Emery/Sven set younger tone with exciting signing

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I’d given up on Diamond Eyes. Written the man off. Decided he was the next Giles Grimandi, playing Fortnite in the stands instead of focusing on what’s happening on the pitch.

The man couldn’t see past Dortmund I thought. He rode the wave of luck. His diamonds were imperfect.

Then he goes and nicks the best kid out of PSG in a deft move that broke the hearts of Madrid and Bayern Munich.

It’s quite amusing in all the group chats I have going.

‘Wenger’s last stand!’

‘Emery’s pulled one out of the bag’

‘Sven’s gearing up!’

I’m not really sure where the move has come from, but I’d be leaning toward Sven and Emery. The Spaniard because he has a relationship and the German because there’s no doubt if Madrid were looking, he’d have been there months ago.

Regardless of how it went down, if it drops, that’s a very positive move for the club. Picking up elite young talent hasn’t exactly been our strength over the last 5 years.

The club need to start building out our 17-23 year olds. Add some freshness to a squad that’ll no doubt need resetting in 3 years time. This is something Arsenal fans won’t be used to… succession planning.

A proper club, with proper people looking after it will be planning a squad 2-3 years at a time. They’ll know when Koscielny is going to break, so they’ll have someone in place who can step it up. Versus our old strategy of waiting until someone was sold or broken before we’d make a decisive move in the transfer market. Sometimes, we’d just not replace. How long did it take to replace Robin Van Persie? Or Patrick Vieira?

Those shabby days are well and truly behind us…

Talking of those days, Zinedine Zidane quit Madrid like a true champion, ducking out a hero after dropping 3 Champions League wins in a row. Tears were rolling down my cheeks seeing that news. That is total confidence. Absolute self-awareness. A legendary decision.

Things are getting very tasty in the names linked section. Obviously, Allegri is a name that’s been raised. I struggle to see Madridistas going for a manager who plays negative football, it’ll be Mourinho all over again. Poch has been linked, which would be utterly delicious in my opinion. Then there’s Arsene Wenger.

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Arsene’s caterpillar coat isn’t even cold yet and Arsenal fans are working on overdrive to re-remember his skills and talents. It’s quite a sight to behold.

A manager who mustered 3 points away from home this year, parachuting into Madrid’s winning machine to take them to a 4 CL victory in a row.

Get me that ticket, I’ll take a front row seat.

I almost want it to happen, just so we can put to bed the notion that Wenger could have done it at the highest level.

Wenger couldn’t manage egos, that’s why he didn’t sign players who had strength of character or opinions in the latter years.

Wenger doesn’t do preparation, which is unacceptable at elite levels.

Wenger can’t make players better, just look at Chamberlain.

He has absolutely none of the characteristics you need to manage an elite operation.

But don’t take my word for it, let’s see if Wenger puts his hat in the ring.

It would be spectacular. The first 3 months would be fine, then the muscle memory would wear thin, then we’d see what he’s made of.

Arsenal are apparently going to offer Aaron Ramsey a new 5-year deal to stay with the club. Emery wants to build a team around the powerhouse midfielder. If your game is about pressing, the energetic Welshman is a must. If he can be tamed, coached and focused, he could be immense for the club.

It sounds like Aaron is up for it as well.

“I haven’t spoken to him [Emery] at all yet, but I think it’s an exciting time for the club and I can’t wait to get back there now,”

I did have suspicions that the club was playing a bit of a PR game. We know his agent is going to want Ozil money, we know he has a year left on his deal, and it seems unusual to announce we want to give the player a deal. The Times said it’d be a tough negotiation because it’s Aaron’s last year and he wants to be paid like a king. Can we afford to give him Ozil money? Does it actually make more sense for the player to see out his final year? How long will we give negotiations?

Arsenal are also presenting themselves to his agent a with skirt fully over the head. We’ve told him the squad is going to be built around his player. If I were negotiating that deal, I’d be asking for 20% more.

Maybe I’m just being cynical. Aaron is our longest serving player, he has a young family who probably like London, he’s about to be made captain, and central to the new Arsenal.

Could be worse, right?

Ok, see you in the comments. Check out the French kid below.

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qna

Ishola: Gambon this team has goals in them. Enough goals.

Lol. You are a complete joke. Enough goals for what? Who is going to score goals against the top 5 teams? We don’t have anywhere near enough goals in us. That doesn’t mean we don’t need to start attacking from a strong defensive base. But when we do that we will get less goals from our existing goal scorers not more. Athletico balance a defence first approach by having world class finishers. We will need to do the same.

salpardisenyc

Guns

Zero chance we do a straight loan deal, would have to be a buy option.
What he transferred into Barca for, likelihood of Dembele ending up at the Arsenal highly unlikely.

But we have to give Raul something to do.

salpardisenyc

Receding

Its hypothetical fund generating, Lacazette being our largest expendable asset.

Guns of SF

Sal

yes I meant with an option to buy… His value will be lower than the 90 some they bought him for…
Perhaps around 70?
Raul needs to get on it- your right… Get it done before Dembele tears up the world cup for France… his value will peak again.

Ishola70

qna

Being bitchy because he is pulled up on his Lacazette spite.

Emery has parrotted Wenger in talking about possession football being seen as optimum.

Arsenal will continue to get mugged away from home I’m afraid.

They are not good enough as a team to think they can win most matches home and away by dominating possession.

Idon’t know why I’m arguing with some of you tbh. I’ve already said I can’t see Emery getting top four in his first season anyhow.

Up 4 grabs now

Was we not the third highest scorers in the league last season?
We dropped 16 points from a winning position last season.
A lot of those were also us winning with 20-25 minutes left of the game.

Either Wenger didn’t know how to shut up shop, or defensively we were piss poor.
I’m going for both!

qna

“Its hypothetical fund generating, Lacazette being our largest expendable asset.”

Exactly. Perfect description. Nobody is saying we shouldn’t be selling Welbeck as well. But each replacement costs money. Welbeck needs to be replaced, but it would be at a net transfer cost and we have a ridiculously small transfer budget.

Welbeck has to go too. I would much prefer to sell him and get the business that needs doing without selling Lacazette. But who is going to pay big money for Welbeck? All suckers welcome.

Ishola70

It’s a shame Arsenal can’t get away from possession football mania.

To mix up your approach can be beneficial especially away from home.

Dissenter

Receding “Has Emery actually requested for a winger??” We don’t know that. I don’t think anyone is presuming to speak for the club or to be ITK. The argument is that in light of limited transfer funds, who can you move on to generate funds to adjust the imbalance in the squad. Welbeck is 20 million tops Laca is 55 million [transfermarkt.com] I’ll argue sell bith and use is to get an elite Winger and the est to upgrade the goal keeper replacement from a class B [like Leno] to a top-rated goalie [such as Oblak ] It’s all hypothetical.… Read more »

Redtruth

Ospina in goal with one or two changes in defence.
The midfield needs major surgery while the attack needs polishing up.

Ishola70

To win lots of football matches home and away based on possession football is a very grandiose notion.

Arsenal are not a grandiose football team at this time.

I see fears and frustration again with this continuing possession football is the optimum at Arsenal.

Shame we can’t see more sitting and counter-attacking in away matches.

Guns of SF

Looks like xhaka may have blown his knee out.
not good for him….
Sucks but for us, it might force us to get 2 CMs now….

Redtruth

Possession football didn’t impede Man City to a record bteaking title success.

Daz

Another point regarding lacazette staying as back up is do we want Auba to have genuine competition for his place? Auba will be undroppable if we were to sell lacazette and replace with mediocre CF, Auba could become complacent, injured or just have a barren spell. Two top CFs is something we have needed for years now we have them lets keep them

BacaryisGod

THE GREAT TRANSFER UPDATE: Just to cut through the clutter for those of you who don’t follow the transfer odds, here’s a quick grouping of the most talked about players right now accoring to SkyBet. Interestingly, very little action on Aaron Ramsey staying or leaving. Maybe everyone’s in the dark here. The most shocking thing is that Arsenal just aren’t even in contention for a host of players that you would think we might be after. So don’t believe any of the Balotelli or Malcolm click bait articles. Arsenal are not going to buy any significant attacking players. Most likely,… Read more »

BacaryisGod

Part 2: Gareth Bale: Slight favourite to stay at RM. If he goes, then Man U the most likely to sign him. Anthony Martial: Slight favourite to leave Man U. If he goes, then Spurs most likely to sign him. Alex Sandro: Man United favoured to get him if he leaves Juve (50-50 on him leaving) Alvaro Morato: Around 50-50 on him leaving. If he goes, Juventus heavy favourites. Antoine Griezmann: Expected to leave Atletico. Barca heavy favourites. Caglar Soyuncu: Probably leaving Freiburg. Arsenal slight favourites over Dortmund (which might be a reason why Sokratis deal is still being held… Read more »

Guns of Brixton

Xhakas Left Knee is injured.

Re

Ishola70

Man City better than Arsenal.

Arsenal have grand ideas above their station atm and have done for years with Wenger.

Sitting and counter attacking away from home will see Arsenal score more goals away from home and more points.

Gooner63

MARIO BALOTELLI’S agent has begun speaking to clubs interested in signing the striker – with Arsenal reportedly on that list.

are we sure wengers left

Dissenter

BacaryisGod
Each time I read…spuds are favorites to get him…for a good player it makes me want to head-bang.
Which is why we cannot be fiddling around the edges.
We are too far behind. We can’t sit still [even with a new manager/back-room in place] while our competition are pulling farther ahead.

qna

Ishola: To win lots of football matches home and away based on possession football is a very grandiose notion. On this point I would say don’t fear. The new breed of managers are on top of how to balance this, far better than wenger has been for the last 10 years. Emery will be an improvement here. He has experience playong as the weaker team and as the stronger team. It will not be the stubborn approach we are used to. Don’t expect us to win the league. But embrace that it is not the same thing that we have… Read more »

Steiner

Zidane leaves Real.
Wenger appointed manager.
Welcome to The Europa League Real

salpardisenyc

Guns

Numbers wise if we shelled Lacazette and Welbz we could get within touching of Dembele, if Raul and Sven are interested. Looking at our options out wide how could they not be?

I’ve been begging for two quality CFs for years, now that we finally have that would be difficult to loose Lacazette.

But as Cesc and gambon have stated it makes sense to use those funds elsewhere at moment, with our reported budget which is also a very questionable thing as well.

Receding Hairline

“It’s all hypothetical. Emery will do what Emery wants.”

Amen

Then i think going forward i will just read and keep quiet, only speaking when someone says something ridiculous. Obviously not Qna cos he seems to take pride in saying ridiculous things like the one below

“Who is going to score goals against the top 5 teams?”

Lacazette who he wants sold for that shiny new winger scored against Man city and Man United. We put three past his beloved Liverpool.

Up 4 grabs now

Ospina 10m 50k wages
Jenkinson 3m 50k wages
Per retired 90k wages
Santi released 90k wages
Wilshire released 100k wages
Campbell released 40k wages
Perez 8m 60k wages
Akpom 3m 40k wages
Asano 2m 40k wages
That’s about 25 million in transfer fees and
560k a week in wages.
Ospina maybe made 10- 15 useless appearances
Wilshire about 35 or so.

That’s before you even start looking at getting rid of wellbeck, xhaka, mustafi, another 75 million and 250k in wages
There’s 100 million and 800k a week for wages.

Add that to your 50-60 million war chest.

gambon

Daz

What does ‘mediocre CF’ mean?

Would you say Gabriel Jesus is a mediocre CF?

Receding Hairline

@ Ishola

Are u suggesting we let the likes of Brighton, Burnley, Everton, Huddersfield , Watford and co have the ball when we play them??

What exactly is your problem with the possession comment made by Emery??

qna

“Lacazette who he wants sold for that shiny new winger scored against Man city and Man United. We put three past his beloved Liverpool.” Seeing the trees but not the Forrest. Did we win those games. Did we ever look like winning. Do we have enough goals in us to outscore these teams? Not even close. We know for sure they will score most likely 2 or more. So we need to find 3 or more to win these games. Again I am happy to keep Lacazette in our squad and bring him off the bench. But we are better… Read more »

Daz

Gambon

You think arsenal are going to be able to sign an up and coming CF of the quality of Jesus? I doubt it and if we could, a player of that quality is going to eat up the majority of the fee you get for lacazette what with bonuses, signing on fees and agent fees. How much you got left for that winger?

Steiner

This signing is massive! This kid forgoes mountains of dosh, Lamborghinis and playing for the biggest names in football to continue his development under Emery. I can’t express how warm and fuzzy this makes me feel. We’ve had kids knock us back, Albert Gudmundsson springs to mind, he reflected Arsenal, Liverpool and Real so he could play and develop. Imagine if Emery had been our coach with his record of improving just about every player he trained! Gone, thank God, is Wenger and the days of young players fathers saying “I would like him to go to Arsenal, then move… Read more »

qna

Balotelli for Lacazette and £60m is a no brainer for me. Provided Balotelli’s salary is reasonable, we can loan him out in 6 months if worse comes to worst. There would be plenty of Italian teams willing. The thing is we would be the only big named club that would still be willing to give him a chance. This would be his last shot at the big time. If he is willing to come and take a pay of around £100k on day a 3 year deal then the risk-reward is heavily in our favour. These highlights are better than… Read more »

gambon

Daz

Brilliant. So from now on we shouldn’t sign anyone at all because of signing on and agents fees.

What a great vision you have for Arsenal.

Receding Hairline

“Seeing the trees but not the Forrest. Did we win those games. Did we ever look like winning. Do we have enough goals in us to outscore these teams? Not even close. We know for sure they will score most likely 2 or more. So we need to find 3 or more to win these games” Come on dude don’t be dense just for dense sake Ishola says this team has enough goals in it we just need to tighten up at the back and in the middle. You disagreed with that peach of an argument about scoring against the… Read more »

Receding Hairline

“Balotelli for Lacazette and £60m is a no brainer for me”

Do yourself a favor and go for a walk

Steiner

WTAF is wrong with you guys???
“up and coming CF”
Not many young CF’s with the potential of Eddie Nketiah.
Sell Lacazette? Are you clowns insane?
The guy has qualities Aubameyang doesn’t.
I love Aubu, but he can be a one trick pony, all be it one of the best one trick ponies on the planet.
Lacazette is a much more rounded player, his link up and work in the box can be incredible.
He can turn in a dime and score.
Our front line is the last place we need help!

Daz

Gambon

?? Avoid the question if you want, the point is if you’re selling lacazette to MAKE money towards a winger how is signing someone that costs us what we gain going to achieve that? You would have to replace with someone significantly cheaper than lacazette for it to be worthwhile. Which would result in someone mediocre like balotelli

Marko

No good bringing in Emery, His team, Mislintat, Sanllehi, Burgess etc if we are gonna go with virtually the same team that have been letting us down year after year after year. Amen. This team needs way more than one or two signings. Re possible injury to Xhaka not sure how its a good thing we can hardly sell him if he’s fucked for 9 months. The Lacazette fanboys better hope he isn’t because Ramsey is likely to stay and Ozil will stick around like a bad smell and that literally leaves Mustafi Laca and Bellerin as significant sellable assets.… Read more »

Redtruth

“Lacazette who he wants sold for that shiny new winger scored against Man city and Man United. We put three past his beloved Liverpool.”

We lost 5 and drew one against those sides.

Goals for: 6
Goals against: 18

Dissenter

qna
I like your boldness
I argued the same for Ballo. Other than his madness he’s good enough as a second striker who will get 15 league goals all season.
He’s crack crazy though.

Steiner

Your @ QNA
You’re either that contrary motherfucker that goes to parties simply to disagree with people and start fights, or you’ve taken your Nan’s meds by ‘mistake’ again…

qna

Receding. No I completely disagree with that argument. I have been banging on for years that our weakness is our performances against the top 7 or 8 teams in any season. There is always one or two teams that step up in a season for whatever reason and when you add those teams and the regular top 5 other teams and do a mini league we fall bottom of that mini league, year after year. We do not have the ability to score against these teams. If we do, we are usually outscored. I only give part of the blame… Read more »

gambon

Daz

Brighton nearly signed Moussa Dembele for £18m in January.

Dembele could easily do the job Lacazette will be doing next season. We would also have £25m+ to go towards a top wide player.

Steiner

@Marko
You’re completely missing the point, Wenger’s training, player development and tactics were absolutely rubbish.

Emery will transform these players.
Are you actually saying that our team is shit?
They aren’t and you know it, our manager was shit, but it’s all change now!

Dissenter

Receding
The argument is that it’s wasteful for a limited team with a restricted transfer budget like Arsenal to have two 55 million rated strikers earning about 400k weekly.
One free transfer of a 27 year old whobscored 26 goals domestically
One £55-60 million outward transfer . The money can be added to the £ 50-70 million already earmarked to address the glaring weaknesses
You’re not impressed obviously but it’s not that far out.

qna was one of the very few people that argued endlessly for selling off Alexis last summer. At the time, that position was scuffed at too.

englandsbest

Is Ramsay worth Ozil money? I am not sure anybody is worth £350 K a week, its a team game, with ten other players on the pitch. (Well okay, maybe Messi or Ronaldo). But one thing I AM sure about: he is worth a lot bigger wage than Ozil. I rate Ramsay as the best player we’ve got, I have since RVP left. The guy is a team player, he plays the way the manager tells him. No wonder he’s excited at the idea of working with Emery. Me, too. Ramsay is capable of wonders. This coming season, if he… Read more »

gambon

No one ‘wants’ to sell Lacazette. It’s a question of whether it’s the best thing for the team.

No football person at the club won’t have thought the same. Lacazette is far from ideal as a back up striker.

He is too expensive
His wages are too high
He can’t play in other positions
He isn’t a succession plan (when Auba leaves at 32 years old he will be 30)

Dissenter

Ramsey will be plain dumb to accept less than Mykhi. The 170k weekly is probably what he will get along with bonuses.
Wilshere will use that to “feel disrespected” and move to Westham, his initial childhood club.

qna

“He is too expensive
His wages are too high
He can’t play in other positions
He isn’t a succession plan (when Auba leaves at 32 years old he will be 30)”

Also, the assumption is you will need to bring him on chasing a game. He isn’t ideal for that being slow and short. Balotelli will give us a presence in the box and although I do think Lacazette is an excellent header of the ball, Balotelli is arguably better.

salpardisenyc

Its too fucking mental for me to entertain thought of Emery, Raul and Sven green lighting a move for Balotelli.

qna

Does anyone else think Yacine plays like Rabiot? That tall, upright, composed on the ball. Similar hair too 🙂 Looks damn good for a 17 year old. Some of the clips he looks like he is giving his last pass tired. Think that is a real positive because as a 17 year old he will be playing out games on a very limited tank. I don’t see a 17 year old having the fitness for a full EPL season contribution. I am so glad that it will be Emery and not Wenger that will be be responsible for managing him.… Read more »

qna

Sal: Its too fucking mental for me to entertain thought of Emery, Raul and Sven green lighting a move for Balotelli.

Emery would know all about the player he is today. If we do make that decision, it will be based on the player he is today and not the crazy child he was when he was last in England. I haven’t hear about him for a long time. That can only be a good sign.

Josip Skoblar

Zinedone Zigone.

gambon

We’re not signing Balotelli….simple as that.

He’s fucking mental.

salpardisenyc

Pretty much how I feel.

qna

Sal: Ideal usage of Lacazette:Griezmann to Barca
Lacazette to Atletico
Dembele to ArsenalRaul needs to pull a blinder with structure of the loan to buy deal.

I suggested the same thing a few days ago. Balotelli makes this happen.

Welbeck (£20m) + Lacazette (£60m) for Dembele (£80m) + Balotelli (free).

Two in, two out. One hell of a Welbeck problem solved.

WengerEagle

Balotelli was always overrated.

Never close to being elite. For all this talk of his ‘athleticism’, he cannot dribble past players and his sprint speed is pants. He’s more of a lump than a specimen.

Two decent seasons in France doesn’t erase all of his baggage and his woeful time in front of goal for Liverpool, Milan and for City near the end.

Then you add in the fact that he’s certifiable and I’m not sure why any top team would want anything to do with him.

salpardisenyc

QNA

I am 100% Raul attempting to land Dembele, with those outs.

Think he’s intelligent enough to then sell remaining dross and bring in a younger CF who won’t slip 50 hits of acid into the gatorade tank during summer training. Then instagram image of his bird peaking in tie dye jammies calling no foul.

Guns of SF

Sal

Im not advocating either way but this team could use the power and pace of Mario.
Auba pace… Mario power and good pace as well and intimidating presence… Good at headers too. Size is good….What we miss in Olly, Mario can make up to some extent.
We have lost pace in the team…. I keep saying that Ox and Theo took our speed
Shit,,,Dembele, Auba, Mario that is some front line
anyhow…. just fodder for thought

qna

WengerEagle. I agree. I am only putting him on par with Lacazette who can’t dribble past players any better. If we are chasing a game and need to start banging on crosses I like our chances with Balotelli over Lacazette. If we didn’t have Aubamayang I would probably prefer Lacazette too. From that point of view Lacazette is better injury cover for Auba than Balotelli. But in terms of a backup striker that also enables us to upgrade Welbeck to someone like Dembele, I would do that every day.

Dembele+Balotelli+Aubamayang >> Welbeck+Lacazette+Aubamayang

WengerEagle

Is Griezmann not staying at AM? Thought he came out and said that he was staying.

Dembele has done well since he’s come back from injury for Barcelona, also gives them that crucial outlet as Messi’s pace dwindles in his 30’s. No reason why they would want to sell him.

WengerEagle

qna

I really don’t rate Balotelli over Lacazette at all ability-wise, and attitude-wise they’re worlds apart.

Former wouldn’t join us to be a back up to Auba either, let’s not forget that he’s an egomaniac.

Receding hairline

Well I can’t say I don’t get the POV when it comes to selling Lacazettte to free up cash…I get that

But please enough with the Balotelli stuff ..it’s upsetting.

At least be a bit more original with your choice of a replacement…not a watched up fraud

Leedsgunner

Ability wise Balotelli would be a shrewd move if replacing someone like Welbeck, especially if we got something like £20m for Danny. Attitude wise, Welbeck is streets ahead of Mario.

As for Balotelli’s attitude, would he be any worse than Neymar? Apparently he’s not like he used to be… and has matured.

Emery, having been PSG manager would be used to big egos would he not?

When on form, Balotelli is one of those players who is unplayable.

WengerEagle

International Friendlies really are fucking dire, World Cup can’t come soon enough…

qna

WengerEagle: Former wouldn’t join us to be a back up to Auba either, let’s not forget that he’s an egomaniac. I wouldn’t want him if he wasn’t prepared to come to us knowing he is backup striker. He is 27 now. This will be his last contract at a big club. I don’t see any big club coming in for him. If he wants to have one last crack at the big time we might be his last best shot. That means accepting he has to fight for his spot with Auba as our preferred #1 AND taking a wage… Read more »

WengerEagle

‘At least be a bit more original with your choice of a replacement…not a watched up fraud’ Agree, there’s plenty of very good strikers out there that would be ideal as support to Aubameyang if we were to sell Lacazette to raise funds to improve the CM or back 5. Marko put forward Celta Vigo’s Maxi Gomez who’s a good shout. Only 21/22 year old so potentially could be Auba’s successor and perhaps wouldn’t mind playing back-up to him for a couple of years. Big powerful lad that can hold the ball up and offer an alternative when teams park… Read more »

WengerEagle

qna

Most of the time people do not change mate, Balotelli has had problems at every club he’s ever been before Nice. Only a matter of time before he stirs up trouble there, likely if he isn’t granted a move this summer.

Players like him are poison, we’ve seen a fair few of them over the years.

Cassano, Quaresma, Adebayor, Ben Arfa, Taarabt, Ravel Morrison, list goes on.

Leedsgunner

https://www.calciomercato.com/en/news/juve-could-sell-man-utd-barcelona-and-real-madrid-targets-this-s-34463

Apparently, Juventus want to buy Sergey Milinkovic-Savic… and they are willing to sell Pjanic to fund it — a deal to be had? Considering we’re trying to strengthen our midfield?

champagne charlie

Banford with rigid views on football, and in other news water is wet.

I see the mildly amusing commentary from some about this young PSG kid getting snapped up as not important. Same folk who are bleating on about finding players before they gain a 50 mil price tag.

So damned if we do, damned if we don’t it seems? Just a platform for moaning? Odd one.

qna

WengerEagle: Agree, there’s plenty of very good strikers out there that would be ideal as support to Aubameyang if we were to sell Lacazette to raise funds to improve the CM or back 5.

Any available for free? Anyone worth signing, even as a backup would cost 70% of what we could sell Lacazette for. Defeats the purpose.

Leedsgunner

We should try to empty all our drawers of our dross and try to maximise these sales before we even ENTERTAIN the idea of selling Lacazette. He is a good clinical striker and he would strengthen any one of our domestic rivals… why are we so eager to get rid?

Laca was coming into some decent form, and I would be interested in how Emery would get the best out of him… before we talk about shipping him out.

salpardisenyc

Argentinian kid who just moved to Inter looks quite good, Lautaro Martínez.
I’ve always like El Haddadi whose coming off good loan spell Deportivo Alavés, curious to see what Barca do with him, Silva at Milan who are touching FFP.

gambon

Sal

Brighton nearly signed Dembele for 18m in January.

Dembele has 9 in 14 for France u21.

He would free up 30m
He would be on 80k pw
He would be a succession plan

Guns of SF

There sure are a lot of Demebeles out there

Bamford10

Must say I like the look of this Adli kid. Just now finally watched that video. Kid is dope. Let’s hope he continues to improve and stays healthy.

Bamford10

Charlie

Who said signing Adli is unimportant and yet also talks a lot about signing gems before they cost 50m? Tell us.

Pierre

Dissenter
“Ramsey will be plain dumb to accept less than Mykhi”

Why..
Mkhitarayan is a far better player than Ramsey, better technique and more importantly, a team player.

Daz

Gambon

If it all panned out as you say then sure, sven would need to have a CF up his sleeve for under 20m of that quality, otherwise keeping lacazette is the sensible option imo

salpardisenyc

That Dembele could certainly work if we decided to sell Lacazette to potentially fund the other Dembele or other options. Next in line for PEA with youth on side.

Have to say I like idea of two Dembele’s in squad, imagine next NLD, 3 Dembele’s potentially on pitch.

champagne charlie

“Who said signing Adli is unimportant and yet also talks a lot about signing gems before they cost 50m? Tell us.”

Is us your multiple personalities? I’d rather not indulge

gazzap

Xhaka plays Thursday, sunday, thursday, sunday for us and NEVER gets bloody injured. one little training session for the Swiss, and he buggers his knee! LOL.

Gooner63

Swiss odds of winning world cup just changed from

33/1 to 20/1

HillWood

Pierre
Footballing ability and contract negotiations are two separate issues

champagne charlie

Really hope Xhaka’s WC isn’t ended because of that. Incredibly cruel stroke of misfortune if so.

🙁

gambon

The Swiss will really miss Xhakas pace.

champagne charlie

Gambon

really?

salpardisenyc

My embedded sources are telling me Xhaka’s just bruised his knee, that would be Danny Ahern whose no doubt scoured twitter.

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

Gazzap

We won’t sell him know

Balotelly

Do me a favour

Don’t want that cunt here

HillWood

Wenger eagle
So countries should just turn up at the World Cup And hope for the best?

Graham62

B10

Have you ever coached?

If you have, you must realise that accommodating both Auba and Lacazette is a must if Arsenal are to progress.

Emery of course will see the benefits of these two individuals and utilize them accordingly.

Used wisely, they will scare the shit out of defenders next season.

Thankfully we now have a professional coach in charge who will see all of this.

Marko

Will they miss him? I heard Denise Zakaria is a very good prospect

qna

Tolisso? Where do I sign. Not happening. Bayern will never sell him for anything that we can afford to pay.

Marko

Dennis Zakaria. No forget that I meant Denise his sister she can actually tackle

Marko

If Liverpool got Dembele…

Marko

Not to worry its just a bruised knee. And a dog looked at him funny as well I’m hearing. Poor lad

Gooner63

If Liverpool got Dembele…

Liverpool showing that football and winning is more important than running a business

Arsenal will never be a big club while Kroenke is in charge

Carts

Balotellibiant worth the headache.

He’s burned his bridges in the EPL.

salpardisenyc

Why would Klopp put that much into Dembele and fuck with that front 3, i’m calling banter.