You know when people are like, ‘Christmas has started because the Pret Christmas Latte just dropped’ or something nauseatingly basic like that? The football equivalent is, ‘you know summer has started when Ornstein drops a bombshell that Arsenal will be shite in the transfer window.’
He’s only gone and done it AGAIN.
Top level: ‘It’s going to be a bit bland’
If we lose against Chelsea, £40m is our starting point.
We’re going project youth with a bit of experience (same as last summer).
We want a centre back, an Aaron replacement, and a winger type entity.
Additionally, if there is an extra special deal, we’ll chase a left back, right back and a striker.
ARSENAL WILL NOT BREACH FFP
Thank fuck for the last snippet, I know there’s been a lot of grumblings in the community of late about making sure we don’t EVER break a single rule, right now, I’m just letting off a massive sigh of THANK FUCK that we’re going to play it safe.
So what to make of this goss fest?
Well, don’t wet those panties you absolute man child. Also, why are you wearing panties? Grow up and step away from your mum’s lingerie drawer you 35-year-old freak. Get your 2001 Beano branded specials on and let’s dive into the mixer like peak Bobby P against Pompey.
If we are a Europa League club, blasting money away isn’t sensible. The MIGHTY Swiss Ramble has some analysis on how badly we’ve been rocked by the step-down.
So the benefits of qualifying for the Champions League over the Europa League are clear. As it stands, English CL clubs have earned well over twice as much as EL clubs – even though 2 have reached the final:#LFC €107m#THFC €102m#MUFC €93m#MCFC €93m#CFC €40m#AFC €36m pic.twitter.com/r82tADlaaN
— Swiss Ramble (@SwissRamble) May 13, 2019
We have a lot of expensive dross in the squad and I’d imagine Stan is asking Raul to realign the wage bill and move on the shite before we start going nuts again. £235m a year in wages is outrageous for the return.
Secondly, there’s some heated debate over whether the Ornstein budget figure is right. Some say we’re hiding our improved financial success, some say the number is what it is.
This is Gambon from the comments on where the new cash is coming from.
💰New club level seats £5m
💰Adidas £30m
💰Emirates 12m
💰Visit Rwanda £10m
💰New TV deal £10m
I’ve heard the lower number since November, and I’d say if we were looking at a £100m starting point, we’d have loosened the purse strings in January. Telling that we didn’t do that, isn’t it?
It’ll be interesting to see how hard we go at freeing up cash this summer. Mustafi and Xhaka should surely be heading for the exit door, there should be £70m incoming for those two alone. Auba is being linked to Madrid for £85m. Love him to bits, he’s helped shape our season, but he’s 29 so don’t be sentimental about this. The biggest travesty of the latter years of Arsene is his hoarding of players. We need to learn how to sell at peak, he’s hit peak, so we should absolutely take that cash if it’s on offer and invest like Liverpool did when they earned a big windfall. I’d take losing a 29-year-old versus having to lose a kid to find the next step.
Also, don’t moan at me and starting bleating on that he’s our best player… who did you vote for in the Arsenal Player of the Season Award?
What?
Speak up?
Thought so.
You hypocritical disgrace.
Drop transfer exits like I’ve laid out and you’re at £190m for spending power. You can buy many nice toys with cash like that. Then think of all the other players we could shift on… Elneny, Chambers, Mikhi, Jenks… there’s £30m in that mix.
Basically, don’t read into the £40m like that’s as far as the summer goes. It simply says to me that selling players is key to a hype summer execution.
Cut away all of the speculation, which could be spot on, or it could be really badly wrong (Ornstein had us with a £100m budget in January), the real story for me is that Edu only has an offer on the table, he hasn’t said yes.
Emery and Raul are at the wheel. We know they like sniffing around that bargain section. They’re the footballing equivalent of yellow sticker sandwich eaters. They don’t even like medium rare beef and Stilton… but if that sticker says 26p, it’s in the basket, no questions asked. Denis Suarez was a brown banana that was found under the fridge, the yellow sticker was just bants… but someone bought it, you know who? Yep. Yep.
So our summer is going to happen without the future architect of the club sailing the ship. Sven, love him or hate him, helped navigate us away from players like Banega, Nzonzi, Malcolm, and Denis Suarez. What is going to happen now? I like Cagigao, he sourced Santi, Bellerin and Cesc… but how much power will he be given?
Emery isn’t good at spending money if you look at some of the players he’s been responsible for in the past, he likes old and slow… or just utterly Suarezy. Raul wouldn’t be hiring a TD if he knew how to build a squad. Seems like a recipe for expensive mistakes. It looks like we’re going to head into next season without a vision or direction again. It’s spend and hope. I hate that. It is never going to work when those above us are driving towards an exciting vision mapped to a plan (Not Chelsea, lolololol).
Hopefully, I’m wrong. Nkunku looks a player when I’ve watched him. Djené has a lot of hype around him and £13.5m seems a bargain. However, there’s a bad stench of Rabiot-to-Arsenal everywhere you read, the guy has a piss poor attitude and didn’t like Emery last time around. Then I worry we’ll rekindle bland dreams of the past, Perisic or Carrasco are weighing heavily on my mind. Players past their prime, or with Ozil like attitudes to the game.
I don’t want to fuck about with talent that has temperament issues. Just give me young prime meat that wants to explode onto the scene. £75k a week or less. No mega contracts that make them fat and lazy. Let’s operate on a lean model and make sure hunger is central to their MO… just like it is at Spurs. I read a Poch article the other week that said he loved the players who want to leave because they care about success, be wary of those who thrive in comfort. Who is begging to leave Arsenal? Says a lot… right? A few too many just in it for the cashed paycheque.
Anyway, a real mixed back. Needless to say, summer will be busy. x
P.S. Souness and Keane FURIOUS that once again, they are proved wrong by a foreigner with better ideas of how the game should be played (tackles number). Arteta helping to architect one of the smartest off the ball sides the Premier League has ever seen, I’m welling up everyone, someone pass me a tissue, so emosh.
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Tr4phy
Ouch, nicely done MrT. And lol Peter
congrats MrT
Always manage it Wenger style 🙂 top four is a trophy:)))
DM.. I was soo determined to beat you today
If this £40m transfer budget is reality then Emery will most likely not see the season through, or if he does..it will be his last.
Auba £85m. No.
£70m for Xhaka and Mustafi. No.
£30m for the dross. No.
Arsenal spending money well. No.
Emery in charge of spending. No.
I’d imagine we will start the season pretty much with the same group, sans retirees, Ramsay or out of contract chumps.
A broken little club like Arsenal aren’t going to do a 180 flip and turn into a totally different entity in one closed season.
If anyone thinks Emery is the man to trust…Suarez. That’s all. He’s Emery’s Kallstrom. Who after Wenger pulled that one trusted Arsene ever again? Exactly.
Small time club.
Greizmann loves a good video
Last season one to say he is staying
This to say he is leaving
Keane and Souness are to football what the Big Boss Man and Vader were to WWE. They could wrestle, but they prefer to fight.
Gary Lineker has just tweeted that the Invincibles’ point total would have landed them third place this season. Thoughts?
No one is mentioning the fact this bland, uninspiring, dull as dishwater Unai Emery team scored the same number of league goals as the invincibles, the greatest team in Arsenal history.
Receding
Great work of late. Have enjoyed reading your commentary.
Mystic
Thank you for the support you threw me in the previous. I appreciate it.
Welcome Back Bamford
You were missed
Now do try and stay on Pedro’s good side, this is his playground you know.
No one gives a shite what Gary Lineker tweets or says.
I know I dont.
Both the AST and Arseblog think the “we have around £40m to spend prior to player sales” figure is more or less correct.
“AST Review of Arsenal’s Financial Report 17/18”
https://www.arsenaltrust.org/feed/afc-finances/2019/AST-Review-of-Arsenals-Financial-Report-for-2017-18
“Summer Transfers: a lot to do, but how much will we have to do it?”
https://arseblog.com/2019/05/summer-transfers-a-lot-to-do-but-how-much-will-we-have-to-do-it/
As far as Souness and Keane are concerned, it is all very simple.
Times have changed.
Receding
I appreciate that. I will do my best on that front.
Make no mistake, Arsenal can spend more than £40m if we want. If £40m is the budget, I would say that reflects more a lack of trust in Unai Emery and the wider Arsenal transfer machine that it does our financial means. Its fairly easy to work out how much free cash Arsenal will have next season, as its easy to predict our revenues and costs. Assuming no Champions League, we will have revenue of about £450m, with costs of about £320m (£230m wage will, £90m costs) This leaves £130m. Take away the £20m stadium debt, and thats £110m. The… Read more »
Welcome back B10.
Graham
OK, forget that Lineker said it. What do you think of the point in general?
Interested to see how much we sell off our players for.
We do not exactly have a great record in selling of players and great prices.
How we sold Chambo for only 35M whilst a 2014 Southhap sold a 2024 mane for around the same price stuns me.
At least we should of got 45M for him.
Same all around for other sells we ‘ve made. I hope the club have learnt their lessons on this front.
Swansea sold Siggurdson to Everton for 45M last year for goodness sake
And we let Players go on the cheap.
You can’t compare.
Football has changed dramatically over the past fifteen years.
The style of play, Health and fitness levels, the standard and quality of pitches etc etc.
It was a great achievement and still remains a great achievement.
Remember GL is ex- Spuds. Of course he’d say that.
Irrespective of that, he’s a self-righteous prick.
Wow the man city tackling stat is fucking unbelievable.
Bamford Pep has raised the bar on what a title looking team looks like in this country
Maybe the invincibles would have raised their game to adapt, maybe not. They did win that title with an 11 point gap, it all depends on who is chasing you.
gambon Two things: one, you have repeatedly made the point that funds for transfer spending come from next year revenues not cash reserves and that people are wrong to focus on cash reserves. This is a reasonable point, but isn’t it also the case that if we want to spend more than what next year revenues provide, we would/could dip into the cash reserves to cover the difference? I believe the answer is yes, so I think cash reserves do matter to an extent. Two, given our needs and relatively limited resources, would you consider selling one of Aubameyang or… Read more »
Not sure I agree with Pedro’s valuations but I agree with his action plan. We need to work on the mental side of our squad as well as the technical deficiencies. The CB and CM,which surely are coming, need to be leaders. Adding two top players to our spine would see the greatest improvement in our squad. If that means picking up freebies or cheaper options elsewhere, so be it. Without Minslat’s replacement in place, I am slightly concerned with our ability to select the best options. We need to get it right. Three first team regulars in, promote 4/5… Read more »
Anyhow, I find it strange that people are so up in arms about our supposed budget.
There has to be at least some level of expectation that Unai Emery actually does some coaching.
Next season would be our 3rd in the EL, we would no longer be a CL club stuck in the EL, we would be an EL level club.
Both Klopp and Pochettino joined EL level clubs and had to work on meagre budgets initially.
Graham
Fair enough.
And low the bitchy comments commence once more
Bamford
welcome back. Solely on points, the invincibles will finish 3rd but the talent on that team was extra ordinary. They were coasting through games sometimes, barely left first gear and still got wins or draws.
So I think everything should be taken into contest. The competition, the stakes and all others. They would have had much more points if this Man City and Liverpool were there to push them
A few more years outside the top 4 with Emery is more than likely.
He’s not the one to fix our away problems and that’s key.
He’s not the one to fix the defence.
The youth academy he’s to sharpen up it’s poor in providing players to the right standard and attitude.
Emery could have given more time to the academy players but hasn’t got the confidence to do it.
FFP doesn’t allow clubs to catch up with those clubs that have slipped the net.
Also the mentality of the coach matters. Pep never relents. I remember vs Liverpool last season, man City were 4 up with a man advantage over pool towards the 80th minute mark, they attempted to drop off and conserve energy and pep was livid. That invincibles would have achieved record breaking points with peps relentless drive
I would certainly consider selling one of the strikers, but probably rather Lacazette than Auba, as his goals are easier to replace. Listen, tough decisions will need to be made. We need to be ruthless, or a better word is focused. For example, a lot of people cant seem to get their head around the idea of selling Maitland-Niles. I would sell him in a heart beat. We need 2 Right Backs, not one right back and another kind of wing back, that can play in midfield but doesnt ever get the chance to because no-one trusts him. Sell AMN… Read more »
“Both Klopp and Pochettino joined EL level clubs and had to work on meagre budgets initially.” Right, and after seven months at Liverpool, there were people here saying Klopp didn’t know how to organize a defense, that he was a flop, that some of us here were fools for thinking he was any better than Wenger. (None of which, btw, is to say that Emery is like Klopp — he’s not even close to Klopp in any way — but it is to say that judgments about managers can sometimes be somewhat shallow, premature or flawed.) As for Pochettino, I… Read more »
“So perhaps Emery finishing 7 points better, one place higher and 11 points closer to fourth — along with advancing to a European final — should be placed in context.”
Yes, and maybe the fact that we had less shots, conceded more shots, less big chances, conceded more big chances, lower xG, higher xGA – both of which got significantly worse towards the end of the season, is something to worry about.
We’ll probably find out next season.
“shallow, premature or flawed”
Yes, I know that people are going to turn this around and connect it to what I have said about Solskjaer. I will deal with that in time. 🙂
“How we sold Chambo for only 35M whilst a 2014 Southhap sold a 2024 mane for around the same price stuns me.”
different scenarios. chambo already rejected a new deal, had 1 year left and was already at Arsenal. A big club. no much bargaining chip. Liverpool werent THAT much in front of us then so at best it could be described as a lateral move aimed at rejuvenating how career.
Mane was the star at Soton, a small club, several levels below Liverpool and had 2 years left.
“No one is mentioning the fact this bland, uninspiring, dull as dishwater Unai Emery team scored the same number of league goals as the invincibles, the greatest team in Arsenal history.“
I won’t put words in your mouth, but what are you suggesting here?
Need I point out you can win a game 3-0 with 3 corners, and a game 2-0 with total domination and glorious combination play. The superficial comparison wouldn’t touch upon this.
“There has to be at least some level of expectation that Unai Emery actually does some coaching.”
Of course
But what if, just maybe, the players we have do not have the necessary attributes to do what is required of them as Pep discovered with City and Pochettino discovered with Spurs leading to him making 23 signings so far (yes he has in fact bought 23 players)
Man, those Man City stats. Unreal.
It might be built with lots of expensive components, but that Man City machine is still wonderfully assembled.
mystic
Are you kidding?
That was no “lateral move”
The Ox left because he was going nowhere.
“But what if, just maybe, the players we have do not have the necessary attributes to do what is required of them”
So we should have just kept Arsene Wenger for one more year, and used his £17m pay off to buy an extra player.
“I won’t put words in your mouth, but what are you suggesting here?” Nothing. Team comprising of Henry, Pires, Berkgamp, Kanu, a wonderful midfield spine in a time when the leg wasn’t so ultra competitive scored the same number of league goals as one whose only reputable source of goals is a Auba and Lacazette. Don’t you think perhaps the invincibles should have scored more?? I just found it odd when i saw that start as we all remembered that team as one who put teams to the sword while scoring tons of goals, 73 goals in the league isn’t… Read more »
Bamford,
Now that you’re back I promise not to mention Jesus, Norway or Solskjaer ever again!
“So we should have just kept Arsene Wenger for one more year, and used his £17m pay off to buy an extra player.”
Right ….that’s the solution , another Lucas Perez.
You saw a lot of right stuffs when it comes to the composition of our squad and what needs to be done then get all tangled up in your Emery agenda in the very next breath.
Where do you stand? Do we need better players or will better coaching solve all?
Welcome back Bamford
The game has moved on from 2003/4. Squads are bigger, far more goalscorers in average teams. Wide players roles are significantly different. Pires was a revelation as a goalscoring wide player, these days he wouldnt be special. One of the big reasons that more goals are scored is xG, and how understanding of xG has changed how teams attack. I saw a stat this morning about how ‘shots from outside the box’ is falling significantly, because data shows that its not a good idea. This is the last 8 seasons shots outside the box: 2011-12 4832 2012-13 4628 2013-14 4599… Read more »
“Souness and Keane FURIOUS that once again, they are proved wrong by a foreigner with better ideas of how the game should be played (tackles number). Arteta helping to architect one of the smartest off the ball sides the Premier League has ever seen, I’m welling up everyone, someone pass me a tissue, so emosh.”
In case you have some doubt… YES, this is an Arsenal blog.
(sigh)
“Where do you stand? Do we need better players or will better coaching solve all?”
I didnt realise you had to choose between the 2.
I feel sorry for Pedro, as Arteta will never coach AFC.
Arteta was the king of crab passing. Him and Denilson looool
Had a decent freekick.
Man City not tackling as much as the other 19 clubs is pretty easy to understand.
They have the highest possession stats in the PL, therefore they have less time off the ball than any other team, therefore they have less opportunity to tackle.
Pretty simple.
I’m hearing Steven Gerrard coming to my work today. That would be interesting.
Graham Is lateral used to mean vertical? if so, apologies. I meant horizontal move. He wanted to rejuvenate himself at a club same level as Arsenal. TBH am not he would amount to much at Liverpool, injury or not
“I didnt realise you had to choose between the 2.”
in our case i think you actually do have to choose if we are being frank with ourselves
Wenger wasn’t sacked just for being poor at coaching, he was also sacked for being poor at squad building, wasting funds on players not fit for the league.
A man had a recommendation to buy Aubameyang before he went to Dortmund, that summer he opted for Sanogo.
1) Very tight budget (especially if we don’t win the Europa)
2) Recognised gaps and weaknesses in key areas of our squad
3) No Technical Director in place
4) No Head of Recruitment in place (Cagigao is acting Head only)
5) Lots of players that need to be “encouraged” to move on for squad building and financial reasons
6) A manager who, ahem, ain’t necessarily the best judge of players on the market
This summer we will all be on Sanllehi. I’m not optimistic, but let’s see how good or bad he really is.
Receding
I’m not sure making a comparison to the league 16 years apart is sensible, the game has advanced no end. Relatively speaking the invincibles were head and shoulders above their respective rivals at the time and any comparison to teams since is pure conjecture.
Could argue a number of things, fitness, speed of the game, tactical evolution, and conversely the physicality of the game then etc.
But what you’re doing to prop up Emery is a bit transparent, and a non-starter. Let’s just not compare the Invincibles to Emery’s first season eh? Please…
Receding
So you think there is absolutely no expectation for Emery to improve the performances of the squad?
He’s just there to put cones out basically?
gambon that’s why I am more inclined to build the midfield first rather than focus all energy on defense. We can afford to cope with only 1 defensive addition (in the central area) if we concentrate on midfield and wingers. They bring relief to the defence so much. Next summer we can tackle defense wholly
Greizmann was on standby to sign for Arsenal a few years ago, Wenger opted not to conclude that deal.
He will be moving to Barca for 104m pounds.
Emery will be fine at Arsenal. RH, can you leave others that don’t feel that way be? We have already seen they aren’t transparent.
Charlie already said he has worked at 3 big clubs before us and I am wondering who the clubs are.
What surprises me most about Ornstein’s piece of guesswork is the £40m transfer pot. As much as that? I doubt it.
The way things are, project youth is the only course Emery can take. My belief is that all and any of the Arsenal squad is up for sale. For the money Auba fetches you can find a far better set of defenders in the lower divisions than Emery currently has. Remember GG?
As for the wage bill, let’s hope he is utterly ruthless. Away with the overpaid and no wage rises for anyone.
The transfer budget, and Pedro’s idea of trimming fat, is exactly how I envision the club operating as I stated yesterday.
Get rid of the guys offering nothing to the squad, and punt a couple of massive earners giving little ROI.
My two casualties on the wages front would be Ozil and Mkhi, huge earners and delivering something akin to squad players. Elneny, Chambers, Jenks, Ospina are the nothing players we need to purge from the squad.
“But what you’re doing to prop up Emery is a bit transparent, and a non-starter. Let’s just not compare the Invincibles to Emery’s first season eh? Please…” Na you dey do that one not me. Both teams scored 73 league goals is actually a statement of fact and can be easily verified. That was only what i wrote. Your paranoia when it comes to Emery isn’t my doing You seem on the look out for any kind word towards him so you can pounce on it, frankly we have played that game a few times and i find it boring… Read more »
“Charlie already said he has worked at 3 big clubs before us and I am wondering who the clubs are.“
Valencia, Sevilla, PSG
??
Mystic I have to say, I would like to see us focus on one area this summer. Rather than work a little bit on the defence and a little bit on attack. I would rather we either get the defence sorted, or go and upgrade the attack. Either bring in a LB, 2 x CBs, RB and DM – and commit to getting the defence right (down to maybe 35 goals conceded). Or bring in a B2B midfielder and 2 top wide players. Improving the attack will probably also improve the defence, because we would be able to play a… Read more »
“No one is mentioning the fact this bland, uninspiring, dull as dishwater Unai Emery team scored the same number of league goals as the invincibles, the greatest team in Arsenal history.“
Yea mate, just stating facts you were, absolutely no link or reference to Emery (or assessment of him) mentioned.
Just my supposed Paranoia. Lol Not like it’s written for all to see or anything.
“I have a horrible feeling Emery is out of his depth, knows he’s out of his depth, and just riding it out on £6m pa, knowing he’ll be off in a year.”
But you have Arteta’s private number, so I guess we will be fine.
(Pedro is very jealous)
Pedro There is too much speculation about our transfer budget and frankly not enough facts, although I do respect the financial analysis of Swiss Ramble. The facts are that Arsenal have been financially mismanaged in recent years under both Gazidis and Wenger, which has impacted on the club’s dreadful transfer track record and wage structure. That needs to be corrected before we start getting more ambitious, but the reality is that Arsenal are still in better financial shape than many of our rivals. What the club does need to do this summer is as follows: 1. Offload players whose contracts… Read more »
Valencia, Sevilla, PSG No manager has outperformed Emery’s three straight third place finishes since he left Valencia Sevilla were not close to winning the league when he arrived, they carved a niche for themselves as Europa league specialists under him, becoming a more popular club, he left and they are pretty much still that, a mid-table club who buy cheap talent and sell on for bigger fees ….Sevilla wasn’t a big club before Emery and still aren’t a big club PSG..yea the ones that have sacked every manager so far in their quest for a Champions league trophy, the ones… Read more »
Emirates I have no issue with the suggested upgrades (LB, CB, B2B and Wide forward), but I would say: – I would sell Kolasinac ahead of Monreal. The problem with Kolasinac is he cant play in a back 4. I would hate to keep changing formation every time we want to rotate, or every time our new LB is injured. We would also get a lot more for Kolasinac. I think this team has suffered massively from all the formation changing this season. – I would not give Chambers any role. Sell Elneny, sell Chambers and then buy a proper… Read more »
Personally I don’t like all the love feasting Citah get. Yes they play excellent football, and win lots of throphies. But isn’t that expected with the money spent, over half a billion.
I think they are bad for football in general. Whatever they accomplish will not better Leicester’s achievement of winning the premiership.
Regarding Arsenal we can only hope that one of our youth projects turn into a £80 million player over the coming season so we can sale and reinvest. I think in all honesty Arsenal ‘s days of winning titles is truly gone.
Cheers, Muddy, Words & Graham. It’s nice to be back.
“I think in all honesty Arsenal ‘s days of winning titles is truly gone.”
Liverpool were 10th when Klopp took over, they have just scored 97 points and will win the CL in 3 weeks.
Lots of numbers being banded around and it’s interesting to see just how some think that there will be mega money available and others less. Many of the names being flagged up as dross are just that but if we think they are dross don’t you think other clubs will likewise classify them as that? Irrespective Xhaka has featured in 38 games this season and Mustafi 37. I just can’t see them going anywhere but if they do £70 million is just not going to happen. Auba is the one that really interests me. In a few weeks he will… Read more »
True but that wouldn’t be possible without spending big money, unfortunately we don’t have a Coutinho.
Rumors that Alberto Moreno might sign for Barcelona on a free this summer. I realize he is a little error-prone, but given our need for a LB and given our relatively limited resources, I wonder if he would be worth a punt.
So you have Klopp’s personal number too, awesome!!
“I think in all honesty Arsenal ‘s days of winning titles is truly gone.”
@UKBubblegum : we don’t need bad luck or bad vibes before the final, so please don’t say things like that.
Moreno has never been anything other than a liability at Liverpool.
Klopp would rather play Milner at LB when needed than risk Moreno.
I heard he was going to Benfica to replace Grimaldo, which seems more his level.
emiratestroller
Keep Ozil on £17m pa? That blows a gaping hole in your financial expertise reputation.
Moreno is toilet. Both Monreal (even at his age) and Kola (even though he isn’t a LB) are better options. No joke.
What gambon said – Klopp would rather play Milner at LB than Moreno.
if we are going to buy players this summer on a budget
this is what i do – i know its not the best but with a budget this is what we could end up with
rafinha of bayern
rabiot on free box to box
ismaila sarr
djakorom / lascelles
jose gaya
ayoze perez quite similar to welbeck
i am sure we can afford them
Gambon,
Agree with your comments on Emirates’ post, re Kola – he only works as a wing-back, and playing him means that Emery is forced into a formation with three at the back. Sell.
Selling Chambers also makes sense – note that Bielik, a similar but arguably more talented player than Chambers notwithstanding that he’s been playing in League 1, can be integrated into the squad to play in Carabao and FA cup matches etc.
With more PL experience than Bielik, Chambers would raise more in the transfer market for squad rebuilding
i know there was noises about arsenal wanting to sign alex grimaldo brillant player but arsenal can afford £25m on him
if we can get rabiot on a free i think the money can be used else where
Receding Absolute straw man stuff. Argue the points made, not ones you want to make. “No manager has outperformed Emery’s three straight third place finishes since he left Valencia” Great stuff, for Valencia. How does this relate to Arsenal exactly? Our managerial scope exists outside of Ex-Valencia coaches. He didn’t make them better in his time there, he achieved the moderate and plateaued = the relevant point. “Sevilla were not close to winning the league when he arrived, they carved a niche for themselves as Europa league specialists under him” Again, congrats Sevilla for the 3 EL titles. But they… Read more »
Cut the crap with the Arteta fellating Pedro fuckin hell.
Why sell auba or laca when your estimate puts us at over 130m??? Why make us weaker in attack to waste money on some areas that might just need critical thinking. Get a LB, CB, midfielder and winger. I’m sure 30m each can give you all of these at top quality if we have our researches going on well. Torreira cost us just 25m
Gambon “So for a club to spend £40m of £110m available cash would be very strange.”
I read somewhere that Arsenal’s deficit for last year is 70m. The number adds up.
As for MC’s #20 in tackling., but they are #1 in professional fault.
Arsenal sucks.
Some mancs said to me
I gave them a good hiding
Stan was the guy who almost unilaterally kept on the person/s that landed us in this mess.
You would think the least he could do is throw us a bit of FFP legal sponsorship to help us out of it.
Or maybe life doesnt work that way when you are a billionaire.
If we lose to Chelsea, Stans tightness will be seen to be costing the club,
Hhhh
Bamford
You came back from the.bin in a limousine
I came back from the bin on a donkey
It doesn’t really matter because we both have to behave now
Receding
Excellent commentary for the past few days, great stuff
Actually the level of overall discussion here yesterday was stratospheric, besides the Arteta stuff, which I won’t be responding to again.