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It would appear Arsenal aren’t quite as broke as we’d initially thought. The news dropping the loudest of rumbles at the moment is that we’re going in for Denis Suarez for £14m. However you feel about the player, it’s hard to disagree that he’s 1) Young (24) 2) Technically superior to Iwobi 3) Capable of hitting higher levels.
Most of his success came at Villareal in 2015-16 when he dropped his best numbers with 12 assists and 5 goals in 48 appearances. He also played under Emery in his last season at Sevilla where he racked up an impressive 5 assists, 6 goals, in 46 appearances. Also notable that he was signed by City way back when!
His numbers at Barca look, well, decidedly Iwobi-ish if I’m honest. I think he’s cut from a similar cloth. A little bit faster, but the type of player who stitches midfield and attack together with cute intricate play. I know it’s a basic, but just having someone out on the left who you can rely on to always have a good touch is where the bar is set at the moment.
He’s an upgrade. I just hope he’s not a £150k a week upgrade. Worth remembering that when he was a teenager, he was compared to players like David Silva. If he fulfils here, then we’ve unlocked a lot of potential value. (read here for an interesting scouting report).
Today we take on Blackpool in the FA Cup. I’m excited to see Saka land a heavily mooted start. I think we need to see more of these kids and they need to land pitch time. If they don’t, they might as well be out on loan. From the sounds of it, the manager is going to heavily rotate, hoping to inject some much-needed energy into the legs of players that have been drained over the past two months.
Short one today, have a great day!
Jim Lahey –
Welbeck’s contract expires this summer, doesn’t it? He’ll be released on a free.
Can’t see anyone paying £10m for Mkhi either (age, inflated wages reported to be closer to £140k a week than £120k a week).
£15m for Chambers? No way, no how. Half that amount if we’re extremely lucky.
Fulham are staring relegation square in the face. They lost to Oldham last night with Chambers at the back. He’s a bang average defender. Same goes for Iwobi – average player, not worth £15m to any club in the PL.
Where is Pedro ??
Fascinating read by the ever excellent Mark Ogden on the ESPN website- that Emery alone- decided he wanted the Ramsey Contract withdrawn. Which is quite extraordinary -in so many ways. I thought we were going down the coach route- not managerial route- that is to say- the coach solely gets on with coaching the players and does not get involved in contracts, (eg Chelsea/Watford/Leicster) Eg. Sarri at Chelsea just recently stated he had no knowledge of their new £60 million signing. Secondly top rated managers Tuchel (PSG) and Allegri( Juve) and Klopp (Liverpool) do want him. And our lesser one… Read more »
We need a CB and a winger asap we are doing it on the cheap so we will wait until the last couple of days of the window. To the detriment of our season. Unless they see mavropanos is fit and want to give him some game time. I would buy Kos replacement right now and bed him in tbh
Pedro has flown into nou camp to try revive the Denis S deal. Barca reported to have made a U turn and blocked the proposed sale at the cited 20m, or loan deal. What’s the trio doing? Any plan B/ C/ D etc for Jan? If we buy/loan do it quick to make ’em available asap. Wth the depleted squad at the moment, we wouldn’t make top4, particularly with a strong stench of Manure not far away. Not having CL next season will set us back for another year in the rebuild both in terms of financial and player resources.… Read more »
Pros and Cons to buying in Jan.
Pro
Increase chance of Top 4/Europa win = CL
An additional bonus with CL football more finance for summer purchases/More desirable as an option to elite talent.
Con
sign up average talent that doesn’t secure top 4. Lumbered with their wages and less finance for war chest in summer.
Stick or twist.
What Emery does or doesn’t do now may well decide his tenure at the club.
Charlie George
Tuchel isn’t top rated since he left Dortmund they have improved and are currently top of the bundesliga table.
The Mirror says United are looking at three CB’s: Eder Militao, Kostas Manolas and Nikola Milenkovic. Article below. Anyone have opinions on which of these, if any, would make most sense for us?
“United centre-back transfer targets revealed: 3 defenders on radar”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/man-utd-centre-back-transfer-13823913
If we’re struggling to pay £14 Million for Suarez I think we’re going to struggle competing for any top CB target.
Unless we’re all surprised and the reason we’re trying to pay as little as possible for Suarez is to fund a CB.
I doubt that though.
If it’s easy we won’t need Sven et al do we? Poor form if the trio can’t find TWO half decent players (CB, AM/winger) in Jan to help secure top4. Don’t care if loan / buy. Defence : Holding out; can forget abouit Kos; Mustafi a bomb that will go off; Medley not ready/ trusted; Monreal became injiry prone; Kolac and Licht can’t defend. Elnenry and Xhara aren’t fucking CB/ LB. Only Papa + Bellerin left. Plus, AMN as make-do FB/WB. Sad for a club like Arsenal. Ditto MF. Feel that Mikki would be not out for way more than… Read more »
Sorry for going back to this. Un na naii. Global warming and climate change is a natural occurrence. It has changed quite a lot over the time frame of earth, all in the name of nature. Things such as meteors, volcanic eruptions, the changing of the earth’s poles, all change how the earth reacts and adapts to things such as temperature. The real problem is the rate of change of climate and the ‘enhanced greenhouse effect’ or human induced greenhouse effect. It is since the industrial revolution some 300 years ago that the rate of change in climate has increased,… Read more »
I don’t see us signing a top winger in the January window for a variety of reasons. That’s more of a summer signing. If we sign a winger in January, he’ll have to be younger or out of favor somewhere or a CAM in a team with too many CAMs.
Personally, I think we should focus on a CB and a quality LB.
Cesc Appeal
‘Marc
I always say science will save us. That is our future. That goes for everything. We’re great problem solvers and that’s what we will do”
You are definitely the sort of bloke I’d buy a beer for.
Joe you plonker Nobody is taking my job as I run my own business. It doesn’t affect me directly or my customer base But it affect people I know and I never said illegals were taking the jobs though illegals are still more of an issue than we are being led to believe The Poles, Romanians and albaanins (many of my pals are polish and Romanian so nothing agaisnt them at all) are working in many cases for £70-£80 a day for jobs that used to pay £120 a day upwards That’s artificially lowered the bottom line and a man… Read more »
How is it thus:
emery and raul deem fit to give Elneny an extension to his contract but not our greatest ever record goalscoring midfielder, Ramsey one?
If we let this lad go for nothing- it will confirm by strong beliefs that these two are clueless and not fit for purpose (Spanish football is their undoubted strenghts) and rotten to the core!
Goober
My hen why the significant drop in co2 and temperature in the 70s and 80s when the industrial revolution was in full swing around the world?? At a time when it should have increased significantly it dropped for years
Why?? It doesn’t tally up with the explanation you give.
Un Na naai
I don’t really hold a horse in the global warming debate as I am no environmentalist nore am I pro oil.
However, the resource posted below shows that every anti-global warming theorists arguments are completely invalid. Why would 97% of scientists lie about global warming? That’s one massive conspiracy.
https://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php
Personally, for me anything that weakens the evil empire of Saudi Arabi is good for me that’s the only reason I would shift away from Oil to leave those fuckers in a bad place.
Well said goobegooner. Also, Trump isn’t ‘exposing’ the climate change accord or anything. His shifting the blame to the other countries. The greenhouse effect started couple of hundred years ago, albeit slowly and much lesser’. US has been the major consumer of fossil fuel thus the producer of greenhouse gases along the way. In recent decades, India and China joined the game in economic development and resulted in burgeoning industrial side effects such as greenhouse gases. A lot of stuff are made in China, India, etc at scale these days. How on earth could Trump claim the moral ground and… Read more »
Un na naii
It’s all well and good to pick and choose such an insignificant ( In comparison to the earth’s lifetime) timeframe, but look at the figures that have been calculated since the last ice age, which just after had the quickest Change in earth’s temperature until now , then you will see that the trend in global temperature has been rapidly on the rise.
Read more than one article man.
Barella is a Chelsea target at 45 million so that’s him off the list
Arsenal are apparently looking at Lloyd Kelly, a 20 year old CB from Bristol City, tall, fast and very well thought of there.
These are the kinds of moves I like to see Arsenal making as well as the more obvious ones. Liverpool picked up a great buy in Gomez in similar fashion.
Seventeen of the 18 warmest years in the 136-year record all have occurred since 2001, with the exception of 1998. The year 2016 ranks as the warmest on record.
Joe
Yes
We have already established that the world is warming.
And UN co2 levels have been on the rise for over a 100 years. Even in the 70-80s Current atmospheric concentrations of CO2 are about 30% higher than they were about 150 years ago at the dawn of the industrial revolution. According to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, ice core reconstructions going back over 400,000 years show concentrations of around 200 ppm during the ice ages and about 280 ppm during the warm interglacial periods. In other words, our current CO2 levels are higher than they’ve been in at least the last 400 millenia. Every scientist in the world says… Read more »
Why are people arguing with Don? This is a person who misspelled bitter and thinks we should have kept Jack Wilshere. Not just grossly misinformed but too dumb to see it. Let him believe what 3% of the world’s scientists believe I’ll trust what 97% say is true.
It doesn’t help that Joe loves to argue and would argue with the wind if he thought there was no one else
“It doesn’t help that Joe loves to argue and would argue with the wind if he thought there was no one else”
Joe argues with Joe if there’s no one else.
I’m a scientist, I work in the oil & gas industry, climate change is real.
New post!
A&N,
Me and Matt are recording tomorrow!
We’ll get into a good routine this year.
@Jim : you work in oil industry ?? Why don’t you make an offer to Stan for buying the club ?? Please ??