Listed: Players who are up for grabs this summer (long read)

by .

The HEAT is finally here, and football is over… so a straight swap out. Football for summer. I’ll take it. But only if the Champions League final goes the way of Liverpool… otherwise, I’m bringing the white walkers back and we’re going to destroy the world and plunge it into darkness.

Transfer rumours are hotting up, most of the rumours around the centre backs are kind of bland. We seem to be chasing down a lot of short folk. We had many back in the day when we struggled from set-pieces because we loved to hire Tommy V like players, who had a tremendous leap… or a Willy G, who loved to sit on the halfway line and tell everyone he was good at saving money. Wenger really only addressed height when he landed Per Mertesacker.

Umtiti is the really worrying link. He’s a fabulous player, a sublime talent on his day, but we are really playing with the red flames of Abou Diaby’s memory here. There is a reason that Barca is shifting an £80m player for £40m. He has a massive DON’T GO HERE sign attached to his knee. He’s missed 31 league games in the last 12 months.

‘But the medical team would call the shots’, very doubtful. Firstly, we signed Kimmy K with a broken back (spotted > overruled). Secondly, we’d sign him in the knowledge that he’s a massive risk. For me, it’d be like taking a punt on Ledley King back in the day (United thought about it). When fit, he’s going to win you the league, but you’d be cursing his issues every year with ‘what ifs.’

Fitness has to be a priority for Arsenal. We need strong hamstrings, a record of sustained on pitch play and nothing chronic in the closet. We do not have the money to be taking Kanu like risks of yesteryear.

… and be real, we already gave Barca free money for a player everyone knew would tank. Going back to make another very weird deal would offer incredibly poor optics for Raul. I don’t want our football guy keeping Barca sweet because of his DNA. You get me?

I’m hoping that Arsenal seek value in players that have buyout clauses or a couple of years to go on their deals. Julian Brandt is rumoured to be going for as little as £25m. Ziyeck is going to leave with a release clause of £25m, a fabulous player with outrageous pace and work ethic.

Players that have deals expiring next year:

  • Ryan Sessegnon
  • Thomas Meunier
  • Eric Bailly (steer clear, like Umtiti)
  • Nacho
  • Dries Mertens
  • El Shaarway
  • Allain Sain-Maximin
  • Raph Guerreiro
  • Ryan Fraser
  • EVER BANEGA GOD NO PLEASE
  • Mario Gotze
  • Moise Keane
  • Rafinha
  • Kurzawa
  • Keylor Navas (#2 anyone?)
  • Adam Johnson

Just kidding on the last one. DIRTY NONCE. You just KNOW some Premier League chairman that is a nonce sympathiser is going to pull the ‘society must forgive’ card and roll with him. North of Manchester, no doubt.

The two-year deal players are also interesting, mainly because they’ll all be negotiating new contracts. Good clubs will be exiting them if it looks like they won’t sign. There’s some tasty names in this category.

  • Lio Messi (get on it Raul, we’ll let this one go)
  • Mauro Icardi
  • Thiago
  • Casemiro
  • Florian Thauvin
  • Memphis Depay
  • Seb Haller
  • Zielinski
  • Hummels
  • Carlos Soler
  • Ginter
  • Alex Telles
  • Grimaldo
  • Sarr
  • Vazquez
  • Julien Weigl

As you can see, lots of options if we want to play this summer. I don’t even have the list of players with buyout clauses.

Point being, we don’t have to take massive risks on mates rates names that come with health concerns. This league will not absorb any weakness. It’s faster, more competitive and more relentless than any other. The only way you compete is having more of your first team players fit than others.

It looked to me like Emery tanked his fitness plan this season, blowing up the front end of the season with OTT training regimes that hit him hard during the mid part of the season. December 2018 was a flashback to the dark days of Wenger, who famously bemoaned the science of fatigue a few weeks ago. If you don’t remember, we had an annual injury pileup because Wenger trained his players too intensely and didn’t rotate. He blamed luck, hair pills, witches, the vision of a Trump presidency… until we hired Shad, who took care of the nonsense.

Someone accused me of being hipster in the way I think about the game, for me, that’s a bit like telling a doctor he’s a hipster for reading medical journals. If you believe thinking about the future to gain an advantage is hipster, you really should keep those thoughts to yourself. The future is here, you can’t unfuture what has already arrived. Calling it hipster just makes you look dim.

Anyway, Ralph Rangnick spoke to Coaches Voice (great site), casually sipping on a cream atomised, fluggenhoffled, Germacano coffee that I believe was brewed from a rare strain of Russian coffee bean that garners its taste from the musical notes of Mikhail Glinka…. and gave his thoughts on respecting the ‘athletics’ guys (Shad and Burgess).

Five years ago, I would have thought it impossible that an athletics coach would tell me how many metres my team should run today, and how fast, in training. But that’s what’s happening. In the past, you’d have to trust your eyes and gut feeling as a manager to find the right dosage in training. Now, it’s a bit like picking up a rental car: they will tell you how much is in the tank and what your mileage is.

The athletics coaches are in charge of planning the whole week of training in terms of the intensity on any given day. We take our cues from them.

“Musical tastes aside, I have a strong connection with my players”

If you want to increase the speed of your game, though, you have to develop quicker minds rather than quicker feet.

Improvement translates as taking things in more quickly, analysing them more quickly, deciding more quickly, acting more quickly. At RB, we work on increasing the memory space and the processing pace. We put players into the Soccerbot, for example – a machine that simulates previous games and allows players to relive key moments of matches.

It’s PlayStation football, but with your feet. The players enjoy it so much we have a hard time getting some of them to stop.

YES RALPH. Love it. Again, the above shows you how the powershift is happening in elite football. The days of an assistant putting out cones are long gone. Each role is essential to building an elite sporting machine. Football follows the path of American sports, they lead the way on many things.

Anyway, my prediction is that clubs will start to move more towards specialist roles, versus the current broad strokes approach to coaching. We’ve already seen clubs take performance super seriously. I would imagine that more and more outfits are looking at people with more specialists offerings in defence, attack, and pressing. Ralph mentions in his piece that his team are trained to take risks in certain areas that present great counterpress opps, there must be a group of people working together to work out where the sweet spots are. Do we have that? RB is strategic about where they lose the ball. It’s a different level of thinking and it’s working for them.

Pep G just won the league with the least tackles of any team. Off the ball movement is now an absolute art in the Premier League. There is so much information that has to be absorbed by the modern player, that it’s no wonder major clubs are trying to pioneer ways of fast-tracking information into players brains so they can make better decisions.

Point being… when Barry down the Black Swan tells you football is about FIRST AND SECOND, tell him to fuck off, he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

Lyon didn’t sign Arteta, as I suspected, the Spaniard is being earmarked for City when Pep leaves. However, Aulas has infuriated some in the French press because he allowed Juninho to pick Sylvinho (left back for us that had to be booted for having a fake passport) as their new coach. His coaching experience extends to the Brazilian under 23s. It is a BOLD move, but again, it’s low risk for Aulas and the future of football clubs isn’t about that ONE GUY who will cost £15m a season and bring 50 of his mates, it’s going to have a more evenly spread system of responsibility and accountability. Football is basically replicating the organisational structures of corporate America.

GFFN bemoaned the hire because… JOSE AND WENGER WERE AVAILABLE. Rationalising that Aulas wanted to win the Champions League. I love that site, but whoever was manning the twitter lost their minds there. Jose just spent £360m at United and tanked them. He’s a nasty man with spiteful tendencies. He also doesn’t care about success anymore, he’s done. Then you have Arsene Wenger, who tried 20+ times to win the Champions League and failed… not to mention his HORRIBLE record with spending money, his grim Barry like views of the modern game and science combined with his terrible approach to tactics would chalk him off any right-thinking owner.

Wenger still not in a major job… shocker, right? Where is that PSG rumour when you need it?

Anyway, see you in the comments x

463 Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
Graham62

6-0!

Samesong

6

Samesong

Going to start seeing a lot of kids in London start wearing Citeh kits.

Leftsidesanch

Samesong they already are.

A few of my 12 year olds friends support City.

Just Another Customer

MGooner

Just describe them as pace merchant la then all is well because doublespeak won’t immediately trigger people and they won’t jump onto you straight away.

Too many virtue signallers here really.

Leftsidesanch

Imagine, Spurs stopped this side from a CL potentially this season.

Samesong

Dad: son you should support Arsenal as they are a London club

Son: But they don’t win anything apart from fa cup

Dad: But

Son: Dad can you get me a Man City kit.

Dad: sighs and walks off.

Valentin

Come-on, one more goal and make my day.
£1 at 150-1.

Samesong

A few of my 12 year olds friends support City.

Oh man I remember I felt this way scour Barca.

Leftsidesanch

City have won as many games as Man United and Wolves combined this year. Team will take some stopping.

Just Another Customer

Should’ve gone comfy and support the local non-Premier League clubs instead if you’re in England.

For the foreign fans they have no right to be disappointed with their sons bandwagoning other clubs anyway. At least you can still talk about football with them.

Majesticgooner

We have to sign Ziyech for 25 mill, no brainier, about time we start signing players who are also fans and an excellent player to boot. Imagine him on one flank and Zaha or Sarr on the other and Laca and Auba in the middle. They all have the work rate and pace, I just hope the hierarchy pull their finger out and get it done.

bennydevito

Up 4 grabs nowMay 18, 2019    17:27:19 Bournemouth just signed a left sided centreback/left Back called Kelly from Bristol city for 13 million I’d offer 40 million for ake and Fraser. Both played in the league so don’t need time to adapt, and both better than what we have. Sell mustafi and chambers for 40 million and its not cost anything to upgrade the first eleven in two positions. Won’t be huge wages either. >>>>> Awww that’s disappointing. We were linked with him and the City fans down my way think he’s destined for the top. We need to be… Read more »

Danish Gooner

One name,James milner old as fuck but a running and passing machine and always scoring a penalty,second name vicent kompany oldas fuck but would steady Arsenal like noone Else .

Samesong

One name,James milner old as fuck but a running and passing machine and always scoring a penalty,second name vicent kompany oldas fuck but would steady Arsenal like noone Else .

When they arrive at Arsenal they are already retired lol.

Danish Gooner

We cant pay for fuck all but one or two shrewd free transfers coul do the business

Bueleydave

Money plays a part. But it is by no means the be all and end all. To pretend it is deflects from the major mismanagement and unaddressed weaknesses that were the hallmark of the second Wenger decade.

HighburyLegend

Not 1 word of congrats for Arteta ??
Are you f*cking kidding me ??

Samesong

Pep still coaching Sterling after game. Class act.

HighburyLegend

“Imagine, Spurs stopped this side from a CL potentially this season.”
Only because it was in 2 legs.

Un na naai

I’d walk over hot coals to have Kompany join arsenal
Best defender since john Terry. Nobody comes close. Not even VVD

Danish Gooner

Incomings: Milner,Kompany,zaha,pepe combined 90 mil.

Out: Ozil,miki,mustafi,xhaha combined 50 mil

bennydevito

JamieMay 18, 2019    16:19:46

Nice. Pedro delivering CG a right slap in the face by dismissing Mourinho and Wenger as viable options for taking us forward. And I, of course, thank him for it.

>>>>>>

Loooll! Jamie giving CG an additional slap in the face by highlighting Pedro’s slap in the face which he then thanks him for.

And I, of course, thank him for it.

Savage

The Kallstrom argument can’t be used against the medical team. They’re the ones who found his issue and reported it, but we still signed him because Wenger had left his transfer so late that he had no other options.

Graham62

A level playing field?

“A situation where each team has a fair and equal chance of success”

Then along came Chelski and MC.

Do we applaud or do we cry?

Just Another Customer

Ah can’t wait to be the nursery and retirement home for the geriatrics again. I love those Squillaci, Silvestre and the likes.

CG

Graham

We note what Leicester City did.
We imitate what Spurs are doing
And we learn from what Liverpool are doing.

Those clubs certainly dont employ the likes of Raul and Emery to run their clubs – that’s for sure.
And if they do make bad managerial appointments.
Rectify sharpish.

We will be a mid table outfit within 6 months. If these two are still in harmony.

Totally clueless.

Pierre

Have to say Graham that I can’t recall you being so vocal about “level playing field”
And about ” it not being fair ” during our previous manager’s reign……maybe it’s actually sinking in how difficult it is to compete against teams with a bottomless pit of money..

Alexanderhenry

Pedro

During that period, – roughly 2006 to 14, arsenal had nowhere near the squad depth needed to play PL and CL football.

It was that lack of personnel that lead to the injury crises – every November to january usually.

If you’ve got to play fabregas every single game, the kid’s going to get injured.

Just Another Customer

Like some already suggested most of these over-the-hill players won’t take us to the next level even with their so called (((experiences))). With big wage and the need to replace them one or two seasons later it’s not a viable way to build the squad. Might as well take Banega too.

If we can’t get special sauce manager better get some special sauce vibrant early 20-something prospects. I’m just salivating at the thoughts of some of these youngsters (no homo).

Danish Gooner

As soon as Giardiola are gone they Will be back to being just another decent team./

Marc

CG

How long have you been watching football?

Have you not seen the list of idiot appointments the Spud’s have made under Levy?

Liverpool haven’t won a title in almost 30 years.

You destroy any genuine point you have by making the most ridiculous statements – just makes you look like a complete clown to anyone who has been following football for more than 8 1/2 minutes.

Samesong

Exactly JAC.

CG

Marc.

The problem with the likes of you and your kind….
Is you can’t face reality….
We have the worst manager in the Prem-managing us. And What compounds this angst- is our rivals have Heavyweight managers.

Poch/Emery /Klopp

The more learned posters from the assiduous PedRo to :/The G/CC/Un /Pierre etc have noted this from day one.

No shame – admitting you were wrong.
Emery is a Clown .
Dont you be A clown too- continually backing him*

* with the greatest respect.

CG

Pep.
Type error

Batistuta

Gonna be a long summer reading the rubbish CG posts here daily

CG

Bat

It will be even longer- if Spurs win the CL!

Danny M.O

The way the modern game is set you would think they would follow the american way of havin “set plays”.

Pep i believe is the pioneer of this. Think about it, there have been goals for every scenario possible in the field of play. Man city players know what they have to do and when to do it. Arsenal on the other hand have that 1 set play with that kolasinac move.

Just Another Customer

Yeah but football is more fluid rather than stop-start nature of American Football thus requiring more football intelligence with a few sprinkles of coaching. In the end the cohesiveness of the squad as a whole must be met first before going fancy with all these possible scenarios that need to be executed instantaneously between players.

Solve the inadequacies and balance of our squad first then we talk about the next level is the next level.

Danny M.O

@Just another customer

I get where you are coming from but is football really that fluid when teams palace have 1 players behind the ball?

We should be breaking down teams like Brighton the same way other teams have. That is what video analysis should be. I see none of that in our performances to be honest. We hardly ever target the weak links of an opponent.

Instead we fall for the same tricks of over committing players and getting fd up because our right backs always leave us exposed.

Un na naai

Real Madrid have a £270m budget

Just Another Customer

Do we even have the suitable personnel to exploit that weakness? That’s down to Emery where even he was fiddling around with his tactics until the final day of the season. The so called video analysis done by Emery is just some hot air anyway with the way we self-implode against those teams.

Just want the team to win the Evropa to restore some confidence of all involved.

Redtruth

Moneybags 6 watford 0

The scoreline brings the game into disrepute.

Un na naai

Man city are disgusting

Danny S

What makes me laugh, is CG is a blatant troll and you guys feed him like he’s Jabba da hut. Haha

Seriously, he pulls you all in every time and you suck it up.

Danny S

Only reason Peter doesn’t ban him is he put the comments up a couple of hundred per post.

Negation

“Lyon didn’t sign Arteta, as I suspected, the Spaniard is being earmarked for City when Pep leaves.”

lolololololololololo

How many teams have passed on him now?

Pedro at it again.

Graham62

Pierre

Actually I’ve always highlighted the moneybags scenario.

Wengers failings had nothing to do with MC and Chelski stumbling on a couple of multi billionaires, it all boiled down to the fact that he completely lost the plot and failed to adapt.

Whatever way you look at things, it is still obscene that these two clubs have been able to bankroll their success in recent years.

Danny S

I do lol.

I just love how he comes up with blatantly inflammatory crap, and people react to it. Then complain about it.

I actually do completely dismiss it.

Samesong

Danny same.

Un na naai

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/arsenal-transfer-news-unai-emery-16165880

Marko
This blows a hole in your little theory of emery having no say whatsoever on transfers. He’s actually scouting his own signings!!??

Backtrack
Backtrack
Backtrack
Backtrack
Backtrack
Backtrack

Sid

Watching a match and having the final veto on player transfers is a stretch, quite a bit of a stretch actually.

You should read what Monchini said about buying players at Sevilla. Ofc emery would have inputs like what kind of players, attributes needed, the final shortlisting, signing etc falls on the TD ( if we ever get one)

Un na naai

Sod

So why is he there then? If he has no direct input why study the player?

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

Good read

Is this Thomas party fella any good ?

CG

Un Thank you for the link. I know the English Season over there is near its climax ( in the championship. etc) But would it not be refreshing to see the Arsenal manager actually GO SCOUTING at an English soccer match? I don’t want him scouting more capricious flaky Spanish fluff. (We have that in droves.) I want our manager see if Aston Villas Grealish or Derby Co. Mount can perform under pressure in a pressurised Wembley play off-fixture. We need British players. the arrogance, indifference and incompetence of The New Regime never cease to amaze. Do they actually know… Read more »

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

Only a week away from sir Michael Thomas day.
30 years

Lord…

How we celebrating

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

Mount n sess
Possibly grealish I would take

CG

Rspca

Grealish would excite the AFC hordes…..
The Brummie- has a tad of George Best about him…(.maybe its the pulled down socks,,)

Emery- unfortunately – wont go anywhere near him.
too maverick
too much flair
too individualistic
too excting for the punters….
too unlike Denis Suarez & banega!

Redtruth

Grealish: I’ve never heard of him lol

MidwestGun

I don’t want him scouting more capricious flaky Spanish fluff.
(We have that in droves.)
_________
We have 2 Spanish players… Bellerin and Monreal… they were both signed by Arsene Wenger.

Yep seems like we got droves of them…

Your an idiot. You know you don’t have to type whatever shit comes into your brain. By the way Cesc Fabregas one of our best players ever was from Spain.

Valentin

Talented footballer, but immature nutcase, Grealish would not survive in London: too many pubs, bookies and casino open 24hrs.
How many times has he been caught drunk passed out, apologized and promised that now he understand he has to be more professional?
I can’t see him working out in at Arsenal.

Leedsgunner

“Everton want £20m for England Under-21 winger Ademola Lookman, 21, as they look to sell around 15 of their squad this summer“

Worth a look in? He did well in the Bundesliga on loan and at that price seems cheap with a great upside.

David Smith

Is Grealish related to Tony? He was half decent back in the day

China1

Lol Pedro I noticed your choice of words

‘Lyon didn’t sign arteta’ then in the same sentence ‘he’s been earmarked for the city job’

So Lyon didn’t want him…
And you’d like to think he will be offered the city job based on nothing other than hope…

Got it

Dissenter

Leeds
“Everton want £20m for England Under-21 winger Ademola Lookman, 21, as they look to sell around 15 of their squad this summer“Worth a look in? He did well in the Bundesliga on loan and at that price seems cheap with a great upside.”

That made for some funny reading
Don’t we have an academy player who did even better that Lookman on loan in the Bundesliga?
You want us to buy an Everton benchwarmer who’s no better that Reiss Nelson for £20 million?
Strange one dat

Gonsterous

Pedders

Nah, beliebe me, arteta will follow pep to his next job. What could arteta even have learnt from pep? Pep requires millions to play a certain way, arteta won’t be given that option when he takes over a club. He has to make his own way into management and I’m not happy with him finding that out at arsenal. We have enough problems of our own.

Receding Hairline

Pedro didn’t know you had such strong ties to City

Pierre

it is my belief that Tyrone Mings will go on to prove to be an exceptional central defender in the coming years..he has all th attributes that make a first class defender….

It looks to me that John Terry at villa has helped his game in the last few months whilst on loan and at the age of 25 he is ready to move up a level..

Pierre

According to some on here, what many believe is that we could have a scenario where Emery sits on his arse all summer doing nothing ( except look at videos presumably) and when the team arrive back for the pre season , we have maybe 3 or 4 new players that Emery has had no responsibility in signing and is expected to work with and integrate them into the team. Plus at the same time he may lose players in his squad that he actually rates as it is not his responsibility as to who comes in or who goes… Read more »

Un na naai

Imagine

Edu, overmars, ljunberg, pires, bergkamp and Vieira all back at the club in coaching, managing, scouting, DOF, technical director capacities. Could it work?

Un na naai

Pierre

I remember mints being linked a few years back
Must say I havent watched him much. Is he that good?

Un na naai

Mings not mints

Tony

Pedro
Working in the light hasn’t seemed to improve your poor judgement as far as Arteta goes.

Would hate to see such the obvious intelligent chap you are end up with the same fixation simpleton Pierre has with Ozil with your love in with Arteta.

Your last one with Gazidis didn’t fare so well, did it?

Jardim I get as he was my choice for manager.

Some solid posts recently if we ignore your Arteta comedic wind-up input.

Tobs

Kompany leaving city. Probably a bit too injury prone for us to take a punt on but extraordinary leadership qualities.

CG

UN “””Edu, overmars, ljunberg, pires, bergkamp and Vieira all back at the club in coaching, managing, scouting, DOF, technical director capacities. Could it work?”””” Off course it could work. And off course its exactly what should have happened post Wenger. Off course – it wont happen- whilst we have Raul in overall charge. He will do – what’s best for himself and his Contacts Book. ( that’s why he appointed Emery) No one else wanted or knew him When this doomed Raul Regime is exposed and ends in total ignominy-This is the type of football club we should become. I.E… Read more »

CG

Tobs.
Good exclusive.. Re.Man City Captain

Arteta and Kompany (as his No.2) for Arsenal next season..?

That would be exciting…..

CG

Tony.

Man City are winning domestic trebles
Winning cup finals 6 ( Six) Zero

This does not happen by chance.

How can PedRo or anyone have a fixation- with what any Man City employee is doing.???

Even the coaches / assistants below Artetas level at City- must be worth exploring for us..

They- as he often kindly illustrates are re-writing the footballing records..

If we were bold.
Let’s get Arteta and Vincent Company for next season…in tandem

Un na naai

CG

Would love kompany at arsenal. Absolute giant. Fantastic leader but calm and softly spoken. Wenger should have pulled up Forrest’s to get this man at arsenal before he went to city at a time when he was exactly what we needed. World class defender, tremendous with the ball and the leader our younger players sorely needed. A real man in an era of little boys.

Un na naai

Dennis basically crying out for arsenal to offer him a role.
If we let this opportunity slip then there is something seriously amiss at OUR club.

Un na naai

Emery and Raul won’t want his arsenal ethos messing with their dull and muddled plans though will they? I mean, I hardly see Dutch total football blending well with the six yard cut back and Banega standing in the centre circle

CG

Un

I have read The Dennis Interview ( thanks)
Our club is rotten to the core.
When people like him-who want to be involved with it are constantly neglected.

We have just jettisoned Ramsey ( who didn’t want to leave)
And now- Dennis has had to go to The Press..

Has he got to go down on his bended knees and beg for an Arsenal job???

Replace him for Bould for starters.

Un na naai

CG

You’ve got someone like Martin Keown wastes as a pundit
He was ever present through both doubles and the invincibles. A warrior. He’s stood up to the best in the game and come out on top in his time. Was part of the best defence in premier league. Why not utilise his knowledge and experience? We already have Freddy and bobby at the club in similar roles but our defence is crying out for someone like Keown

CG

Un

Everytime- there is a picture or the camera pans on Emery watching a game of football.
There is a grimace.

He does not seem to think football – is to be enjoyed .

He seems to thinks football is a puzzle. (Or bit like the Countdown Conundrum)

A problem to be solved everywhere- all of the time.

Its not
It’s a very simple game.
The Dutch know football is a simple game too.

Dennis Bergkamp is Modern Arsenal!

CG

Un

Huge fan of Keown
Very articulate and intelligent
Ferocious competitor
Called up by England at 36 to play in The World Cup

Scandalous he is not involved at the club too.

When this new regime leave.
We need all these Arsenal people back in and around the club.

We can truly be The Arsenal again…

Jamie

Pierre –

“I reckon posters like marko ,RH, marc, Jamie , dissenter and Bamford have backed themselves into a corner regarding this issue.”

What now? Show me a single post I’ve made suggesting Emery doesn’t have a say on incoming or outgoing transfers and how I’ve ‘backed myself into a corner’. I’ll pay you £100 for every citation you can find.

I’ll wait.

englandsbest

The jury is still out on Emery, he may yet prove to be the one. But as said before, Arsenal have a tradition of choosing ex-players as managers, and ought to have gone down that road post-Wenger. Okay, given a choice between Pep and Mikel, I’ll take Pep, but that was never an option. And why would any top manager at his peak consider the Arsenal job? Not with the owner’s bottom-line policy. There are a host of ex-Arsenal players who might have fitted the bill. Arteta seemed the best, but how about Tony Adams or Patrick Vieira, or Ian… Read more »

Redtruth

Keown cost us the title in 2003 with a stupid own goal against Bolton…..

Pierre

Un
Have a look at mings in the play off final next Monday …I think John Terry has helped him and he now looks the part ….6ft 5in , quick , strong , good on the ball , technically good , also has a nastiness about him which I think a defender needs.

I think he is in the last year of his contract( not 100% sure) so could maybe get him for a decent price…the problem is , if villa get promoted he may want to sign for them .

Bob N16

Red, you truly are incorrigible….

CG

Jamie

I think – you owe Pierre -at least 500 bucks.
Don’t fib, please

And, i thank you for it!

Pierre

Jamie
So are you not in agreement with Marko ,RH and the rest that Emery Is is not responsible for transfers including the Suarez fiasco ….

You are in agreement with me …correct?

Jamie

Pierre –

You levied the accusation. Show everyone the evidence or zip it.

CG –

Show me where I lied, or zip it.

Un na naai

RT

One mistake? Big deal. How many titles have we won down to him? His diving header away at Forrest in a 1-0 win was the difference in the league that season. Ron Atkinson’s first game in charge and he sat in our dug our by mistake.

I think we can forgive him an own goal

Un na naai

Pierre

I’ll have a look. What’s his value?

Un na naai

England is best

Both klopp and pep expressed a desire to manage arsenal post dotmund and Barcelona. We must have held some attraction.

Hitman

Those ManCity players yesterday ( even the rubbish ones like Jesus and Zinchenko) looked fitter stronger sharper faster. Literally in a different league. Two possible reasons 1) Pep has them taking Catalan Juice, to give them ‘Barca DNA’ . WADA need to look at this because to a man those performance levels are super human. 2) Their sports science is way above everyone else. It wasn’t Arteta’s cone placings that won it. It was the hoards of back room staff, coaches, sports scientists. They seem to have got match preparation to a fine art. It can be replicated, equalled, bettered.… Read more »