Wenger on FIRE + Time to call OGS the greatest fraud of all time?

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via @Batdesprez

Well good morning to you all… today, I blog from LONDON.

It’s good to be back sitting on the train, being repulsed by a person eating a prawn sandwich at 7am. It’s just what the doctor ordered. I even made a pal on the flight… we took the front row of the poor people seats AND had a middle row free. We were Kings… for me, that’s the real first class. You can be 6ft 9 and still have ample leg room… you get out the plane first… you have all the smugness of a 23-year-old BMW 3 series owner.

So anyway, a really great day. It’s good to be back in the hood. I’m eating a Gregg’s sausage roll as I pick through the news of the day… most notable of course is that it turns out, OGS IS A MASSIVE FRAUD. After moaning about the term, I now love calling people fraudulent. I said it to my mum the other day, caught her off guard BIG time. So good. Anyway, it does seem like xG catches up with you in the end. All those flukey results weren’t the return of Fergie’s United… they were just flukey results. Now the glow of being welcomed to training with a ‘hello, friend, may we hug’, versus… ‘get your tracksuit on you fat c*nt’, has worn off… United are starting to look Mourinho-esque.

Fair play to Wolves though… they were tenacious, ambitious and they worked harder than United. I am a touch worried about heading there if I’m honest.

The race for top 4 is tipping so hard in our direction it’s making me feel a little uncomfortable… it’s now ours to fuck… and Arsenal LOVE to fuck things up. However, at least the cushion for fucking things is now a little plumper (not sure if that works?)… we can make the gap 5 points between United if we win our game in hand.

You still can’t write off Chelsea… but they do have United, Liverpool, Watford, Leicester, Burnley and West Ham to deal with. There’s championship winning spirit in that squad, I just struggle to see Sarri unlocking it.

You also can’t write off Spurs… BUT they have to play City 3 times in a month which is not only tough physically, it’s tough mentally. There is only so much focus you can give when you’re Spursy by nature, I’m not sure they are going to handle the run, they are in a belief sinkhole of death if I’m analysing this correctly. They have Palace tonight PLUS Everton and West Ham to deal with. Not to mention that a new stadium is rarely a gift.

It is LOOKING very good for us.

But don’t count those chickens… or empty tubs of SUPER STRENGTH WET LOOK GEL out of the Colney bins. Just believe real hard…

Arsenal are being linked with Ryan Fraser. A good player. Doesn’t leave me feeling too frisky I have to say. I can’t even be bothered to write about it. I’m draining at the thought of mastering a hot take. I don’t have one.

I tell you who does… Wenger. He’s turned into the ultimate soundbite after refreshing his words over the last 9 months.

This is my favourite.

“You’re loved when you’re born, you’re loved when you die, in between you have to manage.”

Someone find me the applause emoji… and that squirrel story.

“The animal is survival. High-level sport too. It’s me or the others. But in a collective sport it is also me AND the others. The squirrel shares his body between the head and the top. Football is that, manage with the brain and legs. But if someone does not get up very often, it will never make him a very good footballer. ”

BRAVO SIR WENGER. More please… get me motivated that you can ALWAYS grow as a person.

“I wanted to test myself and on a whim I went there in a Nagoya team that did not win a match. At 47, it changed me at all levels. In the first ten games, we lose eight and I have an anecdote about it. The president calls me to his office and before I go, I tell my assistant to pack his bags because we were going to be fired. The speech seemed clear: “The results do not meet expectations and what I am going to tell you will not please you. But we have to face this situation … We are going to separate from the translator “. I was surprised and I managed to keep him working with us, we saved his head. By the way, he’s in the room tonight (Monday). He became a friend. After, on the experience in Japan, it is the perpetual isolation. Your only company is yourself. With the players, something new happened to me in my life. I banned the ball in training or in the game because they were already dead. They were preparing before to be level and they were cooked afterwards. They had to be channeled. ”

Oh man… this is TOO much.

He’s on FIRE… just like my ticket purchasing game. I am seeing Arsenal with a pal in DC. Cannot wait to yell about soccerball and maybe see Robbie from AFTV. #Dreams

Anyway, time for me to go and be with family and shit.

See you in the comments. x

P.S. One of my total fave football/biz writers, Matt Scott, has launched a NEW website called Football DNA that you need to go and look at. As always, he finds the next level, is the next level with an excellent blend of words and rock solid data. Proper data as well… with insights. None of this singular-data-point-to-tell-a-story nonsense. Jump on it!

READ FOOTBALL DNA HERE where he eviscerates Spurs rep as a big club (mostly)… and also follow @ftballDNA

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Words on a Blog

Dissenter,

For what it’s worth, my particular take is that Pedro and quite a few posters on here have severely underestimated Emery’s ability as a manager, but in the end, it doesn’t matter. If we continue to do well, they’ll come around.

And if don’t, they can have the pleasure of telling me and you “I told you so,”

Marko

it amazes me how you keep repeating that he is gone with certainty. It amazes me how people just completely dismiss the notion but the fact is that the manager doesn’t want him the club doesn’t want and as a professional footballer another season barely playing would not be advisable. His sponsor won’t accept it and his Adidas deal is up in a year. If he’s not playing they won’t sign him. The whole point of his brand as a footballer is to actually play football and it’s something his advisors will be saying and frankly we give him a… Read more »

Dream10

Fraser to replace Suarez
Nkunku to Ramsey
Chambers to replace Elneny

We need a new LB. Monreal was linked with Barça and Marseille. Haven’t seen any links for a bit. Reckon an Italian side would take Kolasinac.

Paulinho

Receding – Torreria not sure.

If Ramsey doesn’t start I think we will struggle to get a result. Our attack will splutter and Everton will do us on the counter. We need to go there and do what Tottenham did and just show them no respect.

Valentin

@Receding, How do we verify this claim pls?? Who do we ask?? Check my old comments and your answers to them. We had and still have a very unbalanced squad, that you refuse to see this can also be seen as a hatred for Emery and a need for him to fail. I never said that the squad is perfect. I have always said that we were missing a quick good defensively left back as Kolasinac is great going forward but lack defensive ability. We also need a proper dribbling winger. We had one in Reiss Nelson who was unwisely… Read more »

Receding Hairline

“For what it’s worth, my particular take is that Pedro and quite a few posters on here have severely underestimated Emery’s ability as a manager, but in the end, it doesn’t matter. If we continue to do well, they’ll come around.”

This.

And it is quite sad because the man’s reputation as a clever tactician precedes him. But the fact he is not fancy and doesn’t come out with a smart quote every weak is seen as being a bad manager.

Paulinho

“After the praise he received from the manager i reckon he starts.”

I think a lot of that as well is reporters putting words in his mouth by making every question about Ozil. Eventually he gives them what they want.

Marko

He stands to make what around 30 million from the last two years of his contract give or take well his Adidas deal is worth 25 million alone and is up next year.

James.wood

Frankly I can not believe we are in the league position we are in.
We have been mediocre and only shone in a few games.

Which frankly is great news for next season a few astute buy’s
and we might be anything.
Rid ourselves of the dross and hopefully buy clever.?

Valentin

@Marko,

If he’s not playing they won’t sign him. The whole point of his brand as a footballer is to actually play football.

There is a Colin Kaepernick who has been paid a fortune by Nike not to play football. That put paid to your argument.

Again you show your complete lack of understanding of the real world. Performance drive marketing, but once you reach critical mass, performance do not matter.

Özil has one of the biggest following in football. That was interest any marketing company not his performance on the pitch.

Guns of Hackney

Pierre

I’ve always liked you.

Receding Hairline

How is Reiss Nelson getting on in Germany Valentin? Is he tearing it up over there? He has been irrelevant since October in a small club like Hoffenheim. The little minutes he played under Wenger here last season he showed nothing special. Nothing unwise about his loan move to Germany so i disagree. “However those were obvious changes that people had been advocated for a while. Not the work of an misunderstood genius.” Nobody has called him a genius nor do we have any genius managers around in football in my opinion. He has played the way he wants to… Read more »

Marko

The idea that we had the fourth best squad is ridiculous. He inherited a squad with a shocking defence (still) a god awful midfield with no wingers a problem with our full backs and a goal keeper issue. Literally the only area we were strong in was at CF. Unbelievable lack of balance

Valentin

@Receding,

He has played the way he wants to play in line with the opposition.

Except that the defeats put paid that this was the right tactic and right personnel.

Marko

There is a Colin Kaepernick who has been paid a fortune by Nike not to play football. That put paid to your argument.

That’s such an abnormality it’s ridiculous that you would even bring that up. He’s the face of a movement incredibly popular within a global movement and an influencer… and Ozil is none of those things. He got the Adidas deal originally because he was playing at a high level at Madrid. You’re honestly ridiculous sometimes

MidwestGun

It does get depressing around here. People more concerned about protecting the integrity of their narratives than enjoying the pleasant surprise that 1) Emery is doing quite well, 2) Özil is doing ok and Ramsey is playing great, and 3) We are actually in 3rd, against the expectations of most pundits and most posters on here,. _____________ Yep… exactly. and 4) Emery is doing well despite the fact a large percentage of the fanbase A.) wanted him to fail to make Wenger look better or B.) Wanted him to fail because they wanted another choice. When in fact it doesn’t… Read more »

Marko

Put it this way if Ozil continues the next couple seasons deteriorating and barely playing for Arsenal after getting dropped by Germany all the while getting older and older see if Adidas gives him a new deal. See if someone comes knocking to pay him millions of pounds to wear their boots in training. He’ll know this and his advisors will know that

Paulinho

Emery on the whole has managed the squad superbly. We don’t really have a first eleven to rely on week in week out so he chops and changes with that in mind. He’s managed Ozil, Aubameyang and Lacazette superbly. Kolasinac as well. Never lets players settle into a rut.

Marko

The stadium rimming is in full swing on SSN.

Goonerbone

The ftballDNA data is actually a misrepresentation of facts. There is no big five either, from a financial standpoint. Factor out Manure an shitty from the sums presented and the average numbers will look completely different. We are unfortunately in a situation where, strangely enough, inbred wollybacks actually have the money. So, there is a big wallet two, a classic three and, a modern five and a chick on a basketball

Receding Hairline

“Except that the defeats put paid that this was the right tactic and right personnel.”

Are you suggesting if we line up the way you approve in every game we would not have lost a match this season??

Because if you are i will only have to apologize for starting this conversation and move on.

MidwestGun

All those Wenger quotes is basically him trying to rewrite his own narrative.. He has finally come to the realization that he should have retired at least 5 years ago and rode off into the sunset. Nobody cares what a man who had to be led away by the men in the suits has to say…. The guy who overstays his welcome at the party with the lampshade on his head passed out on the couch is still sad no matter how much fun he was at the beginning of the party.

Luteo Guenreira

Anyone who views objectively the job being done by Emery knows he has done quite well. Take away the media spin and all the speculation about whose will won out, who marginalized who, whatever. All that is basically a fancy version of the tripe that Pierre serves up around here daily. As far as managing the team goes, on a whole he has done very well, besides the expected blips from a talented but flawed team over the course of a season.

Valentin

@Marko, He’s the face of a movement incredibly popular within a global movement and an influencer… and Ozil is none of those things. Özil got the Adidas deal originally because he was playing at a high level at Madrid. Özil is a major influencer maybe not to you and I, but he is an icon for the Turkish diaspora. He is a respected Muslim footballer with deal in the middle east. He has one of the greatest number of followers of all footballers. He has one of the best social media interaction. His wedding to a former Miss Turkey is… Read more »

Doom & gloom

Do not want ozil anywhere near Everton on Sunday unless we’re 3-0 up with 5 mins left.he will be harried & hustled all day long & won’t be given an inch.nor any protection from whatever crap ref they decide to stitch us up with at goodison.Im sure mike Riley is thumbing through his little black book as we speak to find out who can do the read job.Anyway I digress.Sunday will be an Fa cup tie & no shirkers or f** k ups ( mustafi) read.Thankyou.

Luteo Guenreira

Valentin Kaepernick started a movement against inequality and violence in America and politics got him blackballed. that’s why he isn’t playing. Ozil didn’t play because he either was too weak, too sick, playing sick, playing Fortnite, or because the manager didn’t fancy him for whatever matchup. His political reputation currently is for inviting a dictator to his wedding. Not sure if Adidas is going to be willing to follow Nike’s footsteps on that front. The stupidest comparison I’ve heard, and still you claim it “puts paid to your argument.” I like your longer comments so I can just skip them… Read more »

Valentin

@Receding,

Are you seriously trying to argue that we should be playing a 4-2-3-1 with Lichsteiner as right back, Torreira as a box to box player, and dropping Ramsey and Özil?

We tried that experiment and that failed. Even Emery has moved on from that, maybe you should as well.

Receding Hairline

“We tried that experiment and that failed. Even Emery has moved on from that, maybe you should as well.”

The only person who needs moving on from anything is you.

Tone down on the know it all stance, you are getting on everyone’s nerves and Pedro has not seen any of your “gems” to feature in the post lately

Marko

Very apt Midwest

Luteo Guenreira

These guys with French sounding names like Valentin and Pierre sure are smug. This puts paid to any argument that French people aren’t smug.

Marko

When he juggled with his chewing gum, Twitter went into a frenzy. It was news worthy on Sky…those are the type of marketing impact Adidas wants.

Sure it helps that he’s actually playing football though. He stops playing football you think Adidas are going to give him 25 million again? Then you’re stupider than I thought

Marko

His political reputation currently is for inviting a dictator to his wedding.

Just had to check if Adidas was in fact a Turkish company… oh it’s German… I wonder if they’re going to care about him playing Fortnite, marrying Miss Turkey (insert year) and inviting Erdogan to his wedding. I wonder if they preferred him playing football and not being attached with an unpopular dictator… I wonder

salpardisenyc

Doomer

This side plays way better on front foot than trying to protect something.
When we’ve gone away from home and played with a less attacking lineup than at home its gone wrong more than right.

More of this please:

____________Laca_______PEA____________
__________________Ozil________________
Kol________________________________ANM
___________Xhaka_____Rambo__________
___Monreal_____Koz__________Sok______
_________________Leno___________________

– If Koz available

Marko

Pedro has not seen any of your “gems” to feature in the post lately

Ah he missed the one about Steve Rowley being back at the club? Ah no way.

Valentin

@Luteo,

The point I am making is that irrespective of what any of us think of Özil the player, he is a valuable commodity in marketing term.
Adidas is unlikely to drop him. They will take the same stance than Nike did with Colin Kaepernick.
Will he help us shift more sport gears, clothes?
The answer is definitely yes.

Also even if you don’t like him to judge him just as a failed footballer, a fortnight addict is reductive.
For me he is just an Arsenal footballer, but for some He transcends sports to represent a certain segment of society.

Valentin

@Marko,

The Turkish diaspora in Germany is one of biggest. So of course Adidas will be interested in monetising his wedding.

Eric Cantona for a bigger deal after he retired than when playing. So no not playing is not necessarily an impediment.
Same thing Danone had a bigger endorsement of Zidane and his foundation than when he was playing.

Dissenter

I think Arsenal considered Ozil’s marketability before giving him the deal, at the time he was still the examplar of German multiculturalism
He’s not the same marketable commodity since he pulled of the the German national team. He does still have that connection because of his father and is probably the most famous player who’s actively Moslem.

Luteo Guenreira

For me he is just an Arsenal footballer, but for some He transcends sports to represent a certain segment of society.

Now you’re speaking for the rest of the world, great.

Kaepernick was blackballed and lost his ability to earn wages playing sport, all related to race, violence, politics…in America…for an issue that affects all cultures and countries around the world….

You think Ozil juggling his gum is the same thing.

Please don’t address me anymore.

Dissenter

*He’s not the same marketable commodity since he pulled of the the German national team. He does still have that connection because of his faith and is probably the most famous player who’s actively Moslem.

MidwestGun

Sal-
Agreed that seems to be our lock and load lineup.. Injuries and suspensions seem to make it happen less frequent then it should.

3-1 Arsenal. Book it.

Jamie

Everyone should listen to Luteo.

Far too many weaklings on this blog desperate to be right about something. Anything.

Receding Hairline

“Please don’t address me anymore.”

Exactly the same way i feel whenever i make the mistake of a dialogue with him

Dude is a Know it all and uses all sought of irrelevant info to back up an argument, anyone with half a brain knows that Ozil ceasing to be a German international and openly associating with Erdogan makes him less marketable than he was.

Dragging Kaepernick into is was bewildering to say the least…two totally unrelated situations

Valentin

When a kid in Kenya wore an handmade “Özil 10” red shirt, he send him and his brother a signed shirt. His media team made sure that everybody knew about it.
Every news station relayed the information.
That is called marketing.

When he send a message about being the son of Turkish immigrants in Germany that resonate to them.

Dissenter

Valentin
You need to cool off the ITK attitude you tend to display here.
You’re gaining a reputation that’s not desirable, regardless of whatever Pedro says.

Luteo Guenreira

It’s also a completely dishonest comparison to put side to side a player who is currently NOT playing for those reasons illustrated above. who HAS received a lucrative contract while in that status…to someone who is an active footballer and surmising they will receive the same kind of compensation if they were not to play. The only thing that they have in common is that they are athletes. It’s not even remotely the same, completely different situations. This guy is a fucking joke if he thinks he has a point.

Marko

Özil the player, he is a valuable commodity in marketing term. In as far as is actually a footballer playing football. Him being valuable literally goes as far as football. He’s not even remotely comparable to Kaepernick Cantona became an actor and Zidane went into management. If Ozil isn’t playing football what is he doing? Exactly. I actually can’t believe I’ve been sucked into another dumbshit conversation with you. You make it sound like famous footballer won’t be impacted if he’s not playing football and that’s stupid to me. He’s a professional sportsman if he stops being that he will… Read more »

Marko

You know what I noticed Pedro has g*u*r*u down as a banned word.

Luteo Guenreira

“When a kid in Kenya….That is called marketing.”

Yeah. Kenya is every brand’s end game.

This guy sells.

Receding Hairline

“When a kid in Kenya wore an handmade “Özil 10” red shirt, he send him and his brother a signed shirt. His media team made sure that everybody knew about it.
Every news station relayed the information.
That is called marketing.”

No it’s called desperation

If you are half as smart as you think you are you would see that

Marko

Kaepernick was blackballed and lost his ability to earn wages playing sport, all related to race, violence, politics…in America…for an issue that affects all cultures and countries around the world….You think Ozil juggling his gum is the same thing.

Brilliant luteo. Social injustice… juggling gum same thing really

Graham62

Marko

Who’s bringing up Hillsboro? Not me.

What I’m saying is that many aspects of modern day football in this country restricts fans genuine enjoyment of the game, which creates a controlled and sterile environment.

European fans are not use to all the Rules and Regulations we have to adhere to, hence they are far more open and vocal in their support of their teams.

Go to Turkey to watch a game and you’ll understand.

Marko

Luteo is owning today

Valentin

@Receding,

I never said that Özil was more marketable than before. I was answering to Marko assessment that Adidas was going to drop as he had no marketing value.
My point is that he may have lost value for the general public but that for a non negligible part of the public and in particular for the Muslim world he is still an icon.

Nelson

I always wondered why Wenger talked like a priest. He came from a small Alsatian village where life revolved around religion. According to his own word, a football game has to be treated like a religion, it alone dictates your decisions.

Marko

European fans are not use to all the Rules and Regulations we have to adhere to, hence they are far more open and vocal in their support of their teams.

There’s also violence at these games flares and homophobic/anti-Semitic/racist chanting. I really think you are talking shite when you say health and safety regulations and the PC brigade are to blame for a lackluster atmosphere at the Emirates for example. Are you suggesting allowing flares and saying whatever you like as an alternative?

Go to Turkey to watch a game and you’ll understand.

Yeah no thanks

Receding Hairline

Yes Valentin a footballer not getting picked by his team runs the risk of getting dropped by addidas ..I dare say he will eventually get dropped by them seeing as he has quit the German National side.

His only saving grace is the fact the club has signed a deal with Addidas but for that to work in his favor he will need to get picked to play.

Luteo Guenreira

I have no problems with statements like “he is still an icon in the Muslim world” because as far as I know it could be true, it probably is true.

But to jump from that fact to all the bullshit you spewed earlier shows the disparity between conventional logic and whatever it is that goes on inside that head of yours.

Marko

I was answering to Marko assessment that Adidas was going to drop as he had no marketing value.

Just to make it more simple for you when he was originally signed up by Adidas he was playing at the top of his game for Real Madrid. What do you think is going to happen when he’s 31 and not playing for Arsenal? Is it the same? Think about that and I mean really think about it

Marc

One of the major contributing factors to the loss of atmosphere at matches in the 1st division / PL was the introduction of all seater stadiums. The terraces were not dangerous if common sense was used.

Hopefully we’ll see some used with the introduction of safe standing areas.

Marc

Marko

That’s why I’ve made the comment previously that Ozil might take a cut in pay to move if brand Ozil is being hurt. Lose £5 million here to keep £6 million there, not saying it’s going to happen but it’s a possibility.

Marko

But to jump from that fact to all the bullshit you spewed earlier shows the disparity between conventional logic and whatever it is that goes on inside that head of yours.

Luteo get off my dick this is exactly what I’m saying with this guy so much of what he says sounds smart and informed in his head but just lacks common sense and logic to me a mere human being living in this reality.

Marko

Receding just so you know what you just said is why I think he’s off in the summer. The notion that at 39 he’ll just sit on his ass and get paid is short sighted. It’s bad for his brand if he stays and doesn’t play. Hence why it’s not impossible to get rid of him and why he’s likely gone this summer

Valentin

@Luteo, What disparity? My point has always that you have to separate the player from his marketability. Kournikova was a mediocre tennis player, but she was a marketing goddesses. Özil is savvy enough to be able to use the social media to his advantage. Marko keep arguing that Özil will be gone when everybody knows that the only way Özil is gone is if Arsenal were to pay his contract and that is not going to happen. He keep arguing that he has no marketing power because he plays badly for Arsenal. My view is that he has a followers… Read more »

Luteo Guenreira

Valentin

I didn’t read your whole post. Your view is your view that’s fine. The problem is, you’ve shown habit to take your “view” and then jump to non-linear conclusions/assertions, like you know how large companies such as Adidas will behave toward a footballer several years down the line when you in fact have no clue, the only thing you have is your view.

Which today has proven quite worthless.

Luteo Guenreira

Sorry, that “disparity” is what I meant in terms of your intelligence and ability for reason compared to conventional logic.

Luteo Guenreira

Marko

Cheers sorry to disturb your nethers.

Marko

Marko keep arguing that Özil will be gone when everybody knows that the only way Özil is gone is if Arsenal were to pay his contract and that is not going to happen

Again not the only way. He’s so marketable that even if he’s not playing football he still gets huge endorsements because he can juggle gum and yet no one would sign him? I mean if he’s that marketable surely someone would try to sign him?

salpardisenyc

And the Ozil drum beats on.

If Ozil wasn’t on the ridiculous wage he was, pretty sure another club would of signed him. When your in the top 10 of highest earners in the game that drastically limits clubs you can move to.

Marko

Do people not think he’d take a pay cut at all? No scenario where he takes one? Not playing football? Losing out on lucrative sponsorships? All while just 30.

Words on a Blog

Sure Özil, is marketable, definitely in Turkey and amongst Turkish-Germans, and perhaps in parts of Africa and in the Middle East.

But in the Arab Middle East, Salah is way, way, way ahead of him (Arabs not too keen on Turks, prefer other Arabs) and in Sub-Sharan Africa there are any number of (African and European) players ahead of him.

I’m pretty sure that if Pedro we’re launching a campaign in Africa and was thinking of using an African player, he’d use someone like Auba, not Özil.

I’m late to the party, but why are we discussing this?

Samesong

Whether Ozil is at Arsenal or wherever he still very marketable. I work with adidas and he does so many campaigns that surely brings in some good change. Kids love him and he does a lot outside of the game too.

salpardisenyc

Marko

At moment its a moot argument as he’s playing and were winning.
Not a soothsayer but i’d imagine same for next season.

Don’t know what makes you so confident he’s off, club have invested heavily and Emery seems to of found terms with that and to his credit is managing situation to his/clubs benefit.

Samesong

Words the debate wasn’t about who is more marketable. More that Ozil wouldn’t be that marketable if he left Arsenal, I think?

Luteo Guenreira

Words

I believe the discussion started with what Marko just said, whether he would take a pay cut, whether he would risk it affecting his marketability, I think Valentin then came and said Ozil was a god in Kenya so Adidas would give him a lifetime deal today regardless of what happens in the future, and here we are.

Words on a Blog

Typo “ and was thinking of using an Arsenal (not African!) player……

Luteo Guenreira

It’s about whether Ozil would move or not. His wages being an obvious issue to that. Meaning he would need to agree to take a pay cut in order to move, most likely.

Words on a Blog

Luteo,

ah thanks for explaining it all….I think I’ll stay out of this one!

Marc

Come on Palace!!!

Luteo Guenreira

At moment its a moot argument as he’s playing and were winning.
Not a soothsayer but i’d imagine same for next season.

This really is it though. It doesn’t matter if he doesn’t deserve the wage, if he’s playing and we are winning then it doesn’t even matter if he’s not playing all that well, really.

Marc

Sky keep talking about it being an emotional night for the Spud’s. I’m sitting here thinking why? It should be an exciting night, it should be an about fucking time night but emotional then I got it – We just paid over a billion fucking quid for something that resembles a fucking toilet seat night.

Marko

At moment its a moot argument as he’s playing and were winning. It’s hardly a moot argument if he’s not wanted not playing well and if his leaving actually benefits the club. His staying doesn’t it hinders us. This isn’t a Ozil vs Emery debate that some people think it is this is about us continuing to improve as a football club. Don’t know what makes you so confident he’s off Well I’m confident that a club that’s 132 years in existence and worth about 3 billion dollars can be able to get rid of a player that they don’t… Read more »

Marko

I honestly don’t think they emphasize enough that it cost over a billion and that that is actually embarrassing. They basically paid an 600 million to have 2,000 seats more than us. Real smart that

rollen

lol Pedro. My comment wasn’t about you.
.

Marc

Well the acoustics are shit at the toilet seat.

Paulinho

Hopefully Lloris christens the new stadium by making a massive gaffe.

Bob N16

Come on you Eagles, make the world a better place!

salpardisenyc

It would be SO on brand for Spurs to loose the opener.

Paulinho

Jason Cundy has put on some weight.

Marc

why are they singing the wanky Tottenham hotspurs went to Rome to see the Pope?

salpardisenyc

“Well I’m confident that a club that’s 132 years in existence and worth about 3 billion dollars can be able to get rid of a player that they don’t want. ”

That same club put Ozil on this wage little over 12 months ago, you sure they want to get rid of him? Don’t answer that, we’ve already been down this dirt road.

Marko

That same club put Ozil on this wage little over 12 months ago, you sure they want to get rid of him?

Yep. Difference between when they signed him and now is Arsene Wenger and Ivan Gazidis. And if you think they don’t want to get rid of him you haven’t been paying attention. Tried shopping him in January and he’s on about 1,300 minutes for the season.

MidwestGun

I think the only way Ozil could have been moved was for the Club to freeze him out in an effort to make him mad enough and for his sponsors to put pressure on him to move to get game time.. Ozil then requests to leave. It would have gotten uglier and uglier And in fact that’s my assessment of what was tried earlier this season under the guise of “Ozil is sick.”. It didn’t work. But as it turned out it may have worked out in both parties favor if it motivated Ozilnand he can keep up the better… Read more »

G8

I think the spuds can win all their remaining games par man city of course..
5 home games against poor teams guaranteed maximum points
Unfortunately I can see them finishing above us !

MidwestGun

If CP can even get a draw out of this.. I would feel glad all over.

TallestTiz

Saw links to an Eibar midfielder some days ago… Is he any good?

Jamie

Pundits creaming themselves over the new stadium.

Their museum must be pure comedy.

Receding Hairline

Napoli lost to Empoli today.. Not an invincible team by any stretch. Very inconsistent

MidwestGun

What? nobody wants to see a Jurgen Klinsmann game worn shirt? hahaha

Bob N16

Lots of black and white photos in their museum….

G8

Cnuts!