Unai Emery pulled a magic trick out of his hat. He used the powers of youth to completely disguise that Arsenal hadn’t added a single first-team player to the squad this season and we’re three games into preseason.
Quite amazing to be having a 2012 like conversation after all the backroom upheaval to address exactly this.
Before I push on into the game. I’m also finding the strategy for moving certain players on a touch baffling. If we’re serious about selling anyone, why are we starting them on this tour? Mustafi and Jenkinson should both be getting their marching orders, but we have them stinking out the tour instead? Seems a very odd way to go about things.
Anyway, the game didn’t really tell us much about the upcoming season, other than it looks like it’s going to feel very familiar unless something very aggressive happens in the next two weeks.
Our defence seems to have honed its ability to leak good chances. Fiorentina were very poor but found ways to get in behind us time and time again. It doesn’t seem to matter what system we play, we’re a disaster. It obviously doesn’t help when you have Mustafi in the starting 11, but look, it’s not me putting him there.
My major worry is this: Emery has zero pedigree with defences. He averaged 49 goals a season at Sevilla. He took PSG from 17 goals, to 27, to 29. He couldn’t better Wenger’s tally last year, dropping 51 goals despite adding a keeper, 2 defenders and 2 defensive-minded midfielders. Where does the progression come from? Nothing in history to suggest he can change things.
Moving forward we looked interesting. Eddie had a really good game. He finished very well twice. Those chances haven’t been going in when it comes to competition time. I’m of the mind that he should go out on loan this season and see if he can work on his decision making. He needs to get some teeth. I know as fans we always lose our minds with kids on preseason, but the reality for Eddie is that Emery is not going to give him many chances this season because he has Laca and Auba… so maybe he should take the move out and force his hand in the back half of the year.
I also enjoyed seeing Willock on the scoresheet again. He really does have to be ready this season, at 19, it’s a big ask, but he does look the most ready. He’s focused, he has the physicality and he can be decisive. Let’s hope Emery doesn’t bottle it.
I also thought Gabriel looked sharp… he has a lot of pace and power. That long run he made was very exciting. It’ll be interesting to see what the club does with him. Can he cut it in the first team? A huge ask if we’re honest, but you never know… I guess it’s dependent on how badly we fuck our big signings.
I was watching with my dad. He made the point that we might as well give the kids a shot, because if it’s mistakes the manager is worried about… he’d not keep playing Mustafi and Xhaka. Let’s hope he doesn’t get consumed by the panic of his job situation and move away from his youth focus.
In other news, there’s hot talk that United are in for Auba for £62m. Arsenal fans are furious at the thought of us moving him on. I love Auba, I think he’s a joy to watch at times, however, if there’s huge money on the table for a 30-year-old, we should take it and progress the squad. As things stand, we’re finishing no higher than 5th this season… if £80m gets us Zaha and Pepe, we’re in a more solid grounding next season… we might also be able to kick this Tierney deal over the line.
Holding onto your best 30-year-olds when you’re skint isn’t progression in my opinion. Especially when they only have two years left on their deal.
Right, dine out on that my friends.
What did YOU think? See you in hell (comments).
Add ons can work when signing a younger player or a player that is not certain of being a starter in the first XI. Add ons relating to the individual player rather than relating to the team he is sold to. Even a striker of any age can have add ons in relation to number of goals he scores.
But Arsenal going for CL add ons is just desperation mode and is because they can’t think of anything else that would lower the price at purchase.
Absolutely embarrassing our negotiations this summer. Almost like an Intern is the one in charge and we’re just going throwing stones and hoping something sticks.
July 22nd and yet some advocate some kind of patience, which is something earned and so far this summer, it’s been an absolute drag
“When was the last time a top English club struggled to afford an obscure Scottish left back most people had never heard of before?”
Obscure Scottish Leftback?? He plays for the biggest club in Scotland, has picked up nine Trophies since his debut and made 41 appearances in Europe most of it in the Champions league. Celtic do not have many assets they can sell better than Tierney.
You can criticize the nature of the dealing without going overboard
Don you racist mong
Yeah sure. We should have extended Welbeck a crocked player that was aready on 100k a week and sat back and waited for someone to offer us 20m. Could have taken a while….
Wilshere is broken and was on 120k a week, no one was going to pay any money for him.
We should have sold Ramsey. I’m not arguing that, he was never going for 40m though, then we would have sold in a flash.
Gbat “I don’t remember reading of bids for Ramsey.Maybe there were bids. Or more likely, Ramsey had big offers that he knew he’d only get if he was out of contract.” Exactly. Ramsey running down his contract was a win not only for him but for the buying club. Ramsey gets big move, big signing on fee and buying club only has wages to worry about. Juventus probably had feelers out to Ramsey for a long enough period before his contract expired. Ramsey can shed a tear for the cameras last game of the season but he went and left… Read more »
So receding if you cast a poll here of who had heard of tierney before this summer I think you’d struggle to find more than a few people. It’s not overboard to call him obscure, he’s not exactly a major name in world football is he? He’s so well known and high profile that for 25m we seem to be the only club showing any interest whatsoever
I don’t doubt he’s a good player and I’ll be happy to have him if so, but he’s an obscure Scottish player. Ain’t no telling me otherwise
Ishola70
Raul said in his interview that Ramsey had unbelievable offers that Arsenal just couldn’t match. And so he decided to see out his contract.
Arsenal offered Welbeck a contract and he also decided to leave on a free.
But you get some on here saying we didn’t want to sell our are too incompetent. I’m pretty sure the club would have liked a transfer fee for both.
Also biggest club in Scotland, sure but that’s a sales pitch right there because Scotland is a pub league. Celtic are entirely irrelevant to major European football
Bellerin is not even a particularly good footballer and still gets talked of as a 30-50m RB, so if Tierney wasn’t obscure he’d surely be fetching a lot more money than 25
Also you can’t count trophies at a club like Celtic lol.
That’s like winning with psg Bayern or juve. You can show your face and smiley and pick up at least two trophies a year.
Tierney ceases to be an obscure player when he’s a household name and has lots of major clubs fishing around him each year
Us and a meh Napoli isn’t there yet
“I don’t doubt he’s a good player and I’ll be happy to have him if so, but he’s an obscure Scottish player. Ain’t no telling me otherwise”
His quality isn’t what we are debating either
The use of the word obscure is
Obscure: not discovered or known about
Just a few days ago someone on here said targeting Tierney was no great scouting as everyone knew about him, today he is obscure.
“Bellerin is not even a particularly good footballer and still gets talked of as a 30-50m RB, so if Tierney wasn’t obscure he’d surely be fetching a lot more money than 25”
Maybe because Bellerin is a Spanish international and plays in the premier league??
You are struggling with the word obscure
And yes Celtic are the biggest club in Scotland, the quality of their league has nothing to do with that statement.
“Tierney ceases to be an obscure player when he’s a household name and has lots of major clubs fishing around him each year”
This is not worth a response because it does not deserve a polite one.
Haha well it wasn’t me saying that because I doubt 95% of football fans south of the wall knew who he was until arsenal started getting linked to him
If he’s well known and a top talent, 25m seems below the market rate and there should be more interest in him, don’t you think?
25m is because of the league he plays in.
So, Don is Unai, or Un ai ai ai… ?? Both ??
25m below market rate???
How many players has Arsenal football club sold for 25m in the past 5 years?? or are we loaded with obscure players as well??
You are still struggling with the meaning of the word obscure.
Receding entering the fray with his trademark argumentative manner.
That stuff out the tap, still wet.
I think China your being a tad disrepectful to scottish football tbh
didnt Van Bronkhurst sign for us ffrom Ranger way back.
There are definetly little talented players in the scottish league. Just because they haven’t played in the premier doesn’t make them a shite player.
“Receding entering the fray with his trademark argumentative manner. That stuff out the tap, still wet.”
Nonsense
25m is more than enough for him though.
More than enough.
Seems Celtic aren’t skint.
Or perhaps they are just posturing and will sell nearer to deadline for lower plus the silly add ons. Celtic can be like that.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/transfers/aaron-ramsey-to-barcelona-arsenal-midfielder-flattered-by-talk-of-50m-move-to-spain-and-admits-he-10415575.html%3famp
Freddie
We were being offered £50m for him for two seasons.
HL
I’m neither
Just Un na naai
Unai is a muppet
Someone spends the better part of the morning arguing with other posters (and rewriting history while at it), i pick up on the wrong use of a word and it’s a “trademark argumentative manner”.
I am not in the mood for nonsense
Nothing in that article even supports your claim a 50m pound bid was made by Barcelona ..nothing at all.
More an article about Ramsey and his progress and injuries than a transfer story
Where has history been rewritten?
You came in with a quip about Jack wilshere, then moved onto someone denouncing the pursuit of Tierney that’s dragged on.
Defensive stance as ever, disciple of paella.
“You came in with a quip about Jack wilshere, then moved onto someone denouncing the pursuit of Tierney that’s dragged on.” You mean super Jack Wilshere?? Yes by all means offer him a contract so he can add three appearances and more time with the medics to his CV (that you even found a way to drag Suarez into a discussion on Wilshere underlines your desperation) as for the Tierney talk were you not the poster who said just a few days ago that going after him was no great scouting?? So surely the use of the word obscure renders… Read more »
I actually made it quite clear that China was well within his rights to criticize the nature of the Tierney dealing but calling him obscure was not accurate but who cares for what was written when you can spin it to involve paella or whatever
As far as I’m aware Celtic are in no urgent need to sell and they’re negotiating with a cash rich top 6 English club so can inflate to a rate not much lower than an English club could
Weak leagues doesn’t have to mean cheap prices if the player is well known and rated. The point is weak leagues tend to have good players before they’re well known world beaters, so they usually don’t command crazy fees.
Don
Great find that article, almost as good as the voices in your head.
It says he was linked with a 50m move to Barca after his 1 great season for us 6 years ago, nowhere was there a mention of an actual bid, and again that was 6 years ago, before all the injury ravaged seasons he had after that, and there was quite a lot of those wasn’t there.
Wow that really proved your point…
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/barcelona-weighing-up-50m-move-5739191.amp
Yea they weighed it up, did they actually make a 50m pound bid???
Haha you’re damn straight I’m disrespectful to Scottish football! The fact that you had to go all the way back to van bronkhorst the best part of 2 decades ago should tell you something mate haha They hard henrik larsson who was a top quality player and exceptionally few others. The Scottish league is laden with Scottish players. Their national team should be the best of the lot but have been ranked somewhere between awful and crap for decades. I honestly doubt most people could name 11 players currently in the entire Scottish league. It’s not personal, as I have… Read more »
“Weak leagues doesn’t have to mean cheap prices if the player is well known and rated. ”
If i am not mistaken 25m will represent a Scottish transfer record so again don’t get why you are calling it cheap. They are not selling a 70 goal a season striker but a 22 year old left-back.
I bet without google you lot could name as many players in the absolutely dismal chinese super league as you could in the Scottish premiership
“The fact that you had to go all the way back to van bronkhorst the best part of 2 decades ago should tell you something mate haha”
No you don’t
Virgil Van Dijk was playing in Scotland in 2015, Andy Robertson in 2014, Moussa Dembele in 2018.
Edify yourself Sir
Receding 2 years ago bellerin was being talked of as a 40+m player and he’s done nothing and is probably not as good as tierney
“Receding 2 years ago bellerin was being talked of as a 40+m player and he’s done nothing and is probably not as good as tierney”
I don’t really care for valuations until someone actually pays it. I don’t know if Bellerin is as good as Tierney or not, Bellerin has certainly plays at a higher level week in week out
We’re up to 5 quality players across a whole league spread over the last 2 decades so far. Can we hit 11 for a full team?
I think boruc used to be at Celtic so I’ll give you a 6th for free 😛
You’ll have to forgive my disrespect for the Scottish league
There’s just no convincing me I’m afraid
It’s like when I see when the Chinese super league clubs buy a couple of big names of huge money and people suggest maybe the league will actually get quite competitive in time and I’m like no.
I’ve attended too many Chinese matches to believe there is any hope for this league with or without a couple of good players
ValentinJuly 22, 2019 10:50:19 Saka’s interview confirmed that Freddie is helping the transition from academy players into first team players. Funny how those who rubbished the idea are very quiet on that front. The most damning part of the interview is the fact that Emery does not talk to them directly. The role of the head coach implies to know his players. A easiest way is to talk to them. How will he be able to communicate with them effectively during the season if he does not know them. Unless this is a PR exercise mandated by the management and… Read more »
Tipping youngsters up for future value.
Well you must think of the Brooks boy at
Bournemouth.
Just 20 years old a wonderful talent.
These are the type of players we should be linked with.?
Too late..
A video of Fékir arriving at Betis is doing the rounds.
They apparently got him for a little more than € 20 million + 10 in bonus and Lyon gets 20 % of his future sale.
Bargain.
“Imagine, Iwobi is injured and Saka is called upon to replace him. At the same time, you want to change tactics. You need to quickly communicate to him all the instructions. How do you explain the subtle change of tactics you want him to follow? Because you have never talked to him directly before, you don’t know how to talk to him. Do you use complex words, write down on a piece of paper tactic notes, point to him? That’s why communication is so important. You need to be able to transmit the information quickly and be sure that the… Read more »
Karim
Big miss. And here we are wasting time on Zaha, an inferior player that will cost 3-4 times as much, depressing.
Anyway who gives a shit wether a bid came or not
Ramsey is a £40m midfielder easily in today’s market and emery and Raul let him go
Stop trying to wife track the debate
Whatever your valuation of welbeck Wilshere Ramsey Bennacer Ospina Jeff and all
We let an absolute fortune leave for free after wenger left
We’ve signed Martinelli and Suarez since Sven left and we are fucking up a crucial transfer window yet again
China
Scotland league is a joke I agree. But Doesn’t mean the player is wank.
Hey I never judged the quality of the individual player, that’s a different story
For the record VVD is one of my favourite non arsenal players of the last 10 years.
We should’ve been throwing our pennies and IOUs at Celtic for him a few years back
Receding China said obscure and clarified why he said so quite reasonably. But you had to leech onto a word used because that’s your nature when trying to debate a premise…..skip the premise and unpick minutiae. “You used to be able to pass as a guy of average intelligence on here Charles, how the mighty have fallen” Oddly enough your view of intelligence means little to me, you’re literally Shrek who hasn’t ventured outside his bog. Yea man, mock Jack Wilshere only making 3 appearances when Suarez managed 90 mins plus a fee, there’s logic. You’ll have obviously dusted over… Read more »
Ramsey wanted to leave on a free. We managed to sell Ox who had a year left for good money. Why? Because Liverpool were willing to pay the fee and the player wanted to go.
“Anyway who gives a shit wether a bid came or not”
If you are going to say money was rejected you have to prove money was offered
Receding,
Have you ever been in a situation where you have to quickly give instructions to somebody not in your native language?
Not everybody understand/learn the same way. Some people like bullet point instructions, some need more info.
That’s not very complicated to understand.
The idea that you delegate your instructions to the translator is ridiculous. Beyond a few weeks, misunderstanding will creep in. Why do you think clubs insists players and coaching staff learn the local language if it was unnecessary?
“China said obscure and clarified why he said so quite reasonably. But you had to leech onto a word used because that’s your nature when trying to debate a premise…..skip the premise and unpick minutiae.” Says a lot about you that the poster i am having the conversation with isn’t as worked up as you are, he used a word to describe a player which shouldn’t have been used and that was pointed out….end of. “Oddly enough your view of intelligence means little to me, you’re literally Shrek who hasn’t ventured outside his bog.” More nonsense “Yea man, mock Jack… Read more »
Benny,
There is delegation and there dumping work on a subaltern.
Pep does talk to his players in training. Here we have a headcoach who does not talk to his players not just on the side of the pitch but at training.
Shame you can’t spot the considerable difference.
I am pretty sure that once Emery is gone, people will start talking. One of the stick most players will publicly beat him: communication was non-existent or difficult.
lol karima, “too late” for what exactly ??
Fekir is often injured, he’s now the ghost of the player he once was, plus he have his brother with him in his luggages , so thanks but no thanks.
“Have you ever been in a situation where you have to quickly give instructions to somebody not in your native language? Not everybody understand/learn the same way. Some people like bullet point instructions, some need more info. That’s not very complicated to understand.” That you have taken a news report and translated it into Emery has never spoken to a certain player ever is funny and sad at the same time. is this the same Saka who made one league appearance, one FA cup and two Europa league appearances last season?? Wonder how he was told what to do on… Read more »
@Valentin, never tired of knowing best than anybody ??
*better
Valentin
As has been pointed out, Saka actually said Emery doesn’t have to speak to him, as Ljungberg is currently doing so. It doesn’t mean that there is actually zero communication. If Saka were to find himself a regular, you could be certain Emery would be speaking him daily.
Sama then goes on to praise Emery in the same interview.
Once again you can’t wait to beat Emery down, at the slightest opportunity. Despite your often elegant posts you are as easy to read as a Mr Man book.
Make Arsenal Great Again!
Receding I’m worked up about it by pointing out you strolled in spoiling for an argument? Yea mate, sounds like it. Proper on edge I am over here. Positively foaming. I know you don’t like the mention of Dennis Suarez, but he’s indicative of the new regimes ability to strategise and lead a transfer window. He’s the most high profile transfer they’ve orchestrated to date. Captain hindsight? I was vocally against letting Cazorla leave if he was cleared by his surgeon. He was subsequently cleared, allowed to leave, not replaced, and we drafted in a shit player in Jan when… Read more »
Un
Unai is a muppet
At least I’m not a walking advert for chemical castration bud, your literally giving retards a bad name.
“He’s the most high profile transfer they’ve orchestrated to date.”
Six months loan signing, no option to buy,can’t come more high profile than that.
“Captain hindsight? I was vocally against letting Cazorla leave if he was cleared by his surgeon.”
Getting cleared by a surgeon doesn’t mean ready to play especially in England, you seem to willfully ignore where he moved to for his comeback, slower league and dare i say different climate
“In most cases it would be nitpicking, but in our case the margins were small for making CL.”
It’s nitpicking because it was never Suarez or Cazorla, that you are desperate to paint it as such is irrelevant
Highbury, no association with Un-nu-nmpty, used the handle from the day Emery was appointed, posted under a different name a long time ago but not really posted since the RVP days.
Cant lie, was excited when Emery came in but reality bites, hes not exactly pulling up trees and the squad situation is probably worse than I first thought.
Evening, Did I miss something? Some people want to sell auba for 60 million,after buying him for almost that amount. Two years ago. All because he has two years left on his deal. Offer him a new deal he’s got three good years left in him and we could probably then sell him on to China or America. Why sell him for a low amount, it’s not like utd are offering 100 million plus for him. If we sold him for 60 we then have to spend another 20 million on top to get zaha why? We can get Everton… Read more »
Nabil Fekir to Betis for 20m might mean Giovanni Lo Celso to Spurs …..not really good news for us.
“Six months loan signing, no option to buy,can’t come more high profile than that.“ I know you’re slow, but you’re making my point, and the point of many about the current setup. Dennis Suarez is their highest profile signing to date, so he’s going to be a source when unpacking what’s going on and the relative competency. “Getting cleared by a surgeon doesn’t mean ready to play especially in England, you seem to willfully ignore where he moved to for his comeback” What do you do for a living? I’d stay in your lane. He moved back home, but he’d… Read more »
Danny welbeck the £10m star yet to be offered a contract by…. no one.
Jack Wiltshire, the £15m saviour who made an influential 8 game last season totaling 1 assist.
Jeff Reine-Adelaide the £20m prodigy who plays for French giants Angers….
Super qualidee
Btw didn’t someone on a previous page call someone a racist and also a mong in the same post?
Mong is short for mongoloid which was a derogatory term used for Mongolians So be careful lolz
I mean even Samsung have left Jack’s last name out of spell check :p
Stop talking sense U4GN I won’t have it
“The fact we desperately chased a loan signing within 6 months of letting Cazorla walk free is admission that we weren’t equipped….” Suarez wasn’t even used when he first arrived here, was then used sparingly got injured and sent back. Nothing desperate about his signing. It was a signing we should not have made in hindsight, it was an ill-advised attempt to look busy. Raul should have stuck to his instincts, he never wanted any deals in that window for the simple reason we could not afford the players we wanted or they were not moving. But then again you… Read more »
So £65m + Nelson on loan for Zaha.
It’s starting to get serious.
It’s going to go through.
Receding “Suarez wasn’t even used when he first arrived here, was then used sparingly got injured and sent back Suarez played the last half hour against City literally days after joining. Then after that horror show there was reports of him being rank in training, with him going on to feature for 90 minutes for the club. “Suarez ended up being an irrelevance” His input was an irrelevance, the signing was not given we needed reinforcement. Given we turned away better in the summer it very much does become a comparison. You’re just too daft to process that and defer… Read more »
China said obscure and clarified why he said so quite reasonably. But you had to leech onto a word used because that’s your nature when trying to debate a premise…..skip the premise and unpick minutiae.
Cc
That is exactly what he does
As does Freddie
They always avoid the main point being argued with distractive comments like
Nobody bid £40m, Welbeck isn’t worth £15m rather than the wider issue that the new regime have squandered chance after chance to improve our transfer budget
“His input was an irrelevance, the signing was not given we needed reinforcement.” And extending the contract of a player who has not kicked a ball in two years would have been reinforcement ?? That was how we ended up paying Diaby for years, the Jack Wilshere thing deserves no response because he was an irrelevance at West Ham. You do know we made loan bids for Perisic and Carrasco in the same window but couldn’t reach a deal ?? There was no budget for January, we just wanted an extra body. Where we needed reinforcements was in defense and… Read more »
Anyway who gives a shit wether a bid came or not”If you are going to say money was rejected you have to prove money was offered Hair transplant That’s not the point. The point is that the new regime have squandered chance after chance to bank cash on transfers and squandered several chance to enter th champions league, bringing with it more millions. Maybe there was no bid. I run a company. I don’t remever every fucking minute detail about every potential transfer reported but I do remever the reports that Ramsey was wanted by Barca last summer and emery… Read more »
“They always avoid the main point being argued with distractive comments like
Nobody bid £40m”
Because nobody bid 40m, the truth is not a distraction. Same way Tierney is not an “obscure” player
‘Welbeck isn’t worth £15m’
Hes available for nothing and has no offers, talk is his agent is trying to get Newcastle to take him yet still nothing concrete. Hes literally worthless.
Un na nai you extend Ramsey’s contract and he will be playing here now. Probably as captain and that bloated wage bill we speak of gets even more bloated
“And extending the contract of a player who has not kicked a ball in two years would have been reinforcement ??“ Who would’ve offered us greater value, Cazorla or Suarez? It’s not a hard one. “There was no budget for January, we just wanted an extra body. Where we needed reinforcements was in defense and last i checked Cazorla was not a defender” Haha so now you’re clinging onto the word “reinforcements” and saying we needed an extra body, not reinforcements as that would’ve been a defender? Brilliant No budget for Jan, hmm I wonder if they’d have known that… Read more »
“but I do remever the reports that Ramsey was wanted by Barca last summer and emery wanted to keep him at the club.” And yet the best you could find was an article from 2015 that claimed Barca was thinking about making a bid for him the year after, because they had a transfer ban at the time. Guess they’re slow thinkers like you Don. There was no squandered chances because no one wanted to pay any actual money for any of them. Be it high wages, old age, broken bodies or just being shite the massive amounts you think… Read more »
Receding So you’re saying Raul and emery had no choice but to let Aaron Ramsey walk for free? Is that why you’re saying? Address the fucking point you chubby balding desk jockey and stop wriggling out of it Wether you think Ramsey was £10m or £50m he was allowed to walk for zero So was welbeck So was Adelaide So was Bennacer The fees being quoted for them are deflated too because at a bigger club they would command a higher fee Bennacer would go for £25m were he at arsenal now Were he here now though we wouldn’t need… Read more »
I’m not sure that Zaha is worth anything near that.. is he what we want…
Meanwhile in pudding lane the defence is burning, an we go get another striker.
Freddy
Look you Swedish cuck. Answer this simple question then. Did the club haveno choice but to let Ramsey walk for free?
I know you’re busy handing your women over to half of Somalia but try to stay on track
Palace realise Saka is a much more exciting prospect than Nelson and according to Nigerian sources want him instead on loan. Sounds like a possible to me.
£55 mill, Saka gets a season in the PL and we give them Jenkinson as part of the deal. That will still need tweaking but it’s getting there
Un
Jack was good but not worth another contract.
“Wilshere and cazorla as Charlie is arguing were allowed to walk for free then emery realised what a cock up he’d made and tried to remedy with loans from Spain.“ That’s it in a nutshell. Neither Jack nor Santo particularly, would be relevant if we didn’t wait until Jan to go sign their lesbian counterpart. Denis Suarez made the decision to not extend Cazorla for a season look amateur. If we’d have brought in a defender, or maybe played Ozil and Ramsey more, then Cazorla would be a total nothing mention. Fact is we binned him, then 5 months later… Read more »
No way should we be paying that much for Zaha.
RSPCA
Then make him sign an extension and sell him
Make money on him. He was literally going to take a wage reduction
Put him on it and then see who wants him
Even if we get £5-8m for him.
He played the whole season no probs while Shad Forsyth was running fitness. In fact the whole team’s fitness level improved
Freddy Look you Swedish cuck. Answer this simple question then. Did the club haveno choice but to let Ramsey walk for free?I know you’re busy handing your women over to half of Somalia but try to stay on track Ah what a cunt. Can’t hide that ugly “personality” for very long can you Don With 1 year left of his contract and no offers we could have signed him on for that overinflated contract he wanted and that he didn’t sign for months or we could let him walk for free, not sure what the other options were? I’m glad… Read more »
R. S. P. C
Agreed but let’s still get him.
I’m confused.
Who is Don?
I know Wenger was a numpty and a scumbag but Emery has shown serious deficiencies that make people rightly doubt him. I was screaming for him to play Saka more last year ending when we were dying for a winger. Gary Neville said he’s not seen a debut like his since the day Ronaldo had his for Manu. Read even Sven wanted him to play Saka more instead of getting Suarez on loan. Finally seems even Roy agrees. Watch Saka have a grand season in Palace’s colors next year. That boy is gonna be mustard.
Freddy you Swedish cuck
Answer the fucking question
Did emery and Raul have no choice but to let him leave on a free transfer to juventus who are Happy to pay him £400k pw
Yes or No question.
Yes
Or
No
Don you absolute reta*d
Was my answer to complex for you? Ask the nearest grown up or your caretaker to walk you through it slowly for you. You’ll get there eventually, maybe.
In hindsight cazorla would’ve been a useful player last year and may have won us a couple of points to pop CL football HOWEVER there was no serious evidence to suggest that the guy had another real season of contributing at the highest level in him. An ageing guy with bad injurieswho hasn’t played for years and had ridiculous (seriously) surgery like a ducking Frankenstein just to get him back on his feet You can say with clarity now losing him was probably a mistake last summer but at the time it made sense. I’ll blame the club for the… Read more »
Love the debate about Arsenal transfer dealings.
Compare value extracted from the market at Arsenal and say Chelsea.
Since the turn of the century Chelsea have sold 79 players for over £1 million, Arsenal 63.
In that time Chelsea have sold 6 players for more than the record fee ever paid to Arsenal. Chelsea have sold 10 players( 11 if you include Morata) for £25 million or more . Arsenal 4
Have things changed following the exits of Gazidis and AW? All evidence suggests not.
Don you absolute reta*d
Actually no need for this,utterly brings down the comment section
Better ways to pass a point