Monchi rumours rubbished in Italy

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The Monchi dreams were short-lived. Well, if you believe Roma Press.

RomaPress contacted today one director at Roma, who immediately rejected the notion of Monchi leaving. In addition, a member of the Spaniard’s entourage laughed off the idea of Monchi leaving the Italian capital after having just arrived, citing that he has finally settled into the club and culture of Rome after having needed an adjustment period. It is worth noting, though, that there is a buyout clause present in Monchi’s contract.’

Arsenal can’t afford to keep the heater on in the team bus at the minute, I can’t see them spunking out money on a Technical Director. The dark arts of PR might be at work here. Raul needs to keep stories around him bubbling in a positive way, so this link could be more about keeping the fans onside before we give Big Steve Rowley his old job back.

The only real hope we have are the following three things:

  1. Emery and Monchi know each other (though that means little if you like living in Rome and enjoy the project you’re in)
  2. Monchi lived in London when he was at Sevilla so he could learn the language. When you have ambitions to live in a place, a job in that place can make you do rash things
  3. Arsenal is a HUGE project. I know there are a lot of donuts that think Arsenal is a poverty job because there’s not a £200 billion pot of money at the end of the rainbow, but they’re so fucking wrong. You have literally everything at Arsenal you could want. Especially if your job is the sell the club to talent. We’re in London, there’s upwards of £200m in wages, the Premier League is the greatest test of football, we sell out every week (Italian football has Sunday League attendances outside Juve), we have incredible facilities, and we are a sleeping giant.
    1. The sub-point of this is that Monchi has always had to sell to exist. I’d imagine he’d quite fancy building an empire at some point. We have all the elements needed to take the course Liverpool has. He’d be perfect for enacting that in my opinion.

Anyway, we’ll see. Hopefully, Raul has something interesting lined up outside an internal promotion.

Hector Bellerin is out for the next 9 months. He dropped a picture that looked straight out of an ironic fashion shoot that tried to blend messages of Brexit, the failing NHS and the hopelessness of youth, whilst selling elite high street fashuuuun hungry label for a Gen Z audience.

Get well soon Hector, BIG love from all at Le Grove. You’re star.

The Denis Suarez deal looks to be off. This from Marca:

‘Initially, Barcelona wanted the London club to buy Suarez outright, but Arsenaldidn’t want to commit to a large financial deal. In fact, the Gunners were unwilling to agree to a loan with compulsory purchasing option.’

Really not sad about this one. Here are his numbers from Gambon in the comments.

He averages 3.8 goals per season as an attacking midfielder.

His best ever LaLiga season was 4 goals and 4 assists at Villareal. 4 goals and 4 assists in 33 games.

His best ever season, he averaged 3.7 combined shots, key passes and dribbles. Which is less than Iwobi and Mykhitaryan have ever managed.

Feels a little like the time we went really hard for Chamakh. Why go all out for a player if he is no better than what we have? I’d rather give a kid a chance than pay big money for a name that won’t give us anything extra outside being a friendly body for the manager.

Remember this: Barca are trying to force us to buy him as part of a loan deal. That’s a club with ZERO confidence he’s going to do a good job for us. No doubt they’ll be back with a last minute, ‘guys, we had a think and…’

The Independent are saying that Arsenal will sigh James Rodriguez on loan if we sell Aaron Ramsey for £10m this month to a team who already have him on a free. Their Arsenal reporting strategy is to wait in the bushes, see what others say, then add a layer of imagination over the rumour to drive clicks.

That said, the fact so many outlets keep reporting the rumour has me worried. Not because I don’t dream about peak Rodriguez, more because we’re hiring in Ozil MKII and our manager has zero ability to deal with man-children.

Right, I think that’s as much as I have today, we’ll start talking UNITED tomorrow… I’m in Ohio for the next two days. Chatting plenty of shit about Stan. The locals bloody love that chat.

Have a good one. x

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Dissenter

Another reason why we need younger players is improve our total market value which is a measurement of the transfer market value of the players in the first team. We have too many older players who have little transfer value even though the may still be serviceable. Koscielny, Monreal, Lichsteiner and Sokratis fall into this category. Our most highly paid players don’t have transfer values that match their status; Ozil is a big example, there was no tussle for his signature yet we him a big deal. . # Club Competition Market Value 1 FC Barcelona FC Barcelona Spain LaLiga… Read more »

China1

Dissenter I totally agree with your points but I’d also be wary about trusting those figures as they’re highly speculative Like how much is laca worth? People keep saying he’d fetch 50-60m in the current market, but people struggle to name a club that has the money to pay that who would actually be willing to pay it. In that scenario he’s not worth that much *if* no one is willing to pay it In reality this would likely make our numbers fall even lower than our projected market value. Bellerin is always talked of as a 40+m player but… Read more »

China1

Agreed gonsterous

Wenger was slammed to the high heavens for project youth and now people want us to try it again?

I’m ok with us giving some kids a try if we can’t affkrd to buy in some real players or if they’re that talented. But the same people who want us to go that was seem to be quick to criticize our best current kid MG when he has an off game or makes a mistake

Unless we get some cesc/rvp beast types like you said, we can’t have it both ways

Dark Hei

Pott’s legacy is going to be that he is the latter day “Wenger of the Project Youth years”.

He should get out before he turns into “Wenger of the post-Cesc years”.

Valentin

Anybody knows the exact number of club and home grown players per club the Premiership and the Europa League require. I thought it was 8 out of 25 for the premiership. We look well short of that number, meaning that some players may have to be left out of the premiership squad list. Having lost Wellbeck, Holding, Bellerin, Martinez for the rest of the season and now potentially selling Ramsey, do we still have 8 home grown players for the squad list of the second part of the season? On top of my head, the only home grown players currently… Read more »

Emiratesstroller

Arsenal appear to be playing a “long term game” and investing their future in
youth players.

That was more or less announced when the club made the appointments of both Sanllehi and Mislintat.

In the short term the club appear to be recruiting more experienced low budget or loanee players.

We saw a similar project in the past under Wenger who assumed that the players would stay loyal to club. It did not work then and somehow I don’t
see it succeeding now.

Un na naai

We saw a similar project in the past under Wenger who assumed that the players would stay loyal to club. It did not work then and somehow I don’t see it succeeding now. Stroller It didn’t work because we had young men at the peak of their game who were hungry for success, the club failed to add sufficient quality to push us up a level. We need 2-3 quality defensive additions at the time and they just didn’t bother. If the manager is backed in the transfer market this time around and supplements the youth with quality additions then… Read more »

Un na naai

PhD

Completely agree regarding Henry and paddy v.
I’d love to see vieira as manager one day. I think he’ll do well. You’re spot on over Henry. Too prone to mood swings and arrogant condemnation. Maybe the Monaco job will teach him some much needed humility but I doubt it. As you say he will more likely project the blame onto anything and anyone but himself.

Un na naai

Mata did to be a free transfer target

What did I say??? Said this about 3 months ago. Clever move if you ask me. Focus our money on the wing positions and defence.

Dark Hei

Mata?

Imagine a lineup with Mata, Ozil and Mik……..

Even Wenger would have second thoughts.

TR7

Two loudmouths pretending to be expert on everything football on TV sacked within 6 months of their respective stints. Back to hackneyed and insipid football commentary on TV, Mr. Henry !

HighburyLegend

Agree his failure at Monaco could teach Henry a bit of humility, but seriously, the board at Monaco has completely lost their minds, and have absolutely no idea of what they’re doing, paralized by the relegation fear.

Bamford10

New post.

westy

Just reading back through the posts and how PhD is calling Henry egocentric and a narcissist, then re-posting his old posts to show how right he was… hilarious!
I do agree with you on TH14 vs PV4 though

Doublethink

Pierre what makes you think Emery doesn’t like technical or skilful players?

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