Oh, man, too much excitement.
We’ve pretty much landed Denis Suarez. There was some worry, mostly fueled by me, that the deal was going to fail because Barca dropped the announcement of their homepage… however, there has been no noise about a failed medical.
Ornstein reckons Perisic and Carassco deals are very unlikely, but the Nkunku deal is 50/50.
So we have a wide left player who can give Emery more finesse with touch and a bit more energy moving the ball and potentially a utility midfielder who can play right back.
There is a horror thread from David Cartlidge on Suarez.
Some thoughts on Denis Suárez to Arsenal. First of all, a loan without the obligatory purchase option isn’t a bad deal by any means, as he’s only really produced one good half a season in his career to date. It’s low risk.
— David Cartlidge (@davidjaca) January 30, 2019
If you click into it, he basically says Emery didn’t know how to use him, the player is no more than a cog in a machine (our machine is bad), and he has issues like a lack of personality and the inability to impose himself on games.
Well, he has it all to prove at Arsenal. At least if it goes badly, we can send him back.
In other news, ESR has moved to Leipzig on loan. A bloody excellent move. Nketiah has gone to work with Jens at Augsburg in Germany. Ben Knapper working that new loans job well. GOOD LUCK CHAPS.
In footballing news, Arsenal moved back into 4th after Chelsea took a SPANKING at Bournemouth. Other good news stretched to Liverpool drawing.
For all the shrieks of ‘Emery can’t compete for top 4’, it appears that with a squad of supposedly shite players, we’re in 4th heading into February.
It’s all about coaching now. If Rafa Benitez can beat Pep, then there’s no reason we can’t. Apparently, we have the same points total as them since late August.
Just don’t play a high line… please, please, please don’t put us through that.
Right, that’s me done. I did a podcast for your ears. I’m alone.
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Dissenter
I can counter that right wing politics in the US are the domain of inbred, bible bashing, evolution denying, ignorant morons.
The leftist views over here are dangerous, irresponsible and have never worked, that’s before we had the recent “takeover” take over of the Labour party by Corbyn’s supporters. If he wins an election we’re fucked.
It’s a fact the tories always leave the country more in debt when they leave office…
Marc “:In the States the issues stems back to Clinton (your version of left leaning) getting rid of the Glass Steagall Act that stopped retail banks getting involved in investment banking thus leading to the “too bid to fail” issue. An act that was introduced after the 30’s depression, we then managed to repeat so many of the same things leading to the 08 collapse.” You don’t know the subject and you certainly have no clue who Bill Clinton’s policies were. Clinton was more right of center than the “conservative party” UK prime minister of his time, John Major. He… Read more »
Marc
Cuba is a tiny island, and it is embargoed by the largest economy on the planet. That they have struggled economically is no surprise. Not that Cuba represents genuine socialism, but to criticize their medical system or education system or economy in general without taking into account how US foreign policy has worked to strangle them is a bit unfair.
Anyone who thinks the Clintons were leftist has no idea. That pair love money more than Croseus himself
Marc
One more thing.’
The. modern day Democratic party will be squarely in the center of politics in the UK.
Does the labor party in the UK have billionaires in the midst?
I ask because most of the economic policies advocated by the Democrats in the states are backed by a large section of the wealthy class like paying people a meaningful wage and healthcare, even if it means they have to pay more taxes. T.hese are policies that would be commonsense in any society but are labeled as leftist in American politics.
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The Clintons were and are center-right, as is/was Obama. And the repeal of Glass-Steagall was a handout to Wall Street, which needed new sources of profit. This and other profit-seeking ventures by the banks led to the crash and crisis of 2008.
Azed
“As you can see, Emery gives the characteristics of the player he wants and it’s up to the Scout/DoF to find that player based on club budget.”
Thanks ,so he does have an input as to which players he wants in the team , just what I thought.
Higuaín with a brace, if he finds his feet proper he’ll transform Chelsea
@azed, Raul started at Arsenal two weeks after the Malcolm deal was announced no gardening leave for him. If Emery gives Raul characteristics that he wants his players to have, I would like to know what characteristics he gave to Raul to end up with Lichsteiner. Slow, no positional awareness, mouthy confrontational? In a league where clubs and managers like old defenders, Lichsteiner was deemed too slow and past it for the Italian league by Juventus. Who thought that he could adapt to a quicker, more aggressive league with no mid season winter break? That decision was not made for… Read more »
Anybody knows when the English premier League remove the need to have been at the club for two years before being allowed in the U21 list? The UEFA has kept that limit, which means that Suarez may not be able to play in the Europa League unless we remove a player from the A List, but he should be eligible for the premiership as Guendouzi and Mavrapanos can both be added to the U21 list. BTW, Bennacer is going to bring some money to Arsenal as we had a 30% resale clause. Usually Arsenal does not communicate that information but… Read more »
Graham62 and Tony
Fantastic performance from England in today’s game against Ireland. Hope
you watched and enjoyed it.
Hopefully Arsenal can replicate the result and make a fantastic weekend duo.
ES
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