No sooner had I posted yesterday, than the announcement that Sokratis had landed as our brand spanking new defender.
What a day.
The 29-year-old has come in from Dortmund for £16m. He’ll bring leadership, fear, and prison yard bully-boy tactics to the dressing room. He’s so scary, he already has Aubameyang calling him Papa online. Total and utter dominance of other men is quite the skill.
I’d still quite like to see another young centre-back coming in. Someone with a touch more experience than Holding and Chambers. I’m not sure where the deal for Soyoncu has gone, but you’d imagine after the retirement of Per Mertesacker and the horrible injury of Koscielny, it’ll be something that’s top of mind.
I was also mulling over the new deals for Chambers and Xhaka. I know there’s a lot of love in the fanbase for both, but I’ve always been under the impression that they’re lacking in the pace department. Odd deals, but I guess you just have to trust in the new process.
The deal for Torreira has yet to happen, but I guess with Uraguay still firmly in the World Cup, it’ll be at least another week.
Mesut Ozil has finally picked up the number 10 of Jack Wilshere, which means he’s certainly playing an important role next season.
The other deal that’s still on the table is the Aaron Ramsey one. We’re pushing into ‘OH GOD NO PLEEEEASE SIGN DA TING’… you’d have to imagine there’s a deadline on this. No way we can let him head into the last year of his deal. According to rumour, he’s been rejecting deals like bad swipes on Tinder. As I mentioned before, his agent will be pushing for Ozil like money, because why not? He’s the best performer at the club. However, you can see it from the clubs perspective. You can’t level out that sort of money on a player who goes missing with injury… that said, you have Mesut who goes missing in big games and on random holidays when the going gets tough.
Tough times.
At least we know he’ll be floated out the back door if he doesn’t decide to stay on. We’re in a ruthless regime now. Though I do wonder what you do if he says he doesn’t want to leave? Do you threaten him with U23 football all year? That’d be mean. Let’s see where this goes, I don’t like the ‘he’s waiting to see what the squad looks like’ banter.
England is up a bit later this afternoon. We saw Belgium beat Japan after going 2-0 down. A lot of talk of Belgium being frauds, but the boys stepped up in the end and kept the flicker of the golden generation dream World Cup win alive. I love how the internet has rallied against people calling out Lukaku for lacking intelligence. It’s amusing to now watch it go the other way, people clamouring to be the first to congratulate him on intelligently passing the ball 3 yards into space. It was a lovely dummy for the final goal yesterday, but the genius post-rationalization commenatary is a bit much.
I also have to say, regardless of the ‘I need to be offended’ brigade online, the idea that it’s now a bit racist to comment on a player’s physical stature or attributes is next level. Sport, literally the one living in the world where being a genetic freak is exactly what lands you big dollars, is largely down to your power and pace. You think Per Mertesacker is making £90k a week if he’s 5ft5? You think Aaron Ramsey is anywhere near the Premier League without the engine he has?
I appreciate there are levels to this, and it’s certainly nuanced, but I think we lose our damn minds sometimes.
Right, England up in 4 hours, see you in the comments!
x
I reckon we sell auba and laca to fund Ronaldo transfer
(but someone told me that we’re gonna have to sell, in fact, the whole squad + the stadium, so it’s definitely a big f*ucking NO!!)
“my opinion and I may be wrong but I don’t see Harry Kane as world class.”
104 goals in the last 3 seasons, come off it.
Raptora,
It looks like Real are trying to offload Ronaldo. Bale is staying it seems. If that is the case he will have to leave. Juventus may not be able to afford him, but someone might.(Bayern, manutd)
If we were a CL club, dare I say we could have been a decent shout as well.
For that, we must get back to the good old days of the “I almost signed list”.
Highbury,
The rumoured transfer fee is 120m Euros, which roughly translates to 106m pounds. Sell Ramsey,
and lacazette, we should be able to cover him. Its his wages that’ll be a problem. Even that can be managed.
It’s actually convincing him to join an Europa league club. No way he goes from winning the cl to scrapping for a cl spot.
Interesting to see the training video Arsenal released yesterday.
The first time in years and years that ive seen Energy, Noise and Demands being made of players on the training ground.
Wenger used to just stand there in silence.
Spending £100m on a 33 year old Ronaldo is absolute madness.
Wenger used to just stand there in silence.’
Disagree.
‘Spending £100m on a 33 year old Ronaldo is absolute madness.’
Hugely Disagree.
As u were then
gambon
which part of “my opinion” do you not understand ? the “my” or the “opinion” part ?
The other thing that surprised me was seeing Carl Jenkinson back at the club and happy to see Lucas Perez back in training, one of many players that deserved more game time but were snubbed by Wenger.
Gambon,
33 years old or not, he’s still the best/2nd best player in the world.
And physically speaking, he’s still better than many top players at their prime. I bet he still runs more than 10km a game. Never gets injured.
Just signing him takes us from contenders/outsiders for top 4 to one of the favourites for the title.
Anyway he won’t come to us. Juventus lucked out again. If they sign him, they may actually win the big ears.
Funny that some bloke on the internet see the potential spending of 100M on Ronaldo as ‘madness’ while top professionals running the club business for long are currently sitting with Ronnie’s agent in an attempt to trash out a deal..eh I quite know whose likely to be talking shite here, don’t i Juventus have wiped the floor with all domestic trophies in Italy but continues to be severe bottlers in the CL,seems they see CR7 has a player even with his best years seemingly behind as someone who could potentially hand them that elusive trophy hence y it could be… Read more »
‘Spending £100m on a 33 year old Ronaldo is absolute madness.’ Ronaldo as it is, will instantly become the best player in the EPL and score something like 30 goals in the EPL alone. Guy is a beast. People thought that a 35 yo Ibra would be a failure, Ronaldo is much, much better player than the Swede. He will score twice as much as say Lukaku if Manure get him. In all honesty why would he go to Juve if Manure would always want him and he would want them back?! Also gambon, you know that some players make… Read more »
The merchandising point alone makes sense Raptora.
ronaldo has been playing in 5th gear for the past couple seasons. he’s body is going to break down anytime soon. But every transfer is a gamble and if he stays fit for 2/3 of the season, don’t see why he can’t score 30+ goals
“Wenger used to just stand there in silence.’
Disagree.”
lol good old vicuntious.
Tony D
Yes there are material changes to staff in First Team Squad and also in Academy. That was frankly long overdue.
The one position which has not been replaced sofar is that of Colin Lewin. One
assumes that he will be replaced before start of season as his role in medical team is critical.
Ah, the “he’ll sell 100m worth of shirts, so the buying club will make their money back” myth.
That’s not how shirt sales work.
Manure have a stacked squad. They are trying to offload Martial. Lukaku & Sanchez have been there for 1 season or less and they’re not getting offloaded. Then there is the Mou factor. Ronaldo and Mou don’t get along and may even hate each other. Liverpool, city and spurs have stacked squads and have to offload players who performed magnificently in Mane, Sane & son, which may disrupt their squad. Only Arsenal and Chelsea have a place in their starting XI for Ronaldo. But we lack the cl and pulling power to interest Ronaldo. Bayern have their fair share of… Read more »
Re the merchandise sales point, remember that clubs make virtually nothing from shirt sales (other than those sold through their club shops). The agreements with kit manufacturers are licensing deals, where the licensee buys the rights to produce and sell kits, and reap any profits. You think Nike, Adidas etc are paying a club £50m+ for an annual licence fee and then sharing revenue / profits? No chance. Any benefit would be in being able to negotiate higher future kit licensing deals on the back of a raised profile, but if you’re buying a player who’s nearly 34, can you… Read more »
Elmo,
Spot on.
Every year we hear the ‘Ronaldo to leave Madrid’ stories and it never happens. Why do you reckon it’ll be any different this time around?
Jamie, please read my comment again though. I said merchandise as a whole, not shirts alone. Even though clubs like Real M, Barcelona and Manure can anually realistically sell say 1.5 – 2 million shirts and make a profit of around 15 € a shirt. That is close to 30m € per year year. According to Marca, 40% out of Real Madrid’s shirts were Ronaldo’s. That’s more than 10m € from shirts alone. It’s not bad tbh. Then you add all the ad contracts which will surely rise if you have Ronaldo in your team. It adds pretty significantly imo.… Read more »
raptora,
With respect, your understanding of merchandising is deeply flawed.
For starters, you don’t need to buy a ‘Ronaldo’ shirt, you can buy a blank one and add whatever letters you choose to the back of it, paying by the letter.
The sponsors take the lion’s share of merchandising revenue. Your numbers are way, way off in terms of what clubs receive from sales.
Well I used this https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-Real-Madrid-made-%C2%A380-million-back-on-Ronaldos-transfer-fee-by-just-selling-his-shirts for info and it says that 8 years ago clubs were making 12 € a shirt. Regardless of shirts though, you’ve got to put the fans added in perspective as well though. Those kids that might become say Arsenal fans because of a flair player, and Ronaldo is one for sure, could be fans for their whole lives, add their kids to the equation and you’ll surely see it that a 100m for a player like Ronaldo at 33 yo is a top deal for any “top” team. Ronaldo would pick where to go since… Read more »
For all the negativity about Arsenal and its players, which are regularly posted on Le Grove the club has made significant and strategic changes to the squad since January. Sofar we have recruited 6 new players plus the anticipated arrival of Torreira. In January we recruited Aubameyang, Mkhitaryan and Mavropanos. The first two are almost certainly starting X1 players. Since the opening of transfer window we have recruited a starting eleven goalkeeper in Leno, centre back in Sokratis and a back up right back in Lichsteiner. Torreira will add some mobility and structure to the midfield when and if he… Read more »
Pretty sure that most fans, bar the ones living in the area of the club’s football stadium, connect themselves to a certain player. Happened to our dads and to us (I’m 30 yo). No DB10 and I’d be supporting another team. Not that I’ve put that much money in the club, but certainly a lot of people have, including tickets, merchandise, official club membership, online clicks. Heard that celebrities like Kim Kardashian, Ariana Grande etc, make 200k per post on Instagram or Twitter. It’s because people like us click the Arsenal photo/news. Flair players are the biggest magnet to new… Read more »
Raptora
Forget the idea of Ronaldo. We are not going to spend the transfer fee and financial package on a 33 year old.
If you want to blow your entire transfer budget on a single player then you go
after someone like Mbappe. Sadly it would take Arsenal three summer transfer windows to afford him without buying anyone else.
Raptora,
I take your point about the ‘value’ of signing marquee players, but the direct revenue clubs receive from merchandising (even over a prolonged period) is negligible compared to the the kinds of transfer fees we’re seeing these days.
Elmo summed it up nicely above.
ES,
Obviously that Ronaldo to Arsenal wouldn’t happen. Mostly because the player would want a close to guaranteed on the pitch success. We look pretty far from that definition.
From a financial point, I’m pretty sure that we can afford him with the couple of sales. Regardless it’s never going to happen so no need to keep talking about it.
Atm I’m pretty sure that Ronaldo will stay in Madrid because we’ve already seen this movie before.
My 9 year old son wanted a Laca shirt and CR7 boots I had to have brought over from the UK. So it’s not just shirts. My son also read online something about Ronaldo shin pads and asked me to find out about them. Not sure how image rights work in sport but I know players want a % in their contracts. I’d be surprised if a buying club doesn’t get anything of a players image rights, such as posters and DVDs. There is a lot of branding going on with so many products these days. I’d still maintain that… Read more »
Elmo
I doubt that even the Agnelli family are going to invest in Ronaldo. He is an
exceptional player, but at 33 with a very limited time frame.
Such players make only sense if you are paying their financial package on
short term contract without paying a transfer fee as well.
I don’t see any major club in Europe spending £80-100 Million transfer fee for
this player.
However I agree the hope we’d have of landing Ronaldo are Bob & none.
TonyD
Similar to raptora, and respectfully, you’re conflating merchandising with other performance-related revenue, either from competition prize money, to sponsorship.
Read through some Swiss Ramble articles about the merchandising revenue of the top clubs.
This Ronaldo story is crazy. Soon it will become same as Bayern Robbery story. Glimpses of briliance throughout season but no consistency. Good work on RM pr if they sell him now 100+ mil.
Honestly if Ronaldo is going anywhere PSG makes perfect sense as well as Manure.
Real want Neymar so a switch involving Real paying good money on top would be ideal for both teams.
PSG get a player of Ronaldo’s stature in their seek to build a bigger fanbase while balancing their financial fairplay budget. For a Neymar who is supposedly seeking the move to Real anyways.
Raptora – this is most sensible scenario i read about Ronaldo transfer.
If Im correct PSG still owe 180mil to Monaco for Mbappe couse they loaned him 1st season so they wouldnt breach FPP?
Who cares about the FFP anyway lol ??
Who cares about the FFP anyway lol ??
Wenger and arsenal fans… duh…
HL – its laughable how easy is to circumvent FFP, transfer of Neymar is best example but still with these exorbitant spending big clubs have to put it in balance. PSG put 380m worth of talent in their attack in Neymar and Mbappe alone. They have Cavani too. For them it would make alot of sense trading Neymar 4 ronaldo. PSG is loaded, in Ronaldo they would get even more good PR, get rid of bigger primadonna then Ronaldo himself and if played right financially Ronaldo would cost them nothing bar his wages couse i suspect they could rob RM… Read more »
Did any of you lot watch the Uruguay match? Ronaldo was useless, he looked exhausted in the 2nd half.
Which ever way you spin it, he’s still a 33 year old athlete.
He might score goals but he’s too old to handle the premier league.
Let’s set this straight. Footballers are absolutely not athletes. Not even close.
If you watch any football match, within 30 seconds you will see a footballer sweating like a nonce in a lineup and gassing like they’ve been deprived of oxygen for 5 mins.
Athletes? No. They look buff but don’t be fooled into thinking this equates to fitness.
“don’t be fooled into thinking this equates to fitness”
Just like Rafa Nadal !!
Sorry, couldn’t resist lol
(hate him)
Eh people sweat it happens and some of these guys play 50/60+ matches a year while a runner might have two competitive races a year. They’re certainly athletes. You can question if they’re as atletic as say a tennis player that’s fine
HL
Nadal’s left arm looks like Quagmire’s (Family Guy) after he discovered internet porn.
Said the same for a 35 yo Ibrahimovic. In the 27 EPL games that he started – 17 goals, 5 assists. In Europa League 9 games as a starter – 5 goals, 3 assists. Total of 36 games played, 22 goals, 8 assists, 8 MotM. A 33 yo Ronaldo in La Liga, UCL and WC: 44 games, 45 goals, 8 assists, 12 MotM Guy scoring multiple goals vs each of Juventus, Atleti, Tottenham, PSG, Borussia Dortmund, Sevilla, Barcelona, Valencia — THIS SEASON!!! would not handle the Premier League. He was in 11 game scoring run in the UCL this season.… Read more »
Stroller In general, I’d agree. Juve are a savvy club and £100m for a 33.5 year old doesn’t make sense for a club that has to base their CL competitiveness on outperforming the spendthrift moneybags clubs in the transfer window. In this case, though, Juve have been desperately trying to get over the line and win the CL for a number of years; they consider themselves to have a mature, stacked team and Allegri is hanging around purely for the CL. If Ronaldo could come in and add that little extra to get them there, while also weakening a major… Read more »
Marko
Tennis players are so much fitter than a footballer. Some matches can go on for upwards of four/five hours. The majority of football matches last 90 mins with a max of two hours.
Let’s remember that a tennis player is one v one. No places to hide when tired.
To suggest that a runner only runs competitively twice a year means you don’t watch athletics. They run, throw, jump etc pretty much all year. They have their own league.
Footballers are buff idiots with hairless bodies.
Guedes and Lozano linked with Pavon apparently staying at Boca Juniors
Footballers are buff idiots with hairless bodies.
That is mostly true
Before Bayern Munich and Pool on the semis and final where he didn’t score he was in a run of 25 goals in 15 games in the UCL not scoring in 1 of the 15 games. He is not getting younger and I don’t doubt that he is not the same Ronaldo as before because he obviously changed his style, but those stats are for UCL group stages and KO rounds from the last year or so. If he remains healthy I know who I would put my money for top goalscorer in the EPL if he was to come.
Every player hits a wall eventually and ronaldo will hit his very soon. Spending that kind of money for a 2 year return is crazy.
Guns of Hackney
“Let’s set this straight. Footballers are absolutely not athletes. Not even close.”
That has to be the least sensible thing you’ve posted here.
The average distance covers per player, per game in the premier league is eight miles.
The average distance run in training daily is about four miles for every player.
Sum that up for the season
Footballers are not athletes?
Conte is a classless idiot.
Everyone knows the game he’s playing, yet h doesn’t seem to clear.
He’s determined to get Chelsea to fire him and he’s acting as crassly as possible to make it happen.
lol GoH, excellent, and so true!! 🙂
Goh-“sweating like a nonce in a lineup”-hilarious.lol!
Dissenter
Oh come on…I’ve said much dumber things that that!
8 Miles is nothing. Honestly, look at footballers dripping around the pitch and looking like they are underwater. Even after the game during the interview…which takes place minutes after, they are still blowing hard and sweating like an Uber driver.
Hairless wankers.
I don’t even think a Chinese club can offer £88million for Ronaldo.
No £33 year old should cost that much money.
Uwot?
I’ve got loads of ‘sweats like’…
Alas, 99% I can’t write here.
Ronaldo sells shirts. The Asians love that bullshit. Add the Man Yoo connection and I reckon they’d make their cash back.
Is the Ronaldo thing real or is he trying for yet another pay raise? How many do those two get a year…?
Footballers are amongst the best conditioned athletes in the world.
“Footballers are amongst the biggest pussies in the world”
Rkn Ronaldo may go Juve.. ego point maybe re perez ‘ derisive ‘he says that every year.>!!) haha
, and even if differnt htan such – as well or solely perhaps maybe great ‘career move’ in context .. if Italian league slower than Spanish..
Juve status as been said.. possible ecl
Hackney, I’d love to hear your opinion on cricketers.
Rambo
Cricketers are tubby bastards.
There was a famous sledge once from an Aussie to a Sri Lankan. I’m paraphrasing but it was something like “he hasn’t run all day…throw a mars bar on the wicket and see if he’ll run for that”.
Golfers are soft in the middle windbags.
Fishermen are mostly nonces.
Darts players have bad haircuts and lack vitamin D.
So who are top athletes then Guns?
You are becoming the new Redtruth.
Very angry since your hero Arteta was snubbed.
Gambon
Don’t lump me in with that twat.
Fittest.
Biathletes.
Grand Tour Cyclists.
Any runner at 1500m and up.
WWE wrestlers.
Real Athletes ie Decathlon.
Now, I appreciate all of the above are mostly on the juice but…it’s still pretty hard to ride a bike up a mountain.
Arteta came to me in a dream last night and said “I’ll be Arsenal manager in 2 years”. I cried and changed out his Lego hair for a ponytail. Weird dream.
Biathletes.
Grand Tour Cyclists.
Any runner at 1500m and up.
WWE wrestlers.
Real Athletes ie Decathlon.
Brilliant
Lol what is this shit, if you can’t beat them then sign them?
Juventus have a screw loose paying 100m for a 33 year old Ronaldo. He’s a player you have to build the team around too. They’re just desperate for that CL win from the looks of it haha.
RM- Neymar looking inevitable now.
I hope Neymar likes pork! Didn’t they have pig’s heads thrown on the pitch to greet Figo when he returned to the Nou Camp? (or was it at the Bernabeu?)
For Neymar, this is not just about money… it’s about winning the Balon d’Or.
Could just as well sign Hazard but doesn’t feel like a huge enough name to carry the Real Madrid brand forward.
Perez doesn’t roll like that.
If Neymar does go to Real Madrid, no one will be breathing with relief more than the Spurs. They’ll get to keep him for one more season.
In the form he is in and if he wins the Golden Boot, Harry Kane is easily a £200m player at the moment.
*the Spurs hierarchy
Will it be Neymar and Icardi for Madrid?
No way they can bring in Neymar and Kane in the same window, it sounds ridiculous but that is £500-600 Million just with those two.
CA Don’t see Kane ending up at RM personally, think he’ll end up at United or even Citeh possibly. Whereas since Neymar was at Santos as a teen it’s seemed like an inevitability that he will end up at Real Madrid one day. It actually surprised me when Barcelona beat them to the punch, he’s never struck me as a Barcelona type player. But he benefited massively from playing by Messi’s side for 4 years and improved dramatically as a player. The PSG move I think most recognised was just an attempt to dilute the fan revolt of joining Real… Read more »
http://dailycannon.com/2018/07/as-good-as-a-fact-lucas-torreiras-father-speaks-out-over-arsenal-move/
Good news… shame they didn’t want to get the medical done and dusted… I would feel a lot better if Torreia was done and dusted.
Kane just isn’t marketable. I mean, look at him.
Ha or listen to him.
Guns
It’s not what he looks like it’s when he opens his mouth.
The guy’s a complete fucking mong.
WE
Shit, I know…I thought I’d left the engine running but it turned out to be him struggling to string two words together. Painful. You could almost hear the IQ draining out of him.
Him at Real would be a PR disaster. Not happening in a million years. Foreign teams are so much more sophisticated than the British.
Kane is seriously annoying with his multiple interviews saying the same thing over and over again. Ye, he’s a spud but even if he was an Arsenal player, I’d have enough of him. Holy balls. Not even remotely likeable in my books.
Marc
See my comment to WE. He makes Rio Ferdinand sound like Henry Kissinger.
If Lucas Torreira is brought in soon, we’ll have basically transformed our team’s spine in one transfer window… before August! New GK, new CB, new DM…
So much for Wenger’s repeated assertions year after that it was difficult to sign players… it’s amazing what can be done if you have a plan! The truth is Wenger didn’t want to sign players because he didn’t want to put the work in to a market he clearly didn’t understand.
Will Harry Kane score a goal that isn’t a penalty?
I mean I wouldn’t pay 88 million for him but in this market where shite players cost 35 million pounds why not. And playing in Italy would probably get him another 3 years at the top. Be interesting to see how Madrid replace him though. Hazard seems too bland and boring to me I mean don’t get me wrong he’s good but he doesn’t score near enough. Neymar and Icardi or Lewandowski seems about right. But the question is how do we continue our summer. Torreira is certain as is the prospect of ANOTHER midfielder and CB. Almost certain to… Read more »
roflmao GoH
That lanky Columbian, Pena? The CB…he looked the nuts. What’s his angle?
So much for Wenger’s repeated assertions year after that it was difficult to sign players…
Not just Wenger Leeds we heard all the lemmings that supported him and untold speak how it wasn’t easy it’s not like buying a loaf of bread and it’s not like playing football manager and people who criticised him should still to PlayStation. Heard all the excuses and the second he’s gone and we have a team in place we’re acting like a proper football club and treating the transfer market with respect
Mina, the CB is called Mina. Rumours are Barca might have to off load him because they have too many non Spanish players on their books… I wouldn’t mind him at Arsenal. The boy is 23? He has a great leap too!
Lewandowski is 30 and he would be a man signing just as Hazard would from a RM pov post Ronaldo. Underwhelming in the CL and for Poland in Cup competitions and they could give a hairy waffle about him scoring for fun in the Bundesliga. Icardi isn’t even at that level yet in my book and would also be bland. It’s only really Neymar that stands out as a Ronaldo replacement or M’Bappe, don’t see PSG as quick to give up the latter personally being French and 19 with sky high potential to be one of the best strikers we’ve… Read more »
*would be a meh signing
I was with you until this … “WWE wrestlers” LOL! Are you taking the piss? No mention of UFC or boxers in your elite athlete list yet you mention a bunch of steroid filled, bloated qu ## r boys. Are you serious!? This has to be some serious trolling going on here … Talking of distance running though, I watched a YouTube video not long ago, they were pulling a treadmill around NY City trying to get people to run at the same pace as the Boston Marathon winner. The upshot was, he ran the 26.2 miles at an average… Read more »
Leeds
Thanks. Mina. I thought he looked really good. Great on the ball, scores goals and looked really composed. I liked him. The stand out in that dire Columbia team.
Dare I say it but he reminded me of Rijkaard.
Goh
Hahaha yeah can’t see Perez being thrilled to have to arm himself with a brolly everytime he wants a word with his new Ronaldo in ‘Arry boy.
Wonder if they would make it mandatory in his contract that he either just communicated via sign language or must be armed with a spit bucket at all times and maintain a 5 foot distance.
Hackney is absolutely taking the piss that’s what he does. Get insomnia back on here and with him and Hackney you’d have no reason to go to the movies anymore. It’d be comedic gold round here
actually 100m for a 2 year return is not bad. given today’s market we have to splash min 50 m for a decent talent.
TBM
Of course it was a joke…
As for the cyclists, yes they are almost certainly doped, however…you still have to churn those pedals at altitude up really, really steep mountains.
A bit like your treadmill story…have you ever seen a pro cyclist go up hill? TV actually doesn’t do it justice. 15mph uphill or around 20kph. Let’s just say that’s the average for most okay cyclists on the flat. It’s honestly mind bending when you see it live.
Insomnia was a funny fucker, Irish as well IIRC.
“Wonder if they would make it mandatory in his contract that he either just communicated via sign language or must be armed with a spit bucket at all times and maintain a 5 foot distance.”
Maybe this is the real reason Arsenal let him go?. 😉
Very very funny. Hats off to you WE.
Marko
Sometimes it gets so heavy on here…we all need to remember to have a laugh.