The Mesut Ozil story continues to drag on, and as suspected, the chances of him leaving are somewhere in the region of no chance, to no f*cking chance. This is what his agent told GOAL.
“Unless you are on the inside and privy to what happens on a daily basis, it is best not to speculate.
“In every journey there are highs and lows, but it is important to consider the bigger picture rather than simply making knee-jerk judgements without proper context.
“The speculation around Mesut’s future has not come from him or us and is unfortunate because the situation is clear: his future is with Arsenal, end of story.”
It’s not surprising, the German’s agent pulled off the heist of the century with the deal he reeled in. He knew our exCEO was ego driven, he knew the club couldn’t lose Sanchez and his client at the same time, he squeezed right up until the last minute. £350k a week is staggering… likely why the club is e-mailing its staff to cut down on kettle boils at the Colney training ground.
What is interesting is how the Aaron Ramsey saga is playing out. Remember, his agent, a firm believer that his client was of more value than Mesut, was pushing for similar money. Arsenal pulled the rug from that deal when Emery realised he wasn’t going to extract the value he needed from Aaron, and maybe found out the extent of our finances. Now he’s likely to be a free agent in the summer, Juve has come knocking. This is what Fabio Paratichi had to say (SD).
“He’s a great player, we really like him and he plays for a great team. His contract is expiring and we’re always alerted to situations that the market offers, so we’ve also been alerted to Ramsey.”
The salary they’re talking about is closer to £150k a week… which looks more like a 50% payrise, and much more in keeping with the sort of money you’d expect him to be bringing in. Italian football is certainly a lifestyle choice more than anything, no doubt he’ll pick up some world class coaching, he’ll eat like a king and the tax laws now work more favourably for foreign stars. If you pay a 100,000 euros flat fee on your foreign income, that’s all you pay. Great if you’re Ronaldo, but likely advantageous if you’re Aaron. Boot deals, foreign tours and CL income can all be written off this way… so he could make up his cash that way. Ideally though, his biggest win is the truckload of trophies he’ll pick up. (I read that we’re considering Khedira as part of the deal and my eyes began to bleed)
The harsh reality of our world right now is we’re paying Champions League wages without the revenue. Arsenal has to take a sledgehammer to that this summer and recalibrate. I cannot listen to people tell me it’s impossible for us to compete when we have such bad finances.
“Revenue is vanity, profit is sanity, but cash is king.” I thought it might be interesting to look at where Premier League clubs source their money and what they spend it on by reviewing the clubs’ cash flow statements over the last decade. Some thoughts in the following thread.
— Swiss Ramble (@SwissRamble) January 3, 2019
The Swiss Ramble has a threaded tweet above that analyses how much money club owners pile into their vanity purchase.
SPOILER ALERT: Stan K hasn’t put in a penny of his own money into the Arsenal kitty (Though commendably, we pay the most tax by a margin)
Whereas… Chelsea and City are almost totally bankrolled by their hideous owners.
Now, you could get on your high horse about how f*cking tragic this is, or you could stop being a bitch and look at the opportunity we had and now have.
Stan hasn’t spent his own money, but he’s also not taken out. I can’t be outraged about a tiny bit of fee back in the day. Who fucking cares?
The issue with Arsenal has been that we’ve been deeply inefficient with our cash. Our wage bill is hideous, our player purchases have been very average and I think it’s fair to say that the young player production line has been pretty miserable for over a decade.
Think about this, in the world of crazy transfer fees, we’ve never sold a player for £50m! Our biggest ever sale was Oxlade Chamberlain at £35m.
The absolute key to Arsenal moving forward is to invest proper money in the best young talent from around the globe. Arsenal needs to aggressively target young players with a high ceiling, even if that means some transfers looking at the higher end of the spectrum. We can’t keep taking small gambles on OK young players, then investing average money into players with no resale value. That’s why Sokratis and Banega don’t work for me.
Think about Dortmund, they just sold bench merchant Pulisic for £58m! Sancho cost £9m and he’s worth £90m!
Arsenal can compete, but we need to make more aggressive moves on our wage bill and we need to come up with a more interesting approach on the field.
I don’t want to bang on about Spurs too much, but I think the Poch is such an interesting coach because he does such a huge amount with the players he brings in. Almost every single one improves. They work hard, they stay fit and they play on for the cause on smaller contracts than the rest of the league. He ALWAYS gives the kids a go. Do you think he’d have played Lichtsteiner over a young player against Liverpool? No way. He’d have thrown a well trained kid into the mixer.
The only way we get to that level is if we have a coach that young players know will make them better, and if we create a project that is really enticing. We’ve kind of worked the other way traditionally. We’ve enticed average players with big money on the promise they won’t get better, but damn, will they be comfortable in a world of unaccountability.
Question is, will players gravitate towards our current coach? Can he make players x3 what they were? Time will tell. The great thing about the new era is if it’s not working out, we can recalibrate quickly and work towards something a little less safe and a little more visionary.
Well, we can do that if Raul, Vinai and Sven really want to the kick the club forward and really want to attack a strategy that feels progressive. If those guys live in a comfort zone, we’re really in trouble.
Right, that’s me done, see you in the comments.
DM
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Bankz is here for the Tr4phy again
Tr4phy
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Fuck off DM.
You get me always!
Lol
Way too late…
Damn!
What is the point of a Stan K?
Pedro
I just read tweet from Mathias Karen saying that in the last 10 years, we’re the only PL club where the owner hasn’t invested a single penny. I think it was off the back of that Swiss Ramble thread.
Good piece, Pedro. Our youth development has been poor for a long time. Hoping it’ll improve massively under the new regime. It’s a shame, I used to get so excited watching the youngsters and thinking of the potential of what’s to come. Carling Cup (as it was then) used to be such fun to watch with the kids getting a run-out. But the years have ebbed away my faith. The Walcotts, Ox’s, Wilsheres… they never really came good like we thought they would. Not to mention the Zelalems, Eisfelds, Akpoms, and the list goes on. So now when I watch… Read more »
get decent English players for defenders
“That confirms that Arsenal is run solely as a business without any financial commitment or passion from Kroenke.” If that’s true it’s an embarrassing indicator. You can skip the “Kroenke was/is adhering to self-sustainable” bollocks. The guy has full control, he can do as he pleases – do me a favour hiding behind faux principle. We’re a dream club to have with a modern history of never seeing ANY payment from owners into the club. Eventually people will come to terms with the inevitable ‘law’ of business, leadership starts at the top of the hierarchy. This notion the top guy… Read more »
The thing about Selling young players for big profit sometimes depends on the selling club. Some clubs are famous for developing great young players . When your club is not doing well, the resale value of your young players drop drastically.
##So i think us not wining the league for a long time has really affected our young players resale value .
Compare Iwobi with Dele Ali for example. Now u get my point. Even Foden in Man city might value more than Alex Iwobi
I dont think Stan not putting money in is a huge issue. We have a big wage bill, and have made purchases including £56m, £46m, £42m, £35m, £35m, £35m, £34m, £27m, £22m, £16m on Chambers who had about 15 games experience. All but one of these players is at the club. We have a net spend higher than Liverpool and CHelsea in recent years. The big issue at the club is that from a transfers and contracts point of view we are utterly broken. The main reason we havent invested more in recent years is that we have completely failed… Read more »
Idowu
Sorry mate, disagree. Sure, if we were winning the league regularly with youngsters, their value would sky-rocket… but if we have real stand-out talent, they would still be highly valued today. Look at Southampton and the money they’ve fetched for practically their entire academy (mostly to Liverpool!). Look at Liverpool selling Sterling to City… they didn’t win the league and weren’t doing all that well at the time.
“What is interesting is how the Aaron Ramsey saga is playing out. Remember, his agent, a firm believer that his client was of more value than Mesut,”
Ornstein has already refuted that. He was looking for parity with Mkhitaryan.
Pedro A very revealing article. Thank you for the Swiss ramble link. However, I think you’ve got it very wrong. According to Swiss ramble only the owners of Arsenal and Middlesbrough have invested nothing into their clubs. Make no mistake, for Arsenal football club, that is an absolute, fucking disgrace. Shrugging your shoulders and dismissing it as a fact of life is not the right attitude. Arsenal fans have been paying some of the highest ticket prices in football for years and for what? I’ll tell you.:to watch lesser players play lightweight, also ran football and, crucially to pay off… Read more »
Paulinho
So Ramsey leaving is not about money ,it is about football ability and Arsenal have decided that he is not good enough .
Pierre – No, because £200.000 a week is still too much to carry with Mkhitaryan on it and that useless cunt Ozil on £350,000.
Gambon Disagree, it’s a huge issue because it highlights his incompatibility as a football owner. But I don’t say that simply by reducing his tenure to a zero. That zero is 14 million for instance at Spurs, and they’re hardly struggling. The point about Kroenke is his apathy and detachment from what the game demands/requires. He’s been here a decade and his “influence” on the club is non-descript. Which given his position, is utterly disgraceful. You can be low-end when comparing yourself to an Abramovich, but to do that you hire the best in the business, have a line of… Read more »
Gambon
We got £35 million for the ox, £20 million for Walcott and £18 million for giroud.
That’s pretty good business.
Also I’m not sure what you mean by this:
‘why on earth would he (kroenke) put money into such a mess of an operation. Until the operation is fixed, he is right to put nothing in.’
Well, it’s his ‘operation’ isn’t it? I mean he owns it.
If it’s a mess it’s his fault. He’s the boss.
If it becomes too much of a mess hopefully he’ll sell it to someone with genuine ambition.
CC
Agreed but ‘non descript’ is too kind.
Let’s be honest, Kroenke got involved when arsenal were a top three club.
He has since made us a top six club.
He has been a dreadful owner.
Chelsea are set to sell Callum Hudson-Adoi to Bayern for at least £30 million.
I always despair every time I read people bitching about commercial revenue like that’s the crux of the matter.
We need to get to good young talent first, not become the club that the fans just drop names of every player making their break-outs.
Funny how some Arsenal fans are snubbing their noses at Rambo and yet Juve want him? Not saying he will do much over there or be a success if he goes but Allegri (and Juve heads) must see something in him many of our Fans don’t? Funny (if true) that the club will block him moving in the Jan TW? Why? Don’t we have targets in line that could replace him? Where is the Benega signing that we’ve been yapping about all through December? Chelsea aren’t mucking about with their business, our team better get on with it before it… Read more »
Kroenke has been a bad owner not because of a lack of spending but because of his absence. Had he been present. We wouldn’t have made fundamental mistakes over the past decade.
The owners at Westham were shitty but at least they were man enough to show up to take abuse from fans.
It’s Kroenke’s passive and indifferent approach to ownership that’s killing the club. I bet he can’t name three players in the team.
The salary they’re talking about is closer to £150k a week
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….but he’ll get a huge signing on fee which will take him way over 200 grand a week.
I for one like Aaron, not just because of that one half season when he played out of skin, but for his overall career with us. He rarely gets booked, probably never sent off, has been decent Arsenal player and never ever forget what that cunt Shawcross did to him.
The only “mess” at Arsenal is the squad. The men running the club — Vinai, Raul, Sven, Unai — are smart, competent and ambitious.
If they think Stan needs to reach into his own pockets, they will ask him to do so. They clearly did not do this this summer, in part because they believe we can win on the basis of the club’s self-sustaining model — adopted before Kroenke became owner — and in part because they over-estimated the existing squad.
All talk of Kroenke is completely beside the point. Jesus Christ.
look at Pedro expanding on my acquiring young talent post.
what a beast, may you have great sex soon sir.
Just imagine where we would be as a club if kronke had the foresight to invest some money into the club around 10/12 years ago… He let Chelsea and then man city steal a match on the club .. Wenger took all of the blame/flak but ,if you remember , he went out and bought wiltord and Reyes for big money a few years prior when the club was flying so for people to suggest that he didn’t want to spend the millions that were supposedly on offer, was wrong. Wenger had built another great football team (with no money)after… Read more »
Pierre
Complete nonsense. You seem to have forgotten that Wenger made all decisions and that this is a man who said if he was given 100m to spend on signings he would give it back. You’re also repeating Englandsbest’s bogus claim about Wenger asking Kroenke for money for a GK and CB.
Dishonest nonsense.
Kroenke’s number one fan has joined the party.
The owner of the football club is “beside the point” apparently when discussing Arsenal in totality.
“The men running the club — Vinai, Raul, Sven, Unai — are smart, competent and ambitious”
1) How long have these guys been here in Stan’s decade at Arsenal
2) You can only be any of those things through action, so it very much remains to be seen
It’s strange how Tottenham are basically following the same path as Arsenal with regard to stadium build , football team and manager…
Will be interesting to see how it pans out for them ….will the players start to leave due to lack of silverware and being offered fortunes to join the oil rich clubs as Arsenal players did all them years ago.
Will pochettino stay loyal to the club or will be be enticed away ……the latter probably…
Then who knows what will happen to Tottenham in their shiny new stadium.
@Bamford –
“They clearly did not do this this summer, in part because they believe we can win on the basis of the club’s self-sustaining model”
Do you know this as fact, or is it conjecture?
Bamford
If wenger was averse to spending then how do you explain the expensive purchases of wiltord and Reyes prior to kronke’s arrival as obviously those players were bought on wenger’s recommendation.
We should target players like Aaron Wan-Bissaka. Kid has a great future ahead of him. English, tall, crazy fast and powerful. At 21 yo he can only get better and better. Has been one of Palace’s best players this season and at the end of last. We should focus at acquiring rising stars like him. Has already somewhat proven that he is good enough to be play on this level, but with potential to become much better in time. Highly atletic at 183 cm, 2 MotM performances this season. Kid’s very good.
Charlie One, given that the club runs on a self-sustaining model, the owner is in fact somewhat besides the point. As long as the men who are actually running the club are smart and competent — under Wenger this wasn’t the case, as dipshit was running the club — then all is as well as it can be. Two, as I have said many times, I couldn’t care less about Stan Kroenke; I do care, however, about an honest and truthful assessment of what is going on at Arsenal. You lot just want to vent your spleens and cry about… Read more »
Jim
It is deductive reasoning. If they asked him to dip into his own pockets this summer and he balked, we would have heard about it; and if we didn’t hear about it then, we definitely would have heard about it by now.
Also, look at what Emery said about the squad; it’s crystal clear that he thought we only needed some “touching up,” as it were, to finish fourth.
My prediction..
Joe and Marko will be on the scene soon spewing abuse at anyone who dared to suggest that it wasn’t all wenger’s fault .
As the days ,weeks ,months and years go on it will become apparent where the problem lies and people like joe and Marko will find it very difficult to eat humble pie.
* beside
“Two, as I have said many times, I couldn’t care less about Stan Kroenke; I do care, however, about an honest and truthful assessment of what is going on at Arsenal. “ Oh honesty and truthful… “ the owner is in fact somewhat besides the point. As long as the men who are actually running the club are smart and competent — under Wenger this wasn’t the case, as dipshit was running the club” So Stan is all gravy when the people are apparently competent and ambitious, but when they weren’t it was on Wenger despite Stan being owner throughout?… Read more »
Getting Bam to give an critique of Stan K!? The biblical rapture would take place before that happens. Too bad his fall too guy in this is no longer around as Manager to present a shield. He still refuses to let us know how we will know if Sven and co have asked Stan K to dip into his pockets to release the purse strings a bit more. How will we know what goes on behind doors? Will the Manager go all “Conte” and come out to say he is not being supported with what we need? Will Stan release… Read more »
“an honest critique” meant to say
It’s going to be hard to compete with sides that have owners putting in money and we don’t. No doubt about that. But ultimately that is not much of an excuse for us as we have mismanaged our money so badly. Over the past 10-15 years we have regularly spent money, but on players that lacked quality. Often we missed quality players by under valuing them by an amount that we could have easily afforded. Yet we then went and overpaid for poor quality alternatives. We could have been a much better side, possibly even competing for trophies if we… Read more »
@Bamford – I understand where your reasoning is coming from, however I personally don’t believe if such as situation “If they asked him to dip into his own pockets this summer and he balked” did occur we would necessarily hear about it. I am sure that many things go on at the board level that are never heard about. I don’t know if they asked Stan for money or not, yet I do know that Stan hasn’t contributed anything to the cause. The reason I asked if it was conjecture or not was because it seemed like you were trying… Read more »
By the way, I hate Stan K with a passion. But I’ll stick with him every day of the week over this Nigerian fellow. It’s not the least bit racist either. From the comments of his that I have seen in the past, alarm bells ring. Football is serious business and the owners need to have more vision for a club than just stroking a rich mans ego. A bad owner could bankrupt the club permanently.
Kroenke can fuck off:
https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/stan-kroenke-i-didnt-buy-arsenal-stake-to-win-trophies-a3202046.html
Good article from James Olley.
“The Spaniard deserves credit for injecting fresh versatility into a squad so rigid that Wenger’s switch to a back three felt like a revolution at the time, but there is a sense he is still searching for his best system.”
“Arsenal in throwback to Wenger era as late flurry can’t mask old failings”
https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/arsenal/arsenal-in-throwback-to-arsene-wenger-era-as-late-flurry-cant-mask-old-failings-a4028711.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1546434339
The goalposts have changed in the prem.somple as that.yes the clubs financials have been badly run.gazidis & co deserve a big F ** k u for that.All the cash rich boasting wasted.No advantage whatsoever in moving to a larger stadium.shit transfers.ridic wages.hopless youth development. A reliance on financial fair play.dont laugh. Massive mistakes.All under Kroenkes watch with an eglomaniac left to run it 10 years past his sell buy date.This is what we’re having to deal with.its going to take time folks & possibly a few managerial changes to get there.unless Emery works magic.or ideally Kroenke gets the big day… Read more »
The Arsenal situation is pretty clear
Patience, and smart investments.
If we bring in the right players and Emery still cannot get the best out of them he takes a walk. Those calling for him to be sacked after six months because they claim they have not seen any progress i have no words for them.
Especially those asking why we sacked Wenger if all we needed were better players, forgetting that Wenger was solely responsible for assembling this hideous squad and has always kicked against the appointment of a DOF.
In Kenya Arsenal is the most loved club, if the club can buy a 2 defender, a young keeper and a winger it can strenghen the squrd en win the rest of matches
Charlie I agree that Kroenke s hardly a great leader. However, I meant that at this stage, financial input isnt really the most important thing. In fact the only reason why there is a looming issue, is the complete financial mismanagement with regards contracts, wages and transfers. Kroenke was never going to make big cash injections while he owned 66% of the club anyway. That would be akin to giving Usmanov money for no reason. I think he would be open to investing, but i’ll say again, we’ve been such a mess that what would he have been investing into?… Read more »
Hmmm
By the way, the Arsecast extra after the Liverpool loss was quite good. At one point Stillman goes over how poorly we spent/managed our money in Wenger’s last 4-5 years. Definitely worth a listen. His frustration with Mustafi is pretty funny as well.
We definitely need to be focusing on bringing in more young talent like Torreira and Guendouzi. But you’re not going to be challenging for a CL spot with just a bunch of young future prospects. You’ve got to have some veteran leadership mixed in to make it work. If Ozil is unreliable and Ramsey is already packing his bags then we need a proper CM. Banega at 20 million is a good deal for a solid player that can help steady the midfield right now. Quit trying to deny Emery one of his favorite players in his second fucking window.… Read more »
“However, I meant that at this stage, financial input isnt really the most important thing.“ I agree, Spurs ownership has put in 14 mil during the period analysed and they’re miles ahead in the areas I touched upon. Their identity and strategy is crystal clear, and they’ve hired as per that vision which has led them to where they are now. Ultimately they fall short because financial investment is an imperative to break the final glass ceiling, but they’ve done the rest admirably. Annoyingly so. The investment issue with Stan is contentious still for me, but more so is the… Read more »
I can’t believe that some people on here deem Kroenke as an acceptable owner ,
He is rarely seen and manages to make a statement once a year , I think it’s supremely arrogant and avoiding accountability, that’s probably why he loved Wenger so much , two of a kind.
Things will never progress under his ownership and now we are going with a new manager , more and more will realise this is the case.
Emery has just stated that the club has no interest in Keylor Navas (despite reports to the contrary) and it sounds like he would prefer Ramsey to stay till the summer.
“At the end of the season is the moment he can go to one team or another team.”
Dr Emil
Hows Freddy Benson doing?
Let’s be clear about this. Kroneke is the ONLY current owner of a Premier league club not to have invested any money in his club. This is totally unacceptable for a club of Arsenal’s stature and a kick in the teeth for fans who have dutifully been paying some of the highest ticket prices in football. Also, let’s not forget Kroenke has just paid top dollar to buy out Usmanov’s shares and will acquire the remaining 10% owned by other shareholders. He borrowed the money to do this by the way. Why? He was in full control anyway? The only… Read more »
Pierre
“All it needed was for Kroenke to release some of his fortune to buy a top class goalkeeper, defender and midfielder and we wouldn’t have looked back”
If it only it had been that simple.
“Whereas… Chelsea and City are almost totally bankrolled by their hideous owners.” Seems like some of you would love it if Stan invested his own money. Maybe give emery 150M to help with transfers. Rebuild the squad into a title challenging team. Why is it cool if we were to do it. But its ‘hedious ‘ when Man city do it? Should Citys owners treat their club like Mike Ashley does his? Remember when Roman first came in and was improving his club. What did people say, “he’ll lose interest after a few years and leave chelsea saddled with untold… Read more »
No thanks to Khedira. They want him this month give us some money bitch
“A team full of Guendozis just won’t cut it.”
A team with Zagadou, Akanji, Weigl, Reus, Sancho, Ousmane Dembele and Auba upfront would walk into the CL,
Not to mention the hundreds of £m we would make to invest back into buying the best players.
Jim Lahey
‘I believe a club doesn’t need to be bloated with an owners cash to be somewhat successful, but its clear that any club that wants to compete and remain competitive needs a degree of financial backing from their owner.’
Exactly
The only reason I can think of is to load Arsenal fc with more debt so that he can finance the Rams new stadium. I can’t think of any other reason. https://youtu.be/xcwJt4bcnXs Also, I find it staggering that some of you seem to think that we can get back to the top via project youth 2.0. Worth noting back when we were “on top” it wasn’t because of some sugar daddy putting his own money into the club. We’ve never had that ever we’re self sufficient always. If you got a problem with that I’d ask why now and not… Read more »
As always – great stuff from Le grove.
Kudos to Arsenal for being HMRC league Champions.
Spurs even come 2ND in that table.
I, Le Grove & all other contributors has paid more tax than Liverpool FC last year!
How , the hell – can that be right?
Thats insane, farcical and downright digusting,
The hypocrisy of those socialist, Scoucers never ceases to amaze.
E54 ‘Why is it cool if we were to do it. But its ‘hedious ‘ when Man city do it?’ I’ve never judged city and chelsea for being bankrolled. If Stan decided to do the same I’d be jumping for joy- he never would though. We can argue about the rights and wrongs of it- in an ideal world there’d be more a level playing field. But football isn;t like that. It’s a money game and that’s how it is. What is infruriating is that we have a multi billionaire owner who has put nothing into Arsenal at all. Not… Read more »
So three of the Big Six clubs have been largely financed by cash generated from operations: #AFC 100%, #THFC 81% and #MUFC 80%. In contrast, others have been much more reliant on owner financing: #MCFC 90% and #CFC 86%. #LFC is more balanced: operations 53%, owners 40%. City and Chelsea have sugar daddies that’s obvious Liverpool have a problem with their stadium being small so it’s understandable that you would get investment from their owner(s). A bit of a difference with the other clubs that is obvious in that the other clubs have big stadiums with big revenue coming in.… Read more »
“A team with Zagadou, Akanji, Weigl, Reus, Sancho, Ousmane Dembele and Auba upfront would walk into the CL,”
Gambon you said it here last week the Weigl won’t improve us.
azed
He wouldnt improve the team, would obviously improve the squad.
The Italian champions, whose sporting director Fabio Paratici admitted this week that Ramsey is on their radar, have already offered the 28-year-old a five-year contract worth €6.5m (£5.87m) a season in a bid to see of interest from several other European clubs including Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain.
Gambon
I believe Weigl is better than Xhaka. Weigl can play through the press which Xhaka can’t and having players who can do that is key to Emery’s system.
Their identity and strategy is crystal clear, and they’ve hired as per that vision which has led them to where they are now. Agree. Just a shame that our vision for the club and identity was left in the hands of Wenger and while it was successful for the first half of his tenure it was a total failure in the second half. Can’t really blame Kroenke for that he’s an absentee owner who can just about tell the difference between a rock and a football. Blame him for leaving it in the hands someone who ended up being a… Read more »
Incredibly stupid of Emery if he’s insisting on keeping Ramsey until the end of the season considering he barely starts. Makes no sense whatsoever get in something for him. Not a swap player though we can do without another Mhiki situation taking in some player another club doesn’t want and on a big wage too. Also Khedira is broken
“Also Khedira is broken”
And he’s Mesut’s best friend ==> avoid at all cost!! lol
And he’s Mesut’s best friend
Yeah avoid so we don’t need more sick days for Ozil. At least he’d have a partner for duo’s though
Gambon
Better than rupreck.
Ozil + Khedira = world record of points on Fortnite.
Makes sense to keep Aaron till the end of the season. He plays enough games and it’s not like we’ve a deep enough squad.
Arturo Vidal. 20m and drop Xhaka somewhere on the M25
Radio Raheem
Would like Ramsey to stay, but I don’t think Emery will play him often after Mkhitaryan comes back from injury next month.
Arsenal should sign shane duffy
Blocks: 19 (2nd in the league)
Clearances: 2 (1st in the league)
Headed clearances: 49 (1st in the league)
and highest scoring defender in the league
Yeah sure, Vidal who wants to leave Barcelona for Arsenal… that seems to be totally realistic.
Pedro, when are you gonna realise we are being taken for a ride by Kroenke? He has not put any money into his Club (unlike the owner of every other PL club) but it’s okay because he hasn’t taken any money out. How wrong can you get! It’s like buying a house, and somebody else pays off the mortgage. I’ll give you the figures, keeping them simple: The Emirates cost the club £390m, £260 of it borrowed in one form or another for around 25 years. The annual payback of the loan plus the interest on the loan is £30m,… Read more »
Football Vieira lashes out at Arsenal Sean Ingle @seaningle Mon 25 Jun 2001 10.58 BST First published on Mon 25 Jun 2001 10.58 Patrick Vieira has launched an amazing attack on his Arsenal team-mates and Arsene Wenger’s summer signings – and made it clear that he wants to leave. In an interview with the Sun this morning, Vieira also dismissed Arsenal’s chances of success next season, claiming they wouldn’t even finish in the top five of the Premiership. He said: “People should know this is nothing to do with money. I need to leave because I want to win more… Read more »
Paddy knew best!!
Red settles the argument with that
Fatality
and you can forget the Champions League
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Fuck him, that season we reached the final without him.
Oh it’s from 2001……my bad!
Makes sense to keep Aaron till the end of the season.
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True especially as Emery will go full out to win the Europa League.
Englandsbest.
Absolutely it’s called siphoning the accounts.
It’s like having a water leak your side of the meter
your bill will get bigger the larger the leak gets over
time.?..??
Don’t believe everything you see on paper.🧐
@James
“Don’t believe everything you see on paper”
Exactly. Agents, reports, etc. everyone wants to take advantages of the social media. As of yesterday, there was rumor that Arsenal will sign Keylor Navas for 14 m. Today, he signs a one-year extension with Madrid.
Exactly Nelson.
They said I was in an affair with Kylie.
Total rubbish but her breakfasts are good and her
Jim jams just fit.
We will not make the top 4 this year.
We were told we were getting rid of Wenger as the club has loads of money and he was not spending it.
Where is the money which was to be used to buy proper players to help us compete?
Was it all lies?
Shame 😉
The Swiss Ramble story confirms the reality of Arsenal’s current status in the world of football. The club is run as a business with little or no real ambition or a willingness to take risk and go the extra mile. Realistically Arsenal cannot compete with the spending power of Man City who can outspend every other club in EPL by a factor of 2 or 3. Yet Arsenal could have bought annually at least one top liner player starting with Suarez from Liverpool had they had the guts to do so. They were outmanoeuvred by cleverer management than we had… Read more »
@ englandsbest
Pedro writes a blog daily, he knows Arsenal inside out and he knows the state of finances well if you look at some past posts.
But you can question whether to put it politely, he is ‘consistenr’ in his analysis. 😉
@ Emiratesstroller
We missed the train when the shareholders sold to Kronke. We had the chance to sell to USmanov who is 5 (if not more) times richer than the Chelski owner.
But at that time the fans did not want an Usmanov…it must be a Western European syndrome or something like that.
Well you get what you deserve. We were lucky to wing a couple of PL and a few FA cups. If you think we will be winning another PL in the next 10 years, you are deluded.
Sad times to be an arsenal fan. One club after another has overtaken us in the last 15 years. First Chelsea, then Citeh and now Liverpool. Who next, Wolves!?! The sad fact is the owner is not passionate about the club or taking us forward, we are simply an investment vehicle.. nothing more. The problem with our fans is we hang on to the memory of yesteryear and cling on to hope of returning to the top every now and again (game against spurs being a prime example). Wenger was a smokescreen, until Kronke is gone we will never progress.… Read more »