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.
Bob I’m responding to Valentin. Keep out of it if you like
Marko
Never seen it but I’ve always fancied it. Seen it on best lists a few times but never got round to it. You know there are so any hidden gems among the older movies conspired to the dross they release these days
Claire Forlani can get it any day.
Marko
Theses gonna be one last great performance from him yet. The man is a walking ball of charisma. Shit he’d walk in and get us in top four on charisma alone
Luteo
Jolie-esque but with class. Emotional expressions. Beautiful woman.
The Departed was great too. “Dump the body in the marsh not where Jon Handcock goes every Thursday to get a fucking blowjob”
Azed, Yeah I don’t disagree with you about the deficiencies of our squad, however nice Emery may or may not have been about the players at his job interview. One nerdy point about Arsenal’s outperformance relative to Expected Goals, which was set out by The Telegraph with another Footbal Analytics outfit (I linked to it a couple of months ago) is that the Expected Goals metric doesn’t quite capture a lot of the opportunities that Arsenal get. They were very often “high tariff” rapid cutbacks from Kola and Bellerin/AMN which flash across the face of the goal. If the striker/attacking… Read more »
Marko
Shit, forgot the departed!!!
My fave was “ like a stinking knawing ducking rat”
Or “one whiff of my ass and he crawls right in”
Any know what Marcus Thuram is like aside youtube scouting?
His club has been relegated and it looks like he’s down to the last year of his contract.
Rat quote accompanied by ugly knawing rat race
https://www.instagram.com/p/BIGvecrgcWI/?hl=en
Marko
You know he was based on whitey bulgar? Almost felt sad when they caught him for real on the departed performance alone
You felt bad for whitey bulger? He was a piece of shit
Sal 17.24
Good call
One step back three step forward.
Whitey Bulger was brutally beaten to death while in prison, repeatedly struck with a lock stuffed into a sock. Likely retribution for being a rat.
Marko
I did say almost. Almost
BobN16
Pragmatism over Emotion.
Lovely stuff.
Lacazette is what we need and have needed for a very long time. A passionate and self motivated individual who wears his heart on his sleeve. When was the last time we had someone like that?
Put your pragmatic ideals aside for one minute and think like a true football supporter.
Isn’t that what it’s all about?
By Jack theo and replace unai with Sam, we’ll be fine
Nicholson at his finest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JLr0XUrEF0
“Any know what Marcus Thuram is like aside youtube scouting?
He’s worth a punt with one year left on his contact and his club relegated. Francis Cagigao needs to be all over these types of players. Sign them for peanuts and loan them out.
We can hope some he got some of his papa’s genes
Luteo.
I know. He was a rat
Crazy scenes in the Leeds vs Derby game
Sal
Oh shit what’s he doin?
I imagine that’s the sort of that his pals often questioned.
I forgot the shining too although it’s a role a don’t like to remember him for. Horrible, very unlike him. Played it magnificently but not how I fondly remember him
A great match- derby leeds
That’s a kick in the balls for Leeds right here
Lampard spewing sauce all over Elland.
Credit to Frank for actually taking on a tough job and impressing.
Jeez Marko can’t imagine who thats directed at.
Said it before and I’ll say it again play off football can be heart breaking
Leeds just botched it….
The season of blowing leeds…..pun intended
Mental finish, fair play Derby.
Great game at Elland Road.
Well played Derby County.
Sal it’s actually pretty broad. Frank Lampard took on a tough job not an assistant job like Gianfranco or a relatively easy job in Scotland like Gerrard or some bullshit youth job he took on perennial play off losers Derby County. They’ve had 8 managers since 2013 that takes balls
Frank Lampard earning his badges.
PL next season with either Derby or ……….Chelski ?
Frank Lampard had the last laugh over Leeds
Good to see these former player get their hands dirty whilst their colleagues are enjoying the cozy confines of TV studios or arranging cones to chief coaches.
“Look at Leeds! Look at Leeds!”
Yeah, Peds: Look at Leeds.
*these former players
That’s one of the benefits of playing for Chelsea.
Lampard would have played for a dozen managers at Chelsea over the course of his career. That in itself is the University of football coaching, in itself. He would have seen what makes the better coaches tick and why they couldn’t do better.
Nothing can replace the school of hard knocks.
Mason Mount looks a proper talent as well. He tore up the dutch league the previous season too. Certainly one to keep an eye on
I think Derby will beat AV.
Grealish up for grabs?
Lampard took a lot of Chelsea academy players with him on loan. There’s a windfall waiting for Chelsea at some point when they want to make the loans permanent.
Haven’t Derby County got to the playoffs 4 out of the last six seasons? Only way Lampard impresses is if he takes Derby to the PL.
Bielsa has done a decent job at Leeds but the hype around him has been excessive none of it touching the Norwich manager whose top scorer was a freebie.
Barca playing their dirty player tapping game by putting lacazette’s profile on their official website claiming it’s a technical glitch
Laca goes to barca only as a backup to Griezman, Messi and Suarez. Is that what he really wants at 27/28?
We have been told to look at Leeds all season
Well we are looking and all I can see is a bottle job. They were looking good for automatic promotion ..bottled that
Won away at Derby in the play offs… Bottled
I have a lot of time for Frank lampard. He is actually doing it, not building a reputation through friends in the media.
Derby was a playoff side before Lampard. I suppose he could have messed it up.
Lampard is actually building his reputation with help from mates in the media.
No he isn’t Raheem
He just made the playoff finals in his first season in management. He has learnt a lot in 12 months and my guess is will only get better.
As a player he was a winner …now as a manager he is proving same. Still one final hurdle for him but this has been a fantastic first season in management. Any praise he gets in the media is deserved
Rumours of Kannemann. Don’t know how I feel about signing up a cheap 28 year old who’s never played in Europe. He seems like a late bloomer. If Cagigao and/or Edu think it’s worth it then you gotta give it a go I suppose
Aren’t Barca going for Griezmann? Why would they want Laca too? If anyone comes in for Laca, I guess it will be AtMadrid with some of the Griezmann money.
Question is, how much of it would be enough for us to let him go? £70m?
Receding
That’s your take. You’re welcome to it. To me sounds like you’re regurgitating what you’ve heard a thousand times over in the media.
Lampard will move on or remain but we’ll see over time how good he truly is.
Pessimism for the sake of pessimism I guess.
Or is this a case of a Chelsea legend not getting any love?
To each his own I guess.
I am more excited when people do things rather than being told again and again what they will potentially do with nothing to back it up. You can fill in the gaps
Any fan – that does not want Wilfried ( what a great first name) Zaha at Arsenal next season -really needs their heads examining. This Arsenal fan- should be our major summer target . A front 3 of Zaha/PEA/Laca and a (new coach next season playing 433)- would certainly get the crowds back at The Emirates. I would go as far to say. It they stay fit and Leno has a blinder – we good go close to the title next season… ZAHA- PEA- Golden Boot LACA. Off course – we will need a competent coach who believes in fast… Read more »
Wow -it seems that most arsenal shirts sold are of Ozil’s and he is the best 5 shirt seller in the world
IF the club has any guts, it would get a young world class creator- send a message to Ozil that his days are numbered or get used to bench all season.
In fact, 2 mids would really spell the end of him and Mikki. Those 2 better get used to the bench or ask their agents to shop them fast
Ozil is so bad that this should not be too hard to do.
Zaha Tielmans and Lozno- that would add some attack to the team
Vickingz
In this case (unlike most cases of Barca being up to their dirty snake business), the Lacazette profile is a nothing-burger.
The Barca website automatically creates a profile for every player the club face (I assume Lacazette played Barca in some summer friendly at some point), and some nerd typed in different numbers into the url until he found Laca’s profile, then posted it online as a transfer story.
premier league is looking set for the next five years, think I’m gonna start following a championship side. i hear man utd are fun to watch sometimes
Redtruth
How does it feel to see the great Bielsa that you wank silly over being tactically outclassed by manager newb Fat Frank Lampard?
Lollolololololololololol…
Always had time for Lamps, even when he was the enemy at the Chavs. Was probably the player/character that I admired the most off of our direct rivals back when we were a serious outfit in the early to mid noughties. Hard lad to hate as he just balled and spoke sense for the most part. Much more likable than the likes of Terry, Ferdinand, Giggs, Gerrard who has always seemed terribly bland and Scholes, the Manc lads in particular are insufferable to listen to. Very clever and humble bloke and clearly a decent gaffer with the effort that he’s… Read more »
Marko
“Rumours of Kannemann”
This guy loves to dive in and hard. That’s why he is noted as having discipline problems. Goes to ground quite a lot.
But he is also noted for having good concentration levels which is a plus for mentality.
I’d rather have a CB with a cooler head than this guy but fans would love his all action committed play.
Him and Sokratis partnered together would be quite fearsome for the opposition. Whether it would result in better defensive record though is another matter.
Ishola I’m very sceptical about the potential for the signing but at the same time this is what Edu and Cagigao are there for. We’re not going to agree on every signing that they make. Italian passport as well. I highly doubt that he’d be the only CB signing in all honesty. My guess is two with some outs
If he signs he will become like a sort of cult hero with his style of play.
He don’t take no prisoners this boy.
But as said with his style there are worries about disciplinary matters.
@Ishola,
Any reason why Kannemann has played so few games for the last couple of seasons?
One site indicates him as left footed, but another mark him a CB and right-back. Do you know Which is it?
He’s a leftie.
I don’t know why he has played so few games.
No doubt we will find out soon enough why that is.
Looks like Barcelona can pay Antoine Griezmann €108 millions release fee, but can’t really stomach his wage demand. According to Le10Sport He is currently earning €21 millions per year. Still it’s only half of what Messi is earning!!
Lacazette is Barcelona fallback option if negotiations breakdown with Griezman. I like Lacazette, but if they are willing to offer €108 millions for him, we should sell him.
Unless he has changed his contract quite recently then it is hard to see him being signed by Arsenal.
He joked last year when Boca Juniors were interested in him that it would be easier to purchase Mbappe than him due to what he termed a high release clause.
Thanks Ishola.
At least they are going after a left footed CB. They should have done that last season.
We still need 1 CB to replace Mustafi, unless Arsenal think Holding will be ready at the beginning of the season and intend to keep Chambers and Mavrapanos as cover.
Oh just read he has a release clause of 22m euros.
That’s not too bad.
His joke in relation to Mbappe was obviously aimed just at Boca Juniors. That’s big, big money for them to pay out.
€22 millions is cheap for a good left footed CB with experience and character. Of course that suddenly become very expensive if he is as bad as Mustafi and we can’t get rid of him because he has a 5 years cushy contract that nobody in their right mind will match.
I am sceptical as well, as on paper he does not seems to have a lot of upscale potential. 28 years old defender still playing in South America does not scream undiscovered gem.
The good thing is that he is new international for Argentina, so maybe there is potential after all. He may have been injured a long time (hence the low number of games) and overlooked.
Valentin
“€22 millions is cheap for a good left footed CB with experience and character.”
Conflicting reports though about his price.
The story of his transfer to Arsenal originates from a local journalist in the Porto Alegre area called Farid Germano and he reports that Arsenal are bidding 15 million euros and Gremio would be happy with that.
Maybe he got out of his clause recently then.
I suspect it is the usual Arsenal negotiation technique of starting with a low ball offer.
Unlike ManUtd and their magistral negotiation for Marouanne Fellaini, if there is no time limit to the release fee, the release is really the maximum a club would have to pay to get the player.
So if his release fee is €22 millions make sense to offer €15 millions. Lower and they may have been offended. We may get him for 15 with added bonus clauses.
Simeone apparently likes him if that means anything to anybody
As a replacement for Godin who is leaving Athletico for rumoured Inter?
I say…keep the two strikers and go for Mahrez/Pepe…..by selling Ospina, Mustafi Mihki….etc and possibly even Xhaka…..go for Ndombele and Rabiot for free or Gomez for a small fee(Barca on loan at Everton). We need two central mids in my opinion. Play a narrow 4-2-3-1 as the primary formation. Build the team around Auba, Laca, and the right winger. Ozil will play left wing and Laca plays as the withdrawn striker. ………………………………………………………….Auba…………………………………………………………….. ……………….Ozil………………………………..Laca……………………………Mahrez/Pepe……….. ………………………………..Ndombele…………………..Gomez/Torriera……………………. ………???????………………New CB……………………Sokratis…………………………..Bellerin That front six will get the best out of each player in opinion. Auba up front to finish, Laca to put his all-round game… Read more »
No I meant there were articles when we were linked with him a few months back that Simeone was a fan and was looking at him. But nothing to suggest that he’s going to replace Godin.
………………………….Auba……………………………………..
….Ozil……………….Laca…………..Mahrez/Pepe…
……….Ndombele…………..Gomez/Torriera…..
..?………New CB……..Sokratis…….Bellerin
Valentin
“Any reason why Kannemann has played so few games for the last couple of seasons?”
Just had a look and it is a mixture of international call-ups, suspensions and crying off with innocuous injuries.
Kannemann is 28 already jaysus, hopefully a proper qualidee late bloomer if rumours are true. Haven’t the first clue about him, he any use? I see Griezmann has pulled a sharp U on his ‘decision’ last summer. Prime age, top class proven superstar he’ll fetch big money. Over 100 million for sure. Has had a bit of a below par season in all honesty, just 15 goals in La Liga and 21 overall. Likely has hit a point of stagnation and needs a fresh challenge. I just can’t picture him with Barcelona for some reason, much sooner see one of… Read more »
I guess Kannemann makes sense if we’re buying 5+ layers without selling any of our strikers. Chambers + Mustafi for 40m gets us Kannemann and a quality left back, possibly with change left. Xhaka+ Elneny for 30-35m gets us a Doucoure or similar then we have our budget left for Cam and wingers, depending on what that is we can get pretty decent players. Brandt/ Tielemanns 20-25m for Cam Brandt/ Troussard/ Markus Thuram 20-25 for left wing Increase those numbers slightly if we can get rid of Ozil and/or Mikhi Maybe even chuck in a right winger then too, or… Read more »
Never heard of this Kannemann before, but I wouldn’t pay more than EUR 10m for any 28 year old CB still playing in Brazil. As Tim Vickery points out, the Brazilian league is the opposite of what most outsiders would imagine: it’s slow, there are huge distances between the lines, with the defensive line sitting very deep, and long ball being one of the primary tactics used by many teams. Now imagine transplanting a defender who is used to that into a high pressing system, playing against opponents who are several levels better than you’ve ever faced before. For EUR… Read more »
It seems that Sarri will be leaving Chelsea this Summer. Daily express reports Javi Gracia as a replacement. Sun quotes report in Italy that Frank Lampard will replace Sarri.
Hope all these rumors will unsettle Sarri so that he can’t focus on the final.
Chavs just played a friendly with an MLS team today and had the likes of Hazard playing, pretty bizarre.
I get keeping sharp but surely risk of injury overrides that?
Good ebening, I don’t understand why we are giving gwen an improved contract and at the same time going to bump both lacas and aubas salary to a combined tune of 500k. Wtf is wrong with the club ? And no, it’s not emery who’s in charge of salary and fees. We should be looking to decrease the wage bill, not increase it. I hope these are just rumours floating around cause we will be a mess if it is true. We are looking for more laca and auba quality players, if we do get one, of course they will… Read more »
This according to the DM speculation this morning: ARSENAL Targets: Goalkeeper, left back, midfielder, winger Who could go: Danny Welbeck, Aaron Ramsey (agreed to Juventus), Mohamed Elneny, Shkodran Mustafi, Budget: £50m plus player sales Plan: Unai Emery wants a centre back who can combine toughness with an ability to bring the ball out of defence and wants greater goal threat from his midfield and wing. Incoming technical director Edu is a fan of Wilfried Zaha at Crystal Palace and wants to inject that kind of pace and directness into Arsenal’s attack but Zaha’s £80m price tag means that option will… Read more »
I’ll rather a 22 year old from France or Germany than a 28 year old still playing in Brazil.
WE
Maybe Hazard playing was part of the deal for the match and TV rights.
DM end of season review: City: Player of the season: Bernardo Silva Crucial inside the dressing room and conjures splendour on the pitch. He has been the club’s most consistent player and works harder than anyone else. Add a few more goals to his game and he’s right up there as the best in the world. Fcuk me we’ll never hear the last of this from Pedro!!!!!!!! Or did Pedro ghost write the article? It’s got Pedro’s mucky paws all over it! Pedro’s next Arteta love-in post will be insufferable!!!!!!!!!!! Best signing: Mikel Arteta Described as ‘like a signing,’ by… Read more »
Pedro
What’s your thoughts on Lampard – you know a manager cutting his teeth in a tough league actually managing and so far getting results in his 1st management job?
Your take on Arteta vs Lampard Dissenter? Would have thought you’d have a view on this.
Tony why did you post that about Arteta
Now we won’t hear the end of it
Absolute revisionist bollocks that Welbeck has become a key player just when he’s conveniently out crocked. He’s never so much as cracked double figure PL goals in his entire career coming up to 29 and he’s an out and out forward. His best haul for us is 5 PL goals in a season. And as to Sokratis being our signing of the season? Lol, well that just sums up how poor our recruitment has been because he’s been the one constant in a defence that conceded EXACTLY the same amount of PL goals as last season [a record high 51].… Read more »
If we are looking for freebies, I would rather integrate those on loan. Chambers, Bieliek, Nelson, Smith Rowe; talented young guys. If we are going to play the pauper and plead poverty, then coach Emery will have to step up and earn his contract extension. What’s that about proper coach and all that snazzy language. I would move Ozil. Frees up 200k a week (lets face it, we will need to fork out the other 150k). Mik is another option as well. Free him and we get back 100k (again, we will need to pay 1/2 his salary) Blow all… Read more »
………….Auba…………
Ozil……Laca….Mahrez/Pepe……
.Ndombele……Gomez/Torriera……
.??…New CB…..Sokratis….Bellerin
Guns of SF
I did deliberate but with Pedro being blinded by Arteta he probably has an algoriythmn written to pick up any words/sentences with Arteta in from the Internet.
No way he’s not seeing that.
Best to get it over with now and treat it with the contempt/bantz it deserves.
Tony There is no possibility of Emery leaving Arsenal in the foreseeable future. He may not be a “glamorous coach” but he serves a purpose as far as the owner is concerned because his demands are low. Moreover the club achieved just about what was expected of them particularly if we win Europa Cup. Our squad is a long way short in quality of most of our competitors. Arteta is not going to join us in the foreseeable future if at all. He is part of the Guardiola team. The focus for next season should be on offloading the dross… Read more »
Tony
Lampard is proving himself as a top coach/manager.
Arteta is a very good coach, apparently, with zilch managerial experience.
One is creating a massive impression on his own.
The other is hiding behind Pep.
Why the fudge are we even talking about Arteta?
Give it a rest Pedro.
It’s also worth revisiting this anecdote about visiting Buckingham Palace, which Eboue told the Daily Telegraph in 2016: “We went there and Thierry Henry said to me, ‘Please, Emmanuel, this is Buckingham Palace, it’s the Queen’s house, don’t do anything.’ “‘No problem,’ I said. ‘Don’t worry.’ So the Queen came in and went along shaking each player’s hand. After she’d finished I saw all her corgis so I said, ‘Ma’am, Ma’am.’ “She turned back and asked, ‘How are you?’ and I said, ‘Ma’am, I am OK thank you but please, I don’t want to be a footballer any more, I… Read more »
Although Valentin I have to say, your Linked in post shows that Dein didn’t accept any offers behind Viera’s back. He still made the decision to go. It was left to him.
Viera had wanted to leave for 2 seasons and after fighting to keep him, signing players cos he demanded and him ridiculing the club’s businesses, you could understand why Dein felt ‘neutral’ when a good offer actually came in right?
But the key take away is the post that you linked in to prove viera was pushed out says viera made the decision to go.
Dark Hei “I would move Ozil. Frees up 200k a week (lets face it, we will need to fork out the other 150k). Mik is another option as well. Free him and we get back 100k (again, we will need to pay 1/2 his salary)” anyone who believes this to be a good option is not thinking logically because those 2 players will need to be replaced and any replacements will be paid in the region of £100,000 a week so any savings will be minimal( if any) . Plus there will be no guarantee that any new players coming… Read more »