit my dear boy, why do you persist in ending everything you say with the word ‘FACT’? Especially when what you have said is quite obviously NOT a fact.

    ‘RVP is Messi in disguise’

    No he isn’t – FACT!

  25. IvoryGoonz

    ghost: Im not a=season ticket holder, was just going to a select few with my budget when I arrived … and still boycoting games until changes are made, but if I was one, I’d write too :)

  30. scott

    wooohooo even Matt Law express copies my post about RvP selling his property. as I said “you heard it here first”.
    My next one will come true Frank Rijkaard will! be the next Arsenal manager.
    Then you will all bow down to me.
    And all those people posting RVP will stay if hes offered enough money, it has nothing ot do with money. Hes just fed up with the lies and lack of quality signings over the past few seasons.

  33. IvoryGoonz

    haha:
    “26 min Goodness me it’s a shot on target! And an excellent one from Nicklas Bendtner. Takes the pace off a difficult ball and hits it on the volley with control and pace. Ruddy has to parry, but smothers at the second attempt. Good stuff from the Arsenal loanee.”

  39. Stephen Walnuts

    I have got nuts Ivorygoonz! Made of steel they are. Mr Wenger should install me into our clueless defence, i’ll show ‘em ALL what tackling really is. – FACT

  44. Trickygonner

    Pep at the arse, dont make me laugh.
    I can see it now.
    Aw at Barnet.
    Arry at Enfield.
    Kenny at Tranmere.
    Fergie for Stockport ?
    Nah. What …. end started that one.

  46. Abhishek Kumar

    Hi

    I came to this blog just few weeks ago and liked the fact that this blog used to understand media better than other blogs… I am really sorry that you guys also got attracted by the media rage which you should not have been.. Just think of the possible good things that could have been said by the media..

    1) Arsenal scores three goals
    2) Arsenal has clean sheet and Bolton reduced to just three shots
    3) Manchester united drop points

    and stuff…

    But look what they found out.. First of all they frame the question and then they make headlines..

    Is there no united player finishing his contract in 2013

    What was the need to ask him good 2 years before the contract end.. Lets say he might want to think.. Whats the harm, we can give him a good 1 year to think and then talk about the contract in summer.. We can get good price for him and looking at Wenger’s judgement we can get a good striker for that price..

    But the timing is important because
    1) Van Persie is our captain
    2) He is in great form
    3) He really loves the club and fans also love him a lot… so why not give the fans a reason to hate him..

    Just think guys.. By writing this blog you have just added to the fire which media wants to spread..

    I dont say that all is right at Arsenal and blogs should not write anything wrong about Arsenal but atleast try to see if its a real problem or a created one..

  53. Lurch LeRouge

    depends on agreement with the club, Watt on loan at leeds last season was allowed to play against us.

    those games would have benefited Watt, I’m not sure we’d be interested in benefiting NB though.

  64. dennisdamenace

    You tell me what set of highly paid professionals, such as our medical staff could have stated LJW would be out for a couple of weeks, and now we’re looking at Febish?

    How could they be so incompetent with their assessment?

    Let’s be honest, there’s no way that they would get it so wrong.

    All the signs, yet again, point to another injury cover up, imagine being told in August that LJW would be out until February, what do you think would be the implications? The Implications of losing not only Fabregas and Nasri, but also LJW for virtually the whole season.

    Still, why grumble when we’ve got £50m+ in the bank.

    No doubt we’ll hear sometime in December that LJW is scheduled for a return at the end of January. only to then be told towards the end of January that he’s had a setback, and he’ll be out until April/May.

    Yet another transfer window blagged, yet more financial resources left unused, yet another season down the toilet, yet more excuse form Uncle Fester and the Book Keeper.

  65. dennisdamenace

    Great second half performance (mainly against ten men, but wtf), seriously needed.

    Everything Wenger does these days pisses me off. He couldn’t be arsed to show any reactions whatsoever when RvP scored his goals, BOTH important for him personally AND for the club all things considered, but fucking Song scored and the pleb couldn’t restrain himself from showing his delight that one of his fucking favourites scores. Up off the bench applauding and dancing around, i’m just surprised he didn’t get his cock out.

    Says it all really.

    I can truly imagine that if the only one that renews and stays out of the five players who are in the last year of their contacts next year is Song. And, let’s be honest here, he is the most likely to owing to the fact he’s plug average and on stupid money a la Bentner. Then Wenger will consider it objective achieved.

    Overreaction? Bitterness? Maybe, but actions speak louder than words, especially from when coming from the chief spin doctor of Arsenal Football Club.

    Expect a good result against the Donner Boys tomorrow night.

  68. dennisdamenace

    Wenger always trying to do it on the cheap, and with the bare minimum.

    No doubt at the end of yet another disappointing season he will bitch on and on about injuries costing us.

    Instead of reviewing past seasons, analysing past injuries, and planning for future injuries, no he’d rather hold onto the money, rely on the same perma-crocks, and run teenagers into the ground.

  69. dennisdamenace

    gambon – This whole injury situation stinks of the “cover up”, it really does.

    We’ve been here before, and yet “the best manager in the world” still doesn’t learn, still doesn’t plan, still relies on perma-crocks, still reels out the same tired old excuses at the end of every season.

  70. dennisdamenace

    So, we’re currently one injury/knock away from having to field either JD20 or Squillaci, two players who should have been shipped out in the summer with Cahill coming in.

    Still, like i’ve already said, better to have £50m+ in the bank than have a competitive squad……..

  71. Moray

    we should have smelt the coffee when the club signed Benayoun and the Mert on the last day of the season.

    While we naively assumed this was to fill the obvious gaps in the squad, it was actually to provide emergency cover for Verm and Jack.

    The end result is the weakening of an already weakened squad. I’m trying to think of a transfer window when we last made a net improvement to the squad…probably the January when Arsha joined, as I don’t seem to recall anyone went the other way…It’s like Wenger wants to see how bad a team he can make 4th place with.

  72. dennisdamenace

    Moray – Agreed.

    Those signings should’ve have been additions, NOT temporary replacements.

    We were weak last season, BEFORE losing Fab, Nas and Clichy.

    We’re forever just doing enough in the transfer market, regardless of how much we have to spend.

    Pathetic.

    £9m a year for that level of management and planning.

  76. Moray

    DDM: and it seems we are still looking at adding temporary players to our roster.

    It’s like even the bargain basement shite that we have been collecting over the past few years is too much, and now we will be targeting a team of has beens, injury cases and cast-offs.

  77. dennisdamenace

    Bargain basement buys minimalist the pressure put on the project youth members.

    Whereas, top quality/marquee signings do the opposite.

  78. Moray

    it seems nobody has any pressure on them at Arsenal.

    this is why we don’t win anything.

    Wenger buys shit, overpays his underperforming players, the club sells off our world class players for peanuts when they have years left on their contracts or else lets them run their contracts down, the manager lies repeatedly to the fans, cancels Q&A’s with the supporters, PHW insults the fans, the team crumbles, the team gets caned 8-2, players get sent off in a series of games….

    yet nobody gets blamed or reprimanded.

    it’s no surprise, really.

  79. bade the gooner (bernard)

    i already said it,

    arsene is not managing us, he’s experimenting in some laboratory, or at least that’s what he’s thinking he’s doing…..

    when 4th is a trophy, when we constantly sell our best players, then replacing them with young unproven ones, and when and if they make it, we see them also leave (some on a free, like flamoney)…. so it is surely not footballing management, it’s something else…..

  81. Hunter

    This is the first time I have been on this site and I must say I am totally gob smacked at the anger and frustration of so many supporters of AFC with Arsene Wenger,I wonder if the Board or Manager take the time to read these bloggs?.I am not a supporter of Wenger and haven’t been for several seasons now but we must face reality,his future is cemented in stone at the Emirates,he will not be sacked and will not go willingly so we are stuck with him I am afraid.The season is still only just started and we are all taliking doom and gloom,yes its frustrating to see the team lose so many games,so early,but its no good moaning,we need to get behind them,irrelevant who is playing in the side.This is AFC a club with tradition and history and that alone shouldn’t deter our support!.Yes Wenger HAS made some catastrophic mistakes and YES its time to move him either out or to youth development but we are NOT going to change anyones mind about dislodging him soon.He has total control of team and its affairs,but I must say a banner or two at the next home game demanding change might open a few eyes.For this season we must aim for top six at the very least,the team will come good but it will be too late for honours methinks,but hey we have gone six seasons already with a bare cupboard so another one isn’t going to change our support.January is vital in the transfer market and I am sure he will spend BIG particuarly if we are languishing in mid-table.Players will come to the Emirates,providing we supply the platform for success,we have built and re-built many times and we will do it again with or without Wenger and his cronies.History has a way of repeating itself,so lets get behind the team.

  82. Hunter

    This is the first time I have been on this site and I must say I am totally gob smacked at the anger and frustration of so many supporters of AFC with Arsene Wenger,I wonder if the Board or Manager take the time to read these bloggs?.I am not a supporter of Wenger and haven’t been for several seasons now but we must face reality,his future is cemented in stone at the Emirates,he will not be sacked and will not go willingly so we are stuck with him I am afraid.The season is still only just started and we are all taliking doom and gloom,yes its frustrating to see the team lose so many games,so early,but its no good moaning,we need to get behind them,irrelevant who is playing in the side.This is AFC a club with tradition and history and that alone shouldn’t deter our support!.Yes Wenger HAS made some catastrophic mistakes and YES its time to move him either out or to youth development but we are NOT going to change anyones mind about dislodging him soon.He has total control of team and its affairs,but I must say a banner or two at the next home game demanding change might open a few eyes.For this season we must aim for top six at the very least,the team will come good but it will be too late for honours methinks,but hey we have gone six seasons already with a bare cupboard so another one isn’t going to change our support.January is vital in the transfer market and I am sure he will spend BIG particuarly if we are languishing in mid-table.Players will come to the Emirates,providing we supply the platform for success,we have built and re-built many times and we will do it again with or without Wenger and his cronies.History has a way of repeating itself,so lets get behind the team.

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