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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I hope Emery is prepared to give our youth CBs a run out because what we should have done was to sign a decent CB and LB this window.
… and no I’m not talking about Cahill.
Please Arsenal can we start having some pride and stop signing over the hill rejects?
Happy to be proved wrong but I would have rather given our youth products more game time and saved the money for the summer transfer window. We paid 1.4m pounds loan fee to get him, we have no obligation to buy. What exactly is wrong with some on here, we need bodies who can play wide and drive with the ball, we can’t do any outright deals so we are doing loan deals to help us push for the champions league. Especially when he says Bergkamp and Henry were secret heroes of his? Bergkamp is a global superstar and is… Read more »
I can’t believe the amount of pundits who bend over backwards for man utd. Everyone thinks man utd will get in the top 4. That’s not unlikely but I don’t see this run of utd going for long.
Suarez will buy into Emerys idea of working hard without the ball as well as with it. So if we start him on Sunday we at least have 11 v 11.
CA Frustrating isn’t it? We really could have done with Lacazette or Aubameyang in the Cesc era/Wengaball days where we were loaded to the gills with creative midfielders and not much in the way of finishers with Ade suffering a bit of one-season syndrome/leaving in ’09 and with RVP’s struggles with keeping fit. Now it’s firmly the opposite, we’re crying out for a Nasri, Rosicky, Hleb, Arshavin, Fabregas and can’t play two of our best players together at their premium. I’m pretty worried that we’re stuck with Ozil. Genuinely don’t see a potential suitor happy to pay his wages unless… Read more »
WengerEagle
Do you spend all day watching Sky Spirts….fuckin.potato coach muppet lol
Absolutely ludicrous suggestion.
Lacazette has become an integral part of our team and to sell him would be crazy.
Are you sure you’re an Arsenal supporter?
WengerEagleDo you spend all day watching Sky Sports….fuckin.potato coach muppet lol
Graham
What good is having a 60 million pound CF getting splinters lodged in his arse while we have gaping holes in the XI?
Obviously in an ideal world we keep both and strengthen elsewhere but we’re seemingly not financially in a position to do that.
Selling Lacazette is nuts… especially in the form he is in.
We’ve been down this road before if it is £60m or so we’re looking for we can find that by selling our deadwood before we touch Lacazette.
Plus before we start selling our best players again let’s have a clear direction that we are heading for.
Haven’t we learnt anything from selling Cesc and RvP? Where did that get us?
We’re treading water, and unless we improve our defence we will sink that much quicker without his goals.
WengerEagle delivering a whole load of useless information.
Red
Do you spend all day typing comments on here with one hand while strumming yourself out to shirtless David Ospina compilations on your computer?
‘ It’s like saying sell bergkamp because we have Henry.’
Not even close.
Lacazette is not indispensable, we have bigger goals than holding on to what we have.
WengerEagle
Please, give it a rest.
You’re making yourself look silly.
Yeah sure, great job at explaining how Graham…
SanmiJanuary 31, 2019 07:35:14 Typical legroan, playing football managers. Gone are the days you wanted Samba, Schneiderlin, Now it’s fucking Zaha that flatters to deceive. Can’t even score decent amount of goals. Brooks has.only performed for half a season. Takin the MhikJanuary 31, 2019 07:01:03 I’ve just read someone on here saying we should sell Aubameyang and bring in Zaha, and sell Ozil and bring in brooks.. Fuck me, some fans ain’t got a clue >>>>>>>>> That would be, and no I don’t have a clue, clearly. I was just chewing the fat late of a night with Charlie George,… Read more »
WengerEagle
January 31, 2019 14:07:00
‘ It’s like saying sell bergkamp because we have Henry.’
Not even close.
can you elaborate ? other than the age reversal I don’t see how its any different.
gonsterous
In what world did Henry and Bergkamp play the same position?
Like saying that Higuain and Dybala played in the same position.
Is that the same Ian Wright who failed to win a league title with Arsenal, even though he joined when we were Champions.
The maligned Glen Helder was better than Zaha..
Suarez is better than martial, sterling, lingard, willian, son. Hazard is the only winger better than suarez in the top 6 currently
Chelsea offering Spurs the chance to sign Bathsuayi on loan is a very daft thing to do in all honesty
“I would much rather we got Ozil back to playing at some kind of respectable level ”
There’s a greater chance of you having a pet dragon or Dinosaur than the above happening.
Suarez is better than martial, sterling, lingard, willian, son. Hazard is the only winger better than suarez in the top 6 currently
Easy tiger…EASY!!
Meh, he’s pretty rubbish but yeah it would be odd from Chelsea’s POV.
Llorente even as a pensioner is better.
Wenger eagle
compare the 4-4-2, laca and bergkamp would occupy similar positions. That of the second striker. Henry had greater over all play than Auba, which is another reason we need laca in the team.
The real argument is, if we sell a striker, why are we not selling the 30 year old ?
I have watched suarez repeatedly, as I watch most barca and villareal matches.
He’s not Hleb. He’s style is more hazard in nature. He’s not going to score you load of goals, but he will open up defenses. He dribbles with pace and has good pass.
Iwobi is going to the right. We need an AM. Our pressing will be good with an AM that can close down if Ramsey leaves
Gonsterous
20 years ago most teams played 2 up top, more versatile too.
Meh, he’s pretty rubbish but yeah it would be odd from Chelsea’s POV.
He has a habit of having purple patches, why even look to help them out in the first place??
I knew he was rubbish right from his days at Marseille
Really impressed with Wolves manager. Had fears about Moutinho in a midfield two and it seemed as if he was flagging a couple of months ago, so he’s changed to a midfield three and brought in Dendoncker. Given them fresh impetus.
Emery has decided we will always concede therefore we go gong-ho and outscore everyone
“Sell lacazette”
Jesus fuck.
“DM “Emery out” after a mere 8 months” I wanted Emery Out after 8 minutes. I do not dislike him personally. I think he has good integrity, a determination and a defiant persistence about him- but he should not be our coach. When I see the foto of him today welcoming his old mate Suarez-I recoil in embarrassment that our great, prestigious Club has him to be our figurehead. From Someone who has witnessed men of the calibre of Mee/Graham/Wenger in charge of our club- maybe my standards and expectations are just higher… than yours… This is The Arsenal. Its… Read more »
So who do you want in Charlie George?
RH
Yeah with you on helping them at all, hard to see what the incentive is for them.
Rumours that he ends up at West Ham on loan until end of season too and to Celta Vigo afterwards with Maxi Gomez heading to West Ham.
A lot of business around a mediocre CF.
So who do you want in Charlie George?
Big Sam, Howe, Mark Hughes, Tony Adam, anyone British
It is imperative this summer that we sell well. Using very conservative values: Elneny – £15m Jenks – £5m Asano -£1m Zelalem- £1m Bieliek – £3m Ospina -£4m Chambers – £15m Macey – £1m Mkhitaryan – £15m That’s £60m without touching Lacazette. If we want to make most of our resources the REAL question is what is Emery going to do about Özil? We simply cannot have our highest earner on the bench because our manager doesn’t know what to do with him. For those people saying that we should sell Lacazette because it makes no sense to have him… Read more »
Everyday – we witness – the short term management style of Emery/Raul regime All my criticisms are topical ( ie the loaning of our 3 young players, etc) We’re loaning them so they can get playing time, why should we risk our results now when we’re in the second stage of the europa league and in the race for top 4 just to play some youngsters, we’re obviously not going to do that. They need the experience of senior football you absolute fuckwit, that’s why they’re going out on loan. In a very good league and in ESRs case to… Read more »
CG already back from Untold ?? Why don’t you stay out there for ever ??
“So who do you want in Charlie George?”
Big Sam, Harry Redknapp, Sean Dyche, Eddie Howe, Bredan Rogers, Theresa May,
Francis Jeffers………..
gonsterous
Lacazette and Bergkamp are in no way comparable, the former is an out and out 9 with Bergkamp being a 10. And Aubameyang is Henry if he couldn’t dribble, create chances for himself, create for others.
I didn’t say sell Lacazette, I said sell one of them.
Would actually rather keep Lacazette given his age and less of a dependancy on his athleticism than Auba.
I am talking about the calibre of people like Ancelloti/Zidane
Failing that an internal appointment Arteta/Vieria /Henry/campbell/Lehamn
failing that Howe/Southgate
*if he ignores it
Denis Suarez has confirmed that Hector Bellerin sent him a message as speculation built of a move to Arsenal, and he’d love to play alongside the full-back in the future.
I can imagine that Emery was planning to play a 4 -3 -3 system. On the left, he’ll have the established Iwobi and Kola pair and on the right, he’ll use the Suarez and Bellerin pair. Too bad we lost Bellerin for the year.
“More importantly why is our head coach unable to get the best out of him?From where I stand, Emery seems to have buried his head in the sand with Özil hoping that the problem will go away with he ignores it long enough.Initially there was merit in Emery bench him to demonstrate who was boss. However, it’s clear that hasn’t worked. Emery needs to stop pretending there isn’t a problem and get the best out of him. Emery was lauded as a great tactician and a a good man manager. Well, it’s time for him to show that by restoring… Read more »
The 6th best team (last season) in the league should not be complaining picking up Barcelona rejects.
okay guys a question which player in our squad could we sell for £100m in the next few seasons
lucas torriera
matteo gouendouzi
alex lacacazette
hector bellerin
How the fuck has Elneny’s price jumped from £5m to £15m
redtruth
I know a lot of people expecting us to sign world class superstars but we don’t have the money for it this season, summer will be different
but we in the market for Europa league calibre players like denis saurez, ivan perisic, carrasco
we do need to buy hidden gems though and hopefully fingers cross we can win the Europa league because the only teams we should fear are Chelsea and Napoli but on our day with a full strength team we should be able to beat them
The 6th best team (last season) in the league should not be complaining picking up Barcelona rejects.
Amen
‘How the fuck has Elneny’s price jumped from £5m to £15m’
Scary times when we agree.
“Initially there was merit in Emery bench him to demonstrate who was boss. However, it’s clear that hasn’t worked” I don’t think establishing who is Boss is the issue at hand but whatever “Emery was lauded as a great tactician and a a good man manager. Well, it’s time for him to show that by restoring Mesut to his best form.” He is not a damaged work of art in need of restoration. He is a 30 year old footballer who has played 5 years in the premier league and still finds away games tough and scary and would rather… Read more »
“Erm Leeds care to share with us how a manager can get the best out of a semi retired football?” Why? Isn’t that Emery’s job? Emery cannot wash his hands of Özil and hope that he will go away. Whether he likes it or not, for the time being he is an Arsenal player and it is his job to get the most out of him. You would have thought he would have learnt from his experience with Neymar and how to deal with big personalities. It’s looks like Emery has decided to take the route of least confrontation and… Read more »
People like Lehman, Henry, Arteta?
Fuck me you’re a raving lunatic boyo. None of them have managed anywhere apart from Henry, and look how that ended.
I mean Jens Lehman, fucking listen to yourself.
RT
Leicester was looking at him for that price. 😉
‘He is a 30 year old footballer who has played 5 years in the premier league and still finds away games tough and scary and would rather not play in them. He is a so called play maker that drifts out wide and has zero dribbling skills.’
Nailed it.
‘ am a big fan of Ozil but he has done nothing in an Arsenal shirt to merit all the slack lots of fans seem willing to cut him.’
Eh? Big fan of him why?
Newcastle finally doing a bit of business, incredible that Owens fee was still club record 15 years later.
And they broke it with player from MLS.
I am interested to see how miqual almiron plays for Newcastle
he does seem like a talent but it is MLS and slower football
CG,
Arteta – unproven and more importantly he’s Spanish- ooooeeerrr – we don’t want him signing players just to build ivory towers now do we?
Henry – arrogant, egotistical car crash. No thank you.
Lehman – are you having a giraffe???
Klienfield,
You know it. Snap. Nailed it.
What did Almiron go for? I remember we were heavily linked with him last October.
@Leedsgunner
Whether it was due to the limitation of available players, up to now, Emery doesn’t like to use a #10. He uses inside attackers pairing with FB or RB crossing to a lone striker. Initially, we had Mkhit pairing with Bellerin. Now he have Iwobi pairing with Kola. I can’t see Ozil fits in Emery’s plan unless he is willing to adapt. We have many competitions. We’ll always need body for rotation.
“The 6th best team (last season) in the league should not be complaining picking up Barcelona rejects.”
We are never going to improve by signing players like Suarez.
gunnersshabz
Interesting to see one go the other way, rare.
MLS is trash so ill be curious as well.
Last time I went, Pirlo was at 50% and looked like Pele out there.
Wonder what the odds are of Dennis Suarez scoring the winner against his old club on Sunday, Wishful thinking I am sure but football sometimes has a funny way with this type of thing happening.
If a MLS player can command over £16m from Newcastle, an Egyptian international with proven EPL experience (even as nondescript as Elneny) will fetch £15m in the modern market.
Prices are just mad aren’t they?
well I don’t think we was ever interested in almiron just agent talk but he was too good for the MLS
but even PSG signing an MLS player as well in Acosta
so it does seem these MLS teams buying up south American talent
Zaha wouldn’t be any better than what we have I think. He’s 26 now, so already halfway through his career. Even if he does well, he’s unlikely to have a high resale value in a season or two unless he’s kicked on about three levels. I’m underwhelmed about Suarez in all honesty. The one thing that I am happy about with it is that there is a signing of some sort, so there’s an attempt to do *something*. That’s generally better than doing nothing at all. Also, random musing time. Pep won nothing in his first season. He won the… Read more »
it does look like youri tielemans is joining Leicester, he is another talented player along side almiron
love to see how both of them do at Leicester and Newcastle
but talented advanced playmakers
Ah, didn’t realise Zaha was 26, but still think he’d be good for us.
Leeds There’s a say you might have heard of which is “You can force a horse to the stream but you can’t force it to drink water”. “However, the head coach also needs to start motivating and using him correctly.” What do you mean by using him correctly? Emery has benched Ozil, left him out of the squad, giving him the captains arm band and Ozil hasn’t still delivered. Are you expecting Emery to offer Ozil his wife? Ozil doesn’t defend so putting him in midfield in a team with poor defenders is putting yourself in trouble. Ozil doesn’t take… Read more »
“he is another talented player”
No is not.
Eh? Big fan of him why?
The touches Eagle , the touches
I used to play a lot of football growing up and i can appreciate some of the things he is capable of on a football bitch. But what is talent without application ??
Ozil has been on the downward spiral for two seasons now..and no leeds Ozil is not a big personality
Biggles
Pep will win at least the Cabo cup, now that Chelsea is half of whwt it once was. I watched the replay of the Chelsea game. The main difference of this Chelsea team compared to the previous one is Hazard and missing the striker. Hazard is only going through the motion. Higuain will need time to adapt.
Zaha would be a wonderful addition to our front line but you know palace want £50m plus for him
I think Richarlson would be a good signing too he is a good player
also I think felipe Anderson is a talent for £35m west ham got a good deal
We are never going to improve by signing players like Suarez.
All this before he has even trained with the team
Higuain will need time to adapt.
Higuain will do nothing of note in this league
I still think we should of got higuain when real Madrid wanted to sell for £31m
I think he was 26 at that time
“We are never going to improve by signing players like Suarez.All this before he has even trained with the team”
If you cant cut the mustard there (La Liga) – how is he going to hit the ground running now,,,,, how many goals has the player scored in Spain?
if he is not ready to play NOW- no point bringing him in. Stick with ESR.
A vanity signing.
A signing to make Emery feel more comfortable -but it wont improve us..
A full back would though.
“”Higuain will need time to adapt.Higuain will do nothing of note in this league:
concur
futile – like Suarez.
They should go with their young lads,
gambon
Name one Arsenal player who could break into the Barcelona team ?
I think we are done for this window
We however succeed in pissing off a French Club, an Italian Club and a Chinese Club by unsettling their players and then low balling them when it came to offers.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.skysports.com/amp/football/news/11670/11623571/watch-charlie-nicholas-brands-arsenals-transfer-policy-a-joke
He’s not wrong
un
‘Charlie’s’ never wrong!
“We however succeed in pissing off a French Club, an Italian Club and a Chinese Club by unsettling their players and then low balling them when it came to offers.”
So standard service resumes, and were in the 4th spot.
Higuain need to lose weight.
CG needs to shut the fuck up.
Charlie Nicholas is a right proper Charlie.
Like all pundits they talk a good game but when it comes to delivering they’re shit.
Surely the whole point of appointing Raul – was because of his Contacts.
there is No other possible explanation-
And yet he can not get us a right back….
except Lichsteiner?
he has been in his post a year
(As Charlie Nicholas states- our transfer policy is a shambles (has been since DD))
I cannot believe Jens Lehman is suggested as a viable option.
I can only come to the conclusion that the poster is mad, mentally ill, or as thick as pig shit.
Red
He may well be but he’s not wrong regarding Dein. Our policy has largely been a joke since he left
Who have we recruited post 08 successfully? Koscielny, Sanchez, nasri, Monreal, Giroud, Hleb. Not many others.
We’ve lost out on more top targets post Dein than we’ve landed.
“I can only come to the conclusion that the poster is mad, mentally ill, or as thick as pig shit.”
Seems like a combination of all 3.
Guys, you should all listen to the latest podcast, good as always and Pedro has given a lot of us a shoutout.
Thanks Pedro, nice of you to do that. Classy.
Leeds “Using very conservative values:Elneny – £15m Jenks – £5m Asano -£1m Zelalem- £1m Bieliek – £3m Ospina -£4m Chambers – £15m Macey – £1m Mkhitaryan – £15m That’s £60m without touching Lacazette.” Those are purley fantasy island values that have little bearing on reality. Who will pay 5 million for Jenks or 1 million for Asano?. Who will pay 15 million for Mykhitarayan plus 200k weekly wages? You’re willing to suspend disbelief just to keep your favorite player. That’s what grates some of us. You want Kroenke to throw money at a problem you’re not ready to sacrifice for…very… Read more »
Apart from £5m for Jenkinson and £3m for Bielik, all of what Leeds has said, can be done.
£1m for Jenkinson if were lucky, and Bielik is out of contract.
I think we might keep Mykhitaryan, if we can shift Ozil.
Dein was such an inspiration that it compelled Vierra back in 2001 to liken Arsenal’s transfer policy to a Jumble Sale.
“”I cannot believe Jens Lehman is suggested as a viable option.””
Jens Lehman is one of those people- who would be a success in any environment he chose to work in.
He is a hugely impressive figure.
Why he could not be a future Arsenal manager?
He certainly has higher standards than Emery.
that Suarez foto today will haunt Emery ( is that befitting for Arsenal?)
gambon
Elneny will never go for 15 million. He’s the 5th place midfielder in a Europa league team.
Mykhi isn’t worth 15 million at 30/31 yrs old with a weekly wage of 200k
Add those two to the fantastical valuations
…all for what, to avoid making difficult decisions
I think the odds are stacked against Suarez being a success here based his production to date. Onto third loan out at age of 25 without settling at club. Like others have said, not a bad move with no obligation at end of his loan and he has all the incentive to ball it out.
Emery himself is quoted as saying he didn’t really know how to utilize him during time at Sevilla.
We could be dealing with a MF transitioning form Barca to Everton.
“Elneny will never go for 15 million.”
Liverpool sold Joe Allen, who had just finished 7th, for £12m
That was 3 years ago, when we were under a lower TV contract.
Leicester bid £12m a few days ago apparently.