Iwobi explains motives + THE JEFF and his legend lives on

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Alex Iwobi has SPOKEN.

‘I always had that youngster tag at Arsenal, so hopefully with this move I am able to make a name for myself in the Premier League and create history with Everton.’

Football often imitates normal business.

You climb the ranks at an agency as a young whippersnapper, your title might jump, but your pay often doesn’t. People still set your stapler in jelly, wedgie you in the toilets, and remind you of the time you vomited in a plant pot outside a Covent Garden pub.

You have to leave to earn that BIG money and RESPECT you deserve.

I feel you Iwobi. Fuck the system and fuck Craig in IT… he has no right to do that to you in the bathroom.

The legend of Jeff continues… the enigma of a man we all loved for no other reason outside his superb name… has moved to Lyon for UP TO £28m deal.

Unreal business from Angers.

‘HE’S SHIT HE’LL NEVER AMOUNT TO NOTHING’ has a great ring to it, but I’ll be honest, I think Lyon has a pretty good record of unearthing value in the market, so one would suspect they know what they’re buying here.

I’ll have no complaints about this miss if we sell Mustafi to Monaco. Surely the German can’t love his deal so much he’d be willing to sit on the bench for a season? Have a bit of pride.

Burnley is the next HUGE game that is up. I am interested to see whether Emery continues with Callum Chambers who did a decent job against Newcastle. We had a bit of a wait last season before he moved onto the new boys. Petr Cech had to land an injury and it felt like a while until Torreira was acclimated to the first team.

My personal view is we should push for David Luiz in the first team ASAP. If we don’t, he’ll not be fit for the BIG games that we have coming up. Really wouldn’t fancy Callum rolling against Spurs and Liverpool.

Hopefully, Pepe and Ceballos can ramp up their fitness as well. We’ll need to put in better performances over the next few weeks if we’re to come out the other end with a mighty fist full of points.

Check out this tweetstorm on Arsenal’s summer. Epic and very complicated.

Short one today. See you in the comments!

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Marko

You can just tell Tammy Abraham will struggle at this level

Luteo Guenreira

Holy shit Abraham looked like he was gonna miss it the whole way. This kid cannot find the back of the net for the life of him.

MidwestGun

And that’s it then.. Abraham another miss.. don’t think he is ready for the PL .. good thing for us.

Radio Raheem

Klopp needs to stop running to the pitch, looks awful.

MidwestGun

Lol Radio.. I was thinking the same thing.. awkward.. Still wanted him as our manager .. oh well.

Radio Raheem

Mid

Haha yeah a top manager just not a running one

vickingz

I enjoy the way Chelsea swiftly switch from defending to attacking, you can tell they ain’t in for the useless side way passes our midfielders are accustomed to. With the blend of players we have now, how I wish a good coach handled them.

Leedsgunner

Adrian should not be underestimated… but with Alisson out, we have an excellent chance of getting three points when we face Liverpool shortly. We pressed them really hard to a draw in the corresponding fixture last season… and we are wiser much stronger than last season.

Marko

Griezmann plays football manager as Arsenal. Who knew

Marko

I do agree that Chelsea have played some nice stuff the first two games of the season but I’d like to remind people of OGS and his start. They usually flatter to deceive at the beginning. We’ll know more about him as a manager around December through February

Ishola70

Man United will just continue to be a counter team and overall that isn’t going to be enough for them. That’s if they want to get back to real glory.

They will get more from Pogba though in the deeper role in midfield.

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

Marko

So did we last season first two games played well,

They will get their break soon.

Freddie Ljungberg

Looks like the Ozil to Washington story might actually have legs:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/08/14/agent-arsenal-star-mesut-zil-meets-with-dc-united-officials/?noredirect=on

Would be great if we could move him on in January and get the next great new Cam, like Reinier Jesus. Leaves us less work in the summer.

raptora

Never wanted Klopp as our manager. Where people supposedly see charisma, I struggle to see it. These gestures on the touch line… Emery has “pashun” without being disrespectful, same as Conte. Klopp’s celebrations are just plain cringe with the his fists in the air and face like he’s strangling somebody…

mano'gunner

@Alex

I wonder if he’ll be the first EPL player to come out of the closet.

No that’ll be Bellerin.

Bojangles

Not sure how you don’t see Klopp as being charismatic, the dude oozes charisma from every pore. But I do agree with you about his celebrations being a tad over the top.

Bojangles

Kol and Özil back at training so they’ll probably be in the mix for selection against Burnley.

Tony

Bojangles
We don’t need either of them for Burnley and probably at all through the season.

Caligooner

Just let people celebrate things as they want to.

Sports is emotional if people want to celebrate then go ahead. How does it effect you?

Some say it disrespects the game but to me celebration is just about showing your joy. If that makes you uncomfortable then get over it.

Unless it’s a situation like Giroud wasting time to celebrate a goal with scorpion kicks when we need to hurry up and try to win the game. That was inexcusable.

Bojangles

I disagree Tony. Well as far as Özil’s concerned anyway. Let me first day, Özil has never been a favourite of mine even before he became an Arsenal player. I always saw him as being a lazy sod. However, I think he can still do a job for us. He is still one of our most creative players. I thought he had a good pre-season, he looked as though he had started to get his shit together, although I’m not sure how this recent incident will affect his head. Anyway, that’s just my opinion

Freddie Ljungberg

Bojangles

Preseason games are made for Ozil, no real intensity, no pressing, not played at the same frenetic pace as PL games. Wouldn’t read too much into how he performed there, we all know he has it in him if the conditions are just fight for him. They rarely are in the league though.

In saying that I’m still hoping he can do a job for us until January, we’re a bit light in midfield.
After that it’s best for all parties if he moves on and we bring in the best young Cam we can get.

Bojangles

Freddie

I respect your opinion and agree that you can’t put much store in pre-season games usually. I just felt the pre-season this year was much more competitive and played with greater intensity than in previous years. Yes, we’ll have to wait until he plays a few games to see whether it’s the same old Özil or a new invigorated one.

Freddie Ljungberg

Bojangles

Nothing would make me happier than Ozil performing consistently for us this season, then we might actually get someone to pay a fee for him.

But we’ve seen it happen before with him, showing up in a couple of games a season to then wilt away when the pressure is on.

We did play better opposition overall this preseason than normally but it’s still far off the intensity of a PL away game or playing Spurs or Pool for example. We’ll see I guess, just hope the security issues gets resolved first for his and Kolas sake.

Gonsterous

Ozil is creative but for the kind of money he’s on, he disappears far too often during the season.

I thought the Wenger debate was hilarious last night. And as much as I doubted klopp he’s really made liverpool into a force.
His celebrations are a bit wild but if fans are allowed to be passionate and go crazy after a win, I think the players and managers are entitled to it as well.

Bojangles

Agreed, Özil does disappear to often, I guess it’s up to Emery to manage his playing time…and I don’t want to start a debate about the manager with that comment.

Tony

Bojangles Ozil undoubtedly has great skills, but as you say he’s lazy. Cherry picks his games and days to be ill and have back problems. I’d rather Emery played our better youth players who will give their all for Emery. Ozil’s stats last season were pitiful so why take a chance. Ozil couldn’t even muster a decent performance in the EL final, so I stick by what I say and want him out the club. I can’t help feeling this gang trouble is self inflicted in part or whole by Ozil for various potential reasons and not least having Erogan… Read more »

chris

I think Klopp will always be remembered as one of the biggest characters in football, he is fantastic on the sidelines and in interviews. I remember he also did a top class photo bomb on Reus & bis wife I think, back in the Dortmund days.

Tony

As a club we need money more than Ozil’s & Sead’s contributions.

Even if Ozil goes on a free and we save the £18m a year we pay him it’s a win for us. Equally we should get a few million for Sead and save a further 4.6m on his wages.

If Emery proves himself this season, we don’t need Ozil and Sead to get CL qualification, as we have a squad including youth to be top 4 (not a trophy) or 3rd, which was my original prediction before the season started.

China1

Loool is charismatic, but more importantly, he’s an excellent manager – and clearly better than emery.

Good luck to emery tho. He’s ours for now so I hope he has a great year and we’ll see what arsenal do about him in the summer

Bojangles

Tony

Deep down in the far reaches of my mind I’m sure you are right. Just have this feeling that he wants to prove his doubters wrong. Just wait and see. Maybe he won’t get the opportunity to do that anyway. If there’s any truth to the DC rumours he may be off across the pond soon. I doubt it though.

China1

Loool????

Klopp*

Wtf autocorrect???

China1

Klopp comes across as very down to earth and genuinely all the time – so if his celebrations are OTT it probably means he’s just that over excited.

Showing off, disrespecting others and so on isn’t in his regular character so why would he force those celebrations?

It’s a bit OTT but he’s emotional and his goals mean a lot to him

Bojangles

It’s been announced that Mike Dean will be officiating the Burnley match… Good news.

Silverhawk

Quick question.

Should arsenal sell Monreal? Seems like Sociedad are really in for him.

Carts

Silverhawk

For a poxy £3m or whatever nominal fee they’d offer? I wouldn’t bother.

Take a view in jan, maybe .

Carts

Can anyone confirm whether we received anything by way of a sell on clause for Jeff?

Bojangles

Cartfs

I read 10%

Bob N16

Why is Mike Dean good news?

raptora

Read several media quotes the sell on clause was for 10% of the future transfer. So around 2.5m. It’s still money. Re selling Nacho. Big no. We saw that he could still play on a decent level vs Newcastle. Imagine if Tierney’s injury comes back to bite him and we’re left with only Kolasinac and Xhaka as 2nd choice LB… God no… We need him this year for sure. There will be European and cup games as well. Not sure if we have an up and coming good prospect LB from the academy so we are dependable on Nacho as… Read more »

Silverhawk

Carts

I’m hearing 5m. I’ll pass too. We need him if Mustafi is going to be sold.

Freddie Ljungberg

Carts

Looks like we’re getting 2.3m:

https://tbrfootball.com/report-arsenal-receive-10-per-cent-windfall-jeff-reine-adelaide/

A lot of small fees and sell ons this summer, adds up to decent money in the end but hopefully we can be smarter about things in the future and get a bigger original fee by loaning out or holding on to the top youth players a little longer and give them more senior minutes before selling.

Still, a broken system will take time to fix, we’re heading there.

CG

Absolutely Disgraceful when one sees the continued brilliance of Klopp – that we persist with our Looser Emery.

It’s like comparing Frank Sinatra to Frank Spencer.

Adrian- also showing the virtues of having a heavy duty experienced no. 2 keeper.

If Leno breaks a finger or a metatarsal – we are left with just Martinez.

His chequered C V – tells me he is not top drawer

( but he may surprise)

Ps. Had we not been thrashed in Baku- we would have played last night- probably with a W. Zaha in the team.

Bojangles

Bob

I could have used great or fantastic but went with good.

We seem to do well when he’s in charge of our games… I think it was 5/5 last season. And certainly a step up from Atkinson

James wood

Mike Dean seems a better option than Frank Spencer.🤪

CG

I am hearing training is starting and finishing early at the training ground today.

X 32 Loosers Cup matches on TV later.

The Clown wants to get back home and watch them all.

Edit some tackling snippets to his video collection.

How any poster can have optimism with this Clown we have in charge – when we have the likes of Pep,Klopp and Poch as direct rivals is totally bewildering.

But each to their own.

Gentlebris

‘X 32 Loosers Cup matches on TV later.The Clown wants to get back home and watch them all.Edit some tackling snippets to his video collection.’

CG,

I don’t know your age bracket and I don’t know if Wenger had a mistress in South Africa, so I can’t really say.

But it does seem….. well, good morning.

CG

Hello GBris

Good morning

How is that little one?

Enjoy these times.

Lots of fotos.

Dont leave it too long- get him down for good school.

London is violent, I am hearing.

Pierre

Tony “Pierre will lose his agendas and support Emery to the full” Like you do ? The know nothing’s on here think that it’s a personal thing regarding Emery and that some of us won’t support any new manager out of respect for Wenger….of course that is rubbish. The full support for a manager will come when they deserve full support. Emery is not a bad manager , he’s hard working, enthusiastic and keen to impress but he is never going to be elite level is he. This season he has a golden opportunity to prove to his doubters that… Read more »

Bob N16

Bojangles, last season may have gone alright but most people I know detest Dean’s officiating over many seasons. He is the only ref that has made me look up the rules about retirement age for refs to know when we can look forward to him never officiating one of our matches again. Last season must have been an aboration- he gets more verbal stick than any other ref…..

Bob N16

You’re right Pierre, there are justifiable question marks over Emery. Even though the incomings are not necessarily his picks, if he’s good enough he should be expected to get a tune out of them. Whether his preferred style of play matches Edu’s, I’m not so sure. I could be wrong but if Edu and Raul have a clear vision of how they see the team playing, it’s hardly a jump to assume that they may have a coach in mind who is more suited to this style than Emery. If Emery gets us CL football and playing in a way… Read more »

Bojangles

Bob

Then I guess the fans of our opposition in the games he officiated for us must have been looking up the rule book. Hope for the same this season.

Tony

Bob Emery has it all to prove this season, but he at least deserves everyone behind him while he proves he can cut it in the PL, which he grossly underestimated last season. Wholehearted support sans agendas is the right way for fans this season; however, if it is clear from results that Emery is not going to achieve the minimum of CL qualification, then the club needs to act decisively to ensure we stay on the projected trajectory. Twelve weeks should tell us all we need to know. I would imagine you are looking forward to going to games… Read more »

Bob N16

Bojangles, I think the best refs are the ones you don’t notice , Dean loves being the centre of attention. I imagine supporters of most clubs find him obnoxious.

Bojangles

Bob

I agree with that. But as long as we continue to get results with Dean, I’ll treat him as a lucky charm. Lol

Bob N16

Almost always look forward to attending games Tony. I’m happily in Spain on holiday right now but am gutted to miss the first home game of the season. The only point I take issue with from your post is the 12 weeks judgement time scale. I’m pretty sure we won’t be able to select our best team until around October, when crucially both our full backs will be available after long term injuries. When they’re fully up and running, no excuses. He probably got his selection right against Newcastle but I’d be worried if on Saturday, Torreira, Pépé, Lacazette don’t… Read more »

Bob N16

Fair enough Bojangles, he’s still a c**t in my eyes!

Radio Raheem

Did we have a sell-on clause on Rene Adelaide? €30m is a sizeable sum

Tony

Wouldn’t disagree with you but I was probably being a bit vague with the 12 weeks.

The lateness of players being available has to be taken into account when assessments are made.

Let’s hope Emery does well for the sake of the club and fans.

Enjoy your holiday

Bob N16

Cheers Tony, I’d give him until December!

Valentin

Radio Raheem

Looks like we have a 15% sell on fee on Reine-Adelaïde. Depending on if the add-on are included in the fee, we should be entitled to between €3 to €4.5 millions.

Radio Raheem

Valentine

Nice

Radio Raheem

Away from football for a sec. Andy Ruiz has become an annoying fat shit. Knuckle down beat AJ again then you can do whatever you want.

Valentin

Bob, I don’t think either that Emery’s style of play fits Edu’s favourite style. However I don’t think that they have another coach in mind for the moment. Emery is a reactive coach. Try to block the opposition rather than trying to mostly impose his style. I doubt that Viera is coming soon, because Nice is being bought over by a company willing to spend some money. He has brought the Grimster (one of best friend in football) to become the DoF. He is building the club that he wants. In the meantime, he is learning how to manage in… Read more »

Valentin

Radio Raheem, It is nice, but properly manage it could have been a lot more. Emery had a few sessions with Jeff and decided that he was not ready for first team action at Arsenal. He was them sold to the first team who made an offer. If we have had a proper DoF, he would have said. No we don’t sell him right now. A loan in Ligue 1 or Bundesliga would be more beneficial to his development. One year later, we would pocket the full transfer fee or we would have a player ready to play for us… Read more »

Bojangles

I doubt there is a manager in football who hasn’t let a youngster go only to regret it later. What’s done is done, nothing can be done about it. Everybody can be an expert in hindsight.

Radio Raheem

It’s possible leaving Arsenal was the impetus he needed to start delivering.

Bob N16

Valentin, I would be amazed if they haven’t already discussed preferred future coaches. Whether these coaches are available or not isn’t really the point.

Personally I would have thought that it’s dereliction of duty if they are not contemplating future coaches. Emery has this year and possibly next. Obviously timing is crucial for appointing coaches. You mention Vieira, he may have an existing project but if Edu approaches him in March and says ‘ Do you fancy it?’ Who knows what he’d say?

Not sure f you can back up your’I don’t think they have anybody in mind’ statement.

Silverhawk

Valentin is here again with the insights.

Jeff never trained with arsenal while emery was here. He was injured, on his last year and wanted to leave. Damn.

chris

At least now we have the set up in place to potentially retain more of our talented youngsters in the future , by loaning instead of selling etc.

The club is in a much more balanced state in terms of management across the board than it was a year ago.

Valentin

Silverhawk,

Strangely enough in his first interview for Angers, Jeff said exactly the opposite.
He trained with Emery who basically had already made his decision regarding players.

Unfortunately as most of Emery’s initial opinion on players turn out to be wrong.
Jeff not worth to keep on the fringe.
Ramsey, Özil, Nelson, Willock, Suarez.

Valentin

Chris,

Yes the club is more balanced, but it is a shame that it took a full year to realise that, when it was obvious that bad decisions on players were being made.

Even Raul had doubt, otherwise he would not have fought so hard to not have an obligation to buy Suarez.

Silverhawk

Okay. We get. Emery is one bad bad coach that lucked his way into coaching.

Can we let it rest now? If he performs, good for him and for us. Of he doesn’t, he’s out the door real quick.

Don’t think anyone on here is attached to him in any way. We all just want to see arsenal do well.

Bojangles

There are some Arsenal supporters who, no matter what, will always find fault in whatever Emery does simply because he wasn’t their choice of manager to clean up Wenger’s mess. Most of those supporters seem to be on this blog. The thing is, he is the manager, like it or not. The club management decide who is to be manager, not the supporters. Sure you are allowed an opinion and if your opinion causes you to hope the team fails just so you can say ‘i told you so’, you shouldn’t be supporting Arsenal. There are enough supporters of other… Read more »