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You can chill those Heinz Baked beans, it seems that the deal to bring Pépé to Arsenal is basically done. Fabrizio Romano, who has been on top of this story even when it was a ‘OH DO FU*K OFF’ pipe dream, reckons the deal is done and the player is wetting his bed in excitement for the move.
I don’t need to continue to wax about this, but really, it’s the most exciting transfer of the last 10 years for Arsenal. We know he wants to move to us, he’s not a reject, his career is on an upwards trajectory.
… I still can’t quite believe it’s happening.
I’m also glad that this summer has well and truly seen the death of the ITK crowd. We’re back to journo’s knowing more. I much prefer things that way.
We still have our cuck fanbase praising Wenger for being part of the deal. Sure, Pépé wants to come to Arsenal, but be real, Raul having a relationship with Jorge Mendes is why this is happening, nothing to do with what we were doing 20 years ago. The pound notes speak and we’re finally dealing with the right agents that can make things happen.
Interestingly, Monaco are rumoured to be entertaining a €30m bid for Mustafi. Jorge Mendes has deep ties over there. He’s moved lots of names in and out of that club. It really wouldn’t be surprising to see us shift out players because we’re greasing the right sort of wheels with the Pépé deal.
I think moving on Mustafi would be the biggest deal of the summer. It would be absolutely unreal. I think I would write Raul a thank you note.
It’s been very amusing to watch certain Arsenal fans sanctimoniously slamming fans when it comes to his treatment. He’s a leach. He’s here because we make it too easy for him to stink out our defence. Why shouldn’t fans hound him out? To say it’s not Arsenal class to boo player just shows a lack of understanding of our history. I’ve been there when we’ve booed Eboue. Fans in the 80s were militant about moving on Terry Neil with protests. Away fans hounded Wenger at Stoke station. Arsenal fans were booing players as far back as the Chapman days. Fans were even booing in 2004!
Sure, it’s not nice. But this is elite sport. This isn’t dopey Dave the intern that keeps messing up the coffee run. He shouldn’t be given the choice to stay. He should go to Monaco and enjoy the good life. Then we should go out and sign someone better so we can crack on with a better defence.
If Gareth Bale can be shoved out a year after signing a new deal in Madrid after netting 4 European Cups, then Mustafi can be as well.
There is no class in accepting mediocrity.
Right, that’s me done, see you in the comments.
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cheers Goonah!
a well….
Pinoy!! Nice one, thought I had that in the bag
cheers DM!
Pedro I am beginning to believe that Arsenal’s net spend this summer could well be £45 million as previously discussed. Net spend is not the same as financial commitments. Our budget based on current evidence may well be something like £135,000,000 when you factor in transfers of Saliba, Tierney, Pepe, Martinelli and a potential loan fee for Ceballos. However, Arsenal have been negotiating instalment payments on almost all these players so our actual commitment this summer may be no more than £60-65 million. So far we have sold Ospina and Amaechi and received a further £4.5 million for a third… Read more »
Moving on Mustafi will be the biggest deal of the summer. I can stand him making those slides again.
I read that Pepe’s agent will pocket €9m. On top of that, Jorge Mendes must receive something too for his trouble. I have to give Raul credit for making this happen. I can imagine that Josh must have given him the backing recently.
Defence needs to improve. It has t be strengthened. Mustafi needs to go
This is the type of deals we normally walk away from because our “values” is against paying agents outrageous fees. Same values encourages us to pay sub-standard players a kings ransom to cost us points.
“I think moving on Mustafi would be the biggest deal of the summer. It would be absolutely unreal. I think I would write Raul a thank you note.”
If Mustardi leaves, I send to Raul a box of chocolate with the note.
And btw, where is the petition ??
#getridofMUSTARDI
The pepe deal is very good news for Arsenal football club in many ways . Besides being a very potent player, It shows the football world that Arsenal have ambition and this could help entice other quality players to the club.. The signings of Martinez and Ceballos will do very little to improve the team….they may even have a detrimental effect on the progress of Saka, Nelson and WIllock . Martinez and Ceballos are decent players but it remains to be seen if they will get game time , is Martinez a better footballer than Nelson and Saka , I’m… Read more »
A probable explanation for Arsenal’s decision to switch from Saha to Pepe is the instalment payment plan. The rumour is that Arsenal are paying Lille only £20 million up front. Most probably Crystal Palace and Man Utd would have expected at least double in the first instalment. Also the delay with Tierney may also be because Arsenal want to pay by smaller instalments up front than what is being demanded by Celtic. My guess is that Arsenal have been historically reluctant to make commitments on transfers which are not being discharged within a couple of years. That has changed under… Read more »
I will be totally convinced by the “new management regime” only when our defenses problems will be fixed.
Pierre, it’s Martinelli, not Martinez.
Agree with your last paragraph – a LB and a CB would be great. I’d swap Xhaka for a strong, mobile CM as well, but that’s for next summer.
Pierre You need to look at overall picture and not at the acquisitions in isolation. Arsenal will be much stronger in midfield and in the forwards this season. The club will have not only Pepe in forward options, but also possibly Nkietah, Martinelli and Nelson as well.The only departure was Welbeck who was out injured for a large part of season. Our midfield will be also stronger because Cabellos plus Willock combined adds more options than loss of Ramsey. Even if we were to lose Elneny the squad would be stronger, because he played very rarely in the team. The… Read more »
It’s only here i hear people saying academy players should have a free run at the first team, no need to earn it.
If Saka and Willock are indeed better options than Martinelli (who is 18 and was brought in for the future) and Ceballos (who frankly your low rating of his talents at this point Pierre seems a tad bit personal) they should prove it over the course of the season with whatever chances they get.
Competition for places should never be discouraged
Mustafi absolutely must be shown the door. He’s probably somewhere pointing at one of his teammates for his mistakes as usual right now.
Otherwise he would have happily winded down his contract with an easy life at Arsenal. Those days are hopefully over.
Pierre has a knack of typing loads but not saying anything worth paying attention to.
It would be negligent not to make a center back addition this summer all things considered. Kos is no longer an option, Holding should not be rushed back and personally if Mustafi is sold we need to add two not one center back
Ceballos , is not too dissimilar to Xhaka in the way he plays the game.
Say again ?
Left most of what he says is laced with an agenda, He has had it in for Ceballos right from the off probably because there is a real possibility he effectively limits the need for Ozil, can’t for the life of me pin point what he has against Martinelli who i think is an exciting prospect. Some posters want us to make a path to the first team easy for the academy players, they have to earn it.
This way of paying pissant upfront but yuge installment is literally how I do business in Football Manager with smol budget thought it’s just some exploit that won’t realistically work that well IRL footy due to other variables.
With more options for Emery to play with I’m expecting more fluidity of him turning the games around. Just that don’t start with the dross anymore as it will just negate everything that they are trying to rectify.
The club themselves have stated they are looking for a CB this summer and I believe this was after the Saliba signing. I would be quite surprised if we didn’t add a CB before the end of the window as the present need is dire in terms of numbers and quality (Ksocielny not likely to feature much and touch wood, the waking calamity Mustafi is on his way out)
To be honest, Auba playing on the left flank doesn’t mean that much, since our LBs always go super deep in the opponent’s half. This way Auba could move in the middle whenever he wants to. It’s just that his starting position will be predominantly on the left, but he will still end his runs in the middle of the pitch. I definitely see our team with Auba and Laca changing positions, Pepe dribbling on the right, Ceballos, Torr and one of Xhaka and Guen in the middle of the pitch. I don’t see Ozil and Mikki in our best… Read more »
Emirates
I think it did come down to what was paid upfront regarding Pépé/Zaha especially when you factor in utd’s cut . Utd probably wanted their cut in full upfront so palace would probably have very little on first payment . Utd probably played hardball as not to do us a favour and force us out of buying Zaha an this keeping us weaker though Woodward is such a dullard ironically he forced us to purchase the better player and superior purchase in Pépé .
His avatar tells you everything you need to know about his huge ego…
RH Martinelli ,I have nothing against , he may turn out to be an asset to the club but we have 2 potentially quality players coming through the academy who will be denied game time ( as Saka was at the weekend ) by the arrival of Martinelli. Karim I was at the game at the weekend and Xhaka and Ceballos were quite difficult to tell apart ….the comparison was more to do with the pace of their play and ability to recover ground in midfield. Ceballos has more tricks on the ball and is more progressive in his play… Read more »
correction…..Hate*(have)
Pierre
Never read such rubbish and you have the name wrong! Ceb will be a great addition and completely different player to Zhaka.
And also, why do the media and people still go on about a 45 million budget when the club have actually never stated that is the case!?
Pierre
I think Willock will see plenty of game time this season, Emery clearly thinks highly of him.
I don’t see anything wrong with having that competition between Saka, Nelson and Martinelli. All clearly very talented and is good for the club. Mistakes in the past were guaranteeing youngsters games as such and they never took it to the next level.
Pierre
You could also give a little time to Ceballos, who’s more proven than any of our youths.
I liked Reiss though.
Pierre Martinelli is a striker that can play on the wings, nice to have a succession plan in place for once if he gets to a certain level as Auba starts losing some pace and maybe gets sold. We still really only have 1 senior winger in Pepe so both Nelson and Saka should see plenty of playing time, if they can’t displace Iwobi on the left they’re not worth persisting with anyway. Ceballos is nothing like Xhaka you lunatic. Judging his supposed lack of pace on his first 20 minutes of a pre season friendly is just mind boggling… Read more »
RH “Left most of what he says is laced with an agenda, He has had it in for Ceballos right from the off probably because there is a real possibility he effectively limits the need for Ozil,” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4pQcn2L65J0 Why wouldn’t I want Ceballos to be the midfielder we really have needed over the years , he is a good footballer without a doubt,( as Willock is ) but will Emery play him ….he didn’t sign him , he had no say in him coming to the club …..I know this because the know nothing’s on Le Grove repeatedly told me… Read more »
Pierre you have obviously not seen Ceballos play otherwise you would not be saying these things
He is far and above better than anything we have as you will see
Stop being so pessimistic ffs
The major problems last season were not just the weakness of our defence. We lost four players last season with longterm injuries and four other players seldom played, because frankly they were not good enough. So the club was dependent in second half of season on 16-17 players and over dependence on these players cost us almost certainly a top four finish. Once Ramsey got injured towards end of season we were certainly struggling in midfield and our defence was also waifer thin. Our resources were particularly exposed in that department, which is why it is imperative that we recruit… Read more »
“I don’t see anything wrong with having that competition between Saka, Nelson and Martinelli. All clearly very talented and is good for the club. Mistakes in the past were guaranteeing youngsters games as such and they never took it to the next level.” I fail to understand what Pierre has against competition. It’s like the Wenger days when we passed on great targets so as not to “kill” the development of players. Players will not develop unless they face competition, a first team place should not be handed to anyone. Iwobi was practically guaranteed to play last season and we… Read more »
Pierre:
“Ceballos , is not too dissimilar to Xhaka in the way he plays the game.”
?!?!?!?!?! 3rd most successful dribbles in his last full season only behind Messi and Neymar.
Ooops, forgot that Xhaka is a spectacular dribbler…
Fabrizio Romano
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Nicolas Pépé is in London with his agents. He’s having first pictures as new Arsenal player – the deal will be official soon.
Pierre So , in a nutshell , you’re saying that we shouldn’t have laid out for Martinelli or Ceballos ? How much about Martinelli do you really know , to compare him to Saka and nelson ? And how can you compare Ceballos to Xhaka after a 20 minute cameo ? Wouldn’t it be better for us to wait until at least 2 , at a push 3 months to see how it all pans out ? You’re literally the only arsenal fan who hasn’t rated Ceballos after the game at the weekend We have a history of not really… Read more »
He simply has no idea what sought of player Ceballos is, rather than admit it he is comparing him to Willock. Come back to me when Willock makes a 100+ first team appearances for any team in the Premier league. I am sure you thought Craig Eastmond will be the bomb too
RH –
“I fail to understand what Pierre has against competition.”
He’s against any player brought in during the new regime who might ‘kill’ a Wenger signing [hello, Mesut]. Saka and Willock are red herrings.
I genuinely believe Pierre would become a Spurs supporter if Poch moved to Real/Utd and Wenger took over from Poch. Imagine his first move was to bring Ozil over..
Pedro,
Please forgive me if I’m wrong but I thought you were an analytics man over the agent contact approach?
And didn’t Ceballos say he spoke to emery on the phone ? (If I’m wrong please correct me and I’ll hold my hands up )
But wasn’t it emery who guaranteed him more playing time ? That’s why the spuds tried to spin their failure to land him into him being on work experience with us ( pretty funny )
“Shkodran Mustafi wants to stay at the Emirates Stadium next season despite Arsenal wanting to offload him in the ongoing summer transfer window, according to the BBC. ”
Apparently we are in negotiations with several clubs because we want to ship him out but Mustafi wants to stay.
This is why booing him is ok, even encouraged ffs, he needs to get out. Time for Raul to step up his gangster moves.
The knife attack and dead body didn’t seem to work on Ozil and Elneny so fuck knows how far he has to go with Mustafi.
Arsenal in talks with number of clubs over Shkodran Mustafi exit. 27yo (contract until 2021) wants to stay + prove himself. But #AFC want permanent or loan departure. Also hope to bolster central defence pre-deadline & retain interest in Celtic left-back Kieran Tierney #CelticFC
— David Ornstein (@bbcsport_david) July 30, 2019
It’s the hope that kills you
karim,
SHOW HIM WEARING THE SHIRT ALREADY !!!
Edu me a favour
Honestly, I would have been really, really, really, uncomfortable if Cabellos was our marque signing.
I don’t think he is that super awesome. But his presence would motivate the likes of Willock.
I only hope Emery has the balls to bench Cabellos if Willock rises to the challenge.
He is going back to RM anyway so it is not like we owe him anything. If he wants his promised 40 games, let him earn it.
Given that we are signing Pepe, I can understand the Cabellos signing as stretching our dollar for the time being.
We may actually be in a position to rip Newcastle a new one on 11 August!
Why should any serious 27 year old footballer want to stay were he isn’t wanted?? I will be pissed off if Emery plays him. Humiliate him let him play in the academy
The knife attack and dead body didn’t seem to work on Ozil and Elneny so fuck knows how far he has to go with Mustafi.
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Nice one FL. 🙂
I like the transfer window this season, and we are potentially rebuilding a great squad here, a lot of youth prospects. However we, as fans, need to look at the bigger picture here and we are effectively loading up the credit card here. We are going to have a much reduced budget for the next few seasons as we are paying effectively £15 million a season for Pepe, £5 million a season for Tierney, buying Saliba next season for this seasons prices, possibly a commitment to purchasing Rugani next season. That could be £75 million spent next season for one… Read more »
Arsenal in talks with number of clubs over Shkodran Mustafi exit. 27yo (contract until 2021) wants to stay + prove himself. But #AFC want permanent or loan departure. Also hope to bolster central defence pre-deadline & retain interest in Celtic left-back Kieran Tierney #CelticFC— David Ornstein (@bbcsport_david)
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Feels good to be a gooner again!
I remember singing Graham Rix is a wanker away at Luton when we losing 3 -1 in the 80s.
“I sense we do need Champions League qualification this season to make this work.”
Yes, i can’t see too many excuses for Emery now, maybe the defense but i expect that to be rectified in some way, He has had his bedding in year, now he must finish top four or leave. Simple
Why is so hard to spell Ceballos? Even Arsenal did it wrong in the match program against Lyon.
Coincidence that it’s the posters that spells his name Cabellos that thinks he’s similar to Xhaka or Arteta? Must have watched the wrong youtube highlights.
I am going to be so impressed if Arsenal manage to move Mustafi on. He’s not very good and his attitude, like Elneny, is I’d rather sit on the bench earning my wages while living in London than move clubs. Not an easy sell. In terms of quality he’s not what we need and we don’t need that kind of attitude either. If somehow Arsenal do manage to sell Kozz, Elneny and Mustafi and get a decent amount of money for them this summer it could mean we can throw it all at a CB as Tierney is likely the… Read more »
I’m also glad that this summer has well and truly seen the death of the Sven Mislintant crowd
RH
Agreed about CL qualification, it’s a must if we get these signing over the line.
Feel this new team will actually use that platform to take us forward instead of patting them self on the back and call it job done like Wenger used to do.
If we can get an excellent young CAM and CM in next summer we’re well on the way to competing for titles again.
Would be quite a transformation from our old, weak, overpaid, unathletic, underperforming squad in just 3 years.
“old, weak, overpaid, unathletic, underperforming squad”
Correspond to 3 words in the dictionary : “Ozil”, “Xhaka”, “Mustardi”.
Add Mkhi, who’s as average as they come.
Mkhi is good, compared to the 3 stooges.
We can’t fuck off Mikki and Ozil this summer, but I could see Mikki leaving in the winter, and Ozil leaving next summer. Get top 4 and fuck those 2 away, we’d have the base of something good going on.
Yeah, that’s why I didn’t want to list all of Wengers babies, too much typing.
Reports from Italy that we’re in talks for Khedira on a 2 year deal for 70k a week , if true it shows we think Xhaka is a problem, (or he’s the Elneny relplacement)but we don’t have the money to replace him now, not sure Khedira is the answer though since his legs are apparently gone.
“Would be quite a transformation from our old, weak, overpaid, unathletic, underperforming squad in just 3 years.”
Exactly
Although i am not sure everyone agrees the squad has under-performed or that we needed additions anywhere but in defense if certain comments are to be taken literally.
Dark “Honestly, I would have been really, really, really, uncomfortable if Cabellos was our marque signing. I don’t think he is that super awesome. But his presence would motivate the likes of Willock.” Yep me too , but we don’t have to worry about that now , thank Raul , his contacts and his anti arsenal values 😉 Yeh I’d much rather a Willock motivated by a highly rated Madrid loanee than a Willock who settles into his place knowing full well he has no one to come in and displace him – I really hope Willock becomes an arsenal… Read more »
RH
Well in some ways they are right, the squad hasn’t really underperformed, this is their level, which is why they need to be replaced if we want to move forward.
I know that’s not how they feel though, it’s all on the manager 1 year into the job…
“I know that’s not how they feel though, it’s all on the manager 1 year into the job…”
Yep, he has apparently set up back a few years in just one season in charge
Will The Clown play Pepe in The Loosers Cup Group matches on those dodgy pitches in The Old Iron Curtain Countries?
Or will he protect our £80 000 000 asset and rest him for The Real Soccer at the weekend.?
Pepe doing his ligaments on a dodgy pitch against Sheriff or Quarabag would be unforgivable…..
Can The Clown Man Manage Pepe Correctly?
I think we all know the answer to that…
“I think moving on Mustafi would be the biggest deal of the summer. It would be absolutely unreal. I think I would write Raul a thank you note.”
THIS..
Forget Pepe, this is the real deal, if we can sell him for actual money i would be over the moon
Question for all you wonder folk on here.
Will Pepe ever play a Champions league match in his career?
Desiderata
Would be madness to sign 32 Yr old Sami Khedira on a 2 year deal unless it’s a way of phasing out Xhaka and means the end of El Neny…
That midfield would need it’s own surgery next summer.
People need to remember that if it was up to Pierre we would have given Ramsey whatever he wanted to stay. Wouldn’t Ramsey be blocking youngster’s path to the first team? Pierre approaches everything with a pro Wenger and Ozil agenda. He’s knocking Ceballos after a handful of minutes yet will defend Ozil who stank the place out last season. During a couple of early matches last season Emery tried playing Ramsey an a no 10 who would press and close down the opposition, thing is Ramsey isn’t a no 10. Ceballos is described as having the attributes to do… Read more »
Bati
Elneny played so few minutes last season that I don’t think we need a replacement player – the youth players should be able to cover his contribution and much more.
Walt
“””””Pierre approaches everything with a pro Wenger and Ozil agenda. “””:
Amd you approach everything with an Emery and Raul agenda
Buffoon.
https://arseblog.news/2019/07/ornstein-rennes-meet-arsenal-to-discuss-koscielny-deal/
Tick Tock…. how are you CG ?? Still psychotic ??
It won’t cost Mustafi anything to go to the airport as many of us here are willing to take him!
This transfer would be the highlight, with Miki next.
The cunt could even afford to buy the plane.
Pierre
“Ceballos is not to dissimilar to Xhaka”
What an absolute joke of s comment you should never voice your opinion on players if this is your opinion what a joke stop posting a blind man can see they are chalk and cheese
High Leg
“”””Tick Tock…. how are you CG ?? Still psychotic ??”””
I am well thanks.
Do you think Pepe will ever play a CL match in his career?
The legend Takuma Asano is still on our books ……..wow
It’s a supporters right to boo a player, especially if he’s been so bad for so long (making such idiotic mistakes). Mustafi ruined my one chance to go to the Emirates last season (the April loss to Palace). To hell with him.
And there are clubs that want Mustafi but he won’t go? So why is he getting game time in preseason? He should have been told to pick his club from those making offers, and if he won’t pick one, he can train with the academy kids. Arsenal has to be more ruthless.
Mustafi wants to stay and prove himself? Get out of here if he took any pride in defending or himself he wouldn’t regularly make as many mistakes as he does and then have the audacity to never take accountability for it.
It doesn’t matter what we do uptop when you have a clown like him at the other end ready to undo all the work.
According to Ornstein:
Arsenal technical director Edu met with the Stade Rennes president + the representative of Laurent Koscielny in London yesterday. Talks between #AFC & suitors continue in a bid to resolve Koscielny’s future. The 33yo captain does not anticipate playing for the Gunners again #SRFC
It’s a pity koscielny has chosen for it to end this way, big shame.
Pierre “Why wouldn’t I want Ceballos to be the midfielder we really have needed over the years , he is a good footballer without a doubt,( as Willock is ) but will Emery play him ….he didn’t sign him , he had no say in him coming to the club” Just to let you know that you are dead wrong this time. Emery personally phoned Ceballos to convince him to join. He had also promised him game time. Otherwise, he could have joined Spurs since they offer Champions League football. Ceballos told reports that he decided to come to Arsenal… Read more »
RH
It’s a blessing – he has regressed.
Moving on Mustafi for €30m euros would be incredible. I still don’t like the booing though. I’ll never agree to it. Booing eboue doesn’t make it any better that it’s being done now. Poor eboue didn’t deserve that.
One thing that does concern me is that we are looking at anothe rslow defender with the high line we have. Can rugani and holding/chambers/sok play a high line with or without quick full backs who defend properly? It doesn’t mesh well for me
“RH
It’s a blessing – he has regressed.”
I know, it’s all rather acrimonious really. Shouldn’t have ended this way, he played it all wrong.
Don
The guy is actively refusing to leave when the club and 99% of the supporters wants him to leave, he’s standing in the way of our progress, boo the shit out of him at least in preseason and if that fails leading up to the january window.
Any other time than that it’s pointless I agree.
This has the potential to be the best 2 weeks in Arsenal transfer history and the moment that wakes a sleeping giant. If Mustafi is in the way of that then get rid any way possible.
The trolls are really hating the business we’re doing at the moment. The club is really getting it’s shit together and the vibe around the club is so so positive.
The atmosphere at the first home game is going to be fantastic. I can’t remember the last time there was this much positivity around the fan base.
Moise Kean almost done for Everton, seems like Zaha is staying put then. Let’s see how that works out for palace.
I would like to thank them for their greedy demands and Zaha for his high wage demand, it made us go for the superior player on lower wages with far more potential.
Agreed Freddie Pepe has a great eye for goals we will be far more dynamic away from home with him in the team
Bring in Tierney and Rugani and I will be a happy gooner