The race for Top 4 feels like it’s really leaning in our direction. I don’t want to jinx anything, but it looks like Sarri is a busted flush, it seems like OGS is hitting the skids at absolutely the right time, and Arsenal has somehow found a magic formula with a mere 8 games to go.
I appreciate every game is going to be very tough on the ride home, but outside Wolves, I think we should have more than enough for most teams if Emery can keep the players excited about their CL bonuses.
Exciting times, right?
Monchi spoke to the press and told them why he bottled the move to Arsenal.
“I appreciate the interest of Arsenal, perhaps the one that has shown the most interest, and of other clubs who have made contact. I have evaluated the proposals I had and I have chosen Sevilla. It was the one that brought things together and had the conditions for me.”
What a wimp.
We move on. I think the consistent drone of people whining on about him not joining is super fucking bland. Honestly, Monchi turning us down for Sevilla is a comfort thing. He likes being a big fish in a small pond. He doesn’t want the pressure of extreme accountability. As Gambon penned somewhere, he just wants to buy 50 £500k players every summer and hope 1 or 2 come good. Arm him with big money and he shits the bed and buys dilapidated 29-year-olds.
We need someone with fresher thinking. Someone who is the next big thing. Someone who can be a little cleaner in the way they bring in players (i.e. not 50 each summer). A person with the focus on the future, because remember, Monchi and Emery on their last run out were signing players of an average age of 27 years old. Give me someone who is looking at 17-23 years old. That requires more skill. You need to have better data, sharper contacts and you need to have a little more belief to make that approach work.
Marc Overmars, despite what the flat earthers say, has a pretty excellent resume. He’s overseen the rebirth of Ajax with some of the legendary Champions League vanguard. Ajax has just churned out the best generation of players in years… they signed Frenkie De Jong for 1 euro! ONE EURO. Whatever they’re doing, it’s exciting. I think it’s hard to look at Marc Overmars job title and not think he’s been pivotal… unless you think these things happen by accident.
Luis Campo seems like the real gem in the market. I know that Lille is a super ambitious project, but I’m struggling to see why no one mega has come in for his services after what he achieved at Monaco. An absolute star who has the utmost belief in his abilities.
Where are the weird C.V.s though? Who are the guys and girls behind the scenes that are growing elite players off the back of mice? That’s what I need to know…
Mesut Ozil is bantering the whole of Germany hard… he’s invited Erdogan to his wedding. What more can you say here? We’ve been over it a thousand times, but seriously, you can’t knock him… that is trolling of the highest order.
Right, short one today, see you in the comments fam. xx
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From previous post.
I beg to differ.
What a surprise.
Thanks grooveydaddy.
I’m holding it out for DM and his daughter.
Hi everyone. It is good to be back.
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Ozil has invited Erdogan to his wedding. That says how much the last event at the world cup had an effect on him. I wonder how the German football fans would react if ever he is selected by Arsenal to play in Germany.
Speaking about Bundesliga, Per, with his contact in Germany, will likely arrange more of our youngsters on loan to play in the Bundesliga.
Overmars has signed a new contract with Ajax.
I would say that he’s stupid and hasn’t learned anything from what happened last summer. This isn’t a big fuck you to Germany I’m not sure he’s capable of that level of banter I think he’s just a thick footballer looking to curry favor with a dictator.
Where’d you see that Bam?
Reportedly Overmars has signed on to stay with Ajax long-term too.
:'(
feel like pure shit just want Mislintat back xx
Bamford
Yep. Overmars re-signs till 2024. This may be an indication that we don’t have a lot of money to work with this summer.
I’m going to Ozil’s wedding. Just waiting for my wetsuit and snorkel as the amphibious bastard is getting married in a pond.
Football.London reporting that Overmars
Signed a four ueR contract with Ajax in 2017
Marc Overandout.
Well all indications are we are not as big a draw as Pedro will have us believe we are.
If Overmars has signed a new contract, whats going to be the title of tomorrow’s post?
Overmars can’t handle the pressure?
Mislintat leaves, Monchi rejects offer, Edu rejects offer, Overmars stays put it. Not looking good
Small club. Not a draw anymore.
“Well all indications are we are not as big a draw as Pedro will have us believe we are.
RH what do you mean?
Arsenal are based in London(** read in Rita Ora’s voice)
Mes isn’t doing a banter, he just knows you don’t slight Erdogan until you’ve moved your whole family out of Turkey.
Lets face it folks we are owned by the Stoke or Westbrom of billionaires and that doesn’t fill potential DoF’s with confidence.
Imagine what HR’s personnels in Stoke go through to recruit someone from say Madrid or Paris?
Peter/ Pedro you must be really naive if you think Ozil is trolling. The guy has a portrait of Suliman hanging in his living room for fcuk sake, he’s an imbecile and the sooner we get him out of the club the better.
Yeah just breaking. Who’s left? I wonder if our ownership is looking at it and embarrassed by it. Or do they care? Are they even aware of it? I’ll admit that I’m not that upset by Overmars and to be honest he might have been upset by the Monchi approach more than anything. Still outside of interest there’s nothing to suggest that we actually offered anything to Edu or Overmars therefore how could they turn us down. Total snub by Monchi. Anyway you look at it it’s turning into a pointless saga
There are other good DOFs out there. We just need to identify them. Who is the dude at Lyon?
Ozil might be just playing along with this asshole, to make sure his family is left alone in Turkey. Who knows…. Look at Hakan Sukur, who has fled and lives here in the Bay Area. He had a falling out with Erdogan over something and he had all his shit siezed and his dad was imprisoned with cancer.
Sukur was connected to Erdogan
I wouldn’t completely dismiss Overmars signing a new contract as us not getting him. Sometimes it’s just to enable a club to get a fee.
“Give me someone who is looking at 17-23 years old”
i agree, but why spend money? let’s at least give a chance to our wonderkids (medley, amaechi, nketiah, balogun, willock, smithrowe, nelson, saka … and i’m not forgetting bellerin/mavropanos/holdong/guendouzi/torreira)
we have a goldmine in store, let’s just give these kids a little time
Overmars isn’t a player so presumably there isn’t a binding contract as such in play? If he wants to leave he just has to serve his notice or we could buy it out. Just as Sven did. Having said that, if he is extending in some way it is a site sign he doesn’t want to come to us. I remember when we were out for a Manager we started at Allegri, Jardim etc and many of them rejected us; we ended up with a choice of Emery or Arteta. It does look as though the same thing is happening… Read more »
Graham
Mate you can disagree all you want, that’s your right. But you have no factual basis for your claims about video games and violence.
It’s all conjecture driven because YOU believe there to be a link. Not because there’s actually a link. But that’s plenty on the non-football stuff from me.
CC
He also believes that fans who attended away matches during the last 5 ish years of Wenger’s reign aren’t real fans.
I mean who can match his changing the TV channel.
Just wanting to get a feeling for what folks think:
Do you think we will keep Surez or no?
I personally think we keep him. With our transfer budget and also uncertainty over the DOF, I think we might hold onto him
https://www.football.london/arsenal-fc/news/latest-arsenal-news-szczesny-ozil-15983792
I’m probably late to the party, but this is comical stuff from Szczesny on his Arsenal teammates recently..
Bercow does a Monchi and say’s NO.
“Who landed an invite to Mesut’s wedding?”
Pierre, of course.
Guns
I really hope not. He has shown nothing that merits him staying so far, hasn’t even been able to start a game for us.
We can put that money to much better use.
Brandt or Fornals are about the same price for example and would offer much more.
Soon the search for a new DoF will looks more and more like the Amy Winehouse song… “No, no no”.
What did Erdogan do again that everyone hates him. Basically killed democracy is the impression that I got. Which is pretty fucked up. But why do people give a shit if Mesut Ozil invites him to his wedding.
Shit news about Overmars. I doubt we are getting anyone exciting. Over to you Raul. This is why they pay you the big bucks. Get shit done mate.
I think we keep Suarez as cover for the starters.
He is already getting settled in the team somewhat- learning the system etc
I personally dont think he offers too much but I think the team will hold onto him
But then again who knows…
Highbury, are you suggesting that getting a job at the Arsenal is akin to going to rehab? 😂
Guns of SF,
Quite like what I’ve seen so far of Suarez (which admittedly is not very much).
I’d keep him, even if he is outside the favoured 17-23 age range favoured on LeGrove
I think I would like to see more of Suarez to get a better picture of what he can offer. With our run in, it would be hard but if he can get game time in some of the crappier fixtures that would help all of us to see what he can offer.
I think the City game was way too early for him. He looked completely dumbfounded and I think that hurt him getting time soon after.
Do you think we will keep Surez or no?
I think it’s a no. I think he’s just cover and that we’re not really keen on it being permanent which is smart to me. Word is the likes of Brandt and Fornals with release clauses similar to what we’d pay for Dennis and it’s a no brainer to me. Brandt in particular would be fantastic
@WOAB : not far… lol
Would be sheer incompetence to spend that much on a squad player when we need starters and can get them for roughly the same price.
So we’re probably buying him:(
Highbury, re Mesut’s wedding.
Looking forward to the Terrible Trio photo-op with Mesut, Erdogan and Pierre.
We have a very strange management structure in place.
So long as we have Raul Sanllehi in place as “director of footballing operations”, then the only job vacancy is “ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF FOOTBALL” or special assistant to Raul Sanlehi.
We might as well just install a bright nerdy chief scout from somewhere to fill the position or better still promote Francis Cagigao internally.
Looking forward to the Terrible Trio photo-op with Mesut, Erdogan and Pierre.
Ugh what a shitty trio. One of the worst people in the world are amongst the three. Not to mention a bug-eyed footballer and a Turkish dictator.
According to Marko, Overmars did not reject Arsenal because we never offered him the job. Same with Edu and Monchi. so everything is fine. Nothing to see, moving on to the next non candidate candidate. Monchi just stated that he rejected an offer from Arsenal. According to Marko who knows better, Monchi is lying. Lol. Sven left. Edu, Monchi, Overmars have all rejected Arsenal overture. Before going after the next candidate maybe Arsenal’s management team need to ask themselves why we keep encountering those negative answers. Is it 1) the money: too low, I doubt it but you never know,… Read more »
So long as we have Raul Sanllehi in place as “director of footballing operations”, then the only job vacancy is “ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF FOOTBALL” or special assistant to Raul Sanlehi.
You continue to not fully grasp that he has moved up and we need to fill his previous position. Not assistant to anything
@Dissenter,
I suspect that’s what they will end up doing.
It is clear that no proper director of football is willing to work under the perimeter of the role.
They can only downgrade or upgrade the role. Upgrading the role means Raul relinquishing a lot of power. That is not going to voluntary happening.
So downgrade means getting a chief of scouting act as Raul’s deputy.
Marko, executives can and do “move up” while retaining an active role as well as responsibilities in their area of expertise. In a “dual CEO” structure like the one at Arsenal, this is more likely to be the case. So it is not entirely ridiculous to,suggest that this is what is putting people off coming to Arsenal, that is, not knowing how much overlap in responsibilities there will be and interference they’ll get from Sanlehhi in doing their job. When you factor in the reported low transfer budget and ambitious Premier League and Champions League targets, that’s enough to put… Read more »
Valentin
Agreed
Marko
Director of footballing operations = Director of football
…maybe Sanllehi is responsible for the women’s team and the new guy takes care f the men’s side
Both Fornals and Brandt- will be pricy
Not to mention they are on everyone’s radar
hopefully we can see one or two of our youth step up.
I think Licht Kos El Neny Jenks will be gone
Might free up some cash from their sales
We need a LB RB AM Winger
Hopefully this summer we can get some pieces in place
Monchi just stated that he rejected an offer from Arsenal. According to Marko who knows better, Monchi is lying.
Absolutely Monchi rejected us there’s no doubting that. You see us trying to hire him and him going to Sevilla is evidence of that. There’s no evidence other than rumors that we wanted Edu or even Overmars for that matter. So we should feel embarrassed about what exactly?
Marko, executives can and do “move up” while retaining an active role as well as responsibilities in their area of expertise.In a “dual CEO” structure like the one at Arsenal, this is more likely to be the case.
Agree. That’s what is happening now and will continue to happen until someone is hired. And no I don’t believe Steve Rowley is back at Arsenal
There’s talk that we have Ismaila Sarr almost wrapped up already.
Dissenter, re Ismaila Sarr, pease don’t jinx it!
Every time I hear us being linked with somebody, it doesn’t go through.
First it was footballers.
Then it was Managers.
Now it’s even got to the stage where the curse happens with Directors of Football…….
Guns
They both have release clauses of 25m euros, so not much more than Suarez would cost.
Maybe other clubs will be in for them but with our weak squad we can guarantee playing time, something most other big clubs can’t, we can also offer good salaries.
We need a CB a hell of a lot more than a RB.
…maybe Sanllehi is responsible for the women’s team and the new guy takes care f the men’s side Dissenter it’s cute that you try to make a joke but you’ve shown time and again the past couple months to not understanding that we need to hire someone to fill the position previously filled by Raul because he’s moved up to another position. It’s why we were negotiating with Monchi and it’s why we’re still looking for someone to hire. And no the position wasn’t beneath him it’s just he wanted to go back to Sevilla unfortunately. From what I read… Read more »
Marko
Lol 🙂
Marko,
I think the point that Valentin and Dissenter and I are trying to make is that what may be putting people off, in the current Arsenal structure, is that the proposed role is being seen as not being sufficiently senior in terms of the footballing responsibilities, and that there’s a strong risk of meddling by Sanllehi
Words I’m not sure I agree with that. For one thing we were apparently close to Monchi until Sevilla came in on the 11th hour that only happened after Slavia Prague knocked them out recently they sacked their manager and replaced him with their previous DOF. Had that not happened it’s likely that we’d have Monchi now. That to me suggests that the position isn’t something beneath him or something that he wasn’t considering. He clearly was
Good points Freddie
AMN can deputize at RB which is fine.. who knows how Bell will be when he returns.
Dissenter- are we allowed to already be negotiating with players? Is there some laws around that, when we can start to tamper with other teams players?
I dont mind…. lol
@Guns, The law with regard to contacting a player are murky. Officially you can only contact a player after being given permission by his club. However usually clubs send feelers to the player before contacting his club. What would be the point to contact the club, negotiate a transfer deal to be flatly rejected by the player. In some cases, the feelers are informal chat via agents. In the case of Barcelona, they are public announcement by management and players alike that they would like player A to join. Regarding the timing of the negotiation, again officially they should take… Read more »
Sanllehi is Head of Football (Director of Football whatever you want to call it…)
The new guy is supposed to be taking up Head of Recruitment (Director of Recruitment strategy) or at least that was what was promised to Sven…kind of redundant if yo ask me, means Raul can’t do one of the important pieces of his job as HoF
We need one or two experienced players during the summer transfer window. There is a wealth of talent coming out of our youth project. We need to move them up, just like the almighty Overmars and his team have done at Ajax.
Valentin
Thanks…. makes sense. Seeing how player A signs a contract one day one of the transfer window…
So lets tap up all the players we are interested in. If its Sarr, then great!
Lets guage interest way before the window opens. That way, we can get our ducks in a row, get the players signed up, and ready for camp
None of the last day of the window shit Wenger did. Looking for bargains.
Hopefully CEO Sanllehi knows how to play the game better
It circles back to our struggles to get Allegri, he was turned on until he saw our executive setup and the potential for several crosses swords.
That shit puts off big fish.
There may have been personality clash for Sven leaving, but there are also clash on the way to make to conduct recruitment. Raul is a deal guy. He has numerous contacts with agents. He will be able to get low down on most well established players. From Barcelona, he is a high level wheeler dealers a la Harry Redknapp. Contacts are essential, especially for South American players. Sven is an analytical guy. Most of his targets will be young starting up players already playing in an European league. Most will have agents that are family member, not sophisticated agents. For… Read more »
Will it be an open bar at Mesut wedding .?
Raul knows agents- likely the bigger named ones from his rolodex
Sven had these in his outlook contacts
Diss
Is Sarr any good ?
Is he more sane or sunu…
Nooo
Say it ain’t soooo
https://metro.co.uk/2019/03/18/arsenal-consider-existing-club-employee-for-technical-director-after-monchi-and-overmars-snubs-8933311/
Has someone been dropped on there head
Why not go all out for Hudson-Odoi? Kid looks mustard, wants playing time, and isn’t fussed about staying at Chelsea. Also about to become an England International with his first call-up this week.
RSPC
The job on offer was never a DoF/Tech director. It was more of an assistant DoF.
I’ve been saying this for a while now. We needed a hungry chief scout wanting to make a nae for himself. This was always a promotion job.
We were trying to mask out lack of a plan with hiring a big name personality.
The dismissal of Sven Mislintat appears more and more foolhardy. Had we kept him we could well underway in preparing our summer targets by now.
Wenger or no Wenger we love to sabotage ourselves.
Not good enough.
Jamie
“Why not go all out for Hudson-Odoi? Kid looks mustard, wants playing time, and isn’t fussed about staying at Chelsea. ”
Does he track back ?
Diss
We must make a positive signing…
Tear up all the rule books, we have an exciting bunch of kids coming through …
Mix itupwitha creative inventive dof….
There’s no rush .
The job on offer was never a DoF/Tech director. It was more of an assistant DoF. Insiders on Cadena SER’s @carrusel #AFC begun talks with Monchi on Feb 9 -Negotiations were problematic at first as #AFC offered ‘very low’ salary. -As talks progressed, parties found a middle ground -Roma’s situation accelerated things -Contract needed his signature This suggests that the job on offer was going to be taken until Sevilla came in and he changed his mind. Again dissenter you continue to not understand it is a role that Monchi was interested in it’s not some assistant job that you… Read more »
Does he track back ?
Does he create chances?
From Mislintat to Morrow total metaphor for current crew.
Why did Monchi publicly talk about the Arsenal offer?
That was unprofessional of him. It says a lot about his character. We may have dodged one because he did a lousy job at Roma.
Big names doesn’t guarantee success.
I can’t believe Pierre is still trolling that fucking “does he track back” line on every attacking player someone suggests / we are linked with.
Give it a fucking rest.
I only wish who ever challenged Pierre with that line months ago had asked “does he break a sweat” instead.
Marko Now you’re getting testy. “So let me explain for the umpteenth time we are in need of a DOF/technical director because we do not have one because our last one is in a different position now. ” Please tell me definitively what in the world “Director of footballing operations” means, especially when that position is held by a certain ex-Barcelona director of football? What does Raul Sanllehi do at Arsenal? He’s the board level/management oversight of football operations, which is what a DoF does Until you figure that out, stop throwing petty insults around like telling me I have… Read more »
I hope something worth talking about happens in the next couple days.
@Marko, Insiders on Cadena SER’s @carrusel #AFC begun talks with Monchi on Feb 9 -Negotiations were problematic at first as #AFC offered ‘very low’ salary. -As talks progressed, parties found a middle ground -Roma’s situation accelerated things -Contract needed his signature Looks like we were advertising a middle rank executive position as a senior executive while offering junior rank salary. No wonder people run a mile away from the job offer. At that level when you make a written job offer you expect the contract to be signed within 2 weeks. If it is not that means that the person… Read more »
Raul, Vinai, Emery, the Kroenkes, playing style.
Our club has as much charm as a dead slug these days. Thanks Haymitch.
What is the attraction for football people like Overmars? Which one in the above list makes him jump and say, I want a piece of that?
On the road to pedestrianism.
Pretty clear Sven left due to not being offered Technical Director position, seems Edu and Monchi have taken a pass at whatever’s being offered. Same thing that urged Overmars into signing extension after being heavily linked.
On face of it has hallmarks of Raul pulling power and offering a more limited roll with lesser salary. Cause something not adding up.
Luteo,
I predict that, as far as Arsenal are concerned, the next few weeks will be dominated by headlines saying: X Turns Down Arsenal Director of Football Job, Y Lets Arsenal Down in Favour of Director of Football of FC Ulan Bator and Z Disappoints Arsenal, Remains Director of Football at Athletic Timbuktu
Why would real madrid re-hire zidane when Wenger is available. Wenger is a better manager than zidane… right?
Makes no sence.
Does he track back.
If you have 4 defenders. 1DM 1 CM thats 6 plus the keeper protecting the goal. If you can’t defend with 6 players all behind the ball to where you need an AM to help you. Mabey you as defenders are just shit at your job.
On face of it has hallmarks of Raul pulling power and offering a more limited roll with lesser salary
Interesting take on it
Lees be honest
No one on here has got a fucckinsg clue about DOF s
Or which one would be best for Arsenal
At this rate, we will end up with Tony Adams as DOF.