Welcome Edu (please hurry)

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Oh man… I’m err… gonna do this.

Mustafi changed his Instagram bio and REMOVED the links to Arsenal.

Could it mean something?

Who knows. I really, really, really hope so.

Edu. The mightiest of Brazilians just oversaw a win in the Copa America. One more week and he lands back in the land of London Colney. That’s great news. We’re hiring in someone who can build a winning machine. Hooooray!

Sevilla is rumoured to be interested in Mikhi. That’s lovely, but I would imagine his salary would land them about 17 players, so not sure this one has much juice to it.

Kurzawa of PSG. Yes, that left back who always looks REAL cool in the stands, has apparently been told he can leave. Big fan of Emeryball? No doubt. Get on that overlap you absolute beauty.

Ok… I’m going to do it again… Kieran Tierney’s pals reckon the left back is going to stay at Celtic for another season. FFS… we couldn’t push it over the line. Still not quite sure about the sleuthing here. What sort of weirdo is keeping tabs on Tierney’s mates? Why is there ALWAYS a weirdo keeping tabs on football players bios? Why am I writing about it?

Anyway, I wouldn’t be surprised if we pulled the plug on the left back, because that’s old Arsenal, quibbling over £3m to make a useless point then wrapping a comfort blanket excuse around it like, ‘that’s Arsenal class.’ Fuck efficiency. Art of the Deal all the way.

Arsenal, who have managed to move on ONE player all summer, will want to punch themselves in the face when they read this:

🚨Bournemouth have sold Tyrone Mings for £26.5m! A player that has made about 17 appearances in 4 seasons!🚨

What the fuck is going on in Raul’s office? Bournemouth can sell an absolute nobody for £26.5m, and we can’t shift Calum Chambers, Fulham’s player of the season, for a single bloody sausage?

Sometimes I wonder if Raul just needs someone cranking those phones. I’ve worked in recruitment before. Just work out your script and start crushing digits.

‘Good afternoon, my name is Peter Wood, I’m representing the Yellow Sticker department at Arsenal football club, may I speak to your chief buyer?’

‘Well howdy doody, I have many fine products that are hot out the oven, with many genuine buyers interested. To name but a few: A World Cup Champion who is good with concentration, a young player with sturdy legs, a mercurial Germanturkishman with very fine taste in autocrats, a Swiss who always took charge of the spare key, and a Bosnian that will run and run and sometimes act if you ask him nicely. What takes your fancy?’

Easy.

Give me a commission. Say, 5% of every deal, reckon I’d be able to shift them in a week. How hard can it be?

Other things we could do:

  • Offer to buy out their contracts
  • Tell them not to bother coming to training at all, totally shut them out
  • Sell them at literally nothing. Zero transfer fee, just to get them off the books. Because honestly, what is the fucking point in keeping these absolute wasters in the squad for another season? If we don’t take the hit on the books now, we’ll take it in the dressing room and on the pitch all season.

Ok, some of those ideas are a touch extreme. But sheesh, there is NO other club in the world that makes it easier to be an absolute bum than Arsenal.

There’s even a club photo of Ozil, Kola and Mustafi just hanging out.

I am TRIGGERED. How dare they just, you know, walk about together.

I heard through the grapevine that Emery split the kids and the first team from eating meals together at the training ground. No idea why he’d do something like that, maybe he’s trying to create some ambition in the youth ranks, John-Jules out there dreaming of eating a sandwich next to Nacho Monreal is probably how he ended up on the plane to America… regardless, are the players we want eating meals with everyone else? Are we testing their resolve on any level whatsoever?

‘No Ozil, eat your profiteroles roll on that dirty beanbag in the corner, you lazy boy’

Real Madrid seem to be shipping their dross out with absolute ease. What is our problem?

Tyrone Mings for £26.5m! HOW?!

Maybe none of this matters. Raul was just keeping the preseason warm for Edu? Hopefully he has some really fucking great ideas about who he wants to bring with him.

My MAJOR hope is that he doesn’t ship in 15 of his mates. I hope he’s a true pro. He needs a new chief scout, I hope he finds the smartest person doing the most mental things with data you could imagine, unearthing gems in untapped markets, perhaps helping small clubs bat well above their average.

My point is that I hope we’re hiring in a professional. Someone that knows the market. Someone that interviews for the job, you know, best candidate wins like the old days. Hopefully, he has an idea in his head about where the next frontier in football is located. Has a contacts books that can help him. Leans into that contacts book and seeks advice from good people.

We’ll see, but whatever happens, we need something to ignite our dismal post-season. To start training with literally one Brazilian that wasn’t even playing at the highest level is a touch miserable, especially considering how quickly we attacked our business in Sven Mislintat’s first summer.

Right, that’s me done. See you tomorrow. I’m back on the 9am run people.

xx

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Guns of Hackney

Good post, Peter. Can you imagine mealtimes at a football club? 24 idiot footballers staring at that pointy thing and the other pointy thing and the round thing in front of them…disaster. As for Edu. No. Sorry. Monchi? Nope. Overmars? Nope. I fail to see why Edu has anything over these two that qualifies him for the mess at Arsenal. My guess, he did an Emery in the interview and star wiped the shit out of his PowerPoint presentation and blew Stan out of the water by throwing in some LA Rams stats. This is a non starter for me.… Read more »

China1

Well guns arsenal are a shambles that much is true I’m hopeful about edu, so I’ll reserve judgment there and keep my fingers crossed tho But we suck at buying and selling. It’s really curious that last summer we had sven here and got business wrapped up pretty efficiently. He leaves and we’re back to the arsenal of old where we’re asked to ‘be patient’ and ‘trust the club knows what it’s doing’ as the weeks tick by whilst club suits haplessly shrug their arms in dismay that everything doesn’t work itself out nicely and that good deals don’t just… Read more »

Mysticleaves

“…Offer to buy out their contracts
Tell them not to bother coming to training at all, totally shut them out
Sell them at literally nothing. Zero transfer fee, just to get them off the books. Because honestly, what is the fucking point in keeping these absolute wasters in the squad for another season? If we don’t take the hit on the books now, we’ll take it in the dressing room and on the pitch all season.”

Wonder how we can achieve this without the owner helping out in some capacity WITH CASH!. You don’t wonder Pedro?

China1

I just read that mustafi was responsible for ALL 3 goals we conceded against palace. I don’t really remember in detail but reading that got a proper belly laugh out of me at my hotel breakfast table

But was I surprised? No lol

China1

Mystic I doubt we need to buy out their contracts but we have a lot of cash sitting idle in the bank

Guns of Hackney

China

You have more hope than a virgin at a dance. I admire your moxy.

HighburyLegend

“Mustafi changed his Instagram bio and REMOVED the links to Arsenal.”

Yes please, YES!!

(welcome Edu!!)
(and…. good luck!!)

Chris

If it is true that Arsenal are hesitant at £25 million for Tierney, but yet willing to spend another 25 on another young defender and loan him back for a year, that is just ridiculous.

From the outside, Arsenal appear to be terribly run, and understandable why they are a figure of fun to others within the industry.

Biggles

The reason Bournemouth can shift Tyrone Mings with ease is because apparently he was on less than £14k a week. We pay Ozil more than 25 TIMES as much.

Ishola70

You know things are slow when Ricardo Rodriguez is linked again for the umpteenth time.

Guns of Hackney

I’m surprised Benzema hasn’t been linked yet. The last 12 years without fail.

Gourcuff?

KAY Boss

Honestly why Sven was sacked remains a mystery. Last summer by now, most of our transfers were done. But his departure has brought back the sadness LG yesteryear.
Most of his signings were OK except Litch. Don’t u guys think they might be deliberately be delaying Tierney’s deal? Just may be, imo

CG

Daily Telegraph 16/7/00 “””””His brother, Jean, told The Telegraph from Sao Paulo that Edu, who was deported from England last week because of a couterfeit Portuguese passport””””” In summary That is all you need to know about Edu. He is in London for the money and The Easy Life. 5 year deal. 16 bedroom Villa in Sao Paulo in it’s way… (No Boats will be rocked under his Reign.) Only at Arsenal in 2019 – would we re- engage his services after the strokes he pulled to get here in the first place. (He used his fake European passport just… Read more »

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

Typical arsenal

Sometimes the way this club is run drains you don’t it.

The tiernay deal just shows.

Unless it’s under 8m they can’t wrap a present.

Like Montreal but fuck off tons new deal for him.

Pedro right
We should be getting 25 m for chambers

Freddie Ljungberg
R.S.P.C.Arsenal

Guns

Our pampered players probably have nurses spoon feeding them there food…

Open wide Mr iwobi …here comes the train Choo Choo

CG

“KAY B

“”””Honestly why Sven was sacked remains a mystery.”””””

It’s hardly Agatha Christie- he was sacked by Raul – so he could gain compete power in the post Gazidas days.

Raul has more power than any other executive or figure in English football- maybe with the exception of Levy.

He chooses managers
He chooses coaches
He chooses Teck Decks
He chooses players
He chooses everything
And he is unaccountable to no one ( except silent Stan)
And that’s why we have Edu and Emery in position of influence.

Because they are Yes Men Patsys.

T..H

HighburyLegend

“we can include Pierre in the deal.”
lol

KAY Boss

Tierney, no deal yet? Saliba no deal yet? Neither any links to a good CB and CM. will the season be better than last, sigh, SMH😴😴😴

HighburyLegend

“#FenerWaitingForYouMesut”

“#ArsenalWaitingForYouMesutToGetTheF*ckOut”

Just Another Customer

All those hopeful hopes in the last few paragraphs. Nothing good will come of it. I’m expecting to be disappointed (again) at the closing of transfer window.

Nelson

I still remember Raul said in that famous Arsenal interview.

“We have a PLAN. We have already talked to many people”

That was about two months ago.

Biggles

I would be so excited if we got rid of Ozil. The sad thing is, I was excited about his signing when he first arrived. World cup winner, Real Madrid star. Record signing and still young! His first couple of seasons weren’t quite good enough. We were a bit underwhelmed.And we figured it was the lack of a clinical striker to finish off his wonderful passes because Giroud, Podolski, Bendtner and Sanogo were average to utter garbage. So we swapped some of them out for Sanchez and Welbeck… and it was still a bit underwhelming. And 15/16 happened where he… Read more »

Receding Hairline

“As a result, the Gunners are seeking to make a small initial payment this summer given Saliba will not be available to represent the club for another 12 months, a move which would also enable them to keep the vast majority of their modest £40m transfer budget for other targets.

However, there is growing confidence that an agreement can be reached with Saint-Etienne.”

From the Standard

I can get on board with this and gladly apologize to Marko if it turns out like this

Mysticleaves

Was Sven sacked though? He walked away. And was poached by the mighty sttuggart in lower German league. Also I feel I might have to point out that Sven made a lot of messy sideways signings even for Dortmund. He has been found out too now he’s no longer there. Their recruitment this past 2 seasons have been top top notch

Dissenter

Mystic
Regarding your Mislintat comments
Don’t become the new dissenter, nothing good comes out of dissing the great Mislintat. You will face endless dog abuse.
A word they say…is enough for the wise.

Cesc Appeal

Yeah if you end up in a Division 2 side when you are supposedly a transfer savant that says a lot.

I thought he would walk out of Arsenal and straight into Chelsea or Munich or forbid even Spurs. The fact Stuttgart offered him the best deal says a lot.

Seems a difficult character to work with and has ideas above his competency.

Dissenter

These tabloids are funny
They write us these conjectures then feel compelled to make the story more realistic by adding that now famous £40 million budget.

It’s as if Arsenal had an intern ring up every sports editor in the land; ‘our transfer budget is 40 million’.

Mysticleaves

Lols Dissenter you have to pass the info now to cesc.

Sven is a difficult character anyways. Fell out with Klopp, Tuchel and Arsenal hierarchy. Says alot.

Edu will be more important than our head of recruitment really and I think Cagigao will do just fine. He’s made important discoveries for us since he’s been here

Mysticleaves

Madagascar doing the unthinkable in the afcon though. Topped their group, defeating Nigeria. Won against favourites Congo and will face Ghana in the quarter finals. In their first ever appearance.

Meanwhile people’s favourites, Egypt, booted out by South Africa, Cameroon, the defending champions outed by Nigeria. (Egypt and Cameroon played the final of the last edition). Who’s next to fall?

Enjoyable afcon so far

Dissenter

Mystic I used to be the John the Baptist here, arguing that Sven’s business for Arsenal was at best a mixed picture. I used to tell Pedro that the real success at BVB came from Michael Zorc the DOF who’s been there for over two decades. Most of what Sven did or tried to do was replay the old Dortmund number one hits for Arsenal. He was found out very quickly. You still have people here who will credit future signings that Arsenal makes in 2025 to Sven’s planning. . It’s like we never had scouts before Sven. It’s like… Read more »

Wasi

Pedro
That Kurzawa is just another kolasinac with better hairstyle.Psg playing even Bernat aheaf if him in their games.

Marko

Real Madrid seem to be shipping their dross out with absolute ease. What is our problem? Glad you ask. Eh the likes of Hernandez, De Thomas, Llorente and Cabellos not only have teams interested in them but they’re on very modest wages. There’s an upside to them with their age as well. They were very fortunate as well that Chelsea were desperate. As for us we just have poor performing some some very overpaid dross that is not so easy to get rid of. But here’s hoping that there’s something in the Ozil/Mustafi rumours. Here’s also hoping that Monreal and… Read more »

Marko

That’s a no to Kurzawa too

Dissenter

Magadascar looked very good against Nigeria though. They know how to play with the ball on the ground.
All their players are in lower division clubs. I don’t expect those players to move to bigger clubs because let’s face it , there’s not enough space on jerseys to capture their long names 😀

Dissenter

*Michael Zorn

Nelson

No one watch yesterday’s Gold Cup. That 20 years old Pulisic is a good attacking midfielder. He is fast with the ball and has a good shot.

Marko

I can get on board with this and gladly apologize to Marko if it turns out like this

No no half our budget will be gone and we’ll be stuck in a scenario with little to no money left waiting for a player to arrive in a year.

Dissenter

Nelson
Let’s see how fast Pulisic will be playing in the premier league.
The Good cup is a bloody waste of summer time. Of all the competitions this summer. It’s the one that’s sucked the most.

Dissenter

Take the apology Marko
Sheeeeeze

Marko

His name is Zorc

Dissenter

‘His name is Zorc’
Thanks Marko. I got it right the first time.

Ishola70

All of these international summer tournaments have been low key really.

Plenty of empty seats in the Brazilian stadiums for the Copa America games and very small crowd for the Cameroon v Nigeria match in the African tournament the other day.

Dissenter

Robbie [ASTV] needs to cut down the transfer daily stuff to a weekly show
What’s the point of running with every half-rumor?

I guess I know the answer to that question.

TBone

Your daily reminder that Ozil is an overpaid, underperforming wastrel prick. He’s been taking the piss out of the club since he joined and trousering millions in the process. As long as he continues leeching off the Arsenal, we won’t have a cohesive squad.

Dissenter

Didn’t anyone see Jesus cry yesterday?
Jesus even attacked the VAR station

…Jesus wept

bennydevito

Afternoon Grovers, good post Pedro. Seeing all our deadwood parading around in the new kit is so depressing! For me the absolute minimum was Mustafi, Elneny, Ozil and Mkhitaryan gone. Then if we got a new CB and LB get rid of Koscielny and Monreal and then depending on getting a Ramsey replacement we could shift on Xhaka if the price was right. I would keep Chambers and Jenkinson as backups or make weights in other deals. But at the moment we’ve lost Ramsey on a scandalous free, Cech has retired and we didn’t even give Welbeck a squad role… Read more »

bennydevito

Dissenter,

Lol!

Nelson

I am still waiting to see how Raul outsmarts the market.

Leedsgunner

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/arsenal/arsenal-to-complete-25m-william-saliba-transfer-and-keep-majority-of-40m-summer-budget-a4184681.html I think this deal is a good deal only if we are allowed to make a minimum down payment considering we are not seeing the player for another year. Then sell Elneny for £15m, Jenkinson for £5m, Monreal for £5m… and you have Saliba paid for… to hand over to St. Etienne provided he is not coming to us injured. Personally I would keep Chambers as a useful squad player but if Emery doesn’t rate him… don’t mess about — sell him. As I pointed out yesterday if Bournemouth can sell a fringe player for £26.5m why can’t we?… Read more »

Nelson

I like Jesus. He is passionate. Exact opposite to the stone faced Micki who didn’t give a shit about the team. “I am afraid to go there and play.” As if he was asked to go there alone.

bennydevito

I wanted us to sign Ake, along with Lascelles. Seeing as Newcastle are now manager less we should be all over Lascelles quick sharp with a £30m bid.

HighburyLegend

Nah… I wouldn’t believe in him that much.
(hard to resist to this one)

Mysticleaves

Dissenter. Needless to say, you got Sven right. Marko atleast acknowledge that? Cos you always jump on the ones he gets wrong. Lol.

Really, I think chambers is the easiest player we have to be sold. He’s got good attributes and performed well last season. Is on modest wage that won’t be a problem for PL clubs. That he’s not being sold yet may point to the fact we may have use for him this season

Mysticleaves

“I wanted us to sign Ake, along with Lascelles. Seeing as Newcastle are now manager less we should be all over Lascelles quick sharp with a £30m bid.”

See what I mean? Ake or Lascelles ain’t better than defenders we have here. Imagining selling Mustafi and signing Lascelles with a negative net spend

Nelson

Christopher Nkunku has put his move to RB Leipzig on hold as he reportedly waits for an offer from Arsenal according to L’Equipe

For €15m and at 21 years old, is it time to outsmart the market?

Ishola70

He’s got potential Nkunku.

Interesting that RB Leipzig are after him.

Ishola70

Mystic

We have seen Mustafi make so many blunders in an Arsenal shirt who is to say that Lascelles or Ake wouldn’t do “better”.

Can understand wanting higher grade than those two but as direct comparison Mustafi doesn’t shout clearly better really.

Marko

Lascelles quick sharp with a £30m bid.

I don’t get how so many around here rate Lascelles but seemingly everyone else couldn’t care less about him as a footballer. He’s 25 btw nothing about him screams worth 30 million or even better than the crap we have now.

Ishola70

Well he makes less blunders than Mustafi for a start playing in the same league against same opponents.

But I suppose Mustafi gets bonus points straight off the bat because he plays for Arsenal rather than Newcastle or Bournemouth.

bennydevito

Ake and Lascelles are much better than Mustafi, it amazes me that some of you can’t see this. They would be relatively cheap in comparison to your Maguires and VVDs and no the Premier league.

Receding Hairline

Lascelles plays in a team that most of the time could not be bothered to cross the half way line and even then dropped quite a few clangers little i watched of him last season. Guess it’s his physique that deceives many, tall, strong, relatively quick.

Wouldn’t be the worst signing at say 10-12m pounds but 30m you having a laugh

Graham62

Pedro

“Real Madrid seem to be shipping out their dross with absolute ease. What is our problem?

For the life of me, I can’t fathom it out either.

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that they are called Real Madrid and that their dross is a damn sight better than our dross.

What do you think?

bennydevito

*know the premier league.

Marc

If we can get rid of Mustafi and Ozil I’ll be ecstatic.

That will only leave Xhaka as the “what’s he gonna fuck up today” player we have to deal with.

Ishola70

I wouldn’t pay 30m for Lascelles either but people have got to realise that Mustafi is just an indisciplined player with mistakes just waiting to happen every other game and there are players that will make less defensive errors than him even those that play at less fashionable clubs.

Marko

Klopp seemingly wants Firpo. Around 30 million and a possible player. I would prefer him to Tierney. Could probably get more or less the same deal with Monreal or whoever involved in the deal

Batistuta

Still nothing but stupid conjecture from the tabloids.

Raul and co seemingly clueless as to how to either buy or sell anyone of note. No difference whatsoever to the Wenger years but but we should be patient and stop moaning on a blog.

Arsenal fans forever making excuses for those in charge and their incompetence

Ishola70

Receding Hairline
“Lascelles plays in a team that most of the time could not be bothered to cross the half way line and even then dropped quite a few clangers little i watched of him last season”

That’s a lazy analysis isn’t it really.

You could just as easily say that Mustafi has less defending to do than in comparison to Lascelles but is still a pain in the arse for the team.

Marko

Ake and Lascelles are much better than Mustafi, it amazes me that some of you can’t see this

I wouldn’t be confident in that they’re much better. Expensive yes but much better. I wouldn’t discount Ake cause he’s shown signs of potential but Lascelles hasn’t shown much in my eyes.

Ishola70

Liverpool can think of buying a player like Firpo as bench/back-up.

Makes ya sick.

Receding Hairline

“You could just as easily say that Mustafi has less defending to do than in comparison to Lascelles but is still a pain in the arse for the team.”

Mustafi is a problem yes but let’s no go overboard. This idea every defender not named Mustafi is better is flawed. That’s the narrative you are peddling, it’s a false narrative

Ishola70

Receding

Lascelles makes less blunders than Mustafi playing in the same league against same opponents.

I can’t for the life of me see why anyone would want to “defend” the name of Mustafi or Xhaka on here.

They are both absolute liabilities for the team.

Marko

Ishola we CAN sign players like Firpo too we just don’t have the financial muscle and the ambition to do it. At the end of the day we all can see the struggles we’re having this summer. We’re struggling because we’re trying to tie up (I’m assuming) quite a few deals but all on a budget. Whether it’s 45 million or 70 million we’ve still got a budget. Liverpool wouldn’t have a budget necessarily and that would help with going that extra bit towards getting a player like Firpo. A shame we couldn’t get help for this summer

Receding Hairline

“I can’t for the life of me see why anyone would want to “defend” the name of Mustafi or Xhaka on here.”

You really need to see someone on this Xhaka thing…seriously

Ishola70

No Receding

Nobody needs to see anybody regarding Xhaka.

Arsenal are poor defensively and have been for too long and Mustafi and Xhaka are the most defensively suspect players in important defensive positions.

It’s that simple.

You can keep defending everything about Arsenal on here.

Others want the team improved and don’t care about pride in keep defending everything about the club.

Receding Hairline

Ishola let me get you straight

Is Mustafi the worst defender in the world??

Are you saying it is not possible to sell Mustafi and end up with someone worse??

What has “defending all things Arsenal” got to do with it?? If Arsenal disgust you so much why continue torturing yourself??

Marko

I just don’t want Lascelles signed to replace anyone. I’m not defending anything I just don’t think that’s he’s that good. Would he still come with that English premium even though he’s never played for England outright? Or does a couple of under 21 appearences count towards an extra few million.

CG

Syria v North Korea playing 1530 GMT

International Friendly

Maybe Raul and Co….can ‘outsmart the market’ and scout for some hidden Gems here.
Bloody Clowns- the Lot of Them.
Bloody Fools – who believe in Them
*******

Good to see BD on here talking sense.

(About British players and British talent in the English Prem)

The boy has come on Leaps and Bounds…..

Receding Hairline

This idea that anyone but the players we have is an improvement is flawed beyond reason. Champagne Charlie touched on it here once. There is no grantee the people we bring in will be better so we have to get it right considering the lack of funds. We have to be pretty sure the players we are bringing in have a ceiling, a room for improvement

Bringing in La whatever at the prescribed 30m pounds no less at 25 years old, is he going to get better?? what are his strengths?? Not making errors isn’t a standout ability

Ishola70

Receding You were defending Wenger on here in his last seasons and his players as well. Now you do the same with Emery. I mean it’s nice ‘n’ all that you are so loyal online but really when shit is around the club it needs to be pointed out not hidden under the carpet and pretend it’s not there because of some sense of loyalty to the club. Mustafi is not the worst defender in the world but there are more than enough that would do a better job for Arsenal than he has been doing these last few seasons.… Read more »

Marko

I don’t think that we’re improving our defence with any defenders from Newcastle United. Call me crazy I know

Receding Hairline

“I mean it’s nice ‘n’ all that you are so loyal online but really when shit is around the club it needs to be pointed out not hidden under the carpet and pretend it’s not there because of some sense of loyalty to the club.” Nonsense sorry to say We are discussing upgrades to Mustafi, yes upgrades. You are selling a POV that whoever we get will be an upgrade because Mustafi makes errors, thats nonsense. Not making errors does not a good player make. Your obsession with a team with no flair has been obvious from day one, every… Read more »

Nelson

I could hardly recognize Elneny, who has a new hard cut. Now that he is a new man, he may want to start his carrier all over again. Best of luck!

Receding Hairline

“You were defending Wenger on here in his last seasons and his players as well.”

I have been commenting here for a year max so this idea i was a militant Wenger defender you roll out anytime i challenge your ridiculous obsession with a certain Swiss midfielder is laughable

HighburyLegend

“Mustafi is not the worst defender in the world ”

He’s clearly in the “top 3 calamities”, imo.

Cesc Appeal

Rumours that if we were able to get Malcom on loan we would have to commit to purchasing him next summer for £36 Million.

I would strongly consider that, potentially allows us to buy Zaha this summer and completely address the wide areas especially with the potential addition on Tierney as well.

Receding Hairline

“I don’t think that we’re improving our defence with any defenders from Newcastle United. Call me crazy I know”

Well any defender improves us because ours are the worst in Europe …Ishola’s nuggets

Even a one legged midfielder will improve us because they will be better than Xhaka….Ishola’s nuggets

Cesc Appeal

Willock officially promoted, No.28 shirt

Ishola70

Receding

Are you coming out as a “Wenger” boy here?

A team can still have flair but also be defensively responsible and have defenders that are responsible in the right positions.

It shouldn’t be a case of either or.

I mean that’s straight out of Wenger’s handbook all this stuff about if a person asks for some responsible defenders it means no flair in the side. It’s nonsense. It’s Don Quixote Wengersque nonsense.

Ishola70

Unbelievable.

This team has conceded 44 more goals than Spurs over three seasons which is a disgusting stat but still we have posters impying ah well it ain’t that bad.

It is bad and not good enough for Arsenal.

CG

If Arsenal fail to change their manager next season they will off course fail to make CL and all the riches it entails.

Surely then- next summer’s paltry budget will be eaten up by the deferred Saliba Payments?

(A huge gamble…)

The Saliba 20/21 deal is an absolute nonsense. (Its Raul making out he has a Long Term plan.)

If he is any good .Buy him now OR dont bother.

I dont see Juventus waiting a year for De Ligt??
They ,rightly want him now.

( both roughly the same age??)

Receding Hairline

“Willock officially promoted, No.28 shirt”

who had that shirt before??

Receding Hairline

“This team has conceded 44 more goals than Spurs over three seasons which is a disgusting stat but still we have posters impying ah well it ain’t that bad.”

yes that is exactly what is being implied by newcastle defenders cannot improve us

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