Final delivery lacking
It’s a new dawn
It’s a new day
It’s a new life for me, oozzzziiiiilllll
I won’t talk about theeeee!
Yes people, I have been finished by that story. That said, big shout out to the folk that kept me educated and smart on a very interesting issue. Nothing keeps you sharper in life than listening to intelligent folk who can guide your views and reframe your opinions. I will always borrow your wisdom and reframe it as my own.
I like that even though Emery has a poor grasp of English, he deflects questions like a pro.
on what the DFB should do now…
It is a personal decision from Mesut and I respect it.
on whether it is worrying what Mesut said in his statement…
He thinks what is best for him, he explained his decision and here we need to help him.
on whether Mesut is mentally prepared…
He has experience, he has quality and he has a great mentality and we are going to help him feel good and to show his quality with us. I am sure he is going to have a big season with us.
on Uli Hoeness’ comments…
I respect everybody and their opinions, but we are professionals and we need to understand everyone but work for us and to be together. We know the football [world] around us is about opinion and critique, we have a mentality and quality to work away from this opinion.
Some tasty going’s on today. Malcolm, a player we apparently targeted in January, was announced as a signing by Roma… only for that deal to get cancelled, with Barcelona weighing in for his signature. What a bitch, that’s exactly how I felt when we lost out on Cahill because we reneged on the price, only for Chelsea to nip in and make him theirs. Remember all the Arsenal hipsters (who thought Denilson was as good as Alonso) cheering the loss because Gary was shite? I do.
Anyway, do you think Sven would have signed Malcolm if he used to play for Dortmund?
Yeah, I went there…
Anyway, the upshot is we’re apparently sniffing around Dembele on loan. Kike Marin, Spanish goss hero, asked if that were the next move for Barca. It’d be weird, Dembele is way better than Malcolm, but whatever… just give me that silky Frenchman because we need him at The Arsenal.
Thierry Henry is Aston Villa manager.
Hold the faaacking phone..
He saw what Remy G did after a solid stint at Lyon, and thought the best next move was Villa. Is he fucking mad?
Good luck to him, fair play, but honestly fam… I find this one an odd decision.
Ivan G, slathered in factor 75, told a Singapore audience Ozil was a top bloke, Germany were shite, and he was catching the evening flight to Milan to meet the gang for a chat about January transfer targets. No news on Ivan, except the real narrative of his Churchillian leaked story is he purposefully leaked that he was available to talk about things, just not his future.
Not cool imo.
Something else that I found NOT cool was Arsenal releasing a press release about the CEO that read like the PR team had to muddle together some words after an 8 hour bender at a Carl Cox Space reunion party.
“We are aware of the speculation surrounding our chief executive Ivan Gazidis. We know he receives many offers from organisations inside and outside the game as he’s a hugely respected figure. He has never accepted any of these opportunities and has never spoken about them publicly. He has always been fully committed to taking Arsenal forward and is currently working hard in Singapore with our new head coach Unai Emery as we prepare for the new season.”
What a mess that report is. It reeks of Jaeger Bombs and Sunday morning regret.
‘Yeah, we don’t have a clue either’
Nice one, Sir Chips.
Usmanov is getting bored of owning a piece of Arsenal that has about as much power as that piece of chewing gum you stuck under that seat in block 11 circa 2009. Good news is African sugar king, Dangote, wants a piece of that shit.
“We will go after Arsenal from 2020 … even if somebody buys, we will still go after it,”
Good work mate, you have about as much chance of a takeover as I do using my two crates of bulk buy Pringles as leverage.
Today, we see Atletico play Arsenal. Could someone leave my Dad the channel the match is on below, he thinks there’s a conspiracy against English fans because he can’t find the channel.
Big JEFF the footballing kid we all loved because he had a cool name is apparently off to Angers. NEVER FALL IN LOVE WITH A KID is my new motto in life. It works on multiple levels to protect me if I’m honest.
Things to look out for today:
- Are our new signings slow?
- Has Emery got a system that allows both Auba and Laca to play?
- DOES RAMSEY LOOK HAPPY?
- How many formations will we test?
- WILL WE FALL IN LOVE WITH NEW ELITE KID EMILE SMITH ROWE?
- Is Emery emotional fiery guy from Sevilla, or the classy reserved guy PSG forced him to be on the sidelines?
IT BEGINS.
xxx
@CA –
Would like to see us use Lichtsteiner and Monreal away from home next season in bigger games that we can’t boss.
Does anyone know who is acting assistant manager at the club at the moment? What is Bould’s role now? Is he still on the bench during the games, can’t remember seeing him.
Jim
Wouldn’t mind AMN getting cup games at CM. But, we have a desperate need at LB.
It’s a disaster if Kolasinac has to play for the first month while Monreal gets up to speed again.
New post pleeeaaase!!!
Oh, and another boneheaded tackle from Mustafi. The guy is a liability. Just not a very good defender.
Great preseason run out there. Bellerins first touch is driving me insane,wtf is wrong with him lol. Be interesting to see how the team progresses over the next few months. Exciting times ahead for sure.
Excellent again from Guendouzi.
And to think a couple of planks here the other day thought one needed to see an ophthalmologist if they thought he was better than Maitland-Miles.
Not even remotely close as to who the better prospect is.
Bamford
We should sell Mustafi this window as he we’d get decent money for him. Would sell Holding as well
If only Mislintat could now get us a Guendouzi type find in terms of a winger!
Jay
Touché re: laca
The prices being talked about are not that bad, £65 Million for Pulisic and £40 Million for Bailey.
Both would be starters for us, both solve the winger problem and those are not the type of fees we’ve seen that make no sense.
Players like Perez, Welbeck, Ospina etc can be sold to raise funds.
Cesc
Don’t think Pulisic will leave this summer unless it’s a City or PSG. Bailey looks to be headed to Roma after they missed out on Malcom. Ousmane is the one
Thought I’d have a look at bailey as cesc mentions him in every bloody post lol.
After half hour I was very impressed,good stats last year too.
Obviously talented,and can’t see us getting dembele so would be a good signing if 40m is really his price.
Dream10
If we can’t beat Roma to Bailey at £40 Million I am going to be very disappointed.
I will say it now, I would rather have Bailey at £40 Million than Dembele at £80-100 Million.
If we can get Dembele for 80m as opposed to Bailey got 40m then Dembele it should be. But assuming we are looking at both and Dembele is unavailable we should definitely swoop for Bailey. Not Dembele class but immediately solves our problem non the less
But I really don’t think we will get a winger this summer. January/next summer seems very realistic and we could still have Bailey and Dembele available by then. Or maybe Sven gets us the new Dembele.
Highly impressed by Guendozi. I think he’s an Emery buy because he said pretty strong things about him and said he has been following him for 2years.
How was Elneny today?
Guendouzi making headlines, Arsenal fans saying he’s better than Rabiot, better than Pogba etc.
Need to clam down on it, unfair on him. Looks a great prospect but let Emery and the coaches develop him.
Real find by Mislintat.
Santino, he played ok. El Neny will be an asset hopefully with his style of play added with the synchronized pressing. Honestly don’t see much between him and Nzonzi
Santino,
Where are you from mate? Would like to hear more about that TBH.
Down south I’m only aware of the Mysore Royal family, who though pretty rich themselves usually mind their own business and don’t get involved in politics.
El Neny will be an asset hopefully with his style of play added with the synchronized pressing. Honestly don’t see much between him and Nzonzi
Just no
whatever Marko, say yours let me say mine.
“Honestly don’t see much between him and Nzonzi”
My Goodness!
Not that big on Elneny, don’t see what some others do.
He’s average, not bad at all, but with Guendouzi and Maitland Niles now if we could get £15-20 Million for Elneny to reinvest then why not? If you sell Perez and Welbeck as well there’s your winger.
Ramsey, Torreira, Xhaka, Guendouzi, Maitland Niles is absolutely fine.
Opinions aside and all that but if you think Elneny is on par with Nzonzi then you need your eyes examined
Speaking of N’zonzi, Roma are looking at him for 25m.
Speaking of Nzonzi who needs him we have Elneny apparently…
Cesc,
Are you sure Bailey is going for 40m mate? He’s young and has now put up great stats for 2 years in a row, plays for a relatively big club in Bayer. I think they will ask at least 60m unless there is a contract situation, IMO.
Thomas Tuchel.
Classy guy.
Akilan
I don’t have a clue, all I see are the rumours.
If it is £40 Million then it makes no sense if we pass on him. A good season and he is a £80 Million player next summer as well as potentially becoming a star for us.
£60 Million would be high but still not ridiculous.
I don’t even get Tuchel’s reply to the question, it made no sense.
Not to mention the manager responsible has been sacked so again, made no sense.
It was obvious that was a young PSG side against a much stronger Arsenal side.
‘He’s average, not bad at all, but with Guendouzi and Maitland Niles now if we could get £15-20 Million for Elneny to reinvest then why not? If you sell Perez and Welbeck as well there’s your winger.’
Agreed. We have options in CM now that could do his role and if a suitable offer came up I am sure he will be considered
Tuchel is a bitch and a half. I hope he never manages us. Never liked him or Kloop. Emery has shown nothing else but being a gentleman and very likeable. Hopefully he is successful at Arsenal and he can rub it off on Tuchel’s shitty face. For the penalty, the main ref took some time to think it out, so Tuchel went to the fouth ref and started yelling at him. Relax bro. It’s a fkin friendly. Commenting how we are playing Europa League, right?! What a sore loser.
‘Opinions aside and all that but if you think Elneny is on par with Nzonzi then you need your eyes examined’
Not looking to pick fights but I said “not much between them”. Nzonzi may be a bit powerful, better tackler and taller but that’s all. Doesn’t mean el Neny is shit in those things I listed. Range of passing is same. Area they operate on the field, the same
“Speaking of N’zonzi, Roma are looking at him for 25m.”
They have a need for him, they haven’t replaced Naingolan. We don’t have a need for him
If we let Roma have N’Zonzi can we have Bailey?
done deal. Only if I were Monchi and you Sven/Raul
We ain’t getting 15-20M for el neny… I think 8-10 was tossed around last summer and he hasn’t doubled his value since then…
As I have said previously I think the camp is much happier without our wenge4…
Better bonding more camiardire in the camp
All are equals,…
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/719581/Arsenal-news-Pierre-Emerick-Aubameyang-message-crowd-Troopz-ArsenalFanTV-video
so nzonzi is the next level from el neny ? to me, both are squad players. rather spend the money on a proper winger…
Thought Guendouzi did pretty well today, people need to slow down proclaiming him the next big thing though.
Was more steady and lively than impressive although I do really like the way he always makes him self available to receive the ball and demands it which all the great midfielders do from deep.
I really don’t see why we need Elneny at all as Guendouzi does everything that he does already.
WE
19 year old lad in his second game for arsenal after only playing one season for lorient and he looked quality.
Zfree,
Inflation mate. Rojo is going for 25m. If someone wants Elneny, we can ask 25m and conclude the deal at 15-20m. Going rate for any average player.
Also don’t get this Elneny – N’zonzi comparison. If you want to compare one of our players with N’zonzi, it has to be Xhaka. Xhaka, better with the ball, N’zonzi better off the ball.
LG
Certainly was an encouraging outing for him, just don’t want him built up too much before he’s inevitably torn down when he goes through a rough spell as most youngsters do.
As I said, he’s already convinced me that he is more useful than Elneny.
“although I do really like the way he always makes him self available to receive the ball and demands it which all the great midfielders do from deep.”
Again, absolutely why El Neny, if not sold, could work. This is his biggest strength. Always available to receive a pass but his range of distribution is restricted. Add more experience to it too. If he doesn’t go he will be an asset. Not a starter though
You could get £15-20 Million for Elneny, someone would buy him. Not a bad player, not really good, sort of a average and steady.
Newly promoted side would take him.
If you could get £20 Million for Elneny, £20 Million for Welbeck, £15 Million for Perez and £8 Million for Ospina you just raised £63 Million for a winger and you’ve lost nothing in terms of contribution to the team.
Don’t know if we would fetch quite those fees CA, especially for Elneny who I don’t rate as a twenty mill player at all.
But if we could even raise half that amount, we can easily afford a quality wide player, so your point stands.
Looks like Bailey, Guedes, maybe even Dembele could all be gettable. You have to hope if we’re aware of these options that would improve us that Sven and Emery are.
mystic
Guendouzi already looks to have a better passing range than Elneny does. He’s also the more dynamic athlete.
I really don’t see what Elneny offers us other than possession stability late on to close out matches vs inferior opposition.
Elneny is a squad player,cost nothing cause he is nothing special. Pointless selling him unless we sign a guaranteed first team starter to replace him. He is a league cup Europa league player, every club needs players like him. Ones who are half decent and happy enough on the bench. As for AMN, why would we play a right footed young centre midfielder at left back? Let’s hope we loan him out if he won’t play much,not play him out of position ffs. If after a few months we don’t think kolasinac is good enough then hopefully we’ll do what… Read more »
Kolasinac really is a brutally awful footballer.
Should get him off the wage bill, he’s an Andre Santos throwback.
WE The only one I’m not sure on is Perez, I could see someone overpaying equally I could easily see him going for under £10 Million. If we got the right club I think we could get £20 Million or thereabouts for Elneny, would likely have to be an EPL club. Likely newly promoted. Like you I don’t see what some see in Elneny, bit of a pointless player I also don’t like his attitude in terms of being happy to be on the bench. Turned down offers last year because he’s happy in London and likely because he’s earning… Read more »
PP
It’s pointless keeping Elneny if you can get a decent fee for him.
Why would we need a starter to replace him when he isn’t a starter?
Guendouzi and Maitland Niles are more than enough for the Europa League, we saw the opposition we got last year, only when we reached the semi final did you really need any quality.
If you can get £15-20 Million, sell, no hesitation.
CESC
Don’t forget when you guess player sale values to take off 8-10 million cause of their high wages. Unfortunately we’ll be suffering for a while from that stupid socialist structure.
CA Agreed I don’t like that cavalier attitude either, certainly doesn’t help his case to get in my good books haha. I could let that slide if I felt that he genuinely was a bit of a player and our level didn’t drop much when he came into the fray but he really is a ghost in CM for me. Doesn’t offer much at all on either side of the ball, just is a tidy recycler of possession. I would bite someone’s hand off for any offer over ten million pounds and tbh would prob sell him for that if… Read more »
Look,I don’t rate elneny but we will struggle to get good money for most of our squad players due to their wages. He’s just signed a new deal as well so fuck knows what he’s on now. I think we’ll see a lot of changes kick in once the new TV deal money comes in. It’ll be all change next summer once teams lower down the table can afford our dross.
Best we can hope for this year is AMN going on loan maybe,get some games elsewhere.
Marko’s boy Grimaldo with a peach of a FK.
Ospina for 8m would be the jackpot. I think we have to keep El Neny this season. Our midfield options are: Torr Xhaka Ramsey Neny, Guendozi, AMN. (minus El Neny) If we play with a midfield 2 than that’s enough cover but if it’s a 3 then we need an extra experienced body unless as I don’t think G and A have to be made starters. So maybe we sell Neny for 15-20 and then we get tat German boy on a free, middle improved for a profit. PS: How did Wolves get a free run at Neves last summer?… Read more »
PP
I don’t think that Elneny is going anywhere for the record, nothing more than wishful thinking on my part.
Think only Perez, Akpom, J Campbell, Jenkinson will be sold and possibly Welbeck if a silly offer comes in from an English team comes in- looking at you Everton.
Yes, Meyer. WE reminded me with his post. I would be shocked if Neny was earning up to 60k pw, maybe 50k
mystic
Two words- Jorge Mendes.
Wolves have ELEVEN Portuguese players now including Rui Patricio and Joao Moutinho as well as the Portuguese Nuno as gaffer.
WE I think Elneny is earning £60 000 a week, I read that Meyer is looking for £150 000 a week. He is a better player than Elneny but that is too much. I don’t think we would need to replace Elneny, I don’t see what he offers that Guendouzi and Maitland Niles between them couldn’t. Less than two week until the window closes, interested to see what we do. The only disappointment in terms of this summer has been no winger and the lack of sales. As others have said though we have accumulated dross on wages beyond their… Read more »
New post
Lots of interesting talk about transfers. I wouldn’t be surprised if Emery has been given the OK to try out some of the fringe players before deciding who can be let go without undermining the side in January.
There will be sides looking to pick up players. What holds that back is sides not wanting to let go of players they can’t replace. But if we are only looking to ship out and reduce the wage bill we can be in a strong position to make a bit more cash than this window.
What about jenkinson
Earning 65 bags a week..
How long has his contract left…
people here never take injuries into account. we need squad depth. can’t keep playing the same 16 players for all the tournaments…