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Apologies for the delayed posts, I’m on a shoot, at an airport… which is cool, because you are literally checked in so it’s easy to fly home.

Anyway, Arsenal?

BIG news is Auba has taken down his profile picture on Instagram. That’s news in this SICK world we live in. It’s clearly a purposeful thing because the guy has LOTS of great pictures of himself… so where is he going to go? It’d have to be somewhere with a desperate need of a striker and a lot of cash money. Unlikely to be Madrid after they just signed Jovic. So who?

Why don’t you make yourself useful and find out.

Yes, you.

Maybe it’s just a negotiating tactic… ‘PAY MORE OR I LEAVE MY PICTURE BLANK’

… chapter 4 in Art of the Deal if I remember correctly.

Legendary author Nick Hornby confirmed what I had heard about Aaron Ramsey, it was all on Emery, the player wanted to sign. By now, it’s an irrelevance, he’s gone, but you know… nothing like a little confirmation.

Kola is being chased down by Barca, those surging runs clearly attracting their interest. In a better setup, no doubt he’d have had far more assists this season. It seems the club are very keen to move him on. Hasn’t quite been the breakout hit we’d hoped for, but again, another confirmation that players we have in the squad aren’t utter shite.

News at the training ground has Freddie and Steve Bould switching jobs. Interesting the club aren’t firing our exlegendary centre back, not that I’d want that. Did Bould simply want more say on the team? Are the club being forceful about keeping Arsenal DNA in the ranks? It has certainly looked like Bouldy has the same passion for the manager as Ozil. Those blank stares he does when we drop another early goal are reminiscent of mine when I’m reading an Emery press conference on the .com.

I wonder what the swap out with Freddie is hoping to achieve? I’m not sure I buy the ‘he’ll help bring more young players through’… why would that be? If you’re saying Bould is bad with identifying youth player talent, would it be wise to send him to U23? This is weird, and again, if you have answers, share them.

Umtiti wants to see out his 4 years at Barca… which for me, sounds like good news. I really don’t want to be picking up players from Raul’s old club. That just wouldn’t be right. He’s likely very expensive, and he’s probably going to be a huge risk from an injury perspective moving forward… hence the reason they’re getting rid of a mid-twenties world-class defensive talent.

… and just to cap off a wonderfully positive post. BIG JEFF, the player we all thought would be an Arsenal god, binned by Emery for £4m last summer… is on the verge of a move to Monaco £22m. Notable that Lille, who are run by talent machine Luis Campos, are also in the running.

You literally couldn’t make up Arsenal summers.

See you in the comments. x

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KAY Boss

A replacement *

Graham62

Very good recovery from the Aussies.

West Indies need 289 to win at 5.78 runs per over.

Anyone interested?

Only second most popular sport in the world.

Never mind.

azed

Gambon, Cesc

Buy Saliba, loan him to RB Leipzig for a season in exchange for reduced fees for Konate.

gambon

azed

I said that last week.

I think St Etienne want to keep Saliba, so if we want him we probably have to loan him back there.

At least we know he’ll play 40 odd games if he stays there.

Dissenter

Xhaka speaking after his nightmare game against Portugal; Really proud of our performance and the progress we are making. Sometimes there is not much you can do when Ronaldo scores such a special Hattrick.

Welcome to your new club captain

Dissenter

gambon
We don’t have the money or luxury to buy a player and loan them back for one season.
We have problems that need fixing immediately. What are you going on about?

Words on a Blog

Xhaka:

Prone to catastrophic errors and misjudgements on the field.

And prone to catastrophically misjudged statements off the field

azed

“I think St Etienne want to keep Saliba, so if we want him we probably have to loan him back there.”

Gambon

Mavropanos should also be used to get either Saliba or Konate.

Dissenter

The club should just spend money in it’s coffers which is still considerable as we speak. I’m pretty sure Liverpool or any of the top teams don’t have more that 20 million laying around their accounts.
Spending money that we already have can never be a violation of FFP.

gambon

Dissenter

If we are loaning him back then we will likely have a deal in place that means the money is weighted towards the future.

The net effect if we sign him then loan him, will be the equivalent of signing him next season.

An 18 year old is not playing a significant part in our defence next year. Even if we dont loan him back to St Etienne, you would have to think he will be on loan for at least one season.

Cesc Appeal

Gambon How much do you think Upamecano would cost? I was wanting Konate last summer but I think Leipzig see him as their future now. Upamecano is surely going to be abut £60 Million, isn’t he? Can we manage that, would you prefer, in the event of a Lacazette or Aubameyang sale, to use the majority of those funds getting someone like Upamecano and then go for a cheaper wide option like Sarr? As opposed to a big winger like Zaha and then cheaper CB? I mean I suppose if we got £70-80 Million for one of them and Palace… Read more »

Dissenter

gambon
Saliba will get enough relevant experience at Arsenal in that first season. Don’t forget he still has to come to terms with a new language, culture and style of football in England.
Provided the manager does not overplay him, he will be fine. He would be a more rounded player with one year at Arsenal compared with one more year at St Ettiene.
The fans just need to reset expectations and be prepared to accept his roughness around the edges. I would rather have an improving 18 year old making mistakes that an irredeemable Mustafi or Kos.

Dissenter

*than an irredeemable

gambon

No chance £60m, not even close.

Too much hype these days. At the end of the day he’s an U21 international thats never won anything, playing for a mid level club with 2 years on his contract.

€40m at best.

The best CB in the world cost £75m,

gambon

Dissenter

Saliba will play about 4 games if he comes now.

At 18 years old, with his first 20 games behind him, he cant afford to stall his development, neither can the club that buy him.

Hes younger than Zech Medley.

Dissenter

We need to tap into the copa America and AFCON this summer. There are good players that we can reach first. We need to be seeking to sign young British talent like Joe Gomez. There are bound to be players like that in the championship.

Upamecano is already above our current station. It’s just fantasy football to even mention his name in any summer planning.

Cesc Appeal

I’m not sure.

I think you’re looking at £50-60 Million in this market for someone like him.

This market is totally nuts.

terraloon

Dissenter.

The trouble is that the way FFP operates the simple stupid fact is that you can’t just spend accumulated funds for the accounts year on year and then over a 3 year period are the focus.
FFP is as most knew seriously flawed but the funny bit is that AW for all his supposed knowledge and indeed training in matters finances thought it would work in Arsenal’s favour

Dissenter

gambon “He’s younger than Zech Medley.” Zach Medley s obviously not on the same level. Had he been we would be talking about Saliba, would we? The age thing has little relevance. If he’s good enough you throw him right in. .. with the expectation that he will make mistakes. There are some young defenders you throw in immediately. Presnel Kimbepe has been actively playing for PSG since he was 18 years old. Marquinos moved from Corinthians to Roma when he was 17 and has been playing for PSG since he was 18 years old. Raphael Varane has been playing… Read more »

Up 4 grabs now

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Dissenter

*Had he been we wouldn’t be talking about Saliba, would we?

gambon

Dissenter

Just put this on the new post by accident….

We could easily get UpamecanoHes probably on £20k per week.Pretty much any professional in any industry anywhere in the world would be extremely keen to talk to an employer if they are offering a pay rise from £1m to £4m pa to do the same job.Not to mention any non-German would probably be keen to swap the Bundesliga for the PL

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