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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.
Can’t wait for the first home game either Marc
Freddie they really don’t want to sell Zaha and especially not to Everton.
Pierre Its Martinelli . You dont even know his name what do u know about his game.In the little game time he’s got this pre-season he has been good if not spectacular. Its totally a new culture,place, language, people, climate, teammates , coach for him. What did you expect from him? To come and fix our winger problems . Give him a year or two and then we’ll see. Cabellos and Xhaka are two polar opposites. If yiu would describe them simply. Xhaka- defensive midfielder and. Cabellos- Attacking midfielder. And Cabellos is the closest we’ve come to replacing Cazorla. And… Read more »
“It’s a pity koscielny has chosen for it to end this way, big shame.”
Yes. Because he would have left such a stellar legacy otherwise.
The best thing to do is reverse the roles : Mustardi up front, Pepe at the back.
Lol Marc, the fans have been booing players all preseason and last week the supporters attacked the execs at the Q&A.
Not sure i’d classify this as a moment of having our shit together.
Apologize for the typos. Posting from an Android
I booed the shit out of Mustafi on Sunday
“Yes. Because he would have left such a stellar legacy otherwise.”
Stellar is a strong word, but he would have left a legacy as a hard working defender even if error prone.
Pedro
You want to tell me the transfer business we’re doing this summer doesn’t compare to getting our shit together?
When was the last time you remember us going into summer with a plan and pulling it off?
@Mr Serge : please, feel free to continue as long as you want.
It should become an obligation, even for the fans.
Marc
I would say last year is the only other year in recent history, our targets was just worse and we didn’t go for any top players like we’ve done this window.
Good enough window compared to before but nothing like this one if we get our reported targets.
So much for missing Sven.
SMH
Love the way a little bit of positivity has crept back into the Arsenal fold and we got guys already stamping it out 😂 .
Gotta be positive, despite History telling us otherwise. WE GONNA WIN THE PREM WOOO!!
The reality after a Transfer Window like the one we’re having, would change the status quo quite a bit. Last year we almost finished in top 4, and although we fked ourselves in the last weeks of the season, it still felt like we were punching above our weight you know. Literally 100% of the pundits and basically everyone thought we’d finish the season 5th or 6th. Now top 4 wouldn’t look out of place when you look at our squad. Lots of excitement to be had and it feels like we leapfrogged a Chelsea without Hazard. United will have… Read more »
HL I made all the people around me join in mostly tourists that thought it was funny to boo him
When they announced him the substitution on Sunday they showed his number and name and everyone booed him. But another player came on so every one cheered instead and then he came onto the pitch and people started booing again
He defo knows we hate him
Whilst I’m really excited about Pepe, for me the most important transfer in recent years was Aubameyang. Reason for this was that Lacazette wasn’t exactly setting things on fire at that point, so to go out and sign what could have been a replacement was a proper statement of intent. And to go out and spend big money on a player that was widely considered one of the top strikers in Europe and who was certainly one of the most prolific, was completely unexpected for Arsenal. Pepe could well go on to be a much more important player for us… Read more »
Nah Biggles Pepe is the signing
Many dismissed it on here as beyond our reach
A 24 year old making who has burst onto the scene, with interest from all leagues in Europe, i didn’t think we will pull it off.
This is not a player forced out of Barca or Madrid choosing us or a player in the Germany who has missed his big move to Madrid settling for Arsenal
Freddie I want him gone. I just don’t like the idea of going to a match a booing a player who needs to keep his confidence and concentration levels up. It’s not for me. Half he’s on his way though What an awful transfer he was. Shame because as cc pointed out he has the making of a good defender when he’s on his game Maybe needs to be in a proper defensive system with w coach who can iron out his lack of awareness and alongside better defenders you may see a marked improvement. Not at arsenal We ruin… Read more »
Something fishy about Juventus moving Moise Kean on so fast, don’t even have a buy back or sell on clause on the contract.
We should do the same with Iwobi, with the AFCON and appearances last season we should get a good fee.
In all seriousness only a handful of wengers expensive signings can be called a success Mustafi, xhaka and ozil were a combined 120-130m Sanchez was value for his contribution. Auba and laca appear to have been too tho I’m not sure if he was really involved in Auba or if he’d lost his power by then If we think back a bit farther, Jeffers was a relatively expensive flop. Wiltord wasn’t cheap either relatively I think tho I don’t remember and he was most definitely good but not elite Wenger got some absolute bangers on the cheap mind. Some straight… Read more »
Freddie
Yeah – last summer was a bit different because we were finally rid of Wenger so the feel good factor was over a mix of reasons. This summer it’s purely players we’re signing.
Laca £50 mill
PEA £ 50mill
We are still out of the CL.
if pepe help gets CL – he is arguably worth the hype!
if pepe don’t get you CL- he is just ultimately just Eye Candy!
Doesn’t Monaco have really low tax rates?
It’s also a pretty decent place to live.
Even if they can’t match his gross wages Mustafi will be paying 50% income tax.
It should be a good move for him.
I don’t like the idea of booing mustafi and wouldn’t do it myself as I like wenger and Gazidis etc, I don’t think he’s guilty of anything other than not being good enough Like I think he gives 100% every game, he’s just not able to concentrate properly and we suffer the consequences every damn week But despite not being willing to boo mustafi myself, I believe this kind of message may be the only way to get through to the management that it’s not ok to play such tat players week in week out Arsenal fans are so soft… Read more »
Unlike wenger*
My point is I don’t think there’s anything cynical about mustafi. I imagine he’s really nice. He just isn’t good enough for us
And in all honesty, if the fans hasn’t started shouting wenger out, bringing banners, dropping attendance figures and flying planes, arsene would still be here now on a lifetime contract
It’s ljterally true that the only actions the club have taken in the last 10 years have come as a direct result of fans expressing displeasure. The club isn’t proactive so it needs telling.
So be it
China
I want to see Ozil, Miki and Xhaka gone as well. It’s not a personal attack on them, it’s you don’t perform at the level that’s good enough for my club.
Nothing personal and good luck in the future but please fuck off!
I think Monaco has close to zero tax. That’s why the rich move there
Walt
“””Yeah – last summer was a bit different because we were finally rid of Wenger so the feel good factor”””
Exactly- then out of nowhere- we got fostered upon this Clown- that not want One Arsenal fan in the World wanted.
And that will always be a Disgrace!
CG
Let it go.
Something tells me you’re a glass half empty kind of guy/girl.
Just go!!
Dismal
Let it go already
It’s boring an no one cares …
It’s 2019 season not 2015
He won’t go until you all stop interacting with him.
Highbury
I’m beginning to find his panic amusing. The better things look the more irate he is and his posts are getting more and more detached from reality.
I’m beginning to think he might be in a mental hospital or something – it would explain his disappearance the other week for a period – obviously had his internet privileges removed.
“He won’t go until you all stop interacting with him.”
When he isn’t here some actually miss him….hence the interaction.
Lol Marc
I loved it when he randomly started complaining about reckless spending earlier one day after implying we were missing out on the capture of legendary elite winger zaha for 80m
It’s crazy how big players are on the market this TW. Normally teams would fight to sign a top player and now several of top players are all but kicked out by their teams, still there is nothing official just yet.
I’m talking about Neymar, Bale, Coutinho, Dybala, Lukaku, Zaha.. I’m probably missing some..
Feels good that sometimes transfer fees do matter in football and teams have to think twice before throwing a truck of money to buy a player.
I think even though most of us are willing to have a good football/political argument on here every few days, a le grove would be a pretty awesome and fun pub crawl.
If we weren’t such a geographically detached group I’d actually propose it because even the arguments would be jokes offline rather than negative as they sometimes feel on here
CG tho… I dunno man. Either the life and soul of the party and funniest guy in the room or he’s actually being serious on here every day lol
This lukaku + 15m for dybala talk cant be real surely
What are juve thinking if so? Utd should be biting their arm off if it’s real
“When he isn’t here some actually miss him….hence the interaction.“
They must also be trolls.
He’s not witty, funny, doesn’t offer up any viable points and types in such an incomprehensible fashion that I doubt he is all there mentally. What’s even worse is that Pedro has all the restraint in the world with him.
Curios whose on the list of potential incoming CBs, Rugani going to be a tough nut to crack contracted with Juve until 2023.
If you imagine CG is actually will ferrel the posts become instantly awesome without exception
China
You need to learn the difference between laughing with someone and at someone.
China
That was funny!
I give it to him though he provokes reaction from everyone where ppl like Guns types his shit jokes then leaves, and Steve/Thomas is just flat out ignored.
Sal,
Chiellini is also suffering from injury so Rugani will be used as cover I reckon. I have no idea who the CB incoming will be, and I hope its not Gary Cahill.
On the pub crawl you just know CG would have short arms and long pockets.
He reminds me of this guy on a game I used to play when I was 15 called rune (not runescape) It was a brilliant Viking hack n slash built on the original unreal tournament engine with a massively dedicated online deathmatch scene and really skilled player base And there was this one guy who would join your high level death match with the only character dressed as a woman. He’d throw little swords and axes at people from a distance to disturb their battle without killing them but simply run away every time you chased him. Sooner or later… Read more »
China:
“This lukaku + 15m for dybala talk cant be real surely”
Dybala apparently went from 23 goals and 5 assists 2017/18, to 10 goals and 4 asissts in 2018/19. Maybe he doesn’t fit what Juve want if they want to shape their team around CR7.
Going for Lukaku of all though… Very, very questionable.
Left
That or “sorry lads I forgot my wallet but I’ll sort you out I promise”
It’s gone a bit quiet on the Pape Abou Cisse front.
China,
roflmao! I tilted by just reading it! hahaha
Re the CB, Emery said that they are looking only for players that can improve on what we have. If he was telling the truth Cahill shouldn’t be an option.
Marc
“People need to remember that if it was up to Pierre we would have given Ramsey whatever he wanted to stay”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4pQcn2L65J0
You’re at it again
fsaf
When you have Mustafi in the defence anything is an improvement.
YouTube link still going strong i see
Wonder if we announce Pepe today, photos of him at Colney already doing the rounds.
‘YouTube link still going strong i see’
Lol
Pepe certainly seems to be as done as it gets without an arsenal website post
I’ve no longer any concerns about him
Re dybala, I didn’t realize he had a bad year last season. No injuries? Tbh I’m not 100% sure he’d make it in the prem as I can’t thibk of too many top strikers in Italy who have easily delivered in England. Shevchenko was sad as hell here
But he definitely has the quality if he could settle and lukaku + 15m is a bad exchange for juve
@Leftsidesanch
Juve will almost certainly be playing 2 CBs under Sarri. Presumably Bonucci and de Ligt, but they also signed Demiral a couple of weeks ago, a 21 year old Turk. He’d been on loan from Alanyaspor to Sassuolo since the winter window and Sassuolo signed him on the 1st of July and sold him to Juve on the 5th of July for nearly twice the price. I’d imagine four CBs is enough. I think Rugani only had his contract extended to protect any value.
Challenge for you guys:
Name strikers who made their names in Italy (don’t have to be Italian) who were quality here
I actually think crespo was under appreciated at Chelsea. His record was like 1:2 iirc but even he was binned off
Boubacar Kamara is the latest CB being linked with us.
Biggles, I think I saw somewhere that they rejected our proposal for a two year loan deal including an option to buy.
China
Does Zola count? More of an attacking midfielder/forward I know.
Also, your rune story, kinda reminds me of those little pricks running around on call of duty with ballistic knifes only.
Shame for Rugani, so talented awaiting to finally get a look in with Bonnucci and Chiellini not getting any younger and club pulls the De Light signage.
His agent should be pushing for season loan at minimum.
Yes Zola was class
I didn’t play CoD but I can relate as all games have such Annoying shit I believe lol
Never mind Mustafi, people should boo Ozil mercilessly every time he steps onto the pitch or touches the ball. He’s an even bigger liability and all-round toxic presence than the calamitous defender.
That aside, it is extremely pleasing to see how the energy around the club has transformed within the last week, which is entirely thanks to the hierarchy finally showing some decisiveness, ambition, and long-term thinking.
Bale rumored to be offered 1m a week in China
Deary me lol. And that team isn’t in Shanghai it’s some backwater second tier city
If he goes there I’d rate his chances of being happy there at 1% lol
Vialli?
Do you guys think Khedira is a possibility? I find it weird. What’s up with Tierney? Gone too quiet on that front. Mustafi seems to have a good defender in him but I don’t know how psychologically stable he is. He’ll have a good game for about 2/3 of the game and fuck it up with a bloated brain fart. Spurs away last season comes to mind. Pepe in now. Hearing juve reject our Rugani approach. Can Dunk do a job but not for the £40m? Git a feeling we may go for Ruben Diaz. Just using Rugani as a… Read more »
KAY Boss
Come up for air man!
photos of Pepe at Arsenal
https://twitter.com/OsmanZtheGooner
China
I hear the golfing is quite good in the Jiangsu province.
@Left : any photos of Mustardi on his way to the airport ??
Apparently Auba liked a post linking Mustafi with Monaco.
Nicolas Pepe
Tge hype is freaking ReAl
When was the last time a signing got us all so excited. Probably Sanchez or Ozil.
Announcement probably later today. Auba on his Insta story is bae.
Lukaku was a beast at Everton. 15 mil+ an underperforming player who never really fulfilled his potential might be quite a deal for Juve.
Could even work out well for Manu if Dybala gets rejuvenated.
Tierney prob gets wrapped up after Pepe is done.
Tbf he’d probably live in Nanjing which is a major city and historical hub of China (former capital)
But it’s not a first tier city and if someone moves to China without wanting to embrace the full culture and get wrapped in it he’ll end up frustrated living in Nanjing. Very few English speakers and not multinational compared with Shanghai or Beijing
Who knows, maybe bale can cope but he didn’t even learn Spanish in all those years in Madrid. Nanjinren aren’t gonna be all that accommodating outside of the hotel he’ll probably live at and the club
I thought the Bale to China deal was off?
I am off to Windhoek for a few days.
you lot are too bloody miserable…too excitable …. and oblivious to the fact – we aint going nowhere with The Clown.
Watch him bamboozle Pepe with his clipboard chameleon cobblers!
And He is definitely not 24!
t.h.
lol
Not the Windhoek Psychiatric Clinic for Sexual Deviancy that specialises in the treatment of paedophilia, bestiality and excessive compulsive masturbation?
I thought you were a permanent guest there, although apparently they’ve never had a patient who has such severe issues in all 3 specialisations.
We’re miserable. See ya Tony.
China
He’ll be a hero there, no question. Major statement of intent for the league if their able to land Bale. His agent dreaming of the potential endorsement deals, he’d become the face of league embraced by most i’d wager and the payoff would be daunting to say least.
On par w/ Becks joining MLS back in the day more value.
As long as ZZ at Madrid there doesn’t seem to be place for him, and nobody else seems to want to take a whiff as money too big.
@China1
Another who made it in Italy first and then came over to the UK and was pretty successful was Di Canio. Never at a top team in England, but phenomenally talented. Shame he was a headcase.
Ravanelli?
sal
Yeah looks like Zidane wants him gone. It’ll be interesting how they approach the new season if / when he goes. They’ve got Hazard but I’d have thought he’s more of a replacement for Ronaldo.
Eduardo “Never mind Mustafi, people should boo Ozil mercilessly every time he steps onto the pitch or touches the ball, .He’s an even bigger liability and all-round toxic presence ” That’s a matter of opinion , and if you analyse what you are saying it basically ends up reading ” bullshit” Firstly ,there has never been any inclination that Ozil will be booed mercilessly , the match going fans pay to watch quality and they are intelligent enough ( Marc is the exception ) to know that the situation isn’t of Ozil’s making . As for being toxic and a… Read more »
I would just like to point out that Marc is in fact a season ticket holder ….
“the match going fans pay to watch quality and they are intelligent enough ( Marc is the exception ) to know that the situation isn’t of Ozil’s making .”
That would be the match going fans who pay to watch at what stadium?
Cause it ain’t the Emirates!
Pierre
I would just like to point out that Pierre thinks he’s funny.
Pierre- Well said. Great post
What’s happened with the link we had to kimpembe of PSG- a v good physical young ch?- or what about one of the Brighton boys or Tarkowski of Burnley would do an excellent job….
Pierre
“the match going fans pay to watch quality and they are intelligent enough ( Marc is the exception ) to know that the situation isn’t of Ozil’s making .”
Yes, they pay to watch quality, is that what Ozil provides nowadays? Whose fault is it that his performances has been shit for 2 years? Emerys I’m guessing like everything else, if not for that cunt we would have ended world hunger and reversed climate change by now.
Everton about to sign young Moise Kean from Juventus. Think that is a quality addition. They have been lacking a decent goalscorer since Lukaku left for Man Utd.
Juventus are trying to sell a few veteran players over the next to balance the books.
Talk of a Dybala for Lukaku swap as well. They’re on the clock as the Cristiano addition is forcing them to add and subtract players because of his age and ludicrous salary. Interested to see how much say Sarri has. Anything less than a European Cup SF and he probably loses his job
Dream10
They’ve also got Ramsey on huge money.
Pierre and his new pal, Dream10 – aka the moral advisor.
Freddie
Pierre gets all precious because I pull him up over contradictory things he says and his constant agenda on Ozil and Wenger.
Fact is no one has disputed Ozil’s ability or talent it’s his application that is questioned.
Personally I’d be thrilled if Ozil started to perform – I just don’t think it’s very likely.