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You gotta love raw, unadulterated capitalism. This is the Adidas Chief Exec speaking at the NYC Stock Exchange.

“When we look upon the Arsenal brand, it’s a stellar global brand that’s been under-performing in the last couple of years,”

“We believe that long-term there is so much upside in Arsenal.

“If you look at how they’re playing right now, 5-1 at Craven Cottage against Fulham, playing some of the best football, some of the best goals were made … [Aaron] Ramsey when he scored the goal with his heel.

“It’s just stellar football. They had a good weekend, but in the wrong kit!”

Yeeeeeaaaaaahhhh!

I’m totally onboard with this type of chat. We’re a sleeping giant. We have a huge fanbase, we sellout most weeks with shite football, we are the fanciest club in London and we’ve built all this without a major trophy since 2004. If we can get back into the Champions League and start competing, imagine how much that sponsorship could be worth?

Throw in some sexy reworks of vintage classics, and Adidas could be looking at a solid return on their investment. I’d be fascinated to know if the deal worked for PUMA. I mean, we started winning under them, but did that translate into bottom line cash money for them? Or were they looking for the halo effect?

Hector Bellerin was out in FORCE for World Mental Health Day.

“Back in the day there was a stigma for men to talk about it or there was a stigma as a group of people, as footballers, to talk about these things. It’s important that we take these chains off and start talking about it, moving forward with an open mind.”

“Imagine there’s a kid out there who’s not happy with himself. He’s not a kid, a teenager and he knows that he’s got an issue but he’s scared because he doesn’t know what his family or friends are going to think about him,” he continued.

“Then a player who he looks up to, like Danny Rose, raises this issue – it’s probably going to give this kid the push he needs to get out there and talk about it. From there, hopefully he can then be back in the best health he can, and move forward from that issue.”

GO GO GO!

I love Hector. He doesn’t give a fuck what people think, he just uses his platform to go after what’s right. What an inspirational figure.

People say footballers shouldn’t be held up as role models, and maybe they’re right, but I do love it when someone sticks their head above the parapet and makes the most of their intellect and opportunity.

Footballers are hugely important in our culture, so to have someone like Hector as a beacon of progress, working for us, is just fantastic. It also helps that he’s playing much better this season, he’s focused on defending, he’s improving his decisions and he looks a lot happier on the pitch.

The Ramsey story drones on, apparently he’s keen on playing with Ronaldo, so Juve are eyeing up a mega contract offer for him. I mean, who wouldn’t want to play at Juve? Trophies, Italian food and trophies. I still have my doubts a club that paid a whopping fee and salary to Ronaldo are going to find money to burn on Ramsey. But we’ll see. I’d imagine Emery will try and flog him in January and reinvest before we get the customary ‘I’M PROTECTING MY BODY’ performances in February.

Great news is we have a great recruitment department now, so hopefully we’ll not be replacing with a dud. I really hope it’s not Banega. Find us someone young who can grow into the team.

Arsene Wenger hasn’t exactly had suitors lining up for his signature since he quit. He’s not linked to Madrid, Bayern or United. He can’t even get a link to Everton. However, the PSG rumours are back. I fucking dare them. There is talk of a sporting role, but I don’t get how you could give someone a role like that after they drifted so far away from what makes a competitive team?

Anyway, not my problem.

My problem is Arsenal making it 10 games in a row in 11 days time.

Fingers crossed the international break doens’t kill any of our players.

I’ll be back with the team for a pod next week. x

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HillWood

Overweight middle aged men look ridiculous in football shirts regardless of being Adidas or Puma

rollen

lol thats 80% of sports pub goers

Peter12

My only gripe regarding selling Ramsey is why he wasn’t sold last August. It was clear that he was trying to do an ‘Ozil’; so why was he allowed to string the club along. I simply do not understand how we can flippantly forgo a hefty transfer fee (say £50m) last Summer only to try to get only £15-20m in January if we are lucky or £0 next Summer on Bowman. We did the same thing with Sanchez remember. Refused to accept £60m for him from City only to accept £0 (or as near) for him 3 months later when… Read more »

scotsgooner

Jamie on Ramsey – “Make him train with the under 23s until he leaves. See how many top clubs are lining up for a player who hasn’t kicked a competitive ball in 10 months if Ramsey decides to ride it out until the summer.” What if we can use him to win games? What if one of our other players gets injured and we have no cover? Also, how much will we be able to sell him for if we let him run down his contract in the under 23’s? I don’t give a fuck whether his contract is running… Read more »

Moe

Bam,

Hat off to you for your take on the Kavanaugh matter. Brilliant and informative.

China

Vic my advice: Getting proper sleep is probably more important than anything else. Regular poor sleep literally hanged your brain chemistry and fucks you so hard. It’s unbelievable how much stable good sleep can help with depression As someone else said, good healthy food and time outdoors is very positive, especially if you have a nice park or woods or something nearby I found it hugely helpful to cut some of the negative influences from my life. As an 18 year old I used to read a lot about conspiracy theories and be hugely invested in politics but regardless of… Read more »

China

Vic as well, if arsenal contribute to your feeling General shittiness even 1%, step back from the club until you feel better. When I was having a hard time and I was so fucking tired of arsenal, which is why I started making less effort to stay up really late for games. Going to work the next day off the back of 3 hours of sleep when you’re already suffering is just a terrible decision – even worse when you stayed up all night and we got spanked by Bayern or whatever Thankfully there’s more of a feel good factor… Read more »

un na naai

Vic vic Yoga and meditation helped massively as well. I know it’s sounds a bit hippyish but there are scientific reasons to do so. Deep breathing floods the body with oxygen and helps the body to stay calm. Focusing the mind on a single point and blocking out neagative thoughts trains the mind and helps to stop your thoughts wandering to somehwere dark. Yoga is fantastic for a positive mental attitude too. Find a style that suits you. Maybe the first couple of times you attend a class you may feel awkward but stick with it. By the 3rd or… Read more »

China

Nicely explained

un na naai

Also. Don’t ignore the negative elements of your life. Acknowledge them. Pretending it doesn’t exist won’t make it go away, acknowledge and make peace with it.

gonsterous

life is hard. And unlike in Asia, Europeans live a more lonely life. So emotionally, you are not as connected to people around you. Having lived alone in Europe since I was 20, I’ve started becoming very mentally shut out. I’ve changed a lot too. Got back home this year and everyone says I’ve changed. I am more quiet and like my alone time more.

un na naai

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/paininthearsenal.com/2018/10/12/arsenal-strength-ainsley-maitland-niles/amp/

Can’t wait for AMN to come back and get game time. Really love that kids. Could be a great player for us.

HighburyLegend

“apparently he’s keen on playing with Ronaldo”
CR7 would LOVE to play along such a wonderful player.
(but what will happens if Rambo Ramsey – aka Afc Welsh Dna – wants the same wages ??)
(lol)

un na naai

Fuck Ramsey
He was always a selfish prick
Should have kept Wilshere and santi. Much better in that position anyway

HighburyLegend

“Should have kept Wilshere”
??????

gonsterous

As long as the tabloids big up ramsey, we can get a decent fee for him. Maybe convince mou for a Ramsey plus cash for pogba. That would be the end for xhaka too.

englandsbest

Bamford10

There’s a deep flaw in your reasoning. You take a stance and then seek to justify it. I believe it’s called teleology.

Take a step back. Ask yourself why you believe some of the ‘witnesseses’ and not others.

gonsterous

Santi maybe, though he’s also very injury prone, and 33. But not wilchair in a million years. Don’t really see what wilshire or Ramsey bring to the team. Both don’t know which position best suits them, nor do they thrive in any given position.

Victorious

Is there anything literally more tedious than the international bore, I mean I’m slithing my wrist in boredom and its not even past the first week yet,Yawn.

Michael24

Victorious

I agree totally.

un na naai

Gons

Would rather have him and Wilshere than Ramsey right now

un na naai

Bam

There’s no credible evidence to suggest her story is true
Her own witnesses refuted her story

HighburyLegend

@gonsterous : Pogba at Arsenal, all right…

a) you have to convince Maureen;
b) but mostly you have to convince the Manure board;
c) I don’t see why Pogba would like to play for us anyway.

gonsterous

highbury

here’s my counter argument…

shut up you pessimistic goon. 🙂

un na naai

HL

I wouldn’t want pogba at arsenal anyway. He’s an overrated mug. He’d want too much money for not enough output
Another ozil type for me

HighburyLegend

Here’s mine : Maureen fired in January, Zidane in.
Pogba stay at old toilet.

Leedsgunner

*aware of

Leedsgunner

Nketiah showing again that he is a goal scorer wherever he goes. If fact many of our youth did well on International duty yesterday. The future looks promising. With ESR and Reiss Nelson along side him and Joe W.illock in the mix as well, our youth team hopefully will really step up this season and next. If they do, it will save us millions and allow the club to spend the money on a world class player on a part of the team not being supplemented by the youth team. It think we should get a WC centre back to… Read more »

Bamford10

The Ramsey situation is an interesting one. Now clear that the club made a u-turn on the contract offer, though why they made this u-turn and who specifically pushed for the u-turn remains a little unclear. Article below implies that it could be down to Ramsey not being a good fit for Emery’s approach to the game, but whatever Ramsey’s flaws, he’s a better fit for Emery’s high-octane, pressing approach than someone like Xhaka is. I think it’s more likely that it was his salary expectations that were the problem. Hard to know, though. “Aaron Ramsey: I thought I had… Read more »

BacaryisGod

Now this is interesting…… https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/oct/12/aaron-ramsey-thought-agreed-new-arsenal-contract-ready-stay One, it’s clear that while there may have been an offer on the table from Arsenal, it’s not as simple as them pulling it. Anyone who knows contract negotations could tell you that if a deal really was in place, Arsenal would have sent the contract to Ramsey’s agency and it would have been signed right away. Seems like it was a game of chicken. Arsenal put their final offer out there. Ramsey dragged his feet because he wants to see what else is out there. Arsenal decided not to be held hostage maybe because… Read more »

BacaryisGod

Funny Bamford-you beat me to it…

BacaryisGod

That quote ‘I thought I agreed a new contract with Arsenal’ is very, very fishy. Doesn’t sound anywhere near as agreed as Ramsey is implying.

Bamford10

Marko made a shout for Alderweireld a little while back: would he make sense if we think we need a better, more mobile CB? Are there other options that make sense?

HighburyLegend

“Aaron Ramsey: “I thought I had agreed a new contract with Arsenal”

Joke Friday!!

HighburyLegend

Ramsey is just like my stupid avatar.
(he’s a dick)

Leedsgunner

Although it suits Ramsey to paint himself as an undeserving victim, the reality is a more complicated. A new contract was offered to Ramsey before the summer, if he really wanted to sign it, he could have done. He had all summer to do it. Xhaka and Elneny signed new contracts recently. He could have done so too.

He didn’t, probably following really bad advice from his agent, hoping he could get an Özilesque deal.

He tried to play chicken with the club… and he lost.

Bamford10

Bacary “and can’t conceivably play as one of the two screening midfielders in front of the defence” He played this role quite well for us last season several times, including in both AC Milan matches. The popular idea here that he is incapable of playing this role is overblown and wrong, IMO, and it’s clear that Emery has been deploying Ramsey as a CAM of sorts because he thinks he can thrive there, not because he doesn’t think he can play a more holding role. In the end, he hasn’t looked good enough as the CAM, but that doesn’t mean… Read more »

englandsbest

Here is my guess on the Ramsay salary issue:

Someone pointed out to Emery that the transfer and players salary budget were one and the same.

My second guess is that Ozil will be gone come 1st o Feb – that’s if any club will take him, even as a gift.

Bamford10

England

One, did you ever provide us with support for that outlandish claim that Wenger and Gazidis could have spent 30m on a CB and GK at one point (when we had 150m in cash in the bank) but that Stan Kroenke told them they couldn’t?

I remember you making this claim, and I remember asking you for some some support for this, but I don’t remember you actually supplying us with that.

Please do so or please instead admit that this claim of yours was / is utterly bogus.

Bamford10

England

By the way, I’m not trying to be a jerk with the above; I just think people need to support claims they make here, especially ones as provocative as the one you made.

kc

Bamford still talking about Justice Kavanagh? You fucking libtards just don’t know how to lose with class do you? It’s called innocent until proven guilty you fucking idiot. Zero evidence + Zero witnesses = Zero Crime. That Bitch was lying her ass off and beta boys like Bamford just jump in line to back her up with Zero proof. Do you even have a penis? You’re a fucking disgrace as an man.

Bamford10

Wow, KC. That reads like a parody. I didn’t know you were one of those guys. A shame. Regardless, it was Un na (who is in your camp) who brought the subject up. I simply tried to present a more accurate account of the hearings and allegations. And the only person drawing unsupported conclusions here is you (“she is lying!”). We don’t know whether she is lying or telling the truth — though the fact that she first identified Kavanaugh as her assailant in 2012 suggests she is likely telling the truth — but we do know that HE lied… Read more »

China

This is a tired topic but members of the board and Ivan always publically said wenger could spend on players he wanted and that we could be in the market for players who weren’t Ronaldo or Messi types Wenger used to say as much himself Then we wouldn’t and we’d hear suddenly how it’s not easy to sign players and sanogoals is like a new signing (better than Messi too) The facts are we had money. The top management said he could spend it. Then later down the line he actually did start spending it. So all evidence points to… Read more »

gonsterous

funny how after the me too movement a lot of people are coming out and trying to sue people for money. It’s like a scam now. a just cry, I got abused and hope to get some million. dollars to sit on..

China

Gonsterous I don’t doubt that’s true in some cases. But what about the in the cases where they’re telling the truth?

This whole situation has become a clusterfuck frankly where some are jumping on anti men bandwagons and some female victims are being shouted down

It’s a total shambles of a situation

Leedsgunner

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-6269541/Thierry-Henry-hoping-make-Ethan-Ampadus-father-Kwame-backroom-team.html

Is son, Ethan is supposed to be one heck of a prospect… but he is playing for Chelsea…

What’s that about?!?

Did Ethan Ampadu ever play for us? Anyone know?

Leedsgunner

*His son…

un na naai

Bamford

That’s you told. No proof whatsoever that he did anything wrong. She either lied or got the wrong guy

How do you know it’s more accurate. What proof do you have that it’s not a lie?? You have none!! So quit with the moral and intellectual superiority. Everyone here knows you well enough to know that you have none of either

Leedsgunner

Eric Bailly for Aaron Ramsey — good deal or bad?

un na naai

Leeds

I don’t rate Bailey
We have enough defenders of that quality
We need better

gonsterous

who the hell is Bailey ? I swear I must be the only one who doesn’t watch any one else play but arsenal.
I even skip watching el classicos. All about the highlights for me.

Thenry

Lol @ the le grunt blogger and at a totally silly funny who’s so far up his millennial Arse it’s beyond a joke How the fuk do you know Wenger has no offers? You are not a player in the footballing world other than are moronic cunts on this blog you are a fuking non entity unlike Wenger. By the way the fenerbechi president has said he has turned down lots of Offer. I’m betting he knows what goes on in European football more than glorified toilet cleaner like the le grunt blogger Seriously get help with your Wenger obsession… Read more »

adas

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