Listen, you don’t need to feel bad about it. We all did it yesterday. Yep, we all cheered a Spurs player because he took MIGHTY England to the land of 3-Glorious-Points. What an adventure. Say it quietly, but I quite like Gareth Southgate. He’s level-headed, he talks intelligently about the game and he’s managed to make the World Cup far less of a spectacle than it usually is.
Funny to watch our boys get the thug treatment. A quarterfinal would be exceptional, fingers crossed we can keep our focus in the next two games.
In Arsenal news, there are rumours heading out of Italy that Arsenal is in for Éver Maximiliano David Banega. The central midfielder is plying his trade at Sevilla at the moment. He’s been a bit of a journeyman, he’s played at Atleti, Valencia, Newells Old Boys and Inter Milan. At 29, he’s no spring chicken, so I’m not sure why we’re going after him. He’d certainly bring additional steel, experience and a touch of class to the middle of the park… my concern is we already have that in Aaron Ramsey?
There’s nothing the Argentine can do that Aaron can’t do better. You can’t imagine a player who dropped 50 appearances last season would entertain Arsenal as a sub, so it’s a bit of a mystery? He only had 5 assists and 6 goals last season. In fact, over 5 seasons, he’s never broken double figures for goals or assists. I could only see him as a back-up, or a panic stop-gap if Rambo decides he wants out this summer.
The mainstream press are reporting that Arsenal are close to doing a deal with Bernd Leno. Ornstein doesn’t know who is making way for him, but you’d have to imagine it’ll be David Ospina? Or maybe it’ll be Cech? Crazy that I can’t decide because both are unappetizing, even as number 2s. I think I’d prefer to have some exceptional kid as our backup. Regardless, having a keeper with cat-like reflexes dropping sweeper keeper for us next season gets me very moist.
Torreira is also hot on the lips of Ornstein, deal isn’t done yet, it’s being held up by the World Cup. No doubt his agent is waiting for a MoM performance so he can squeeze a few extra pennies for his client.
Also, someone needs to run this analysis over Ozil.
Right, short post this morning. MORE WORLD CUP to come.
See you in the comments.
Marko
Odd comment, no one is forcing you to comment on him either? Your point?
Banega being touted for 12 mil. That’s a drop in the ocean and could be a very smart buy for us.
Replaces a non-event in Wilshere, as clearly comes as a request of Emery who has worked with him for a while. Spanish speakers throughout the midfield
Banega would make things things interesting in terms of midfield choices.
Would it mean Xhaka, Torreira, Banega, or would Ramsey still be in the midfield and Xhaka misses out?
Ramsey, Torreira, Banega, Xhaka, Maitland Niles is a lot better as midfield options.
We would just be missing a winger and it would be a great summer.
Arsenal
Retirement HomeFootball Club.We are back
Lichtsteiner, Leno, Sokratis, Torreira, Banega, Soyuncu and Pavon or Martins and that is the best summer I can remember as an Arsenal fan
Dissenter Wilshere has said that he had accepted a pay cut in a new contract and decided to leave after meeting the manager and told his playing time would be limited. So a pay check was not on his mind then. Now of course he is in for a jackpot
Kovacic reps informing Madrid he wants to leave due to limited playing time.
Any takers on here?
It’s beginning to look like there will be a clear-out of the midfield.
Ramsey till hasn’t signed an extension too.
He’s going to be leaving as well. The Wenger boys are leaving.
Dissenter
Yea this has the makings of a busy early window, with a big late departure. Rambo seems a possibility.
Think it’s just rumors, but Banega really is uninspiring. Literally cannot remember saying to myself after watching him play “there’s a player I wouldn’t mind having at arsenal”
Banega for 12 million is a snip. Sell rambo buy Banega. Yes please
We have earned this though, all Arsenal fans have suffered in recent times.
Some more than others
We are beginning to look like a top-4 team again
Either way we need an excellent pre-season, get the players in early and have them spend 3-4 weeks with the new manager.
Exciting times ahead.
Jack wilshere rejected by he’s country and now by he’s club. What a overrated British core toilet crap
For those using the failure of the board/owner to act as a means to defend Wenger, I don’t think it would have been nearly as easy as some people say to sack Wenger years ago, the support for him from the majority of the fans was massive until probably 2016. That support has nothing to do with his competence at that point, mind you. Even though a section of the fan base saw through his incompetence since years ago it would still have been unfathomable for an American owner to come in and sack a manager who was widely considered… Read more »
Don and all you down the pub Jack wilshere fans come out and defend him Now??British core crap
No top 6 team in the world would want a shit like wilshere even on a free. From day one he’s a average championship player.
Enjoy your moment Bob, what the fuck will you post now your ex lover has gone ?
Good timing Bob all we need now is Don back. The crazy gang.
The most overrated English player in history of football
If Ramsey does get sold late in the window to balance the books, it really will have been a total revolution and de-Wengerisation at the club over the past year. At the end of the 16/17 season, no-one would have believed that within 13 months Wenger himself, all his back-room dinosaurs, Sanchez, Giroud, Wally, Wilshere, Cazorla, Oxlade, Gibbs, Coquelin, Gabriel, Mertesacker, Debuchy, and Szczesny would ALL have left the club. It truly is a new era at Arsenal.
Jenkinson is still an arsenal player guys. I’m shook
Only a complete spoilt brat would try to paint himself as the victim even though the club stood by him year after year hoping he would turn around form.
” Woe is me, the club left me no choice…”
Twenty seven, millions in the bank and he has the audacity to blame the club?
What about thanking the club?
What a ungrateful little prick.
Bye bye Jack, thanks for the memories.
In all honesty, Jacko’s departure isnt the shock most ppl make it out to be. Despite being injury-free all season, Jacko hasnt really cut the mustard; hasnt made the grade. He doesnt really bring anything special to the table….except of cos, starting a fight.
Bye Jack, but in truth u’ll not really be missed!
The good news just keep rolling in:)
First Leno in then Jack out and now Sampdoria has basically confirmed that Torreira is done too. Why did it take so long to start acting like a proper football club again?
“Don and all you down the pub Jack wilshere fans come out and defend him Now??British core crap”
Just need Jack to take Ramsey, Xhaka, Mustafi, Ozil, Elneny, Jenkinson and Chamber’s with him and the revolution will be really in full swing.
WILSHERE’S TIME AT ARSENAL
Appearances: 150
Premier League appearances: 92
Goals: 14
Premier League goals: 7
I thought Jack’s message was classy and non controversial? It didn’t look like he’s blaming Unai at all. He says he’s leaving for playing time and was ready to take a pay cut. He says it as it is. All are facts.
Akilan
Prepared by his agent no doubt.
He got playing time at Bournemouth and last season.
He wasn’t prepared to stay and fight for his place against much better players and kids coming through.
Let’s see how he does in his next club.
“If Ramsey does get sold late in the window to balance the books, it really will have been a total revolution and de-Wengerisation at the club over the past year.” Just because obviously a lot of people think that Ramsey was a Wenger Yes man, and he was super close and loyal to him. Mind you that he is the one who wrote shambles after Ox left for Pool even if afterwards some story came up. In my eyes he unquestionably purposely played bad in the second leg vs Atleti so that Wenger doesn’t get a royal send off. As… Read more »
On a sidenote: Extremely happy with Leno. Torreira deal looks 99.9% ready but cannot wait for the announcement. Let me hear about the goalscoring winger now. Thank you!
Sidenote 2: Sick and tired of reading about Harry effin Kane and how he wants to be the best and will try to reach Messi, Ronaldo and why not get better than them. Jesus lord almighty. Stop! Enough!
Sidenote 3: If Manure want 100m pounds for a reserve player who didn’t even manage to start half of their games being healthy all season, they are crazy. Martial is a great talent but based on his last seasons should not be worth more than half of the money they are looking for.
Raptora
I wouldn’t call it deluded thinking. Creative perhaps.
My problem with Ramsey is he never replicated his great goal scoring stand out season and his positional discipline.
Maybe has a great engine but also injury prone that will get worse with his age and not a player we need to build a team around.
Ditto Ozil and Xhaka
We just have to wait to se what Emery has in his locker and how it all fits together with the incoming players as well as more game time for Nelson, AM-N and others.
So with Leno, Sokratis and Torreira our spending is up to around £60m before sales. If we can sell Ospina, Mustafi or Chambers and Welbeck that makes it a net spend of around 10 million. Next priority for me is a goalscoring winger. Then another CM. Feel we should only bring in another CB if it’s a clear upgrade on what we have, not sure Soyuncu is that, especially at the mooted price. If we can get Gelson Martins on a free/cheap it would be great, think it’s to our advantage that we were interested in him before his trouble… Read more »
” There are only two African teams at the World Cup . Senegal and Nigeria. ”
North Africa is Africa, whether you like it or not !
The only reason Kroenke stopped backing wenger ,
He looked around at our rivals and saw them selling players for 100 million + while still having one or two 100 million plus players in their squad .
Arsenal was bleeding money and not performing on the pitch as well.
As for Wilshere, overrated and not built for the top tier of the league .
Cazorla ,diaby bring out the best in the other players , Wilshere plays for himself .
Always been average ,forever average.
7 goals in 135 appearances says it all.
Victorious
One question.
When did you start supporting Arsenal?
Victorious
You don’t seem to comprehend the true core values of the club, infact any club for that matter.
Is that because you decided one day to pick Arsenal as your team because of a certain individual?
Wenger did not make Arsenal FC.
Arsenal FC made Arsene Wenger.
That’s not taking a “pot shot”.
That’s stating a fact.
I’m starting to warm to Emery…although the resigning of Xhaka and keeping Bould is weird, the sacking of Jack is very nice.
Lichtsteiner and Sokratis are a bit underwhelming but I get the methodology behind it. I just hope he manages to shift a few more on and redifine Arsenal’s playing philosophy.
Getting rid of Jack has made my morning. I’ve never rated him and never liked him. An angry lad who could never accept himself for himself.
Next: Iwobi and Elneny. I know we are stuck with that amphibious looking motherfucker but hey…jacks gone!!!
Arsenal fans crying that we’ve become too ruthless with these (necessary) cuts are a snapshot of what we’ve become over the last 10 years. Weak, feeble and happy to ccept anything given. Its not a popularity contest, this is a results based business. Jack didnt deliver.
Its the same with this whole rewriting history in regards to Giroud since he left. He was a decent option to have but not one who we needed to challenge for major honours. He served us well – lets not make it more than that.
Attempts are being made to fix the gaping holes we have in the squad, nice and early aswell.
No talk about two or three top quality signings. None of our intelligence being insulted with quotes that the transfer business doesn’t occur till the end of the window.
Get the players in now, let them bed in and lets hit the ground running. If we don’t start well at least it won’t be through a lack of thorough preparation.
“I’m starting to warm to Emery…although the resigning of Xhaka and keeping Bould is weird, the sacking of Jack is very nice.” agreed but I think xhaka is a money thing think they must be being smart …sign him up to a long term and get some of that horrendously overpriced 35 million back if he shows even a little at the world cup but to be honest from what I saw same old xhaka(total shite) can only hope the same applies to elneny no time for Iwobi either “amphibious looking motherfucker ” which one ? cut welbeck , iwobi,… Read more »
Shaun gets it.
utd can have wilshere. we’ve been taking their duds for too long, about time they took one from us…
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-asia-44492611
ffs Japan. making us look Like fools again…
Good week. Welcome Leno.
Its better for everyone if Jack leaves. We should have moved him on 12 months ago for whatever fee we could have got. More money thrown down the drain by Wenger on his way out. Stuck with Mkhitariyan and wasted wages on Ozil. Just a few more years to wait out until the lingering effects of Wenger’s reign.
Next couple of years we will be out of the top 4, but I am confident that we will be back in a few years. Look forward to the new journey.
Qna
To be out of the top four for a “few years” will be devastating. However, that’s where we are. I’m not sure Emery will have a few years to get it right but at least we are trying to address our glaring issues.
We badly need a couple of beast midfielders to match the beat in the league. A proper winger might be nice as well.
Ozil’s wages are basically tying up potentially three players at £100k pw. Imagine that. Fucking Wenger and his bullshit.
wilshere < welbeck and if anyone knows me, they know I dislike welbeck as a footballer so much, it boils my blood that he's still in the squad…
Shit, forgot about welbeck. Get that weapon gone as well.
“that amphibious looking motherfucker”
lol
What a great summer this turning out to be.
It may go tits up but that’s better than KNOWING it will go tits up.
Can anyone else see the irony , jack is leaving because he won’t be playing regularly. .
He ain’t been playing regularly for years.
I’m in a minority I’m sure but this u r gay guy is tiny. Like really tiny. I know Kante isn’t a monster but this lad is diminutive.
Let’s hope he’s a positional master because muscling players, he won’t do.
“jack is leaving because he won’t be playing regularly.”
And maybe also because we refused to give him the same “kind” of salary than Ozil ??
“that amphibious looking motherfucker” roflmao Wilshere gone feels good man. Cannot wait for the moment we will be a proper team where if you are not a good, healthy footballer you have no place at our club. Things looking better and better. Jeez… It kind of feels like we are opening our eyes for the first time in 10 years ( last 10 years of the Wenger era) after a deep, deep, winter dream of some sorts. I will never be able to forgive him the time of our lives as supporters that he wasted. If he was a proper… Read more »
New post.
“you literally have to beat him with a cricket bat , piss on him then spit at him before he see’s sense , why is it these people can’t see the obvious”
Shaun , you made me laugh with this… harsh but so true