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
@Marc, You don’t scout players so late, unless you either have doubt about them or have not done so beforehand. What will watching a player in his last game of season, which happen to be a dead rubber will teach you about so player? Nothing, because that game will have no real intensity. Some players will just not go into tackle by fear of injury. Unless he went for personal reasons, I doubt that Emery went there to scout the fall back to the fall back option. Either way that does not paint the club and Raul in particular Raul… Read more »
“I was dismissed by Marc in his true arrogant fashion as someone who hadn’t been to a game so knew fuck all.”
Well at least we agree on something.
“Bamford we never needed to compete for titles under Wenger as far as Charles was concerned.. It was either we couldn’t compete financially or who would we get that is better than Wenger.“
Do you ever tire of making up what others believe or say? You’re shameless on that front. Full of exaggerated bullshit.
Marc
You seem to have a warped sense of self, constantly referring to times you’ve “embarrassed” me, and now it’s “caught me out”.
What exactly are you referring to, you sound rather lame?
Valentin
We don’t know which was part of the point I made earlier. People get far too invested in some stray tweet / newspaper report and take them as gospel.
Personally I have no idea who we’ll sign this summer or how much we’ll spend, I think it’s highly likely that the EL final will make a big difference.
Hopefully it’s a positive summer.
Receding
There nothing to suggest that Emery was scouting Partey at that Levante- Atletico game
For all we know he may have been scouting a Levante player
Truth is we just have to ‘wait and hope we win that EL final.
bennydevitoMay 19, 2019 13:49:57
Un nai, Yes I did read the post and have already answered your question.Would it work? No it wouldn’t as we’ve already seen at Ajax in the article you yourself posted.
Benny Benny Benny
Tut tut tut
A domestic double and champions league semi final with one the finest (apart from spurs) home grown side in Europe
I’d say overmars and bergkamp have been a resounding success at Ajax. If you think otherwise then it’s safe to assume you feel emery and Raul have been an utter abomination by comparison with a far bigger budget, no?
“Could you imagine Klopp,pep or pochettino not having a say on incoming and outgoings …..Of course not..”
Klopp wanted Julian Brandt, DOF wanted Salah.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.hitc.com/en-gb/2018/03/21/klopp-wanted-to-sign-leverkusens-brandt-instead-of-salah/
Pierre
Please tell us who plays for Liverpool now Brandt or Salah?
It Will be a massive mistake If we fail to fight for kompany a booming voice in the dressing a model Pro and still only 33.
Kompany and Holding would be exactly what we need in defense.
Kompany and Tony Adams are for me the stand out defenders of the last 20 years.
So with emery scouting his own players it looks very much to me as though he has a very very big say on who’s coming in and out at arsenal eh lads? Or is he just a massive Atleti fan? Why would he bother wasting money on a ticket and a flight if he’s unlikely to land the players he wants?
Backtrack
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azed
Klopp also wanted Karius to replace Mignolet
He won that argument at least initially as it often happened when it’s a transfer committee
We all know how Karius turned out.
The big item mega signings were not from Klopp. The club signed VVD and Allison Becker regardless if Klopp initial reservations.
If you recall Klopp was still railing against big money transfers when United signed Lukaku. That’s not how he operated at Dortmund.
Charlie is not the only Emery-outer who deserves rebuttal; let’s circle back to some of the things Pedro and gambon have said. These two have told us that all of the important metrics indicate that we were worse this season and that Emery is out of his depth. Again, the most important metric is total points and final table position: in both cases, Emery improved us. You can argue that he should have improved us more — maybe — but you cannot argue that our point total or final place in the table indicate that he is out of his… Read more »
Stroller
Can’t see bergkamp being offered the pilot role.
Does Arsenal owe Dennis Bergkamp employment?
That’s good, RSPC.
Jenks is out of contract this summer… So any talk of using him as bait is bollocks …
As great a player he was it don’t normally translate to being good coach etc….
Overmars was is the brains at Ajax
Ohh great he has joined Anderlecht as player coach.
Banford
Your weekend has consisted of writing monologue after monologue on here, often rehashing previous days conversations.
As someone that works Monday – Friday as you do I wonder, do you even have a life?
Well considering your own life revolves around being right on le grove, even while at home games apparently, you have no right to question anyone Charles.
Receding
Yea, not like I take months off at a time or anything… Meanwhile you’re here within a fortnight of getting married, but it’s my life that revolves around this place 😂
Months off at a time… Boy you are a shameless liar Charles… Shameless
MarcMay 19, 2019 14:08:29 It’s possible that Emery was looking at another player, or even had the weekend off decided to go home and catch a match at his old club with a mate.The amount of supposition on here sometimes is crazy. If we sign the guy Emery was checking him out. We can then spend months listening to CG, Pierre, Un and CC tell how it’s a terrible signing. Football manager watches football match. Doesn’t equate to scouting. Even if he was scouting, it may not be T Partey. He’s been on the scene for a while and is… Read more »
ValentinMay 19, 2019 14:16:00
@Marc,Except that in the only interview Raul did, the only thing he kept referring to is Barcelona. However Arsenal FC is not Barcelona not even Barcelona Lite.
If he really want to be successful at Arsenal, he will have to burn bridges with people from his previous life. He works for Arsenal now. They are his rivals now.
Ill advised as the Suarez loan has proven to be, at least it was on our teams in spite of Barcelona wanting an obligation to buy. There’s no permanent damage.
Charlie
You post here around the clock, guy. How are you in position to criticize someone else for how much time he spends here? I’ll help you: you’re not.
I like to think about Arsenal and football, and I like to think about these things at length. Le Grove gives me a space in which to do this. So be it.
However, I have quite a full life outside of football and Arsenal; thanks for your interest in my affairs, though.
So what do you guys think- Zaha, Ziyech or Sarr as wide player?
Receding
Check the archives, I didn’t post for over a month just recently. You love to claim a lie when you’re ignorant of something, signs of a little man.
Bamford is the 40 year old virgin, squirming hardcore after claiming emery has no say in transfers and now he’s off scouting he’s got egg on his face once again, hence the monologue-fest
Pure poetry
Dissenter
Erm nobody owes bergkamp a living. Haven’t you seen the impact he, overmars and the de boers have had on Ajax? Where you been hiding bro? Canvassing for late term abortions no doubt
I can’t wait to see who Raul and Emery will sign this Summer. I guess Emery prefers physical and hard workers. Skillful players are of lower priority unless the price is right.
Seeing that we have been giving up the most shots on goal among the top 6, we have to replace Xhaka with a much faster and more physical DM. Hopefully, Emery won’t sign another D. Suarez type of player.
Not posting for over a month, that you took note of it tells it’s own story,and taking months off are two different things dude.
Now tell Marc about your imaginary season ticket
Receding
Receding more and more about yourself little man. Clinging onto Marc’s every word now to try and land an insult.
Oh, no, you don’t think I’m a season ticket holder. The pain and suffering that causes.
Says a lot about you that you believe things written here are done to hurt you. Probably because that’s your own intent when you post.
Others might just be having fun. Get over yourself lad,no one really cares. It’s all fun and games.
Pedro and Arteta
Pierre and Ozil
Charlie and Big Weng
Can be hard to let go sometimes
What’s everyone’s take on the Eurovision?
UK last place. Not surprising.
The rest of the world hates us so much.
Is it because of colonial rule? Or is it because of the reputation of our Aiya Naper brigade? You know the ones. Loud, disgusting and ignorant to other cultures.
Maybe it’s because they know we’re not that concerned about the cockeyed event.
How come Israel and frigging Australia are allowed to enter?
At least Graham Norton provides some entertainment.
Yes Nelson the first signing will at least indicate how we play this transfer window out.
Expecting Ever Banega soon on Arsenal.com
Graham –
Not even ashamed to admit I love the Eurovision. It’s been a family tradition since I was in single-digit age to throw a Eurovision party; sweepstakes, Eurovision bingo (fire, contestant crying, mid-song costume change, thanking host country, …), copious bottles of wine.
It’s so wonderfully tacky. Graham Norton is good, but he’s no Wogan.
Make no mistake, the music is trash! The party, though.. I’m so hungover today.
CG
I actually agree with you.
Grealish for Arsenal!
Jamie
I agree.
Wogan was brilliant.
Graham
You are aware of the rumour that “serious” music countries avoid putting anyone decent in the thing because the winner then has to host it and that costs a shit load of cash.
Graham
He only wants Grealish because someone’s more likely to punch him than CG next time he comes over for a match!
How good is Mount too by the way? As long these youths don’t have attitude problem I’m all for Project Youf 3.0. Wenger almost crack it but he overpaid the players due to anticipation of high release fee. Them getting huge contract after few decent appearances make that complacent. Which is what I’m afraid with the rumour of giving Guen a new deal already when he’s still too raw.
Moe
Careful – you do know that Pedro has a famed picture of Arteta under his pillow. One bad comment about the soon to be greatest coach of all time and you’re gone from here.
Receding
You don’t do banter, that’s evident to anyone that’s spent more than a day on here. Have a right little meltdown anytime Emery gets critiqued bless you
Marc
Yes, I was aware.
Even Madonna was crap. As flat as a pancake.
benny
Got to say I love your analogy of Arsenal’s management set up and the benny house hold’s Christmas.
Mate if you can make that work for Brexit I reckon you could earn a fortune.
@Graham62
Iceland making complete jokes of themselves with that Palestine flags bullshit. Embarrassing stuff really. The funny thing is they would be thrown from the highest building if they ever visited Palestine.
Also Madonna, Jesus Christ. How awful was that? She’s finished.
Graham
All I seen of it was the headline on the Sky news website about her pulling a stunt.
I think I heard something on the news yesterday about it being her first live appearance for years – is that true?
Madonna’s performance would’ve improved 100-fold if she had maneuvered her eye patch to cover her mouth instead.
Old lady needs to go home. She’s finished at the top level, but desperate to stay relevant.
Baku ten days away.
Anyone getting excited?
Graham the final feels a bit delayed to me. The league ended a week too early or one might even say two weeks too early.
Why play so many matches at once when there was time to space it out
None of this proves that Emery is scouting his own players. It is pure speculation being driven by you and Pierre amongst others who all seem to think Emery has the same power over Arsenal that Wenger had. Benny He’s attending games checking out in olayers he wants. I’d say it’s the very definition of scouting wouldn’t you? I know you’re desperately trying to cling to the idea that he’s not responsible for the transfer and contract shit show but it’s been made very clear now, he’s pulled Ramsey’s contract, he brought in Suarez, he wanted Banega and he’s now… Read more »
Just end this season with a positive note ot may change the optic a bit.
But screw the optic as long as we get into Champions League which means we might attract more players that way.
It’s a more solid foundation rather than stuck in this Evropa League for yet another season.
“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…”
Amazing… pedro really don’t give a shit about our ELC final.
Graham62May 19, 2019 16:09:37 What’s everyone’s take on the Eurovision? UK last place. Not surprising. The rest of the world hates us so much. Is it because of colonial rule? Or is it because of the reputation of our Aiya Naper brigade? You know the ones. Loud, disgusting and ignorant to other cultures. Maybe it’s because they know we’re not that concerned about the cockeyed event. How come Israel and frigging Australia are allowed to enter? At least Graham Norton provides some entertainment. >>>>> Graham, Russia were in it too. I think it’s grown beyond just being a European nation… Read more »
Ziyech for 25 rw
Add Tielemans cam
Zaha on the left
Damn
Colonial past?
Not like the Germans, Romans, Spaniards French and Turks ever invaded neighbouring nations is it? Ottoman and German Empires were the worst in “European” history.
Napolian? Spanish Armada? Roman Empire? French Dutch and Belgian colonies of Africa anyone? Maybe some of you need a history lesson.
Un nai,
But how do you know he’s there scouting players he wants? How do you know he wasn’t sent there by Raul? How do you know he was even there scouting at all and wasn’t just taking a quick break back home before the final?
You don’t! It’s pure speculation! 😂
And as for Benega we have NEVER made 1 single enquiry for him. That was nothing but media speculation that Ballague stated as much.
But you keep on spinning your speculation as fact if it makes you happy.
Benny, not sure you can argue that 1) Emery was scouting 2) He has no control over transfers
Looking at Man City and Liverpool throughout the season, in terms of how consistent they have been and how strongly they have finished and the strengths of their first 11s and overall squad, it is clear that they are both miles ahead of Arsenal, Spurs, Chelsea and Man U, who were all abject for the last 10 matches or so of the season and at times seemed to be competing to discover novel ways not to finish in the top 4. Next season, it’s likely that the Man C juggernaut continues with a few more (expensive) additions and replacements to… Read more »
I went to Cyprus, Majorca and Faliraki in the past with an ex and have seen it for myself, shameful.
Benny
I’ll agree with you on this, utterly cringeworthy. Have you been to Paris, Malmo, Cologne or Sicily lately though? Not the Brits behaving like pigs.
Or the Irish acting like animals all over Oz?
Guys, this is getting brexity.
Football please.
I generally tend to keep away from any where popular with our own as it’s so shameful. Croatia is generally unspoiled by moronic Brits abroad so the people are always lovely. Same as Scandinavia. Really want to try Montenegro but I’ve heard the people are quite rude and unaccommodating
We don’t need a history lesson it’s well known by most people that the British Empire was the worst, invaded the most and is the most recent. After all after the break up of the ottoman Empire Palestine and much of the middle east went back into British Empire hands and the lines on the maps and the borders in the middle east today were drawn up by the British Empire after www. Not only that but the British commonwealth still exists and we very much are still seen as the ruling nation over many others. We’ve also got the… Read more »
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/arsenal-transfer-news-unai-emery-16165880.amp
Benny
Right so he’s there on holiday or he’s been ordered to scout players that he doesn’t really want by the new king pin Raul? Which is it? Any will do right? Talk about reaching mate.
He’s there scouting talent for his team. Why is that so hard to understand? Are you really expecting others to accept your explanation(S)
Sorry Pedro,
When are we confirming Edu and what role could we bring Bergkamp in to do? I want him coaching the attacking youngsters like he did at Ajax, and his latest interview that Un nai posted sounds pretty much like a come and get me plea to Arsenal.
Un naai
Was it you that recommended parts of Croatia to holiday?
We don’t need a history lesson it’s well known by most people that the British Empire was the worst, invaded the most and is the most recent
Benny
Tut tut
Nazi Germany ended in 1946 (most recent)80 million dead
Islamic invasion of India killed 400 million Hindus and Sikhs
Ottoman Empire was still alive and kicking in the 1940s/50s too.
CC
Yeah. Nowhere better in Europe
Stunning, cheap, friendly and only a two and half hour flight.
Un nai, Again: nothing in that article PROVES Emery was there scouting. It is pure speculation on the article’s part. Nothing from Arsenal saying Emery was there looking at players. And even if Emery was there looking at players we still don’t know what ones and if he was ordered there by Raul or made his own decision to go. At this point it is all speculation. He could easily have been there having a break. If we do end up signing anyone who played in that game, unless Emery says otherwise we still won’t know if he was there… Read more »
Even if Emery was looking at a player yesterday what does that have to do with anything?
Last summer Sven was clearly in charge of transfers.. Is that also being argued? He is no longer here so what happens while we sit around waiting for a TD? Nothing? Besides I don’t buy anyone needing to watch a match to see Thomas Partey
Yes Un, and the British Empire outlasted the Nazis hence handing over Palestine to Israel in 1948 it took over from the Ottomon empire after ww1. 1948 being 2 years after 1946.
The ottoman empire ended after ww1 it git broke up. The British Empire still existed and still does, only recently giving back Hong Kong to China in 2997. We still own the Falklands and Gibraltar and many other territories.
It is you I would suggest needs the history lesson.
1997 not 2997.
Ozil and his fiancée broke fast with the New Ottoman Caliph Erdogan yesterday…..
I’m really hoping that this is his PR team preparing the ground for a megabucks (to be honest even minbucks will do) transfer to an Erdogan favoured Turkish team next season.
Un
“It doesn’t get any more black and white yet here you are claiming it’s pink!!!”
Shouldn’t it be grey? 🙂
Nelson
Obviously over your head that one
Benny While we are taking empires how many millions of Africans have been murdered, forced into slavery or subjugated by Islam? British empire was the worst… where do you go to school in your garden shed? Palestine was a barren wasteland until the Jews resumed control of the homeland they were driven from. And yes it was handed over by our government. The empire had long since passed. If that qualifies as the British empire then is Isis and the invasion of Europe by Middle East and North Africa the Islamic empire? Was it the American empire that invaded the… Read more »
“British empire was the worst… where do you go to school in your garden shed?“
😂😂
Invasion of Iraq is the reason the UK get such a raw deal in Eurovision.
Saint Etienne’s Saliba is reportedly our top defensive target. The 18yr old will reportedly cost 25m euro’s
Marc “”Raul signed off the Ozil deal. – No he didn’t he joined in Feb. He signed of the Mikki deal – No he didn’t he joined in Feb. “”” Do you really ( REALLY) believe Raul waddled into the Arsenal on Feb 1st and had no SAY in what happened in the January transfer window that has just preceded it ??? Really….. His official starting date may have been 1st Feb****. But Rauls grubby fingerprints were all over those hectic deals that Jan. He signed off on Ozil excessive deal! Fact! He signed off on Mikkis excessive deal! Fact!… Read more »
RH
I’d take that with a pinch of salt
No chance is emery blowing a limited budget on an 18 year old centre half who won’t reach maturity for another 4 years when our defence is leaking like the the titanic today.
CG
What are you going to do when Arsenal win the EL?
You won’t know which way to turn.
Raul strategically also ushered the much admired Dortmund Eye out the door- as quickly as possible
Likewise , the popular Rambo
And he is the process of appointing a Brazillian ( how absurd is that) on a gargantuan contract as Tech Dir.
He is a very dangerous shark.
Watch him- like a hawk…..
Graham
If we do win the Europa League as nice as it won’t change the fact that emery has underwhelmed this season. The EL is his get out of jail card. Should he lose the final then the season would end on a catastrophic note for him, the club and us, the fans.
Would anyone take a chance on Gotze and Hummels? I’d take Hummels. Could get 3-4 years out of a legend like him. Doubt he’d join us though.
A Wenger and viera combo
A bergkamp and overmars combo
Hummels and Goetze
Thank God this club isn’t run by some of the ideas on this pages
Winning the Europa league gets us straight into the group stages of the champions league and will be our first European trophy since when?
Yea fourth place is where its at, the fourth missed by a point or the third missed by two,that’s what all of us live for, who needs a European cup final, the one you all desperately wanted Wenger to sign off with, it’s now just a get out of jail card for a man in his first season.
The nonsense
Receding
Are you surprised that the same people that wanted a manager with zero experience in the name of pizzaz are demonstrating fantastical thinking?
We haven’t won a European trophy in 25 years and the condescension of the trophy is laughable
The same Ajax that reached the CL; semifinals were proudly contesting in the Europa league just two seasons ago.
CG and is ilk just brings to life the type of fans that supported Wenger as he destroyed his own legacy.
Dissenter not really surprised. This clamor for ex-players as managers baffle me. The Copy cat approach won’t get us anywhere. We can chat our own course not try to recreate the Pep effect or the Zidane effect.
RH
Wether you admit it or not, failing at the final hurdle in the league was never part of the plan to focus on a knockout competition with as you lot out it “a substandard squad”
Let’s not pretend getting to the final was part of some grand master plan that included the signing of Denis Suarez.
And all of a sudden you’re some global footballing sage? Looking down on Hummels with nothing to offer yourself? Chubby balding little man
Getting to the final of the Europa league was actually part of the plan from the beginning. In fact many on here saw it as our only realistic route back into the champions league. That was before we all got our different agendas.
Only one pretending it’s a massive disappointment is you.
Yes I’m looking down at a 30 year old who has been on a gradual decline lately and who will command a big salary, guess you didn’t get the memo on bringing down the wage bill.
Your lack of education shows when you write on here, I chuckled to myself when you went on a rant earlier about Brits being rowdy abroad, you are rowdy on here.
Rh
I’m not aboard dumb dumb. I’m at home.
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You claim to be so highly educated then fold every single time Champagne Charlie holds one of your flimsy claims to the candle before raking you over the coals.
Dissenter
“CG and his ilk just brings to life the type of fans that supported Wenger as he destroyed his own legacy”
Truer words were never spoken.
Uncanny how your knowledge on world football is all of a sudden top notch when someone expresses admiration for a player yet fails spectacularly asked to remove your chubby balding arse from the fended it’s perched on.
Leave Charles alone and argue for yourself… I have never folded during an argument with him,saying your piece and moving on isn’t folding.
Same way I will now ignore you,doesn’t mean I have folded, simply means I have come to my senses and realized you aren’t worth the effort.
Your chubby balding lines are pathetic, haven’t you watched any teenage flicks lately battle angel?
Good. Try and stick to it this time.