OK SO I WALKED PAST PIRLO.
Man, what a fucking babe.
That hair is more elite than his career.
Incredible moment. I shared a pavement with him.
Did I consider saying hello? No way. You gotta play it cool. He definitely doesn’t know who I am, but if he saw me again he’d say, ‘great job walking past me, real breezy, let me buy you a beer.’
I spent some time at the weekend watching a bit of PSG vs Rennes. Thomas Tuchel’s side isn’t clicking quite yet, but it was interesting watching Rennes. They have a young squad with a highly rated coach. Their stadium was packed and very loud. One of their star kids coming through is Ismaila Sarr. He’s tall, fast and a reminded me a little of an early days Dembele (who is about the same age). Anyway, we’re being linked with a move for him by The Mirror.
Seems highly likely we’d be interested in him, we’re really lacking explosive pace and skill out wide from someone who knows the job. Could be an exciting move if he carries on his trajectory. He has 3 goals in 7 matches this season. Last season he managed 5 goals and 5 assists in 27 games. Not bad considering he had an injury that kept him out for 3 months (be real, the injury makes him more appealing to us)
Petr ‘great hands’ Cech trash talked Wenger.
What? He did.
“What we lacked in the past – I would say the ‘Arsenal way’ was more important than getting the points sometimes, and this is not how you win the league,”
“Sometimes you need to make sure you win an ugly game, when you are not playing completely well but you just dig deep, close the back door and win 1-0 no matter how.”
Fair shout, there’s no doubt that Emery knows how to win a game ugly, he’s done it five times on the bounce. Now, do I desire sexy? Yes. But let’s not pretend Wenger was winning ugly or sexy. Arsenal has been a drab ship of misery for 10 years.
These words on preparation were music to my ears.
“It comes from the preparation, the everyday work and from the manager’s way of playing the game as well,” Cech said. “We work very hard every day to give ourselves the chance to compete with everybody and hopefully it will be working even better than it has been for the last four games.
“He is very demanding and this is how you improve. I think the place has become much more demanding in every way so this is great to see because this is what initially drives everybody forward and gives you the kind of kick that ‘I’m not doing enough to start the game’, or ‘I’m not doing enough to keep my spot in the game’, because the manager asked for precision and hard work every day. This is how it should be. We have very healthy competition and we are actually taking the benefit of it.”
FEED ME THE GOODNESS OF A MODERN MANAGER.
There was a half-interesting analysis of Ramsey in The Times. It kind of read like the sort of person who’d been given access codes to Opta but only watched 2 of our games in the last year.
‘RAMSEY HAS CREATED SOME CHANCES, the difference? The manager’ <ish
Errr, sure, but the difference is he’s playing as a #10.
The article referenced how Ramsey has more assists and goals than Ozil over the last 30 games. Again, looks great on paper, but Ozil has been a fucking car crash for the last 30 games, struggling with being miserable and having a back problem.
I’d LOVE to think Aaron is a magical #10, but I’m struggling to see that come to fruition. I’m certainly not convinced after two assists (1 accidental) with zero goals to his name. Some say he’d be a nightmare at the base of midfield in the Xhaka role, I’m not so sure. I thought he looked pretty good next to Arteta back in the day. Would it be fair to say Torreira is a little Arteta-ish?
Could be the Xhaka disdain talking, right guys? How can I be so mean to someone who plays so many wonderful balls into the final third!
We’ll see, it’s really not my problem, as long as we keep winning ugly, I’ll have to keep my big mouth shut.
That said, after being pilloried for daring to say I can’t see the vision Emery is offering, people are dropping that same line everywhere. It’s like I cleared the way. The Guardian and The New York Post piped up with similar musings.
Brentford are up on Wednesday, should be a grudge match after they beat us convincingly in preseason. Emery will want to avenge the savaging, and he’ll no doubt want to give Leno a nervous twitch by forcing him to keep a clean sheet and bag and assist. Should be fun.
Right, that’s all I have today, thanks for popping by. Listen to my damn podcast.
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Brentford will be more of a test than the europa game last week.
Big ,strong.physical side who will bring many fans and will really be looking to get a result ….maybe a good game to attend as I can see it being a good competitive match.
Brentford are doing well in the championship fancy them to reach the playoffs.
For an “electric winger”, it’s pretty logical to be “on the radar”.
Ah ah.
(sorry)
(Ramsey out)
(Ozil out)
(Mustafi out)
(Have a nice day)
I don’t normally watch all these football awards or care, but what’s the difference between the best player of the year and the ballon D’or ??
There is one guarantee. No arsenal bastard will be on a world player of the year award.
Fact. Guns out.
Ps. It’s fucking freezing in the midlands. Went for a ride. Cold hands and feet. Unhappy.
And no Arsenal coach either.
(lol)
Last week it was Nicholas Pepe, this week it is Ismaila Sarr; transfer media frenzy.
There is one guarantee. No arsenal bastard will be on a world player of the year award.
nothing special about that. Same can be said of over 2000 clubs around the world.
The real electric winger plays for Lille and his name is Nicolas Pepe. Barca, ManU and Arsenal are all linked to him. He’s brilliant.
***There is one guarantee. No footballer playing in England will win the. world player of the year award.
Guns out and Guns stay away till he sorts out his pathetic moaning.
You deserve your misery for your cun*ines and I hope it gets colder in the midlands. 🙂
You rightfully moaned you way thorug( the last 10 years of Wenger.
This current maoning is your choice, it’s like you’re permanently conditioned to whine a and lament.
Salah not in the world team of the year…
That says a lot about how ridiculous this kind of awards are.
It must take a lot for Cech to say what he said of Wenger. He’s only the universally accepted good professionals in the league.
It’s understandable since he does not have the same emotional ties with the man. I wonder how Cech felt when Wenger forced a useless goalkeeping coach (Gerry Payton) on him whereas Chelsea had allowed him to keep his own coach.
“ManU and Arsenal are all linked to him. ”
I wonder which of those clubs he will choose…
(lol)
The FIFA team of the year was just plain ridiculous without Salah and Kevin De BRuyne.
Utterly ridiculous award. I’m embarrassed that I’ve commented about it twice now.
@Dissenter : Gary Payton was an NBA player, what the hell are you talking about ??
Dump Ramsey from the first team. .
Rid of Elneny, Welbeck, as well as those on loan like Ospina, Chambers
Clear senior ‘kids’ in the first team squad who aren’t good enough.
Hopefully, get 2 to 3 who could compete for the first 11 during the Jan TW.
I did some work to cover probably a third of Xhaka’s mistakes in the EPL’s 2017/18 season. This is what I came up with. 1-st round vs Leicester at home, 29-th minute for their second goal https://lasthl.com/arsenal-vs-leicester-city-week-1/2/ This one is shared between Elneny and him because the Egyptian needlessly puts him under too much pressure. That said, he completely panics and plays it blind deep in his own half. Another situation is for the corner that Leicester score their 3-rd goal where he is first ballwatching, and then vs Mahrez he just looks like a person with a gigantic hangover.… Read more »
HighburyLegend
“@Dissenter : Gary Payton was an NBA player, what the hell are you talking about ?”
I’m sorry but you have me confused. I’ve never really gotten British humor.
I wrote about G-E-R-R-Y PAYTON, the Arsenal goal keeping coach from 2003-2018.
I hope that helps clear the boozy fog from your mind.
Raptora
You mean you really took out all that time to do all that research just to tell us that Xhaka has made mistakes?
Why don’t you send the.links to the Arsenal FC.coaches. I’m sure that their video editing coaches are on extended vacation.
…and can you generously post a review of his few strengths while we are at it.
Thanks. for the review though.
Yes Dissenter, I was kidding… 😉
https://www.skysports.com/football/news/15205/11507880/alexis-sanchez-looks-lost-at-manchester-united-says-paul-merson
Ah ah.
HighburyLegend
My bad…. like I said earlier, I suck at discerning British humor.
You had me rechecking the spelling of the name over and over again.!
lol sorry for that.
United won’t allow the Sanchez situation to continue for too long. I believe it should cost Mourhino his job since he pushed for it.
They will renogotiate his contract, probably move him out and pay the balance of his wages.
I’m not sure we can afford to that with Ozil.
HighburyLegend
It’s not your fault I’m a humorless gnome.
I hope our pathetic management have learnt from the Ozil experience. There need to be clauses in such massive contracts. Ozil can pretty much down tools for the next 3 years and collect a cool £50m. Fucking ridiculous and doesn’t exist in other highly rewarded jobs. wtf? High pay should be connected to achievement.
Dissenter, That’s re Charlie claiming that Marko had overblown Xhaka’s mistakes. Marko’s opinion was very well put and true and really no one with a pair of eyes should say otherwise. “He’s not really combative more occasionally dirty you saying reasonably well aware is about as close to you saying he’s not aware and as far as physical presence is concerned I will admit that he’s tall. Also his defensive input isn’t overblown in the slightest because some of his actions actually lead to goals his lack of awareness his positioning they all hinder the team I would argue that… Read more »
I mean – give me a Cesc, Santi to help with moving the ball forward from our own half any day of the year, compared to Xhaka’s type of footballer. It’s not a coincidence that there are literally almost no other players like him. It’s a “specialist” footballer in a time where you have to be good at everything. To be a top player as a specialist you have to be absolutely top notch at what you’re doing but still have good quality in your all-round game. Kroos and Jorginho are the two names that come to mind but especially… Read more »
“Mavropanos [groin] is expected to return to full training in around four weeks. Maitland-Niles should be back in action within 3-4 weeks while Laurent Koscielny is working outside with a view to re-joining the group in November.”
– Physioroom
At this stage it’s pointless debating Xhaka. Arsenal fans pundits commentators and football writers heck anyone who’s watched us play the last two plus seasons knows what he’s like and what he’s about and a handful of people who still defend him continue to be wrong. These discussions usually happen after he has a somewhat decent half of football or when he scores a rare goal. Like Sunday for example we won’t talk about how bad he was first half no instead let’s just talk about his improvement in the second half. It happens with Ramsey too absolutely shocking on… Read more »
The two best teams at the moment have De Bruyne and Keita to move the ball forward as fast as possible. We have a freaking quarterback. We will not shorten the distance to City and Pool with him in our team. It’s no coincidence that Wenger somehow always managed to finish in top 4. All until a certain Swiss came along.
Marko
Agreed. Except for the bit about Ramsey; even those here who defend him admit that he was generally poor on Sunday. Paulinho argued that he was more impactful than people were giving him credit for, but that’s not quite the same thing as saying he had a good game.
“Ozil can pretty much down tools for the next 3 years ”
He already begun since a while.
Bam I have no real interest in wasting another day talking about Xhaka or Ramsey and their general effectiveness compared to how wank they are. What I will say is that you and Paulinho on Ramsey are as bad as Charlie on Xhaka. You’re all literally the same. And there’s nothing wrong with how you guys feel you’re all just kind of wrong about these players. You’ll see this eventually when said players are replaced with better fully functional CM’s
Raptora
Well, so the question is, who should play alongside Torreira? And also, who should play just in front of those two? If you were the manager, whom would you select?
1
Torreira-Xhaka
Ozil
2
Torreira-Guendouzi
Ozil
3
Torreira-Ramsey
Ozil
4
Torreira-Ramsey
Mkhitaryan
5
Torreira-NewCM
NewCAM
Or something else?
6
Torreira-Guendouzi
Mkhitaryan
Why Ozil is on this list ??
Marko
Well, I agree that another day on that topic would be a day wasted, but I don’t agree that we are the same as somebody is on Xhaka. The two players are very different, as are the arguments made in defense of them. However, it’s not all that important.
The squad is the squad and we can’t do anything about it now so these problem players will continue to play because who else is there. The question should be should we at the nearest available opportunity get rid of Xhaka? I say yes to improve the midfield. Should we give Ramsey a new contract or allow him to leave on a free? I say leave on a free. A shame we’re leaving money on the table but he isn’t worth a new contract and by giving him a new one you’re basically saddling yourself with a player who is… Read more »
It was well documented, leading up to Sanchez’s departure that he was a disruptive influence in the dressing room. I have no doubt his utter desire to win and his combative style on the pitch rubbed up some of his teammates the wrong way. However I just wonder if the tide turned against more quickly because it became clear enough Wenger was against him and people took against him in order to protect their own jobs. No doubt people distanced themselves from Alexis to avoid falling out with Wenger. If we could pick him on the cheap, and on sensible… Read more »
but I don’t agree that we are the same as somebody is on Xhaka. The two players are very different, as are the
Nah you’re basically the same. You make arguments for playing someone who isn’t good enough and who hinders us as a competitive club. Both are inconsistent and non-existent on the defensive side and substitute runs into the box with sprayed passes to the full backs and the arguments are the same
Leeds,
No return for any player associated with the dismal recent Wenger period. This club won’t move on till we fully cleanse and replace with players that are hungry, motivated to win and not just collect massive salaries and selfie in ridiculous fashion wear.
Sanchez should never have left that should have been Ozil but in saying that no I wouldn’t have him back. On the offensive side of things only legitimate wingers should be targeted. Players with pace dribbling and the ability to beat a man that’s what is missing. Two of them in fact. One either side of Mhiki behind Aubameyang/Lacazette is the way forward
How on earth is Torreira Arteta-ish? Torreira tackles the ball with his head. Can you see the preening narcissist Arteta doing that? Torreira is also much more active and progressive in his style of play. Arteta was a slightly more cultured Denilson or Elneny.
Yeah I’ve seen Torreira twice in the last few months try to win the ball on the ground with his head. That’s a special kind of loon right there
“Raptora You missed the point once again. I didn’t state it was odd people talked about errors Xhaka has made, it’s odd that it’s only ever him being mentioned when he sure as hell isnt the only one with suspect input defensively. It’s about consistency, and not scapegoating particular players. @Marko You’re a waste of time clearly, I even laid it out plain as day yesterday but here you are again peddling nonsense about what I think of Xhaka. “You make arguments for playing someone who isn’t good enough” The squad is the squad, you can sit and talk about… Read more »
For me it should be
Torreira-Ramsey
Mkhitaryan
until it can be
Torreira-NewCM
NewCAM
or a four-CM midfield diamond.
I think if we want, we can sell ozil whilst covering half his wages for the next 2 years.
So that’s 150k a week. Which isn’t bad as we can pay the remaining 150k to another player. We can of course get a decent fee then for ossil
Cech is doing well with his hands while still terrible with his feet and maybe he feels he can afford to drop one on Wenger now too. Not sure he would be praising the Emery regime if Leno was playing ahead of him,though. Everyone of them drops shit on Wenger now, a man who lost his job because he was over-protecting the same loud mouths. If you don’t know me, you will think I’m a Wenger fan, but I just seem to hate it when someone is being treated unfairly. Arsenal players seem to be rolling over themselves to kick… Read more »
Ramsey is a goner. hopefully.
Torreria Arteta-ish? What’s that supposed to mean? Are you trying to slate Lucas by association? Poor if you are.
Before you slate him, as yourself, was Arteta playing for his country’s top the World Cup is at 22? At best Arteta was a decent player who had the fortune to help himself off the Wenger gravy train before Arsene was booted out.
Dissenter
Regarding the fifa awards, I’ve always thought they’ve had an anti english/Premier league bias.
vicvic
But we DO know you, and we know you are a massive Wenger apologist and would keep wenger or his corpse in your basement, just to be close to the guy.
Ramsey is here to stay, don’t see our lot getting rid when it’s so much easier to bend over and PR it as keeping a ‘big player’.
The whole club is a lick of paint from that of previous years. I see no substantial changes to e perfectly honest, certainly nothing that’s bled it’s way to the pitch. All very minor when we had the option of going truly all guns blazing.
That’s weak leadership for you, safe baby steps. Innovation is a much more difficult prospect to stomach.
and yes, Wenger did fk all for the defence for the sake of the “arsene way”. arsenals way was always 1-0 to the arsenal.
Bamford
You don’t want Ramsay anywhere near the no8 in a two man midfield ultras our defence is rock solid
It’s asking for trouble
He needs to go along with ozil to free up some money and space players who truly apply themselves
Unless our defence is rock solid I meant
I’m torn Vic I agree some of the tossers in our squad were mailing it in under wenger and he still protected him and played them, which contributed to him getting sacked. They should be more grateful But I still don’t really sympathize with a manager who didnt take his job seriously but has earned the best part of 100m from the club over the last 20 years. Like we can get a violin in for him to play some sad music because Bellerin and cech have both unfairly stuck the boot in – but I’m afraid it will have… Read more »
Yes Charlie, we had the option of being brilliant already. Fucking emery choosing not to make us be brilliant already. Why did he choose to make a painfully average team stay average when all he had to do was decide that it will be brilliant now?????
China,
He “earned” £100m just over the last 12 years of decay. Not the full 22 years….
Gon,
People whose hearts are big will see what I’m saying.
It’s obviously beyond you, but if a guy I dislike the most it’s being treated unfairly, I stand up and say no. And most people are like that but obviously not you.
And keeping corpses in basement, is that your thing? Because those words of yours about it make me wanna vommit.
Vicvic You make some good arguments there. I have to say. From someone who loved what Wenger created at the club and loved the great memories he gave us, he still carries the can What Cech is saying is that he could have been more pragmatic sometimes and that’s what inevitably led to his 10 years of failure. He put the arsenal way above winning. He was stuck in a loop from the early 2000s and couldn’t break that cycle. It’s funny because our titles were won with a much more robust ethos. Teams that could play dirty and dig… Read more »
In the role Ramsey is playing now someone like a James Maddison of Leicester would be better suited.
Wenger was so close to free bushing a great team in the latter years but his stubbornness was the architect of his own doom.
Still better in his day than klopp will ever be
People whose hearts are big didn’t deserve to have to pay the highest ticket prices in world football to watch wenger not even slightly attempt to take his job seriously
Morning grovers On today’s post, The rumours linking Arsenal to Ismaila Sarr is a welcome development for me considering the lack of pace we have in the team on the flanks. I also would like to see the club target the best youngsters in subsequent transfer windows if indeed we intend to stick with Unai Emery for the length of his contract and more. Looking over at Mancitys squad I’m baffled at the amount of quality youngsters they have all over the park and rumours have it that pep is looking at Ajax midfielder Frenkie Dejong and wolves Ruben Neves… Read more »
If you want a balanced view then I’m not sure if it would be looked at as a positive if say xhaka or mustafi were tackling the opposition on the ground with their head …… Can hear it now “he should stay on his feet”….” bad tackling technique ” .. But of course ,with Torriera it will be about how good it is to have a player who is prepared to put his head on the line. Also noticed that no criticism was aimed at Torriera after referee Moss ignored his potential 2nd yellow card challenge …just the sort of… Read more »
China Wasn’t talking about Emery, dry your eyes. Emery is representative of the tepid change though, not a ground breaking appointment, a solid one. I referenced the leadership at Arsenal FC, Stan and the suits charged with the direction and ambition. They set the tone and post Wenger we had a chance to ignite. We haven’t, and it’s not a mater of “early days”, it’s a matter of safe/defensive strategy at board level. We got a ‘safe’ pair of hands and tinkered with the squad at best aka fresh lick of paint. It’s improvement, but it’s not innovative or ambitious… Read more »
China/un na naai
I get your points.
But what got to me is all our players are now hitting Wenger on the head now, claiming a distance from the failure and loading it on Wenger.
What rubbish. They are as guilty as Wenger, so they should just shut up and play football.
These kind of negative talks about one’s former boss always seem cheap to me. Big boys with honour would shut up and do their jobs.
Paulinho..
“In the role Ramsey is playing now someone like a James Maddison of Leicester would be better suited.”
good point that i agree with.
Someone on here asked about maddison when he was being transferred and I commented about his excellent technique and I likened him to ozil’s style of play and I have to say that he is outplaying ozil in all departments this season and would make an excellent no. 10 for us …has a tremendous attitude and is not lacking in confidence ,that’s for sure.
“I referenced the leadership at Arsenal FC, Stan and the suits charged with the direction and ambition. They set the tone and post Wenger we had a chance to ignite.”
100% accurate.
Imagine if Iwobi was playing for Rennes in that last Europa game.
Guys on here might say splash £70m and get us this Electric guy!
The boys are always wonderful if we didn’t raise them at Arsenal.
In na naai “Was a shame to watch him crash and burn as he did but he did it to himself. It would have been fairer to let him go after Chelsea final. That was the time.” Agreed ,though I would have preferred he went after the villa final as I don’t think Arsenal football club were given the credit for the quality football we played that day …it’s the best football I had seen in a fa cup final and although people,including many on here, said it was “only villa” ,they are wrong as during my time supporting the… Read more »
@Trap : Tielemans is a big flop at Monaco.
Totally overated for me.
What other premier league club will be willing to offer Ramsey what we are offering, even on a free transfer.
What other premier league club will guarantee Ramsey starts, other than Arsenal.
…especially when on considers his current shitty form.
I think Ramsey has dribbled himself into the corner flag pole.
It will be good riddance. That’s why we pay the scouts anyways.
here you are again peddling nonsense about what I think of Xhaka. What nonsense am I peddling? You rate him I don’t that’s what was being discussed. We’re not talking about formations or the here and now I know that the squad is the squad and there’s nothing to be done about it. Is he a good player compared to a bang average one that’s the discussion. Also noticed that no criticism was aimed at Torriera after referee Moss ignored his potential 2nd yellow card challenge …just the sort of challenge that Moss twice red carded xhaka for..I dread to… Read more »
Emery is representative of the tepid change though, not a ground breaking appointment, a solid one.
Charlie can you please give us examples of realistic ground breaking appointments that could have been made??
Marko
I was waiting for people t pont out that Torriera loses the ball too.
He lost the ball at one point in that second half…it almost resulted in an Everton goal scoring chance.
Xhaka too has lasted for 90 minutes with one early yellow card.
It’s hard to discuss Xhaka because there’s never balance to the conversation, everyone just wants to talk about how bad he is
Trap
Quality post. I would disagree with Thauvin. He’s struggles against better opposition. He lacks the ability to get to the next level in terms of acceleration on the ball to create or the speed/off the ball movement to run in behind.
We should focus on signing prospects with a high ceiling or top quality. We need to stop spending big money on 7/10 players.
Receding Arteta would have been ground breaking in Charlie’s eyes. He wanted Allegri sure but when it came down to Emery, Arteta, Vieira, Nagelsmann or Henry he backed Arteta. Made arguments against everybody else I seem to remember that he said Nagelsmann lacked experience for the job. I know
vic
This is football, you get criticised. get used to it or else take up needle work.
Im sure a lot of people have told Wenger to change but instead of listening he carried this wave of arrogance and know all.
Im not surprised his downfall came eventually, always happens with dictators.
I’m not sure Arsenal was ready for a ground breaking change, post Wenger.
Our backroom organization was still in formational stages and wouldn’t have been able to manage that type of change.
It was basically Wenger and Gazidis [to a small extent] running the club. You don’t suddenly start flying from a crawling position, do you?.
It’s hard to discuss Xhaka because there’s never balance to the conversation, everyone just wants to talk about how bad he is
Right back at ya dissenter. Torreira lost the ball against Everton and nearly cost us a goal? If I had a nickel for everytime Xhaka done that over the last two seasons I’d have a house in Beverly Hills. But sure let’s highlight a mistake by Torreira in his first premier league start
It’s hard to discuss Xhaka because there’s never balance to the conversation, everyone just wants to talk about how bad he is
Very hard to discuss ..yet some seem happy to spend days saying the same thing all over again
Regarding Ramsey, it is all about money.,very similar to the sanchez/ozil situation. I’m sure other clubs have shown an interest in him but he knows that the longer he leaves it the more beneficial it will be for him… ..he is holding the club to ransom as did ozil and Sanchez so basically we have learnt nothing from the previous seasont So who is to blame for the Ramsey situation now as the blame was firmly laid at our previous managers door for our failure with ozil/sanchez. I don’t blame the players as it is the way of the world… Read more »
I’m not sure Arsenal was ready for a ground breaking change, post Wenger. You don’t do ground breaking on a 70m budget You don’t do ground breaking with a squad of overpaid players no one has an interest in placing proper bids for Our hands were tied in a lot of ways, we needed a fighter who does not mind working on a budget to come in and work with what we have, extract all he can from the squad and get us back to respectability ..Arteta was not that man. Not many top class managers will fancy that job… Read more »
I agree that our scouting should be on players just about to get to the elite level.
Enough of signing 30 year-olds who are just about to start waning.
Leicester have been kicking ass for 3-4 season with signing such players.
The always seem to find good talent like James Madison, Demarai Gray, Ben Chiwell, Wilfred Ndidi and Harry MaGuire.
That’s why I want us to start releasing these old Wenger-babes and start signing players that aren’t flashy but make sense. Start with Ramsey because he sucks anytime he’s given a specific role in a very structured team.
Pierre
It isn’t like ramseys deal is suddenly an issue. we have been discussing terms with him for months. It’s not going to talked about every day as that would be tedious at the workplace.
Im sure if it’s not sorted by Jan, he will be moved. Which I’m praying for, but I have a feeling arsenal will fold and give him what he wants. I hope they surprise me.
So who is to blame for the Ramsey situation now as the blame was firmly laid at our previous managers door for our failure with ozil/sanchez. Rightly so as to who we bought and sold went through him absolutely. He should have been more aggressive with regards to the Sanchez situation instead of waiting until the final day of the transfer window and looked to sell him and buy Lemar. His attitude towards the contracts were awful too. But now it’s very much Ivan and Raul’s fault. They should have set a deadline and if he didn’t sign then aggressively… Read more »
Marko “Right back at ya dissenter. Torreira lost the ball against Everton and nearly cost us a goal? If I had a nickel for everytime Xhaka done that over the last two seasons I’d have a house in Beverly Hills. But sure let’s highlight a mistake by Torreira in his first premier league start” You just made my point. If Xhaka loses the ball, it’s like a major conflagration consuming north London. It’s like major news because a midfielder misplaced a pass but when another player does it …hmmm okay. On Sunday, Xhaka was struggling in the first half as… Read more »
“everyone just wants to talk about how bad he is”
He’s not ??
“Also noticed that no criticism was aimed at Torriera after referee Moss ignored his potential 2nd yellow card challenge …just the sort of challenge that Moss twice red carded xhaka for..” Your point being what? That Moss is as biased as we are?! There was not the slightest of touches on that tackle. It should have been a yellow card for simulation. Ugly dive. Ugly. Torreira managed to calculate it or maybe stop himself in the right time. The notion that you are trying to imply is that because we (many of the Arsenal fans) don’t rate Xhaka and think… Read more »