Well, well, well… the ‘YOU TOOK THAT OUT OF CONTEXT’ police back-peddling hard as the Lucas T rumours kick it up another gear… again.
Of all the players I was hoping we’d ditch this summer, I have to be honest, he wasn’t up there… but the rumours keep persisting with a slightly different twist on them.
Now, we do have to remember, he came out in the press and said everything about England is shite. Hard to brush that under the carpet, whichever internet translator you use. There’s a history of South American’s not quite liking the vibes in the UK, and right now, he’s in the shop window of The Copa America. All these rumours have started for a reason, and my take is they’re there to make sure scouts are paying attention to him over the next month.
Question here is this: the second half of the season fade we saw from LT, is that just a first season thing? Or is it something deeper. He’s a very small player that lacks power, he’s not exactly built for war like Kante, is he? Mesut Ozil always fades in the second half of the season because he’s not fit enough for the league. Is there a chance that’s LT? Just playing devil’s advocate here…
Whatever the deal is, it’s not good news that over a month into the close season, the hottest exit rumour out of the club is a player we all think is a bit of a future star.
As I said a couple of weeks ago, I think we have a very big problem mounting. Everyone in Europe knows who we want to sell. Xhaka, Ozil, Kola and Mustafi are all very well paid players, and it’s pretty clear that Arsenal are VERY keen to move them on. We have absolutely no leverage. Why would anyone go big now? Wait until we’re desperate to move them on at the end of the transfer window and see if you can nab a deal.
It’s a horrible thing to have to write, but be honest, you’d bet your house that all 4 of those players will be lining up in preseason this summer in that sweet Adidas training gear. That is going to be VERY disruptive if Emery dropped 1 out of 5 stars in their end of season reviews.
I’d like to think that we’re going to have some good news on the player front by preseason, but even that side of things appears to be moving slowly. My hope here is that we’re getting hard balled by clubs hoping to start a bidding war for their players. Celtic certainly appear to be quite firm about not losing another great player for fuck all. Maybe that’s the same across the board? Maybe small clubs are waiting to see where the first £200m signing goes before pricing their players?
I’d heard from a good place that the Zaha deal was very close with the player before the Europa League Final, the question is whether we’re still able to play in price ranges like that now we’re back in the poverty cup again.
Rumours elsewhere appear to be the same stories recycled. Saliba for £30m. Carrasco if he can escape. Whatever is going on, it’s a slow summer so far and it’s very hard not to fall into the doom trap thinking that if you don’t have the right people in place, it’s very hard to make the right decisions.
Also worth noting that almost no journalist is good with transfer rumours, so all these muppets on twitter highlighting great sources don’t know what they’re talking about. The whole transfer game is about deceit. Clubs try to move players on and attract buyers via the press. Agents constantly gas to anyone that will listen. Journalists and bloggers alike are desperate for hits so will go big without checking the veracity of the rumours. Even players are part of the game.
You can also have the most elite piece of information you can imagine… then BANG, you look like an idiot because a manager had a change of heart.
It’s a minefield out there… but one thing is for sure, it’s not good news when you’re a month into a rebuild and no one has been bought or sold.
Right, see you in the comments.
Accept on the face of it the club appear to be doing nothing?or dragging their heels? All this talk of spunking money here & there is optimistic at best.
“Yes they have been inherited a bad situation, but conversely they have also worked very hard to make it worse.”
And you will have to explain this to me pls
How exactly have they made it worse? When Raul and Emery got here we were a Europa league team with a champions league wage bill…now we are still a Europa league team with a champions league wage bill…if anything we are standing still but i can’t see how we are worse off than a year ago
China
Have you considered the possibility it is near impossible to move dud players who are paid 350k weekly. We have to pay off their contracts to moves them on, money we certainly don’t have.
I think it’s disingenuous to just say people are paid lots of money to move them out because that implies there’s some magical tool to use.
Truth is that it will take 1-2 seasons to let out the toxins from this club.
@CG
Raul may well have been part of the Ozil deal and Wenger may well not have been. I don’t know what went on behind the closed doors.
What we do know for absolute certainty though was that Gazidis was the man in overall charge who signed it off. He had the power to veto it and he didn’t.
Wenger still gets lumped in with it though because he’s the guy that spent FIVE MILLION QUID on Park Chu-Young.
China1 Jeez, i thought i was the only one who wasn’t very comfortable with how things are panning out. This summer especially has felt like any other you can name from years back. As receding states, we’re standing still which is exactly what we shouldn’t be doing in our state. If Liverpool can seel Solanke and Jordan Ibe, i see no reason why we can’t ship out some of our underperformers even if its for a lower fee but at least, we’ll be getting their wages off the bill. Can’t tell me if Xhaka or El neny or Jenkinson or… Read more »
CBs better and cheaper than Saliba (Are also first-team ready):
Lars Lukas Mai – Bayern
Jules Koundé – Bordeaux
Boubacar Kamara – Marseille
Diogo Leite – Porto
Dayot Upamecano – Leipzig
Receding
I see you’re fighting the good fight already, trying to heal the blind.
Good luck with that.
There’s no sane person who thinks Emery has made Arsenal worse. Has he solved the problems overnight?…certainly not but make us worse?
“Can’t tell me if Xhaka or El neny or Jenkinson or Mustafi were told they were not part of our plans going forward that their agents wouldn’t be looking to get them deals elsewhere.” I don’t think Xhaka has been told this Batistuta, i really think Emery rates him, draw your conclusions from that. Those who think Xhaka will not be here are in for a shock, there is a 90% chance he will be playing for Arsenal next season. As for Mustafi,Elneny and Jenkinson….i believe these players will not be Arsenal players come the start of next season. Don’t… Read more »
“he’s the guy that spent FIVE MILLION QUID on Park Chu-Young.”
The good old “panic buy”…
Dissenter the way he phrases it makes it all the more dishonest
“but conversely they have also worked very hard to make it worse.”
I mean how can you say something like that with a straight face?? What were they supposed to do about player nobody wants?? Players most of them told us were good enough and all we lacked was the manger of Rennes or Lille. Now he wants them sold.
Raul should try to negotiate a split payment for Saliba. Since they want him back for a year, we’ll withhold 80% of the payment until next year. Or better still, we’ll give them one of those players we try to sell.
RH : if only your guts could tell you the winning numbers of the lottery…
There’s a logical explanation as to why we can’t announce even the minor deals.
It seems we have to wait until after the new kit deal becomes effective on July 1st because if we roll out photo shoots now, it will be with the outgoing Puma kit.
I suspect that minor deals like Martinelli will be announced very quickly after Adidas deal formally starts.
Knoxville, to add to your list is Joseph Aidoo of Genk. Solid defender. Voted player of the year by Genk.
Watched him a couple of times and I was impressed.
Kasim Nuhu Adams of Hoffeiheim.
Both players young, technical and physically imposing.
Since no deal yet, we may as well discuss player of the unknown that have the potential to be better than what we currently parade on the pitch.
“Former Arsenal striker Kevin Campbell has told football.london in an exclusive interview that Arsenal should ‘break the bank’ in their bid to land Crystal Palace attacker Wilfried Zaha. “I would say Arsenal need to break the bank for Zaha. He’s got a proven track record in the Premier League. He can hit the ground running. “He would be an excellent addition to Unai Emery’s squad and boost their attacking options. He would also create space for [Pierre-Emerick] Aubameyang and [Alex] Lacazette to run into in dangerous areas “He can carry the ball in transition and is a dangerous player. He… Read more »
Receding
The tap dancing the said individual did about his Osei-Tutu commentary just describes him a nutshell.
We all read the comments. We all laughed at the inanity of it which made him defend it vigorously.
Now it seems it actually never happened.
“RH : if only your guts could tell you the winning numbers of the lottery…”
Tell me about it
Or even gimme some guaranteed betting odds
All it does is send messages on Xhaka
“Now it seems it actually never happened.”
He learnt from the best Dissenter
“Martinelli” ??
One of our new sponsors is a shoes brand ?? Bellerin likes this!!
It’s difficult to break the culture that seeped in over 10 years in one season. It’s certainly not easy to sell overpaid players who are determined to run down their contracts, players that other clubs aren’t lining up to sign. I was just thinking, If Emery walked away right now after a spat with the owner or board, are we really that attractive to top managers. The Arsenal project is a mid level job with the obvious squad troubles we have and low transfer budget. 6 million a year is no longer a top manager’s salary [for the ones that… Read more »
It seems Arsenal are winning the race for Saliba with the much le-grove criticized back on loan for a year to the parent club. I find the opposition to this deal a bit OTT. For all the talk of 26m, i’m sure it is including added bonuses in the form of minimum appearances, goals conceded, cups won, matches won etc. And it’s not like we are going to make a lump-sum payment here. With the parent club insisting on one year loan, i’m sure we have leveraged this request by bringing down the overall fee or the amount to be… Read more »
Highbury
What do you think of my supposition that we can’t do photo shoots or medicals till the Puma deal winds down on June 30th.
Makes sense, doesn’t it?
Indeed, I think we’ll see a ramp up in activity from next week, or what we’ll find is that we have been working this whole time but pressed pause on announcements until we could show off players in a shiny new kit.
Tyag
Spuds being able to put in a record bid so quickly after moving into a new stadium shows just how incompetent our lot were.
At the end of the day, if you’re fed a sob story for long enough, you’ll eventually start to believe it’s true. Actually, let me reword that. If your told to trust and believe in something by someone, don’t be dopey enough to sit back and say “ok, I’ll buy that. I believe you”
Yeh, that’s a much better explanation.
It’s called the Eddie Murphy syndrome.
TRUST ME.😉
The Saliba deal makes a lot of sense because we have an aging defense.
I would quibble with it if the funds are not going to short our transfer spending this summer.
If the plan is to plan beyond Emery then it’s great strategic medium term planning.
…so long as it doesn’t stop is from spending this summer [repeating]
Kevin Campbell on Zaha “He can hit the ground running”
I’ve seen Zaha play. He’s much more versatile than that. He can hit the ground in slow motion, sprinting, sideways, from a stiff breeze or even just a look sometimes. Let’s be honest, if Tom Daley is ever looking for a new partner for the synchro competition, Zaha’s got to be a candidate!
Arsenal fans need a “feel good” factor to occur.
I agree with Kevin Campbell.
Go out AFC and get Zaha.
Show us you have intent.
Just would like to point out as well that Spurs didn’t spend a penny in the previous two transfer windows and have earned over £88million alone just from their Champions League exploits this season gone by.
The season before they earned £57million alone from their run in the CL so they do have funding for transfers.
“What do you think of my supposition that we can’t do photo shoots or medicals till the Puma deal winds down on June 30th.”
All we can do is burn lots of candles, and hope it’s true.
Dissenter
I agree with everything you highlight.
“The Arsenal project is a mid level job”
Something has to happen to reignite the project.
Zaha could be the catalyst.
“Show us you have intent.”
Joke Friday already ??
Can’t wait to see pictures of Xhaka and Ozil with the new Adidas kits!!
(not funny ??)
Wan-Bissaka going to Utd then…
Lol – Wan-Bissaka is on £10k pw at Palace (21 yo; PL first team regular; England u21 international).
Obviously that’s a contract signed before he became prominent, but it really makes you think about the likes of Jenks being handed £50k pw long-term contracts years ago, and Guendouzi being handed above average PL money while still 19.
Receding, Again you rant about things I did not write. I have never said that last summer we tried to sell Xhaka. Nowhere did I mention Chelsea and Cahill! I never said that I wanted untalented players but young and hungry. It’s a given that I want talented player at Arsenal. I want hungry players, because I want players with the right attitude. Motivated rather spoilt. You are one of those who scream at Özil for his so called laziness, so you should be wanted more players with the right attitude. Talent is nothing without self motivation. Even at Manchester… Read more »
“Respected club owners have publicly stated that Arsenal have quoted them £60 millions for Xhaka and £10 millions for Koscielny. ” Can we have these quotes please?? I mean straight from the respected club owners. “You are one of the few who still refuse to acknowledge that Emery prioritised the Europa League at the tail end of the league. He underestimated lower down teams and it backfired.” How was this prioritization done?? By making three changes to the starting line up against Palace?? Changes enforced by suspensions and injuries ..we played a full strength team against Brighton. The only one… Read more »
Too long post, it’s lunch time, ffs!!
(I was talking about the Valentin Nose Best post.)
United making a statement with the Bisaka purchase
That’s a potential world-class RB and that position sorted for them for years
while over at arsenal we’re still waiting for the end of tournements or July 1 before announcing Martinelli,lol
Lol,arsenal is fast becoming a stale joke that’s no longer funny, people don’t laugh at us anymore, they rather feel sorry for us.
“I want hungry players, because I want players with the right attitude. Motivated rather spoilt.” Spoilt by who?? What’s more motivating than playing for a big club in England on nice wages?? Why are our players not model pros?? Did they lose this professionalism under Emery?? Should changing three players from the starting line up against Palace at home be enough reason to lose the game?? “In previous posts, I gave a list CBs who were available on loan or for purchase” Why list for purchase? we were not buying, that was made clear. “They did not need to be… Read more »
Lol,arsenal is fast becoming a stale joke that’s no longer funny, people don’t laugh at us anymore, they rather feel sorry for us.
Hate to break it you Vic, but our status as a “top end” football club diminished years ago, most perceive us as a joke. You even have fans from Celtic (salty perhaps) claiming they are a bigger club than Arsenal.
Left Really sad state of affairs we find ourselves, read some mug in the tabloid questioning if arsenal is a big enough a pull for fvcking Tierney.. What a joke it’s been coming for years hasn’t it and we’re in real serious danger of falling away into obscurity until probably Kroenke decides to pack up and go That said do you see the current management up to the task at all? we spent a whole month bringing in DSuarez who was really a nothing signing now we’re painfully haggling for Tierney, Saliba(who we won’t have for next season)while our rivals… Read more »
If we get Schubert, Saliba, Tierney and another young top class CB in we potentially won’t have to touch our defence or goalkeeping positions for ages outside maybe backup fullbacks. That would be such a huge difference from how the club has operated in the last decade+. could be done for about 80m, offset by the 4m for Ospina, 4m for Bennacer and 30-40m for Mustafi/Chambers/Jenks, and the fact we’re most likely deferring the bulk of Salibas fee for next season. add someone like Ziyech and Dominick to that and it’s the best window I can remember and still within… Read more »
:Points of interest from Ornsteins piece:
– Arsenal have a budget of around £45m this summer
– Arsenal like Zaha, and he likes Arsenal but we wouldn’t be able to afford him without generating finance through player sales (i.e Aubameyang)
– AC Milan have admiration for Torreira but the price makes this a non-starter and are focused on other targets (as pointed out by Marko)
– Arsenal remain in talks over Tierney and Saliba
Respected owners have said they they inquired about the availability of Xhaka, Mustafi, Mkhi, and Ozil. Raul/Vinai/Emery all took a conference call and said the lot were for sale as a bundle for £1.
The respected owners then hung up the phone one by one.
Not much more Emery could do.
Something else to raise, that if we sign Tierney and Saliba, it’s going to cost more than £45million so unless that is the extent of our dealings without major player sales I would think that this figure is indeed, untrue.
Sid H “”””Secondly, the persons in charge are not buffoons to overlook the fact “””” Well – I am not so sure: (Let’s look at The Facts….) Well they are going with Emery for season 2. Which will and everybody knows will be a total and utter disaster… *They messed up on Ramsey **Signed Lich and Suaraz ***Have apparently made Xhaka captain despite trying to sell him all summer ****Sacked Dortmund Eye – because he didn’t want Suaraz and had an opinion contrary to the 2 Spainiards. *****Appointing a Brazillian as Teck Deck-( and are still waiting for him to… Read more »
Seems some people are really struggling with the idea of getting rid of underperforming players on big contracts they think it should be easy in fact. Perfect example of the conundrum we find ourselves in is Atletico Madrid being interested in Xhaka and Llorente and instead of going for Xhaka then went for 24 year old Llorente who’s barely played the last 3 years. Fair to assume that his 25,000 a week wages had something to do with it. Even if Atletico doubled his wages it’d still be nearly half of what Xhaka earns now at Arsenal. Mustafi is another… Read more »
Vic
You think big clubs don’t haggle over transfer fees.
They just pay up the quoted fee like mugus?
Total agree with Kevin Campbell
We need Zaha
All this fluffing around the edges..
Get PROVEN Premier league players that are ready to hit the bloody ground running….
Season starts in a few weeks
Tick Tock..
Receding,
The list that I gave a few weeks ago included one purchase that was within our TW budget. Barcelona bought a CB for 500k from Toulouse in January because he was in the last year of contract. 500k is Less than Suarez loan fee!
So like I said there were possibilities that Raul ignored. Again we are not talking of world class player, just player better than Mustafi and Lichsteiner.
Vic I have full reservations against our current management. Much has been made of our previous regime in bringing in a Kim Kalstrom who came to Arsenal with a broken back (LOLS all around). Our new management bringing in Suarez who was injured doesn’t fare much better (FACEPALMS all around). I don’t think we sell well at all, and don’t think we will make enough of the changes that are required for Arsenal to be remotely competitive next season. It is looking like a difficult one at the moment, so many other teams (with ambition) will see us as there… Read more »
FL
Schubert,Tierney, Saliba won’t get us anywhere next season,
we absolutely need about 6 first team players brought in to ensure we remain in top6 not a bunch of youngsters who wont scatch a surface for us next season
at this rate we might fall behind the likes of west ham,Liecester, Everton next season also dont help those clubs have better managers than us
I for one, would never be in favour of getting rid of Auba to sign Zaha. Their respective goal tallies for the last few years are as chalk and cheese as you’ll find in footy.
Gonna be funny when we’re struggling away at Wolves again because our project youths haven’t properly adjusted and Mustafi is heading in own goals.
All on Emery from this point moving forward, he’s had the 1 year grace which most reasonable posters could afford him, if he doesn’t clear out underperforming players then he deserves whatever stick he gets next season
Valentin this center back from Toulouse that Barcelona signed how do you know he is better than Mustafi?? Because Barca signed him? Same Barca that have the much talked about Denis Suarez on their books. Jean Clair Todibo made around a dozen appearances for Toulouse before joining Barcelona. yes he is a prospect and yes he might turn out to be great and yes i agree with you those are the type of deals we should be making and at that fee. But then you ignore certain aspects, how long have Barcelona been tracking him, when was first contact made,… Read more »
Todibo? Todibo has made 12 senior appearences his whole career. Anyone trying to sell him as a viable option for last January needs to have their head examined. I can see it now in need of defensive reinforcements we bring in Todibo after 10 appearences for Toulouse and he does what exactly… Barcelona getting him for 500 k expect him to be loaned out for the next 4 years and be sold. So that’s Osei Tutu and Joe Willock should have started the Europa League final and we should have signed Todibo last January it was so obvious. Brilliant that
” if he doesn’t clear out underperforming players then he deserves whatever stick he gets next season” How does Emery affect this clear out?? Assassinations?? Contract terminations?? An Auction?? Subsidize their wages at new clubs through his own personal funds?? How does it become the responsibility of a coach with one year left on his deal to clear out players he met at a football club?? Player who will more likely than not outlast him at said club You are pointing fingers at the wrong person. And when he does bench the players to give youth a chance, Mavropranos against… Read more »
Emery tried to sign Todibo for £11m last January, but the player rejected the move. Said he only wanted to play for Barca.
Vic Did you miss where I wanted us to sign another CB a CM/CAM and a RW? of course a backup goalkeeper, a CB who won’t play with us next season and only one first team addition is not going to make much of a difference. If we add those 3 and say, Upemecano, Ziyech and Dominick ( I’m only listing players we’ve been linked to btw) it would be a very good start to our rebuild. First priority for me would be replacing Xhaka but it’s very quiet on that front so not getting my hopes up. Guessing we’re… Read more »
Diss
Yh clubs do haggle over players and thats why its called negotiating except arsenal is really shit at it,tedious, irritating and notoriously slow when closing even the simplest of deals.. Both incomings and outgoing ls
I mean don’t you see a pattern here?
United have brought in 2 signings since we started talking to the french club for Saliba
Simply saying a player moved to Barcelona and he would have chosen Arsenal is not enough. Did he actually say that? Cause that’s weird cause when I mentioned how Wenger could have signed up Varane or Umtit or Rugani in the past he was adamant that it couldn’t be down that there was nothing Wenger could have done Barcelona and Madrid had already done the work there was no chance of convincing the player. Not surprising this is a guy who while crediting the signings of Jese and Krychowiak to Emery he made excuses for the signings of Mbappe and… Read more »
Tick Tock… that’s the noise CG’s brain do, constantly.
“Wenger could have signed up Varane or Umtit”
He almost signed.
“Emery tried to sign Todibo for £11m last January, but the player rejected the move. Said he only wanted to play for Barca.”
I trust Jamie’s sources
” Wilfried Zaha – Unai Emery will ask the Arsenal board to break the bank to sign Crystal Palace forward Wilfried Zaha, who would be expected to cost around £55m (The Sun, June 24).
Lucas Vazquez – Unai Emery wants to bring the Real Madrid forward to the Emirates this summer (Don Balon, June 20).”
It seems that Emery prefers established players.
Having to choose between Arsenal and Barcelona, such a difficult choice…
Please, not The Sun…
(lol)
Jaime’s sources are legit
Marko
“Who knew it would be so hard to get rid of overpaid underperforming players?”
I think most of us did.
If we add those 3 and say, Upemecano, Ziyech and Dominick ( I’m only listing players we’ve been linked to btw) it would be a very good start to our rebuild”
Agree,these set of players could potentially make us competitive if not anything at least for top4,
Except the club hasnt given us any confidence up to now they’re capable of doing such deals
I mean going by our antecedent we just as easily if not likely bring in Tierney and Martnelli and wait for deadline day madness to put a bid for Carrasco/Fraser.that’s more like us
Ornstein confirms Arsenal want to sign Zaha and that Zaha wants to join Arsenal. Obviously a hard deal to pull off but for Ornstein to hear at this stage Arsenal want it to happen means they will be trying to make it happen. That would be a statement signing for the fan base. Changes the dynamic of our attack completely. All about the price, but we do have players like Chambers I would think Palace might be interested in. Arsenal apparently also stating they will not entertain any Milan offer below £50 Million for Torreira…spot on. The deal for Saliba… Read more »
How could we try and sign a player for 11m in January when we were technically unable to sign any players due to FFP by all accounts
Ornstein also says that they’re looking for 80 million and we’d have to sell Aubameyang or Torreira to make it happen. If it was Torreira it still wouldn’t be enough. Anyway my point from the other day still stands anything over 30 million for Zaha and I’d just look elsewhere for younger and better. Even the kinder valuations of him I still wouldn’t pay it for him.
Also again with the 45 million budget stuff. It’s basically gone with Tierney and Saliba. I just don’t see it
You just cannot guarantee that a player from abroad will click in the PL. Mustafi was a World Cup winner and all of us were drooling over his signature. Same with Xhaka when everyone was saying that he was the DM we were missing. Kolasinac was in the team of the year in Germany . All of them have been disappointing.
45m pounds upfront for Wan Bissaka, Palace not placing stock in any silly add on’s. Outrageous fee for the player though and i think it affects our Tierney negotiations. Anybody with a phone and internet access in Scotland now asking Celtic to demand a fee closer to the Bissaka fee
Trossard joins Brighton for 18m, i hope no one comes on here to whine we should have got him if he does well. I remember the consensus was that he isn’t good enough for us
“You just cannot guarantee that a player from abroad will click in the PL. Mustafi was a World Cup winner and all of us were drooling over his signature. Same with Xhaka when everyone was saying that he was the DM we were missing. Kolasinac was in the team of the year in Germany . All of them have been disappointing.”
Spot On
Pretending they were all useless and bound to fail when we bought them doesn’t change that.
Every transfer carries a risk, we are just more forgiving if they are players we personally rate
RH
it has already started in the press with Chris Sutton saying Celtic should demand a similar fee.
difference they seem to not grasp is that Tierney plays in a tin pot league whereas AWB is prem proven, also that no one else would have paid anywhere close to that fee except a desperate Man U.
Receding, Your argument was that there was nobody available during the winter transfer window. My point was that there were options available during the winter TW. Raul CHOSE to ignore those options in favour of a unnecessary deal. As he mentioned during an interview at the time, Emery would have been happy if we had signed one CB and if possible a winger. We ended up with no CB but a player who was not a winger either. Any TD worth its salt knew about Todibo and the fact that he was refusing to sign a new contract with Toulouse.… Read more »
China1 – Stan told Emery he would personally approve the spend if it meant we would land Todibo, but like I said earlier, the player would only enter into negotiations with Barca, so the deal was basically a non-starter. Emery didn’t even have a chance to discuss a staggered payment schedule in order to adhere to FFP regulations. There’s a rumour that Mustafi was offered in part-exchange, but Mustafi himself rejected a move away from Arsenal. Said he was happy and settled in London. Emery even offered to have a lengthy discussion with Mustafi about his weaknesses if he agreed… Read more »
Dissenter but that’s not reasonable to use ozil as a case as if all our dross falls equally into that category -El neny is sellable -Mikki is sellable at a low price -Mustafi is sellable at a low price -Xhaka is sellable -Kos is sellable at a low price -Ozil probably isn’t unless we make him cost pennies and get lucky with the Chinese/Turks/parisiens etc We are lamenting how there’s nothing to be done whilst utd flog lukaku for 65m to an average team in a pretty poor (football and financially speaking) league We need to get past this woe… Read more »
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-7183317/Arsenal-step-Basle-defender-Eray-Comert-talks-scheduled.html
Who is this anyone?
Xhaka earns 90k and at circa 40 mil and 26 years of age he’s not putting off Atlético on that basis. Pure conjecture.
We sold:
– Theo for 20 mil, aged 28, on 140k a week.
– Coquelin for 12 mil, aged 26, on 50k a week.
Also, odd that no fuss should be made about incomings not happening because it’s early, the club can be getting deals done behind the scenes, laying foundations etc. But somehow none of that applies to outgoings, no, we’re stuck there because fuck the wages and fuck Wenger and Gazidis.
Does AST still exist? Now is the time for them to mobilize the season ticket holders to apply pressure on the board to act in this TW.
“Any TD worth its salt knew about Todibo and the fact that he was refusing to sign a new contract with Toulouse.”
Who was our TD is January Valentin??
In fact have we ever had a TD??
Haha Jamie I’m sorry but that story doesn’t sound even a little bit realistic
Also if Stan was willing to throw 11m at emery to spend on a random unknown player I’m 100% certain he would’ve allowed him to spend it on another player instead of leaving him stuck with Suarez or nothing
Nelson theres nothing to suggest we aren’t acting though, so they will just rubbish any communication. I have a friend from uni who is part of the AST.
Fair enough on Kolasinac and Mustafi but there was alarming bells on the signing of Xhaka. His card count prior to joining was an indication of his defensive troubles
Palace want 80M for Zaha? I mean after mugging off united by scooping 50M for Bissaka? What are they smoking up there? Or could it be they just take other clubbs for fools
Let them keep him,way more value in getting Ziyech or Chiesa.
We might as well try for Sane if we intend splurging that much on a winger.
Receeding You seem to have an excuse lined up for every single criticism of either Emery or Arsenal as a whole. So tell me who do we blame for anything really or are we still just going to keep blaming Gazidis and co and saying no one wants our players so we’ll just hold on to them till their contracts expires? Isn’t it the job of the new guys whom are paid handsomely to sort out the mess they met because i really don’t understand this whole holding brief for them each time. There’s a market for every single player… Read more »
China1 –
Are you doubting my sources? Todibo was on everyone’s radar last Jan. Barca just got there first and made a fool of Emery.
Raul even called the player’s mum, and Edu (although not an employee of the club at the time) was set to fly to France to open negotiations on behalf of Arsenal, even though he was employed by someone else.
China what is funny is that what Jamie is doing is flying right over your head
Jamie sits in on negotiations at Arsenal …he is the real ITK
He knows all the “respected club owners”
Surely if Arsenal stop this Tierney nonsense ( we have Sead K- who is better)
Forget this obscene Saliba deal … ( £28 million for a teenager!!! And you wait 12 months for him- if you are lucky)
Sell Torreira ( we have AMN – who is miles better) to Milan
We have the funds for Zaha……
No excuses
And the player wants to join us.
China1
When next you’re in Italy, i owe you a beer… Man speaks so much sense
Marko, Gaslighting somebody by lying, implying falsehood is not winning an argument. Arsenal had no counter-arguments when Real Madrid sent Zidane the French icon who personally guaranteed to his parent that he would take care of Varane. Real Madrid also accepted to let him stay an extra year at his local club, so he could pass his baccalaureat. His parents wanted him to complete his education before pursuing a football career. Also like I said, as a 17 years old Italian defender if Juventus comes to court you, you are unlikely to refuse them in favour of Arsenal. Rugani made… Read more »
The club is always so soft on clubs and players too Reminds me of the wenger days when we’d inquire about a player to sign and they’d say he’s not for sale and we’d be like OH WELL WE TRIED Everyone has a price, we were just too passive and clueless to know when to push for it and be assertive and when to walk away Same with our own players. If you tell xhaka and mustafi theyll be in the reserves next season they won’t stay if we accept an offer for them These two are in their primes… Read more »
“You seem to have an excuse lined up for every single criticism of either Emery or Arsenal as a whole.” Questions not excuses …learn to differentiate You are yet to come up with workable solutions besides they are paid handsomely to sought it out. Lets say we want Mustafi out, he is on say 80k a week, a club in Germany expresses interest, out of desperation we cave in and agree he goes for free even, the club now says due to their pay structure they can only pay Mustafi 35k a week and he says no thanks …what next???… Read more »
Xhaka earns 90k and at circa 40 mil and 26 years of age he’s not putting off Atlético on that basis. Pure conjecture.
I mean he literally put them off. Xhaka 26 90,000 a week and would cost between 30-40 million. Llorente 24 on 25,000 a week and cost them 40 million euros. Maybe they are working behind the scenes on getting rid of some players I assume it but it’s a very valid point to say that it’s not easy because we’ve got overpaid and underperforming players.
Surely if Arsenal stop this Tierney nonsense ( we have Sead K- who is better)
Goodness me, when will we not have to witness such writing