Ok, so Ced…
SHUT UP AND SUPPORT THE LADS
… Soares is
SHUT UP AND SUPPORT THE LADS
not really that…
SHUT UP AND SUPPORT THE LADS
Ok, I give up.
I strained out an excitement yelp for Pablo Mari because he’d been picked up as a talent by Manchester City, then had a good time in Brazil, and he’s sexy.
I WILL IGNORE THAT HIS AGENT, CANALES, TOLD RAUL THAT EMERY WAS THE BEST MANAGER IN EUROPE. WHICH LED RAUL TO HIRE HIM WITHOUT ENGLISH AS A CORE COMPETENCY. HE WAS PREDICTABLY SHITE. THEN RAUL HAD TO FIRE HIM EARLY AND SHELVE THE 4 YEAR DEAL HE WEIRDLY HAD PLANNED. NOW CANALES HAS A NEW RECCO AS OUR GREAT WHITE HOPE IN THE CENTRE BACK DEPARTMENT.
Cedric Soares is a signing that’s a little lost on me. Southampton fans don’t really rate him, he went to Inter last season for a loan and they gave him 4 games, now he’s with us. He’s 28 years old, so by no means finished, I’m just not sure he’s quite the elite specimen we hoped would be driving the Arsenal forward.
I’ll be blunt… he seems like a favour… you know, like when you were 19 in Time & Envy and your mate met a babe called Vicky, who is totes fit, and you’re left with Keeley, who is fine for a chat, but she wants to tattoo your eyeball for banter but that’s not your scene.
Anyway, he’s a Portugeezer international, he’s potentially a Swiss Army knife of a player, and he’s obviously good enough to land the nod from Mikel… we hope.
At this point, I’m just going to sit back, shut the fuck up, and hope there’s some sort of majestic plan that I’m not aware of that’s being undertaken.
I will NOT bring up the uncomfortable reality that this is a Jorge Mendes special. We have almost certainly vetted this move with a slathering of deep data analysis and the blessing of the scouting wonks.
If I were to try and be super positive about this move, I would say this used to happen under Arsene back in the day. You had no idea who he’d signed, you just knew there was a plan and a coach good enough to elevate the talent.
PARK CHU NOOOOOOOO. KABA DIAWANOOOOO. STEPHAN MALZNOOOO. FABIAN CARININOOOO. KIM KALSTROMBROKEHISBACKBUTWESTILLSIGNEDHIMNOOOOO!
BUT WENGER DIDN’T FUCK WITH SUPER AGENTS.
Shhh, shut up and support Raul. Maybe there’s a properly elite superstar they have their eye on this summer. (take a look)
I also think there’s a harsh reality here, we’re skint and under pressure. Quite possibly the worst mix to have heading into a transfer window. I’d rather plug needed gaps with loans, let Arteta make all his mistakes now, then hit the ground running with a quick transfer window this summer.
We know that a lot of big names will likely move on this summer. Auba, Lacazette, Luiz, Sokratis, Mustafi and a number of others might all push for exits… we might cash in on a diamond… whatever happens, it’ll be an aggressive summer.
Until then, let’s just see how it pans out.
We’re improving as a team, the energy levels will go further as fitness improves, the team showed signs of where the attacking side of the game might go, and we’re already showing strong signs that we can learn how to defend.
Two players is two players. It’s a dead season. Let’s just be thankful we did something and pray to the gods of football that no more defenders land nightmare injuries.
IGNORE THE SUPER AGENTS WHO ARE ON OUR SHIT.
See you in the comments.
Delete “easy least”
I am not too upset about the penalty conceded rank, because apart from Zaha dive most of the penalties we have conceded were real penalty.
The stats that show the injustice is the penalties given to us where we can clearly see a bias against Arsenal players. With referees if our opposition were to be shoot our player who would then fall down a la William Dafoe in Platoon, they would still go “Move along, nothing to see here”.
Pablo Mari I’m most looking foward to, out CBs bar Luiz are a calamity waiting to happen…
Seen enough of Soares for saints and Portugal to know what to expect..
Hopefully though they’re successful for us moving foward. Vital we pick up 3 points at Burnley on Sunday, no excuses whatsoever
Pablo Mari could turn out to be a decent signing.
But Cedric Soares looks like a pocket-liner for an agent. Sick to death of agents buying off tech directors and DoFs.
Mikel Arteta should decide who is in his squad. It shouldn’t be grubby backroom stitch up by suits fleecing the finances to suit their own agenda.
@Valentin –
They would literally have to do the whole fucling village for us to get a penalty.
“Mikel Arteta should decide who is in his squad.”
He’s maybe Jesus, but he can’t do everything.
“He’s maybe Jesus, but he can’t do everything.”
It’s not a case of Arteta doing everything. Managers have long decided what players they needed and wanted in their side and handed a list of players to their club to bring in. Then these TDs and DoFs came in and it changed.
It makes no sense to me for backroom people to decide who the manager should have in their squad and go out and sign them, if it means a bad fit or someone who doesn’t perform the required task.
No matter who we sign some will definitely complain.
Why are some obsessed with contacts approach? You’ll need someone to recommend an athlete before you take a personal account on his ability. Is that not conatacts before scouting? Even when you want to scout talent you need contacts first. What got us Guendouzi and Martinelli? Scouting or contacts?