Bobby Pires didn’t take long to turn from Wenger sycophant, to Unai Emery #1 fan.
“The best signing for me is Unai Emery, the manager. Of course I believe in the players, and especially the new players,”
What. A. Creep.
Last April:
“I want Arsene to extend his contract for two or three more seasons, I’ve made that very clear. I think we can challenge for the league next year.”
Back in the days when people would say, ‘yeah, Bobby Pires, Invincible, says Wenger should stay but Pete from Le Grove says nah’, I always said you need to look out for the open hands of explayers. All those who vehemently pursued Wenger’s back passage wanted a job at the club, begging via compliments in the press.
Italian press is saying that the Ivan G move to Italy is complicated by the fact their financial offer is less than he’s on now… I mean, that’s not really a complication is it?
Anyway, Arsenal denied there’s contact with Milan, and as I said yesterday, it’d be a proper weird move.
The press is linking Petr Cech to Chelsea. Yep, Chelsea. I don’t really understand why they’d take their keeper back unless they wanted him as a coach. Not only is he not up for replacing Courtois ability wise, he’s not a Sarri type of keeper. If you can’t play with the ball at your feet, you’re not going to fit his crazy systems.
In other interesting news, there seem to be a lot of pictures of Emery hanging out with AMN. I always wonder whether that’s a purposeful move, or that he just looks proper good in training pictures? I’d love this to be a major breakout season for the midfielder, he’s such a talent and that high energy would look great in a disciplined system. I wonder where he’s going to play him? Will he be jockeying with Xhaka for position? Will he be back-up for Aaron Ramsey? Is he in the mix as a DM? I mean, surely he’d be a better option than Chambers there.
There’s some scary stats doing the rounds that seem to indicate that Leno has the 3rd worst save efficiency in Europe amongst big teams (here). This gives a little more light on how the numbers came about. I think there are a lot people who are quite worried about Leno and his ability to pull us out of the ‘WHY R OUR KEEPERS SO SHIT’ hell that we’ve been in since 2006. I’m taking solace in the fact it seems hard to judge keepers with hard numbers because there are so many factors in being successful if you’re a keeper. But, it’s hard not to be a touch worried about a keeper who conceded 16% more goals than he should have.
I’m guessing that Sven has a system that maybe sheds more light on Leno, and that maybe they’ve used a bigger data set to come to the conclusion he’s worth a punt (quite the punt as well). I have nightmares about this sort of gamble, remember we signed Viviano? I was told we’d purposefully picked a keeper we thought was underachieving, that we could develop. I can’t remember the details, all I remember is the picked a keeper right out the middle of the stats pack. The bad old days.
Right, that’s all I have today, see you in the comments.
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peter with the unlikely win yet again lol
Reports that Everton are close to signing Malcom. Price is 30m and 80k a week. If it’s true we should absolutely jump on it because it sounds like a no brainer to me.
Plus Malcom has already said that he wants to move and that he has an agreement that his club will sell him if a good offer comes.
Leno better not turn out to be a Karius
Would love to see how a midfield of torreira AMN and ozil could function with auba, laca and Miki up top. I think they might be both strong and dynamic!
raptora… I do a Leicester once in a blue moon and walk back to my cave. Today was one of those days
Is Ramsey going to sign ?
Hey I can post again what gives with me not being able to post most days ?
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Early post caught me out today. Nice one Peter!
thanks DM
Y’all need to chill. StatDNA already knew about this….and we still signed him.
Can’t be serious?
Pires was a fine player, but he’s such a predictable beg.
He was adamant in his defence of Lord Wenger. Why has that energy gone 180 for lol.
Apparently it’s reservations about his character re Malcom.
“The press is linking Petr Cech to Chelsea.”
Riiiiight… lol they are surely dumb enough to take him back.
Pirès really has turn into a complete c*nt.
If only he could just stop talking…
If AM-N is to make the breakthrough this season I’d expect it to be as one of the two at the base of the midfield. Alongside either Xhaka or Torreira.
I think Leno will turn out to be fine.
in regards to Pires, he is a breader (my fellow S.Londoners will know). Anything to get in good with the club.
Pires comments are laughable. To go from wanting a new deal for Wenger to this in about a year is pathetic.
Malcolm going for £30m, surely we can test the waters with a late bid?
” Alongside either Xhaka or Torreira.”
Which in turn means the two players will then play alongside Ramsey?
“Malcolm going for £30m, surely we can test the waters with a late bid?”
With the premiums being quite high, especially with our TV money, I think Everton have done ok with this deal.
Wouldn’t surprise me if there’s a sell-on clause in there that helped facilitate the deal.
Robert Pires is French.
Traditionally they will side with the “winningest” side.
Pires’ comments are no surprise from a guy who wants and needs a job.
Pedro I have watched Maitland-Niles on several occasions and like you I am a fan. Yes he is raw and inexperienced and does make mistakes, but he has three major ingredients which makes him a future star. First he has pace, second if he makes a defensive mistake he has fantastic powers of recovery and third he is in my book an excellent footballer. I would hope that he will be afforded this season more game time specifically in midfield where he should be playing. As yet it is difficult to judge whether he is better as an offensive or… Read more »
Carts
“Which in turn means the two players will then play alongside Ramsey?”
Xhaka & Torreira at the base with Ramsey ahead of them, is what I’m expecting. if AM-N is to break through I think his best position will be alongside Xhaka.
Or, if we play one at the base(Xhaka or Torreira) with two ahead of him he’d be good as one of the two.
basically read an article about our squad and at this current time we cannot sign any foreign players unless we get rid of Ospina or Lucas Perez we have 17 non home grown slots covered
so arsenal has to sell someone to buy someone else like that fancy winger, I can see emery already blooding the youngsters which is good
danny welbeck could be sold but we still need ospina to be gone as he is taking a spot
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I am really looking forward to seeing Reiss Nelson, Eddie, Smith-Rowe and AMN perform this season
I am sure we all love an academy player turning up and fulfilling the potential
Maybe Emery has seen enough of Reiss to give him more game time
How long does it take till the waiting moderation this is done on this site
Marko thinks we should loan AMN and buy Ndombele.
Whatever happened to our links to Malcolm? He’s no brainer except we are working on a better signing like Coman or Bailey
“I am really looking forward to seeing Reiss Nelson, Eddie, Smith-Rowe and AMN perform this season”
Same here as i think that all four of them have a chance of being part of our squad over the next 3 seasons.
I don’t see that star quality in Willock although his name gets banded about a bit. Too flimsy for me so maybe a man up loan.
We have to remember that gone are the days of Wenger and his shitty coaches where player development etc just won’t happen.
Emery’s GK coach he brought over, Garcia I think, was credited with a real development in Areola as a GK last season at PSG.
We actually can look forward to some development in players now, particularly GKs, defenders and midfielders that we’ve never seen before.
Guns of HackneyJuly 18, 2018 10:23:03 Robert Pires is French. Traditionally they will side with the “winningest” side. Pires’ comments are no surprise from a guy who wants and needs a job. You guys need to get out of that island more often.. Seriously, as stupid as Pires may sound, the usual WW2 jokes and the French-related ” banter ” are getting tedious now. The French, with all their bad habits, always wanted to remain independent, check out De Gaulle’s attitude with NATO in the 50’s / 60’s and tell me more about that. Or Did we stupidly follow the… Read more »
I wouldn’t loan out AMN as for me he showed enough last season to be part of the 25 man this coming one.
Europa league will give him plenty of minutes this season coupled with the other cups. He will be a full England International within the next year or two.
keep him
If we were gambling on keepers I’d have taken a punt on re-signing Fabianski for only £7m. Swansea’s best player for years, and an improvement on Cech and Ospina.
Can we all just stop for a minute and take a second to appreciate how f**king damned exciting it is being an Arsenal fan right now?! You get used to the changes so quickly but dang, it feels good baby!
I wouldn’t loan any of eddie, reiss, AMN and smith-rowe I think they good enough but I am sure Emery will decide after the Asian tour
jenkinson, ospina, welbeck and cohen bramall will be the ones going on loan or transfer
I’ll raise my cup of coffee to that!
Absolutely. AMN is a keeper. And no need for a 21 year old CM with potential when you have a 21 year old CM with potential.
We have Leno now and we have (hopefully) a team that should help him improve. Let’s hope for the best
I know football is mad, has been a while but the amount being touted for Alisson takes the biscuit. He’s a good goalie, maybe very good on occasions but there’s nothing I’ve seen of him so far that justifies £67m.
As for Gazidis he can fuck to Timbaktu for all I care. He’s easily replaced.
I fucking hope I’m wrong but I have a bad feeling about Sokratis and Leno. Something in my gut tells me we’ve just bought mustafi and flappyhandski mark 2.
Let’s pray.
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“But he’s gone now, so I should stop talking about it.”
No no and no. Keep talking about it. We’ve got ten years worth of run way to talk about this. We had to put up with his bullshit for 10 years+ so now he and all his supporters will have to put up with mine and other fans bullshit. You don’t like it? F you and F him. We aint done by a long shot.
Thankyou Gazidis!
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Yeah I think that’s reasonable.
We’ll need out and out wingers in any case. Have a feeling that Emery will shoe horn Mkhi and Ozil into this somehow
Viviano to be fair never got a look in. He was another Perez Wenger bought him just to placate fans but didn’t ever have any intention of properly using him
Maitland Niles is ready to go, without doubt, no way he should be loaned. I also don’t think it will be beneficial for Nketiah to be loaned, let him train with players like Aubameyang etc, let him develop his movement having to think has quickly as the creative players the first team has against the quality of defenders the first team has under the eye of Emery and Carcedo. Nelson is a more difficult one, want to see more from him because I’m just not sure. Smith Rowe looks like he could be good, still very young though and should… Read more »
A bit of good news for those who appreciate good football. Santi played 45 minutes yesterday. Sadly missed. Good luck.
Woke up to the news I want AMN loaned I mean Holding Reiss and Iwobi should be loaned but AMN is a handy squad player. And that’s it. Any notions of him replacing whoever in the starting line up need to be tempered a bit he’s just a prospect. We should still absolutely buy Nzonzi or a Meyer if we had the opportunity
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What Liverpool are on the brink of doing is pathetic.
I read on twitter that Nick Pope is gettable for less than half of that.
Put it this way, he won’t cost anywhere near £60m.
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No no and no. Keep talking about it. We’ve got ten years worth of run way to talk about this. We had to put up with his bullshit for 10 years+ so now he and all his supporters will have to put up with mine and other fans bullshit. You don’t like it? F you and F him. We aint done by a long shot.”
Who else thinks this guy needs help? probably that of a psychiatrist or something.
Marko, I am up for Meyer too. Free and all that. The fucker wants 70k though. Should settle for 50k and get a mid to top club.
Right about your AMN take but absolutely should we not be buying Ndombele to start for us if you dont trust AMN there. Same level players
Right about your AMN take but absolutely should we not be buying Ndombele to start for us if you dont trust AMN there. Same level players They’re not though. I mean I like AMN but at 21 he still doesn’t know his actual position and what he actually brings to the team. He’s always been a kind of RM when he was on loan at Ipswich he played RM/RW and then last season we played him LB RB DM and basically anywhere and everywhere in midfield. Ndombele has the advantage of knowing exactly what position and role he plays and… Read more »
Carts, don’t be surprised as some people believe the bigger the transfer fee, the quality the player(s).
Malcolm for 30m? and who cares about his character, so long as he delivers, no p. For wingers, we should go for realistic targets based on our budget as Coman won’t be available as he’s seen as part of the Bayern future. Zaha, Lotus-Cheek, Bailey, Malcolm and Richarlison are available though they may not come cheap, yet gettable. Not forgetting the ever present Draxler.
“he is in my book an excellent footballer.”
Big “major ingredient”, indeed…
“Who else thinks this guy needs help? probably that of a psychiatrist or something.”
lol vicuntious, you’re gotta be kidding me (us)…
There was enough talk about Liverpool/Klopp yesterday but they really aren’t fucking around. In last 7 months they’ve added the most expensive defender, now looks like most expensive keeper, plus keita and Fabinho so no more Milner, Henderson, wiljnadum dross midfield lineup anymore, and shaqiri.
Ambitious club/owner
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It’s stupid. There’s also Butland. I think I suggested the same when we signed Leno.
Would Alisson have prevented Liverpool losing that final? Hard to say. Nothing about his performance against Liverpool suggested he would. I rate Ederson higher.
I think some of us are obsessed with the foreign.
Karim
Calm down.
@Marko
Bit harsh saying AMN doesn’t know his best position. He’s always stated himself as a Midfielder, it was just the old Wenger square peg round hole nonsense that muddied the waters.
I’m not against another CM coming in but with xhakha staying it would have to be at the expense of “The Nanny” Not a near future England international Whom has been with us since the start
I wouldn’t lose my shit over this GK deal. £66m is only twice the amount Juve paid for Buffoon…In 2001. That same year Real paid £49m for Zidane. Fast forward and Neymar is £200m. That’s four times what Zidane cost. Ultimately £66m is way below the inflation. If Liverpool got ten years out of this very highly rated GK it’s a bargain. If he does well and Real or PSG want him for £100m? Job done. Liverpool are laying the foundations for a title and CL winning team. As well as Arsenal have done recruiting players, they pale into insignificance… Read more »
Marko are you saying Ndombele who you’ve only watched probably a couple of matches for Lyno is better than AMN? That’s BS.. think this is classic you gushing over players of other clubs while underating the potentials of ours And Maitland-Niles’ performance vs Boreham was very good. His work for Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s second goal was excellent, slaloming his way through the Wood midfield and defence, driving to the byline, before having the awareness, vision and quality to pick out his teammate at the far post to tee him up with an easy header. His work on the ball was calm… Read more »
Courtois looks like he’s off to Madrid, massive for United to have held onto De Gea.
Chelsea can sign Ospina if they want
I would definitely loan out AMN. Hasn’t proven anything over a substantial period of time and his little run over Xmas petered out and culminated in that awful performance against Forest. Some might say it was typical Wenger-era complacency but I don’t think it was.
Massive question marks over him in central midfield when it comes to passing taking the ball under pressure.
“check out De Gaulle’s attitude with NATO in the 50’s / 60’s and tell me more about that.”
lol it’s him, without a doubt!! I wish I’d had a teacher like him when I was a boy…
At this point Ndombele is significantly better than AMN.
That isn’t even in question.
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I wish you had gone to school !
Madrid who were in talks for Alisson suddenly seems to have made a U turn and now want Courtois? something not quite right..
Might be Madrid don’t think Alisson is worth the fee touted..Let dippers have at it though.. but something tells me it’s a gamble
Yeah Liverpool have blow us out of the water in terms of transfers this summer.
Emery had better be very good on the training ground.
Lot of pressure on Klopp though. 2nd is the bare minimum acceptable after the recent spending.
What’s the sense there though in loaning out AMN and bringing in someone like Ndombele, a player of similar age,potentials and abilities ? That would surely stunt his growth no?
gambon you seem to agree anything less than second for the dippers should be described as failure considering the coins they seems to be splashing.. I tend to agree
The Ndombele boat has sailed…..we have already bought in 2 young MFs and AMN needs his chance.
Just saying, as of right now Ndombele is far ahead of AMN.
The one major point that Wenger made yesterday was that the club has a squad of 25 registered players and we you select the team for a game you have basically 11 players who are happy and 14 players who are unhappy. From my point of view the club needs 18-20 players who are of genuine first team quality from which you make starting eleven selections for EPL games. The remaining players in squad are those like Lichsteiner and Cech who are experienced but unlikely to be selected if your top players are fit and perhaps 3-4 players who are… Read more »
Massive question marks over him in central midfield when it comes to passing taking the ball under pressure.”
Did you watch him at Old Trafford last season? and just the recent friendly against Boreham
Still not as polished on the ball like what you’d expect from a world class CM but obviously the potentials are glaring enough to work with
AMN should totally be loaned along with Nelson and Holding, Iwobi maybe. Guendouzi should be covering for AMN while he is playing week in week out somewhere. We’d need both though if we sell Elneny.
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“Would love to see how a midfield of torreira AMN and ozil could function with auba, laca and Miki up top. I think they might be both strong and dynamic”
Similar to what I would like except I would play mhkitaryan as the cam and ozil on the right.
Which, of course, means no Ramsey.
If we don’t sign anyone else, I would rate this window a 5/10. On par with the Wenger times.
Liverpool paying 66M for Alisson is the scam of the century.
Marko are you saying Ndombele who you’ve only watched probably a couple of matches for Lyno is better than AMN? That’s BS.. think this is classic you gushing over players of other clubs while underating the potentials of ours
I rate AMN but yes I would rate a 21 year old who played 43 times for Lyon last season over a bit part player for Arsenal yes. 15 league games compared to 34 league games? Come on
If Real Madrid buy Courtois for 31m in the same window when Pool buy Alisson for 67m I’d say big fucking LOL! Courtois is excellent and in no world is he twice as bad as Alisson. In the end though, you’ve identified that you need a top GK, you’ve identified the exact player that you want, you spend the money. If he becomes a GK at the same level of De Gea, Ederson and Courtois, then who cares how expensive he was. All of the other 3 have been winning points for their teams. Maybe with Alisson vs Real Madrid… Read more »
15 league games compared to 34 league games? Come on
15 to 34 is not a big difference in my opinion. If you factor in the difference in quality of the league, it comes down to 15 to 25.
Would you sign Lewis Cook just because he has played more games than AMN?
“Money should not be fan’s problem. ”
I have a problem with Arsenal paying Ozil 350k per week.
Ndombele, a player of similar age,potentials and abilities ?
Not similar potentials and abilities. AMN has played RM, RW, RB, LB, DM and CM. Ndombele plays just as a DM/CM he knows what he is and what he’s doing. Knowing this allows him to work on specifics of his game. For example as a DM he can focus on tackling as opposed to dribbling and crossing if he was a RM/RW
What Pires says mirrors 90% of the fambase……
“I rate AMN but yes I would rate a 21 year old who played 43 times for Lyon last season over a bit part player for Arsenal yes. 15 league games compared to 34 league games? Come on” Sometimes you struggle to make your point. Number of league games played now an indication of quality?? Ndombele played 43 times for Lyon because the manager had faith in him and he then showed his quality. AMN was not in control of the number of times he played, I remember you Marko was very pissed earlier when Matteo was signed from Lorient… Read more »
15 to 34 is not a big difference in my opinion. If you factor in the difference in quality of the league, it comes down to 15 to 25 No it doesn’t. Look facts are Ndombele has played 40+ games nearly all as a starter for Lyon who finished in the champions league spots while AMN was a bit part player for Arsenal who finished 6th. They’re not comparable at this moment in time. It’s a classic example of certain types of Arsenal fans overhyping someone who happens to play for Arsenal and down playing others we’re not ever going… Read more »
Sorry, lads, our signings so far have been anything but exceptional. They’ve been mediocre to average (5/10 or 6/10).
I don’t get what you’re getting at receding. Yeah I wanted a free 22 year old who’d strengthen the first team over a 19 year old who won’t strengthen the team at least not this season. Ndombele and Guendouzi aren’t comparable either because Lyon paid 8 million for him when he impressed everyone in ligue un we paid 8 million for Guendouzi who impressed in the second division. I mean it’s obvious to everyone Ndombele at 21 is a great talent going to get better and good enough now. Definitely better than Guendouzi and AMN as of now
“Courtois looks like he’s off to Madrid, massive for United to have held onto De Gea.”
His World Cup gaffes made it easy fof Utd to hold on to him.
“It’s a classic example of certain types of Arsenal fans overhyping someone who happens to play for Arsenal and down playing others we’re not ever going to sign” No, this is a case of hyping a non Arsenal player over an Arsenal player a.k.a the grass is greener on the other side. Ndombele would not be a started at Arsenal, If he was at Arsenal last season, he would have similar numbers so saying he’s better than Arsenal because he played regularly at a smaller club in an inferior league is trying to be clever by half. Your only argument… Read more »
I like two of our 5 signings. Two right now I’d be confident of doing well and helping out the starting 11 in Torreira and Leno. Lichtsteiner doesn’t improve our starting 11 and Guendouzi isn’t ready yet and Sokratis right now could go either way.
Courtois for £31m is a bargain. Hazard following suit. Chelsea’s collapsing. I could not be happier. I profoundly dislike this club.