Arsenal confirm major focus on youth | Sign Brazilian wunderkind?

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Arsenal dropped a big press dump on the new roles of people at the club… the message was clear, it’s all about the kids.

Freddie:

“I’m really excited by this opportunity to continue helping develop & work with some of the great young players we have coming through in the first-team environment & to work alongside Unai & his coaching team to help Arsenal win trophies”

Bouldy:

“I have always had a deep commitment to developing young players & am delighted to be back working in an area which is so important to the future of our club. We have great young players & my job will be to help them maximise their potential”

The article talks about transitions teams being developed… groups of people that move players from youth to the first team. This is Raul giving his take on it:

“Identifying, recruiting and developing young players is a key part of our strategy. We have some great talent coming through our younger age groups and, like all top clubs, the challenge is to help them make the most of their abilities.

“The hardest part is always the transition from academy football to senior football. We already have good programmes in place but these staff changes will ensure our plans are even more robust and clear for every single player. I’m confident it will make a significant difference to our ability to bring players through to the first team.”

It’s a bit jargony to me, but fuck it, I love the focus and the way they are communicating this vision to the fans. This all feels like Arsenal are trying to move from bullshit statements on regulatory miscalculations and pleasantries about class, to something a little more action oriented… i.e. don’t tell me we’re going to be a hub of youth, show me what you’re going an explain it.

I also like that we’re giving Sal Bibbo and Ben Knapper more freedom to express their ideas. Wenger had a lot of good people at the club, but it was his way or the highway. Autocratic leaders are horrible to work with, if there’s only one way and you can’t affect that without getting the chop, you get fat, lazy and you stop innovating. I think it’s smart of Raul to give opps to internal talent, and it’s super refreshing Emery isn’t being allowed to stock the club with more of his pals.

There’s a story running in one of the rags that states Emery will have the final say on Saliba because he doesn’t want to lose his summer budget on an 18-year-old. If all the above is real, I very much doubt Emery is going to rock the signing of an elite kid. I also doubt that Arsenal isn’t thinking about stocking the first team. Just feels like a story that’s been made up based on average sleuthing.

Anyway, the vision appears to have been doubled down with stories about Brazilian wonderkid, Martinelli, hitting the newsnow streams hard than Abou Diaby kicks John Terry in this face way back when. The 18-year-old is very quick, pretty tall at 5,11, and very youtube friendly.

Football London did a deep dive and asked some experts who the fuck this chap is:

“Stylistically, Martinelli can be compared to Richarlison, who represents a shift in what is expected of Brazilian attackers.

“He is very athletic, hard working and seems to have an instinct for pressing defenders whose abilities are occasionally left wanting.

“Playing for a fourth division side in the Campeonato Paulista (state championships) would normally see his influence limited against bigger sides, but he rose to the challenge, scoring six goals and assisting three.”

There’s some great stats in the article, you should read. NOT NOW. After.

Anyway, one for the future. Last time I got excited about a Brazilian he was booted out of his 9th loan deal for being a Domino’s fiend, so keep that excitement tucked into your belt.

Still, it is exciting to think that we’re buying expensive kids again… all you need to do is land 1 jackpot in 5 attempts and you’re doing VERY well.

Right, that’s me done… I’m back on morning times now and flying out to LA today for 2 days for work… bit rough, but still better than your Pret ham sandwich on the tube, so pipe down.

SEE YOU IN THE COMMENTS. x

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Marko

Forget my moaning Marko. If Unai fails again , who will you put the blame on – the manager or will it again be the shite players signed by Wenger ? Oooo that depends. If we end up signing shite with our apparent meagre budget and still have certain players in the starting 11 then some of the blame will be absolutely on the players. For example if we still have Ozil, Xhaka, Mustafi, Kolasinac and AMN starting for us next season still letting us down then what can you say are we still going to blame the manager? Not… Read more »

WengerEagle

Bringing in players goes a long way, if you bring in Mustafi’s replacement and one and tell him to bite the dust he’s not going to hang around for very long. How many players do you see us bringing in btw? Because if it’s north of 5 we had better get a move on, the new season starts in 8 weeks. That’s a lot of player turnover in a very short space of time given we’re nowhere close to signing or selling anyone. Maurice is being touted as an 18m target, I hope to fuck we aren’t seriously looking at… Read more »

WengerEagle

‘ If he does the overhaul thing there’s no excuses for him.’

What’s different with Sanhelli, will he not just cop the blame that Sven did?

Marko

Actually no he’s got no excuses for me next season. If certain players are still there next season he either wanted them there or didn’t demand enough that they were binned.

Ishola70

Marko What makes you believe that Arsenal are really pushing for these players exits? Forget the links regarding Xhaka. They are bullshit and are either Xhaka camp originated or the club themselves are putting out these links. All these links are doing is trying to dupe fans into believing that Xhaka is after all a pretty good footballer. He must be mustn’t he because these clubs are interested in him. There have been no links at all regarding Mustafi or Mhiki. Ozil as we know is unsaleable. Any Arsenal player can be sold at the right price but I don’t… Read more »

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

Arsenal have no openlysaid xhara is for sale…
Therefore they may play hard ball saying he is an important cog in the wheel.

Driving up the price

Saying that if 50m came in…

Hard to refuse.

Samesong

Stupid tackle leg breaker by the young choudry who I think has potential.

Batistuta

We’ll probably sign one maybe two players this summer and sell no one, maybe a couple of loans…Arsenal are an embarrassment and again, we don’t have to stand still because the market is quiet……

Batistuta

The fear though is there is no concrete noise regarding doing anything about the stupid wage bill neither is there anything concrete about players coming in. Nothings changed with this new backroom team as far as I’m concerned.

Ishola70

No club is going to pay 50m for Xhaka.

And demanding 50m is implying he is a top player when he isn’t.

So it goes back to any player is up for sale.

But demanding 50m for Xhaka isn’t actively pushing him out. It’s the opposite. It’s sitting on him.

Marko

What makes you believe that Arsenal are really pushing for these players exits?

Oh not you too. Well I imagine or at least hope that they want to do better than last season and have better players to move forward. Obviously we could end up doing fuck all

WengerEagle

Got to love that blind hope.

Jamie

Tsonga and Paire brilliant tekkers:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/tennis/48679485

MidwestGun

Re Emery… It’s kind of a pointless debate who to blame next season players vs mgr. As it really always has been.since it been a bit of both every season.. Because he is on a 2 yr contract… it’s his second year. So pretty simple he either performs better or he doesn’t get 3rd year option, regardless of who the players are. Ozil knows that… so expect downing of tools from him. That’s why it would be better to move him on obviously. Emery is a basically a lame duck manager .. so with nothing to lose he might as… Read more »

Marko

That’s literally all a football fan can have

MidwestGun

And I’m still a little upset that Pedro didn’t go to that Emery Coaching development seminar in NYC. I feel like in terms of banter and blogging he really let us down.

I blame Sal.

Henry Root

I’m amazed that people on here expect noise from the club on sales/ transfers. Firstly only a fraction of what is done is ever revealed so no one on here knows sweet FA about what is going on. Refreshing NewsNow every few minutes doesn’t tell you anything and the club are hardly likely to reveal anything important . Nobody on this board had heard of Guendouzi let alone linked us with him until the day he signed for us. No one knows how much money we have at our disposal , how we structure deals or any real concrete details.… Read more »

salpardisenyc

Mid

It WAS discussed and all the key players decided it wasn’t worth the coin with this clip already in existence, although Ahern pressed us hard.

https://streamable.com/9kwmu

Marko

That was a shocking challenge by that English lad. Absolute dirt

Valentin

Ishola, Arsenal has chosen the strategy to try to extract as much money as possible from selling the players. However they have not set realistic prices. Xhaka is not a £50 millions player. Everybody know that. So unless we drop our price or some Chinese with more money than sense is willing to do us a favour, Xhaka will be at Arsenal at the beginning of the season. Koscielny in the last year of his contract is not a £10 millions player. Mustafi is not a £40 millions player. We overpaid for him. Asking money for Jenkinson when we should… Read more »

MidwestGun

Sal-
Nice..
Well.. I understand about the cost.. But I kind of feel like we missed out on an epic post. And now all I have to look forward to is finding out what kind of weird health drink … Pedro is going to be into now out in Hollyweird.

Avacado milk or some such.

Jamie

I heard a rumour that Martinelli wouldn’t get a work permit. Strange that his Italian citizenship was omitted from the newsnow feed.

Ishola70

Yeah about right Valentin.

So not doing enough to get these players out.

As said think the club feel that because Emery was close last season to 4th that will be emulated again but they could be in for a rude awakening .

Unbelievable that it needed VAR to see Choudry get that red card. It should have been obvious to everybody on the pitch including the referee.

Marko

Ikone played well

Marko

Foden looks like the player Wilshere wishes that he was

Pierre

Receding hairline
“Tells you something when Nelson and Matteo can only find a place on the bench”

It tells me that the French manager rates Jeff Adelaide higher than Guendouzi.

It also tells me that the French manager prefers a cultured footballer who plays with his head up , composed on the ball , never looks rushed , elegant and regards passing to a team mate as an important part of his game .

No wonder Emery let him go for a pittance……not his type of player is he.

Gentlebris

‘They are all liars… thieves … remember 2010….Nah they all want to build their own career not build the country.Disband the House of Lords , House of Commons.There has to be a better way of running the country.’

You think your country is very badly run?
Get a telescope,man, and look at the rest of the word.

Gentlebris

Project youth?
Again?

Well done, Pedro.

Guide us from the reality to a dream.

Wengaball

“I don’t care who gets the next World Cup but this is inaccurate.. The so called Muslim ban … is a ban on travelers from Muslim majority states. So at this time.. that would be Iran, Libya, Somalia ,Syria and Yemen… add in North Korea and Venezuela.. non muslim.. Pretty sure non of these countries will be in the WC as it relates to football..” @Midwest Gun – I am not sure if you mean those 5 countries are the only Muslim majority states in the world. But if you do, the correct figure is 50. And that does not… Read more »

Gentlebris

*world.

MidwestGun

Wengaball no those are the ones with muslem majority on the travel ban list here. Which would hinder travel for a WC here.

I realize there are many more.. Those are the ones deemed risky by our government I guess. Not saying I agree but Marc was saying all muslims would not be able to travel here which isn’t true.

Wengaball

I thought that’s what you meant, but it came across differently 🙂

MidwestGun

And yes I worded it wrong.. lol

MidwestGun

Sadly our Nat. team is so bad.. we might only get in by hosting the WC.. they play Guyana tonight in the Gold Cup and it’s about 50/50 if we win.

Wengaball

Well you’ve played in 10 WCs so that’s not too bad! Consecutively in 2010 and 2014 as well.

Do you know USA finished 3rd in the first WC in 1930?

MidwestGun

Yeah… I knew that.. Those were the days.. huh.. We have had our moments. To be honest though qualifying from our region of the world shouldn’t be that difficult … Mexico not withstanding.

Valentin

Has Martinelli already granted Italian citizenship?
I thought that he was in the process of applying because of his great father but that had not been confirmed yet.

In view of the name, may be more legitimate than Sylvinho’s Italian passport.

China1

Yeah it’s a nice idea that we can drive up prices for our own dead wood but it’s not going to work If we get 35m for xhaka, it’s useful money to improve the team. If we get 3-5m for kos, it’s better than nothing which is what he’s now worth to us If we got 5m for ozil, it’s better than having him stay with those wages and that attitude For mustafi, he’s simply not worth more than 15m and should never play for us again. Sell all 4 for a combined 60m and we’ll have greatly reduced our… Read more »

siddharth14

China1 The time for hardball is when you’ve no obligation to sell. We must sell and be realistic about it ————————- Exactly. One more thing i would like to add is that the inflated wages of non performing players makes it even more difficult to move them on. It’s not entirely in the club’s hand. This is why we are going to struggle selling our dross. Besides, the players might be looking to leave on free transfers. That way they get a signing on fee and allows them to get ridiculous wages. Wenger has broken a lot of supporters but… Read more »

Receding Hairline

“elegant and regards passing to a team mate as an important part of his game .”

Passing to a team mate is one of the first things you will write down if you were advertising for a professional footballer…so it’s not really something special. As for elegance all well and good looking elegant on the ball if there is an end product.

Seems Jeff is the new rallying point for you Emery bashers, how many first team appearances did he make under Wenger??

Why was Nelson omitted by England too then??

Receding Hairline

https://www.football.london/arsenal-fc/transfer-news/arsenal-transfer-alexis-claude-maurice-16450568

The Claude-Maurice kid has eyes on Borussia Mönchengladbach not Arsenal

Samesong

RH

All of a sudden all these rumours are just looking like well erm rumours.

Pierre

China Alternately, maybe we should look at how we are wasting millions of pounds by letting players like Gnabry( wenger) and Jeff Adelaide ( Emery)’leave for a combined total of no more than ten million and are now worth probably 50/70 million combined , and could possibly be worth double that in 3/4 years time. Besides the fortune we have lost on these 2 transfers, if we had kept these players of obvious quality , it would have saved us millions as Gnabry is obviously already better than what we have out wide and Jeff could potentially be just the… Read more »

Receding Hairline

Pierre how many first team Premier league games did Jeff play under Wenger ..answer that first before talking style of play

Let me help you…ZERO

Wenger loved flair players mind you

Graham62

siddarth14

Why then did he create an environment that promoted the “bosman” philosophy or minimised players sellable values?

There is absolutely no defence for the way he allowed things to manifest over the years.

It wasn’t just the supporters he broke, it was the entire club structure.

Cheers.

terraloon

China Not quite sure the numbers of moving those 4 on is going to be achieved although it’s hard to argue with the attractiveness of such a fire sale. But and it’s a big but after shifting them you need to factor in a huge chunk of that £60 million will have to be shelled out to convince them to depart mid contract to clubs where almost certainly they won’t be paid at the same level. The Ozil conundrum or perhaps better called farce, is a dark cloud that will hover for quite a while that’s unless a huge chunk… Read more »

Receding Hairline

“All of a sudden all these rumours are just looking like well erm rumours.”

Took the word right out of my mouth

Pierre

Receding hairline
“Why was Nelson omitted by England too then??”

Pretty obvious really ….England had 2 players out wide who have already had vast experience of top level football, unlike Nelson .

Gray and sessegnon have played over 250 first team games between them , both very good players who have benefited from being at lower level clubs in fulham, Birmingham and Leicester which enabled them to have first team action..

Pierre

Receding Hairline “Pierre how many first team Premier league games did Jeff play under Wenger ..answer that first before talking style of play” I am not sure why you are bringing wenger into the equation to defend Emery’s decision to let Jeff go. Again, the answer is pretty simple really…very rarely do you see a player break through in a top premier team under the age of 20 unless they are exceptional, Rooney, Fabregas and sterling spring to mind . Lol at Foden , an obviously talented player but has only played a handful of games ….if he was at… Read more »

HighburyLegend

Lil’ P. still trying to find excuses for his God, even if he’s gone …

Receding Hairline

“I am not sure why you are bringing wenger into the equation to defend Emery’s decision to let Jeff go.” The club’s decision to let Jeff go, if the coaches at the youth level were so convinced Jeff was meant for the top. and that is still open for debate, they would have advised he be sent on loan and not sold for peanuts. Emery was here a few months before Jeff left, you are the one saying he was let go because he can find a team mate with a pass and Emery hates players who can pass to… Read more »

Pierre

Receding Hairline
Actually my words were , and I quote

“It also tells me that the French manager ( under 21) prefers a cultured footballer who plays with his head up , composed on the ball , never looks rushed , elegant and regards passing to a team mate as an important part of his game .”

I would say the first part of the comment relates to Emery not the passing to an opponent.

Pierre

Team mate*

now for more important things ……The golf course awaits …weather permitting.

Graham62

Forgive me if I’m wrong here but didn’t Gnabry leave Arsenal in August 2016, whilst Adelaide was already on loan with Angers before Emery arrived. Adelaide then signed for The French club in July 2018.

So basically had very little( dare I say nothing) to do with Emery’s “poor error of judgement”.

Clutching at straws…………….again.

Ridiculous

Graham62

Pierre

Watch out for the thunder and lightning.

Valentin

Jeff gave recently an scathing interview of Emery. Said that Emery arrived, had a look at some players and told him that he wanted him out. That was the extend of that communication with Emery. No what did I do wrong, what can I improve. Cohen Bramall gave the same interview. Was initially discarded and told to train with the U21 team. Then toward the end of the season, Emery recalled him and allowed him to train with the first team. Never had a talk with him to tell him his weaknesses and strengths. Seems that Emery quickly gets an… Read more »

Graham62

I’m sure Adelaide was appreciated at Angers. He was also guaranteed first team football, which Adelaide wanted. He is French and therefore felt at home. Finally and significantly, he had been at Arsenal for nearly 3 years under Wenger(and in an exceptionally negative environment) and probably felt he needed to move on.
Good luck to the boy.

Of course, it’s all Emery’s fault.

HighburyLegend

One more Emery critic (I’ve stop counting them) by Valentin, who is probably Pierre’s brother.

Jamie

I heard from a rumour from a source that Jeff RA wanted to leave Arsenal, and Emery did everything he could to change his mind.

Nelson

It is obvious that the club’s priority last year was to get back into the Champions League. With the promotion of Ljungberg and the initial rumor of signing of youngsters, it seems that the priority of the club has shifted towards youngsters. Let’s see what actually happens in this TW.

Batistuta

I also heard Emery also guaranteed him a pay rise if he stayed, true story….My nan works for the cleaner who does the dishes at Conley

CG

The more and more one heres about the sheer ineptitude about Emery – the more and more -next season becomes even more fraught with danger…. his basic man management skills and dealing with players( young and old) are totally incompetent and unacceptable.

The man is a total and unmitigated walking disaster.

Think Mr.Bean in an Arsenal tracksuit with clipboard… that’s Arsenal 2019.

Let’s hope Fred – ousts him soon.

Jamie

Batistuta –

I heard another rumour from a source well connected to the club that Jeff RA had a meeting with Raul, Vinai, and Emery where Jeff demanded we sign Mbappe or he’d leave for Angers.

My source tells me Rauls, Vinai and Emery tried to bring Mbappe in but when it became clear we couldn’t match his demands, Jeff ended his association with Arsenal for a Hollywood move to Angers where he went on to score a whopping 3 goals in 46 appearances making an absolute mockery of Arsenal’s decision not to placate him.

Marko

Cohen Bramell was another Jenkinson waiting to happen. The lad was 23 ffs and did absolutely fuck all in an Arsenal jersey. Him and “the Jeff” did nothing for us at the time of us selling them. Some serious revisionism taking place. Very telling Cohen Bramell was upset when Wenger left he obviously smelt another contract on the horizon.

Receding Hairline

Valentin you can see what some of your “i heard” posts do to you, it opens you up to mockery

Not everything you post here has to be some hot take you got from your sources and what makes it all the more hilarious is that when pressed your sources turn out to be newspaper reports from less than reliable websites

Marko

Funny how Val is more upset at losing JRA and Cohen Bramell than losing Gnabry. Weird that.

Jamie

What are you saying, Receding? That you don’t believe my sources? You’re nothing but a flat-Earther.

Receding Hairline

“You’re nothing but a flat-Earther.”

Guilty as charged

You forgot argument seeker as well, apparently i am the only poster on here that argues

Jamie

That’s right, you’re an argument seeker too! You stop that right now.

Receding Hairline

“Never had a talk with him to tell him his weaknesses and strengths.”

What exactly do the youth coaches do if the buck stops with Emery to tell the youth players what their strengths and weaknesses are. He Emery should actually be the one seeking this info from the youth coaches not finding them out for himself.

HighburyLegend

CG aka “Tick Tock Boy”, thanks a lot for honouring us of your presence.

Marko

Jaime I think you’re a lying git. And I also don’t think you met Anders Limpar at 3am outside a chip shop in tel Aviv during a thunderstorm while the streophonics were playing a gig not one continent away and all the while Madonna was giving you the fuck me eyes from across the road. I just don’t believe it mate

Jamie

Receding –

I heard Emery had an extra long talk to Jeff about his weaknesses. Have you heard differently? Credible source?

Receding Hairline

United might be a mess but they seem to get the players they target in or at least try for them. Most of our bids happen on the pages on newspapers before a connected source then announces we were never interested in the player.

They bid for Wan-Bissaka (who scored a silly OG last night) and as Palace play hard ball they have already lined up Max Aarons of Norwich and Elseid Hysaj of Napoli as alternatives.

Jamie

Marko –

My sources tell me you’re a flat-Earther too. And an argument seeker.

Knoxville

I hear big Dave Ospina is finally off to Napoli for 4m. Never have I been so unbothered by a transfer. UNLESS Leno is injured mid-season and his back-up is utter shite.

Receding Hairline

“I heard Emery had an extra long talk to Jeff about his weaknesses. Have you heard differently? Credible source?”

No i did not hear differently Jamie. I heard from Pierre just this morning that one of the weaknesses Emery pointed out was his ability to pick out a team mate with a pass, apparently Emery considers that a weakness, wants all his players to just run around the pitch with the ball until they are dispossessed or the ref intervenes

Marko

One of Jeff Reine Adelaide’s obvious weaknesses was in the 3 years he was at Arsenal he done sweet fuck all to warrant staying. There’s honestly question marks about Reiss Nelson and Emile Smith Rowe making it here and they did more in the first 6 months of last season than The Jeff has done in the last 4 seasons

Nelson

Knoxville

The initial indication is that Raul is a good negotiator. During the Suarez deal, he had insisted that the deal has no option to buy. For dealing Ospina to Napoli, he has succeeded to keep the original price of £4million. So far so good.

Un na naai

Maurice turned us down for glabach!!!
Some pulling power emery has. These players would walk over hot coals to play for wenger. What a downgrade

Un na naai

Marko

He’s worth £20m now. No matter what you think it was worth hanging onto him and using his elevated value to boost our own squad
Stupid move from a clueless management team.

Fucking dud of a summer. Get used to it
This is arsenal post wenger, rice and Dein.

Receding Hairline

“These players would walk over hot coals to play for wenger.”

And do the same to leave him for bigger things once they find their feet….Fabregas,Nasri,Van Persie,Hleb,etc

Apologies though, i am sure you mean players like Cohen Bramall, Mustafi, Jenkinson, Elneny and the likes will walk over hot coals to play for Wenger

Receding Hairline

“This is arsenal post wenger, rice and Dein.”

BRING BACK ARSENE

I wonder why no other club ever approached Dein to benefit from his all knowing knowledge of how to run a club.

Wasn’t it Dein that decided the best owner of Arsenal’s majority shares is Kroenke??

Un na naai

Marko –My sources tell me you’re a flat-Earther too. And an argument seeker.

Jamie
You forgot serial backtracker and antagonistic bell end

Receding Hairline

Yet to find a single source for the 20m bid for Jeff. Please feel free to share if you have one

Freddie Ljungberg

My sources tells me Un na is one of the 4 shitcunts of the Apocalypse, no prizes for guessing who the other 3 are.

Un na naai

Balding head
Nobody said bring back Arsene but we were better off under the previous trio than this shower of clowns

Marko

I mean he’s probably right they would walk over hot coals to sign for Wenger. Problem is they would then do fuck all once they got here

Marko

Technically better…hmmm we go from 4th to 5th to 6th place finishes. I wonder what comes next…ah we’ll never know if Wenger had a 7th place finish in him

Receding Hairline

“Nobody said bring back Arsene but we were better off under the previous trio than this shower of clowns” Of course we were I guess you are still watching your invincible DVD, maybe you should look out the window,it’s 2019 and we have been a Europa league team paying champions league wages for three seasons now, one of those seasons have been under the new regime, the rest was under daddy. Add in embarrassing European nights, inability to win the league since that DVD you are watching and you will see we were not really better off. But yea, Claude… Read more »

CG

Face Facts Folks. No aspiring young player will want to play for our prize pillock of a manager… They prefer Dortmund or even the Dole. Anything but Emery What does he offer young players? Indeed -What does he offer any player… apart from confusion,clipboards and Chameleons… In the words of Ozil “”” he ain’t a coach””” And Vinai and Raul- would not change a thing… How we need someone like Dein- to rescue us… But have no fears Edu is on his way. He is going to soothe, caress and make everything better. Group hugs.. An absolute farce. No accountability… Read more »

HighburyLegend

Tick Tock!!

HighburyLegend

“In the words of Ozil
“”” he ain’t a coach””””

Ok I get it now : Pierre is Dr Jekyll, CG is Mr Hyde.

Leedsgunner

Having sat on our hands in this past January, why are we sitting on our hands now? I understand it takes time to bring players in but surely we should have sold the likes of Elneny, Jenkinson and Mustafi by now?!?

Graham62

CG/Pierre

“To love and to cherish, till death us do part”

Marko

Now that big Weng is at FIFA how long before he’s wrapped up in a scandal? I’m going to say 2-3 years and it’ll probably involve money and a world cup bid from the north pole.

Batistuta

Kinda boring always bringing up Wenger when the new management team have also done fuck all to be honest….We shouldn’t be at this stage of the summer and have no outgoings and incomings if we are a serious football club

Batistuta

I mean this same new team blessed us with Dennis Suarez last January and i said at the time i didn’t trust they would get things done in the summer and so far I’m being proven right. We’ll probably have the exact same squad as last season with one maybe two additions and that would not be enough.

Emery also is kinda underwhelming at this point, seems like he’s another one of those yes men we obviously didn’t need

Graham62

Has it ever occurred to our resident “clowns” that because we are now having a bit more transparency at the club, we are witnessing for the first time just how much our previous regime fudged up of the system.

By all means blame Emery for some things but don’t blame him for the foundations and four walls built and promoted by his predecessor.

Graham62

fudged up the system.

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