Horrible to read yet another high profile person has gone to such tragic lengths to escape their mental demons. Poor health of the mind is such a vicious predator and it doesn’t give a fuck who you are, how much you earn, or what your life looks like to the outside world.
That’s why Danny Rose is such a hero, I only just caught up on his big reveal in the press (big, because it’s football).
“It led to me seeing a psychologist and I was diagnosed with depression, which nobody knows about.”
“It’s no secret that I’ve been through a testing time at Tottenham this season,”
“It led to me seeing a psychologist and I was diagnosed with depression, which nobody knows about. I had to get away from Tottenham.
“I’m lucky that England gave me that opportunity to get away, refresh my mind and I’ll always be grateful to them. I was on medication for a few months – nobody knows about that apart from my agent – but I’m off the medication now, I’m good again and looking forward to how far we can go in Russia. ”
I’d love to crack a joke about Spurs being an obviously depressing experience, but I won’t, I’ll just say it so you know I was thinking it.
It’s heartening to see that people are starting to talk about important issues with more compassion. The more we normalise it, the more people will come out and deal with it through the proper channels. Macho industries like cooking and sport can make talking about things feel like a weakness. It’s not. I’m glad the conversation is moving in the right direction.
Don’t bottle it up, call someone up.
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In other news, I have Liverpool envy.
Why are their transfers so damn good?
Fabinho, Keita and Fekir… rumours are they’re after Allison from Roma in goal. What a fucking powerhouse side they’re building.
I mean, I know I’m out here defending our transfer policy, but there’s no doubt it’s fucking boring compared to theirs. But, you know, this is year three of the Klopp project. He had to get Liverpool back into the Champions League, he had to deal with the exit of Coutinho. Their fans had to deal with a lot of ups and downs. But ultimately, success is allowing them to go big… as well as moving on players at peak value.
There have been some sexy rumours floating around. Sampdoria’s Uruguayan defensive midfielder Lucas Torreira. I don’t know much about him, but having a south American enforcer at the base of our midfield is a delightful proposition, he’s fiery, can play with both feet and he seems to have a good number of gears pace-wise. He’d certainly excite me more than Fellaini.
We’re also being linked with Savic, the main issue being the £100m price tag… which is, you know, kind of a non-starter.
Let’s hope the club have some additional targets to add this summer, I think we have a pretty exciting group of players, a few more youthful names with a bit of experience would really raise our levels.
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Tr4phy
Clean sweep!
Boooooo
Torreira would be superb finally the midfielder we needed.
@Vic – You see this is where I have a problem with conversations like this, as I can only offer you my own opinion which is totally subjective and tinted with bias. I don’t like the way Harry Kane plays football, so I personally don’t think he is “world class” or “elite” but what are those two terms if not subjective? Is a world class player one that bangs in goals all season? If so then he probably is.. but thats not what I think an elite player is. For me it is someone I would actually pay money to… Read more »
Victorious,
Do you remember asking me whether I was a Nigerian?
Well, I am a Nigerian for this WC and it has nothing to do with your kits.
Pedro why is it more horrifying to learn of high profile people being depressed than people who aren’t famous? Honestly it’s kind of ironic that you have a regular in your comments section who has lost a brother to suicide and the response from the couple of occasions I’ve brought it up has been to just skip past it. I never once saw a single ‘sorry to hear that’ type comment unless I’ve missed it. Yet Danny Rose was depressed and people should care? It’s less horrifying that Danny Rose felt shitty, took meds, saw a psychologist and got better… Read more »
I am happy that we are trying to buy players that we can make into household names, Liverpool did that and sold coutinho for massive money.
They are reaping the rewards of doing this.
We can’t afford to buy players that have already made a name so let’s cut our cloth and see what Sven can do for us
Thanos who are these players?
Torreira and Morgan Sanson would be perfect for a midfield three. Would prefer a proper DM and Xhaka fucked off because he’s shite but those two would be good
Akilan
Hope you doing good mate,ah I remember alright,there’s a reason most neutrals are backing us to do well at the world cup,outside the fact we have the best kit, our German coach has got us playing brilliant football in a 4-3-3 formation which has made us very entertaining to watch … and you get to watch your favorite lad Iwobi as well, cheers!
China
Respect.
Even when the link was dismissed,had a hunch would probably be Torreira coming in which would mean curtains for Wilshere..unfortunately that might just be our only midfield signing.
Xhaka.. Torreira…Ramsey…might work, no?
Who was the young victim of depression? Sorry, I haven’t caught up on the news today.
China, in an age where an increasing number of people are forgetting blood and familial bonds, you expect random strangers to give a rats arse about your sob stories?
Harsh reality man. Maybe you’ve been duped by the Internet.
All these sad outpourings when something bad happens in the World, all these Tom,Dick and Harrys’ and their dogs writing ”OMG this is heartbreaking, be brave,we’re with you!” on their Facebook…its all fake. Probably clinking glasses with their mates, having a laugh while typing it.
You think they really care? They don’t.
Oh well, Arsenal agree deal with Dortmund for Sokratis..Dissenter will be peeved
Victorious you mad bastard!
What was the final cost?
cunt of Hackney
16M..you like?
Papastathopoulos… will be fun to hear commentators trying to get around that one next year!
After years of conditioning of “one or two top quality” signings I am terrified we only have one more transfer in us for the summer!!
Stories Sokratis wont be announced till next month. Wonder why.
OK Pedro… Let’s replace the name Rose with the name özil and lets replace the club Tottenham with the club Arsenal. “That’s why Mesut özil is such a hero, I only just caught up on his big reveal in the press (big, because it’s football). “It led to me seeing a psychologist and I was diagnosed with depression, which nobody knows about.” “It’s no secret that I’ve been through a testing time at Arsenal this season,” “It led to me seeing a psychologist and I was diagnosed with depression, which nobody knows about” Do I believe that you would be… Read more »
You would think Mislintat still works for Dortmund because his M.O is to buy ageing Dortmund players at above market rates.
I’m willing to bet that we are paying over the odds because Dortmund are trying to prove that you can’t come back and loot your previous employers stash.
I bet we go for the ball boys at Dortmund next.
Right I am gonna play Football Manager …. Out: David Ospina – 5m Shkodran Mustafi – 20m Carl Jenkinson – Free Jack Wilshere – Free Alex Iwobi – 5m Danny Welbeck – 10m J. Campbell – 5m Alexandre Lacazette – 40m Total.. approximately £100m add the £70m and you have £170m to play with. In: Nick Pope – £20m Stephan Lichtsteiner – Free Sokratis Papastathopoulos – £16m Yacine Adli – £200,000k Lucas Torreira – £22m Cristian Pavón – £33m That would still leave you with around 70m … Squad GK: Nick Pope Petr Čech Matt Macey DF: Héctor Bellerín Laurent… Read more »
£16 large for that Greek twat? Oh arsenal, will you ever learn.
@Dissenter –
Its £16m… the same we paid for Chambers.
Pierre, you find new ways of embarrassing yourself by the day.
Its probably you that is in need of a doctor’s attention.
Pierre Your last post was utterly classless You posted it in the last thread, then returned to report it in the new one. When it comes to depression, partisanship ends at the waters edge. There ae no club barriers, just humanity. It’s a shame you deemed it fit to post such a petty show of ignorance twice. Just today I read that the celebrity American chef who had a hit international/travel show on CNN died from a completed suicide yesterday. This individual brought smiles to the face of many all the while he was suffering from depression, in silence. We… Read more »
Jim…mkhitaryan ?
Jim
4X what Johnny Evans went for…and I’m willing to bet he’s set to earn more than the 80k weekly Johnny Evans will earn at Leicester.
Before people start yammering about ‘Brom and relegation, remember Pep Guardiola and city were interested in January.
So Danny is depressed? why will a rich boy be depressed? Well, i hope samaritans help us all…cos i too, am depressed!
so Papa’appollos is done! hope he does nothing apocalyptic to bring armaggedon to Emery’s Emirate. i wil hate that
Dissenter.
Firstly ,I have never posted anything about depression or mental health before so an apology should be forthcoming ….plus, I have a great understanding of mental health issues , more than you will ever have as I am married to someone who was fucking sexually abused by her cunt of a father from an early age and she has to live with it on a daily basis .
My comment was nothing to do with the issue of depression or mental health it was to with the double standards of this blog towards Arsenal footballers ….
The day we play Papastathopoulos and Konstantinos Mavropanos together…the match commentators will demand for a raise. Can you imagine when they start interchanging passes?
Pierre
Why are you making it a partisan issue.
What’s the silly double standard you are referring to?
We are talking about a silent killer of dreams here not something new to use to joust over petty difference.
Sanogo suffered from depression when he played for Arsenal. I don’t recall anyone trying to use that to further a point.
Pierre you’re a horrible little twat you know that. There’s literally nothing wrong with Ozil other than he’s a wet sponge and a massive weak pussy. If he actually suffered with an illness like depression that’d be one thing but by all accounts he doesn’t. For you to make up an implication that he does just as an excuse for him being such a wet blanket is ludicrous and shameful. You’re a fucking idiot
West Ham are in talks to sign Brazilian midfielder Felipe Anderson, 25, who is valued at £44m by Lazio. – sky sports
This had better be untrue.
This lad and Lanzini running at defenses will be scary
@Pierre –
Yup! Forgot about him!
Just today I read that the celebrity American chef who had a hit international/travel show on CNN died from a completed suicide yesterday
Not Anthony Bourdain?
“The day we play Papastathopoulos andMavropanos together…”
Lol
Arsenal’s Centerbacks: Papa and Ma
Marko
Yes it was Anthony Bourdain
I’ve never seen anyone as open as this chef. I know it’s made for TV and they edit but he wil sit down with anyone from Papua new Guinea to Ghana to showcase their food and make it look like gold.
I’ll never have believed he was struggling with his own mental illness. Never in a million years would one think he would end it all. He seemed to have it all dining with heads of states.
I wish Pedro could put a hide comment on certain posters. Arsenal blog turning into a Samaritans blog all of a sudden. Pierre by your comments you obviously come across a slime bag. I don’t really want to know about your family personal issues and probably 90% blog.
And if you don’t like the double standards you talk about why not piss off to another blog.
Man that’s awful he was brilliant used to love watching him on weekend mornings going to cities eating gorgeous food while I was murdering an omelette
Cont…
You don’t know about anyone’s lives on this blog but you come across so judgemental.
My impressions of you are
Attention seeker.
Pierre
You never told us you married your daughter.
China
Cheers, friend. I also had a brother pass to suicide. I didn’t see those posts but I don’t think anyone meant any offense by not offering words of condolence to you, Most people don’t talk about their own tragedies comfortably, and I think others sometimes feel like it’s not their place to address it even if someone does.
Good luck.
I may have went overboard with that last joke. Apologies.
Not really sancho. Clearly just a joke
Moan-arko
“Not really sancho. Clearly just a joke”
a joke? you imbecile.would like to know your reactions when someone make a joke of you r@ping your own daughter,you wastebin.
‘ If he actually suffered with an illness like depression that’d be one thing but by all accounts he doesn’t. For you to make up an implication that he does just as an excuse for him being such a wet blanket is ludicrous and shameful. You’re a fucking idiot’
Well said that man.
Pierre is right, you arsenal bashing lots are wrong.
The reason why LFC is pushing ahead and AFC is falling behind is not the manager, it’s the owner. Yes, I know Wenger was awful, but that only helps to prove the point. Stan kept him on because he stayed in the black. It’s all and always about money with Stan. You can date the start of demise to when he came aboard and Dein walked the plank. Stan won’t put a cent into the Club. To make it seem right, he says “I won’t take a penny out either.” Fair enough if you are sitting at the top, but… Read more »
I dont get if stan is worried about money why we pay Ozil £350k every week when he rarely drops in a top performance for us. that has cost us another top player. If you’re paying that kind of money for a club like arsenal you need to be a match winner virtually every game.
Dissenter, I like this so called dream team set up. They haven’t done anything of note yet, but there’s been no catastrophe either. This is how I TRY to rationalize the sokratis deal. As of now, our senior most CB is Mustafi, who himself may leave.(Kos is injured and I think he’s done as a starter here). Now if we bring in the Turk defender or CB of similar profile, chambers is probably gone as well. So our CB options will read as, 1. Soyuncu or a similar CB. 2. Holding 3. Mavropronos 4. A new senior CB People at… Read more »
@Jim Lahey.
I don’t rate Iwobi that highly..but £5m ??
Fucking glad your not in charge of transfers mate..
reading torreira’s fee has been agreed. left with agent fee to be sorted. I hope his comes in n does a good job. he may or not play along did Xhaka ( who’s been criticised by most of this fans). IMO n in fairness I think Xhaka did a decent job getting to the latter part of this season. we just wanna see it consistently.
gazzap: Your thinking makes perfect sense to you. me, every football fan and probably most of the world. But we are talking about a Walmart clone. Pile ’em high, sell ’em cheap. In Stan’s book he is doing very well indeed, far better than John Henry & Co. His investment in AFC has more than doubled (perhaps tripled) in value. And of course he operates mostly in US sport which is designed by the owners to protect the owners. Maybe he hasn’t realized it’s dog-eat-dog over here. What will he do if AFC continues to founder. Put his hand in… Read more »
Pedro
Liverpool had to deal with losing Coutinho?
You what? Lol he was a good player for them but they didn’t lose Suarez levels of influence. They got 140 mil to pump back into their team. I’m pretty sure a few managers would love that struggle..
Liverpool are a Powerhouse at the bloody moment.
Liverpool vs Man City already gonna be bloody epic match up
2018/19 final top4 table:
ARSENAL
CHELSEA
MAN CITY
LIVERPOOL
The fact that Torreria was born in Fray Bento makes me want to sign him!
Joking aside he’s like a mosquitoe for opposing teams, immense recovery from slides, lunges and tackles.
He would be a great addition.
Damn you to hell autocorrect.
“Fray Bentos
nah, chelsea won’t be in the top 3. conte will get sacked mid day through the season. man utd will be in the top 3. and it’ll be us, spurs and chelsea fighting for the 4th position.
title fight will be utd, pool and city. City May win with liverpool in second.. when was the last time a team won back to back titles ??
If Salah doesn’t replicate last season, Liverpool will be nowhere near the top.
Chances of salah replicating last seasons 20+ goals is slim. Just ask Mahrez. Being good and having a blinder are 2 different things. Firminho isnt top level in my opinion. If Salah is having a 16 goals 10 assist season, they will need an elite striker. Firminho isn’t
gonsterous
United 2007, 2008,2009
and Chelsea the 2 years before that
As for man utd, there’s no guarantee of 2nd place, they secured second last season byou winning early season games comfortably, partly due to fixtures and the league figuring out pogba. After December they had an average season.
Pogba has been figured, I will wait to see what the fixture will be like, if early season is tough, you will have a mourhino melt down before December
groovey daddy
so hasn’t been done in almost 10 years.. goes to show how competitive the league is.. fergie did it but as good a manager he was, the Scot got a lot of help from the referees and added fergie time…
sanmi
I still highly rate pogba. He hardly ever loses the ball. I think he may just be the player that utd need this season if they are to mount a serious title challenge against city.
Anyone know much about this guy?
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/arsenal-appoint-new-director-football-12670171
“Arsene Wenger ruled out becoming a director of football at Arsenal following his decision to leave the club.”
Seriously? He doesn’t know what a DOF does!
Shame if Arsenal lose out on Torreira.
Now being reported that Napoli are offering more than his release clause of 25m euros. Offering 30m in installments of 3 years.
Apparently Sampdoria prefer the higher fee in installments rather than the one payment of his release clause which Arsenal have reported want to do.
No reason why Arsenal can’t match Napoli and go higher in fee in installments if they really want the player.
@ Ishola70 it shouldn’t matter if they offer 50 million and we offer 25 if thats the release clause they still have to accept it and speak to us i believe.
Waylander
“it shouldn’t matter if they offer 50 million and we offer 25 if thats the release clause they still have to accept it and speak to us i believe”
Yeah true.
There are all different stories in the Italian press on this one.
Another report saying Napoli are put off by his wage demands.
Get Torreira and Nzonzi in and we are sorted. I wouldn’t mind if we didn’t sign a single player thereafter.
@Pierre” What happened to the notion that it was Wenger who is to blame for self sufficiency…. He’s gone now so surely we should have money to burn on players.”Pierre, Wenger burned the Money! That’s why we don’t have any. We’ve only ever sold 2-3 players for over £20m & Ox was one of them ! Someone else here will know the exact details, but it’s something like that. What we are seeing is kinda ironic cos a lot of people ( mostly AKB’s ) refused to see how What Wenger did was ruining the club. Players running contracts down,cos… Read more »
A14 Although I sympathize with the Danny Rose situation, I feel also that one’s own personal grief should not come into any discussion on here. I made the mistake of highlighting an opinion on a subject that I was accused of knowing nothing about, which is not the case. All I was trying to highlight was that it was not, imo, an appropriate time for this to all come out. I also apologised if I offended anyone. @China. My only advice is similar to that of A14’s(but not quite as harsh). Don’t use this as a platform to air your… Read more »
Wow….Pierre is a proper scum bag isn’t he.
Fingering his own daughter then marrying her.
Tr7
I agree with Terrier but not n Zanzibar.
Seems he’s a bit of a dick off the park, I remember stories akin to John terry when he was last over here.
I have suffered significantly from depression.
Luckily after many years of tests the doctors managed to pinpoint my trigger.
It’s a 68 year old French man who is a terrible football manager.
This Torreria looks and has the stature of a child.
We should be doing better. Where are my Petits and my Vieiras?
For me Torreira’s footballing attributes are more important than his physical attributes. Play a giant Nzonzi alongside him and we should be fine.
Rambo R,
Aren’t you part of those praising kante? Now size is an issue?
englandsbest
“Stan kept him on because he stayed in the back”
Torreira is absolute class.
I still think this sounds like agent talk to get Napoli to improve their offer.
Still think we need someone that plays a much more vertical game. Torreira can carry the ball but he’s no Dembele/Allan/Ndombele.
“Arsenal have appointed Marcel Lucassen as their director of football development, after joining the club on a three-year contract from Al-Nasr in Dubai, he will begin his role from the 1st of August”
LMAO Nzonzi a giant,now I’ve seen it all.
Sanmi, yes I would love some height and physicality in Arsenal’s midfield. Not every diminutive player packs Kante’s strength and power.
Torreira is more physical than Kante. He’s a pit bull with real technique.
Oops! I mean “black” Not as simple as that though was it. Wenger had three options – 1. Voice his frustrations. 2. Up and leave. 3. Grim and bear it. He though took a 4th option, which was carry on in his own merry way, ignoring and disrespecting the fans, not acting on the obvious frailties of the team and manipulating every conceivable thing for his own personal gain. Silent Stan had a miniscule of blame, but Wenger had more than enough opportunities and resources at his disposal over the past decade to rectify matters. Unfortunately for us, he chose… Read more »
Nzonzi height – 6 ft 5 inch.
Yes physically a giant, a massive unit. Not sure what you find funny about it.
Watching Torreira’s highlights from last season and you can tell from a mile he’s what we really need,IF we are getting just 1 midfielder in this season then it should be him.
gambon(10:12 post)
A slightly more lighthearted approach, but so true.
Torreira has a bit of both Cazorla and Kante about him- a technically sound defensive midfielder. Plays with a lot of passion too.
oh… so is Xhaka..making him out as some sort of beast is what I find ridiculous.
I wish people would stop making grandiose statements on the back of youtube scouting.
Rambo
Seconded. All a bit embarrassing to start waxing lyrical based off a mashup of clips to shit dubstep
For those of you who dont think this is the place, take a second look at what Pedro posted.
Don’t bottle it up, call someone up.
Samaritans – for everyone
Call 116 123
Email jo@samaritans.org
Its the right time and the right place, always. One never knows the pain that another suffers – dont ignore it because its not you.
Some of you on here truly are natural born assholes.
Anyone know anything of Gbamin the lad from Mainz?
Now being reported that Napoli are offering more than his release clause of 25m euros. Offering 30m in installments of 3 years.
This is irrelevant a release clause is a release clause.
Tr7
Terrier only played 71 games in 4 years
Is he injury prone..?
RSPC
71 games in 2 seasons, not 4.