Khedira for Ramsey? Oh my…

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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.

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.

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WengerEagle

Liverpool and City are tit for tat. Nothing in it between them, probably beat each other 5 times out of 10.

Called Liverpool to win the PL back in July, sticking with it but they could really do with another creative player to gel the attack and the midfield in the tighter games, real shame for them that they didn’t sign Fekir.

Joe

Klopp has spent £608m on incoming transfers since the 2014-15 season

Nelson

Lovren is as bad as our defender.

WengerEagle

It’s a pretty phenomenal achievement Thomas even if we drew a lot of matches, what’s wrong with being proud of it? Not like we have CL success going for us haha.

Joe

Happy to have city win today. Rather they won the league than the scousers

gambon

Klopp wasn’t at Liverpool in 2014-15.

I guess Millionaire Paedophile Firemen aren’t the smartest bunch are they.

Joe

Nice to see victorious was man enough to honour the bet.

He lasted 1 week out of 6 months

Typical

WengerEagle

Lol look who’s back wirth the facts, Rodgers was their manager in 2014/15 and for the first couple of months in 2015/16 you doughnut.

Joe

Regardless. Klopp has still spent millions on millions including Allison
And vVd Kieta ox

To say he hasn’t spent much is laughable

gambon

He’s spent £150m net in the 3 years he’s been at Liverpool.

Amazing transfer business. Both incoming and outgoings.

WengerEagle

Santi Cazorla with a brace against Real Madrid tonight.

This kid is the type of player that we ought to be looking at.

Paulinho

Samesong – You mean Xhaka?

I thin Xhaka gives as much as he can. He’s just very limited.

Bentancur shows signs of being a bit of a Rolls Royce. He showed some dribbling & ball control near the touchline in the World Cup that was very impressive and showed the level of talent he has. Bit of a mentality issue with him.

Joe

tampon

You jealous bro?

Sounds like it

Maybe one day you’ll be able to afford a million dollar house while
Only working the equivalent of 4 months of the year

Awww probably not. Babies have to move out mommy’s house first.

Victorious

Only one PL invincibles

Ya,Just about the only positive outcome tonight

can’t help though but worry about the chasm in quality between city/dippers and us

Not sure what we’re supposed to do to measure up in quality,will definitely take years and huge injection of cash

More pertinetly though, is Emery the right man to drive this huge rebuild ? have my doubts

Joe

He’s had 2 WC players to sell. That warps the numbers quite a bit.

And he had nothing to do with the value of either of them as both were bought before he arrived and Suarez was sold before he was gone.

Joe

selling Philip for 140m or whatever he sold him for warps the numbers quite a bit on the net

Leftsidesanch

Thomas, Its an Arsenal blog let us be proud of such an unrivalled achievement.

gambon

Joe sitting in his fat mum’s basement, dreaming of being a fireman. How funny.

Joe

Klopp spent 177m this summer with Kieta, Shaquiri , Allison and Fabinho

Joe

Tampon you 12 year old.

Did you just re use my joke

Hahahaha pathetic little whining baby

Marko

I guess Millionaire Paedophile Firemen aren’t the smartest bunch are they.

That’s some stereotype right there

Joe

4 years and 100s of millions spent and tampon can’t believe they have such a good squad.

Shit no wonder he threw his toys out because emery hasn’t done it in 6 months

Joe

I guess Millionaire Paedophile Firemen aren’t the smartest bunch are they.

Who’s the idiot who still lives at home and throws tantrums on a football blog

Victorious

I guess Millionaire Paedophile Firemen aren’t the smartest bunch are they

Hahahahahaahah

Joe

And tries to tell us klopp did it quickly and without spending much money

Because klopp didn’t have a team that should have won the league the year before he took over.

This after he said he didn’t know why we fired wenger.

Tampon.

The gift that keeps on giving

Joe

Vicky

Be a man for once in your life and honour the bet you lost

WengerEagle

He had one world class player to sell in Coutinho, Bodgers pissed most of the Suarez/Sterling money up the wall on complete shite like Benteke, Balotelli, Markovic, Lovren, Moreno, Ings, Origi.

And he’s spent the Coutinho money about as well as was possible in that he’s bought 3-4 players that have dramatically improved the starting XI.

Redtruth

Klopp has spent £400m gross in 2 and half years …

Batistuta

Only an Arsenal fan would turn their noses to going a whole premier league season unbeaten. Some of you are very weird

Victorious

Thomas, Its an Arsenal blog let us be proud of such an unrivalled achievement

Thomas is clearly a troll or an idiot, probably both

That would explain his myopic comment regarding the invincibles.

gambon

Weird that Joe hates spending money….despite being a millionaire fireman.

Anyone would think he was an unemployed loser with an obsession for children.

Joe

Since summer of 2016. Liverpool have spent £412m

Yeah haven’t spent at all

Marko

He’s spent £150m net in the 3 years he’s been at Liverpool.Amazing transfer business. Both incoming and outgoings. Worth noting that we’d be in the exact same position had we a manager who over the years wasn’t just content with us being linked with some of the best young talent but actually signed them. Had we signed Hazard over Gervinho for example, signed Dembele when he was at Rennes, signed Auba at St Etienne, signed Dybala when he was at Palermo, signed Salah when he was at Basel. Could have gotten so many more huge assets over the years but… Read more »

Joe

Tampon

I just had a great day skiing up at whistler blackcomb. Had a beer for après with friends.

How was your day ranting on a football
Blog living at mommy’s house

WengerEagle

‘Klopp spent 177m this summer with Kieta, Shaquiri , Allison and Fabinho’

Yep and they’re on pace to finish the season with 98 points, a 23 point improvement from last season.

AW spent 110 million on Lacazette and Aubameyang and we dropped from a 5th placed finish with 75 points to a 6th placed finish with 63 points.

Joe

Weird that Joe hates spending money….despite being a millionaire fireman. Anyone would think he was an unemployed loser with an obsession for children.

Now that Tampon has been proving to be wrong and a fucking idiot he resorts to changing the subject.

You really are a tantrum throwing child arent ya tampon

gambon

Translation:

I just spent yet another day eating pot noodles and wanking off to Teletubbies.

Redtruth

Marko

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Joe

Wenger’s not here weagle is he muppet

And what about the 412 he’s spent since summer 2016

Let’s give our new manager 412m and 2.5 years and see how we are doing

No. No. The babies would rather throw their toys out

Un na naai

Fuck me joe.

People have the right to act like a cunt but you abuse it.

Why do you feel the need to make up lies to strangers? You think it gets you respect?? Status??

You’re cunter here as much as Bamford and marko….you’re in that bracket of elite interstellar mug

Joe

Tampon

Guess we know what turns you on. Fucking weirdo. With your mom in the house too.

gambon

Joe MPF

Today is the first time in days that you aren’t talking to a child on the internet.

Joe

Un

What makes you even a bigger Cunt is that you think I need to lie haha

Hahah

It’s only you pathetic losers that you feel people have to lie because your lives are so shit

And by the way, it very easy to go on the app to see that my pass was scanned today at whistler you fucken loser hahaha

Joe

Today is the first time in days that you aren’t talking to a child on the internet.

Tampon

Talking to you aren’t I?

The biggest child on le Grove

Joe

Tampon

Go on and tell us how klopp has spent no money and in no time has made a great team

Hahahaha

ANd tell us that we shouldn’t have fired wenger

Marko

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Highly rated young players who were both affordable and available. Hindsight and risk has nothing to do with it we just happened to be managed by someone who was both afraid to compete and either scared or incompetent in the transfer market.

Victorious

Hey Joey

Take a break from the internet and change the dippers will ya,

Must be tedious having to change dippers in an alarming rate considering the amount of time you blow your loads wanking on Emery’s posters and talking absolute piffle on a daily basis.

gambon

Joe MPF

Klopp has spent less than you do at lunch on one off your skiing trips.

Bet he wishes he was a millionaire paedophile fireman.

Joe

Gambon

Don’t be a hater man

You’ll make something of yourself one day

Maybe. Ask mum. She’ll probably tell you you’re the best kid around. I’m sure she’s proud of you.

Meh. Probably not

Vicky.

You lost a bet. Honour it

Samesong

Mum curses big man talk lol……

Joe

Tampon

Guess what. I’ll be making more with with my pension than you will be at your highest wage packet.

Ooooooh to be a … tampon

Joe

Tampon.

It’s 11pm at night. Youre ranting and raving on a blog

Get a life you Wanker. Does mommy know you’re still awake

Joe

Anyway…..

gambon

Joe

Maybe when I’m a Millionaire Paedophile Fireman I can hire a PA to post on the internet for me while I pretend….Sorry I mean while I ski.

Joe

Funny how klopp is being lauded as a hero on here after spending hundreds on hundreds of millions and having 4 years to do it

While the same crew are attacking emery after 6 months.

gambon

Joe MPF

Its 11pm and you’re ranting on a blog.

Champagne charlie

Joe why do you call others immature and the like when you’re hands down the biggest man child on here?

Joe

Haha

Poor Pathetic tampon. Is that the best you got?

Hahaha

Oh joe you millionaire fireman who lies and says he went skiing.

Oh snap. Tampon. You got me hahaha

Yes tampon. You got me. I’m a pathetic loser like who needs the satisfaction of an online blog to complete me

Hahaha

Oh tampon

Seriously dude. Get a life bro.

Go travel. Something. Go see the world.

Joe

Tampon

It’s not. It’s 3 pm

CC

Because I’m having a laugh with all of this.

What’s your story?

Joe

Tampon

Guess you’re so smart you don’t know about time zones

Go and ask mom. She can fill you in

Champagne charlie

Joe

My story for you being a man child? Idk, one of the classics? dropped on your head at birth?

Bob N16

Joe, you spend hours every day insulting people, on a blog that follows a football team that you are equally distant from. At the same time you boast about your life in a way that is bound to provoke.Be honest with yourself, what does that tell somebody about your personality? Not a lot to boast about I would say. In fact I would suggest a period of reflection with the help of a qualified professional may well help with your antisocial tendencies.

Joe

No your story. I’m having a laugh with all the babies on here

What’s your story for taking it all serious?

gambon

Just the 28 posts from Joe the Millionaire Paedophile Fireman in the last 45 mins.

Must be a boring afternoon in the basem…..I mean skiing trip.

Joe

Bob N16January 3, 2019 22:59:20
Joe, you spend hours every day insulting people, on a blog that follows a football team that you are equally distant from. At the same time you boast about your life in a way that is bound to provoke.Be honest with yourself, what does that tell somebody about your personality? Not a lot to boast about I would say. In fact I would suggest a period of reflection with the help of a qualified professional may well help with your antisocial tendencies.

And my point is made

Joe

You can tell tampon has never made it out of the council estates or done any exercise or gone skiing

Don’t worry. Get your mom to read you a story about it

Joe

Tampon

I know you don’t get out much. But if you want me to explain how skiing works I can fill you in

Joe

Bob

I hope you weren’t really serious when you took the time to write out your last post

Think it’s you that needs to look in the mirror if you really took the time to think about and then write that post

Joe

anyway

This all started because gambon said klopp had built a world class team in little time with little money spent

He got upset because he was proven to be wrong.

Everyone discuss.

Joe

In fact he has spent 411m since summer of 2016. And has had 4 years to build this team.

Bob N16

You get satisfaction from winding people up, is that something to be impressed by? Really? Do you feel empowered in some way? What has caused you to be so spiteful? You boast about having a lifestyle that should be envied but you choose to deliberately annoy people. What’s that all about?
Most people don’t talk about the value of their house, their working conditions, their quality of life but you feel that you need to. You suggest it’s all a wind up. How can you derive pleasure from that? You’re a weird mother!

Joe

We play west ham.

Tottenham play united.

Rather united beat Tottenham. Gets us closer to 3rd when we beat the hammers.

Hopefully Rafa can make Chelsea drop some points before we play them the week after

Nelson

The defensive line has to be very straight if you want to play a high defensive line. For MC’s second goal, Lovren kept Sterling on and Sane scored.

Joe

Bob N16January 3, 2019 23:10:27 You get satisfaction from winding people up, is that something to be impressed by? Really? Do you feel empowered in some way? What has caused you to be so spiteful? You boast about having a lifestyle that should be envied but you choose to deliberately annoy people. What’s that all about? Most people don’t talk about the value of their house, their working conditions, their quality of life but you feel that you need to. You suggest it’s all a wind up. How can you derive pleasure from that? You’re a weird mother! Really Bob?… Read more »

Bob N16

You’re wondering why I took time to write a post when you appear to spend hours a day on here, posting relentlessly, ironic really. I guess because after a couple of drinks I feel the urge to confront your unpleasantness which reduces the thread to insulting posts. I enjoy reading Legrove but I get frustrated by serial wind-up merchants that I mostly endure/ignore but occasionally I rise to. I hope that clarifies.

Joe

You’re wondering why I took time to write a post when you appear to spend hours a day on here, posting relentlessly, ironic really. I guess because after a couple of drinks I feel the urge to confront your unpleasantness which reduces the thread to insulting posts. I enjoy reading Legrove but I get frustrated by serial wind-up merchants that I mostly endure/ignore but occasionally I rise to. I hope that clarifies

If this is what you do after a couple drinks, it’s not me who needs to look at myself
In the mirror

Bob N16

Yes again. How many times have you posted? But that’s me done. You can alienate others now,I’m gone.

Mr Serge

Joe is it 11pm at night where you go skiing. ? Everyday I read this blog and every day you are abusing someone. Why are you so angry ? Just chill the ef out for a chsnge.

Joe

Back to football

Joe

Serge.

It’s 3pm where I live

And by the way. The 3 mountains in Vancouver. Grouse, cypress and Seymour are open until 10pm for night skiing

Whistler, where I ski is open from 8ish to 3pm. I went up for the morning. And was home by 1pm

Champagne charlie

Joe

That idea that I take anything on here serious is hilarious, I just find your standard maniacal spiral each day a bit weird.

Call it banter if you like, makes me question the entry requirements for fireman in the BC area. You get in because of your baking skills? Custom apron?

Mr Serge

Joe it’s a waste of energy being a twat it’s good to disagree but no need to be abusive we are all on here because of our love for the Arsenal.
If some one pisses you off ignore them. Works for me.

Pool have spent bucket loads selling coutinho for 155m masks that

WengerEagle

Canadians apparently have shit banter.

gunnermjj

Bob

Couldn’t have put it better. But I’ll have a go…

When they investigate after some lunatic commits a mass public shooting, the nutter always has an online history like Joe here…

All skinny white men approx. 6’3″ with glasses and especially c/w French accents in Canada should be on high alert for when mom kicks him out of the basement!

Joe

Weagle

You’ll never know if you don’t leave your moms house

CC

What’s it take to be a popcorn sever at the theatre?

Champagne charlie

Joe

What else you got besides basement jokes? You’ve said that same thing to about 5 people, it’s tired.

I’ve no idea what it takes to be a popcorn server at a theatre? Is that your dream job or something?

TheBayingMob

Khedira is a really good move for Arsenal … oh wait a minute IT’S NOT TWO THOUSAND AND FUCKING 8!!

azed

Pierre, Upstate and the Ozil lovers

13.7 – Bernardo Silva covered 13.7 kilometres (8.5 miles) against Liverpool, the most by any player in a Premier League game this season. Endurance.

No midfielder is exempt from pressing or defending in the modern game.

E54_

TheBayingMobJanuary 4, 2019    01:00:34

Khedira is a really good move for Arsenal … oh wait a minute IT’S NOT TWO THOUSAND AND FUCKING 8!!

Exaclty! These people are trying to mug us (gunners) off again. They saw what wenger got away with and they think they can do it again. Too up themselves to realize, love him or hate him, Wenger kinda sorta earned the right to be a prick. Who the hell do these new people think they are! This all better be just paper talk..

PhD2020

What’s more worrying or rather disconcerting is I think Joey is a parent/father to a child-I believe…

Really bizarre behaviour from a parent/father on a blog..

PS
Anyway a belated Happy New Year to all and sundry..

Joe

What’s more worrying or rather disconcerting is I think Joey is a parent/father to a child-I believe…Really bizarre behaviour from a parent/father on a blog..

Hahahaha

Oh it’s just too much.

Freddie Ljungberg

Phd

How many times have you been banned for your insane ravings and rantings again? 4? 5?

rollen

lol gambon losing it like GoH. You supp be the mighty one!

gonsterous

Never thought liverpool would go undefeated. Not that liverpool aren’t any good, just that it’s a hard feat to pull off. But teams have had better seasons than being invincible. I would take a treble over the invincibles any season. I still think city will win the league. They have the players and the experience to do it. We on the other hand, need to start investing some cash into the squad this window to push for 4th. People citing get smart buys, should know that most young talents are always being monitored by various clubs and it’s not really… Read more »

Guns of SF

Im glad the red scum lost. They are doing ever so well but putting their name next to the invincibles would be too much! :0

Khedira is not what we need. Speed and dynamisim and youth… those three things right there. We might need some veterans at all times but I would rather pull a loan for a Barca benchwarmer than an old fart

Delofelou is awesome… wasn’t he a loaner to everton once? I think if we can pull deals like that it would help. Fast aggressive and technically sound

Tony

He’s been struggling but as we are looking like we can only do loan deals, maybe getting Cazola back for the rest of the season only might make sense.

Got to be better than Ozil & Mhiki, right?

Joe

Gons

We need a full revamp of the team
Like klopp did with Liverpool.

It’s started with torriera, Guenz, laca and aubu and getting rid of Ramsey wellbeck for sure

Ozil. El neny. Kos. Mkhit can all go.

2 new CBs. 2 wingers. A fullback. 1-2 AM need to be brought in over the next 2-3 windows.

At least.

Guns of SF

I think Lucas can be like Santi except he is stuck next to Xhaka and needs to cover for his sorry arse. During games, and late on, you can see Lucas thinking of how to get a score or push forward in tough games to add offense. He might not be as offensively proficient as Santi but I think he can get there…

TheBayingMob

“2 new CBs. 2 wingers. A fullback. 1-2 AM need to be brought in over the next 2-3 windows.”

In the meantime back at London Colney, JK is demanding that we definitely use the double sided print functionality on the printer and deffo no post it notes. Way too expensive for what they are …

I’d definitely be turning down the temperature of that training pool and making sure everyone turns the lights off if they are not using the room!!