Banananananana kit please + Wenger job opening? + distasteful rumours

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Well good morning to you all.

Big thanks to Jonathan for the guest post yesterday, hopefully, more from him soon!

Also, I hope you tuned into our podcast yesterday, big thanks to Ash and Matt for that.

So what’s news?

Reiss Nelson is apparently going to sign a new deal with Arsenal then go off to continue his education in the Bundesliga with Hoffenheim. The English attacker has clearly been getting good intel from Jadon Sancho over at Dortmund and I’d imagine minutes at a high-level is exactly what he needs at this time. Great thing about this story is I think it tells you how much better English kids are getting these days. Championship loan moves are no longer viable, they want to give it a crack in a top league against great players. That’s a positive for the national team. Also interesting that Real Madrid is eyeing a move for Raheem Sterling. English galacticos finally a thing again.

The BIG news is that Arsenal is close to agreeing a mega-deal with Adidas to take on the shirt sponsorship for next season. They’re rumoured to be ploughing £60m a season into Arsenal, giving us another £20m to squander on Dortmund players next summer.

I don’t mean to bang on about this, but there will be HELL to pay if Adidas don’t give us the modern take on the bruised banana kit. I remember going to a Futureheads gig once, only for them NOT to play the Kate Bush cover. Who do bands think they are not playing their classics?

Adidas, I know you’re all fucking urban-b-boy-hip-hop-street-art-vinyl-mod-scene-street-wear’d up to your eyeballs… but be real with the fans, give us the hit songs we’ve been praying for, and maybe I’ll hand over £90 (don’t make it too skin tight).

I really hope Adidas signs off a new era. Puma felt like the nearly kit, it was ok, it had promise, but up close it just didn’t really deliver. We need to rock a shirt that speaks to the future, whilst having some respect for the past. I really, really hope our new kit is good.

I have to say, when watching Mourinho crash to Spurs the other night, I was taken by both teams kits. Very nice.

Also, look at me coming through with the goods on Jose. Who told you he’d be shite at United? I did. Apparently, he has 10 games to save his career. Then its international-jobs.com for him.

I have to say, I was having this dark thought the other day… wouldn’t it be incredible if Arsene Wenger took over the reins for the rest of the season before Pochettino ducked out of the Spurs rebuild to takeover next summer? That’d be so fucking grand. The job is perfect for Wenger. Low expectations, a group of players who’ve been disciplined, shouted at and called fat c*nts… the club is ready for some of that fatherly love. Some of that sweet, sweet tactical freedom. He could possibly be a force. Similar to when he took over from GG (be real, it was GG). The tough work had been done, he just need to sprinkle expression and love on the side.

I would LOVE that because you know Mourinho would DETEST it.

Amusing that publications are running with ‘ARSENAL HIERARCHY BACK EMERY’ over the decision to not play Ozil. What the fuck else are they going to do, pick the team for him?

It’s also pretty clear that the issue is that Ozil has fallen out over being asked to play wide right. Just as he gets the number 10 shirt, Rambo gets put in his position. Must be a stinger. A real wet towel to the cold arse. Ralgex in the eye.

Also, word to Oziltoligists who have more excuses for their messiah than anyone… it’s really fucking distasteful to spread rumours that the reason for his sick days are centred around depression. I appreciate that it’s a positive that it’s now acceptable to talk about mental health in sport, because who hasn’t had to deal with issues themselves or with loved ones. However, it’s not cool to self-diagnose a player from your computer just to shut down the conversation. It is not an argument to say, ‘hey, imagine if he was really depressed, maybe just don’t criticise him’. It’s the 2018 version of ‘Arsene knows’… super grim. Shame on you if you’re saying it.

Happy to revisit the issue if there is one, but it’s unfair on the player to start hawking that theory around unsubstantiated.

Anyway, that’s me done, catch you tomorrow

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Danny

Tomorrow, Cardiff 1 Arsenal 4.
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The match is on Sunday

Bamford10

Sporting Lisbon is in our Europa group. Two more still to be filled in.

Danny

We’ve got the mighty Qarabag whatever the fuck that is.

Bamford10

Arsenal
Sporting Lisbon
Qarabag
Vorskla

grooveydaddy

Qarabag was the reason Athletics dropped down into Europa League last year.

grooveydaddy

*Atletico

Michael24

Danny

Thanks for letting me know.

Make it 1-5 then!

Danny

After being in this crap competition last year, hopefully we wont go through to the next round, rather this year we only concentrate on league matches with the new manager.

InsideRight

So away days to…

Lisbon, Portugal
Baku, Azerbaijan
Poltava, Ukraine

If nothing else the Europa League is good for geography revision.

raptora

Oh well, we got one of the better pot 2 teams along with 2 far away teams. Normal stuff. Doesn’t matter anyways. We’ve got what it takes to stroll this group with our reserves.

China

The interesting point is that lots of these guys who claim they respect wenger but wanted him to league but we’re against doing anything about it And yet it was when fans stopped showing up to games that wenger finally got sacked So how about that? They thought it was time for wenger to go but thought it was wrong to protest. The moment fans stopped coming thy got ‘what they wanted’ and he lost his job. Then they criticize those guys who stopped coming How does that work? They claim they wanted wenger out but he was on a… Read more »

Leftsidesanch

our second string should be able to negotiate that group comfortably

Danny

This competition is so irrelevant I honestly can’t remember any of last seasons matches.
Actually most of last season I’m trying to forget!

Michael24

China

Blast you!!

Why did you have to write so much truth and logic?

I promised myself no anti-W posts today and now you’ve ruined it.

Of course, everything you say is 100% correct, but try explaining that to those who flatly refuse to accept it or confess their guilt.

I know, it just beggars belief.

China

I didn’t plan to raise this point today but seeing criticism of those fans who walked out these days is really irritating

China

At least I’m honest enough to admit my own hypocrisy

The one opportunity I’ve had to see arsenal in years was a friendly va Chelsea in Beijing last year and despite being totally pro protest and boycott I forked our 100£ a ticket (2x) to watch us get absolutely spanked by Chelsea. I almost got attacked by pro wenger fans for shouting wenger out after we conceded our 3rd goal on about the 30tj minute

So those guys who went a step further and stopped coming I have a lot of respect for.

Michael24

China

I genuinely believe that most of these loyal supporters you talk about, have never kicked a ball in their life and only relate to the game when they play on their Xbox.

Maybe they were the ones that never got the opportunity to play the game at school because they had two left feet, or because they were always the last to be picked in the playground kickabouts.

What do you think?

grooveydaddy

Our away record in Portugal isn’t great.

We’ve never won in Ukraine (5 games).

Qarabag drew twice w/ Atletico last year, so they can be tricky on their day as well.

I don’t think we can afford to take any of these teams lightly. 9 pts at home is must, for a start…

Michael24

Maybe that just had money to burn.

You know what they say, too much money but little or no sense.

It could have all boiled down to a fear of losing their season tickets.

I just don’t know.

grooveydaddy

Apparently Mhiki will have miss Qarabag away because Armenian citizens are not permitted to enter Azerbaijan??

Michael24

If UEFA go ahead and add a third European competition, what should they call it?

How about The European Rejects and Also Rans Competition.

Only open to teams who finish between 7-17 in their respective leagues.

Answers on a postcard please.

More money in the coffers for all the leeches at UEFA.

KAY Boss

Come on GUNNERS!!!. I hope we keep a clean sheet against Cardiff and also win comfortably.

Frankie Coffeecakes

@China – You have a firm grasp of the obvious! Well stated.

Michael24

KAY Boss

No problem, easy win.

Michael24

China

As far as I’m concerned, your 12:56 wins post of the week/ month/year.

Stating the bleeding obvious works works for me.

Three cheers to China.

Hip hip hooray! Hip hip hooray! Hip hip hooray!

Michael24

One less “works”.

Marko

Great we play poltava and a balrog from the Lord of the rings. Can’t wait until we’re back in the champions league

China

‘Shuttup and support the team’
‘Perhaps if the fans weren’t so negative the team might be achieving more with a more supportive atmosphere’

Emery comes in

‘Emery made at least 2 major mistakes today. If things don’t improve we’ll be in trouble’

I’m sorry what…?

Michael24

China

Can I guess who made these remarks?

Oh, go on then, tell me.

Maybe we should get all Football supporters to undergo an intelligence test to prove their loyalty.

Arsenal’s fanbase would have been obliterated long ago.

Cesc Appeal

Those types of fans are so transparent I honestly don’t know why you give them the attention, that’s all they want. They’ve lost everything and look stupid, now they just want to provoke, be contrary and hypocritical for the sake of attention

China

Well after I mentioned getting threatened and almost attacked for shouting wenger out one time, a few people on here suggested that I deserved it

New guy comes in and everyone’s critical faculties suddenly return. Fucking cretins

Michael24

Someone out there should seriously consider writing a book or making a film on all of this.

The confessions of a deluded fanbase.
Dumb and dumber and dumber and………
The good, the bad and the mentally insane.
60000 Fans under the sea.
Me, myself,Irene and 59997 clowns.

Bob N16

Michael,
I think by going on and on about other posters and calling into question their intelligence, some people might wonder whether this is diverting away from your own clarity of thought.
As soon as somebody else appears to support your viewpoint you appear to try to turn the subject back to previous arguments. It may not be the case but it might suggest a degree of insecurity about your ‘remit’.

Michael24

BobN16

You’re looking into things in far too much detail.

Life is too short to do in-depth analysis on things.

Just enjoying myself.

Too many posters take themselves far too seriously on here.

Oh yeh, that’s right, they’re the so called loyal ones.

Cheers.

Marko

Bob don’t delude yourself these other posters do it too

Dream10

“Raf Honigstein was told by sources that Ozil/Emery bust-up claim is unfounded. Details on Mesut’s illness can be found in the link below” – ESPN UK

https://t.co/zDrldvWZ1U?amp=1

Marko

Dream none of it adds up. He was training Thursday informed of being dropped/change of position/argument or whatever and then Friday informed the club of his “illness” and then showed up match day? Severe cold my dick if you were sick and on antibiotics you don’t show up and spend time with your teammates

Dream10

We’re going need to be patient in possession on Sunday as Cardiff will be happy to sit back. Before Huddersfield had a man sent off, Cardiff only had 28% possession. Don’t think have scored a league goal yet We do have an outstanding habit of kick-starting goal scoring form of profligate teams and goal starved opposition players though. Want to see both Lacazette and Torreira start tomorrow. But, Emery probably won’t oblige. Cech(c) Bellerin Mustafi Sokratis Monreal Torreira Xhaka Mkhi Ramsey Özil Aubameyang The cutbacks worked well last week. Hector was excellent offensively and got into great positions. Need Özil… Read more »

Michael24

If Ozil was ill, then I hope he is feeling much better.

Can’t have him going to work with a sore throat.

I don’t buy any of it.

Whatever way you look at things he is causing a massive headache for the manager, the team and the supporters.

If this continues, we have to offload him asap.

Detremental to the club.

Dream10

Marko

Honigstein is pretty well connected and usually been on point with info on Per/Podolski/Gnabry/Özil since they’ve been at the club.

Cesc Appeal

Certainly a case of the lady doth protest too much with this whole Ozil thing and the cover up.

Michael24

“Hector was excellent offensively” ….but crap defensively.

Remind me of his position again?

Pierre

Michael
Go and have a lie down for half hour.

The excitement is getting the better of you.. Problem is, there is not too much to get excited about atm.

God forbid if we do actually show some semblance of a football team who knows what they are doing… … Make sure you have your defib close by as I am not sure you will be able to contain your excitement.

Michael24

I thought doctors were cutting back on dishing out antibiotics?

Michael24

Ah Pierre, my favourite poster.

Did I wake you up?

Maybe you’ve returned home after your round of golf?

The floor is yours.

Michael24

If Ozil was in any other line of work, he would be sacked.

Michael24

China

If you’re still around, many thanks for this afternoon.

Your Emmy will arrive by post.

Leftsidesanch

Emery’s going to go with the same kind of line up as last week

Pierre

Dream 10
“We’re going need to be patient in possession on Sunday as Cardiff will be happy to sit back.”

I’m not sure if I have seen patient so far this season, it’s sort of been all or nothing.

The all or nothing approach may work v cardiff as attacking wise they don’t have a lot to worry us.
Will be interesting to see How we approach the game.

Wallace

China

“And yet it was when fans stopped showing up to games that wenger finally got sacked…”

that was a contributory factor, as was our having our worst ever season under Wenger. isolating just one thing is kinda reductive.

Pierre

Michael
Correct… Lost on the 18th

China

Let’s hope we make a formality of this match. I don’t have massive expectations but I really hope 3 things –

1) we win by 2 goals
2) there is at least one positive selection change from the start (Torreira in please)
3) the game isn’t made to be much harder than it should be

Pierre

Wallace
Agreed.. Bit of both I reckon.

Put it this way, if we had won the league cup final and europa league would wenger have gone, no chance…. Empty seats or no Empty seats.

Can also ask the question, would he have gone if their there were no Empty seats but we had poor season…. I doubt it..

So yeah, results and fan apathy were the reason in equal measure… So it Would be good to just leave it at that.

Dream10

Pierre

You’re right on possession. Don’t expect us to control the match as well as we should.
They haven’t played top opposition.
But, Cardiff haven’t allowed as many shots on goal for a side tipped for relegation.
A frantic end to end match puts Sokratis and Mustafi in the spotlight. not good. Last ditch tackles means more chance of conceding penalties.

Ramsey #10 and Aubameyang #9 means two runners down the middle. The ball won’t stick. Our technical ability has decreased in recent years.

Radio Raheem

We’ve a crap record away from home and City drew away to Wolves last week.

I don’t see this as a forgone conclusion. If we win it’ll be tight.

gonsterous

on a side note guys, The last kingdom got renewed for season 3. Where are my middle age fans at ??

China

But hang on – we were blamed for causing the increasingly bad performances by creating an increasingly toxic atmosphere Which is it? Arsenal hierarchy didn’t give a fuck about our performances or league placement. They rewarded his previous season with a new co tract and a substantial pay rise to make him one of the world’s highest paid managers after coming 5th with a pants points tally and only winning the FA cup. So winning the FA cup gets him a new contract and a bumper pay packet but only 10 months later when the fans have totally given up… Read more »

gonsterous

on a side note guys, The last kingdom got renewed for season 3. Where are my middle age fans at ??

And my middle age I don’t mean middle aged people I mean the middle age as in the era or time.. geez, keep up people…

Champagne Charlie

“Pierre’s been working hard to save up his £42 for his Everton ticket so he can add to his superior football knowledge. Ditto Charlie who, as he stated is; ‘by and large a team leader’ Now he’s going for it to be a full time team leader. Management at 50 I assume.” Do you ever make comments without the dick measuring TonyD? Hilariously wide of the mark about me, and typically disparaging towards Pierre over money of all things. You sound like one of these barrel chested peacock-types that carry 500 quid cash everywhere to show they’re bossing it. Probably… Read more »

China

I’m a huge GoT fan. Haven’t seen last kingdom. How does it compare?

Pierre

Charlie
I don’t need to brag about How many properties I have ,will leave that to Tony.

Have always said that he models himself on the “incredibly richer than you” Harry Enfield character.

I could Imagine tony watching it and not quite getting what a repulsive character he is.

Now, Michael…. He would get it.

Champagne Charlie

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Marko

Maybe Ozil’s broken the world record for the most lucrative ever sickee.

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