Well there is it my dears, part one of the transfer window is OVER (domestic).
We have landed in a great spot.
- Saliba – For next year
- Ceballos
- Martinelli (This year, it would seem)
- David Luiz
- Nicolas Pepe
- Kieran Tierney
What a haul!
You can whinge about some of the players if you are a real brat, not me, I am over the moon about the whole collective and I am a super brat.
I think there’s a lot of bitching about David Luiz, but for me, the only real concern is that he’s 32 years old. I’ve not seen a downturn in his ability to dominate players, but he might be more prone to injuries. He can be erratic, I’m just not sure we’re in a position to sniff at a name that has always won things with big clubs. Concern that placed in a madhouse, he’ll crumble is valid, but that’s an Emery issue. He should be a great stopgap and we’ll hopefully find a more longterm solution next summer.
HOPE HOPE HOPE
What all these players offer Emery is choice, and with that, no excuse for not making the top 4 this season. The Spaniard is a very lucky man in general, it’s hard to look at Manchester United and think they’ve moved things forward. Chelsea rocked a transfer ban and I’m not sure Frank Lampard is the full ticket. A great player, but is he an inspirational leader of men OFF the pitch? We’ll see. But they have had an awful summer and losing your best player is never an easy pill to swallow.
We’re also finishing the summer with a net spend of around… £45m.
Emery said in his press conference that he’s still looking to move on some players, you’d have to imagine the writing is on the wall for Mustafi and Elneny. The absolute madness of it all is those two could move us close to a break-even point for the window.
That is wild when you consider all the lies and nonsense we’ve been fed over the years.
Ivan Gazidis and Arsene Wenger were the most inept duo in world football. Raul and Edu are making them look like the Chuckle Brothers.
They couldn’t sell players. They couldn’t negotiate. They never had a plan b. They couldn’t run an effective operation.
We sold Koscielny for more than Ramsey, Welbeck, Jack Wilshere and Chezzer COMBINED.
We sold Alex Iwobi, a player that’s really struggled to make a dent in our pretty average first-team, for £40m. He’s our RECORD sale. We sold an ok player and made him our record sale.
We’re finally negotiating with clubs. We’ve spent very little this summer and managed to bring the best young player outside PSG to The Arsenal along with a host of really smart buys that are very unArsenal.
We finally stopped behaving like victims.
‘Buying players is harder than buying a loaf of bread’
‘The market is inflated’
‘FFP will rectify things’
‘Stan doesn’t give us enough money’
‘We simply can’t compete’
I’m so glad we’re done with all that nonsense. Raul has done more in two weeks than Ivan could muster in 10 years. He’s a beast of a hustler. He’s playing with the big boys. He’s working with the mega agents. Now we’re moving players more easily and we’re bringing in a higher calibre of talent.
We’re getting shit done and moving ahead with a clear vision.
I am absolutely shocked at the pace we’re doing this.
I’m more convinced than ever that if the manager doesn’t work, decisive action will be taken. I don’t even think top 4 is enough… underlying stats and the style of football will have to improve as well.
This season will still be bumpy, but fuck man, it feels good to have some joy back in our football lives.
This is what the game is about. Great players, big excitement and a future that doesn’t involve everyone laughing at us every summer.
What a time to be a Gooner!
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Awful own goal
Oh no… he pulled a Mustafi.. shanked the clearance.
Sign the cunt up. Gross.
Pedro
Thought we got 10m for chezzer
Norwich actually opened them up there a minute ago but just fucked it up
Origi and Iwobi have very similar style of play.
Norwich have had two or three half chances already.
Would be nice if the bindippers defence was this bad all season.
“Origi and Iwobi have very similar style of play”
Shite, by any chance?
Playing some good stuff Norwich but you just know they’re going to concede a fuck tonne all season long
Un nah nai i Couldn’t care less about your opinion on music i enjoy,after all you are english ,i really dont care about you,,,,you are irrelevant to my people
Oh dear 2-0
I don’t understand why some Le Grovers like to argue about money. As a fan, I am only interested in the players signed. Some are talking as if they were the part owner of the club. If you want to play the role of a manager, I recommend you to join a fantasy league.
Damn. 2 – 0 the Pool
Pretty open game really… Norwich had some good chances.. they just go into panic mode.. when they get close to scoring or when Pool gets close to their goal.
But that might be game ova…
Upstate
“138mil spent. 55.5mil received. Total net spend 82.5mil. Source: Sky Sports.”
And it was so nearly 110/115 million if the iwobi deal hadn’t gone through at the last minute.
I’m surprised no one is asking where was this 110 million in January when we were desperate for a couple of defenders but pleaded poverty.
We would all be looking forward to champions league football now if the purse strings had been loosened 6 months earlier.
Norwich still playing nice stuff but you can’t be that open against the bindippers.
Guns, yeah. Shite vs Shite in Merseyside derby provided both actually get to play.
Norwich the same old. Good combination play going forward but nervous at the back.
Nelson
I’m with you on that.
I stopped watching after the first goal. Now I’m looking at The Living Daylights, with the criminally underrated Timothy Dalton as Bond.
He was a brilliant Bond. Apparently the studio thought him too aggressive for the role which was ironic as Fleming wrote Bond, in the books, as a pretty violent and nasty psychopath.
Pierre you should ask where was the money this time last year.
First New manager in 22 years, squad needs a massive upgrade and emery was given 68 million.
The difference being Raul and Edu this year not gazidas.
Does un nah nai have a mental block on Irish people? ??Two of Arsenals greatest were Irish,,,Brady and O’ Leary,,,pick another nationality to hate on you saxon dog
Origi is much stronger than Iwobi and can score a goal.
Lol, one team scores every chance, the other team misses every chance! 3:0
Well that’s all she wrote… over now for sure.
Guns, Dalton was massively underrated.
When you think how Daniel Craig’s cold ruthless bond is rated now, Dalton was doing it 30 years ago.
Oops 3-0
Shit! Don’t let the Pool score!
It’s going to be a long season for Norwich
Them brits dominated the world!!!!!!!!!! They were no match for the boys from Cork though 🙂
You do wonder what bright spark at Sky thought this was the game to show on the Friday.
Should’ve been Newcastle – Arsenal tonight and this garbage on the Sunday early slot.
Don’t worry Norwich only city and Chelsea coming up soon as well.just like us last season!
kristoman disappeared as soon as someone told him Alexis (who scored more goals with us in a single season than Iwobi has managed during his entire career as a professional) is a better winger than Iwobi.
Banter.
Grabs
True
we could have gone in big last season …Raul and Edu have certainly done a good job this window but I believe it was a missed opportunity in January …..the money was there but it seemed to be one excuse after another.
You do wonder what bright spark at Sky thought this was the game to show on the Friday.
They must have listened to the guy who put the cakes in the urinals at HQ. Awful game to start but lucky it wasn’t us because Luiz wouldn’t have been able to play. Something about players being registered by a certain time and the cut off for the Friday game was 12 on Thursday
Up 4 I know! I feel for TD. He played Bond better than Connery and Moore. Much more true to the Bond that Fleming wrote. I like Craig actually because, he plays it a bit like Dalton. I’ve actually read quite a few books and the Bond in them is really rough. He isn’t cultured per se but a bit of a mimic. He’s an alcoholic, violent and a misogynist. Like Fleming. But most writers write themselves. For the record. Bond can’t be black! True, Idris Elba could be great but Bond was written white and if a black actor… Read more »
Good. The Pool GK is injured.
“Luiz wouldn’t have been able to play”
Top decision by Sky to show this match. European Champions against hungry promoted team desperate to impress.
Pierre,
I’m sure players we might have been interested in, in January possibly wasn’t available but something more should have been done.
Those last six games could all have been different without xhaka or mustafi in the side.
I’d be surprised now we have a team in place that situation will occur again.
Dork City Gooner hates all things English but follows an English Premier League team.
Looks like he might have sprained something.. hard to tell but if they thought he done a ligament can’t imagine they would let him walk off.
Dork lolz
Another criminally underrated put down.
What a game!
Origi is better then Iwobi…. he actually scores occasionally.
Norwich are poo.
Someone on here was praising them in the not too distant past.
Bond was written white
Explain this
Guns I’ve read a couple too. yeah spot on. Connery was cold when he wanted to be. Roger Moore was a lot more comical. But I though Dalton got a pretty raw deal. Yeah agree about a black bond. The character is a white guy. I like Idris good actor though. They made doctor who a woman. When the character is a man so it probably will happen though. Could you imagine the uproar if they wanted to cast a white guy to play Lando calarissan in star wars, or a man to play tennison in a remake of prime… Read more »
Pretty sure Origi scores more if given game time. He’s a quality back up for Pool. The types we should be filling out the squad with rather than the likes of Iwobi. Thank fuck he’s gone! Norwich already signalling to the league they’re ripe for relegation. What did they spend 1.1 million? Would’ve been better had Leeds come up.
Marko
Really? Really?
James Bond was written as a white character. Like Shakespeare wrote Othello as a black man.
WTF is your problem you agitating git?
Norwich are rank in defence, if this is their first string they’re having a mare this season.
Unless the gaffer has something about him right enough.
The dreaded Nut sack… block.
Marko,
In the books bond is described as blonde white guy.
If your sticking to the character in the films, the actor has to be white.
Nothing racial in it.
Up 4
Yes, yes and yes. Tell that to Marko.
FFS.
Always looking for a bit of a way into a diatribe about something.
Non blonde that’s why there was uproar when a blonde Daniel Craig got the part.
4 non blondes.
I’m not getting into a thing here I was genuinely asking what written white meant. First off they’re not going off any source material anymore so whether or not Fleming had him blonde and white (plenty of non blonde Bonds btw) is irrelevant. But I’m generally asking what does written white mean in the context of Idris Elba couldn’t be Bond.
FYI thought Skyfall and Casino Royale were great but there’s been enough shit Bonds over the years to suggest that they stop making Bond movies
Guns I’m all for equality,
But it’s so politically correct these days.
Would like to see Idris as a spy in a film.
He doesn’t have to be the James bond character.
People make the argument that you can’t have another spy series as well as bond. But that never stopped the Bourne series.
Same with doctor who.
Why not invent a new science fiction show with a strong female lead, rather than change a current one to please a few people and alienate a lot.
Yeah no doubt given a choice between Origi and Iwobi, most will pick Origi. They have a similar style nevertheless.
GOH
What Bond books are you reading the original Fleming books or the more recent books?
Marko Idris could be Bond because as you say, the source material is done. However, the character is a white male. His adventures are different but the ‘person’ is white. Idris is great. Good looking, tall, butch and could easily pull off a good role but…HE would then be the ‘black bond’ and that fails him as an actor and the character. How many times do you or I or anyone roll their eyes when someone is called ‘the new Henry, the new Ronaldo, the new Messi. It’s so painful. Bond should stay male and white just as Othello should… Read more »
Marko, the bond films are hit and miss, since Daniel Craig took over.
Skyfall was excellent, quantum of solace a dog’s dinner.
This is his last film then I think they need to take a break and reboot in 3-4 years.
Guns do you remember when we all though Theo was the new Henry.
Haha fucking hell Norwich getting their arses caved in here. Pool really are scary good at Anfield.
Anyone know if the game at Newcastle is on BT? Don’t get Sky so stream job or pub if that’s the case.
Casino Royale especially was top notch. Skyfall also. As a whole Daniel Craig and the direction Bond took to be much more ruthless, crude and willing to go down and dirty, was such a positive change in the franchise. I love Pierce Brosnan but his Bond movies were gash. Daniel Craig’s versions made sure lower class action movies compared to the Bond series like Mission Impossible stayed what they are – below. Jason Bourne did give Bond a run for the money though. Excellent series as well.
U4GN I like Idris Elba, he’s a good actor but he was in the Dark Tower film a couple of years ago. He’s ok in it but it’s a poor relation to the books where once again the main character is white, there are several references to him being white and in one of the books another character who’s black repeatedly calls him a honky mother fucker. I’m a huge fan of the books and the film in comparison is just poor. Why we have this constant need to re write white male characters as either female or black is… Read more »
I was at the the AISA when the barracking crowd started on Raul . He wasn’t having none of it. At the end he got a round of applause . Cojones ! He’s got em! Also he said he’d had 14 years of transfer windows and this one was acknowledged across clubs as being tough ( see UTD failing to replace a forward , Neymar , Pogba etc ) The recovery of Arsenal will be fragmented with some areas pushing forward ahead of others. The Exec team is far more confidence inspiring then Ivan and Wengo. Unai I’m not so… Read more »
It has nothing to do with being politically correct just stick to the specific question what is written white with regards to James Bond. If you’re literally going off Fleming wrote that he was a white boy that time again the films are their own thing have been for years. Way I see it the character of bond is he drinks alot he’s a bit of a bastard towards women and subservient to the empire. If you’re telling me a that a black guy couldn’t do those things you’re wrong. Should just stop making them honestly. The Bourne and John… Read more »
Origi is Iwobi with goals and clutch ones at that.
Scores the clincher in a European Final, not when we’re already 3-0 down.
WE
Out match on Sunday is on Sky mate.
Sky WE
Eagle yep it’s on Sky there I think… Do you get Telemundo? Think it’s on Spanish network.
Marc
I’ve read the old ones and I have Trigger Mortis and Solo and I think one more but I forgot the name. Howowitz is writing them. Carte Blanche! That’s it.
They are okay, a bit current as Bond in one is a non smoker.
Bond is a character though so he moves through time.
‘Can you imagine the outcry if they made a film about Florence Nightingale but made the character a bloke?’
Alan in Wonderland.
Apparently VAR is already broken… lol
Marko’s just made a telling comment – the Bond books aren’t action stories they’re thrillers. There are small periods of action in them / violent scenes but the films are an absolute abomination of the stories.
It’s a shame we don’t get more proper spy thrillers made Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy from a couple of years ago was superb.
The world is going mad. The same Social Justice Warriors who think Bond should be black / female are probably the same jerks who believe we shouldn’t assign our children a gender.
Worth noting I don’t think Idris Elba is on for the role or has ever even been interested in it. I think that recent Hobbs and Knobbs film is enough of an action fix for him
Marc
TTSS is hands down utterly brilliant. A fantastic movie. The script, actors, photography, attention to detail is untouched. Genuinely brilliant. Brilliant I tells ya!
Cheers fellers and no Mid just get BT on my shitty package, used to be great in the glory days I’d get Serie A, Bundesliga, Ligue 1, UFC and NBA all on BT as well as PL.
They scrapped the NBA, now UFC events are PPV on BT which is a joke because we get the events over here at stupid o’clock in the early hours and they show hardly any Serie A matches anymore too. Sky have bumped up their PL count too whereas BT used to have more games.
Marko,
There’s plenty of polictal correctness around.
Like I said I’m all for equality as far as I’m concerned we’re all human and equals.
Sexuality and colour don’t come into it.
The problem is there are too many people who are easily offended, and a lot of the time there offended on other people’s behalf who aren’t even complaining.
Love the Jon wick films but wait for someone to come out and complain that Keanu should be replaced with a non white non male at some point in the future.
kristomanAugust 9, 2019 17:52:19
What am saying left is that they should stop quoting the wrong figures just to make a point
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Says the guy claiming Arsenal spent 150m this TW.
Mad Max(ine)
Anyone see that bodyguard? Not usually a BBC drama kind of guy but I rinsed through it on Netflix and I thought it was cool as fuck. Robb Stark far more likely to be the next Bond
“Alan in wonderland” ha ha
Or as Ned Flanders says “the bible says Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve”!
Marko
Disagree about it being PC, it’s almost always the motive.
There’s modern pushback against long standing fictional works that are depicted on the big screen. Same bollocks hits the comic book sphere. Bond is a white Male, to depict Bond the first part is to get that bit right.
Superman isn’t black either. If you want equality and promotion of black figures, female figures et al, then create the characters. Don’t appropriate previous characters/stories because social values have changed in modern culture, it’s fucking daft. In 40 years Harry Potter will be redone as an Asian.
Wengereagle
Alan in wonderland. Lol
Marko
It was a good series. Ludicrous but fun.
As for the next Bond. Michael Fassbender. He should be the guy. No idea why he isn’t mentioned???
CC
Hally Plotter
GOh
Agree great film – I happened to be in a book shop and saw Legacy of Spies, Le Carre’s new book at the time bought and really enjoyed it. I’ve now done The Spy who came in from the cold, Tinker Taylor and I’m currently on The Honourable Schoolboy.
All worth a read.
Eagle-
Same thing is happening here… all these networks want you to buy their streaming packages.. So they show you limited number of matches.. I still can get Serie A, and occasional Bundesliga but don’t even get all of our matches anymore and no FA cup matches most of the time. So have had to watch more and more matches on dodgy streams from Japan or somewhere.
Cc it’s true.
Why not make new movies or TV series with strong woman leads or non white males as the lead.
That’s equality, not rewriting the past.
Lauren of Arabia
Love the Jon wick films but wait for someone to come out and complain that Keanu should be replaced with a non white non male at some point in the future.
You’re kinda convoluting the conversation. Would it bother you if the next John Wick movie focused on Lance Reddik’s character or if in a few years it was remade with Michael B Jordan? Keep in mind that the whole super assassin exacting revenge on the people who killed his puppy left to him by his dead wife isn’t something that can only specifically happen to a white man
Marc
I have never read the books but saw a bit of Obe Wan Kenobi as Smiley.
Damn that movie is great! The ending where ‘la mer’ is playing over the end scenes. Even Cumberbatch acts well and doesn’t come across as a cunt.
Left testicle,
How about the duchesses of hazard.
Two ladies who drive the general Lee. With there male companion who wears tight hot pants.
That sounds a ratings winner!
Monty Python’s Life of Brenda
John motherfuckin Wick with the big dick.
I think that’s a porno.
U4GN Someone earlier mentioned Prime Suspect. The first series was fantastic Helen Mirren was outstanding – no bollocks about being a strong person because she’s a woman she was a strong personality. Whenever I hear this type of bollocks I wish I was present to point out to the moaners that some years ago two young male struggling actors who didn’t’ feel there were enough good roles out there. They wrote a screen play and got the film made and stared in as complete unknowns – that was Good Will Hunting. If all these women are so fucking good and… Read more »
Up 4
Women can’t drive.
Left-
I’m pretty sure those are all already porn movies..
Look They need to do away with bond altogether and stop re hashing the same old Tired stories and characters and material Hollywood is a creative vacuum now. All the good writers have gone to tv because Hollywood doesn’t take creative risks any more or very very rarely and when it does the audience is so fucking dumbed down they frequently don’t understand what they are watching or find well paced, intelligent films boring. It’s all biographical arse licking films, super hero shit, romance and unfunny comedies or jump scare horrors with the same old tropes. Saying that there have… Read more »
Left
Can’t see that one although a re write of the bible with a female Christ has to be on the cards!