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:
- Emery and Monchi know each other (though that means little if you like living in Rome and enjoy the project you’re in)
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
There are no obstacles in life you can’t get over. Been a difficult couple of days but I’m positive and ready to take whatever challenge comes my way. Thank you so much for the love and messages, you are incredible ❤ pic.twitter.com/onwrMvIKui
— Héctor Bellerín (@HectorBellerin) January 22, 2019
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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Damn it
Give the kids a crack, screw Suarez! This season is a freebie anyway. (Well to anyone else who managed other than Emery that is) We allllllll knew (except a few that don’t need to be mentioned) that this job; where we don’t have bottomless pockets of gold, was going to take more than one season to fix. Those who expected results straight away are full of themselves. Yes this or that manager may have done things differently, but for fucks sake, give the bloke in charge a chance. It doesn’t help that the damn backroom team can’t even sort their… Read more »
And cc keeps saying why did we even change manager if the new man can’t coach the team to be better.
Well fuck, Wenger assembled a shitter and shitter team every single season for at least the last 5 years. Many would argue more than that.
So yes it is going to take more than just coaching to get this squad playing consistent high quality football.
We won’t be doing any business this month
Well fuck, Wenger assembled a shitter and shitter team every single season for at least the last 5 years. Many would argue more than that.
Goober
Then why wasn’t he sacked sooner? Pep and klopp were both available and both expressed interest in the arsenal job.
Can’t pin it all on wenger. He’s just one cog in the machine
Gazidis and kroenke are equally as culpable if not more so.
If bailey is so great as a number of you pointed out two days ago, the. Why are untied looking to offload him??
Please advice : – thoughts on Elneny. I find him to be a very competent player with a good engine, decent distribution and also someone capable of playing various positions. To me he is more than a decent backup for Xhaka / Guendouzi and also a better option over Stephen at CB. Should we sell him ? – to generate funds, realistically, what sellable assets do we have ? Chambers, Ozil, Kos – how much funds do we expect to take in if we sell these assets. Would we need to sell some of our “high potential youth players” to… Read more »
Charlie George
So you don’t want Spaniards and Italians
What about South American’s? Best of both worlds? Roughbajd tough and play good football. Surely we should be looking to incorporate both sides of the game into our side?
Charlie George just wants a team full of Londoners and Northern lads who know the little foreigners “don’t like it up em”
Enjoy your racist cornflakes this morning Charlie.
Chris
No he wants Western European’s too. From nations who can adapt to our league more comfortably.
Wanting a few british lads in your side is hardly racist.
Nice attempt at spinning his words though
Enjoy your tofu and soy for breakfast 🤪🤪
Unai
Of course, I forgot no Italian or Spanish players eve r adapted to the Premiee League, like……ever. My mistake.
I had Tofu last night actually, as it happens!
I had Tofu last night actually, as it happens! Chris, of course you did. What he’s saying is that players form certain leagues adapt better to the style of our league due to the pace The Spanish and Italian leagues are probably the most different to ours in almost every way so of course it’s going to be harder t adapt How’s many Italians in any position have been a success here? It’s the same with us there. There have been more successful transitions from la liga but still many have found it hard to adapt. Universe juice for break… Read more »
Un na naai
Wenger wasn’t sacked sooner because cunts like you would have been depressed.
Redtruth
I’m glad my own personal feelings were considered by the arsenal suits
Since when did that start?
Un na
You’d have been in bits had Wenger been sacked 8 years ago.
Unless we are hiring a player who can adapt to the EPL and Arsenal way of playing straight away (so no injured, unfit, light players) a 6 months loan does not make sense. La Liga and the Italian leagues have shown that from the European leagues, those are the league with the biggest adaptation hurdles and the biggest percentage of failures (calculated as being gone within 2 years). The Dutch league input was considered statically irrelevant as a too small sample. James Rodriguez’s attitude problem are well known at Real, at Bayern and in his national team. If Emery can’t… Read more »
The Premier league is almost entirely made up of foreign players so where is the issue of adapting coming from.
There’s a week left to find a suitable fullback to replace Bellerin. Not that I’m not looking forward to the Lichtsteiner/Jenkinson comedy duo at RB.
James is so much better than Ozil and he doesn’t hide. 7 goals and 11 assists in 19 starts last season.
I would say English players have had much more trouble adapting abroad than vice versa. It’s not really about adapting though, it’s the quality of the player that matters I think.
“And cc keeps saying why did we even change manager if the new man can’t coach the team to be better. Well fuck, Wenger assembled a shitter and shitter team every single season for at least the last 5 years. Many would argue more than that. So yes it is going to take more than just coaching to get this squad playing consistent high quality football.“
None of that noise makes a case against what I state in relation to others talking players.
Like I get it, you guys are just as frustrated as everyone else.
I just don’t see why there was so much leeway for the old regime, but no patience with the new regime, that I agree hasn’t even got itself together yet.
I am not too disappointed if we dont get Suarez either. Especially if the loan isn’t on our terms. Option to buy but not the obligation is the only way we should be doing it. At the very least, no option or obligation since beggars cant be choosers. I dont know enough about him to say I dont want him, but just going on his highlights mainly he doesnt seem to have that final ball enough times. Kids got some skills and I think he would be a huge upgrade on many of our players. But we clearly have a… Read more »
“Here are his numbers from Gambon in the comments.”
Gambon >> OptaJoe confirmed.
We can sack Sven, use Jenks as RB, buy/loan zero players and give Ozil the golden parachute.
Everything is ok and alright.
All Raul needs is for Emery to win game after game after game.
If that isn’t possible, Raul will need to find some politically correct answers and a silvered tongued relations officer.
Le Grove poll!
“Who should replace Bellerin as RB/RWB ?”
1. Lich
2. Jenks
3. AMN
4. Ozil (get his ass some work!)
5. Mustafi (that is more like a dare)
If the club want people like Monchi, novel idea, but they could try not to miss the boat for once
Unai Zola was an Italian player who was about 5’4 but he didn’t seem to have much troubles. Chelsea seemed to have had the beat players of Italian nationality over the years it seems. There hasn’t been a bucketload from there but I can’t believe that a players nationality should be the defining factor in their potential recruitment. More like ability, technique, attitude and professionalism amongst other things. One of Wengers best quotes was “I don’t look at the passport”. Don’t get me wrong there should be a balance, a few youngsters from the local area would be great but… Read more »
Put Ramsey at right back …his man marking of jourginho was excellent…considering he was playing behind the strikers v Chelsea, he created absolutely nothing during the entire game and was invisible in the 2nd half so sticking him at right back looks the logical answer .
Pedro I was frankly unimpressed with the proposed deal for Suarez. I see very little merit going for a 25 year old footballer with virtually no gametime this season and as you suggest scores virtually no goals when he actually plays. If Arsenal are going to buy an attacking midfielder to replace Ozil and Ramsey at the top of a diamond formation then it should be someone who is going to make a significant difference to the team and not just another high energy footballer. The discussion over Arsenal’s finances is in my view completely ridiculous. Yes the club has… Read more »
If this deal for Suárez is done, it is a good thing in the long run for the club. We have finally started to stand up to Barça’s bullying tactics. We sold Cesc to them at a price they dictated. Gazidas basically rolled over and asked his tummy to be scratched during those negotiations and we severely undersold him. Plus to add salt to the wound, when Cesc came back to the EPL a couple of years later, Barca still hadn’t paid us in full. Must we take their rejects too? At their set price? I sincerely hope that under… Read more »
My preference for RB would be to properly convert AMN to that position (a la Lauren) and give him the rest of the season to see if it works. Id rather see us stick with the back 4, 3 in midfield for defensive security and use Ramsey/Ozil (of Ozil is willing to put in the graft Emery requires from the No10 but not No10 role)
Ramsey didnt really man mark Jorginhio but rather blocked the passing lines from the CB’s to gim, or from him forwards – forcing even more of sideways and backwards passes Jorgihnio is want to do.
Un na naai
“Why wasn’t he sacked sooner?”
Fear, ignorance, complacency, naivety, greed……………..I can think of many more reasons.
“more because we’re hiring in Ozil MKII ”
Not totally agree about this quote concerning Rodriguez.
Ozil is a pussy, I’m not sure we can class Rodriguez in the same category…
Leeds Gunner
Why is Suarez being recruited a good thing? This guy has played virtually no football this season.
Yes I agree that we need to stand up to the Spanish Clubs, but that is not my
concern about this particular deal.
If we are replacing Ozil and Ramsey then I want to see an upgrade. Suarez is
not that player on current evidence.
Solid posts lately, Pedro . Not like you haven’t heard it before but big ups for the dedication towards LG
Imagine wasting time with Farcelona over Suarez, while Napoli dip in and secure Fornals for a similar price for next season
Emirates
Read the entire post.
Perhaps I should have said “If this deal for Suarez is off it is a good thing for the club in the long run…”
Martinez in the shop window?
https://arseblog.news/2019/01/martinez-to-join-reading-on-loan/
Reyes isn’t joining the Arsenal coaching staff.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46970235
Leedsgunner
I did read your entire post. The point is you opened by suggesting it might have been a good deal.
My point is that if you are replacing two established players in our team you
recruit someone who is better and certainly not inferior. On current evidence
based on last two years Suarez performance level suggests that he is not remotely on same level as Ozil and Ramsey.
If he was there would be a large queue of major clubs queuing up to take this
player away from Barcelona.
ES,
Leeds is happy that the negotiations have broken down!
to be honest, I rather we invest Saka in the matchday squad then having denis saurez
this kid can become immense, emery should put in him in the last 10 mins most games and let this kid do something
like wenger said if you good enough your old enough
But he also said…
‘If I sign Xabi Alonso then I kill Denilson’.
“I will work again in a big club, very soon, I got plenty of offers.”
(lolz)
“If I sign Xabi Alonso then I kill Denilson”
In fact he killed… the club.
I can only remember a single Denilson goal in his entire time at the club – the game against Everton, first game of the season, we smashed them 5-1 or something. An absolute nothing player.
I’m glad the Suarez deal is off, I just don’t see the point of a player who is no better than what we already have .
At this point I would rather the club do nothing in jan and prepare to do serious business in the summer.
Also want to see nelson brought back for next season .
I love that famuous Pedro marketing pitch; “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‘\”
…and I’m a donot?
Actually the donuts are the folks who ever thought Monchi was going to voluntarily DEMOTE himself after being DoF at Sevilla for 17 years and for the past year at Roma. He has super powers at Roma because he has direct access to the billionaire owner.
“I know my name is being associated with Arsenal but I am concentrating on my job with Roma.
“However it is a pleasure being linked with a club like Arsenal.
“But it is not the first time that happens.”
From Monchi himself. Good stuff. That last line almost sounds like he’s saying ‘I’m not getting my hopes up’.
Look at that Roma Press thing as well, they’re not exactly going to say ‘yeah our DoF is off’, are they? But the last line, there’s a release clause, so basically, there’s fuck all they can do about it.
That is the sum total of that article. We want him to stay, we’re not letting him go, but at the end of the day if he wants to go and someone wants to pay we can’t stop him.
If we manage to hoodwink Juventus into buying Ramsey now [which is laughable in itself]
Why splurge the proceeds on a loan player, why not add it to the summer transfer funds?
As I raised earlier no-one know at the moment the current state of Arsenal’s finances, because last year’s final accounts and the interim accounts up to November in current financial year have not been published. What we do know is that the European revenues have been reduced by not participating in Champions League. However, much if not all that potential loss of revenue has been compensated by: A] Additional £10 Million from Emirates under new sponsorship deal. B] New sponsorship reputed to be £10 Million from Rwanda Tourism C] Substantial increase in Commercial TV Revenues. Second we spent last season… Read more »
Stroller You are correct in your assessment of Saurez and him not being an upgrade on what we already have at the club . I f Emery is serious about Saurez then he Obviously has reservations about promoting Smith rowe , Willock and Saka to the first team . Mhkitaryan ,Ramsey and Ozil in their careers have proven to be much more effective players over the years than saurez. Just because Emery hasn’t a clue how to get the best out of our offensive players ( including Lacazette) it doesn’t make them bad players . A good manager makes the… Read more »
Aubamayang,Lacazette, ozil, Mhkitaryan ,Ramsey and iwobi are better than anything we have had since ade,rvp,ces,gosh era.
Summary: Wenger left a super squad and it was wrong to dismiss him
Left side
Martinez is in shop window ….of Poundland, same section they keep the leather jackets.
to be fair I think Smith-Rowe and Saurez are similar players only difference is experience really
but you rather just get an experienced defender and right sided one
but I like to see emery using ESR, saka and Willock more often
I f Emery is serious about Saurez then he Obviously has reservations about promoting Smith rowe , Willock and Saka to the first team .
Emile Smith Rowe has been injured and before then was very much part of the managers plan
Willock has more first team goals than Ozil this season
Saka has featured although not as much as i would like but then Emery is not here to do the things i like but things he deems fit. He is the dude getting sacked at the end of the day not me nor Pierre
Saka is prob the tricky pacey winger we need in this side, counter attacking winger I know he is 17 but I am sure he can work himself through
cristano Ronaldo started at 17/18 at man u
Saka is a promising talent like Hudson-odoi and don’t be surprised if a german team will want Saka
We are now seen as a poison chalice by many in the game.
Having become such a mishmash of shambolic systems and procedures, Arsenal FC is not as attractive a proposition as some on here seem to think.
We didn’t become an embarrassment just on the pitch.
If Emery bought Saurez then Smith rowe would be further down the pecking order, injured or not.
UnaiZola was an Italian player who was about 5’4 but he didn’t seem to have much troubles. Chelsea seemed to have had the beat players of Italian nationality over the years it seem Chris Zola Di Matteo Ravanelli Di canio In over 100 years of English football zola is the only name you can come up with?? I’ve come up with four Kind of proves my point don’t you think? It’s not their nationality but a completely different footballing culture which makes it harder to adapt You’re seeing what you want to see to suit your tofu chomping narrative. That… Read more »
Un na
Why wasn’t Wenger sacked?
Because Kroenke was too emotionally attached to him, the man loved Wenger same as many of you who still,can’t help but defend him until now.
You’re revising the history by giving the appearance that Wenger was just another manager that could be sacked without a very clear reason. So long as there was the mere appearance is success, then Kroenke was going to keep him. The FA cup wins created that optical illusion. Until the final season, it was still a divided fan base about keeping Wenger.
Regarding wage bill last season I am fairly sure that the departure of Sanchez,
Walcott, Giroud, Coquelin and Debuchy will have taken off the wage bill from
January at least £490K pw from February. The wage bill for Aubameyang and
Mkhitaryan was around £320-340K pw so around £150K of Ozil’s pay rise will
have been also covered by the offloads.
but if rumours are true we have pulled the plug on denis saurez then that’s fine, but these James Rodriquez rumours still not going away though
“However it is a pleasure being linked with a club like Arsenal.”
lol hypocrite.
Dissenter That’s your version of events It may be that our new owner was perfectly happy as long as champions league revenue was still streaming into the coffers. Funny how wenger never went until he dropped out of it for two years. But even if your version of events are the case then it’s still the owners faultt Yes wenger is another manager just like anyone else. I hold him dear to my heart because of the memories he gave me and the great times as a teenager growing up watching us play the best football the country had ever… Read more »
Suarez will still come thisJanuary.. I still think Barca are going to cave in at the last moment.
A loan with no obligation to buy is still the best way for them to sell Denis Suarez. Even if we don’t buy him in the summer, someone else may because we are going to put him in the shop window.
We will get our way with the loan deal, that’s pretty obvious.
Pierre
“Just because Emery hasn’t a clue how to get the best out of our offensive players (including Lacazette) it doesn’t make them bad players.”
Complete nonsense.
Un Na
We long ago established that Kroenke should have replaced Wenger sooner. Many years sooner. I’m not sure why you think this point needs to be made here at this late date. Oh right, you want to make it about Kroenke.
Un na It seems you never rea all the comments Kroenke was making about Wenber from the beginning. He was just feeding off Arsenal fans like you to be honest What’s laughable is still constant protection of blame to Kroenke to leave Wenger’s reputation unsmirched. SAF was another illustrious manager [n the same era as Wenger]. He knew the club would never fire him for marginal reasons and he spared everyone the belly ache by choosing to go out on his own terms. Wenger knew the same fact; the owner and fan base were emotionally connected to him – he… Read more »
Bamford
Who in the bejesus made you master and commander guy? Er nobody. Get back in the class room and take out your repressed emotional issues on your boys
-Projection of blame to Kroenke
Un na
It seems you never rea all the comments Kroenke was making about Wenber from the beginning. He was just feeding off Arsenal fans like you to be honest
What’s laughable is still constant protection of blame to Kroenke to leave Wenger’s reputation unsmirched.
Dissenter
Erm, the whole debate here started BECAUSE I SAID HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN SACKED SOONER.
So how is that absolving him of blame? Of course he played his role. You’re literally projecting views onto me that aren’t mine. You’re normally quite a sensible poster dissenter.
Un na, Come on man. Leave the job out of it. I was a Wenger out for sure. Doesn’t mean I hate the man or think any less of his achievements. He just well and truly overstayed his welcome and the team and club structure was left behind the rest of the big boys as a result of his ineptitude in his final years. But dissenter was right, in my opinion. With the home fans singing Wenger’s name every game until only a couple of seasons ago, and half the fan base supporting him til the very last day, how… Read more »
Un na
Dissenter is a storm in a teacup type, wouldn’t bother.
Yep.Dissenter.with you on the Suarez assessment.loan deal withOPTION to buy NOT compulsory.wil happen.Just those Catalan C**ts trying to be their usual selves expecting us to cave in I.e ( Gazidis).still miffed at most of the duds we flogged them & trying to get their revenge.arrogant c** ts.as regards the Dof that will almost certainly be either Munchi or Overmars.either one will do .Not fussed.
Takin’ the Mikh recommended bringing Ozil back in on Friday, which if we stay in 4-4-2 might mean we look like the below:
_________Leno
Mait__Sokr__Kosc__Kola
________Torreir
___Xhaka____Ramsey
_________Ozil
____Auba____Laca
Or, if he switches to 3-5-2, it could like the below:
__________Leno
___Must__Sokr__Kosc
AMN__Xhak__Torr___Kola
__________Ozil
_____Auba_____Laca
Or, if you want to keep Ramsey in the XI, the above could look like the below:
__________Leno
___Must__Sokr__Kosc
AMN__Torr__Ramsy__Kola
__________Ozil
_____Auba_____Laca
What would people go with, and why?
Bamford Are you saying that our offensive players are playing to their full potential …if so , then why are trying to sign Saurez as all stats show that the players we have at the club now have historically proved more effective than saurez. At the club now we have Ramsey ( in and out of the side) Ozil( in and out of the side) Mhkitaryan( ditto) and Lacazette (ditto)…. The manager hasn’t settled into a system whether a defensive or offensive formation ….7 months is time enough to assess what he has and I find it quite strange that… Read more »
I really can’t see a loan signing out there that is going to make an instant impact to our first team in the 4 months left of the season (could take that long to settle in). I think this is an ideal opportunity to blood youth where needed.
Un Na
“take out your repressed emotional issues on your boys”
Really weird thing to write on the internet. I feel like this tells us more about Un Na’s own repressed desires and twisted imagination than anything else.
PedRo ( better today- yesterday’s was slightly lacklustre by his exalted standards..) Emery – yesterday- I thought once again looked unfit to be the Arsenal coach- with him looking slightly ridiculous in his army face paint and camouflage costume. The Arsenal coachs position is a very prestigious one. High standards are always expected. I felt yesterdays ‘paint balling exercise nonsense was very much circa 1980s Crazy Gang and Dave Bassett antics. We are The Arsenal and in the words of our missed and much loved player Rocky Rocastle. “Remember who you are,What you are and who you Represent ” alas,… Read more »
Pierre I realize that you’re not here to make honest arguments, but surely you can see that there is a massive difference between ‘Emery hasn’t a clue how to get the best out of our offensive players’ and ‘Emery has yet to identify the optimal attacking set-up for the non-ideal assortment of players he has at his disposal’. The latter is a reasonable take; the former is not. Also, we just beat Chelsea 2-0, and Aubameyang and Lacazette have 14 and 8 PL goals, respectively. I think it’s fair to say that Emery is getting a few things right and… Read more »
Higuain will apparently have his medical in London today and may be ready to play for Chelsea on Saturday. He had 36 goals under Sarri in 15-16, but he is now 31 years old. How big of an impact do people think he will have at Chelsea?
Un And thanks for getting to grips and explaining it ( better than I do ) – the reason I want Brits/French players -predominately in our team – is because of the much higher success rate of these players adapting in the arena they work (i e the Prem) Plus we have witnessed this with our own great teams and players of the past. (Petit/Anelka/Nasri/Adeabyeor (french league) Giroud/pires/henry/Vieria/Wiltord/gallas /clichy and now Genduzi etc) i know there are examples of italians/Spaniards who have broke this mould. But they are minute in comparison. We sign Suarez -basically new regime are saying- We… Read more »
Unai Actually, I was insinuating that an Italian, also possibly physically challenged, was a huge success, as you know he was. So are we supposed to disregard Italy as a whole in our search? Or is that Italians just aren’t suited to our game completely? Are you going to tell me players like Inzaghi, Cannavaro, Nesta, Maldini, Albertini et al et allllllllll, would not have flourished in the English game? Like I said, unless it presents work permit issues, the nationality of a player should matter little. It’s whether the management believes they can fit in. It would be remiss… Read more »
Charlie George
Your obvious agenda against Emery (and the current management team) is embarrassing.
I suppose George Graham’s conduct whilst Arsenal manager was immaculate also throughout his whole time at the club?
Once again, arsenal and its stupid fans are banking on Moshi the dinosaur to save the club. Why?
Didn’t players win matches in the old days?
Look, Sven who came with all the bells and whistles is now jobless within 12 months. Arsenal are a gravy train and you can hire as many ‘hip’ backroom staff as you can pay, but ultimately the results on the pitch matter. And arsenal are shit.
We are a desperately run club.
“Are you going to tell me players like Inzaghi, Cannavaro, Nesta, Maldini, Albertini et al et allllllllll, would not have flourished in the English game”
No.
But We both can agree we cant afford those players!
Apart from these iconic players -any other affordable italians you can think off?
Guns Of H
totally agree.
Fans have a total obsession -with all these overseas administrators. They all think they have the Midas Touch,
We have seen first hand – how good they are.
Raul Sannelli first year!
Un na naai
You’d be burning an effigy of Kroenke had he sacked Wenger 3 years ago.
Charlie George
The value of the player isn’t entirely relevant though in this instance
What you appear to be saying is that Italian players aren’t cut out for it in England, by and large. Those players are only a few of immense quality who you would likely say would have been fantastic in the league, Inzaghi for example, a supreme poacher.
Man Itd back in the day could have possibly signed some of them. These days you have the oil baron clubs. We probably couldn’t but that wasn’t the point
If we are going to be a club that can’t make the big money signings, then we need to be finding the diamonds in the rough. Which means we need to look far and wide. We can’t pick and choose which nationalities to ignore on the basis ‘they don’t want it lads!’when there is always exceptions to a supposed rule.
if we need a full back and it seems like Man U matteo darmain is available, would anyone be up for loaning him
I know man u might deny it but it will cover our full back positions
CG
When we have gone this long without a sniff of a top prize, everyone gets desperate.
The new tea in the canteen apparently comes from the foothills of Nepal and makes players not shit anymore. It only costs £50,000 a tea bag.
Darmain lolz.
Like we haven’t had enough of Man yoo rejects. Jeez.
Still reeling from Silvestre.