ARSENAL JUST SIGNED TORREIRA!
Emery said this:
“In Lucas Torreira, we have signed a young player who is a very bright talent in the game. A midfielder with great quality, I have enjoyed watching his performances for Sampdoria in the past two seasons, and we all saw him do very well for Uruguay in the World Cup. He is a young player already with good experience, but who wants to keep on growing. We welcome Lucas to Arsenal and look forward to him joining us soon for pre-season.”
Finally, a DM that has the potential to dominate our midfield for years to come!
I can jump into commentary like this:
Because ‘garra charrua’ means that we give all we have inside. We give all we have to our football, our jersey and our country. We do our best because every time we enter the pitch we represent our family and friends, the most important people for us.
You’ve all been there, you’re 8 years old, you’ve just scored a 20-yard own goal, you’ve let your mates down in the cup final, you know your lunch money is going to be taken for the next three years, but your dad is there…
‘Son, fuck what they think, you could be the next Ian Wright, you have the talent’
Kind of felt like that moment was happening listening to Arsene Wenger talk about West Ham’s Jack Wilshere.
“Jack Wilshere is a playmaker,”
“He is a bit of a Messi type. He makes me think about Mbappe because I played him at 17 years of age because he was an exceptional talent.
“Unfortunately he has been stopped very early by big injuries to his ankle, and I believe that now he’s come out of it. He’s an exceptional player — he can pass people, he can give a final ball, he has a fantastic football brain.
I’m not sure even if you were squinting through a prism of rose after 6 bottles of wine you could draw those comparisons, but hey, there we are. It’s sweet that Wenger is still gunning hard for the players who didn’t quite cut it under him.
Gary O’D, from the Arsenal Medical Services team, announced that Chris Morgan was joining the backroom team. He comes over from Crystal Palace after 2 years service as Head of Physiotherapy.
‘Huge welcome to Chris Morgan who has joined the First Team as our Head Physiotherapist. Chris has come from Crystal Palace where he was Head of Physiotherapy for the last 2 years. Chris also held the same post at Liverpool for eleven years so brings a wealth of experience to us.’
BIG MOVE there son. I don’t know how you write about someone like this, but I thought this farewell not from Liverpool when he left them said a lot.
“Chris is someone who commands the professional respect and personal warmth of the first-team players and all his colleagues at Melwood.
“The dedication and commitment he has shown to Liverpool, over a long period, has been immense. His expertise and experience has rightly gained him industry-wide recognition.
“We thank Chris for his considerable contribution and everyone at the club wishes him success for the future.”
Apparently, Stevie G mentioned him a whole bunch in his book, I’d imagine because he spent a lot of time putting him together again (the piece here). Anyway, I’m sure he’s very good. Arsenal has a very talented bunch of people in that backroom team. I think they’ve been unfairly critiqued over the years with ignorant opinions about how injuries happen and how you should prevent them. Good luck to him, he’s certainly got a lighter workload after some of the exits this last year!
I still think the club might try and sign a wide player before the window shuts. I’d love it if we dropped some dime for Dembele on loan, but as Matt said on the podcast last night, that’s a banter era move for a club trying to show off its elite wings this season.
Right, that’s me done.
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Dear Arsenal,
Thank you for getting our transfers in early. Amazing when you have a plan and are prepared, huh? I’m very excited for the season ahead. Keep it up!
One last thing, please get us a scoring winger… or two. That would be perfect.
Again, good work!
Eagle, that’s a start. Best start watching 6 hour videos of Cricket too. Else I’m protesting the discrimination.
“Hypothetically speaking”
England have not really played that well but they have got the job done. The quality of their play is irrelevant as no one was shouting when Portugal bored their way to a European crown just two years ago. I am going to watch the game today just like i did the one last night..i have no dog in this fight. Victorious and Dissenter …i can see there is definitely beef between you two, like i said and i always keep saying it wouldn’t kill you to be nice to someone even if you disagree. Victorious your language and some… Read more »
Leeds
Dont forget……its impossible to sign players in a world cup year.
Impossible.
No idea how we’ve done it.
Corluka is SHIT and Croatia’s defence is a major weakness,no really outstanding player in that department to hold it together,which you have to favour them doing considering England’s major threats are from set pieces
But what they don’t have in defense they more than make up in midfield and attack where England doesn’t come close
“Although Gambon trying to pass off his comment as a joke does not fool me, he has used this Nigerian scam thing more than once, it was no joke.”
Send me a cheque for £10,000 and I will explain what i meant.
Haha lest not forget that the < 3 player signing rule was the funniest Wenger cop out in transfer season, which he broke multiple times himself in recent seasons most memorably in the post selling Fabregas and Nasri trolley-dash.
Better even than the insistence on only buying 'super super super quality' players only to subsequently pass on Eden Hazard for Gervinho…
Vic
Mandzukic needs to show up big time tonight, having a shite tourney so far.
Croatia have a WC player in Modric and a decent supporting cast in midfield but that’s it.
Their attack is average and their defence is suspect at best. In my mind, England hold advantages there.
As for GK? England has a rising star in its ranks. Subasic is fair but no superstar.
As long as the English lads don’t let the occasion get to their heads and play their game they’ll be ok.
4-1 to England.
Come on England, you can do it!
Sanmi, I’ve yet to meet a Liberal that is consistent in putting to practice what they preach.
Hypocrites who out their true color at the slightest provocation is what they are.
England will cede possession, and play on counters. That might suit them but sterling is shit.
Llingard will have no say today, all will depend on Alli and Kane plus trippier.
Kramaric is a good footballer. Quality combination player in the #10 zone. Wonder if someone like Rebic can time his run because Stones does leave space behind him.
Marcus Berg wasn’t quick enough to exploit the gaps.
Yet another player signs for us. I wonder how we managed to get all these new players in – moreso in a World Cup year!
I’m beginning to get hopeful (subdued, anyway) and I’ll be going to the pre-season at Borehamwood even though the big guns won’t be there.
gambon
I know.
Amazing that Sven, Raul and Ivan are at Arsenal at all… you know doing work that they are paid for. Signing players, training the first team… what incredible bores!
Why aren’t they on the beach playing beach volleyball? Or pontificating on French TV about oil prices?
” Well my decision to either stay or go is not detremental to the club or the players”
Dopey sod!
Of course it was.
People’s true colors always shine through. You could tell reading Victorious’ posts that he was at best a very angry guy or at worst an utter idiot.
“I’m beginning to get hopeful (subdued, anyway) and I’ll be going to the pre-season at Borehamwood even though the big guns won’t be there.”
They say he is going with most of the senior players..at least that is the rumor online
“They say he is going with most of the senior players..at least that is the rumor online”
That’d be fantastic! It’s so hard to get used to this new life at Arsenal 🙂
RR
The reason for the inconsistency is the fact that their beliefs are based on feelings which change from time to time.
and the politicians needing votes, just give them wahtever they want. whivh no one really care about until ofcos they started infringing on everyone elses’ lives. labelling anyone that disagrees as Nazis, xenophobes, racists etc
Then real folks started fighting back which led to Trump and now the #walkaway movement.
Tits McGee
XENOPHOBIC CHAP.
Shame he’s bringing the tone of the blog down.
Be careful what you wish for… we were told year after year… by Wenger and his supporters.
So? How do you like it?
It’s early days to be sure, but let me tell you, I love it!
Good to see the Arsenal acting like a football club again.
Up the Arsenal!
Receding
I’m sure you know English humor is very difficult to get. I still get lost when Pedro starts slamming banter with very salty language. It’s not my style.
It’s a bit of how they Irish can take mickeys out of one another.
We need some self-deprecation to get by, that’s why that 419-talk never gets under my skin.
James Wood
Do you know a xenophobe when you see one?
Sanmi Do you
He seems to dislike the English posters on here.
Or are you a bit blinkered when it suits.
If you have been reading on here(and you have)
you must have seen his posting”.?
“That’d be fantastic! It’s so hard to get used to this new life at Arsenal :-)”
I had zero doubts this football club will come to life once we rid ourselves of Wenger. Which is why i am baffled when i hear some still trying to defend him.
Perhaps Xenophobia might have been a better term
“Send me a cheque for £10,000 and I will explain what i meant.”
hahahahahahaha
Something about the internet and being able to post brings out the idiots of the world. Go watch a video of the most innocuous video and guarantee there are at least 2 idiots in the comments calling each other names.
Hang on TITS YOUR POS 14.42.34
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Rakitic, Modric, Rebic and Perisic need to be on form tonight.
I think they’re good enough to control the MF, but I’m siding with the youthfulness of Lingaard, Alli, Sterling and Henderson to out run them.
Close game. but I think win 2-1
gambon –
“When you factor in he [Ozil] is a eunuch, …”
Comment of the day.
Amazing that Sven, Raul and Ivan are at Arsenal at all… you know doing work that they are paid for. Signing players, training the first team… what incredible bores!
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Arsenal Football Club acting like a proper football club.
Also, I legit received an email this morning from Mr Loveridge Goodwill telling me that my inheritance of $10.5m was parked in a bank account for me, and I should be wary of scammers trying to fleece me. Instead, I should send $550 to Mr Robert Stein (email address ending in ‘yeah01.net’) and he’ll transfer the millions of dollars to me.
Best news ever, totally stoked. Sending the monies now by Western Union. Party at my house when the funds clear imminently.
New post.
so far France is the favourite to lift the cup, but if England have a good performance and win 2-0 tonight, they just might be motivated enough to win against France…