Fit people can’t game + Matty G styling tips + Emery on injuries

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Sometimes, people say to me, ‘Pedro, you have great sensibilities in understanding physiological circumstances when it comes to diagnosis of player ailments.’ Need proof? Well, BILD took the Le Grove commentary on Fortnite playing to the next level

“Yes, that can be the cause of Ozil’s back problems,”

“A competitive athlete feels the consequences of hours of inactivity much faster than a non-athlete.

“This is because Ozil’s physical structures are highly tuned due to his intense training.

“A non-athlete, however, does not notice that.”

So, if you’re a fat c*nt, excessive gaming is not an issue… but if you’re a highly-tune athlete, maybe. Rent-a-quote isn’t always the best place to get your information, but it has been interesting reading around about this issue. There have been issues in MLB over here, with one player having to miss a game because of carpal tunnel syndrome. It’s also notable that China is taking note of the issue, looking to crack down on tech firms that use ever-smarter ways to keep people hooked into their games.

What is astounding about this whole story is how the media works. What started out as a tongue in cheek joke is now being re-reported as Bild’s story on a Russian propaganda website. Unreal times we live in.

Anyway, a touch alarming the German is still out of action. Hopefully whatever the issue, it’s resolved in good time.

In other sadder news, Raheem Sterling was racially abused by a bunch of Stone Island thugs at the Chelsea game over the weekend. A lot of soul searching has to be done over this bullshit rearing its ugly head again. Sterling dug out the media for their part in this. That’s certainly true to a certain degree. But I think you also have to give some of the blame to politicians who’ve lost all sense of decorum and the corrosive nature of social media, giving rise to fringe idiots.

It’s incredible that in the space of a week, we’ve seen vile fan abuse at one of the biggest Premier League showcases in the world, and a banana thrown at an Arsenal player.

I don’t want to tell people what to do in the grounds, but if you’re there, and you hear someone shouting racist remarks, it’s up to you to speak up. Don’t giggle along. We’re all responsible for enabling that sort of bollocks. If you can get punched in the face for calling Arsene Wenger a balloon head, you should get an ear full for taking player abuse too far.

This is a photo of Matty G looking fine for Canal+. There was some debate had online about his choices, but for me, he’s looking exceptional here. The light pattern shows off a penchant for understated flair, I like the crisp white shirt and his decision not to wear a bow tie, and finally, I’m very much into the choice of what looks like a vintage Rolex.

The kid has it all.

Unai Emery has responded to concerns of the site over the growing injury list and whether his intense training methods are to blame.

“No. I don’t know if this is the reason. Big injuries like with Rob and Welbeck is…

“Then it is normal. We have played three matches.

“Mustafi is ok. It’s only because he is feeling muscular [that he came off], but [it’s] not a break.”

Weirdly, it’s great news that whatever happened to Mustafi is not that important. Hopefully, we’ll have a solid December and keep the injury issues down to a minimum. We don’t have a particularly deep squad and we really are going to need to lean into hard if we’re planning on competing with an extremely competitive top 6 this season.

I still can’t get over how good our start has been, and how poor our league position is. We’re 8 points off the top and unbeaten in 21 games. Staggering. If we’re thinking pragmatically, it’s going to still be extremely difficult for us to break the top 4 this season. Perhaps Europa is our best bet for getting back to the Champions League?

If we do get there, we’re going to have to spend big to improve the squad, because at the minute, we’re getting by on having a really easy Europa League group to play against. Getting back into the big time and having to play an elite 11 6 extra times before the December crunch is going to be tough to master after 2 seasons in the wilderness.

Right, that’s all I have for you beautiful festive people. See you in the comments.

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Dissenter

Leeds
How do you expect Koschielny to gain match fitness without playing in a low intensity Europa league gam at home?
Would you rather throw him into a must win premier league game?

KushDgunner

Wow…. Nigerians ti take over…… Abuja​ gunners I hail

HighburyLegend

“The greatest difference between Wenger and Emery?
It’s the sound of silence. ”

lol so true.

Leedsgunner

Dissenter Personally I don’t think Kos is anywhere fit enough to play a full EPL game but I would rather have him one the field against Southampton away for 20-30 mins helping us close off a match (provided we are leading) than risking him picking up an injury in an Europa League game. I suppose a happy compromise might be struck if he played 45 minutes in the upcoming Europa League match… so he would have something left in the tank versus Southampton. Southampton will be a very tricky match. With a new manager in charge, all the Southampton players… Read more »

Leedsgunner

*on the field

TallestTiz

Teddy

Uyo gooner? Idioke

Where do you watch the Arsenal from?

TallestTiz

Sorry about the late response btw

TallestTiz

Arsenal rumoured to be looking at a Valladolid defender called Fernando Calero.

Anyone following the La Liga? Is he that good?

raptora

Auoar had a phenomenal game vs City. Haven’t watched him in any other game though. Not sure how good he is on a regular basis, but surely a player with a very high ceiling. At 21 yo he is in the age bracket we should be looking at. A player like Cazorla, like Nasri, like Hleb but with goals. Like peak Arsenal Fabregas. We need to get a player like that, in addition to a winger in the mold of Dembele, Martial. Add a top class CB and it would be good enough for this winter + summer 2019. Any… Read more »

HighburyLegend

Yep, fingers crossed.

Emiratesstroller

Raptora

How much do you think all this is going to cost and where will the money come from?

I think that we have spent most if not all our budget for this season so even if
we get lucky and sell a couple of players I doubt that it will generate more than
£30-40 million.

There is a huge gulf between what you would like us to do in January and what
can and will be achieved.

Dream10

raptora

Guardiola talked up Aouar in the media after the two Lyon clashes. something along the lines of “Ndombele is fantastic but so is Aouar”. He did the same with Bernardo Silva after Monaco knocked them out a couple of years ago. Aouar praised Pep on French radio, saying he would love to play for him at some point.
Haven’t watched a lot of him, but press resistant players, especially ones the can play CM like Iniesta, Cazorla & Bernardo are rare. Highly unlikely we win his signature.

raptora

ES, I said this winter plus summer 2019. I expect us to have around the same money available as this summer – £70m + hopefully money from UCL + money from the new Adidas kit + Rwanda sleeves deals etc. A realistic view I think is between £70-100m available to Sven and co in the summer. Now add to this 10m Elneny, 15m Ramsey if we sell him in January, one of 20m Mikki and 20m Ozil; 10m Chambers and god knows who else. We could upgrade on each of Xhaka, Mustafi, Kolasinac so they could be on the market… Read more »

raptora

Dream, I know. But Pep cannot buy every great young player. He missed Torreira and Torreira is better than Fernandinho is already and he needed a player for that position also. The pool of players that would upgrade us is not that small by any means. It’s not Wenger anymore saying that if an X top player becomes available then he would buy him. I got so fkin tired of this BS. There are a lot of great players that me and you don’t know. People get paid to watch football all day and spot talents. We have the foundation… Read more »

Leedsgunner

I think these Özil to Inter Milan stories are just clickbait fantasies.

Unless Özil decides to take a massive pay cut and Arsenal agreed to give the player a massive golden handshake to incentivise him to go… quite frankly… there is no reason for Özil to leave until his contract comes to an end.

Cesc Appeal

I can see Emery liking Aouar for the CAM position in our system, decent pace, very good dribbler of the ball and a good passer. He could be one that manages that sort of CAM/RM/LM/CF role that Emery likes one of his attacking midfield players to have. Going to cost a lot but if we can get someone to buy Ozil that might offset it a bit, anything we get for Elneny as well will go toward it. Factor in that he would likely come in on £80 000 a week or something, means we will also be saving on… Read more »

gambon

Leeds

I think everyone could be happy if we let Ozil ave a free transfer. That wouldnt involve a paycut for Ozil or a golden handshake from us.

Next summer a team would have to stump up £36m to get Ozil on a 2 year contract.

I could see a lot of teams taking that risk.

First things first though we should try and sell to China.

Cesc Appeal

‘there is no reason for Özil to leave until his contract comes to an end’

Except for pride.

Stupid me, what am I saying?

Marko

Links to Aouar these days. Now that would be a coup for sure

gambon

Torreira was far from an unknown signing. He was mentioned on here numerous times as a great DM option. One thing Sven is very good at is understanding contract situations and buy out clauses. I dont think you will see us splash huge money on the likes of Pepe & Aouar. I think we will be looking at players other big clubs overlook, players that are running contracts down, players with clauses. Not sure how I feel about that. I think its a very smart way to build an 80 point team, but I dont think it will build a… Read more »

raptora

Fekir is another fantastic player that is probably going to move in Summer 2019.

Pipedream or not is not up to me to say.

But on transfermarkt.co.uk in June 2017 he was valued at £12m in contrast to the £58.50m that he is valued at now.

Our friend karim has been banging that drum for years.

I trust our scouts to do karim’s job and find the next superstar in the making like they did with Torreira.

Hopefully now that the ditherer is gone, Voldemort is also gone, we will be decisive in our negotiations.

Cesc Appeal

It may be Guardiola sees him as taking Silva’s role in that CM/CAM position.

If City go hard enough we won’t get him, but be interesting to see what happens there.

Good to see Guendouzi talking us up as a destination for great young talent when you consider Aouar is only 20.

Cesc Appeal

I still think midfield wise it may be Havertz that Mislintat is looking at, links a while ago, Bundesliga, still going under the radar a bit but looks a potential great talent.

That or someone like Fornals who has a release clause opportunity.

Marko

Not sure how I feel about that. I think its a very smart way to build an 80 point team, but I dont think it will build a 95 point team Let’s be an 80 point team before we can be a 95 point team okay baby steps. As for the Aouar City links they like everyone and while I’m sure they’d love to hoard every young talent in Europe they can’t play them all and they’ve more pressing needs than Aouar. He’s ripe for us though. Bid for him and convince him that with Ramsey and Ozil leaving he’ll… Read more »

Leedsgunner

Here’s a thought… what about Özil to BvB? Ask for Sancho or in return. I hear Reiss Nelson and Jadon Sancho are best mates… 😉

raptora

Leeds,
That’s more than wishful thinking.
Ozil to slow their young, fast team down. No way lol.

Leedsgunner

By taking Auba and Sokratis for the sums we did, we allowed Lucien Favre to have the transfer funds to fill key positions with his own signings.

It’s time for BvB to return the favour, I say.

raptora

https://www.whoscored.com/Players/241019/History/Jonathan-Bamba

This guy has already equaled his 7 goals tally from last season in 17 games. 22 yo left winger for Lille. Fits the bill along with probably 20 other similar players. We can find a gem and take a punt.

HighburyLegend

“Except for pride.
Stupid me, what am I saying?” lol

I don’t see why BvB could be stupid enough for wanting him, they are very glad to got rid of Dembele – same kind of irresponsible behavior.

Leedsgunner

I bet Barca are rueing taking Dembele… didn’t he cost the £130m? Ouch!!!

Leedsgunner

*them

raptora

Bailey, Brandt, Pepe, Oyarzabal, Coman… A lot of talented wingers out there.

HighburyLegend

*to have got rid

raptora

Dembele is going to settle down in Barca. Mark my words. He and Mbappe have the potential to become the new Ronaldo v Messi.
Messi commended him for being very good after his goal in the weekend. He has what it takes to succeed in every single club in the world.

gambon

I would definitely go after Sancho

Hes from London, hes best mates with Nelson and Willock.

I really cant see how he wouldnt want to come, as long as he knows he will play.

gambon

I would also look at Samuel Chukwueze.

Hes out of contract next summer (according to transfermarkt), just broke into the Villareal team, 19 year old Winger has scored 2 in his first 5 games.

We tried to sign him as a 16 year old but it went wrong for some reason.

Probably cost £8m or so with his contract running down.

Georgio

The more Ozil is out of the team…wether sold, gaming back injury or benched! Whatever keeps him out of the starting 11 is fine with me!

@Lasgidi gunners. I hail thee.

Thorough

Gambon. I would also look at Samuel Chukwueze.Hes out of contract next summer (according to transfermarkt), just broke into the Villareal team, 19 year old Winger has scored 2 in his first 5 games.We tried to sign him as a 16 year old but it went wrong for some reason.Probably cost £8m or so with his contract running down. When we were linked with Kelechi Nwakali, the Captain of the under 17 team that also contained Chukwueze, I felt the people we need to take a punt on were Victor Osimhen and Samuel Chukwueze. As it is Osimhen too isn’t… Read more »

Icheleaki

Come January Sven must do his all to sell Ozil. The next stage for Ozil now is to develop into a Sanchez-like poison.