Mega Monday Awaits

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No gross story to start the day today my friends. Just straight into the good stuff.

OGS made a meal of another lucky win at home to West Ham. The wheels really are starting to come off. The babyfaced assassin looks like he’s having a rough time with stress, it’s taking a toll on his face and body by the looks of things. It seems that when that Mourinho hangover wore off, the players just weren’t that interested in being a team.

That said, I couldn’t be happier that he’s landed a new deal. Poch at Old Trafford would be a very different story imo. I don’t want to witness how fiery the sauce could be. Just keep topping up that problem with more ’92 thinking.

Spurs are back to their best, they downed Huddersfield with ease, no doubt there really. Only thing we can hope for moving forward is more tiring games. They have to deal with City twice away this week… that should do the trick.

There’s a HUGE game today as Sarri heads on up to Liverpool to hopefully take a thrashing at the hands of Klopp… but as we’ve seen before, Liverpool are more than capable of a choke against Chelsea when chasing a title. So who knows what’s going to happen there. I thought this was a good read on the Chelsea manager.

Sarriball, an ironical term coined by someone in another country, has been used to beat him, a sign of – heaven forfend! – intellectual pretension. Here he comes now, papers flapping, textbook under one arm. English anti-intellectualism, the English insularity that still sees it as a form of national disgrace to take lessons or ask favours abroad: Sarri is an embodiment of so many things that have traditionally enraged English football’s deep sensibilities.

Remember that brief period where a shared hatred of Jorginho seemed to unite the nation? What outrage there was at the sight of a small, possession-based midfielder trying to integrate his style into English football.

Fast forward a couple of months and Jorginho and N’Golo Kanté have both been key players in the current run. Jorginho starts for Italy. He has played in six wins in a row for club and country, his team dominating possession in every one. Maybe just give it a while next time.

Let’s see how it looks after today.

As for Arsenal… well, we’re not playing today. I must have been delirious or just my normal error-prone self when posturing that the fixture was today. That means one more day to mentally prepare for an absolute hell fest away at a reasonably good team our players should be dealing with.

Once again, the big challenge that’ll be asked of Emery is this… where does he see his top 4 fortune?

The Premier League?

The Europa DREAM?

Or will he just shoot for glory in both?

This is where rotation is tough. He knows we’re shite away from him, and likely understands that this isn’t helped by starting Mustafi and Big Mo. However, if he goes for glory (against Watford, big LOL) and then has tired players for Thursday’s test, he could end of shooting himself in both of his size 14 feet (true). No one needs that.

I’d imagine he’s looking at a 2-0 lead and fancying himself for the Europa. A 2 goal lead against Napoli shouldn’t be causing concern. Valencia are a 6th placed team we should have little problem with. Then it’s Benfica or Chelsea in the final. Both teams that offer up tough test, but in a 90minute battle, I’d fancy Emery’s experience to do the job.

… but, lose against Watford and the fans will be pissed off. Doubt might creep into players heading out on Thursday. Legs become a little heavier. No one wants to be tired heading into a nasty atmosphere in Italy.

Basically, it’s a tough one. I am very worried that Mustafi has to play on Monday. That puts us on the back foot right away. It’s hard not to see reckless behavior on the pitch as anything outside nightmarish. However, we have some very good players who should be able to do a job on them. It’s all about focus and motivation. Interesting to read that the 7 games where Ozil, Auba, Laca and Ramsey have started… we’ve won. Our best player delivering results is hardly a revelation, but you have to know when to deploy them.

A very big Monday ahead… let’s see how Emery gambles.

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TallestTiz

Pedro says we’re shite away from him (Emery).
Maybe we should think of giving him a free pass to all the stadia

MrT

Fingers crossed. It is nerve wrecking to see spurs and united win. Spurs so effortlessly and united favoured by the penalty gods. It is unbearable to think that both Europa league trophy and top four can slip away. The pessimist keeps whispering it in my ears. Argh!!!

MrT

Ha TallestTez … you are welcome :))

Parshad

I am back!!!!

Parshad

I am back!!!!
For now

HillWood

Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes team destroy Ferrari in China

Un Battle Angel

Pierre (From previous page) Aubameyang great technique? Come on now….. he’s got certain unique qualities but technique isn’t one of them. His biggest assets aretiming and instinct. And I personally don’t care if ozil doesn’t run about if he’s changing games and making things happen. A flick, a pass, a trick to get the crowd going. He looked good on Thursday because he was up for it. Anyone with eyes can see the difference. He obviously had a point to prove to Ancelotti who binned him and it showed. If only he could summon that attitude more regularly Nobody wants… Read more »

HillWood

Can’t see us getting anything tomorrow with Napoli coming up

Champagne Charlie

“Kinda like Benitez better than Emery point, no? Especially since that data is shitting all over Benitez.“ No, not remotely similar. What data has Emery shitting on Benitez? They’re at two clubs with vastly different targets, budgets, resources. Benitez should have Newcastle above Arsenal to prove his ability should he? Amusing how triggered some get over banal statements. I rate Benitez as a coach, I’d have had him over Emery given my view of the needs of the club at the time. The fact you disagree is irrelevant, the fact you try and mock is laughable. @Tony Not sure how… Read more »

David Smith

Mustafi is a conundrum. Echoing the thoughts of journalist Matt Scott here, but looks like there is a trust issue playing Mustafi in a back four, meaning if he plays, and he will against Watford, and co, emery goes with a three which upsets our balance further forward, to a degree, reducing their effectiveness.
What’s wrong with playing Mavropanos instead, unless he is still not fullly fit?

HillWood

Think we will see El Neny Mustafi Lichtsteiner (injured?) Suarez tomorrow
And we are not playing in Islington

HillWood

Hope I’m wrong by the way

Nelson

Watching Wolves game yesterday, looks like most of Wolves’s players couldn’t wait to return home to Portugal. They didn’t play like the team vs Manure at all. I think we have a good chance beating them.

Pierre

Un You don’t score the amount of goals that Aubamayang scores without good technique… Of course he relies on other players to provide the opportunities but his awareness in the box is 2nd to none……very intelligent footballer and he rarely is injured. Ozil is Ozil , he will never change , maybe he is working a little harder ( maybe not), I judge him as a footballer not on how much he earns ( as many do on here) ..I know the negatives in his game but the positives outweigh them as far as I’m concerned but I’m not sure… Read more »

Un Battle Angel

Pierre
Most of his goals have not been down to good technique but as you rightly say his positional awareness. He’s got no left foot, can’t head, can’t pass, can’t dribble and doesn’t play well off the shoulder for someone so fast so it’s a miracle he scores the amount of goals he does for me.

Guns of Hackney

Off Arsenal but…does anyone else have a problem with players celebrating winning penalties? It just looks bad to me.

Also, watching Pogba act like he’s just scored the Maradona goal against England and the Van Basten one against the USSR rather than score two sitting duck penalties just looks fucking dumb.

Other than that…fuck off.

Un Battle Angel

Pierre you think I don’t love watching players with great technique and skill? Who doesn’t? If they apply it. He doesn’t.

The ball comes to ozil on the edge a congested box and he passes sideways 95% of the time

The ball come to bergkamp/Henry/rvp/cesc/Merson and the shoot, the feint they find a key pass. Ozil isn’t in that league any more. He was but he lost his desire.

Un Battle Angel

Guns

No I’m not against it. I used to punch the air of my side won a penalty when we were chasing for the league. I’m talking amateur here but I was penalty taker so I’m biased

Guns of Hackney

Also, people (fans) trying to get on the telly and when they do realise they are on, making themselves look like gimps.

“Hey, I’m a disgusting fat blubber boy…check my hideous dress sense and personal hygiene out”. Oooo baby.

Arsnil

@David Smith
“What’s wrong with playing Mavropanos instead, unless he is still not fullly fit?”

He has been training fully now since mid January and yet for our last league game we had Mustafi in central defence and Lichsteiner among the substitutes!!!! It’s frigheningly inept on the part of Emery. No justification whatsoever.

Guns of Hackney

Un

Oh I meant when the fouled player celebrates being taken down. It just looks really odd to me. It’s always bothered me. Even if the penalty was legit…celebrating being fouled looks wrong.

Probably just me.

Pierre

Un
Giroud or Aubamayang…

Aubamayang all day long for me .

Nelson

Although our two strikers didn’t score against Napoli, they did a lot of pressing in the midfield. This is essential for Emery’s new found split striker system.
Just thinking about it, this system not only allow Ramsey and Torr to do their late run_in to the box, AMN is also taking advantage of the space available. Before that, we need our midfield to be solid. Napoli passes a lot in the midfield. Without the help of our two strikers, our two midfielders would be outnumber by them.

Leftsidesanch

We have to beat Watford, the race is so tight that we can’t afford to prioritise. Just pick the best side for each game and take it as it comes.

David Smith

Worrying Arsenil, Mavropanos looked a decent prospect, to me at least

Un Battle Angel

Pierre

It’s a tough one for me. Both aren’t multi faceted enough to dominate any game. Each has a certain skill set which suits certain sides and certain styles. I’d prefer an all rounder like rvp or lewandowski or Henry or or fowler or Shearer. Guys who can score in any game against any opposition from any proximity to the goal. I prefer lacazette to both aubameyang and Giroud although I think Giroud and lacazette would be great as a pair

HighburyLegend

Giroud is maybe shit most of the time, but so far he has been decisive for Chelsea in the ELC, and I think with him on the pitch vs Napoli, we would have scored at leat 2 more goals.

bennydevito

Afternoon Grovers, Good post Pedro. My missus and kids have had the stomach bug all week too but so far I’ve been ok. We will beat Watford tomorrow because we have to, but seeing Everton lose to Fulham after beating us was infuriating! Let’s hope injuries and suspensions doesn’t put our team selection into jeopardy again like it did at Everton, because we would have won that if Emery’s hands weren’t tied. Gazidis and Wenger renewing Elneny’s contract was a big mistake too but there is logic as it ensures a minimum transfer fee at least. With Torreira available and… Read more »

Un Battle Angel

Giroud’s Goals/min ratio is up there with the greats
He offered different problems to defences which would now allow Lacazette and Aubameyang space
The problem with torpid was we reload on him as the replacement to rvp when he was never good enough to be that. We needed additional firepower alongside him. Letting van Persie go for £24m was unforgivable

HillWood

We would certainly score more headed goals from crosses from the wings with Giroud

Un Battle Angel

Benny
We need a win for Liverpool

Marc

Un

We need a good win for Liverpool today!

Has anyone heard about Xhaka etc?

Champagne Charlie

It was never Giroud or Auba..

It was Giroud + a £40 mil winger/forward/attacking mid or Auba.

I think there’s a debate for the latter, but c’est la vie

Bamford10

Benny

“Let’s hope injuries and suspensions don’t put our team selection into jeopardy again”

Sokratis is suspended for Watford, so that is one problem Emery faces. He’ll probably have to play Mustafi.

As for Elneny and Guendouzi, I doubt he’ll ever pair them together again.

HighburyLegend

“but Liverpool being the team I really hate the most, a draw would be the best result.”
And that’s probably the result the Chavs will be looking for.
They will park the bus like if Maureen were still in charge. lol

HighburyLegend

Mustafi aka the walking mistake, like Pedro once said.
I guess it’s useless to ask for a clean sheet…

Bamford10

Good article on what role the sporting director will play at Arsenal and who will be responsible for what this summer.

“New Arsenal sporting director: Who it could be, summer transfer plans and when they will sign”
https://www.football.london/arsenal-fc/new-arsenal-sporting-director-who-16126667

Charlie George

A concise round up of affairs in and around the Arsenal by the redoubtable PedRo. And I thank him for it. (I hope he, the mini BDs and more importantly Mrs. Bd continue to feel better,by the way) Let’s hope ‘Mega Monday ‘ does not spill over to Tumultuous Tuesday but I fear it will-if we fail to stop the defensive rot endemic at Arsenal. Removing Japanese Knotwood permanently- seem to be an easier proposition- than Emery organising a clean sheet.( away from home) I note that Bounemouth and Newcastle kept away clean sheets over the weekend. Are we really… Read more »

Marc

I’d rather hear 3 nil to the Arsenal. My nerves aren’t up for 1 nil!

bennydevito

Yes I want a high scoring draw to give City the edge and to motivate us for the Watford game because if Chelsea draw we’ll be 4 pts behind with 2 games in hand the first being Watford.

I forgot about Sokratis suspended, bollocks. What about Koz? Is he back? Mustafi is such an accident waiting to happen.

Bamford10

We signed Aubameyang because Lacazette had not been convincing enough in his first six months at the club. If they believed Lacazette was a great signing, our first-choice CF for the foreseeable future, a replacement for RVP, they would never have gone out and spent £60m on Aubameyang. They did so because they weren’t convinced by Lacazette. This is obvious.

Whether either was the right signing is an open question, IMO.

TR7

Crystal palace can beat City.

Marc

Looking at the remaining fixtures for the other 3 teams chasing 3rd / 4th and the matches that a possible banana skins for each:

Spud’s – City (A), West Ham (H) & Bournemouth (A).
ManU – Everton (A), City (H) & Chelsea (H)
Chelsea – Liverpool (A), ManU (A) & Leicester (A) although Leicester will probably be on the beach.

We really need to get our heads in gear.

Bamford10

Per the article, the sporting director will be responsible both for transfer policy and for building the club’s footballing ethos.

This will require a number of things, including an “understanding of Arsenal’s current identity on and off the pitch and the free-flowing, aesthetically-pleasing football that has been central to the club over the past two decades”.

The above “goes some way to explaining why Sanllehi did not think it was a job for former head of recruitment Sven Mislintat, a world-renowned scout but not one closely versed in the Arsenal way of doing things.”

Un Battle Angel

Bamford

Henry didn’t score for his first 6 months. He missed sitter after sitter
Bergkamp didn’t really kick on u til wenger came
Two seasons after he signed
Pires took a seasonto find his feet and rvp took years to mature

You wouldn’t remember though because you didn’t know who these people were until the good times were gone.

It’s almost poetic that glory hunting rent-a-personality types didn’t taste the sweet years

Elmo

Can’t see anything online confirming Pedro’s claim that Emery has size 14 feet.

Marc

Bamford

I think a big piece of the Auba deal was commercial pressure. We’d just lost our best player – Gazidis had Wenger who he couldn’t get to spend even when it was obvious we needed a replacement and we were trying to nail down a new shirt deal.

Marc

Rioch signed Bergkamp and was only at the club for one season.

Nelson

@Marc “Has anyone heard about Xhaka etc?”

Darren Burgess, Arsenal’s Director of High Performance, says midfield duo Granit Xhaka and Lucas Torreira are the club’s best performers in training.

azed

From the mirror Note: Some of these wages are estimated, based on previous reports on their new contracts. Mesut Ozil – £350,000-a-week. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang – £180,000-a-week. Henrikh Mkhitaryan – £180,000-a-week. Alexandre Lacazette – £140,000-a-week. Sead Kolasinac – £119,500-a-week. Aaron Ramsey – £110,000-a-week. Hector Bellerin – £100,000-a-week. Petr Cech – £100,000-a-week. Laurent Koscielny – £100,000-a-week. Danny Welbeck – £100,000-a-week. Bernd Leno – £90,000-a-week. Sokratis – £90,000-a-week. Shkodran Mustafi – £90,000-a-week. Stephan Lichtsteiner – £90,000-a-week. Granit Xhaka – £90,000-a-week. Lucas Perez – £80,000-a-week (contributions from loan club West Ham United). Lucas Torreira – £75,000-a-week. Alex Iwobi – £70,000-a-week. Nacho Monreal – £70,000-a-week.… Read more »

Marc

Nelson

I meant is Xhaka back from injury?

bennydevito

CG, Thanks, we’re all recovering but I fear my eldest daughter will be returning to her Mother’s from her Easter break with us with the bug and give it to her 2 yr old sister, hopefully not. As for Emery, yes I concur there; we haven’t seen much by way of defensive improvement it has to be said, but for now I put that down to the defenders still in place as I feel not even Guardiola or Mourinho would do much better with the likes of Mustafi. I’m prepared to allow Emery the chance to ship out the likes… Read more »

Bamford10

Good article on Francis Cagigao, our current head of international scouting. Haven’t heard him mentioned here, but it sounds like he is the favorite to replace Mislintat and that he was responsible for our bringing in Fabregas, Bellerin and Cazorla.

“Francis Cagigao backed to replace Sven Mislintat by Arsenal insider”
https://www.football.london/arsenal-fc/transfer-news/exclusive-francis-cagigao-sven-mislintat-15727968

Champagne charlie

Banford Forever talking as though your view of matters is THE truth. It isn’t, just your view. Reel it in. It’s far more rational to suggest we bought Auba because we sold Giroud, Theo, and lost Alexis. We needed star power and goals, Auba was there to pluck from Dortmund mid-season. There’s not one example of Arsenal replacing a summer signing in January, especially at the ridiculous expense of £56 mil after a £46 mil outlay 6 months prior. This position is something you’re desperate to circumvent in order to validate your other view of the time (which was Lacazette… Read more »

HillWood

Fuck the Arsenal way of doing things
Give me a competitive, wining Arsenal all day long

Bamford10

Don

What does that have to do with the question of why we spent £60m on Aubameyang? Nothing. If our greatest CFs didn’t do much in their first six months at the club, no one would have known that better than Wenger and co. And yet they still went out and spent £60m on another first-choice CF.

Care to tell us why you think they did this (if it wasn’t because they weren’t convinced by Lacazette)? We’re all ears.

Marc

£500k a week coming of the wage bill in the summer just with Ramsey, Welbeck, Cech, Lich, Monreal, Elneny, Chambers & Jenkinson all off.

There’s been very little talk about Welbeck and other clubs. Would anyone else offer him a new deal (have to be some clause on fitness etc)?

HighburyLegend

“I’m prepared to allow Emery the chance to ship out the likes of Mustafi and Elneny etc and replace the ageing Kos and Monreal to see if that makes a difference. ”
Well that’s very kind from you.

“what was the point in getting rid of Wenger? ”
Amazing…

Bamford10

Charlie

No, that isn’t the rational explanation. If Lacazette had convinced as the starting CF and we needed more goals, then we would have signed a wide player or two, not another first-choice CF.

HighburyLegend

@HillWood : of course you’re right, and when you see the weakness of Man City, Liverpool, Chelsea, or even the fucking Spuds, it’s fucking unbelievable that Emery was not able, for his first season in charge, to makes us title contenders!!

Ffs… (lol)

Bamford10

And btw, Lacazette HAD BEEN sub-par. This is something Charlie always tries to erase or omit. Lacazette had gone eight games without a goal and with only six total shots. He was in a much-publicized “drought”. When Aubameyang arrived, he started immediately and Lacazette went to the bench.

The only person trying to distort the truth is here is Charlie, as always.

Bamford10

As for what Arsenal had done historically, we were breaking with historical practice in any number of ways at that point, so that isn’t a good argument at all. They were desperate.

Champagne charlie

Banford

Care to point to previous examples of when Arsenal bought a ‘replacement’, in January, for a player signed in the summer? Let alone a marquee player like Lacazette was.

There’s countless examples of players taking a season to adjust to the premier league. Laughable to dismiss that and state unequivocally that we’d summed up our record signing within 6 months (injury to boot).

Just another classic case of you doubling down on your opinion, no matter how questionable.

Bamford10

By the way, is anyone here really convinced by Lacazette? Don’t get me wrong: he’s been better than Aubameyang, but is he good enough to return us to the top? Is he one of the best strikers in the game? I don’t think so.

bennydevito

Highbury L,

Don’t try and paraphrase me out of context, what I actually said was that if after 2 years of Emery and we see no defensive improvements and we’re only just scraping into top 4 then what was the point in getting rid of Wenger. That’s what I actually said, huge difference, and I wanted Wenger gone in 2008 and was having concerns about his defensive ineptitude as far back as 2000.

I’m also willing to give Emery the time of his contract unlike others who wanted Emery gone 5 months into the season. That’s I’m saying.

London gunner

CG

Move on your lord wenger is no linger manager. Stop woth your pathetic anti Emery agenda.

Bamford10

Charlie

I already explained that the historical argument is a bad one. We were breaking with historical practice in any number of ways and were desperate. Can you point to a previous instance in which we spent more than £100m on two strikers in the span of six months? No, you can’t. We were no longer doing things the old way. Obviously. Your argument is bunk.

Champagne charlie

Ah right, Lacazette had an indifferent opening 6 months in England whilst carrying a knee injury he later got surgery for. Totally rational to pay almost 60 mil mid-season for a replacement.

NOTHING to do with us selling two goal-getters in Theo and Giroud, and losing our primary goalscorer in Alexis for free in what was an embarrassing time for the club desperate to save face. It was Lacazette, because he hadn’t gotten 20 goals yet?

Banfordisms a plenty.

London gunner

Bamford

I think he almost is just has a couple bad habits. One of prime one’s is taking too many touches in the box sometimes he needs to just get his shot away quickly ala aguero.

Marc

Bamford

On the list of areas and players we need to improve on Laca is way down the list – at least in my opinion. We are 3rd highest scorers in the league we don’t have the resources to fix areas that don’t need fixing right now.

Champagne charlie

Banford

The spending of money isn’t the argument I’m presenting, I’m asking you to give example of us “replacing” a player we signed in the summer 6 months later. It simply isn’t a practice undertaken in football, period.

But it’s one you’re doubling down on with the bogus idea YOU are stating – that we’d written off Lacazette.

No comment on the fact we had Theo, Giroud, and Alexis to replace that January……. odd that

Bamford10

Marc

I agree with that. But I still think we need better. Lacazette is too limited. He’ll do for now, but we’ll need better if we want to compete with the best.

Bamford10

Your argument is historical practice, guy. We had broken with historical practice in many ways. This would just be another one. Find another argument. We knew he was injured and would be out for six months, for example.

Champagne charlie

Banford Still no comment on the fact we had to replace the goals of Alexis, Theo, and Giroud. Two wide forwards and a central striker. Where can Auba play? Wide forward, and central striker. Amazing that. Almost like he played numerous games CF and LF from that January to seasons end. Heck, even to date. But we bought him to replace Lacazette you say, so must be true. Despite Lacazette proving himself the better CF option this season for numerous fans/posters. This desperation you have for working previous remarks into a form of ‘truth’ is hilarious. Such a weak character,… Read more »

Frank Mc

CC why do it to yourself? Engaging with the Adrian Durham of LG….. 😀

Champagne charlie

Frank Mc, no idea mate. It’s been a month and I’m sat watching the Masters so it’s easy to poke holes in the fraud.

Nelson

Mendy and De Bruyne are now fully recovered. MC played like champion AWAY FROM HOME. I can’t see us challenging the league in the near future. We need a new owner.

Bamford10

What a dumb argument. What he has proven to people since — or in the past six months — is irrelevant. The question is what he had shown the club as of January 2018, and the answer is not much, not enough. That’s why we spent 60m on another first choice CF. If we simply needed additional goals, we would have signed wide players. And no, Aubameyang was not signed as a wide player. Sorry.

HillWood

Highbury L
I was responding to Bamford quote @ 13:08

Chitom

Reading some of the posts from people with anti- Emery agenda on topics other than Emery makes them seem almost reasonable.
Kinda like my Republican friends who have gotten big tax breaks from Trump when they aren’t talking about Trump.

Amazing what having an agenda can do to logical thinking.

Champagne charlie

banford

Right, dumb argument but here you are going against all sensible footballing standards when recruiting players.

Widen the net and tell me about all the times players are replaced after 6 months of playing for their new clubs? If anything gets the nod for being dumb, it’s that hot take.

Paulinho

“Henry didn’t score for his first 6 months. He missed sitter after sitter Bergkamp didn’t really kick on u til wenger came Two seasons after he signed Pires took a seasonto find his feet and rvp took years to mature” This almost as bad as the Overmars revisionism. Henry scored his first goal in September 1999, so no, not six months. Bergkamp was excellent from the moment he scored his first goal against Southampton in his first season. He scored 16 goals that season, and 14 the following one. Then he had that belter of a season in 97/98. Pires… Read more »

Un Battle Angel

Bamford

How have we broken with historical practice? We sold Anelka and brought in Kanu, Henry and super all within the space of 6 months
We sold overmars and brought in ljunberg and pires within a year
We sold petit and brought in van bronkhorst, edu and Gilberto within 18 months of each other whilst keeping hold of parlour.

How exactly is signing additional players now against historical practice?

Un Battle Angel

Paulinho

Are you telling me Henry pires and bergkamp hit the ground running? You know full well all three needed a season to adjust
Bergkamp didn’t take off until 97 for arsenal. Yes flashes of brilliance were shown but when he acclimatised to the pace and power of the league he was different gravy

PhD2020

Bamford10April 14, 2019 13:01:43 We signed Aubameyang because Lacazette had not been convincing enough in his first six months at the club. If they believed Lacazette was a great signing, our first-choice CF for the foreseeable future, a replacement for RVP, they would never have gone out and spent £60m on Aubameyang. They did so because they weren’t convinced by Lacazette. This is obvious. ——— You rewrite history as if it’s a fact from your standpoint. Common sense and humility was never your strongest traits. You really are an utter useless waste of space. Anyone,just to recap,on your nonsensical arguments..We… Read more »

Un Battle Angel

Bam

Carful fella. The is is thin lad and you’re skating on it!!!

PhD2020

*Anyway,just to recap

Un Battle Angel

Suker not super

Paulinho

Battle – Both Bergkamp and Henry were brilliant from the moment they opened their accounts with us. It took both of them about one month to find their feet. Henry played left-wing for that period and then Wenger moved him centrally and he was electric.

Pires took six months. He was unreal from March to the end of that season, particularly remember his performance against Spurs in the semi-final at Old Trafford.

Bamford10

Pedro

Any comment on how that Football London piece is describing the role of sporting director? What they have to say about why Sanllehi didn’t like Mislintat for the role? Any opinion on Cagigao?

Paulinho

Pires was actually better in the final against Liverpool. Still can’t believe we lost that game, biggest injustice ever.

Un Battle Angel

Paulinho I remember his first goal well. Back to goal. Turned. Ran across the area and pop, 22 yards into the far side of goal. His trademark. But he took months to acclimatise. He didn’t hit the ground running. Bergkamp was not brilliant from the off either. Compare bergkamp of 95 to bergkamp of 97 and we are talking different animals. And pires was not great in his first season either Read below Pires was signed by Arsenal for £6 million in 2000, after stiff competition from Real Madrid and Juventus, replacing Marc Overmars, who had left for Barcelona for… Read more »

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