Unreal scenes in London when a couple of idiots tried to attack Kola and Ozil on scooters. Why the fuck anyone would attempt to attack a man who is clearly a fucking athlete when he’s with his wife is beyond me, but god bless the response. Ozil put the car in first gear and cleared the women away, Kola went for both of them… LOVE TO SEE IT.
Obviously, everyone has different responses to this sort of thing, but it does go to show you, these people are cowards. They legged it from a single unarmed man and they were wearing crash helmuts! Honestly, the bravery is something else… what a soldier!
On a side note, scary times in London that the dangerous shits are attempting nasty stuff like that… still can’t believe the uproar when police were knocking them off their bikes.
We also signed a player! Hooray.
William Saliba pushed off the advances of Spurs to do a deal with us. He’ll go back out on loan next season and we’ll hopefully have a very talented player on our books in the next two seasons. The club has to be praised for moving very fast on that deal and looking beyond our immediate needs. We should make ourselves the best club on the planet for young kids to learn their trade.
The club Q&A was about as interesting as it always is. I’m not sure Raul and Vinnai have quite grasped how educated our fans are. We’re obsessives, we know how they work the media, we know the finances, the masseuse, the tea lady, we’re fluent in operational structures. That Raul took offense to Arsenal fans not taking positives from last season is quite something. It always worries me when the standards at the top aren’t very high.
Back to positives.
Ceballos also signed, he’s in on a loan deal, I think he’s another impressive signing… there is a kicker though… If he does well, he’s back to Madrid. If he tanks, our season is ruined.
It’s still tough to look at this window with much hope. We’ve not moved the squad along, old players are a year old, bad defenders are still bad, the captain thing is still unresolved, we’re a bit of a mess.
I totally understand that the club is in a transitional moment, I just find it very difficult to understand how a summer can be run so badly? From the outside looking in, it looks like we’re willfully ignoring the most dilapidated areas of need in favour of a really shiny winger.
Things are so rough, Jenkinson looks likely to be a fixture this season. I find that maddening. We’re trying to develop a high-performance culture at the club, and we’re allowing fans to take a squad number… and we’re having to suck up the reality of loading up average players on massive contracts, again. Literally the same issue we were bemoaning back in the day when Nik B wouldn’t leave his £52k a contract.
I like some of the backroom moves, but it’s still hard to fathom what this summer was all about… to be honest, to me, it looks like we just waited for Edu. If that’s the case, we’re at ground zero again.
Still, there comes a point where you have to just be pleased with any move. Dani boy is a very good player, Medley has moved to the first team squad, Willock looks very promising, maybe Reiss or Saka could cut the mustard?
It’s all very hopeful, but that’s football my friends!
Right, I’m going to get my head back in the game next week, work has been fucking beastly this last month. I’m looking forward to getting back to some normality!
x
TR7 / WengerEagle
Good point. I definitely overreached with my bizarre banter.
That said, I can only think of four players that deserve to be starting – Auba, Laca, Torriera and Leno.
The rest are in the same boat with Kolasinac
I saw this in that tweeter feed that Jamie posted.
https://twitter.com/xcoubar/status/1154475350421921792
Emery will add knife training to the exercise regimen
WE
Agreed.
Would be very excited by that.
Gareth Bale | About to join Jiangsu Suning on a three year contract. Worth €22m a year after tax, say Marca.
What a shame if true. An amazing amazing player ruined by injuries and Real Madrid.
TR7
That’s an amazing contract. Very difficult to turn down. Suning Group are the majority owners of Inter Milan. So if Bale is still in decent shape in 12 months time, he can join Inter on loan for say, half that money.
TR7
You write like you’re giving Bale’s eulogy
The lad is guaranteed 66 million euros after tax if he finishes his contract. All he has to do is jog around in China to earn it.
He’s won loads of trophies at Madrid already so good for him.
Reports that a deal is agreed with Celtic and Tierney is going to have his medical over the weekend, great news if true.
Now for a winger and CB or CM.
Freddie
How can Tierney have his medical when he’s out injured?
Lacazette had 10 assists in the premiership last season compared to 5 to Aubameyang.
A lot of the goals Aubameyang scored were made by Lacazette. He also generate a lot of penalties by his quick feet in the penalty box.
If you take Lacazette out of the team, we would need somebody to create those opportunities for Aubameyang. I would not trust our midfield to do so.
Lennon apparently said today that no 3rd bid has materialised yet either.
Still, seems a matter if time and perhaps dependant on other deals we are working on.
We need a better defence and we still don’t have one. It might be time to just admit it’s looking more and more likely that emery is a dud. He signed his contract. He chose to take this almost impossible job on. Nobody forced him. All he was meant to Do was start fixing wengers mess. Which was and still is the defence. Wenger got us OZIL, AUBA, LACA KOLA, IWOBI, even NILES. So any success we have attacking wise can still be attributed to WENGER. its Wengers terrible defence that needed fixing and EMERY still hasn’t done anything about… Read more »
Bale’s remaining contract at Madrid is worth circa £93 million – don’t’ they have preferential tax system for overseas high earners in Spain as well?
Why would Bale go to China and give up a great life style?
Versus, Wengers mess was the obscene contracts, resistance to modernisation and square pegs in round holes approach…..
He also gave us Mustafi.
” OZIL, AUBA, LACA KOLA, IWOBI”
Oh dear another Wenger lover
Ozil – fucking useless and we would sell him if we could.
Auba – signed by Gazidis as a commercial exercise to keep Adidas on side after we lost Sanchez.
Laca – OK player – scored 13 goals last season.
Kolas – Defender who can’t defend.
Iwobi – Came through the youth system – average at best will be sold within 2 years.
The Wenger lovers can try and disguise their position but it’s so transparent it’s boring.
Aloha from Waikiki
Kola hero 🦸♀️
Need Tierney now
News/rumor that Kos speaking to teammates, said how this situation would have never happened under Wenger…
Basically one of the many things that turned our players/team into softies.
fsaf
I believe the expression if boo fucking hoo.
Marc
We scored the third most goals in league last season. All atta king players still wengers. 5 new defensive additions and we concede more.
Un na
You can suck Wenger’s cock all you like he’s never coming back.
I mean Bale already earns 14 million euros a year after tax at Real Madrid.
22 million doesn’t exactly sound enough to entice him considering he’s trading living in Madrid for some random Chinese city.
He’s just turning 30 as well, still too young for China just yet. Has a few more years at the top level yet.
I absolutely loved Wenger in his early years but cant understand why his cult following still exists.
He gave himself a mandate, leave the club in a better position than when he arrived, by his own standards, he failed.
Oh Freddie
Heard the new one?? Your prime minster said changing the name Sweden to blandland was ingenious!!!
Hahah
Blandland
Unai
Not a cult following just an appreciation for the memories he gave. And a reluctance to spew hatred to a man who gave so much to arsenal fans around the world for a decade
WE
It’s more than that – move your young kids from an idyllic lifestyle in Spain to a country where the general pollution levels are hazardous to life.
Un, that’s the point, it was a decade of greatness followed by a decade of decay then a few years of unmitigated disaster.
Fergie achieved more at United yet you dont here Manure fans mourning him years later.
The undying love is weired and honestly quite sad.
Diss
Medical is checking heart , and all the inside bits . Obvs legs n knees n tings but current injury won’t affect medical.
ESPN Brazil reporting that the kieran Tierney to arsenal deal has been agreed. How reliable they are can’t tell.
Dissenter
There’s so much misinformation out there you never know. Not sure recovering from a hernia operation counts as being injured no matter how much CG screams about it.
Don
Stefan Löfven is an idiot, seems to be all the rage in leadership position these days, with Trump and Boris leading the charge.
KAY
Well ESPN Chile are amazing but ESPN Brazil are renown as being liars.
Freddie
Did you know that FGM in Sweden is up 2000% since the migrant crisis?
Female rape 20%
Male rape 40%
Interesting
This window is starting to take shape if we’ve also brought in Tierney. Pepe next would be great. I guess we’re keeping Chambers, because a CB (other than a short-term freebie à la Cahill) probably won’t happen, at it looks like Kos is off.
Whichever winger we go for, he’ll eat up the remainder of our summer budget any way you slice it.
Whatever happened to Banford
“Male rape 40%
Interesting”
Why are you looking to boo your summer holidays?
book not boo but on the other hand!
Hillwood
He’s in Pierre’s basement now Ozil’s escaped.
Do you think the Zaha deal was just a smoke screen, when he was never a target they were after another target just trying to force the price down,
HL,
the best stuff 😀
I hope this recent incident don’t upset ozil about London…
It really is a great town.
Jamie
On a serious note if we’ve got Tierney and then add a quality winger – too many linked to suggest who – I’d be thrilled with the summers business.
We won’t have fixed every problem but we would’ve made serious inroads into them and given ourselves a really good chance of getting CL football next season.
RSPC
Oh no you’re not suggesting that Ozil might decide that London’s too dangerous and demand a move are you?
So
Leno
Bel hold papa jock
Torr Caleb
Pea ozil Saka
Laca
Some time next season
Marc
No such thing…
I wouldn’t want a knee jerk decision to his agent .
London is lovely …..
Still v concerned bout defence next time out
I feel like this he has no option but to rotate his best three papa , hold, chambers .. n possibly medley
Leaving soppy bollocks to bench.
“Did you know that FGM in Sweden is up 2000% since the migrant crisis?
Female rape 20%
Male rape 40%
Interesting”
I’m sure you had a very interesting discussion about that at your latest Klan meeting.
anything else about Sweden you want to get off your chest while you’re at it? Fucking clown.
“anything else about Sweden you want to get off your chest while you’re at it?”
Well personally I’d to say you need to produce more stunningly pretty girls with piecing blue eyes.
Until then you’re wankers.
Look
Things go on in the world , we can’t change jack. But I don’t want to read anything but football on here, do yer politics on other platforms ..
Marc
Norway is better at that.
Dons repertoire definitely needs upgrading, he’s got one schtick and it’s boring as fuuck.
Freddie
Plenty
Plenty. Some interesting facts about Malmö I’d like to share.
Like the fact private postal companies refuse to deliver there now as they are being attacked so regularly
Is it intolerant to discuss the issues Sweden is facing in 2019 Fred? You don’t like it do you?
Did Swedish men just turn into raging lust filled lunatics all of a sudden it has something else occurred here Fred?
You’re very good at throwing around buzzwords Fred and great at avoidance too. Especially when presented with hard stats about blandland.
Un na,
way too intolerant for Captain Sweden
Freddie
So what you’re saying is that you can’t sort me out with a pretty girl with stunning blue eyes?
Precisely what fucking use are you to me then?
Over here Gooner’s help each other out.
I don’t see how stats on Swedish crime can be considered intolerant. I’d say it’s intolerant not to address the issue myself.
Shocking after reading the posts and posting myself, I’ve not read from Marko..
Tierney in now? Good business. Of all the wingers we’ve been linked to, Fraser is very underwhelming. A good player, but not the quality that can propel arsenal to the ‘dreamland’. Zaha /Everton, wish we could have both. Trickery, pace, power and goals is what u get from having these two in a team.
Pepe rumours are going round right now. Really strong.
Who knows what is happening with the winger situation.
Un na,
Stats are ‘overall’ like, without taking into the account the profile of the perpetrators. Something like that small issue with stabbing epidemic in London. Or grooming gangs in Rotherham back in the day.
Un an
If you want to imply something fucking say it.
This “I’m only reporting the facts” shit pisses me off. If you want to make an accusation – then do it.
Pepe might be an excellent signing but from all indication, he’s in line toward Naples. Don’t think we are in for him.
Borris will have it all sorted in a couple of months
The pollution levels in China vary considerably based on the city and time of year In the north, the pollution is more often much worse than the south because this is where a lot of the dirtier industry is Outside of the worst places, the majority of the air pollution is also limited to winter. They burn some of the farming by products in the winter and also it’s absolutely freezing so the heating for half a billion people comes on which requires far more energy from coal burning power stations If you get lucky and the wind is high,… Read more »
Hillwood
It’s his plan for BREXIT – they’ll fuck about – he’ll send over 10,000 Scousers on holiday and they’ll surrender in about a fortnight.
Marc
Wooooah. Keep that aggression in check boy.
I’m just dropping truth bombs. Hitting peeps with some knowledge. How you interpret it is up to you
I dunno which Chinese club would be willing to take bale, but if it’s either of the Shanghai teams, that’s a pretty sweet choice.
SH is a world class city
I wouldn’t recommend the other cities to a Player coming from Madrid. Beijing is exceptionally interesting for cultural and historic reasons, but like Berlin, it’s not exactly a pretty place to live. Most of the other Chinese super league cities wouldn’t be international enough for a big name player from Madrid to easily settle in imo
Kay we are in for Pepe and his agents want him to move to arsenal if di marzio is to be believed. He says Jorge Mendes is advising/representing arsenal on the deal.
I am down for Pepe but not at 70m
Borris will have all of England’s problems solved in a couple of months
So don’t worry too much about white cannibalism
This Pepe stuff is bullshit, seems like the agent trying to get guarantees of agent fees from Napoli
Reports are emerging that Nicolas Pepe’s agent is advising him to join Arsenal because it offers more commission. I would love him to join Arsenal, but two wrong don’t make one right.
Wrong 1) if your agent is advising you for his short term financial benefit over your long term benefit, you should change agent.
Wrong 2) how come Arsenal is offering more commission? Are we now bribing agents to recruit players, or are we so clueless of the market rate that we are overpaying anyway?
Valentin
Raul can’t get a deal done
Raul making a low ball offer
Raul can’t pay part of player’s wages to get them out on loan
Now it’s Raul “bribing” agents by offering more commissions
Keep it up with the Raul conspiracy theories. It seems you’ll bash the guy either way it goes.
There’s a reason why they call them commission, just so that you know.
If the player was offered more wages to entice them would that be bribing the player too?
Real may regret letting ceballos leave. They are 2 – 0 down after only 9 minutes to A. Madrid.
Dissenter, I did write ‘reports are emerging’ like you suggested. I thought that disclaimer was the ultimate shield against snarky comments. I am not the one reporting that his agent is advising him to choose Arsenal because of the higher commission. “Napoli had been expected to win the race for his signature but Gianluca Di Marzio claims Pepe’s agent is urging him to join Arsenal because the Gunners are offering more ‘commission’.” If true, like I said this is wrong on two levels. One for player who should be able to trust that his agent is working for him not… Read more »
3 – 0 now
Valentin
Don you realize that you may very well end top with egg all over your face if Raul gets these deals over the line.
Raul has stated that wants to be assessed at the end of the transfer window, not in the middle or last third.
Let’s wait and see. There will be time for proper stabbing if he doesn’t get them done.
*Do you realize that you may very well end up with egg all over your face if Raul gets these deals over the line.
If his agent is asking him to accept the offer with more money….so damn what
That’s the way business works.
Aren’t you happy that Arsenal isn’t running away from competing with big clubs over a player. We are even prepared to out-bid them.
Why is that such a bad thing?
What deals are you referring to?
My comment did not mention any deals.
You are so focus on defending Raul, you see attack on his person even when he is not even mentioned.
4 – 0 after 27 minutes
It’s a friendly … but Real are being ripped apart. No club should be 0-4 behind after 28 minutes.
Zidane is in a small puddle
Valentin
Who’s running the transfers this window?
Wait till it’s over before you pile on.
Do you realize that a commission is usually a fixed percentage and the player will be due some of that commission [in many cases].
There’s nothing wring with Arsenal offering more money. There’s nothing wrong ion the agent telling his client to seek the better financial offer.
You mentioned that a ‘bribe’ may be involved????
You’re over-reaching. There’s nothing these guys will do that will satisfy you.
5 – 0 OK. I have enough.
Dissenter, Again according to that journalist, We are not offering a higher salary, just a higher commission. You should know better by now than making grand statement about behaviour in business. Most of your previous assertions in that subject have been proven to be so wrong, it was funny. You do know that in most country and most business, it is illegal for an agent to advise a client toward a choice because of higher commission. In most countries, because after heavy lobbying the US Senate and Congress removed the threat of jail for financial institutions not meeting their legal… Read more »
Didn’t Venkat say just a couple of days ago that 85% of transfer stories surrounding Arsenal are literally made up, often concerning players the club have never even discussed in any way?
The unexpected appointment of Gudibini last summer, when Arteta was being reported as confirmed, showed that most of the media don’t have a clue what’s going on.
Gudibanin lol
Valentin – you are a interested poster but your anti UE stance is so glaring. You posted about the loan about Cabellos saying it’s from Telegraph but it turned to be Sun a much less reliable source. Now paying agents commission is bribe? Because a Arsene did not approve it in the past? I lauded Arsene but he is gone and we have to move forward
One good thing about our signings is that all of them are young – think of it Martinelli, Saliba, Tierney (he is coming) . Add to that Holding, Torreiro, Gandeuzi, Bellerin etc we have potentially 300-350 million worth of players in the next two years
Real Madrid have looked awful this preseason and they acquired less players than A.Madrid -who look like they’ve been playing together for years.
Call it a freak result or what have you, but ZZ will be under intense scrutiny if Real drop points early on in the season. I mean, the money they’ve spent; and their incessant desire to get rid of Bale has fully turned the spot light on them
Anyway, I like the look of Cebellos and I think he’ll give us more dynamism and guile.
Wrap up Tierney, and that some good width and defensive cover. Who know, maybe push Kola forward in a 4-3-3…what’s the worst that can happen?
Acquiring Zaha will go down to the wire and would surely spell good bye to either or both Mhk and Iwobi
Valentin ‘getting a deal for a player in a position which we are well stocked’
Pepe plays in a position on which we are well stocked? Wing forward? The position where we only have children in this part of the squad?
Also I’m quite tired of arsenal being the only team that needs to play by the rules.
‘Not a fan at all of the Aubameyang on the wing stuff, but he looked decent ..’
Auba’s max strength is scoring by tap-ins from low crosses . Wonder how Arsenal will get the best out of Auba if he plays on the wings.
Mikhi is a genuinely frustrating player. He is always 7/10. Good. But NEVER great. Has Mikhi ever been a MOTM for Arsenal?
Some interesting moves going on in the market. Tierney has the potential to be a great player for us, provided we manage his fitness and he has recovered from his injuries. Some Scottish grit at the back is just what we need and he is the right kind of character from what I read to be a club captain (rather than the pathetic crying losers we’ve had in the recent past). Pepe and Zhaha still pipe dreams at the moment. I like the links with Rugieri. Growing up with Baresi, Maldini, Costacurta in their prime I’ve always loved Italian defenders.… Read more »
Pedro The positives this summer are that Arsenal are recruiting and/or promoting “young players” into the first team squad rather than what we did last summer when we recruited 30+ players like Lichsteiner and Sokratis. We appear to have spent a lot of money for Saliba and loaned him back to St Etienne. So clearly this is one for the future. Ceballos appears to be short term recruit, but hopefully he will make an impact this summer. My personal belief is that Willock could be the next big thing to come up from academy and personally I believe that he… Read more »
It’s interesting to note that now Sven has departed the age of players we’re recruiting had dropped.
Don Keep your far right agenda and your theories for your next klan meeting, I’m really not interested in discussing Sweden politics on a football blog, I’m sure you can find like minded people on Breitbart or something. Unai Yeah, that’s why I don’t get the deification of Sven, it really was a mixed bag when he was at the club, Zaha aside all our reported targets are in the 18-24 age bracket, which is exactly where we should be shopping. This window still has the potential to be the best window in years, yes it’s been slow and frustrating… Read more »
In other news a body has been found at Elnenys villa in Egypt. I’m all for doing anything possible to get rid of the wasters but planting dead bodies and hiring hitmen is probably going too far.
Edu absolutely ruthless.
http://dailycannon.com/2019/07/body-found-at-mohamed-elnenys-egyptian-villa/
Freddie
Ah just interested in everyone else’s politics it seems
How peculiar.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/dani-ceballos-asked-real-madrid-18785291.amp
Yeah this is what we want at arsenal, another player who has zero desire to be here.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2019/07/26/nicolas-pepes-agent-urges-lille-star-make-arsenal-transfer-agreeing-financial-package-10470247/amp/
If we nick him and tierney before the window closes I’d be happy with the window. We need to focus next season on another centre half and a cmf though unless guendouzi and willock really show that they both should be starting over the next 12 months
I’d still look to bring in another older cmf anyway when cebllaos goes home. Which he will. 100%
Man if we manage to nick pepe it would be the coup of the summer. With him and Saliba at the club. Could be a real turnaround next season adding to the youngsters we already have.
Mino Raiola nudged De ligt towards Juventus over Barcelona. If we have to appease an agent of get a player it’s part of the game. This Arsenal way nonsense has to stop. Sports is about winning.
Valentin you are fast losing any credibility here, your anti anything Raul and Emery stance is childish.
‘Emery will add knife training to the exercise regimen’
Good development.
The sheer beauty of it when Bellerin and Ozil wave knives at each other in training.
The Pepe rumors are probably fake news but if they were true I’d be much more supportive than signing Zaha
They are a similar price but Pepe would have significant and maybe increasing resale value in a few years if we wanted to whereas Zaha is on his last big move and is a depreciating asset after this summer