It’s always amusing when an Arsenal enigma player falls out with the club. The super fans that revel in the vaguery of the talent; leaning on disconnected stats to prove a point, desperately hope a Barca or a Madrid will come to the rescue are always disappointed.
Granit Xhaka? Try Big Steve Bruce’s Toon Army. I love that. Granit and Jonjo Shelvey keeping them up. What a pairing. I absolutely need to see this.
Quite incredible that in the space of a month, we’ve gone from Captain Xhaka to a pretty nailed on exit from the club. I liked the comments he made in his dethroning interview where he’d basically been hanging out with his over-woke Stoke Newington friends who’ve been telling him that it’s ok for men to show their feelings… anyone that can reflect on the Palace incident with the fans and be happy with the response needs their matcha tea confiscated.
… but look, that’s what coffee culture can do to you in London. One minute you’re one of the lads, crashing back Stella’s in the park, jumpers for goal posts on a Sunday, the next thing you know, you’ve met Oatmilk Sally, you’re wearing washed-out khaki three quarter lengths, you have your velcro wallet secured to your belt with a carabiner, and you’re in a group therapy for dogs with social anxiety.
I think it’d be quite interesting to see if Ivan Gazidis and AC Milan come to his rescue. I love that Ivan is having an absolute disaster over there again. I was a little worried he might learn from the mistakes he made at Arsenal and double down on repairing his reputation in Europe. It’s a disaster over there, 14th in the league, internal politics galore, hopefully, we can add to the mess by handing him a player that’d be well off the pace in any league. Would love Xhaka to feel the wrath of Italian fans after he’s gifted a third goal to Inter Milan in the derby.
I jumped on a podcast with Matt Scott yesterday, one of the points he raised was the lack of a powerful defensive midfielder at Arsenal. Our Ndidi has been Xhaka. No power, mobility or discipline. With his impending departure, that leaves the club a space free in the squad. It would be absolutely ideal to replace him with someone a little more suited to the league. I don’t think LT is a cultural fit and I think he lacks presence to survive the league. I’m a little stumped as to where we go with a destroyer in the middle of the park?
Maybe that’s the game we play in the comments today. Who would you hire?
Only way you can play is to listen to the podcast.
… and give it a 5* rating.
Maybe a nice comment too.
Can you give me some money as well?
Ok, 5*will be fine. x
‘Take us out of London and we’d really be in the shite.’
I thought London was the shit hole.
All school teachers are famous Marc 😉
Hope the antibiotics are working James Wood and you on road to recovery.
James Wood, Mildmay Club still the same…frozen in time!
“2.3 million comments to date. Think I have a pretty good grasp on what works and what doesn’t when it comes to the community here.”
The famous twins here, Marc and Marko must have contributed half of that lot.
MGooner
What an earth makes you think I’m a teacher?
Anybody catch that Browns Steelers game last night? Jaysus
Seems the loan players for both North London clubs ain’t pulling up enough. (Le Celso /Ceballos)
I don’t blame Torrie that much. It ain’t easy adapting to new culture.
For Xhaka, it au revoir!
WE
I’ll be honest I don’t know who the best candidate is and as much as I dislike doing it I’m far more into who I don’t want taking over i.e. Mourinho or Benitez. I still think Arteta is a huge gamble.
My guess for who it will be is Enrique – which will cause the anti Sanllehi brigade on here to go into meltdown.
KAY
Don’t the Spud’s have a compulsory price to buy at next summer for Le Celso?
JWl thank you.
Had an inner ear infection and absyss.
Trust me you don’t want one of those
pain that knocked to the floor
In hospital 3days there’s another story
but a least they have got me nearly straight..
Marko – have you seen news that Myles Garrett, the player who ripped off helmet and swung it at guy, has been suspended indefinitely? That was crazy situation, swinging helmet at your opponent is not good idea, could cause permanent brain damage or worse. Garrett lucky he not been banned entirely.
Jwl he’ll almost certainly get a permanent ban. I’ve never seen anything like it before it’s fucking nuts
James Wood – hospitals are terrible, the last time I was there my doctor discharged me after two days because he said it was mostly impossible to get better while in hospital.
Glad to hear you improving.
Marko “Anybody catch that Browns Steelers game last night? Jaysus” I would have smacked that annoying little cunt quarter back myself. He was sacked and didn’t like it and he was the first to try to pull the helmet off the defensive Browns guy but failed. The difference is that Garrett succeeded when he ripped the helmet in retaliation and added a few extras lol Don’t cry like a baby when you get sacked and smacked into the ground. That’s part of being a quarter back. I liked it as well when another Browns guy came in and hit the… Read more »
I agree, Marko. I am curious to see what NFL does now because Garrett deserves to be banned permanently but who knows what league will do.
‘Nagelsmann would totally shake things up.’
After the first few months, the only thing Nagelsmann would shake is his head, shaking it sadly.
This chaotic war ravaging Arsenal is for a shrewd general who has seen it all (Jose) or a young brilliant soldier who grew up knowing such battles(Steven G), not a fanciful young foreign soldier who made his name fighting regular and simple battles.
Ishola70 – it does not matter if quarterback is cnut or not, you don’t swing helmet at a fella and potentially kill him.
No of course not.
But make no mistake is it Logan? he is one little cunt that quarter back.
No innocent lamb.
lol a Mourinho fan.
bris
Gerard’s next club will be Liverpool even thinking about him coming to Arsenal is a waster of time.
Gentlebris
Leipzig are years ahead in their current project compared to Arsenal.
Thanks to Rangnick.
JWL.👍
‘lol a Mourinho fan.’
A fan of reality rather.
Nagelsmann?
Have you been paying any attention to his brother at Southampton?
A Mourinho fan.
lol
I didn’t know they still existed Gentlebris.
‘Gerard’s next club will be Liverpool even thinking about him coming to Arsenal is a waster of time.’
Gerrard wouldn’t wait for Klopp to get bored before he gets inside the big league. If Arsenal come calling today, it’s a 100% yes from Steven G.
What’s with the snobbery Gentlebris.
Nagelsmann is competing at the top of Bundesliga and is competing in the Champions League.
Tell us what Arsenal are doing in comparison.
Leipzig years ahead in their project compared to Arsenal.
bris
What’s the beer like in cloud cuckoo land?
Mourinho is such a drab appointment.
He is only going to put on temporary plasters.
This is classic big club falling. Seen it before.
Big club that is seen as failing and so they bring in “big” name manager.
Bringing in “big” makes the fans feel like the club is big on the stage but all the while there is no long term vision.
‘Nagelsmann is competing at the top of Bundesliga and is competing in the Champions League.’
We should see how well he ends in both before declaring him a champion shouldn’t we?
Then i would love to see Nagelsmann bossing Auba, Laca, Luiz and Ozil . Steven G is a veteran they would respect but Nagelsmann?
Ishola
It’s not as if ManU haven’t done this recently. I’m trying to remember the name of the manager who was sacked last season and has left all sorts of problems.
‘What’s the beer like in cloud cuckoo land?’
Chill and splendid. Wanna come for a tall glass of the best here?
What’s Gerrard won as a manager to make all these players respect him?
Marc
“It’s not as if ManU haven’t done this recently. I’m trying to remember the name of the manager who was sacked last season and has left all sorts of problems.”
Yeah he’s no visionary now.
Makes me laugh when he talks in the Sky studio and everyone is so intent on what he has to say.
There is nothing new in what he says. Just basic old hat from him.
But of course that is Sky itself bigging up one of their own panel isn’t it.
bris
It’s got to be something else for you to be calling for a vile piece of scouse vermin to be our manager.
Ishola
Mourinho’s finished at the top level in the PL, He’s always been a cheque manager and can’t even pull that off anymore.
‘What’s Gerrard won as a manager to make all these players respect him?’
He was a great player; an undisputable legend and that commands even more respect from big players.
Gentlebris
Nagelsmann would not even entertain Ozil.
That’s because he is currently in a project and football philosophy that doesn’t cater to individual wastrels.
No-one is calling Nagelsmann a champion.
What he is doing atm is overseeing with Rangnick a project that is years ahead of Arsenal. And football philosophy that is bang up to date and not any of this old Barca style nonsense.
The way Arsenal are going Leipzig would be more likely to win a CL before Arsenal in the future.
bris
Falling on his arse to cost Liverpool the best chance they’d had of winning the league in decades doesn’t inspire me.
bris
You do realise you’ve just made an argument for Henry or Adam’s to be our next manager?
‘What he is doing atm is overseeing with Rangnick a project that is years ahead of Arsenal. And football philosophy that is bang up to date and not any of this old Barca style nonsense.’
What Philosophy exactly? They have a great team at the moment like Leicester and they are doing relatively well, not incredible though. No one would pay any attention to Arsenal if we were doing what Leipzig are presently doing. Leipzig are getting all this attention because a few seasons ago they were not even in the bundesliga.
Gentlebris
Rangnick has set the club up to see them playing a certain way there.
And it is nothing like the old “Wengaball”
It’s team orientated not individualistic and it’s direct and no flaffing around in midfield keeping possession for the sake of it.
Like Wenger did before Rangnick has all the age group teams playing this certain way now at Leipzig throughout the club.
It’s just not about players. It’s a footballing vision as well.
‘You do realise you’ve just made an argument for Henry or Adam’s to be our next manager?’
Henry had his chance at Monaco and displayed himself incompetent. Then neither has done anything exciting at any level in coaching while S.G is doing really well with Rangers as we speak.
‘It’s team orientated not individualistic and it’s direct and no flaffing around in midfield keeping possession for the sake of it.’
Ishola,
It seems to me you were talking about Liverpool up there. Wake me up when Leipzig actually win something, just a domestic cup will suffice.
“while S.G is doing really well with Rangers as we speak.”
What’s he done propelled Rangers to the top of a league that is so mickey mouse that I’d be sued or slander if I used it about another league.
Also not sure I’d want a manager who would have opposition fans singing “what’s that cumming over your wife is it a gangster”.
For those that have interest in what is happening at Leipzig rather than scoffing at them like Gentlebris read this.
4th article down entitled Koncept, Kompetenz & Kapital:
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a82e97464b05fb127236cbf/t/5c755252e4966b9bdf802ecc/1551192731623/Football+Radar+Roligan+Journal+Issue+4+(5)-compressed.pdf
‘Also not sure I’d want a manager who would have opposition fans singing “what’s that cumming over your wife is it a gangster”.’
Get lost you tosser.
Wait a minute,
Who is your first choice replacement then?
bris
What it’s true – opposition fans used to sing that at Gerrard when he was playing – I think we should leave manager’s having a connection to whore’s to the Spud’s.
Ishola you’re a strange dude. That cunt quarter back whose name I don’t know deserved what he got. It was a pretty cowardly thing to do and Garrett will be lucky if he’s allowed to play again
OK Marc, no to Jose he’s past it, no to Steven they will sing at him.
OK.
Marko
It goes without saying that what Garrett did was idiotic.
And his actions are not acceptable.
But any attempt to rip a helmet off the opponent is dangerous as is clumping one on the head of an opponent of course.
Garrett reacted to Logan’s attempt to rip his helmet off.
And his reaction was way overboard but it didn’t come out of the blue.
bris
Allegri and Enrique are both available — would they work out no idea but both would be better options than Mourinho or Gerrard (who’s just a strange choice).
If you want a “legend” Vieira has managerial experience and was supposedly highly rated by City which seems to be a major factor behind the Arteta argument.
Only thing I can tell is that providing it’s not a Mourinho / Benitez level choice I’ll get behind the new manager whom ever it is and hope for the best.
Who the fuck is Logan?
Whatever that little cunt quarter back is called.
It’s not Logan. Exactly my point Ishola. Chatting shit you are and you about to get banged. Always ragging on players linked to. Any ideas of players we should target this January?
Reiniers release clause has been reduced to €35 mill in the new contract he signed. The release clause was €70 mill before he signed the contract.
Could be on. I knew I said before about just targeting defensive midfielders if we’re bringing in midfielders but I’d reconsider for him.
Marko
Because I don’t care or know what the QBs name is doesn’t mean that what was seen didn’t happen.
The QB tried to rip Garrett’s helmet off which is dangerous play.
Garrett then reacts in a massively over the top and silly way and then does his double dangerous assault on the QB.
No good players available in January that are ready to roll straight away.
Only prospects can be got in January.
No good players available in January that are ready to roll straight away.Only prospects can be got in January.
So no names. Not sure I’d totally agree with that but plenty of prospects playing now meaning their ready to roll.
Marko, Again the fact that you crawl from your sewer to spew falsehood about me is getting tiresome. Get a life, low level stalker. Insulting people and gas-lighting them because you don’t like the fact does not change the facts. Dortmund tried to buy Saliba when Sven was still in charge at Dortmund. How can somebody then seriously argue that Sven was not the one who recommend it to Arsenal is beyond me. Do you seriously think that Raul had a line with Dortmund at the time? As reported at the time, the reason why Arsenal did not buy Söyüncü… Read more »
Do you seriously think that Raul had a line with Dortmund at the time? Plenty of teams in Europe were tracking him us being one of them. Don’t need a connection with Dortmund to be tracking a young prospect in Europe. As reported at the time, the reason why Arsenal did not buy Söyüncü was because we had already signed Sokratis. We signed Sokratis because Raul wanted more experience. At the time Raul was pretty proud of his decision. I mean it’s classic spin perpetuated by a known liar and bullshit artist. Good signings attributed to Sven bad signings and… Read more »
Buy Sokratis for his experience, a defender that Dortmund was only too happy to sell and use instead Dan-Axel Zagadou. When we could have bought Söyüncü from the same club. A younger, better player for 5 millions more.
They bought Diallo. Same club? Soyuncu was at Friedburg. Christ
sign a £30 millions contract with Saint-Etienne with Saliba spending one year on loan there when Romeyer had initially declared he would accept £20 millions with the condition that Saliba spent one year. So concluded the negotiation with a worse deal than what the opposition was willing to accept because he tried to convince them to change the only non-negotiable point by offering more money.
Lying sack of shit until you prove otherwise
Val honestly literally 90% of what you just wrote is you lying through your teeth. It would have been 100% but you got players names correct
Also technically Ivan gave Xhaka and Elneny new deals. Nice pictures with Arsene back when they signed them
Valentin, starting to agree with you on Raul, but why arent the Kroenkes, their buisinessheads, accountants, and risk advisors not ringing alarm bells all over this guy, and looking into some of his relationships with agents?
Unless the Kroenkes are putting their own money in, which is unlikely, surely they cannot afford to indulge someone like Raul?
If Raul ever gets JM or LE in, he could instigate a spending spree that would bankrupt a smallish nation
Pedro Sorry to revisit this but in response to your post in the previous blog. Although Bamford is an annoying pain in the arse, to the best of my knowledge it isn’t compulsory to respond to him. The reason LG was clogged with B’s comments is because other posters seemed to think they could talk sense into him. After a couple of days trying you would think they would come to their senses. In the end they were just baiting him. I wouldn’t call it bullying, I prefer the term gang banging, with people queueing up to have a poke… Read more »
Great podcasts with Matt Scott Pedro, Have to say I agree with most of everything he said apart from Emery being an excellent coach who will go on to win many trophies elsewhere. I don’t see it myself, I think he’s a good coach but only really cut out for mid table to top 6 or 5 teams. Have to say also with the greatest of respect that he’s echoed pretty much everything Bamford’s been saying and seems to concur that Leicester absolutely do have better players than us which I feel is true. That being said, like I said… Read more »
As for who we sign to replace Xhaka? I have no idea. I’d like us to sign Ndidi, but Leicester won’t sell him anytime soon, and if they do it’ll be for huge money to City, Utd or Chelsea. To be honest I foresee Rogers having the same problem he had at Liverpool with Suarez and Sterling, at Leicester; sooner or later the likes of Chillwell, Soyuncu, Pereira, Ndidi, Madison, Barnes and Tielemans will be prised away for big money to the big clubs, all but to us more than likely. City need a LB and CB and another DM,… Read more »
Lol at that Valentin post. Guy has made his mind up re Raul. And more. Talking like you were actually in the room when these decisions were taken is super rich from you. Raul 100% responsible for Sokratis deal. Like did he scout him? Did he pick him? You say that he wanted experience which is a big stretch from you like you would see ppl say certain positive things for a any player they buy and what else to say positive for Sokratis but that he is experienced? But from all the experienced CBs did Raul personally pick Sok?!… Read more »
Re Bamford. He was asked to limit his repeated time and time again same nonsense. A break would be good for him.
But after last weeks comments Don/ Un na nai’s should have been permabanned. It’s not my blog but the guy was straight up cursing every person who’s not English. He went far, far, far beyond the border. And it’s perfectly normal for him. He’s been doing this for years. No actions taken.
I want to get in on this ‘Ban him!’ game.
Pedro, can you ban raptora as I find him offensive?
Pedro you seem to have a blind spot for Don his likes…
Pedro, how can you allow someone with a ‘Terri Maaki’ moniker post here?
Maaki is a very insulting term in my local language. It affects my mental state seeing it here.
Do the needful.
Hands down Docoure. He is wasting away at Watford. we don’t need any more passers, We need a physical power house in midfield.
David Smith
“Valentin, starting to agree with you on Raul”
Dont, hes clearly talking bolloks.
Raul, the wanker who saw the back of Wenger, broke our transfer record with some serious financial gymnastics, pushed pre madonna players out the club, clipped the wings of our egotistical scout and will probably sack an underperforming manager in under 2 years.
Basically done more in 2 years than hes predecessor ever did….. wanker!
Emre Can. He’s good on the ball (that will help a slow build up from the back – unlike LT), he’s tall (will provide an aerial and physical threat – unlike LT), if a new coach would feel the need to play a back 3 Can can play as a CB (sweeper) and being good on the ball helps you with the playing out from the back. Can IMO is a more versatile and utilitarian player than LT. Or maybe we aren’t using LT properly and so he hasn’t gotten a chance to show what he’s really capable of. I… Read more »
Ck
“I would rather keeping LT to play under another manager first before offloading him…I highly suspect Emery is the reason some of our players (Pepe) haven’t fulfilled their massive potential.”
Fully agree, I think Emerys the cork in the bottle at the moment.
There are a few players in our squad that shouldn’t be judged until we get a new manager, Pepe definately one of them. Torreira’s another, constantly played out of position this season. Not sure I’d even judge Ceballos at the moment.
This belief amongst many Arsenal fans that we are an elite club is a becoming rather boring. Teams that were unheard of ten years ago, are as big as us now. That’s the harsh reality of where we are and how far we’ve fallen. Elite clubs are those that compete at the top table year in year out. Have we ever really dined with the big boys over the past 20 years or so? 2006? Ok, maybe. Arsenal fans have to realise we are not as big as they think we are and lower their expectations a wee bit. Still… Read more »
This is why we really need to act on Emery, hes in real danger of doing irreparable damage to the club.
We need to bring in a caretaker now to instill some good feeling with both the fans and players before the stands get toxic and the players affinity with the club is effected.
6 month remit, get the players doing the basics right again, get them enjoying football again, get fans on side because, let’s be honest, other than an unlikely EL win, this season is looking like a write off.
bennydevito
Auba and Lacazette would be different animals under a progressive coach.
Pepe also.
Graham, I suppose it depends on your measure of Elite, most don’t just consider recent results, they include finances and brand value, facilities and size of fanbase and I’d say, as a complete package were tier 2 behind the true super clubs. Man Utd are still a giant of world football for example and can still attract the best players and managers. That’s still way above the likes of Leicester for example or Everton previously (and Spuds). We are missing a couple of things that the other big clubs currently have, cash, results and an inspirational manager. Short term we… Read more »
Unai
Agree.
Sticking with emery becausebthe bext manager might be worse is like holding 15 in blackjack and saying stick because the next card might put you over 21.
Nobody wins blackjack with a 15 score, the odds of not going over 21 are reasonable and grow a pair
Leicester City have become World Footballs favourite other team.
Their fanbase has multiplied in recent years.
Rodgers is just expanding on that.
the club is in damage mode after wenger, far from champions l material
unless further cleansing takes place over two three years, defence, midf. and
finally attack .. then with a proper manager, mabey we wont be embarrassing
in the competition where the elite players want to be in ..
Your not wrong Graham but, as much as I hate the phrase ‘form is temporary, class is permanent’ there is some truth to it.
A couple of false moves and Leicester could well find themselves in a relegation battle or worse and a couple of inspired moves for us could see us regular CL qualifiers and title contenders.
For me, that’s the difference between us and Leicester.
Unai
Under Emery, we are playing more like we’re “in a relegation battle” than potentially aiming for top 4.
Sad to say, but if we had decided to keep Santi Cazorla, under Emery he would most probably not have made the starting line up for Arsenal, despite the Arsenal midfield underperforming. Consequently it was a a good move for him as he is now playing in the international team. If he had stayed , I can guarantee you that his comeback from injury would have failed under Emery We would have had a situation where we had cazorla and Ozil out of the squad or on the bench whilst the rest of the team were trying to implement Emery’s… Read more »
Pierre The notion of team pressing and work-rate in sides is not just an Emery concept. It’s taken on by many teams now and successful ones. But here you are implying that these are just Emery concepts and talking about these aspects like dirty words. You live in a past time warp Pierre. You still champion Wenger concepts in your posts but we all saw that Wenger concepts at the end of his reign failed and yet you still harp on about them and yearn for them. Arsenal need more cleansing before they can become serious hitters on the big… Read more »
“ one of the points he raised was the lack of a powerful defensive midfielder at Arsenal.“
Fuck me. This has been the case since PV4. Why no one has ever addressed it is mental, what a complete fucking nonsense.
Marko, You should not talk about how management work and what a CEO does. It is clear that you have no idea. The role of Arsenal CEO is not to know when the contract of every players finishes. To decide which one to renew, and which one to sell. This is the role of Director of Football operations. Strange coincidence this is the title of Raul. Director of Football operations. Even stranger, Raul mentioned during the two parts interview that his role was to form a contract policy (renew or sell 2 years before end of contract, no long term… Read more »
Ishola
“Arsenal need more cleansing before they can become serious hitters”
Personally, I would rather keep (and play)our more talented players.
And as for cleansing …let’s start with the management before we criticise and cleanse the players, who have to play in such a dysfunctional set up.
Cleansing can be new management as well as players Pierre.
Yet again like other posters you want to convey that is only a case of one or the other.
Just because a coach has failed in attempting to bring in more modern aspects into the team doesn’t mean these concepts are abandoned.
A more all round positive coach than Emery could have more joy using these same modern concepts.
The alternative is to continue living in a past Wenger Wonderland failing with outdated football methods.
Ishola
What are you rambling on about ?
“Yet again like other posters you want to convey that is only a case of one or the other.”
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D4pQcn2L65J0&ved=2ahUKEwiz1e2ave7lAhUzoVwKHSKsBC8QFjADegQIAxAB&usg=AOvVaw3-rEQeqZR9_vTOlfjODprn
My argument is that until we hire a new coach/manager , the players cannot be effectively judged as it is impossible to play to their maximum under such a poor dysfunctional manager.
“Cleansing can be new management as well as players Pierre.”
As I said , management first……There is no point ” cleansing” the playing staff before we rid the club of the management .
Pierre
You keep complaining about added work rate and added onus on the players to press and it’s all linked to your love for Mesut Ozil.
I’m telling you Arsenal don’t become a force on the big stage again until they add these aspects to their play to a greater and better degree.
You carry on with these modern methods with a better coach than Emery. You don’t keep complaining about them.
Valetin;
You should not talk about how management work and what a CEO does. It is clear that you have no idea.
And then….
The role of Arsenal CEO is not to know when the contract of every players finishes.
Your telling me the CEO of a company doesn’t know when its assets expire?
Wahhh???
I’ll see your Ozil and raise you a KDB…..