Hosting is the worst thing you can possibly be asked to do. I had to chef a BBQ in 38 degree heat, no wind and no skill. I didn’t feel like a man. I felt like a fireman pulling burnt people out of a pit of hell. I had a flame rash across my chest this morning. Then to make matters worse, everyone stays after and drinks all you booze. I didn’t buy 20 bottles of fine spirit to share with people. I bought it because it looks pretty. People are simply atrocious.
I did catch some of the game yesterday. Again, I don’t want to get too deep into the preseason nonsense because who the fuck knows what’s going to show up for the Newcastle game.
However, we can distil the last month into three areas:
- The young players are making a case
- The defence looks really bad
- Will a winger make us better defensively because we appear to be banking a lot on that notion
Mr Willock put in another shift. He’s a very interesting player. There’s no fear in his game, he finds the right spaces, he’s a pretty good passer of the ball and he has an uncanny knack of getting into goalscoring positions (Freddie-ish, of course). Sure, his finishing is offbeat at the minute, but remember, the art is finding positions and good timing, scoring comes with age.
I thought Reiss Nelson looked on a mission yesterday. The most notable feature of his game is the pace he offers. We really lacked any sort of power moving foward last year. Auba is fast, but he’s kind of blunted as he’s the only player that can move at speed. Also, most of his goals come from 8 yards and closer. Auba at his peak was playing alongside Dembele, out of his 30 odd goals that season, most were a result of him getting to the 6 yard line fastest.
Back to Reiss, even if he’s green, he poses a different type of threat. Will a junior player with power and pace offer more than a senior player like Iwobi who has neither?
That’s part of the big debate my friends… a debate you can have in our comments section.
The other big news story was that Mustafi was booed.
Look, I’m all for virtue signalling that this is unacceptable… but I also don’t give a rats arse. If he were a Liverpool player he’d have 10 caravans in his front garden. If this were Madrid, they’d mail a pigs head to his home and harass him on the street.
Mustafi should be nowhere near the first team next year and him hanging onto a contract he ‘loves’ should not be a joyful experience. It is not my job to care about the retirement fund of someone that is bad at their job.
Fans taking action is fine by me. I’m sure Emery was secretly fist-bumping. Anyone who is crying about this won’t be when he’s using his hands to defend a pass from his own teammate against Liverpool in a few weeks.
There are rumblings that PSG are in for Pepe. I’m calm about it. The player wants to go to the bright lights of the greatest league in the world. Go to PSG and be a number, go to Arsenal and follow in the footsteps of African GIANTS of the game. Arsenal, despite its problems, is probably the best move for a player of 24 that wants to make a statement.
I am still a touch bothered about the lack of interest from other clubs. Notably, because the players relatives are working the deal. Is this a ‘hot goods’ deal’? Part of the intrigue of this deal is if it were a Wenger regime, we’d not be doing business. The worry is we go too far the other way and we’re facing a ban in 5 years time because we built his family a castle back in the Ivory Coast.
But again, my ethics go out the window when there’s an elite wide player with a super cool Adidas launch video incoming.
I’m done for the day, come into the comments and ask me about how I barbequed the shit out of a spicy Italian sausage… and won.
Also, listen to the below podcast. It’s a fucking banger about Arsenal vs United. It’s so well produced. Well played Team Mundial.
Valentin You didn’t come back to me to prove I was a liar – because you can’t. I’d still love you to show a comment which shows I’m a liar. You’ll pop up on the next post and refer to how you did it when you didn’t. It’s strange how one of the biggest liars on here accuses others of the same thing to try and hide what they do. As for calling me a troll – absolute clown you do realise I’m a season ticket holder? Just shows how retarded you are to accuse someone who invests a lot… Read more »
Well said GoH
Why didn’t the Clowns offer £25 million for Spurs Aldwerweld when they had the chance and offer him the Arsenal captaincy as an incentive to join…?
Or Evertons Keane
Or Brightons Dunk?
Players that we need at the back
And have proved they can play in the Prem
Pepe smacks of a needless Indulgence.
And we are only getting him- because the Spiv and Vinny got dogs abuse at The Q and A last week.
Ie. They panicked.
Marc
Mikhi has been a major disappointment honestly, the less said about Mustafi, the better. Chambers is most likely staying from the look of things, I was expecting him or Mustafi to sold in exchange for a starting CB this summer.
Our transfer business appears to be wrapping up better than anticipated.
Mikki another player we didn’t need.
Pepe same bracket.
Is the Tierney deal done? Seems to have gone quiet on that front.
Rummeneiger spew thrash. He’s complaining about the higher transfer fees and wages being paid for players. Then I remembered Bayern bought Pavard and Hernandez for top can especially the latter.
Can anyone help with an up date on Tierney?
With the prices quoted for Zaha and Maguire, I now understand why most pl clubs don’t buy talent with the league. Manchester destroyed any inward business this season for pl clubs when they paid higher for bissaka.
Chika
If it all works out it’ll be the best window we’ve had in ages. You can tell just how good by the negative reaction by some on here.
CG
Usually when the natives get restless, ie our fanbase, you have to appease them and nothing says “shut the fuck up” like a flash new expensive YouTube footballer.
Pepe is fine when you’re City or Liverpool. Not when you’re us.
Any word on the injury to Lacazette? I’m trying not to get bothered. Wanna see us start the season in flying fashion. Unleash them all!
Kay Boss
I don’t think there’s anything new on Tierney. Most feel the deal is as good as done.
Lacazette isn’t injured, he’s just shit.
Guns
European Champions and near Invincible Liverpool
Spent their bucks on players they need
( defenders)
Allison and VVD
They dont Do Frivolity….or play to the galley with Indulgent signings.
(They play to Win)
But then again they have Klopp and We have a Clown…
Ain’t that the simple Truth…
If we get Pepe,Tierney and another defender then this would have been one of our best ever windows! It’s hard not to get excited about the season. I said I’d wait till the end of the window before slagging the new team off. One thing I know for sure is if Wenger was still here nothing like this would ever happen. Ramsey would be on silly (Ozil) money and we’d be hearing about how this team has “mental strength & qualitee “. Didn’t think we were ever in with a chance of getting Pepe, though thought that he was the… Read more »
Guns
Salah
Mane
Firmino
Cost less than what we are paying for Pepe!
Work that one out…
Outsmarting The Market, they told us….
Hahahhahahahahaha
They will kid this lot on here
…but not us….
CG
Pepe won’t solve our problem. Auba and Lacazette were an upgrade on Theo and Giroud but we are still conceding more goals than ever before.
Troubling times at Arsenal.
GOH,CG
Nothing satisfy u both. So I guess u might as well form your own football club and name it Arsenal Utd…. And your slogan/motto should be: giving the perfect play with precision.
You can then employ Arteta as your manger/coach. CG will be teck deck. And you guns, can be the head of recruitment.
Kay boss gets it.
There is a baby Jesus, appears Monaco in for Mustafi.
However good Lorenzo Insigne is, none of the big guys seem to fancy him. Not even Juve.
Tolisso, Leon Bailey, Thomas Lemar, Kongdobia, Belloti have been sub-par for their potential and hype. What might have gone wrong?
Belloti, Lemar especially. They’ve become quite average.
Sal
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Scare them away.
Wow CG You’re really digging your own grave here . The windows still open, the club have said they’re gonna get more players. What happens if we get Tierney and another defender?? With All this tosh you’ve been spewing it’ll make you look even more of an idiot. How can you be moaning at the players we’ve signed or trying to sign??? When we have not signed any proper talent in years. Proper as in pace, power and dynamic. Once the window is closed then voice your displeasure at the signings or lack of. Till then give it a rest.!… Read more »
AS Monaco have enquired for Arsenal defender Shkodran Mustafi, according to L’Équipe. The outlet claims he is valued at €30m.
They’re toying with me, surely.
Cesc
Agree.
Behave yourselves you heathen’s we mustn’t muddy the already murky Mustafi waters and scare off the would be suitors.
Barca have better defenders, better attackers and a better coach and they still get walloped every other month …
So what chance we got …
Nowt.
We need our Tony Adams or Ron Yeats or Norman Hunter or Billy McNeil…not a galloping winner…..
Sign a decent midfielder and the team will improve immeasurably.
These jokers aching to sign defenders would do well to remember Petit and Vieira who shielded the defence from danger …….. idiots.
sal & leftside
Don’t prick tease!
Red truth
You are an absolute toe rag.
Petit and Vieria did shield the defence, this much is true but…
Remind me of the time when Arsenal only conceded 18 goals in the entire season? 1991 wasn’t it I think.
Sans Vieria and petit I also think.
Next.
Guns and cg need to get a room. They can fuck till they discover each other. 2 very lonely dissatisfied souls.
Be positive!
GOH
Arsenal conceded 17 goals in 1999…muppet face
Red
I’d check his facts on 91 as well – he had Aguero and Kane down as joint Golden boot winners earlier.
Crimson
The You don’t get a vote. So pipe down you whining little goblin
Un na
Is that some peculiar film reference?
If Phillip Billing fetches £15M from a relegated club, I don’t see why Iwobi couldn’t generate say £25M (typing that seems a bit crazy but the market is indeed crazy).
Iwobi – £25M
Elneny – £5M
Mustafi – £15M
Not sure what the club is planning around Jenks, bielek, or Chambers. Or even Xhaka but that’s just my own wishful thinking.
Anyway there could be the funds for a new CM or CB
Pedro Pedro
I don’t like some opinions. Ban them. Fucking echo chamber, boot licking mong.
You really think people are going to be “culled” because of your vague plea?
You ascribe yourself far too much importance
You’re just words on a blog
Football is played by idiots and watched by people who like sex with shopping trolleys.
Fact.
I do not watch football.
GoH
Are you still supporting the Tory party after they elected a Racist as PM
Red
Of course. Even more so than I did before.
Are you still supporting an anti Semite who hates his country?
Goh
Bit of an odd statement. Bergkamp has a medical degree and spoke several languages. Slavn Bilic is a qualified lawyer who spoke several languages. Arsene was a qualified economist who spoke several languages
Boumsong trained as a doctor. Mignolet has a law degree and speaks several languages.
Rt
What makes him a racist exactly?
Hahahhahahahahaha They will kid this lot on here
…but not us….
Why don’t u both fuck off together
GoH
Hypocrite…calls out Antisemitism but approves of Racism.
Un
I know some footballers aren’t all Rooney’s. Just 99%.
Red
Take it down a notch. Any minute now and Dissenter will be on here policing the site.
Un na naai
The same thing that makes Trump a racist
He’s already promising a no deal brexit and a points based immigration system
That alone gets my vote. Pull up that draw bridge
Rt
……still waiting.
It always gets a little bit weirder as 22:00 ticks past in LG time.
Un na naai
Johnson calling for an amnesty on illegal immigrants shows he is soft on immigration.
I was talking football and then the agitator Red Truth pipes up and all hell breaks loose.
Un, you a business owner who approves of no deal?
Interested in your sector ?
Stupidity
😂😂🤣
Goblin? your so sweet. Love you so much sweetheart. You never have a real hug in your life?
Kiss your face
Sarcasm and Saka will go along way!
That kid has talent.
Un na naai On gay men in 1998 Writing again in his now infamous Telegraph column, Johnson described gay men as “tank-topped bumboys.” In a separate column in the same year he wrote that the BBC’s move to increase equality for gay people “must be a spoof.” On gay marriage in 2002 Johnson compared same-sex marriage to bestiality in his 2002 book, Friends, Voters, Countrymen. He wrote: “If gay marriage was OK – and I was uncertain on the issue – then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well… Read more »
Unai
I’d rather not say.
Hold onto your seats I can see a final week last ditch attempt for Zaha.
The club have been looking at left and right sided attackers, they clearly want balance. I think Zaha and Pépé were always first choice and the rest, fall back options.
Palace simply have to sell now, they have a distracted player who’s as valuable now as he ever will be.
The risk of not selling and him not matching last years performance could cost them 30m.
They’ll be ringing us by the end of the week
Thought you might say that….
“Tank topped bumboys”
Red you are an internet scouring troublemaker…but that is funny.
He could have said bumder, though.
Red
What has Boris done/said that makes him a racist?
Rt
Yes
He has a sense of humour. I’ll tell you the truth I’m not 100% behind Boris or the Tory party at all. Very far from it but he’s making the right noises at the moment and as long as he gets brexit over the line then his appointment will be considered by me, at the very least as satisfactory.
If he calls for amnesty for illegals then how is he racist RT? You’ve just argued against your own point and won
Unai
No one in their right mind is telling people what they do across the internet.
Le Grove statistically must have at least one active serial killer on it…plus a host of daytime lunatics.
Unai
You don’t think I’m going to be stupid enough to give someone like you ammunition do you? You’re smarter than that.
Also, at least 3 people in this site are posting from jail. This I know for sure!
Unai
Even if business suffers for a while it won’t matter. For me it was about wrestling back control. About borders. About standing up to parliament and finally making our voices heard.
In London white Brits are now a minority. Same as Birmingham. This is being pushed anywhere else but the west and it’s a disgrace. I know what’s coming next but I’ll let you say it before I respond.
This isn’t being pushed*
Un na naai
Writing in the Daily Telegraph in 2002, before then-PM Tony Blair visited Democratic Republic of Congo, Mr Johnson said: “No doubt the AK47s will fall silent, and the pangas will stop their hacking of human flesh, and the tribal warriors will all break out in watermelon smiles to see the big white chief touch down in his big white British taxpayer-funded bird.”
His comments, criticised as racist, drew outrage, and he apologised when he ran for mayor of London six years later.
Boris will resolve the pesky backstop issue by re-annexing Ireland. You’ve heard it here first 😀
I am not by any means an ultra-Eurosceptic. In some ways, I am a bit of a fan of the European Union,” Johnson told the House of Commons in 2003.
“If we did not have one, we would invent something like it,” he added
Lol lol lol
Rt
He’s right. The Congo is an unbelievably violent and corrupt part of the world
In fact black British youths of Afro-carribean dissent are now citing them and the Somalis for the extreme rises in violent crime
They are saying that with their arrival in London has come a savage and brutal nature that far exceeded anything they had witness previously. These are black kids saying it, are they racist?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTs_Q4hEqmA
RT
A lot of these quotes are rather old and out of context.
I’m pretty sure that most of us have changed opinion on lots of things since 2003.
I bet you don’t like all the music you listened to back then…or movies you thought were cool.
Do you still like the shows you watched when you were 10?
Boris has put his foot in it lots of times but there isn’t a person alive that doesn’t make faux pars.
Rt
Yes. All fine taken out of context. Would love to have seen the rest of the article
Either way it doesn’t matter. I know Boris was on the fence over brexit and it’s tirned me off him slightly but he knows what he has to do after Teresa May’s dithering and he’s going to do it. Not a moment too soon I say. Hurrah 😃
We were talking football until Red truth agitated his way on here.
Guys with all due respect stick to football and arsenal. Each has his political alienation.
No matter what u wouldn’t agree till eternity. Tnx.
Hackney
“Also, at least 3 people in this site are posting from jail. This I know for sure!”
You’re probably sat next to them.
Aren’t you the poster who threatened someone else’s wife and kids with sexual violence?
If it wasn’t you I apologise for a false accusation! After all you might get out on probation soon.
Sal
I’d honestly rather listen to the Telly tubbies theme tune than that shit. Please tell me you don’t think it’s a good song?
Anyone seen Typewriter?
I’m on the second episode…it’s a bit slow. Does it get better?
Marc
Not me.
Someone with a similar name besmirched me.
Kay
I’m down with that but if people want to make baseless accusations then I’ll challenege it.
Honestly, nothing more to say other than no deal is about as bad as it gets for just about everyone involved in just about any form of business that deals in any way with the EU or uses its trade agreements as a proxy to access markets. Actually struggling to think of anyone who benefits from no deal and when you combine it with the economic ramifications it seems pretty dence, short and long term. I should be happy about the Tory stance in the potential tax breaks but I also see the long term consequences, lower taxes are worthless… Read more »
As long as I can put petrol in the Bentley…I don’t care.
Hackney
If it wasn’t you then I apologise – it just sounded like something someone from oop North would say!
Un na naai
Some just need to say it like it is… the Dead Kennedy’s not about ze qualitee more… correct that ALL about the spirit.
Politicking on le grove is by definition tedious and nobody likes a tedious lyrical waxer.
GoH
“A lot of these quotes are rather old and out of context. I’m pretty sure that most of us have changed opinion on lots of things since 2003. I bet you don’t like all the music you listened to back then…or movies you thought were cool. Do you still like the shows you watched when you were 10?”
You’re right, Corbyn breaking bread with the IRA and Hamas was years ago and should not be taken seriously today.
Politicking on le grove is by definition tedious and nobody likes a tedious lyrical waxer.
Bit casual racism, xenophobia, homophobia and general bigotry are all the rage…..
‘racism, xenophobia, homophobia’
More like banter, mostly. Jeez, why do people have to be butthurt about pretty much anything these days?
Colonialism ‘the best fate for Africa’ Writing in The Spectator in 2012, Mr Johnson suggested that Africans would be better off if ruled by white colonisers. He said: “Consider Uganda, pearl of Africa, as an example of the British record. The British planted coffee and cotton and tobacco, and they were broadly right. If left to their own devices, the natives would rely on nothing but the instant carbohydrate gratification of the plantain. “The best fate for Africa would be if the old colonial powers, or their citizens, scrambled once again in her direction; on the understanding that this time… Read more »
Monaco have enquired about Mustafi hopefully we don’t give them a stupid price like £100 and we can sell him
Priti Patel.sacked for spying for Israel.has been rewarded and made Home Secretary…WTF
Everton issue statement disregarding a secoind bid for Zaha. Also stating the end of their interest in him. Sky gradually loosing some credibility of late.
Palace can keep Zaha if they so wish. I wonder the kind of Zaha that turns up this season.
Fuck off Serge – what do you think this is a football blog or something?
Unai I stress again most people who voted to leave did so based on non economic factors. I will say this though. I started my business as a 23 year old in the middle of a recession after returning from travelling. I kept my home throughout the recession too. It was tough. But I did it. I will be alright post brexit. I don’t pretend to be an economist as my knowledge is limited but as I understand it, even the most seasoned economists cannit accurately predict the economy as it heavily learns on human behaviour. If we are Positve… Read more »
Let’s keep it about football please
“As for calling me a troll – absolute clown you do realise I’m a season ticket holder”
Oi Pedro can you grant a change of moniker over here, ‘Marc the season ticket holder’ should do nice, save him mentioning it once or twice a week.
Marc
My apologies I must have been mistaken Kinnock for prime minister
RT
How is Uganda currently doing with their ‘President for Life’?
Monaco sniffing about Mustafi, Arsenal put a €30 mil price tag on his head.
Someone better let them know he’s on a mega 90k a week so we’d be doing well to get a fifty pound note.
Charlie I would take half that to get rid
RT is a bleeding heart liberal who gets offended on other peoples behalf.
Rt
If he is wrong then why are Africans letting the chinese mine their resource rich lands?
Squillaci, Mustafi, Cygan. Who’s worse? Cuban does for me.
CB sell off at the Arsenal, apparently Bordeaux in for Koz.
Rugani bid incoming or a Raul loan, risky as he’s not been playing as much as one would hope sitting behind Boss Bonnucci and Chiellini but I think most on here would take that risk.
I certainly would.