The papers are hotting up with stories about Coutinho. The Spanish press is working very hard to connect Arsenal, Kia, and Arteta to 2016 fever dream.
What we know for sure.
- Barcelona need money, they are on an all-out assault to let everyone know that they are open for deals.
- Coutinho is struggling to find a home. He didn’t work out at Barcelona on the left. Bayern wouldn’t put him in the #10 position. He’s a bit lost.
- He’s very, very expensive. £250k a week in wages + £110m buyout clause.
- His agent is Kia.
Now, I’m not quite sure what’s going on here, but a move for Coutinho makes little sense for me. He looks a bit like a younger version of Mesut Ozil. He flourishes in a position that’s being sidelined. You have to build a team around him. He may have his best days behind him.
I’m not sure why Arsenal would entertain another traditional #10 that has failed at his last two clubs. Even if it’s just a loan for the season, that still seems like throwing money in the fire. Shouldn’t we be looking to find a player that can become what Coutinho was, but in the shape of now?
Bringing him to Arsenal for a season would cost a minimum of £13,000,000 in wages, and likely a £7,500,000 fee if we’re lucky. Maybe there’s a masterplan for him, I’d happily be proved wrong, but I just don’t think our approach to picking up expensive risks has worked out very well. We’re also very, very bad at loans going back to Julio Baptista.
We’ve also asked all our players to take cuts to their wages this season, I’m not sure piling in with big money on Coutinho is the right move politically (also worth noting his Barca salary is 75% less than it was last year, which might be driving some of this panic to move to the Premier League).
More of a worry, I’m not sure he’s right for the team. It’s certainly a terrible look that the two big names on Kia’s books are both being heavily linked (Willian). We’re like the new lottery winner that suddenly has hangers-on. It’s appalling to watch.
Talking of agents, it’s amusing to see that Mino Raiola is looking for Arsenal to take out the option to extend Mikhi’s contract another year and loan him back out to Roma. Nuts. We need to move the Armenian on ASAP. Another disaster signing, though I will say, a gamble that I could agree on at the time.
Players on the out seem to be shaping up. David Ornstein thinks Holding, Mustafi and Sokratis will be moved on. It’s a shame about Rob, he looked like a beast in the making after his FA Cup heroics, but injury and poor form hasn’t helped him. Sokratis needs a longer deal. Mustafi will now likely find himself a better club. What will be interesting is whether we sign another centre back, or we roll into next season with Saliba in the mixer. I heard that we were very interested in Diallo last season, but instead, opted for David Luiz for obvious reasons. It’ll be interesting to see if we go back for him this summer. Also, we’ve been linked to Fofana at St Etienne. All rumours, but the sort of young players I can get behind. It’s such a shame our footballing execs are more interested in having a seat at the table with elite agents, versus dealing with where we are as a club and playing in a market we can really dominate.
Jermaine Aliadiere has some not so subtle READ BETWEEN THE LINES commentary on Matteo Guendouzi.
“He’s like my little brother & I always told him that Arsenal would be a very good team for his development as a player & as a human being. He took my advice & came to the club, but I just feel Matteo hasn’t grown up as a human being yet”
“He’s grown up as a player, he’s matured massively as a player & every year he gets better. But unfortunately, as a man, he hasn’t grown and matured as much as I thought he would by joining Arsenal“
“I think thats what he’s missing & why he’s not playing as much under Mikel because Mikel isn’t really up for that. He wants players who are going to do a job for the team & do what they ask him to do. If they arent happy to do that, then he’ll have someone else do it”
I’ve been telling you for a while that the noise around the young Frenchman hasn’t been great, one day I’ll share some of the stories, but not worth it right now. Needless to say, don’t be surprised if we ship him out somewhere this summer. He could probably do with a stint under Diego Simeone.
Final player who could be moving out is AMN. It’s not been great for him this season. His attitude has been poor. He complains far too much for someone so early in his career, he took that red under Emery that looked sloppy, then continued his bitching under Arteta when asked to play a role he didn’t fancy. I think you need to be adaptable in this game. He’d rather be in midfield at a lesser club than get game time regularly at right back. He’ll move, no doubt have a solid career, but the chances are, it’ll look more Theo Walcott than Cesc Fabregas.
As you can see, the shape up this summer won’t just be about the wage bill. It’ll be a savage culling of players that aren’t up to it from an attitude perspective. This sort of squad shaping is what should have happened two years ago. Better late than never. I just hope we don’t have as many hold outs as we did before. I don’t know how you force players out, but let’s be real, the time is different now, you’d be mad to hang on at a club if there’s the chance of a long contract elsewhere.
Right, that’s me done, who would YOU sell. Notes below. Also, heard that the game is definitely going to be back week of the 20th, Dani C was NOT lying.
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Tr4phy :p
Nice one DM
“Bringing him to Arsenal for a season would cost a minimum of £13,000,000 in wages, and likely a £7,500,000 fee if we’re lucky.”
The thing that sets off alarm bells for me with Courtinho – Liverpool did not want to sell him or played a very clever game to get maximum value out of the transfer. If it’s the first option why aren’t they interested in taking him back?
If we sell Mustafi (please God please), Sok and Holding could that mean a return for Mavropanos?
I’m assuming we’ll sign Mari on a permanent deal so that would leave us with Luiz, Saliba and Mari with Chambers injured till next year. I know we’ve got too many CB’s on the books but going with 3 is a bit of a risk, 1 injury and you’re a red card from 3 matches with only 1 CB.
“This sort of squad shaping is what should have happened two years ago”
2 years ago we had maybe 2-4 players in the whole squad worth keeping, did you think we were going to ship all of them out the same year? With long contracts on unreasonable money? Nah, it’s been a process and we’re on the home stretch now, it’s not something that just started. Some are just more difficult than others to ship out.
Freddie
Agree – Anyone who thought we’d get rid of Wenger and sort the major squad issues in 1 or 2 summers is delusional.
Marc
Especially considering the low value of most of the players we moved on, having to sell on average 4-5 players to bring 1 in doesn’t really make for a fast rebuild. Why do people think we’ve had to do so many loans lately?
Can’t wait for next summer when the last of the wasters are gone, that’s when we can really start improving.
Freddie
It’s going be good times!
Although I am worried about Pedro – guy actually thinks cold beers are gonna last in my house till June 20th!
First out of the door should be Mustafi, Xhaka (don’t care about his “progress” under Arteta, he’s still an extremely mistake-prone player), and Sokratis. Don’t understand why Holding needs to be sold. I think he’s still got a lot to prove and is a decent cover to have for Luiz, Saliba, and Mari. Guendo – if he is a distraction, Bon Voyage. AMN – don’t let the door hit you in the back on the way out. Other than that, perhaps Kolasinac, and Lacazette should be moved on as well.
Upstate
Kolas is surplus to requirements and earning £100k per week – if we can move him on do it. Laca can’t seem to get over his personal issues and is down to 2 years on his contract – it’s resign or sell time I say sell.
Pedro I agree that the club will reduce not only the wage bill, but should also attempt to reduce the size of the squad. Let’s be realistic Arsenal do not need a squad of 25-26 players particularly if we fail to qualify or play in Europe next season. Even if we were to qualify for Europa Cup I would be more inclined to add in a couple of U23 squad players. Logic suggests that having 8 centre backs on the books is a complete nonsense. Whilst there is a lot of concern being expressed about the club’s finances the fact… Read more »
Why would we sign Willian?
He’s primarily a RW – for the wide positions next season we’ve got Pepe with Nelson as backup and Saka and Martinelli on the left. Even if we did sell Auba and Laca it wouldn’t be another wide player we’d need.
Emirates
Agree on Miki if Roma want him buy him or make another loan attractive to us. If they can’t or won’t stick him somewhere else just to show we will not be taken the piss out of.
Marc, what you drinking at the moment?
I’ve been flirting with Gose’s… not normally a fan of hip beers, but they are good
Marc
Arsenal need to stop bringing in castoffs or rejects of other clubs.
In the same way the club needs to stop loaning expensive players to other
clubs on continent in particular those in Italy who do not have a “pot to piss”
in.
Pedro
My usual Becks or Peroni although my football pint in the Tolly is Staropramen.
I do miss my matchday and a couple of beers around the match.
Any word on Soares? Is he staying this season?
Fat Tug IPA.
Emirates
Miki has a year left on his contract – the issue is what is he worth in the current market? A loan fee of £5 million would probably be pie in the sky right now.
We collected too many players in the 2016 – 2018 period who either weren’t good enough (and on over generous salaries) or not what we needed / wrong position etc. Some of that is on Wenger, some on Gazidis and some on Mislintat.
SF
No idea but I think he’s available on a free and we need back up to Bellerin.
I hear he is more an old school type of fullback.
Or rather, someone who focuses on defending.
Would like to see him play
Marc
“…although my football pint in the Tolly is Staropramen”
Good man. Love me a good lager, and this one is right up there.
Pedro you said mustafi will likely find a better club – that was a joke, right? …..right?
Upstate
So when are you going to get your arse over for a match and get a round in?
Marc
There is sense in bringing in a player on loan if we are planning to buy or recruit him . That is clearly what is intended with both Soares and Mari.
The problem with Italian and Turkish Clubs is that they take players on loan with absolutely no intention to buy them. I suspect Arsenal are still paying a
sizeable chunk of Mkhitaryan’s salary as well.
The Italian clubs pretend to be big players in the global transfer market but are in reality a dumping ground for unwanted players.
Also don’t see why holding should be sold unless it’s because we have doubts about his long term fitness (could be a fair concern)
In terms of bad form, the guy didn’t play for a year. Came back, played a couple of times below his best and it gets labeled as bad form. Extremely harsh to expect him to be at his best on day 1
Meanwhile Bellerin played absolutely horrendously bad lately after coming back from injury but no complaints from Pedro because he’s cool lol
I’m really curious to see how arsenal look in the next match. With all the time off and chance for Arteta to talk tactics and coaching we should look visibly better.
If we’re still starting games in second gear and going through the motions after so much time to go over this kind of thing I won’t be impressed
Arteta needs to bring back the two touch football that mysteriously vanished without a trace shortly after being very effective lol
Marc
“So when are you going to get your arse over for a match and get a round in?”
We finally went to Europe for the first time last summer (Paris, and Amsterdam). This year it was supposed to be Portugal. We already had everything planned but had to cancel for obvious reasons. UK/London trip was supposed to be next year. I honestly don’t know when it’s going to happen now.
Countinho, no thanks the bindippers robbed Barcelona blind when he went there. Wasn’t even worth half what they paid for him. Willian no thanks, to old and we don’t need more wingers. Tierney is at left back so saka is left wing, pepe on the right. Martinelli can play either if we’re desperate. Between luiz, saliba (hopefully) and Mari we should be covered. With chambers and holding( don’t give up on him yet) in reserve we can get by for a season. The problem is midfield, it’s a mess. You probably need three in there if torriera, and guendouuzi are… Read more »
China
We’ll also have a fully fit squad give or take. I’d like to see us go with a team including Tierney at LB, Saka at RW, Auba through the middle and Pepe wide right and then use Martinelli as back up CF. Also as you say get the tempo of the passing much faster.
We all know what Laca can do although he’s not been doing it of late.
China, I meant that he’d find a better club than his options allowed him last summer.
Guns, I heard that Arteta likes Soares and that the data people identified him as a player that worked for the profile.
After all is said, when is the transfer window opening? What club has the money to buy? The things I’m reading here suggest people don’t really appreciate the tune of these times. OK, no gate revenue for at least another 12 months but are TV people going to have same fire power to pay the PL the usual billions? When you consider they are being faced with different financial woes themselves, one being low subscriptions as a lot of their customers would be out of jobs or business? Would the CL be able to afford same financial reward for participants… Read more »
China 1
Holding came into the club as a young speculative buy.
I accept that he was unlucky with his most recent injury, but realistically he did not make a breakthrough and to be honest I don’t think that he is anything more than a squad player at best.
At the moment we have got on our books too many squad CBs and what we need is to find two reliable first team regulars who can and will play at least 30+ games a season in EPL and are not injury prone.
Favre is such a pussy, pulled some similar shit benching Sancho against Bayern before in favour of a conservative XI and they were smashed.
How can you bench your star man that’s scored 14 and assisted 16 in the league alone in a game that you need to win in a title decider?
Bayern’s back 4 are terrified of Sancho, can imagine the relief that he’s been benched.
Emirates would still keep holding as he’s home grown, he’s still young enough to improve don’t forget he’s not been played with a partner regularly that knows how to defend properly
Oh, and happy up for grabs day everyone!
Holding seems smart, but also seems very slow of foot.
Rather him leave and keep Chambers who can deputize in other spots
Guns would keep both of them. Still think chambers could play defensive midfielder , can’t be any worse than xhaka.
I mentioned a while ago, the only reason why Mini Raiola wants Arsenal to extend Mhkitaryan’s contract is due to the fact in the contract there is a pesky clause that states that any extension entitles him to another payoff and Mhkitaryan to an increased salary to the tune of £270kpw. Roma wants him but can’t afford the fee nor his current salary. Those jokers are requesting that Arsenal also subsidise his wage for the next 3 years. Basically Arsenal can’t even offload him to them on a free. Instead of playing the tough guy act about wanting a fee… Read more »
Pedro, Thank you for the post. I agree that we need to get rid of most of the people that others have mentioned. I just don’t know where the demand is going to come from, given their inflated wages. Right or wrong, you don’t want Coutinho– in part because of the inflated cost (and I agree with you). The same logic, on a lesser scale, applies to most of the people you mentioned as candidates to be shipped out. If you were a coach, how much would you want to pay Mustafi, Sok, Holding, Xhaka, etc.? The younger ones, like… Read more »
I would sell Guen, Xhaka and Torreira.
None of them are what we need in CM.
One is a headcase and headless chicken
The other has granite legs and a red card in the making most games
The other is undersized and injury prone
Sell all
Kia really messed Arsenal up. He got Luiz his guaranteed extension at high salary. In the meantime Luiz is now negotiating either joining a Spanish team or being part of Arteta backroom staff the season after next.
As an aside, I never understood why clubs (not just Arsenal) feels that they owed to the players to pay for their coaching badges fees when letting take training session at the club with kids was already a massive favour in itself.
Rewatching Wrighty meeting about the guy who saved him, and reading his latest interview on how he was an angry young man, I think that Arteta is going with the wrong approach with some of the younger players. Guendouzi and AMN seems the kind of high maintenance youngsters who need somebody who will trust them and give them more responsibility. Not necessarily more playing time, but more responsibility behind the scene. For example Arteta is still short of a video analyst, why not ask them to come up with video analysis for the team? Right now all the noises coming… Read more »
Those 2 have the physical attributes but mentally I am not sure.
Some of it is maturity and others is not being that smart on the pitch.
having a natural read of the game is crucial for any mid… Those 2 – nah
Holding is the new ledly king, sell him then chambers next, these English lads are overrated
Nobody else watching Dortmund-Bayern title decider?
Chambers is like Jenkinson gave his all but was just not good enough,
his good games where limited however I would keep him over
Sokratis a complete beast but an even bigger liability.?
Definitely a NO to William I just can’t see him fitting in.?
Although I like him as a player but not Arsenal.
Same story every season with Dortmund wilting under the pressure against Bayern in crunch time, same as Napoli against Juventus in Serie A.
I don’t want to mention the word but when the Brexit transition ends on 31/12 the situation will fundamentally change with regard to signing players from Europe . For instance at the moment PL clubs can sign academy players under the age of 18 if they hail from an EU Country. That allowed Arsenal to sign the likes of Fabregas . Such a signing in future will not happen unless the player is over 18 by which time the likelihood is they will have found their way to a Eu club or come of age and will be able to… Read more »
Terraloon
Yeah but our government will set out what rules PL clubs have to follow and as a massive UK export and a very popular product I’m pretty sure the PL will have plenty of leverage.
Pete…
You can’t open the book and not read us a page…
What immature things has Mattie done..
James
I slightly agree about chambers
But I think there is a good reader of the game there.
In the right combination he could be good.
Shame that it looks like curtains for holding.
Be strange tho if holding an Mustafa go on to be good defenders at other clubs.
RSPC
“Be strange tho if holding an Mustafa go on to be good defenders at other clubs.”
OK I think that’s enough of the booze for you tonight.
I’ve nothing against Holding!
Valentine
Do you think we should make them milk monitors or prefects ?
IF Mustafi cuts out the brain farts he drops during most games, he is a great athlete and does not get injured too much. He could be something good…
But then again….. the farts keep coming
Marc
To some Mustafa has improved under art.
The bundesliga is a 2 horse race between a shetland and an arabian
Im telling you for free!
If we had a proper midfield that could also shield the defense, not leaving huge gaps in the middle for counter attacks, etc., then perhaps our defenders would not have to be isolated in no mans land …
Again, some of this goes back to our woeful midfield.
Stroller
I agree
Italian clubs are corrupt and cheap and cheats .
Is anyone else intrigued by what Mattie could have done ?
Slim pickings out there, but I saw this on Beeb football:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52809217
Not sure what to make of it really. I always liked Jack but injuries finished him.
“To some Mustafa has improved under art.”
So he’s actually progressed to only being abysmal!
“Is anyone else intrigued by what Mattie could have done ?”
He stuck “L” plates onto Arteta’s training jacket.
Marc
The PL , FA and other leagues have reached agreement in line with my posting
The rumours are that the number of non HG players will reduce to a maximum of 12 ( from 18)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2020/04/28/fa-premier-league-reach-basic-agreement-post-brexit-player-quotas/
BrewDog Hazy Jane. Been tanning them all day in the sun. Lovely.
Maximum of 13 ( 12 places reserved for HG players )
Terraloon
Well that’s the quality of the PL about to go downhill at an alarming rate.
Marc
Not sure I agree.
What will happen is that a lot of the real dross that comes over just won’t get a transfer and potentially you will see more academy players get a chance or just as likely you will see players from lower leagues, and there are some quite decent ones, given a chance albeit they won’t be as cheap as some of the dross.
Terraloon
I have a view that English players are for the most part poor – especially technically. Maybe we’re seeing a change in that with better coaching / academies etc but until football over here embraces skill over “kick it” things won’t change.
kick and run- liverpool style
Un
Problem is we only have a good tournament once in a blue moon – 90 and 96 were an exception being so close together in modern times. England were woeful at the last World Cup.
I do agree about the intelligence or lack of in our footballers but we’ve been lacking in that for longer than I can remember.
I do hope the current crop of Arsenal youngsters prove me wrong though.
I’ll rather we play ESR, Willock or Saka(I believe he can play that role) in the number 10 role than sign Coutinho.
On the flip side, it would be fun reading Pedro’s comments if we do sign Coutinho and Williams.
Un
Just reread you comment.
“Too many sterlings, lennons, swps, lingaards and Rashfords”
You’ve just made my point outside of Sterling who’s the one quality player we’ve got at the moment. SWP – pretty shit, Lennon – fucking shit,Lingard – pants, Rashford – midtable Dutch teams have better on the bench. If those players weren’t English they’d be fucked off ASAP.
azed
I can’t see for the life of me why we’d sign Willian – we’re covered in wide positions. Courtinho would just undo any good we do by unloading some of the dross and getting the wage bill under control.
Marc
I don’t think we would sign William or are even considering it but I never thought we could sign Silvestre also.
We have like 7 central defenders but not one of them is outstanding.
We seem to be able to get just ok players.
Andy1886
Mate truthfully, you and I haven’t actually got a clue about how much Arsenal have to spend. With Arsenal, don’t believe everything you read in the papers or media.
We was told by John Cross of The Mirror and various other outlets that we only had 50m to spend last summer and everyone lost their shit. Our net spend was around 90m.
So either the information was wrong, or Stan Kroenke injected some of his own cash.
So my advice would be to wait and see.
Jamie
I ain’t had that one yet…
Will try this weekend…
I like all them types.
California is also good…
A lot of people on twitter going on about Matt smith …
See his profile deep keying playmaker…
Anyone no wot about him?
English football has plenty of rugby influence, unfortunately english rugby has no football influence it lacks the flair of southern hemisphere rugby.
You heard it here 1st!
English players are like marmite on toast, chips with curry sauce, Spam and stodgy rice puddings
I find MG s bit of s headless chicken in CM I would get rid of LT and GX first though he is still young
Overmars, You are confusing treasury cashflow and expenditure. Most people can’t afford to buy their house cash in one full transfer, that does not mean that they can’t buy their house. They take a mortgage and pay it in monthly for the next few years. People who had studied Arsenal said that Arsenal had a net treasury cashflow spending power of about £45~50 millions and that what we spent. The extra net spend is being paid in installment for the next 5 years. That money spend last summer is the equivalent of a monthly mortgage payment. By my calculation that… Read more »
Valentin
Of course and I’m sure that most clubs pay for their players in installments. But again I repeat, don’t believe everything you read in the media. It seemed like every transfer we made last summer, they were emphasizing on how much we were paying in installments, probably to cover themselves for saying we only had X amount to spend at the start.
Time will tell when the season ends. Getting a Champions League place will help massively.
Its WILLIAN all
NOT William.
When I was 16 I joined a local bristolian youth team. I’d been out of the club game for years due to growing pains in my knees. I’m coming on off the bench in my first game at left back and the advice I was given was ‘kick it towards the opposition corner flag and let raf do the rest’ I didn’t know whether to laugh, cry or vomit. Needless to say I didn’t do it. My first touch I just gathered it, side stepped the attacker pressing me and passed to our CM in acres of space in the… Read more »
I think it’s not bad that English academies and kids training gives a high emphasis to solidity, power etc but I think the problem is that at least when I was a kid, we were not given any kind of high level guidance about transitions in certain situations We worked on useful but entirely generic stuff like passing, shooting, tackling, general positioning, one twos etc But no one ever said to us look this is what we’re going to prioritize in terms of strategy or tactics etc, how guidance on how to open a team up through superior movement etc… Read more »
The other problem with English players is a serious lack of culture (football wise) We always have plenty of extremely talented players. But how many of them can play a cultured game? A very small handful in total. England simply does not produce a Bergkamp, a TH14, an RVP, a cesc, a Pirlo. Even when we produce some genuine top quality players, very Very few have any kind of genius or great nuance about their game, either technically or mentally. The nearest we got in the last 10 years to some elite cultured CM was wilshere and we know how… Read more »
If I’d been England manager 10 years back I’d have been dropping Lampard and doing everything on my power to convince scholes to come out of international retirement.
Scholes was the only CM we’ve produced in many decades who was an elite, cultured CM. Gerrard and lampard were elite but not that cultured and I think they lacked the mental smarts to play together where scholes would’ve done far better
Kids up to 13 yrs dont need instructions, just give them the ball and let them enjoy, thats how Pepe, mane, Sala are made
Early coaching is killing flair out off the south american and African game, spanish/dutch style helps abit, Germans are too machine like, the English should make up their mind between rugby and football and stick to one
Valentin/ Overmars This £46 million available came about following publication of ASTs assessment of the clubs 2018/19 accounts. It was their best estimates as to what the 2019/20 financial position would look like . They never said the budget would be £46million what they said was what the available cash would be . The media particularly from hawks like Cross quickly submitted the words available cash with “ Budget” What you have to remember hitherto Arsenal had for many a year ring fenced monies held in the cash reserves for all known liabilities, including future instalments of transfer payments. They… Read more »
‘IF Mustafi cuts out the brain farts he drops during most games, he is a great athlete and does not get injured too much. He could be something good… But then again….. the farts keep coming’ Many years ago I was in a high profile political job as an assistant to a high ranking politician. I was young and I wanted to impress, really eager to impress…and so I made all the blunders in the book(ala Mustafi’s brain farts)and resigned in frustration. I think Mustafi has been trying to prove a point, and because of his phyco structure, he gets… Read more »
China “”””England simply does not produce a Bergkamp, a TH14, an RVP, a cesc””””” Maybe they should employ Arsene Wenger then . All seemed to flourish with AW as their coach. Indeed ,3 of them were his sole productions. I wonder what type of careers those last 3 players in particular would have- had our Wenger not overseen the start of their development. And how someone like Pepe( and Saliba) would benefit from AW experience and wisdom as well as the idealistic and energetic MA approach. Talking of young talented players. Just observe the loss of form ,confidence and stagnation… Read more »
My view regarding Cummings is that he has always had the support of the PM; therefore, if Cummings and his wife succumbed to C-19, then the PM could have Cummings’ child taken to the family up north accompanied by any specialist needed.
In sum, Cummings was wrong on every level and needs to own up to that and take whatever consequences are given.
CG
You really are full of shit.
Bergkamp was circa 26 when he joined Arsenal, had already won the title and UEFA Cup with Ajax and the UEFA Cup with Inter. To cap it all off he wasn’t even signed by Wenger.
“Scholes was the only CM we’ve produced in many decades who was an elite”
100% spot on and the dickheads employed by the FA kept playing him on the wing to accommodate Fat Frank.
Tony
Just so I’m clear you’re saying that if Cummings and his wife had both been taken seriously ill then you’re saying a 4 year old autistic child should be taken from his parents by strangers and sent on a 5 odd hour drive?