Well Happy Pride Day over in London! Great to see Adidas keeping creativity levels high with that rainbow number offering. I still find it interesting that the Premier League doesn’t have a single publicly acknowledged queer person… until I read some of the comments under Arsenal’s Pride post.
… more work to be done you sense.
Same with the Arsenal transfer window.
Zaha sent out one of those tweets that a girl you used to go to school with that got pregnant at 16 would send.
‘People twisting things that I say to mean things that I didn’t say aren’t worthy my precious time’
No idea what it’s referenced to, but Zaha did speak to a reporter at AFCON.
‘I think Steven Parish is a wally and I shall strike if this isn’t resolved’
Wooooah, strong words Wilfried. Very strong words.
The Saliba story continues to chug along at a snail’s pace, Arsenal are apparently back in with another bid, believed to be £30m. That will apparently be enough to snare him, providing Spurs don’t gazump us. The player will go back on loan.
I’m not sure what that means for the rest of the defence. I’m not sure we were a left back away from making things right last season. There’s very little smoke around any other defensive names. Upamecano rumours have died a death as have any stories about defenders exiting the club. To go into the new season with one new signing would be quite spectacular unless the club truly rate some of the kids coming through. Is there a strong future ahead with Rob Holding and Mavrapanos stepping up their game next season? Worth noting that last season, we were always on for conceding 50 goals. I know it feels like we were defending like beasts before the Holding injury, but it’s simply not true.
I am fascinated to see what Emery is planning to do next season to fix the grim issues we suffered as a team last year. We were embarrassingly porous all season, and I’m not quite sure what the plan is going to be if we don’t move on some of the error-strewn players we have in the squad, things aren’t going to look much better. Adding more athleticism to the setup is obviously one step, most of the squad is sluggish and weak. Changing the system could be another thought. Or just putting more focus on a system that forces players to care a little more about their positioning and the stupid things they think about doing.
I think the really fascinating thing this summer is that we’ve not attempted to replace Aaron Ramsey, arguably one of our players of the season. Where is that drive, energy and general attacking threat going to come from? An internal promotion?
We’ll see, there’s still time to run, but this summer is looking more and more like a holding pattern than the free selling and free buying one we’d hoped for… that’s not good news for Emery if that stays the same. His coaching will have to find a new level if he’s to survive the year with the same squad. He is going to have to do some work to have the players believe in him again, that disgraceful finish is a very dark cloud hanging over his ability to strategise inspire a squad he’s had a lot of time with.
Preseason tour is in 10 days. Chop, chop Raul.
Right, that’s me done… see you in the comments x
P.S. Losing 3-1 to Boreham Wood at half time.
@Davis Smith
Copa America final is tomorrow. He might as well takes a short trip up to Colorado next week and participates in the meeting with Stan.
He scored 10 goals in 40 games last season. Which was basically his first chance in the Chelsea team. 120,000 isn’t too bad
No other way to put it
We are in lumber
Laughing stock cos of owner
Laughing stock cos of previous manager
Totally inadaquate squad
Get a spine
Leno
Papa
Torr
Lacs
Don’t cut it.
Sink or swim
Spend or promote
Leave or stay …
Calls yours Stan
Such a brilliant statement from Beppe Marotta. Arsenal should copy paste this as a press release replacing the names with Ozil and Mustafi. “When building a project, you have to find the right profiles,” Marotta told Sky Sport Italia. “We had the opportunity to speak to the players themselves, with full respect for their contractual situations, but explained the position of the club, which I think is the most important thing. “Both players know full well they are not part of our plans. That doesn’t mean we doubt their talent or capabilities, as I consider them to be two excellent… Read more »
wtf are u guys all on about Beilik for?
Where have you seen him play? How can this player help out a shitebag team?
One player from the shadows won’t help this team – a lot of work needs to happen for this club to rise again.
Beilik – holy shit :)))))
Reports: Arsenal interested in signing Cristiano Ronaldo’s good friend who wants to leave Real Madrid
Lmao, why don’t they just write marcelo? Have to somehow relate the clicks to ronaldo I suppose. Weak journalism at it’s finest.
In other news, zaha is just a slightly better oxlade chamberlain. 35 m should be offered. Tell Zaha if he really wants to come to arsenal, he needs to hand in a transfer request.
We have a Spanish head coach, and a Spain head of football.
Guess which country just won the latest U21 European Championships?
Espana!!!
If we are cash strapped as we are led to believe why aren’t we exploiting Unai and Raul’s connections to snap up their brightest youngsters before they are ridiculously expensive?
Arsenal has a strong record in bringing on Spanish youth players in Fabregas and Bellerin… use it!!!
As much as I like Zaha he is too expensive for his age. If we must spend big money on a winger I rather see £50m spent on someone like Mikael Oyarzabal, Real Sociedad’s excellent left winger… has the finishing that Iwobi lacks and is 22.
He is very much Griezmann’s successor at that club.
There’s of course Ousmane Dembele who might be available if Neymar returns to Barcelona…
If we listen to some peoples idea of squad building we will finish 14th or worse next season.
Our U23 squad isn’t even the best in their age group get we want half of them starting in the first team. How many Charlton players have any of you asked we should buy? None because they play at a low level, Bielek isn’t solving anything easily next season, He isn’t even better than Chambers.
Receding The problem is that we will never know until we give the likes of Beilik a chance. My point is I would rather have a low wage player like Bielik providing coverage for an established star than a higher wage player like Elneny or a more easily transferable player like Chambers. Chambers is worth at least 25 million in this market. Those funds ought to go get a good player who will be a starter. We need to free up funds to get good players like Zaha or Tierney who will start games. We can’t afford players with 25… Read more »
Herrera on £350,000 a week at PSG?
Games gone Jeff.
We have a situation where the 2-3 players competing for some positions in the team are all meh but too highly compensated. I would trade this with another flawed situation where we have one good player for every position and an aspiring younger player to provide coverage. That’s not perfect too but is far better. That’s the model that the likes of Spurs used for several seasons. They had a good staring 11 and then a plunge. It would be uneconomical in light of out current plight to have players like Chambers [with a good transfer value] provide the same… Read more »
‘Herrera on £350,000 a week at PSG?Games gone Jeff’
Nah…it’s PSG who have just been shafted in the behind with a palm tree.
What happened then?
To me it is symptomatic of the game eating itself.
Yannick Carrasco’s club has replaced their manager with Raphael Benitez. He most likely will be open to selling the Belgian to bring his own players in.
Why not try for him again?
Similar age to Zaha, proven international with personal terms already agreed.
If Özil was open to it, we could even propose a swap?
On transfermarkt Özil is valued just under £22.5m (?!?) and they clearly wouldn’t have a problem with his wages…
*£25m not £22.5m
Sorry, but we need to push the boat out for Zaha.
Straight in the team. No integration. No giving him a season to adapt. No issues. Super player. Loves Arsenal. Lives near his Mum.
Get him!
We pay a player with a transfer value of 25 million 350k wages weekly.
Up the Arsenal.
Herrera is a 7.5/10 player. Those wages are a joke
Napoli have now got two clubs that are willing to pay 15m – 20m for their LB apparently Mario Rui which are Torino and Benfica and is expected to be done within a week, After they get rid of hin a bid is then expected from them for Tierney,
‘Sorry, but we need to push the boat out for Zaha.’ Boat already out, Graham, and Zaha sailing back with it. We are just hanging Palace on the rope to dry a bit. They have always known they have to sell at some stage, and now the player has spoken through his brother, they know the time is now…… Arsenal know too. Palace would be sufficiently stupid to think they could keep a player like Zaha against his wish, he is too rich in character for that. And the best bit about it….. the player chose us, and I can… Read more »
What does elnehny offer which belik can’t? Please, what are elnehny’s positives as a player?
“I still find it interesting that the Premier League doesn’t have a single publicly acknowledged queer person… ” Why should it? A person’s sexual orientation shouldn’t define them and shouldn’t matter to anyone else. What is this obsession with pushing ‘Pride’ and some gay people grasping for attention purely on the basis of the sex they’re drawn to? I get bored to the back teeth with all this attention seeking and virtue signallying stupidit and people feeling that because of their orientation they have to strip off most of their clothes and march around with inflatable penises. Just treat everyone… Read more »
Now, getting back to the footy… I was really worried about this transfer window before the season ended. As I feared, there seems to be no plan, no clear list of targets to add to augment a particular footballing ethos. If the journos are correct we are still sniffing around players with no resale value after their contracts would be expected to end. We are weak across the back line but there’s no apparent urgency to fix our biggest problem, beyond Tierney. Arsenal is looking like a car crash behind the scenes. We should have planned properly and have done… Read more »