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Another exciting scouting report on the best left-backs in world football by @mike_mmcdonald.
The Full Backs dilemma (Part 2: Left Back)
I hear today that Napoli and Roma are interested in Sead Kolasinac.
At first it seems insanity to consider selling him with Tierney out for 3 months but maybe not…
Kolasinac has proved to be part of the problem more than part of our future solution.
Excels in pre-season then seems to flatline. Powers forward… stops.
Improved defensively but still slow to react to danger.
Considering he is on £120k, this may be the time to wave goodbye as I’m sure you could give his wages to a position more in need, and replace with a £40-70k guy.
If Saka is considered a real option then one of the options in this blog may end up being a reality.
Before we start the profiles allow me to make you nauseous again as I did by suggesting Ashley Young and Marcus Alonso, for there is another that’ll change your Christmas mood. His name is Danny Rose and he’s third choice under Mourinho down the road and he wants to play in the Euro’s I’m sure.
Danny Rose on loan. Sorry!
Young and promising
Name: Malang Sarr
Position: LB/CB
Age: 20
Height: 6ft
Club: Nice
Nationality: France U-21
Potential fee: £15M
About: Malang Sarr could fix two problems.
His primary position is left centre back which is arguably Arsenal’s biggest need. He is French and could form a formidable long term partnership with Saliba, speaking the same language.
Sarr is considered a generational talent and much like De Ligt, a natural leader in a generation of few.
An athletic, fast, ball-playing CB primarily.
Much like Upamecano, Sarr has formidable body strength.
Since switching to LB, he has suffered further forward when crossing but in a team whose attacking profile suits cutbacks, this isn’t a major concern.
His contract is up in June so we could get a short term left-back and a long term LCB for a small fee.
He is also playing out of position currently at Nice so the promise of a future as a CB option for a bigger club should appeal.
Name: Rayan Ait Nouri
Position: LB
Age: 18
Height: 5ft10
Club: Angers
Nationality: France
Potential fee: 20M
https://youtu.be/ViOuojC7lJo
About: I was unaware of Ait-Nouri until L’Equipe recently mentioned that a Top 6 PL team have bid for him.
Over the last 12 months, Juve, Real Madrid, Man City and Athletico Madrid have shown interest so I think this qualifies us to take a look.
Ait Nouri is a very modern left-back. Plays more like a converted winger as his feet dazzle.
Electric pace and supreme athleticism add to the excitement but young, raw and untested at the higher level makes such a large investment unlikely perhaps for a club in our financial situation.
Ait Nouri represents many on these lists. Young, inexperienced but full of potential. I think that the fee dictates the risk. £15M or under and Arsenal may press go. As we are currently a club trying to fix everything I’d be surprised if we go for a very young player from abroad.
Name: Owen Wijndal
Position: LB
Age: 20
Height: 5ft 9in
Club: AZ Alkmaar
Nationality: Dutch
Potential fee: £10M
About: A regular for the second-best team in Holland this season. Wijndal is a complete full-back with no obvious weaknesses bar experience.
He is good going forward and also solid defensively.
Wijndal has great stamina and has been a very consistent performer for AZ.
Players like Owen Wijndal are often the best bargains. They have the possibility to play for very strong national teams but due to the depth currently in the Dutch squad he has yet to breakthrough. If you can get a player who is good enough to play international football but is outnumbered you may get them for half the actual value.
Experienced leader
Name: Jonas Hector
Position: LB
Age: 29
Height: 6ft 1in
Club: Koln
Nationality: Germany
Potential fee: 25M
About: Do you miss Nacho Monreal? If so, why?
Is it because he was so reliable? Because he was versatile, could play LB, LWB, CB.
Wish there was another like him?
Maybe there is…. Jonas Hector.
Hector is an uncommon modern player.
He has essentially played his whole career for Koln, even when they’ve been relegated. Had offers from Barcelona and Liverpool, but stayed.
A versatile and well-rounded player who has until recently been first choice for Germany even though he plays each year in the relegation zone.
An attacking midfielder in his youth, Hector still retains the in-game intelligence that first caught Cologne’s eye in summer 2010. Just look at where he has been deployed for club and country since: on the left wing, in defensive midfield, at centre-back and, for the most part, in his now favoured role on the left-hand side of defence.
Jonas Hector catches my eye as a good option for Arsenal as he checks many of the boxes needed as well as having the (rare) added benefit of being two-footed and a goal-scoring threat from left back.
A smart guy off the field who is currently studying for his business degree.
Arsenal are in need of leaders and reliable senior players. Koln captain Jonas Hector, could be the solution.
Out of favor, experienced options
Name: Ricardo Rodriguez
Position: LB
Age: 27
Height: 5ft 11
Club: AC Milan
Nationality: Swiss
Potential fee: £20M (loan possible)
https://youtu.be/03vgibHd0OU
About: There has always been something about Ricardo Rodriguez that’s bothered me.
I’m not a fan necessarily but his status as an out of favour player at struggling AC Milan makes me wonder whether he may be a loan option for Arsenal.
He will make the Swiss squad for the Euros but he may be concerned that he will lose his starting place.
RR has a distinctive hunched body shape when he plays that bothers me on an aesthetic level as I prefer players that have better field vision.
A similar player to Kolasinac with just one foot, good feet but not great, good going forward but not great and a good defender but again, not great.
Not a ringing endorsement, but I don’t have to approve for me to know that Arsenal are far more likely to attempt to solve their full back issues with loans and that this is a realistic option.
Name: Marcel Schmelzer
Position: LB
Age: 31
Height: 5ft 11
Club: Dortmund
Nationality: German
Potential fee: £15M (loan possible)
About: Much like Rodriguez, Marcel Schmelzer becomes a possible option as he is currently behind both Schultz and Guerreiro at Dortmund.
A former captain of Dortmund and a stalwart at left back for many years, Schmelzer’s form has recently dropped yet he is still considered an important member of the Dortmund squad due to his decade long service and the hope that he can regain his pace, tenacity and stamina that saw him hold down the left side for years.
Like Rodriguez, he is not a choice I’d go with but understanding that we may just need a body and that the club are looking for senior players that care and can lead on or off the field, then Schmelzer becomes a candidate.
There are others to consider.
Wendell at Bayer Leverkusen, Kurzawa at PSG and if City are looking for a left back upgrade then at least one of Mendy, Zinchenko or Angelino will leave.
I’d love to consider Chilwell but why buy Tierney if you are going to buy Chilwell.
My best guess is Arsenal will look at a loan and most likely Ricardo Rodriguez.
What would I do?
If Aubameyang can be persuaded to stay I’d go for Jonas Hector.
We need senior players with true leadership and better mentality.
If Aubameyang insists on going, I’d persuade Real Madrid to give us Achraf Hakimi in part exchange and use him at Left Back until Tierney is back, then play him instead of Bellerin at right back long term.
What would you do?
@mike_mmcdonald
How anyone can see that VAR freeze frame of Pukki and arrive at “offside” I’ve no idea.
Rule needs changing. There should be daylight, or a much greater allowance that signifies an advantage for the attacker. Being offside by a centimetre is fucking ridiculous, stand next to someone and race them 20m then talk to me about 1cm starting benefits. Bizarre
Cc
I’m not arguing with you, my point is that the argument – not yours but in the media etc is that we should get rid of VAR because it isn’t working.
I’m with you find a way to make it work.
Personally the first thing I’d do is bin all of the current refs – the very best of them is worse than useless. With the amount of money in the PL we should be bringing in the best refs from overseas.
Start with good quality raw materials and move forward from there.
Marc
I.know the law. I want to understand the law from footballing point of view. What advantage does a striker get if his armpit or ear is in offside position ? None.
Cc
Yeah but as I said earlier what margin of offside is going to be deemed as OK?
1cm? 10 cm? 1m?
It’s where you draw the line.
CC
Agree totally.
The system is just being used badly.
If they’re going to judge things in millimetres then why don’t they analyse the exact contact point of the pass forward in such detail?
Is it just our referees and officials? Are they as bad as we think they are?
As you highlight it is gross “neglect”.
G8, there is a screen at pitch side but refs have been instructed not use it, bloody ridiculous!
If a players feet are in onside position why should it matter whether his armpit, nose or ears are in onside position ? I don’t get it.
It’s any part of the body that you can legally score with. My problem with the Pukki decision stems from it being so close it literally depends on how the video tech guy or whatever interprets the line and or at what point in Pukki’s shoulder or Foyth’s knee he placed his pointer or whatever it is. I think it should have stood it was that close
TR7
So where do you start measuring from?
Colney
On Soccer Saturday earlier I thought I heard them claim that refs have been told they will be penalised if they use the pitch side camera.
Now if that’s true it takes bloody ridiculous to new extremes.
This is what happens when you get referees overseeing things.
Remember there is a reason they became refs in the first place.
No genuine understanding/feel of the game.
If it takes more than 60 seconds to decipher whether someone was offside or not, he is not offside.
Simple.
Put a stopwatch on the review.
What part of the body can’t a player score with?
It would make it easier if they used the foot as the guide ,to be offside by an arm pit is nonsense.
Marko
Agreed, the goal should have stood.
Marc
If feet and centre of gravity of the body are in onside position and the striker doesn’t get any unfair advantage, it should be onside. Should be a discretionary call based on logic than a pure measurement related decision.
Brighton won 2 nil at Bournemouth..
Carlo, a tried and tested gaffer who was available has 6 points in the bag in 2 games. Plus his team is shooting for fun. I guess its a logical way to think about winning games – shoor ro score goals
Meanwhile is Arsenal Land, we are debating who will we sign to undo this mess… It’s becoming embarrassing supporting AFC…
“I knew he would play to win. You don’t spend three years with Pep and play for anything other than… SAUCE !!”
What happens if a player gets aroused?
Hot days/ Cold days will make a HUGE difference.
Jokes aside, it’s frigging farcical.
TR7
“Should be a discretionary call based on logic than a pure measurement related decision.”
Then your back to letting fucking morons make decisions. As it stands offside is offside – it’s not perfect but it’s clear.
Marc, see you are looking at it in a matter of money,
For too long club put money as the main agenda.
We need to get the football right then money will follow.
We neec to get it right on the pitch first n foremost.
Sell laca or Auba and xhara and a few others should get about 120m.
Put 80 on players and 40 to cover loss.
If monies is the only reason for the club to exist.
Come on Norwich!
Fucking own goal as well!!!
2 – 0 down spud detritus don’t get back in the game, Norwich score again 2-1 but the scum still dominating. Game is a farce. Should be 3 – 0.
Possibly
Auba 60m
Laca 40m
Xhara 25m
Mustafi 15m
Elnenny 5m
Papa 2m
Snooker loopy
147 m there
Marc
I’d revamp offside to indicate when the attacker has gained an advantage through his advanced positioning all things being equal. Sterilising the game isn’t helping anyone and idk who can suggest 1cm being an unfair advantage.
To keep it simple or concise I’d argue daylight between attacker and defender, but you could work out an agreed tolerance through various testing and comms with every club.
RSPC
Money is not the only reason for the club to exist – and no one who’s a real fan would say so but the truth is FFP and other stipulations mean you can’t just rack up loss after loss without there being a punishment.
What you say is right in principle but it’s naïve to suggest we can just ignore losing millions in revenue.
Bamford: I prefer to watch the players and assess them on their attributes (quickness, pace, athleticism, technical ability, power, size, intelligence, guile, ability to create their own chances, work-rate). On these grounds, I think a lot of PL observers would take Richarlison and Calvert-Lewin over Aubameyang and Lacazette at the moment. —————— Everton play a very different system from Arsenal. I’m assuming you have never seen Calvert-Lewin play. He lacks speed and strength. He gets easily brushed off the ball. Richarlison is skilful but tries to con the referee every match by clutching his face and rolling around. He is… Read more »
L’Equipe: Monaco to sack Leonardo Jardim, Marcelino to replace him as coach
@ highbury
we should be careful of thinking Arteta is a close of Pep.
He is not. No experience.
Cc
It’d be worth looking at.
My main line of thought is with the quality of refs we have the moment they are involved in decisions you’re going to get bullshit.
I thought the idea of VAR was to stop the cretins fucking up decisions not finding new ways of doing it!
“”” That’s not what they’ve said on Sky – He was a tiny fraction offside when the ball was played is the decision being given.”””
Yeh I’m watching sky also – Did you hear what they said just after it was given as offside ? The commentator said , ‘they’re saying it’s because he ran back from on offside position “
We’re still talking about what he said in my WhatsApp group – no one can believe it !
@ Bill
Usmanox’s money could have been ours. But too many people did not want his sorts here. Being Eastern European is a crime for some.
The problem from the start is hiring a coach people are sure to be nervous about. If things turn a bit uncertain going forward, having an established coach with a great record does lots of reassuring in such situations. But an uncertain coach in uncertain times?
We sure will have a lot to talk about here.
Give them a video and they still manage to make errors
Marc I don’t disagree about the state of some refs, baffles me why no new faces have emerged in 5 years? Not that I know anyway, not household names. You’d have thought 2/3 guys would’ve made a name for themselves over that time, same useless pricks Atkinson, Oliver, Dean etc. I sympathise in some respects though because the laws are a mess for me, they’re murky and very grey in places which can serve the ref up on a platter irrespective of VAR. That said, with the current implementation, VAR is such an out ball for referees on some decisions,… Read more »
Wonder when Pellegrini gets the sack.
Been stinking the Olympics stadium out for quite sometime now.
Jardim getting the sack doesn’t surprise me
Silly penalty given away by Norwich
Don’t t forget Mike Riley is god!
VAR is in the hands of fools.
The Premier League version of VAR is just shite
There are pitch side monitors but the match refs have been instructed not to use them
What a load of bollox
Dave
Please do not insult fools by lumping them in with refs.
refs are a whole different level of useless.
I’ve never seen so many good teams concede so many goals as I have this season. Literally Liverpool and Sheffield United look like keeping a clean sheet. Just about
Cc
Thing is if there were a couple of refs who were using common sense before VAR and doing a great job the narrative would have been why can’t others be as good as these 2 or 3.
The refs were fucking useless before VAR and are just as bad now.
Marko
The league is all over the place this season. It’s the reason that top 4 isn’t completely gone yet – not saying it’ll be easy but it could be done.
There should be a standard for how the offside lines are placed on the VAR screen, or it should be left to programmatic algorithms to determine. I feel a shift towards letting the var ref determine an attackers or defenders advantage when it’s super close , the other side of that coin is that pretty quickly you are going to see the media darling clubs like United and Liverpool benefiting from preferential decisions, as dumb as this might seem now I would prefer that the decision not be left to the preference of the var ref, also this leads to… Read more »
Baying, we could just put a trackkng chip in both boots and on both shoulders of a shirt and just use that.
No need to involve people at all.
Unai
They already use the tech to track players in training. As you say get the human (is calling a ref human slander on the human race?) element out of the decision.
Anchelloti getting 2 wins out of 2 looks impressive albeit against weaker teams in Burnley and Newcastle
I thought he was better fit for our current shambles
let’s see what he does next game against man city before we declare we missed a good sauce there
We have Arteta now, we should move on and the club should do everything possible to make it work
Norwich robbed 2 points by the incompetent PGMOL
Come on you Clarets!
“What part of the body can’t a player score with?”
Jesus christ.
VAR’s main purpose is to make corruption/match-fixing that much easier.
https://footballisfixed.blogspot.com
Gentlebris
The Leicester collapse didn’t happen.
Mourinho has been very average so far at Spurs.
He can’t get the balance of the midfield right.
He got punished for being too conservative and defensive in his midfield selection against Spurs and today when he goes more expansive in midfield with N’Dombele, Eriksen and Lo Celso he concedes two goals again. Back three didn’t help him.
17 goals conceded by Mourinho in 10 games since he took over. That’s bad.
alex cutterDecember 28, 2019 19:56:43
“What part of the body can’t a player score with?”Jesus christ.VAR’s main purpose is to make corruption/match-fixing that much easier.
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Thought it was the opposite in the UK,to be fair..
But,I’m open to your suggestion..
Did I hear correctly commentators say Burnley haven’t had a shot on goal in 4 hours of play?
Fucking hell, we really missed out on the tactical genius that is Dyche didn’t we.
Where’s CG and his 87% prediction success rate?
If Tets can’t indoctrinate his ideas quickly, then this season is primarily about staving off relegation. If you remove the first two games of the season, we have been the 3rd worst team in the league over nearly a full half season. I wasn’t a backer of Tets for manager, but in terms of expectations, while he’s inherited a massively underperforming squad, it’s also one that is literally a relegation-form team over the past 16 games. Hoping he gets a reaction from the players and we start getting some wins so that there’s more room to experiment in the final… Read more »
Xhaka reportedly not training tonight and not in the squad for tomorrow. He’s gone it seems. Proof some prayers are answered
Looks like we’ll be going with a Torreira Guendouzi CM partnership tmrw. Does not fill me with confidence.
Team trained tonight at The Emirates
Dream10
You mean as opposed to the dream team of Xhaka plus one other?
we really missed out on the tactical genius that is Dyche didn’t we.
Where’s CG and his 87% prediction success rate?
Pedro was bigging up the worm eater too.
Marko
“Xhaka reportedly not training tonight and not in the squad for tomorrow. He’s gone it seems. Proof some prayers are answered”
That’s good.
All we need now is for Arteta to actually scrap from the side the role Xhaka was playing in the team.
And then the curse of the DLP that has been plaguing Arsenal over the last three years will be over.
Wonder if Ceballos will be played because of Xhaka leaving?
He’s only been training for about a week though.
If we want Lamar,
Simple offer laca and 20m ..
Sell Auba for 60
Still quids inn.
Marko..
Proof.
Proof is he is an over egotistical prima Donna knob head…
Thank good the cunts gone.
West Ham sack Pellegrini
Words on a BlogDecember 28, 2019 21:36:03
West Ham sack Pellegrini
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Pochetinno for West Ham…LOL
Tomorrow and the manure game is about who scores first IMO
If we concede first we loose, if we score first we win or draw which is still not good enough
‘The Leicester collapse didn’t happen.’
Ishola,
They only beat West Ham, even our team beat West Ham, only PL team we have beaten in the last 4 months or so. West Ham are a 3 point bonus for all comers, how Chelsea missed on that sweet cake is beyond me.
Leicester might not make top 4 after all their initial bravadoes.
Hertha would have to pay Arsenal at least €25M but Arteta’s reluctant to let him go.
Maybe Mikel isn’t going to work out
Gentlebris,
Leicester would have to completely collapse to miss on top 4. Leicester has 42 PTS after 20 games. Assuming that like last season 71pts is enough to clinch 4th place, Leicester would have to not win 10 games out of its remaining 18 games.
In fact even 8 victories and 6 draws and 4 defeats would still be enough to reach 71pts. Right now their average would tend to put them reaching 80pts rather missing the 70pts mark.
Some seems to rejoice that Xhaka is leaving, but who trust Raul to buy a proper replacement before the end of the winter TW?
I don’t consider selling Xhaka below market value and not replacing him a clever move. €30 millions in the summer makes more sense.
I say make a cheeky bid for Traore in January and see what they say, maybe we can follow it up from there. Imagine investing £150m on Traore and Zaha. Zaha Martinelli Traore. Three proper made for EPL warriors. Of course after selling Auba and Laca for £130m. All we need are bright imaginations in January. I have been supporting Pepe ever since we signed him, but before we signed him I was all for Zaha. Maybe Pepe still comes good, but Zaha is a real terrorist. He has been quiet this season but that’s what happens when you have… Read more »
Xhaka missing training and next match because his head isn’t right after Arsenal deny him move by refusing Hertha Berlin offer(s) or protest against Arsenal selling him?
What we do know is that Hertha Berlin are definitely buying the Stuttgart player Ascacíbar who is a CM/DM for just under 9m.
Or he doesn’t want to risk injury on the eve of a transfer. Either way he’s gone and we’re finally going to replace him. Be interesting to see who Edu and Arteta have in mind
Valentin,
We shall see.
But if two of ManU, Chelsea, Spuds and Arsenal suddenly turn a corner and begin to win games after games, and like I’m suspecting, Leicester have given all they had already?
Last summer, we had the opportunity to buy Valentin Rongier the player voted best tackler in Ligue 1 for €13 millions and we went for Ceballos and Pepe.
Xhaka’s head is now so messed up, he can’t play for us (but still draw a salary). So now we desperately need a player who can play defensive midfielder while still able to look up and play forward passes.
The recruitment was a joke. We went for the shiniest new toys (Pepe, Luiz, Tierney), when we needed dependable invisible workhorses.
I personally think he will have a shock in the team selection tomorrow…
They are there for the taking…
Gentlebris,
Even without Vardy, Leicester will limp into 4th place. They will win their games against the bottom 8 teams and pick-up enough points elsewhere.
Good point val
‘Even without Vardy, Leicester will limp into 4th place. They will win their games against the bottom 8 teams and pick-up enough points elsewhere.’
Valentin,
One of the many delights of the EPL is even the rock bottom team can beat anybody.
But like I said, we shall see. But I have a feeling that Chelsea and ManU will get top 4…..pls have in mind that both can go crazy in January and spend mad money.
‘The recruitment was a joke. We went for the shiniest new toys (Pepe, Luiz, Tierney), when we needed dependable invisible workhorses.’
Raul played to the gallery big time. The only one of those three that excited me was Luiz.
We need a real talent spotter ASAP.
Else, Raul will land Arsenal in a deep shit with his Hollywood runs.
Mundo Deportivo: Atletico are considering letting Lemar go out on loan for the rest of the season
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/arsenal-hammered-out-deal-real-21178571
No way Arsene dithered on a deal…shocking
Marko
From the same article:
‘Admittedly, Arsenal were operating with the financial restraints that came with building a multi million pound stadium.
They had also been hit by the 2008 property market collapse which led to a sense of caution in the transfer market.
“The way I always characterised it is that we just couldn’t afford to make a big mistake,” (Dick Law).
What is ‘shocking’ is the way the club essentially downsized itself when it moved to the Emirates.
Paradoxically, arsenal became a smaller club despite having a bigger stadium.
Wenger was complicit but you can’t just blame him.
Alexander Henry wenger called the shots in those days this is well beyond any serious debate The board already shamefully admitted our plan was always just wengers plan and they let him act on his plan accordingly The board would routinely come out as well as wenger himself to say we could spend money and didn’t need to sell in each summer but would only look for super quality players. The no money and heavily restricted comments would only surface when wengers back was to the wall and he wanted to defend his under performance I don’t blame wenger for… Read more »
Alex you absolutely can blame him absolutely. Finances in this case mattered fuck all because we were getting the player we could afford it the deal was seemingly all good but Wenger dithered on it and he went to Liverpool on loan. Focus on the Kroenkes and financial constraints all you like but none of it matters when it’s an example of a deal that could have been done but Wenger dithered. Key words here being could have been done and but Wenger dithered.
Blaming Wenger for not signing a player who then subsequently flopped in the EPL!?!
By all means blame Wenger for not signing players who then became success but failure?
Soon some Wenger haters will complain that he did not extend Stepanov’s contract!
In the article Dick Law says everything was done they were just waiting on the yes from Wenger. Pretty obvious what the problem was.
Alex as well dick law is talking nonsense. He’s talking about when we were interested in nuri sahin which was pretty much peak cash hoarding time for arsenal before wenger got spendy again in his final years.
We probably never held less financial risk than during that time. And dick law was just a negotiator, not in charge of the purse strings. If wenger told him he had £6 and a packet of worthers originals to negotiate with because he thought our circumstances were risky then that’s what he’d have to work with
Look
Wenger has history of dithering,,,
Nothing can be done now.
Look forward if Berlin have offered 29.9 m for xhara take it.
Anyone else who don’t want to be part of this exciting new project… sell.
Let’s pray we get a result this Arvo…
Hey Val the old ballbag wasn’t clairvoyant at the time how was he to know how Sahin would turn out. At the time he was a highly rated CM who Real signed from Dortmund. Anyway point is this is just one of many examples of Arsene Wenger the great ditherer at work. There’s loads of examples of his negligence/incompetence that we know of and even more that we don’t
Valentin it’s a moot point. No one cares that he didn’t sign sahin – he was proved right not to.
The point was that he was a known cash hoarder and transfer ditherer and that is beyond dispute. This was just an example of it
Valentin it’s a moot point. No one cares that he didn’t sign sahin – he was proved right not to.
The point was that he was a known cash hoarder and transfer ditherer and that is beyond dispute. This was just an example of it1
So Jardim close to getting the sack….ummmm…wasn’t he one of the special sauce ones? Eh Pedro?
While Thomas tuchel, another special sauce ones still has a lower win % than the clueless emery.
Pedro, I wonder how much stock should be put in your views of Arteta, considering what seems a rather lackluster history of sauce recognition.
Btw, in other news your buddy Ivan is stinking up milan.
The point was that he was a known cash hoarder and transfer ditherer and that is beyond dispute. This was just an example of it
Exactly
So happy Ivan is ruining Milan he is a prick of the highest order
Mr serge tho I’m over the moon that bald Ivan has finally fucked off, I’m actually disappointed that he’s at Milan. It’s a shame to see such a huge club floundering around and he’ll only make them worse the longer he’s in town
“Granit Xhaka is maybe a work in progress after his agent said he was leaving for Hertha Berlin.” Easy to see where Xhaka gets his arrogance from when his agent tells the club Xhaka is leaving for Hertha Berlin. Seems both Xhaka and his agent are oblivious that Xhaka is under contract to Arsenal who decide whether Xhaka stays or goes. Watching the Bournemouth game Xhaka finds spaces but freezes when he receives the ball as he is pressed. Xhaka keeps pointing for the ball to go to another player. When Xhaka has the ball he still passes sidewards of… Read more »
PapaSok suffered a concussion. Kola still has an ankle complaint while Tierney has a dislocated shoulder.
As for Bellerin, Ceballos, Holding and Martinelli, it is 50/50 for selection.
I would try martinelli as a 10 tomorrow
Bench laca.
Wingers Pepe and Nelson
Auba as striker
That is a potent attack
Gabby presses hard on defense and has pace to break the lines to score
Just my 2
I have to agree with the person that said VAR is being used to fix matches. Serious investigation is needed. These wrong decisions are not random.
You heard it here 1st!
Martinelli and pepe should play on the wings Auba as striker, ESR or ceballos as number 10 with instructions to press.
Im telling you this for free!
Posters on Le Grove [incl Pedro] keep on discussing a wide range of positions where we need replacements in January. The reality is that the club are unlikely to bring in more than one or two at most factoring budget and potential departures. The most likely arrivals assuming that we manage to sell both Mustafi and Xhaka will be a new Centre Back and Central Midfield. Somehow I don’t see the likelihood of any other replacements in this window including full/wing back notwithstanding long term injury to Tierney. In the Summer we will be adding to the squad Saliba and… Read more »