Are you ok?
Come on, wipe away those tears. We’re gonna be A-0k. Put that Bergkamp poster back up on the wall, put on your retro bruised banana shirt that doesn’t fit back on, then we’ll crack into some tasty Arsenal morsels.
But before we crack on, pet peeve of mine… social media bios that say things like ‘Beans on toast enthusiast’ or ‘Purveyor of cream cheese’… fuck off. Don’t be a wanker. Imagine introducing yourself at a party like that? You’d be asked to leave. Maybe have your ‘craft beers with an interesting story behind them’ deservedly taken on the way out for being so offensively twee.
Anyway, the club is apparently going after Ismaïla Sarr in the summer. ExMonaco defender Willy Sagnol had this to say on the winger.
“The star of this team is Ismaïla Sarr, there’s nobody else. It is he who carries it offensively. He is consistent in his performances, his efforts. He is the only one since the beginning of the season who brings real satisfaction.”
The rumour on the street is that we’re going to offer them Emi Martinez and £16m in the summer. This really would be the sort of signing we should be making. I’ve sadly had enough downtime this season to watch Rennes a couple of times. The player has Kanu like tight control (when it’s good, obviously), his telescopic legs allow him to fend off pressure, and he can explode into space.
You never know what you’re getting when you buy players so young from Ligue One, but it’d be harsh to sniff at a 20-year-old left sided winger who has scored 9 goals and dropped 6 assists in 25 games. That’s worth a punt. We’re getting in there before a Monaco do… and inevitably flog him for £600m in one season. This is Sven’s chance to deliver us a Dembele.
Foot Mercato report that we’re interested in signing Yannick Carrasco from Chinese power players, Dalian Yifang. It’s pretty obvious to me that it’d be insanity to give him £200k a week, but you know, he might hate where he lives so much he’s prepared to take a pay packet that’s more reasonable.
It’s clear whatever happens, it’ll have to be a loan move. Emery delivered some much-needed brutality to fans dreaming of a £100m January.
“We cannot make payments to sign players. We can only loan players. But we can only sign players on loan. I know the club is working to find players who can help us, with this condition.”
That makes our January window feel ever so familiar. The silver lining here is that if it were Wenger in today’s prezzer, he’d be telling us that he’s on the lookout for a super, super talent before pulling the trigger on a 38-year-old goat farmer from the Saudi league. At least Emery has set the expectation dial at miserable. Anything from here is going to be fucking immense.
I also want to lay to rest the notion that Arsenal aren’t appealing because we don’t have £4b to throw at the squad. Spurs has one of the best coaches on the planet, he spent nothing last summer and his net spend is in the minus figures. Or plus figures. What’s the symbol when you’re in profit?
Anyway, when the Arsenal job rolls around, only the mega coaches would sniff. If that’s Allegri, who hardly operates on mega money now (or gets paid well), that’s most likely because he never wanted to leave a club that just signed Ronaldo. Not other major coach was sniffing at a £200m wage bill and the chance to spend £80m last summer. As was pointed out in the comments yesterday. Poch spend net zero his first two season and Klopp spent net £35m in his first two season. Emery has dropped double in his first summer. Hardly poverty.
Arsenal is a hugely attractive role for 90% of coaches out there. Don’t kid yourself otherwise. Sven and Raul wouldn’t be at the club if it weren’t appealing. We just need to make our situation work. That’s getting back to wheeling and dealing. Very much like how Wenger operated when he first joined. Find the gems. The broken pros that need life. Hope that some kids make it big.
COMMUNITY POST: This was from Gambon in the comments. Him tackling the ‘it’s Stan’ issue head on.
Good argument from @TheMightyGambon as to why Stan really isn’t to blame for the mess we’re in (outside lack of leadership presence).
Some of our BEST decisions of the last ten years. pic.twitter.com/Gq7ZesnThZ
— Le Grove (@LeGrove) January 10, 2019
I think judging by our past dalliances in the January window, it’s probably best we keep our moves to loans, versus purchasing in anxiety mode.
Top 4 would be an incredible achievement from where we are, but it seems unlikely. Let’s spend our time trying to shift players other teams want. Mikhi apparently has admirers in Milan, if that’s true, let him go for whatever they’ll give us. Free up that £170k a week and make it happen.
As someone pointed out yesterday, the likelihood is we’ll need to dramatically reduce our wage bill, and one of our most saleable assets is Lacazette. Get that salary off our books, regardless of how much I love him. We cannot operate with someone that expensive occupying the bench. I’d miss the goals, but surely he’s a £65m striker if Chelsea paid £70m for Morata? We could buy 2 and bit Torreira’s for that.
If Emery can’t motivate Ozil to care, the club has to come to a deal this summer and remove him. It’s going to be hard to find anyone to foot that bill, that said, we did find an Italian club willing to pay Ramsey £280k a week GROSS. Unreal figures, so it does show you, anything is possible if you force someone’s hands.
From there, it’s taking punts on players with high ceilings/hoping some of the kids coming through can up their levels and give us some magic.
See, anything is possible when you write it down in a blog. I think we solved Arsenal? Have a great day! x
P.S Don’t be selfish, listen to the fucking podcast.
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Nice one DM
It’s strange that so many fans are shitting the bed at the club going through a transition period.
This was always going to be a tough season, if we can sneak the top 4 or win the Europa that would be a phenomenal achievement.
If not let’s get a grip on who wants to be at the club and bin who doesn’t and go again next year.
We waste money like Ivana trump no wonder we are skint
“There is an increased belief among the Arsenal coaching staff that Mavropanos is ready to play in the first team and is in contention to be involved in senior games when he’s fully match fit.”
Could be why we’re not linked with many CBs, seems to be highly regarded by the new coaches after just a week back in full training. Maybe wise to wait for summer to get a top CB and keep Mavro, Sokratis and Holding.
Get rid of Chambers, Mustafi and Kos.
morning people,
Not to sure about the Banega links
the dude turns 31 before the start of next season.
with Guendouzi, Torriera, and xhaka (Grrrrrr) we have three younger players there already.
he’s not really the playmaker we need to replace Santi.
the 18 million buy out also makes no sense if we are skint till the summer and can only do loan deals.
plus its seems its the sun, the daily star and metro that are the ones that are linking us, not exactly the most reliable of sources.
‘Beans on toast enthusiast’
Haha, what is wrong with this universe. I’ve seen people have on their bios ‘influencer’. – Influencer of what??
Gambon’s comments should be posted to messrs Wenger and Gazidis.
A sort of belated Xmas card if you like.
Signed by all Arsenal fans.
Thanks guys.
Sarr is not going to move anywhere for 16m + a second rate goalkeeper.
He was bought for 15m 2 years ago and is their best player. Figures quoted has been a lot higher than that (30-60m euros)
reading the comments, I just want to say, most of you are going to be shocked when the manager is fired, a new one arrives and we still have 70m budget for the TW. Or when we try to sign a 35y old sergio busquets on a free.
the likes of Dennis suarez and Sokrates will still be in the radar. Apart from being situated in London, arsenal offers next to nothing in terms of prestige for the modern day footballers.
Any thoughts about tomorrows game?
As someone pointed out yesterday, the likelihood is we’ll need to dramatically reduce our wage bill, and one of our most saleable assets is Lacazette. Get that salary off our books, regardless of how much I love him. We cannot operate with someone that expensive occupying the bench. I’d miss the goals, but surely he’s a £65m striker if Chelsea paid £70m for Morata? We could buy 2 and bit Torreira’s for that. Pedro I have a problem with this for a few reasons, first Auba plays better when lacazette is on the field, getting rid of him will only… Read more »
Have to point out that there’s no article I have seen quote that Ramsey is being paid 280k pw. All I see is 140k for 5 years. How you people have concluded it’s net confuses me.
Secondly, up4grabsnow, Lacaz won’t just be given away. He will sort of the replaced with a cheaper version of him that equally makes Auba better
‘Apart from being situated in London, arsenal offers next to nothing in terms of prestige for the modern day footballers.‘
BANG ON!
The host bounces back like a rubber ball. Having given up on his Jan signings fix, he’s dreaming about a summer transfer fiesta. There won’t be one, mate.
Ah, well, back to blaming the manager.
mystic, I get that we will get money for him but I presume the idea is that we sell lacazette to buy a winger if Auba is playing up on his own. So how much are we spending of lacazettes transfer fee to get a decent winger 35/40 million? and we still need to get a cheaper but almost as good replacement for laca with the other 20 million? that’s wellbeck territory again if we go cheap. surely its better to keep two strikers and play 352, 442 or 433 with laca on the wing, instead of trying to find… Read more »
Pedro Frankly there is nothing surprising about recent developments at the club.We know that Arsenal was not well managed in recent years and the performance level on pitch was stale and underwhelming. What has not been discussed on Le Grove is that Arsenal have yet to publish its final accounts for the year ending 31st May 2018. These would have been published usually in November before AGM, which will in future not be a public meeting now that Kroenke has taken the club private. I think that it is fairly obvious that the club despite balancing the books on its… Read more »
Any one that sells lacazette is a joker, I’m happy we don’t have Pedro in the Board.
Smh
Apologies if its been mentioned but as Perry Groves stated, couldn’t Kronke put his own 20 mill to buy a player Emery wants then take it back from the summer budget
mystic, Now if Ozil cant be fixed, he can be given away for free.
One further point. Even if Kroenke were to move offshore or to USA the holding company there is still a legal obligation to publish accounts for last financial year and indeed up to the point that the company in UK ceased to operate.
My personal view is that even if Kroenke were to take the holding company outside UK jurisdiction there will still be a UK Based Company running the
football club.
It is inconceivable that the Premier League or FA would allow an English based club to run its affairs without full disclosure of its activities and finances.
Big game tomorrow, we need to keep pace with Chelsea and the spuds. Win and utd beat the spuds, which is quite possible now they have been freed up from Maureen’s bus parking and its all to play for. We have players back from injury and can start to put a run together again. at home to Chelsea is definitely winnable and as much as city away is very tough, it should be a different arsenal to the one they faced in august, and would snap your hand off now for a draw up there. there’s then a run of… Read more »
up4grabs
Im not sure if a Spurs win is better for our 4th place hpes.
If UTD win, we have to worry about them.
We arent finishing ahead of Spurs. Better off getting a cushion on UTD and trying to catch Chelsea.
Gambon,
out of the two its more like spurs finish in front of us than utd,
But I just cant bring myself to want either of them to win!
utd are a concern, are they that much improved, or is it because they probably had five of the easiest games going?
spurs is a huge test for them this weekend.
We got a 20 year younger Wenger. This one just happens to be Spanish.
I can’t help but feel emery will take more from arsenal than arsenal get from him.
After the trifecta of nonsense: Stan, Ivan and Arsene…were intergalactic distances away from being a top club.
Raul, Vinai, Sven, Kroenke… they can all go rot in hell.
Emery provided a detailed analysis of players in the squad before he signed. He wants his two CMs to sit so the team can defend better (hasn’t worked). A few months into his tenure, he doesn’t want Ramsey. He knew (at least claimed) his style of play.
Why couldn’t he make this decision in the summer so we could sell him for 30m or more?
He told the gullible Ivan Gazidis everything that he wanted to hear to land the job.
What a shambles.
I have seen all successful teams in Europe playing with one striker and two wingers. Some even play with a false nine. Currently, our two best players are the two strikers. We’ll try to survive playing two strikers up front. But we should target a more balanced formation in the future.
mystic: “Have to point out that there’s no article I have seen quote that Ramsey is being paid 280k pw. All I see is 140k for 5 years. How you people have concluded it’s net confuses me.” Gabriele Marcotti and Rapha Honigstein talked about it. The wages published in Italy are after tax, so the 140k pw mentioned is NET and the gross figure is 280k pw. First in Italy is Ronaldo by a long mile at £538,000 pw, followed by Higuain at £165,000 pw and Ramsey at £140,000 pw. Players like Dybala, Pjanic, Douglas Costa, Donnarumma, Bonucci, Emre Can,… Read more »
A draw or win for spuds is what we would like to happen. We should not want Manure to win because if they do they’ll be well, well back in the fight for top 4. They lose and suddenly everyone will be talking about how all the games they’ve won under Solskjaer were against shit teams and pressure will be back at their doorstep.
raptora
Let’s focus on Arsenal winning their game against West Ham and not worry about Spurs and Man Utd result.
We need to concern ourselves about our own performance, which has been
relatively poor since the Southampton defeat.
Tottenham still yet to draw a match, just by odds I think they will draw on Sunday. Best result in my opinion.
I reckon Arsenal will play well tomorrow. They’ve had a bit of rest. More bodies available. Ramsey move has been announced. Might have settled things a bit.
More worried about tmrws match than Chelsea next week. Arnautovic and especially Felipe Anderson have the tools to hurt us. Can see Anderson’s dribbling the gap between Mustafi and Sokratis. We’re ripe for a red card. Efficiency from Aubameyang and Lacazette NEEDED.
“First in Italy is Ronaldo by a long mile at £538,000 pw, followed by Higuain at £165,000 pw and Ramsey at £140,000 pw.”
so by the same analogy Ronaldo is earning £1,076,000 a week playing for juverntus? And Higuian earning £330,000 a week in serie A? And Higuian moved 3 years back.
At that point, there was no one in the EPL, the world’s richest league, earning 330k a week.
I choose to call bullshit on those figures Raptora.
Likely in terms of winger we try to sign Sarr for £20-30 Million in the summer and then Avdijaj for free going by the rumours. Probably get some young talent in the midfield like Maier or Wolf as well. The club’s main focus will likely be the defence and then selling to get this wage bill under control. Players like Chambers, Monreal/Kolasinac, Elneny and Mkhitaryan will all likely be moved on, or there will be an effort to move them on. I would let Ozil go on a free to get him gone, then you have players like Cech, Kozz,… Read more »
Still looking at sarr like wtf can he do apart from run. He’s not an inside forward is he? Just a speed marchant. Would much prefer Pepe or Lozano. And please Under has been sooooo underwhelming anytime I have watched him. I prefer Saka to him already
With Bellerin, Mavropanos, Monreal and Ozil back and available for selection, what do people think the XI will look like tomorrow?
mysticleaves,
Educate yourself a bit:
http://www.espn.com/soccer/italian-serie-a/story/3019800/study-incorrectly-compared-wages-between-serie-a-and-mls-players
https://www.football-italia.net/127532/ronaldo-tops-serie-earnings
https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/9cuh5e/highest_wage_bills_by_club_and_by_player_in_serie/
“As is always the case in italy, these are reported after tax”
“Half the teams have lower wage bill than a single Ronaldo.”
“Juventus’s Cristiano Ronaldo, €31m per year, costing more than the entire team rosters of Chievo, Spal and Empoli, combined.”
“The average salary per player of Juventus will, in fact, be roughly 17 times that of Empoli.”
“The study was also incorrect in saying that Juventus’ Gonzalo Higuain was the world’s 47th-highest paid player at €148,000 per week net. His estimated gross wage of €295,000 per week would put him in the top 10, ahead of both Bayern Munich’s Philipp Lahm and Orlando City’s Kaka.”
Jesus. Juve must have a higher wage bill than either Manc club.
Thanks for the links Raptora. That means Dybala will atleast look for higuain money on his next contract renewal. It’s unsustainable for Juve really. Even Madrid don’t pay like that.
Jamie
seems so, I don’t have strength to check either
Mystic,
Footballer wages in Italy tend to be net (in press). However these gross amounts assume they pay 50% income tax which i very highly doubt (there are several rules that will significantly reduce that). Therefore clubs will probably not pay out anywhere close to these “theoretical” amounts.
Dybala season 2017/18 Seria A – 26 starts, 22 goals, 5 assists.
Dybala season 2018/19 Seria A – 15 starts, 2 goals, 2 assists.
Significant drop of form since Ronaldo joined. Maybe he’ll want to be the top dog somewhere else.
Can’t really argue with any of the points Gambon made (the ones from yesterday in Pedros post), but all of those were pretty much Gazidis/Wengers fuck ups. If I was Emery I’d be properly pissed that there is no kind of budget. Excuse utter ignorance on how much hard cash reserves the club has, but I thought we had something to the tune of 130M in the bank? I still take some of the highest gate receipts in World football, with commercial deals and TV money etc, are we not making a profit? I have no qualms about getting rid… Read more »
If Emery’s method of developing players is to just go back to players he’s worked with before… it will become extremely tedious and predictable.
That is not developing players, it’s just surrounding yourself with layers and layers of a very expensive and familiar safety blanket.
Developing players means to make average players into good players, good players into great players and great players into world class players.
Is Emery up to the task? I really hope so.
“If Emery’s method of developing players is to just go back to players he’s worked with before… it will become extremely tedious and predictable.”
I’ll make a hole in the wall if we sign Banega at almost 31 yo at 150k pw when we just lost a 40-50m 28 yo player for zilch because we refused to pay him I think a reasonable amount compared to shameful players like Ozil and Mhitaryan.
“It’s stupidity from Arsenal to allow someone of Ramsey’s quality to let their contract run down,” he told Sky Sports.
“It’s yet another player after Alexis Sanchez, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Theo Walcott. Players’ contracts come to an end then they all leave on frees.
Someone really needs to tell Paul Merson he isn’t allowed to call anyone or anything stupid and also we got money for Walcott and Chamberlain.
“Arsene Wenger sorted out his contract every year but seemed to forget everyone else’s!
I did like this though
Marko,
It is Merse though bless him.
I’m surprised he hasn’t mentioned a team being a bag of revels this week in his predictions.
couldn’t Kronke put his own 20 mill to buy a player Emery wants then take it back from the summer budget
Thing is though are the players Sven wants available this month? And if not should we abandon long term targets for players who happen to be available this month? Perhaps lesser players. Stick the course and trust in the structure we have in place. It’s had more success (Auba, Mavropanos, Guendouzi, Torreira and I think Leno) than failures (Lichtsteiner and Sokratis to a degree) at this stage
I agree, don’t buy for the sake of buying.
That’s why this banega story touted by the star and metro sounds like his agent trying to get a new contract.
Why would we get another midfielder that isn’t what we need right now that’s almost 31.
And this 18 million price tag when we’ve already declared its loan deals only this month. As we’re skint.
Arsenal’s wake-up moment should’ve been Alexis and Ozil. If that didn’t send shockwaves through the managerial level of the club idk what would.
We’ve since let Ramsey and Welbeck get into the same situation, and once again dithered on Chambers culminating in him being carted off to diminish in value elsewhere.
Leadership, something we have none of.
This Torreira chap- Pedro mentioned in his article. I do not rate him as highly as he does. Did he see him at Anfield? Firminio kept running past him ( and he was carrying the ball) HE is clearly a technically gifted player. But I have severe doubts that he will hack in the Prem-because he is not Big or Dynamic enough. Those little legs- no good here! He should be sold and either be replaced by the more athletic AMN ( SAME tech level) or a 6ft tall fast powerhouse type. Torreira will always struggle against the bigger teams… Read more »
CC,
I think it’s better now than it was a year ago.
We pulled the contract with Ramsay because of wages, and wellbeck in all honesty hasn’t been the greatest success for us.
That would have been 300-350k a week in wages for a squad player and someone who has had one purple patch season a few years ago.
Ozil and Alexis should have been dealt with two years ago, before the new boys came in.
Chambers signed a new deal before going to Fulham on 50k wages.
It makes sense in a way, have a good loan and you have a good player on lowish wages with 3 years to run on his contract.
If he has a poor loan you can move him out to a west ham palace, newly promoted club and he’s on affordable wages and you’ll get 20 million for him.
I’m going to shit in Stans mouth if I ever see that cunt.
Leadership, something we have none of.
So close Charlie. Here’s something to help you along…
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2017/07/20/arsenal-reject-16m-calum-chambers-bid-crystal-palace/amp/
Dithered alright.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/arsenal-evolution-arsene-wenger-could-be-happy-to-let-contract-rebels-alexis-sanchez-mesut-ozil-a3656971.html%3famp
http://www.espn.com/soccer/club/arsenal/359/blog/post/3169668/arsene-wenger-wrong-to-call-mesut-ozil-and-alexis-sanchez-contract-situations-ideal
Discussing the scenario in which Arsenal’s two best players, Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez, have been allowed to enter the final year of their contracts, Wenger claimed it was “an ideal situation” for the club.
It was then put to Wenger that, if Ozil and Sanchez left on free transfers, £72.5m of investment would walk out of the Emirates Stadium door for free.
“Even if that happens, it doesn’t matter,” the Arsenal manager responded.
Leadership alright
Trust us to get the only billionaire in football who hasn’t put a penny in but takes money OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
RUG CUNT SHIT EATING MALE ASS FINGERING YANK.
Up4
Disagree, Welbeck is a good squad player and he’s 20 mil in this market easy. Aaron is 45 mil easy, Chambers is what to us? Could be bettered for the circa 20 mil we keep swatting back.
No leadership still, even after getting cunted by Alexis/Ozil. Not inspiring at all.
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Marko find another nutsack to cling to.
This new Charlie character wants us to flog Torreira and replace him with Maitland Niles. Where have the loonies from untold come from
Tactically we must hope for a Spuds win, however repulsive, to add some distance back to the Manure that got too close for comfort since last Christmas.
Arnautovic reportedly injured I thought?
If we lost to WHU, don’t deserve to be a top4.
Btw, instead of sending Wenger and Gazidis the analysis, send it to the Milan supporter/ fan groups as well … that would be fun.
Gabriel
The lad is a terrific technician.
Beautiful goal caressed into the spurs net,etc
But he will get overrun in the big games.
Did u watch the Anfield match.?
Other coaches would have done
And now they will target him!
After all, those little legs ain’t gonna get faster..
He would be a super player in La Liga.
We need more suitable players in our team..
Can’t argue with that
Charlie
If we’d just been decisive last summer, and sold Ramsey, Welbeck and Chambers, we would likely have an extra £75m sitting there waiting to be spent right now.
Its absolutely astonishing how badly we have done things in the last 2 years.
I actually wonder if Gazidis was sacked. Its noticeable that Josh Kroenke came over to do his 3 month review of the club, and both Wenger and Gazidis were gone within months.
None of the players that Arsenal have been linked with to move in January excite me. Bluntly I don’t see any of them making a serious difference to our performance level. Today there is a suggestion that Juventus will offer Benatia in exchange for Ramsey moving to them this month. The pluses are that he was a decent CB and the minuses are that he has played little football this season and is approaching his 32nd birthday in April. I would only contemplate bringing him in if the club is offloading Koscielny. We have already too many ageing players past… Read more »
There’s no way you can expect Raul to recoup money before the summer window, he’s only assumed the mantle of leadership less than 6 months ago, and majority of the problems were cast in stone by the time he arrived. The only notable thing Raul has done was to withdraw Ramsey’s contract which was after Gazidis was billed to leave. So the posturing for the summer will see a clear out of Ramsey, Welbeck and Elneny’s wages presumably with one attacking midfielder sold between Mhkitaryan or Õzil. This should free up some space to fit disciplined players into Emery’s team.… Read more »
Cc, Wellbeck is a good squad player, I wanted to keep him as well. The problem is he’s on 80-90k now and with a new contract would probably want an increase of maybe 30-40k especially as its probably his last big contract. That’s big money for a bench player. Chambers we paid 16 million for 3-4 years ago and I thought he should have stayed this year instead of holding. He’s not been great at Fulham so maybe in the summer they might cut there losses and sell him? Ramsay wants huge money and like I said should have either… Read more »
The article from Arsenal Truth the other day that was posted on here at least 3 times said that due to our enormous wage bill we would be unable to sign players until we sell some players to reduce the bill to comply with financial fair play rulings. How does the situation work with new players coming in on loan with regard to our wage bill and ffp. Obviously whoever comes in on loan has to be paid a very decent wage…If we get 2 players in on loan it could set us back one million a month or more… Read more »
I’m just saying Charlie instead of criticizing “leadership” why not actually criticize the person responsible for most of these decisions or are you afraid to. Critical that we didn’t sell Chambers? Blame Arsene he had a chance to sell him for 16 million when he was wanted by someone but choose to keep him and barely use him. Now it’s taking another loan in the hopes that he’ll play well enough that someone else will come in and bid for him. Not happy with the contract situation of players well blame him too he allowed how many players to run… Read more »
Gambon, you might have a point about gazidis being fired, wasn’t he meant to give a year’s notice before being able to leave?
Pierre sometimes loan deals the wages are split. And there’s obviously a difference between paying someone on loan and paying someone who’s here on a 3/4 year contract. But I understand your concern and it is a worry and all the more reason to get Ozil out as soon as possible.
Having watch Suarez playing for the first time yesterday, I think he is a good buy in this TW. I don’t think he’ll ask for a big salary. He mainly wants to play football. He’ll be Emery’s man and will replace Mikki and Ramsey. He has good technical skill and I like his calmness on the ball. I don’t see him doing the pressing yesterday. Maybe he is not asked to do that by the Manager.
Emiratestroller
What is surprising is that you haven’t pencilled into your foretaste of the future the likelihood that the sole owner will load the Club with the debt he incurred to buy out Usmanov.
My understanding is that the holding company has already been relocated to Delaware. No doubt a set of last year’s accounts will ultimately turn up at PL HQ, followed perhaps by future accounts, if those are the PL rules. Until they appear, however, there is certainly no cause for optimism despite the rise in commercial revenue
Its nothing to do with wages why we cant sign players. We have spent our money for the year, simple as that. Our wage bill is £230m or so, our other costs are £80m or so, and we spent £65m on transfers. Plus £15m paying for the stadium. That adds up to £390m. Our estimated revenue for the season is about £390m or so. We’re already on course to make a large accounting loss of about £50m, so probably cant lose any more due to FFP. As of June 1st its a new financial year, and our estimated revenue for… Read more »
englandsbest
You do talk some shit.
I just checked Companies House.
Arsenal Holdings Limted – HIGHBURY HOUSE, 75 DRAYTON PARK, LONDON, N5 1BU
Getting rid of Lacazette? Why? For financial reasons or footballing ones? He is a major source of our goals and he acts as a great foil to Aubamayang which as allowed him to flourish. If we are going to get rid of Lacazette for financial reasons, that’s taking the easy way out… and short term thinking in the extreme. Haven’t we learnt anything from selling Cesc? RvP? I rather get rid of Elneny, Jenkinson, Mustafi, Özil and Mkhitaryan before we get rid of Lacazette. A big club doesn’t sell its stars… unless it’s for a world breaking, challenging fee. The… Read more »
Up4 Not how it goes mate, you renew Welbz on terms that align with his input or sell, I’m not saying inflate his wages for kicks. 100k is normal money for a striker like him, he’s a good player when fit and plays across the front. If he wants more, or you’re not willing to pay what he wants, then he gets sold and you go with another for the 20 mil he brings in. What you don’t do is limp into his final year and get to Jan only for him to get crocked and leave you with one… Read more »
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We’re moving to Delaware? I’ll tell the kids we’re moving
Leeds
You think it makes sense to have a £170k striker on the bench? No other team in world football does.
Laca is our second best player, problem is he plays the same position as our best player.
Ask yourself this…
Would you rather have Auba and a great wide player…….or Auba and Iwobi on the pitch, with Lacazette on the bench?
We can replace Lacazettes goals with a great wide player that actually on the pitch every week.
Marko seems like has it all in his locker
You should write the successful manager’s handbook marko.
Rule number 1. Coaching defence is fanciful
Rule number 2. Spend £100m minimum every season
Rule number 3. Retrospectively point out the mistakes of others
Almost Mourinho-esque
englandsbest
No I have not suggested that Kroenke will load the company with debt.
Even if as you suggest the Holding Company has been relocated to Delaware it
does not change the legal requirement that companies operating in England
need to publish their accounts so long as they have not been wound up even if
they are technically dormant.
Also I may add that Company Directors and major shareholders must disclose
in accounts which are published all benefits and liabilities. I would be very
surprised if that was also not the case in USA.
“Would you rather have Auba and a great wide player…….or Auba and Iwobi on the pitch, with Lacazette on the bench?”
This is what people who question the selling of Lacazette don’t understand.
Leeds
If we swapped Lacazette with Sane, which team do you think would be better off?
How is marko not a legendary manager yet??
What a waste of true genius.
Scrubbing away in the back alleys of dub.
Think about Ramsey’s deal this way, he’s on 120k a week or 100k and he wanted parity with Mhkitaryan at 180k or 200k. Letting Ramsey leave when he is not exactly a good fit, is equivalent to saving for 4 Torreira type players on 50k a week, willing to bust a gut, and to step up in the world of football. Having Ozil and Mhkitaryan on 550k, does it make sense to increase the wage bill to 750k on 3 average players when 15 young players with the right attitude and output can be on that amount? It surely makes… Read more »
PLEASE, PLEASE tell me ( gambon _ u seem clued up)
With all this financial resraints going on in the background FFP, etc
Thought it was wise to extend Elnenys contract, at the start of the season?
Have they not seen him play previously?
In am gobsmacked.
He is trousering 50k a week And lichsteiner 70k and we worry what Ramsey is on?
Charlie
Its always best to extend contracts, as long as you dont give needless payrises.
Not extending contracts got us into our current mess.
Gambon
“We have spent our money for the year, simple as that.”
then how can we afford a couple of loan deals at a cost of probably a million a month ,possibly more .
And why did kronke allow the club to get into the position of Arsenal football club only having a transfer budget of net 22.5 million a year as per the last 2 years. ….
I’ve no interest in continually blaming Wenger You haven’t blamed him once you twat. You deflect and divert constantly. I’m interested in who is here now, and who is making decisions that will impact what we see in future. Ah yes of course why talk about the past (that affects the immediate) let’s talk about the future. Perfect deflection we can’t criticize Wenger for the future because it hasn’t happened yet. Just so you know if the criticism is why did we allow so many players to wittle down their contracts and why didn’t we sell Chambers when we had… Read more »
For clarification Kroenke will need to publish in English Accounts dividends received and loans taken out which impact on the company.
The company accounts published previously details of consultancy fees paid
to Kroenke’s business in USA.
More importantly there is no evidence that Kroenke has saddled any of his
sports franchises with personal debt sofar as I am aware.
gambon Great post by the way @1423. This is why, a transfer policy must be judged holistically. It is important With respect, I disagree with you, don’t get me wrong, they are all valid points but it’s being driven by financial considerations rather than footballing ones. If someone came to pay us £200m+ upfront for Lacazette, that’s one thing… but in our present state, I doubt we would achieve more than £70m for Lacazette. We can achieve that result by selling our deadwood promptly and properly. We need to reform our whole transfer apparatu and how we approach transfer and… Read more »
Gambon
Well then . They seem it’s sensible to extend Elnenys, chambers Xhaka and Iwobi but not Ramsey.?
And yet Ramsey is wanted by Juve, PSG and Liverpool ?
And the above quartet are Absolutely bang average.
My theory is RIGHT
THE NEW REGIME IS ACTUALLY WORSE THAN THE LAST ONE!
Rule number 3. Retrospectively point out the mistakes of others
Sounds like every human being on the planet ever
I disagree with selling Lacazette, you first need to find a suitable replacement before attempting such a near suicidal feat, even at his best Aubameyang misses chances like most strikers. A club looking to stay at the top and enter into the Champion’s league needs lethal strikers, if we sell Lacazette then we acknowledge we want to settle at the Europa league level.
Come to think about it, wasn’t a lack of a viable alternative the problem when we had only Giroud and Welbeck?
*It is important, when judging a transfer window, who we sell is just as important as who we bring in. One enables the other, especially in a self sustaining model..
There’s an enormous amount of frustration in the fan base because of where we are meaning there is heaps of critique, but we are where we are because there was not this amount of critique 4 years ago. If fans had been this vocal and this critical of the set up 4 or more years ago we would not be in this position right now and we’d have done the transition in a far financially stronger position while still in the UCL. As much as fans say Kroenke is to blame for waiting until things got really bad to pull… Read more »
Rule number 4- always slag off the mighty English
Rule number 5- condescend
Rule number 6- always remeber, marko knows best