The concept of the modern marathon was inspired by a Greek football fan that legged it from the site of Marathon to Athens to deliver a scoreline, the distance was 25 or so miles. The message was about an important game in which a Greek football team defeated a Persian one (they had good football back then). The messenger died, so to commemorate this heroic football nut, they have marathons around the world.
The point of my story is this… if Emery doesn’t achieve anything in his Arsenal career, but manages to shift on Elneny and Mustafi, I’ll name a special day after him. I’ll petition the club to give him a stand. I’ll get on the blower to the Pope and ask how you go about Sainthoods.
This is what Saint Unai said of the pair yesterday.
“They are very big players but for one circumstance or another they are going to have fewer chances to show their capacity or to be happy with us and the minutes they play in matches,” Emery said. “But they know the situation and really I am wishing the best for them. I think now the best for them is to be protagonists in another team and to get another challenge for themselves.”
“Last year with Mustafi and Mo, when they didn’t play they weren’t happy and I spoke with them a lot of times last year and this pre-season,”
“I think it is positive for them to leave and sign for another team where they can be protagonists and be happy and continue their careers.”
I firm up when I read vicious quotes like that. When did Wenger EVER talk that aggressively about his babies? Never.
I am also warmed to hear that the players like to play. Those two are too young to ride out a fat contract. By sitting on deals, they take themselves out of the shop window, their games get rusty and clubs around Europe frame them as a pair of Winston Bogarde’s. If you’re young, you should want to play football, even if that’s at a cost of a few grand a week.
To ride out a deal takes a special sort of person. Someone with a character big enough not to be impacted by the humiliation of being benched.
Both players have value. Mustafi has a lot of good going in his game. He’s played all around the world. He’s made of strong stuff. He just needs a really good defensive coach to beast him into not being so dim. Elneny is just at the wrong level of club. He needs to go to Italy or a middling club in Spain.
Both need to move off that wage bill.
In loan news, it was great to see Eddddddiiiiiieeeeeeee score his second goal at Leeds. I really think he could be a blistering talent if he’s given the chance. I love that he’s at Leeds learning under Bielsa. He’s going to learn to be more decisive, he’ll build confidence from the goals, he’ll get tougher under the brutal conditions of the Championship. It should be a very good year for him.
Hector Bellerin went OFF on the mighty Ceballos.
“I think Dani’s one of the best players I’ve seen in my career. I’ve played with him since we were like 18 or 19 years old. We’ve played in the under-21s, we get on really well off the pitch”
“He’s up for it & he’s a player who will go through thick & thin to do the best for his team. He’s got a great heart & he plays for everyone around him. I think he’s a great addition”
LOVE TO READ IT.
David Ornstein continues to drop beads of gold onto the newsfeed. Again, clarifying the authoritarian regime that Arsene Wenger ran.
Power really is a corrupting force. When you’re succeeding, the last thing you should do is build a team of yes men around you. That’s what Wenger did, then when things started to fail, he had no answers. He wanted to wear every hat. You do wonder what he could have achieved if he’d ripped out his back team and installed up and coming coaches. What would our trophy cabinet have looked like if he’d had a more powerful CEO next to him that insisted on owning the infrastructure?
Wenger could still be a player if he’d allowed other people to develop his ideas… but he didn’t, and now he’s watering the flowers in a very green garden in North London.
“The meetings used to be just between Kroenke and Wenger”@bbcsport_david on how changes in personnel at the top have made #Arsenal ‘more proactive in the transfer market’.
📲⚽️https://t.co/0kUniWPgQm pic.twitter.com/hYbAsfqO5M
— BBC 5 Live Sport (@5liveSport) August 20, 2019
Right, that’s me done. Listen to this podcast before the Liverpool game tomorrow.
If there are any Wenger peeps about…
Your man killed the club from 2007 .
Horrible man,
GOH
Did you ever get on the Thunderbird Wine in your younger days ?
Boris
Where’s Marc…
Fucking England cricket back to the 80s… shit cunts
GOH
Did you ever get on the Thunderbird Wine in your younger days by any chance ?
Question for the older lads …
Whose better
Mustafi.
Gus ceaser
Willie young.
Chitom
It’s not just about Anfield, Jesus Christ, it’s those types of games I’m referencing. We just happen to be playing them next, hence the opportunity to show his worth more than any home game against Burnley level opposition is concerned.
I know this is a written form of communication, but some things really aren’t that hard to gather with a healthy dose of sense. Nobody is looking at tomorrow’s game and making concrete assertions about Ceballos, Luiz, Pepe or any of the sort – it’s 90 mins after all.
Hillwood
No. Absolutely not. Never. No. Nada. No. Not. Nada. Nine. Neon. Benin.
Where is Marc with the c …
Has he been binned,..
Hols
Supporting another team…
Miss the lad.
Rspc
Linigan. Sic
Gun…
You fuckin turpy twat…
Get on the vera.. fuck the gold.
Oh ok, you’re disagreeing with something nobody is proposing then. Good on you
Oh so when you said acid test you didn’t mean a single specific game but really meant consistently over a longer period of time. I agree. You meant acid tests then.
I’m honestly concerned about playing sok and luiz together tomorrow with play out from the back. It wasn’t that perfect with Burnley, I wonder how it’s gonna be with Liverpool at anfield. I’d play either of them with chambers
Can’t believe that Jadon Sancho is English. Silkier and smoother player than any of the continental lads his age and the most efficient by a mile.
Going to be a world class footballer within the next year for sure, pretty much already is.
Guns
Or pates …
Or
Johansen
Hold tush
Didn’t linighan score in a final….
Respects.
Marko
Tierney is now ready to play since it’s been two weeks since he was signed…if we are to belive your prediction.
I didn’t know it was your job to rate posters here too.
More ostrich feathers to that flamboyant hat of yours. Next thing is you’re planning a coup d’etat to rid Pedro of his blog. It’s no wonder he loves binning you.
You’ve made it your business to go after anyone who treats CG with civility. H’es best ignored [if you so wish to], not banned.
@WE, you can say that again
Here he is look, Weagle fresh off a Sancho rub down…
Loves it
Anyway tomorrow won’t depend on any one individual we’ll need at least 5-7 players to perform to stand any chance
Our friend, Iwobi is ready to come in.
“Tierney is now ready to play since it’s been two weeks since he was signed…if we are to belive your prediction.“
Can’t be true, Chilwell is still at Leicester and Tierney will end up with Brenda. Least that’s what I was led to believe by a man that knows his stuff.
Here comes iwobi
Charlie
Lube out and all mate, not even hiding it.
Guy is playing as well as any 19 year old I’ve seen since Messi with the exception of M’Bappe.
So CG has been dogged. Shame.
Such a gentleman with weird opinions.
Our Gandhi!
Hope he returns soon Pedro?
We at least need the comics.
Not far from Gerry’s Wines & Spirits, there used to be an hotel with a great cigar and spirits cave.
I used to go there with some friends. They used to very good Hondurans cigars that were perfect with whiskey and Rhum.
When I got married more than 20 years ago, I quit smoking. So I stopped going there, but I did purchase my spirits from Gerry’s. The hotel and more importantly the underground bar has since disappeared.
Every movie Tom hardy has been in needs re voice editing. Fact.
Mumble mumble.
“I was born in the dark…darrrrkkkkkkk mummmmmmmbbbbllleeee”
Thick lipped taint.
Iwobi is playing as inside forward.
Weagle
High, high praise there pal, I’ve not seen much of him or Dortmund tbh so take your word for it. Big season ahead potentially for them you’d have to say?
How’s that Jamaican fella of Leverkusen doing? Bailey?
I don’t follow the Bundesliga very much these days.
3-1, goal and an assist for Sancho now.
You’re obsessed WE. Not the only one though. My man boy crush is Havertz these days. He’s just amazing
Oh dear, here comes CC with his special brand of know it all. Regarding Tierney, I was musing loudly as to why Celtic were being so difficult. It turns out they were asking for 100% of the fee, that’s why it dragged on. I assumed they were trying to start a bidding war, hence my Leicester comment. I predicted wrongly, no shame in saying that. I wish you learned some humility around here with the way you keep denying all the precious nuggets that you’ve dropped around here. When you are wrong, you start name calling and treating logic like… Read more »
Valentin
Knows. Soho. Kudos.
I know Gerry’s. Groucho. Colony.
Been straight 10 years. Never going back.
Regarding Tierney, I was musing loudly as to why Celtic were being so difficult.
Musing loudly…call it what it is you were talking shite.
Marko
Synonyms and all
Remember Tierney still isn’t ready…you got that wrong too.
Dissenter
Yea that’s your go to, humility and owning errors. Usually on here owning posters aren’t you? Weird animal you are.
Having different views on Arsenal is one thing but wishing Arsenal to lose is another. Weird place pining after a poster that does that. Theres enough entertainment without needing him on here.
RSPC
You might not see Marc for a minute. Not sure if he’s in the sin-bin or on a self imposed ban after last weeks run in with Pedro.
OMG
Watching Topgun again. Woah. Always amazing.
Charlie He’s the real deal lad, had 14 Bundesliga assists last season, most in all of Europe’s top 5 leagues and scored 12 goals in the league on top of that. Averaged 3.3 dribbles per match for the season which was by far the most in the entire Bundesliga, only Kingsley Coman even came close with 2.9 per match in half the apps of Sancho. Guy skins defenders alive, has a really mature head on his shoulders in terms of picking the final pass/shot and he scores and creates plenty of goals. Technique of a player from the continent with… Read more »
Dissenter what’s with the CG love in?? He will be unbanned after the Liverpool game, Pedro said so. His provocative posts weren’t needed before a big game…. Have you invested in opposition goals??
Anderlecht still struggling another defeat tonight. You hate to see it
Marko you’re pure gay for Havertz so you are.
Guy is an absolute baller tbf and he has the floppy hair thing going on too which you like, almost Guendouzi esque innit but shorter.
Topgun!
Having different views on Arsenal is one thing but wishing Arsenal to lose is another. Weird place pining after a poster that does that. Theres enough entertainment without needing him on here.
Bingo
Weagle
Sounds saucy. Scored against Bayern in the super cup? Let me know when he does a madness against Augsberg and I’ll be really impressed lol
Barcelona bound in the future you reckon? Players like that can’t be bought for peanuts, United maybe for the ultimate troll?
Charlie
Re Bailey, had a disappointing 2nd season as is sometimes the case with breakout talents, Andrea Belotti and Thomas Lemar two more that spring to mind.
Having said that, he scored and played well there last weekend. Still only 22, this season will really be the teller as to whether or not he has something special in his locker.
Weagle
Yea Bailey is in that odd space it seems like, that ‘needs a move to make/break him’ type space.
Those sort of talents should interest us for my money, not massive wonga but potentially massive output of things click.
Theo and Iwobi both on the pitch for Everton, how sweet……
WE the numbers don’t lie Kai Havertz just turned 20 and has 30 goals and 20+ assists since breaking onto the scene from midfield. He’s the real deal
Half s bottle of whiskey and a glass of red ain’t going down well after dental surgery and antibiotics and a painkiller. And. Baby. And a wife.
Oh boy.
Iwobi has actually played well since coming on
Charlie He’s already good enough to start for Barcelona and that’s not hyperbole. He’s every bit as good as Ousmane Dembele already. As long as United or a rival PL side don’t get their mits on him I’m happy for him to go to wherever. No reason injuries aside that he won’t go right to the top for me, which means one of Barcelona or Real Madrid. Apparently United were hard on him this summer but he didn’t want to go there lol seen it as a step down and rightly so. Oh how times change, Fergie turning in his… Read more »
……and Iwobi hits the post.
Iwobi hits the post…
That Gomes lad of Everton looks about as Barcelona as Gareth Barry.
Mings is a competitor, no two ways about it. Warming more to Grealish the more I see him, be interesting the season he has when/if he makes the step up.
Iwobi not doing too badly
“Apparently United were hard on him this summer but he didn’t want to go there lol seen it as a step down and rightly so. Oh how times change, Fergie turning in his proverbial grave.“
Uff, fuck me there’s a kipper to the face. United have drifted like a fucker since bacon face. You love to see it 😆
It is quite funny to think arguably the best English player is playing at a German club
Iwobi has actually played well since coming on
Night.
He’d be stupid to go to United. Something tells me he’s not going to be that stupid.
Can’t blame them though I read somewhere that Lingard hasn’t registered a goal or an assist in 2019
Walcort is pretty useless
What a horrid miss from Theo..
Marko He won’t be at Leverkusen for longer than another season, where do you see him ending up? Hard to imagine it not being Bayern, literally perfectly fits the prototype of the all-German young up and coming superstar that they yearn for over there, pretty much a Thomas Muller of 2009 2.0 but better looking and arguably an even better player. He’s really had it too, fell off a cliff at Pep left Bayern in 2016 and he’s never recovered. Given tonnes of leeway obviously because he’s a Bayern and German NT legend but Loew finally said enough is enough… Read more »
Walcort misses a easy one.
Thank the lord we sold Walcott!
Wally
Havertz looks like a tasty midefielder. He looks like the complete midfielder at his young age.
Oh dear everton
Gomez got ghosted😭😭😭
Happy for Villa
Funny enough was watching Walcott highlights the other day and to be fair to him, he really was a dangerous and decent option for us way back before he lost his pace ON his day mind. Linked up really well with Cesc and RVP in particular, guy was absolutely electric from about 2008-2011. Always remember the Barcelona match in the CL at home in 2010 when we were 2-0 down and he came off the bench and almost single-handedly pulled us back into it with the deflected goal and by winning the penalty after that to tie it up, Cesc… Read more »
Decent club Villa, good to see half of Merseyside cunted this weekend. The other half to follow
Who were those geniuses that predicted Everton might overtake us cause they were spending heavy before us?
Walnut aka Walcott.
Weagle
Wally squaring it for Adebayor against Liverpool in the CL another electric moment of his.
Mailing it in now, state of his hair and that. Wasteman
Yeah that shit on Walcotts hair is a punchline.
Charlie It’s all the more satisfying given how much money they’ve spunked away bloating up their squad on average players that they’ll have real trouble selling off. Took a loss on Lukaku, are going to have to pay half of Sanchez’s wage if the Inter moves goes through and pray the opt for the permanent signing next summer, have a player in Fred who they’d be lucky to get back half of the 50m they signed him for. Add in Lindelof, Shaw, Bailly, list goes on. And the honeymoon period with Rashford and Martial finding the net will end soon… Read more »
Iwobi played well.
WE he’s said recently that if he was going to move that it might not necessarily be to say an elite elite club just yet and that he might be looking at a kind of stepping stone club to continue his progress. I personally wouldn’t be surprised if it was Dortmund or say Liverpool who are apparently interested in him. Honestly it could be anyone though he can play for anyone and he’s one of those genuine rare talents where when he becomes available literally every one of the big club’s will try for him
Weagle Yea they’re a case study for how not to run a superclub in the modern era. Moyes didn’t have an amazing squad to work with but good lord the powers that be have made error after error. United fans have been living on delusion that they’re remotely close to being relevant. Think it’s started hitting home now they’ve circle jerked a former player into the hot seat. Penny starting to drop that maybe they’re not that good. Comical to watch after growing up with them as the side to beat, just a bit bitter sweet because here we are… Read more »
Charlie Seem to remember him doing the old beat multiple defenders and cutback assist for an Ade tap in against Milan in the San Siro CL last 16 match as well that season. Guy was such a strange player, scores a hat-rick AWAY to Croatia in a competitive Euro qualifier match back when they had a very strong team [not quite as good as the WC Final side but not far off] in only his 2nd start for England as a 19 year old, youngest ever player to score a hat-rick for them and then he doesn’t score again for… Read more »
Fucking hate Villa, brummie cunts.
Marko
Could see Klopp interested in him alright although they play a flat 4-3-3 with the front 3 being virtually untouchable and the midfield three all being high-octane grafters that put in a defensive shift, something that Havertz isn’t exactly tailor made for.
Dortmund are pretty set for the next year or so now with their forward options, as it stands they have Brandt and Gotze both on the bench and play with 4 forward players in Alcacer, Sancho, Reus and Hazard. 3 of which are recent purchases and Reus being a club legend and their key man.
Dortmund are pretty set for the next year or so now with their forward options
My thinking was that they could move for Havertz if Sancho leaves. Can definitely see Liverpool and Klopp being interested in him. I’m not foolish enough to think that we could have a chance of nabbing him. But in saying that we never thought Pepe was a realistic option.
Weagle
Yea he was queer as they come, you have to fancy that “I’m a striker” lark cost him his career in some sense. That rattled on for three seasons when he could’ve arguably carved himself a nice niche out wide.
Then became a bit of a nothing player, then that was that, off you go to Everton. He was a useful player for a top side, just not top shelf.
WE & Marko,
Sancho always plays on the right though. Can he play on the left?
Asking for a friend.
“El rey sigue siendo @19SCazorla Aún me queda mucho por aprender para llegar a ser como él 🙏😝” – Dani Ceballos Twitter
Dani reads Le Grove confirmed. Receding talks shite, also confirmed.
Walcott underachieved because of Wengers tactical ineptitude and his own failing to not walk away sooner.
Imo, he would have done so much more under the right manager.
Shoot me!
Loosely translated as: Santiago is the true king. I have a lot to learn to reach his heights – Dani Ceballos
Cc,
I actually really line the combination of aggressiveness on the pitch and humility off it that’s been shown by Ceballos
*really like
Sancho is what we expect/expected/hope/hoped Nelson will be for us.
What’s happening?
Sancho is what we expect/expected/hope/hoped Nelson will be for us.
Not at all they’re completely different and it’s a little unfair to expect Nelson to be like Sancho
Team news for tomorrow? What did Emery say in his press conference? With Allison out we have the best chance in a long time.
Marko
“Not at all they’re completely different and it’s a little unfair to expect Nelson to be like Sancho”
Yeah completely different ..one plays in defence and the other plays on the wing .
Or is it ,one is a central midfielder and the other plays on the wing .
Or is it, one is a striker and the other plays on the wing.
Or is it , one plays ON THE WING and the other plays ON THE WING ..
Not saying we absolutely should quite yet but if Ceballos has a good season what are the chances Arsenal will be able to sign him permanently? Good? Bad? None? I have no reference. Trying not to get too attached in case he’ll be gone next summer regardless.
Graham
“Walcott underachieved because of Wengers tactical ineptitude and his own failing to not walk away sooner.Imo, he would have done so much more under the right manager.”
Unless I’m mistaken , Walcott appears to have regressed since he left Arsenal…
“Shkodran Mustafi’s father and agent has told Sky in Germany that it is ‘best’ for both parties if a move away from Arsenal can be agreed.”
You are damn right, sir.
Or is it , one plays ON THE WING and the other plays ON THE WING ..
No I meant one is a world class talent and the other is well not.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2019/08/23/nicolas-pepe-alexandre-lacazette-arsenal-partnership-10622847/amp/
Laca is the glue man, he’s our biggest player.