Well, whaaadya know… Danny Welbeck is rumoured to be joining Everton this summer.
Good for him. That looks like a good move. The England forward has been a solid servant for Arsenal, but he never really managed to unlock the next level in his game. Namely, he wasn’t that great at scoring goals, 32 in 120 odd appearances. A useful squad player, but really, in the end, he was just an expensive battering ram that picked up far too many injuries.
… but, we’ll always have Old Trafford Danny, what a moment to find your scoring boots. Also, he was part of that nearly moment when he scored that perfect header against Leicester at home when we thought we might win the league in 15/16. I loved that.
He might yet have a part to play in Baku. He’s travelled with the squad, he apparently scored 3 goals in the warm-up game, he’ll probably make the bench.
There are super hot rumours that we’re in for the MIGHTY Ryan Fraser. Some of the numbers being danced around are mental. £30m is what Bournemouth are looking for. The guy has one year on his deal, so that would be insanity. He’s a handy player and dropped numbers that are just as interesting as Zaha this season… however, I do worry about the one season wonder part of it. 15 assists and 8 goals is a decent return for a season, but the numbers before were flaccid at best, we’ve seen plenty of players over the years that do this, move up and tank (Danny Drinkwater). If we can land him as squad filler and not have to pay him SCOTTISH premium, then fine… but I personally think we’d be getting better value from someone like Hakim Zayich. Ryan Fraser feels a little Europa League in ambition, and we’re really don’t need to be there. Also, he’s 5ft4.
I really hope that Unai Emery doesn’t have a reaction to the laziness of Ozil this summer and solve it with a bunch of players that’ll bump up our running stats but struggle to deliver the extra magic we’ve desperately lacked. We can hire in sublime talent with power and pace. We shouldn’t lower our standards… which is why I guess I’d be more excited about Zaha. Firstly, he looks really cool… great branding opps. Secondly, he’s Danny W levels of battering ram, but he’s also very skilful. I’d not want to drop £70m on him, but £45m would reflect decent value in this market.
Arsene Wenger is BACK in the news again. This time, he’s admitting that the BIG job he promised us he all had left in him was likely not going to happen in the dugout…
“I came to a conclusion I want to share what I learned in my life,”
“Because I think life is only useful if at some stage you share what you know. In what way will it be? Will it be just winning football games, or will it be in another way? That’s what I have to decide. That decision will come very quickly.”
I mean, come on people, did you really think he was going to land a job at Madrid? Of course you didn’t. If a blogger can spot declining talents, you can bet your bottom dollar the recruiters at the major clubs can.
Anyway, Wenger, a man who does not believe in the science of the game… is a huge believer in tech. When you’re a millionaire, what better way to pass away your free time than investing in a fancy Israeli tech entrepreneur? Wenger had this to say on Playmaker, a chip that analyses performance FROM THE BOOT.
“I believe it’s the best available solution at the moment to measure performances,”
“I invested in this company. I’m not sponsored, I put my money in it. It’s not so much because I think it will make a huge amount of money, it’s more because I think that it’s something interesting that can help sport and football.”
What I LOVE about this comment is Wenger was very poor with data at Arsenal, now he’s fueling the beast! This is the video from Wenger’s new thing.
It looks like a cheap way of getting basic in-game data from chips in the boot. The stats details lined up here read very basic. So to get something like the above working, you’d have to have the ball chipped and every player on both teams hooked up. So it kind of looks like the best use case for it would be training? Do clubs not already do this? Is Wenger investing in something that already exists? Like the time I gave a months wages to internet sensation CheekBook.com? We’ll see…
I’m still out here trying to get funding for the LapCap. It’s a cap, for your laptop. My genius is still an untapped reservoir of liquid gold, contact deets for investment at the top of the website.
What I love about the big PR spin here, is a little later in the article, Wenger’s true colours come out…
“Today science has taken over. Science wants to predict the next performance when you have to rest players. And I believe sometimes if the managers are not strong enough, the science has too much power inside clubs. Because they have certainties,” he says.
“Above that, you still have the knowledge and experience of the manager. The modern manager must collect interesting data and, after, make decisions with his knowledge. And he has to be strong enough to do what he thinks is right. The knowledge is still important.
“The manager has to make the right decision. Because if you take only the physical data, you never play Messi. But if we are managers tomorrow we all play Messi. That’s where the knowledge comes in.”
Nooooooo! Guy Aharon must have been fuming!
The above commentary is exactly why Wenger can’t work his way back into the dugout. Ralph Rangnick, a 60-year-old, literally said the other day he never thought there’d be a day where he was told what to do by the athletics coaches, Wenger is still living on gut intuition. Which is why he failed to adapt on the back 9 of his career. He’d play his boys through the red zone, he’d not listen to the experts, and he’d take grave offence to anything that looked like a power grab within the club.
A modern manager is a CEO, not a dictator. You will always need that person to make decisions, but if you constantly override good information, with gut feel, you’ll never evolve. That goes for a lot of things in the game now. A manager should want to empower staff to make the right choices. If you take decisions that run against your top people, they either leave, or they stop innovating… you move into communist society mindset where people just tip their hat to the dear leader who will make everything A-ok. People get lazy, nothing moves, then when things go wrong, no one has the energy to pull you out of the hole.
Anyway, good to see Wenger back on the scene. Also amusing to read all the weirdos out there talking about him like he’s their surrogate father. Grow up… Emery is your father now, he’s making the rules, you’re going to follow them or land an arse tanning from his leather slipper.
I didn’t touch on the rumours that Freddie Ljungberg is being touted as the assistant to Emery next season, with Steve Bould being moved on. I don’t really care either way here, I love both players and Bouldy doesn’t look like he’s enjoying himself. However, it’s a bit sloppy for a story like that to leak. Shouldn’t Emery be able to keep that under wraps?
Time to start getting excited as we build towards the Europa Final. The bookies has Chelsea down as the favourites. I have it close to 50/50… maybe 47/53 their way. Mainly because they have league winners in their side, and Eden Hazard is a one-man wrecking machine if he shows up. On the other hand, Unai is the Europa King, Sarri is unsettled and the Chelsea manager has NEVER won a trophy.
A massive coin toss…
Right, see you in the comments.
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From what I can tell Arsene’s great idea seems to be instead of using those vests with the chip in they put the chip in your boots instead. It’s genius really
Also Emery should be able to keep leaks under wraps. Thus becoming the first person to ever do it
I am trying to find a reason why Emery/Sanllehi allowed a player of Danny’s quality to run down his contract.
Maybe he wanted to leave Arsenal. But I don’t believe that, unless it meant a hefty wage-cut to stay.
Either way it’s about the ridiculous Arsenal wage bill.
Danny is a very talented player who has not yet fulfilled his potential. He may turn out to be the footballer bargain of the year. Certainly the England manager appreciates him.
Miss you, Danny.
Pedro If we recruit Fraser he will be COMPETING with Nelson for a first team place for the Right Wing Position. I don’t think that he is likely to be a massive upgrade and frankly I would not be spending £30 million for such a player. What should be Arsenal’s priority is to source and line up a new top level Centre Back once our season is over. The player we seem to be focussing on is Umtiti. The major concern there is of course the number of games that he was out through injury this season. However, he does… Read more »
Marko, keeping hiring/firing decisions secret an impossibility… you do go to some lengths to defend anything Emery shaped.
englandsbest
I agree with you about Welbeck very useful squad player to have about. What I don’t understand is the constantly finger pointing at the current management setup for the contract situations with Ramsey / Welbeck. Both of these players should have been tied down to extensions 2 years ago or sold before either of them were at the club.
It was a shit show that they inherited, now if we find ourselves repeating history with other players in the future I’ll be the first to ask what the fuck is going on – again.
Pedro
Of course it’s always difficult to stop gossip I do however think when you’re talking about an internal promotion it should be easier.
Pedro beat me to it. Not sure what coat of arms Emery would have but Marko would be very happy to be his champion and dress up for him.
‘Sir Marko my faithful hound – come hither and let me tickle your tummy. What a good boy you are!’ ( Spoken with a strong Spanish accent)
Nice.
Welbeck under any circumstance was atrocious. Sure, nice guy etc etc…unlucky blah blah but it comes down to the bare bones that he was dreadful for what we paid him a lot to do.
Fraser. Just no. Scottish? Jesus. Only Champagne Charlie, George Graham and McLintock are allowed to be Scottish at Arsenal. Also 5’4? We want footballers, not tiny lads that are good at ratting or climbing into small cupboards.
Freddie > Arteta
Welbeck , useful squad player when fit. Another who should have been sold with two years to go of his contract. Didn’t give value for money. Seems like a good guy, priceless!
Danny Welbeck will be 29 years old before Christmas. Talk of ‘potential’ is laughable. He’s a 7 goal-a-season forward. Wank.
Bob, agree… could have got £25m for him.
Was injured a lot…
Wellbeck
A waste of 16m. Think we passed on higuain for less than the 16m we paid for Wellbeck.
Laughable. Rather have kept GIROUD than keep Wellbeck.
A striker who can’t score. Sick of us buying Man U rejects. Hopefully mkhit is the next one to go this summer
New kid on the block in Brazil is 17 year old Joao Pedro of Fluminense, who scored a hat-trick in the Copa Sudamericana (South America’s Ropey League) this week, and has 5 goals in 110 minutes of first team football. The big clubs are now sniffing, but who had already signed him before he had made a first team appearance? Watford. They really are doing something right with their scouting there. There’s a good chance this kid will fail to develop, but for the tiny price they paid, there’s the upside he could become a Richarlison or Gabriel Jesus. If… Read more »
Don’t know about the rest of you but I’m very excited about the prospect of Ryan Fraser coming to us, the guy is a very talented footballer, he’s quick, skillfull, good dribbler, short yes but his low center of gravity causes a lot of problems for defenders, he reminds me of arshavin, Fraser is good in front of goal, is right footed but is just as comfortable on his left, got an eye for a pass, and crosses the ball with both feet better than our entire squad, he’s been playing for a smaller team and his stats are up… Read more »
Marko, keeping hiring/firing decisions secret an impossibility It’s pretty hard given the scrutiny and media spotlight that exists on football in general. I love how I point out a petty dig and it turns into I’m defending Emery. Leaks/speculation happen in football it’s completely rampant to the point where you hear of potential signings/potential firings/transfer budgets/new contracts etc etc before they even get confirmed. And yet in your mind Emery should be able to keep it under wraps? Well he’d be one of the first to do it in football. Here Sarri should be doing better to keep the Hazard… Read more »
Plus you gotta factor in it could be speculation right now and you’re suggesting that Emery could do something about that. No one could
So I’ve got the playoff match on in the background, no interest in either team etc. They then announce that Mike Dean is a huge Tranmere fan – guess who I’m supporting now?
Bob you’d be taken seriously if it wasn’t for the fact that you get obviously upset whenever you see people criticise Wenger around here.
Marko
The amount of times you get people losing their shit on here over players we’re linked to is crazy. Have an opinion on it, hope it happens, hope it doesn’t but to start passing judgement on the club over something that will probably never happen is a sure sign you are in desperate need of a chill pill.
Bob
You’re right. Wenger should have sold him 2 years ago.
Another in a long list of wenger fuck ups that have hamstrung the club
Joe
That applies to Ramsey as well.
This about Fraser? I personally wouldn’t mind him for 10-15 million as a squad player but not at someone else’s expense. Some people who are so against his signing should realize that he’s actually outperformed Ozil for assists the last couple seasons and is on par for chances created. Basically Pierre would love Ryan Fraser signed
Marc
Yes. Sanchez. Ozil. All 4 contracts terribly managed. Cost Arsenal millions on millions and emery has to deal with the consequences
Marko, what are you on? What has Wenger got to do with it? I do agree that it appears that some people who were loyal to Wenger to a fault who now overcompensate and set impossible expectations on Emery. There are also some people who poured vitriol on Wenger like he was the antichrist who now also appear to have overcompensated and defend Emery as though he is without any blame or responsibility for last season- ring any bells Marko? Sorry I’m not one of the extremists. I wanted Wenger gone around 5 years before he did but that doesn’t… Read more »
Could have had 70-80m for Sanchez in the summer but we got mkhit 😂😂. Because wenger had to try to save face about the absolute shambles he created and still fucked it up beyond belief
I thought Mike Dean was a Spurs fan
Marko
Hating Arsenal doesn’t automatically make you a Spud.
Joe, Gazidis was complicit with the running down for the contracts. As Chief Executive he had to be in agreement with Wenger’s views on players and contracts. For that matter Kroenke as owner should have been more involved.
Far too simplistic to blame Wenger for everything.
Bob
He did only have 3 good seasons out of 22.
He also went 3 years without a trophy after the first double. 99 – 01. In a 2 team league. Man U and us.
His last dozen or more years were garbage. A laughing stock. We would have won 3 leagues at least with another manager in that period.
He absolutely ballsed it up with the breaking up of the invincibles.
Bob
As has been said a million times and by wenger himself, he had full control.
If you want to change what has been said by many including wenger show us proof please
Wenger thought he was greater than the sum of the players he had.
Ha boy was he shown to be fucking wrong
The players made wenger.
Your view Joe but when we were having to fund a new stadium and barely spent any money net for around 5 years we were stayed in the top four and were respected for playing a great brand of football.
Not sure if you’re being objective Joe.
Wenger like he was the antichrist who now also appear to have overcompensated and defend Emery as though he is without any blame or responsibility for last season- ring any bells Marko? Exactly my point. At pains to defend Wenger and you take jabs at someone deflecting from Emery. For the record I’ve criticized him enough and I wasn’t even defending him up top I was merely commenting on the obsession with Emery to blame him for everything. I mean to blame him on leaks when the president and the government of the United States can’t do a fucking thing… Read more »
You can’t have it both ways Joe. Other than the players who he inherited(particularly the defenders had the upmost praise for Wenger for extending their top level careers), all powerful Wenger brought in all the players who you say deserve all the praise.
Wenger deserves some credit for the acquisitions, no?
JamesMaddison / Ryan Taylor/ Or even Danny Drinkwater 😏 any of them can only improve the squad strength.
Bob
I’d lay that more on DD than wenger.
Also it helped quite a bit that wenger was French during their golden generation and being able to offer more money than other leagues were.
Funny how it all dried up for wenger once GG left
Wenger was left buying the sanago’s, Gervinho’s , kallstroms
‘At pains to defend Wenger’ er, no! Just trying to be reasonable.
Searching for the middle way Marko!
Joe, you’re anti Wenger filter is working tremendously well,.
Any success can be attributed to someone else, any failure, down to him.
It’s all so crystal clear!
Me too Bob me too
Bob
If he deserved so much praise, he’d be hired again by now.
Bob
The proof is there. Wenger went downhill after DD left and he started selling off the invincibles.
If he was so great the last 14 years should have been somewhat as successful as supposedly his first 9 were
DD wasn’t the reason Wenger failed.
Wenger didn’t innovate his thinking. DD wasn’t going to save that decline.
Pedro
Don’t think DD would have stopped wenger from breaking up the invincibles so quickly
PedRo “””Ryan Fraser feels a little Europa League in ambition””” A summer Saturday Sizzler by the Ralf Ragnick loving PedRo. And I off course – I thank him for it. In the week- when The Potatoes will probably win the CL – it’s very dispiriting that we are apparently being linked with this little tub of lard . If we sign Ryan Fraser- there is a good chance we will be go the same way as The House of Fraser. ( Broken and on its knees.) He is garbage. He is small and tubby. He looks like Torrieras Twin .… Read more »
I’m in two minds about Fraser.
Other than his goals and his assists, his stats for Expected Assists, Key Passes/90 minutes, and key passes into final third would place him top or second amongst Arsenal players. But his dribbling (successful dribble/90 minutes) are pretty average. And he has next to no defensive contribution.
Is he worth £30 million with a year left on his contract? Doubt it, but he may be worth a punt at around £20m
Stats attached:
https://arseblog.news/2019/05/ryan-fraser-by-the-numbers/
“I am trying to find a reason why Emery/Sanllehi allowed a player of Danny’s quality to run down his contract.”
Arsenal accepted an offer for him last summer but he opted to run down the final year so we kept him for squad depth.
Good lad but goal shy and injury prone. Factor in our up and coming young wide players im cool with him leaving.
You can justify letting Welbeck go on a free. He’s 28 barely fit and contributes little
DD would have had no choice. It was a financial decision
Watching the road to final video. It’s clear the team’s are all shite in the EL. Didn’t recognise any team we played till we faced rennes (not a strong outfit though ) and then Napoli and Valencia.
I personally like frazer and he’s a busy productive little player with good pace and crosses, Wonder if he can play left wing back?
I’d have him to replace Welbs but with one year left on his contract i’d pay £15m Or £15m plus £5m in variable addons
Ryan Fraser
Forget about goals and assists ….
I was just wondering if he tracked back or not 😇
And yes Marko I know his stats this season put Ozil to shame…..
then again, one could say that Fraser is reaping the benefit of having a manager who knows how to get the best out of him.
Replace Mhiki with a Zaha/Pepe/ Neres/ Zyiach level player
Pedro
I have always wanted to ask you this question
How do you stir yourself to write these posts?
Do you sink into a jacuzzi with 12 virgins waiting on you or do you just get high.
As usual, good post with your witty brand of banter.
Pedro the leak can come from anywhere, Bould could tell his wife who tells someone who tells someone, same applies to Freddie, same applies to literally everyone who works day to day at the club, saying Emery should be able to “stop leaks” is a bit nit picky
The problem is, if Fraser signed for us , no doubt that Emery would have him marking Peter Crouch at set pieces as it appears to a more recent tactic of his in putting our smallest player against the opponents tallest and physically strongest player.
Joe, Wenger clearly went downhill. DD just cashed in his chips, financially sorted his next three generations or so out. As Pedro mentioned, he wasn’t able to innovate or to be willing to listen to fresher minds. He was given too much power and wasn’t replaced soon enough. Negligence both at board level and by the owners not to step in. Shouldn’t forget that there were some golden years, playing the best football in my lifetime(my memory goes back to 1972) I will always appreciate those memories. I’m not having a go at people who are 30 or under but… Read more »
I don’t want Ryan Frazer, not the kind of player that takes the team up a level. If you wanted someone like him why didn’t we go in for Shaqiri
Ryan Fraser would be an ok 10m squad player..
I think had Danny chip not hit the post against city in his home debut he would have been a world champ…
Sliding doors really
Receding,
Other than the fact that he plays for a second order team – I’m interested in the basis for your view re Fraser that he’s second rate.
Joe he deserved praise, now he’s completely passed it. Your logic that he would get a top job now is if he’d been any good in the past, is clearly specious.
His best years are obviously long gone which prospective employers are fully aware of, that doesn’t mean he wasn’t an outstanding manager in his day.
For what it’s worth, I think that with the decline of Ozil and the reduction in the amount of overall chances created we had last season, it does make sense to have a player like Fraser come into the team/squad
then again, one could say that Fraser is reaping the benefit of having a manager who knows how to get the best out of him.
Nah he’s just not declining like Mesut. He’d be our new chances created king
Marko,
Of course the moment Emery asks him to track back every so often, his offensive contribution will be destroyed….
then again, one could say that Fraser is reaping the benefit of having a manager who knows how to get the best out of him.
Maybe the pl just isn’t the league to get the best out of ozil
Pierre.
We had a striker who won golden boot. Emery obviously knows how to get the best out of a player.
But like xhaka, mustafi and Mkhitaryan, maybe ozil has found his level in the pl.
And it’s not good enough
no doubt that Emery would have him marking Peter Crouch at set pieces
It’s cute that you think that’s by design and not the opposition being clever. Shows your understanding of football
Pierre doesn’t want ozil to track back but then criticizes emery for the defensive shape of the team
You couldn’t make it up
Ozil will go to turkey and light it up and Pierre will say “ see I told you, emery is shit.ozil just needed a proper manager to get his best out of him”
😂😂😂😂
WOAB mainly his dribbling stats …leaves a lot to be desired. Chances created tends to go up if you are the set piece taker.
If we want a player from the cherries I would prefer Brooks but then I don’t think he is better than Smith Rowe.
In summary I don’t want anyone from Bournemouth.. Lol
Ok
Nelson
Amachei
Wilcox
Medley
John jules
Smith Rowe
Nikethah
There are loads of yo7ngsters who think they are ready…
Fuck it
Blood them .
Why not
One ma5 be worth 100m this time next season…
Go the fuck for it.
Bob
To put it into perspective, fans look back at the Liam Brady era with affection as though it was a successful period in Arsenal’s history , but in fact we only managed to win one FA cup , losing 3 finals against the mighty West Ham ( 2nd division) ,Ipswich ( who totally outplayed us in the final) and Valencia(pens))…
Whereas the new breed of fans regard winning 4 trophies( if we win Wednesday) in 5/ 6 years as failure . .
What was save of the season ?
Anyone know…
Leno double save has to be up there
Marko
“It’s cute that you think that’s by design and not the opposition being clever. Shows your understanding of football”
Let’s get this right …..are you saying that it is the 6ft 6in attacker who puts himself on Torreira.
If that is the case then who don’t every team put their biggest player on Messi when they play Barca if it is that simple/clever.
Or Danny rose / hazard/ David silva….
Actually Pierre. Emery winning the Europa in his first season is considered a huge success
Nice try though
3 FA Cups in 14 years is a failure
True Pierre but FA Cup was a much more prestigious trophy in those days. Always love an FA cup win though!
Personally I look back on Brady as my boyhood hero. – the team was average! Would have been a success in any generation.
In the old days the smallest players would take the posts at corners but now no one stands on the post so they don’t know what to do with em .
Especially for Arsenal’s supposed best manager of all time. 😂😂😂😂😂
And let’s talk about bham, Blackburn, Forest, Bradford.
Embarrassing for our most successful manager 😂😂😂😂
Bob, yeah I had some great times travelling the country and Europe watching Brady ..one of the all time Arsenal greats imo….those epic semi finals v liverpool were relentless.
Ryan Frazer stats are not very good. If you take away the goal scored from his corners and set pieces, his number of assists fromopen play is poor. Also most of his open-play assists are crosses headed in, when neither of our strikers are good in the air. Lacazette and Aubameyang are not Calum Wilson on that front. Remember the Brighton game where Iwobi were clearly under instructions to cross the ball and both the opposition CBs were having a field day. The other disadvantage that Frazer would bring is his lack of height. Arsenal is already a size on… Read more »
The conversation I just had with my scouse supporting mate just settled it
I want Tottenham to win it
Liverpool fans really are the worst bunch
And it pains me so much to say that
I couldn’t think of a worse final with two of my most hated clubs
Steve Bould- never has one been paid so much , for so long, yet allowed to do so little
are you saying that it is the 6ft 6in attacker who puts himself on Torreira. That’s exactly it dumbass. That’s why you see movement in the box the players are trying to gain an advantage. You don’t actually think the manager goes out of his way to put the smallest Arsenal player onto the biggest and best header from the opposition? Tell me you’re not that thick. If that is the case then who don’t every team put their biggest player on Messi when they play Barca if it is that simple/clever. I think you’ll find Messi doesn’t defend set… Read more »
Steve Bould is wank by the way. All those years and not so much as an improvement in the defence. Questions of how much input he has is irrelevant. He’s either that bad at his job or a big pussy. Either way get rid
Having to choose between Liverpool and Spurs winning is like being asked if you’d rather be pissed on or shat on. Fuck Liverpool, but Spurs winning the CL before us and we would literally never hear the end of it. It would be their ‘invincibles’ card, and they’d play it until the end of time. I’d rather Liverpool won it.
Sorry Marko but I have to return to your comment about Torreira marking 6ft+ opponents at corners.
““It’s cute that you think that’s by design and not the opposition being clever. Shows your understanding of football”
Do you want to enlarge on this because to me , it surely is one of the dumbest comments I’ve ever read on here.
If Torreira had in fact been instructed to mark Scott Dann and Glenn Murray at corners against palace and Brighton as it obviously looked like, would you still be defending this dubious tactic.
Jamie
If you just had this conversation I had with my mate, you’d want Tottenham to win 10 nil.
Liverpool fans are the cuntiest of the bunch
Lets us big boys (tottenham and Liverpool) battle it out for the most prized trophy in world football. You know the one that Pep, Neymar, Messi all want But you dont really count the FA cup do you? Unless youre Wigan or small club Thats your level, 6th in thr league and a good cup run. Haha We didnt win, but at least we tried and had something to play for until the last day of the season. You’re season was finished before Xmas Ususally it works if you actually do something better. Not finish 6th and 30 points behind.… Read more »
Yeah,
This is obviously how man marking works on set pieces. The defending team has no say, and must let the attacking side decide who will mark them. The rule is that the tallest player must match with the smallest: 6’6″ striker with the smallest man on the pitch.
Only Pierre and Valentin are the ones who know we shouldn’t have our shortest guy mark their tallest.
Blows me away that they aren’t managing Madrid or Barca with fat Sam as their assistant manager.
Valentin
Come on. Come clean. You’re really Arsene Wenger aren’t you???
Joe –
No doubt plenty of Liverpool supporters are cunts, but still. Spurs winning would be too much for me. In any event, it’ll probably be the first CL final I’m not interested in watching in as long as I can remember.
Marko “That’s exactly it dumbass. That’s why you see movement in the box the players are trying to gain an advantage. You don’t actually think the manager goes out of his way to put the smallest Arsenal player onto the biggest and best header from the opposition? Tell me you’re not that thick.” Can you explain as to why this has only occurred over the last few weeks of the season , when Emery changed from the successful zonal system (Steve Bould) to the present system ( not Steve bould)… Surely teams, if they are that clever and the tactic… Read more »
Jamie
Ajax destroyed me when that goal
Went it. Would have been
Magical watching Ajax beat spuds then Liverpool.
This final if anyone asked me at the beginning of any season, what would be your worst nightmare of. A final this would be it
My general position is that Scouser’s are vermin and should all be eradicated however I will be temporarily putting this to one side for a couple of hours next week and cheering Liverpool all of the way. Anyone not wanting Liverpool to win the CL (out of the current teams in the final) is not an Arsenal fan.