Squad psychology

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Quite the scene in America at the moment. I walked through the protests yesterday, I’ve never felt sadness in the air like it. I hope everyone can stay safe and out of trouble this evening, it sounds like it’s going to be a very unpleasant weekend.

Onto the football.

The Premier League will be back, as will a lot of other live sports. We might not have normality in the streets, but the level of content on the TV is about to notch up a couple of levels.

The clubs themselves are doing a good job keeping the case numbers incredibly low. There have been a few cases, but in the main, the ramp-up in testing is doing the job.

Arsenal players look fit and raring to go. They all seem very excited to be back. There’s nothing quite like playing football in the sunshine. This will be the first-ever Premier League game in June. I’m so excited. A summer of football. It’s just a shame we can’t drink in bars to watch the games.

As it stands, Arsenal has 3 games in the books. We have our first game, versus Manchester City on the 17th, then we’re straight into the weekend to play Brighton. I wondered if that was a disadvantage, but likely not. Having a bit more fitness in the legs will probably work for the players.

We also have an FA Cup game against the very impressive Sheffield United on June 27th. The final will be August first this year. We’d normally be pissing around on a foreign tour at that point. Imagine not being able to attend an FA Cup final? Or winning one without a crowd?

There are 5 subs allowed this time round, but you only get 3 goes at making them. This could open up space for some of the kids to impress. From what I understand, the club is very excited about a couple of kids that aren’t widely known by the public. Matt Smith and Trae Coyle have both been seen training with the first time, not sure if that’s just a standard rotation, or it means bigger things… but as the belt buckles tighten, you’d imagine Arteta might see this final run of ten games as a great chance to let some of them shine.

It’s important to note that we will likely take these games a little differently. I mean, that’s what I’m guessing. The manager is working with new information in a new reality. The game is different, the club will have less money, certain players will not be allowed to stay on at the club even if he wants them. That’ll change the psychology of some of the players. They might feel despondent… or they might need to play for their careers because landing a contract elsewhere has also become exponentially harder.

If Luiz is going, how much game time will he land? If there’s no future for Lacazette, does Eddie get the nod for the last batch of games? How will he approach youth?

So many questions that’ll be answered in about 18 days!

Short one today, stay safe my darlings. x

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China1

Then there’s the night yahoo who are such a bad (left) ‘news’ outlet I think they might even be as bad as fox but for the left audience instead

Sid

The revolution will be televised, just didnt know it would come so soon

You heard it here 1st!

China1

Tom yahoo doesn’t do tv as far as I know but they are absolutely as bad as fox. Spend an hour reading through yahoo news and I dare you to reach a different conclusion. It’s absolute trash Also CNN and co dress up their crap bias in a slightly less ‘trailer park’ level of presentation which leads people to think they are not trash too, but they are. Where was CNN when Obama was running absolutely ragged on civil liberties? They were there in full voice when Bush was bad but fell a hell of a lot quieter when their… Read more »

Dissenter

The funny thing is that all these riots have created a diversion for Trump’s shambolic handling of COVD-19.
The fickleness of many of the rioters is that many will rather play video games on Nov 3 rather than go out and vote.
We have to change the way we let police operate, right now they behave like an occupying military force. It’s not going to be done by throwing Molotov cocktails at vehicles with police in it or by burning police stations.

Dissenter

China1,
‘Where was CNN when Obama was running absolutely ragged on civil liberties?’

What is gods name are you referring to?
Obama’s problem was that he was too meek and polite
Care to expound on how he absolutely ran ragged on civil liberties?
I won’t hold my breath awaiting a sensible answer. You were talking about neutrality then you dropped a partisan bomb-lie.

Tom

“Meanwhile I was watching one of the most cringeworthy segments I’ve ever seen on CNN recently where Don Lemon was artificially adding 10 second pauses between each word to try and add significance to his words when addressing trump directly and I was just like fuck man how do people stomach this shit lol seriously“

China1
I don’t watch his show but the obvious question that comes to mind is whether he was lying or misleading while being overly dramatic in his delivery.
Was he?

Dissenter

I’m so glad the David Luiz deal is falling through.
Hope he leaves and we get a proper defender.

Dissenter

That’s how Don Lemon articulates.
He’s very slow on the draw.

China1

Dissenter please, you need to at least know his record on civil liberties before you defend it

Under Obama – patriot act extended, whistleblowers (promised protection quite explicitly during his campaigning) heavily punished, enormous NSA overreach and a beautiful cherry on the cake is his supporting of the national defense authorization act.

If any one or all of those had happened under trump the left would be FUMING. But he was their guy… and he’s cool… and a good public speaker… so he gets a pass as being ‘too polite’ LOL

CG

Dis

“”””I’m so glad the David Luiz deal is falling through.
Hope he leaves and we get a proper defender.””””

All in the hands of Arteta now.

Let’s hope he shows his mettle and some forward thinking and we never ever see this Chelsea joker in an Arsenal shirt again.

If Arteta plays him ever again- he needs to be sacked.

(He has 7 other center backs to choose from.)

The Luiz and Arsenal relationship is over.

China1

And how can I be labeled as partisan when I’m here trashing both rotten parties and the crap media that prop them both up?

My excitement ahead of the last American presidential election was it seemed there’d be an outside chance whoever got in would get impeached sooner or later considering how bad trump and Hillary were as candidates

I just call out the bullshit I see. It’s all shit lol

Rich

China the MSM covered it a little, but got hardly anywhere near the coverage it warranted.

Mainly LBC and smaller media outlets were reporting it.

BBC, Skynews, ITV, Channel4 didn’t seem keen on showing the protestors being beaten black and blue with batons, and sprayed with god knows what, and it was going on for months on end, riots in the tens of thousands.

You’d think being right on our border it would have been much bigger news?

China1

Let’s also not forget the ‘behind closed doors’ drawn up transatlantic and pacific trade deals which they made the content secret and tried to get them pushed through without giving proper scrutiny and debate lol

The Obama administration was literally shady as fuck

Tom

China1
“And how can I be labeled as partisan when I’m here trashing both rotten parties and the crap media that prop them both up?”

Yes, any thoughts you may want to share on the Chinese government and media though.

Pierre

Dissenter “I’m so glad the David Luiz deal is falling through. Hope he leaves and we get a proper defender.” 4 titles 3 european ( one champions league) 9 domestic cup 1 confederation cup with Brazil A total of 17 trophies won tells me that Luiz is a “proper defender” , who has won trophies at different clubs across Europe. Will add that after a slow start , Luiz is far and away our best defender this season, especially as now he is playing under a manager who has the ability to extract the maximum out of the players at… Read more »

Rich

China want Trump out
The EU want Trump out
North Korea want Trump out
Iran wants Trump out

They would all rather deal with a meek, weak, pathetic and subservient president like Obama.

Who won’t fight for America’s interests, because they’re petrified of conflict.

Trump at least fights for reciprocal free trade, rather than the one way tariff schedules implemented by weak administrations.

Trump is a complete 🔔-End,but I’d still vote for him over Clinton or Biden.

China1

Rich tbf if you cover French riots and protests as and when they happen you’d have about 300 days a year of them as front page news lol. If there’s one country that loves a good protest/riot it’s France

Dissenter

China1 That’s the massive overreach on civil rights you were bemoaning? The patriot act and defense authorization acts you mentioned are supported by 99% of politicians s from both sides of the aisle. You do realize that he assumed office 9 years after 9-11. The few libertarians in US congress campaign against it because they know their votes aren’t required to pass it. NSA overreach? The NSA was doing what they do under every president. They took the gloves off after 9-11. Me thinks you’re just parroting stuff that you haven’t delved into fully. He was president for 8 years… Read more »

China1

Rich trump fights for trumps interests. There’s no two ways about that. On a few occasions his antics have actually aligned with doing something good tho and I’ll at least be thankful for those few moments in a sea of excrement even if they’re probably more accident than intentional lol

Dissenter

**Obama assumed office 7 years after 9-11
Got my math mixed up.

Marc

China

Out of a population of over 300 million in 2 Presidential elections the best candidates the US can come up with are Hillary Clinton (no baggage there), Trump and Biden. I really don’t know whether to laugh my arse off or cry!

And people used to slag off Reagan for being useless.

Kay

Yeah Wanker was super respectful

When the f*ck did 8-2 happen
When the f*ck did he resign

CG

Pierre

If Luiz was so great, why did the man who know him best ( Frank Lampard) get shot of him so quickly?

No one disputes he cant play in a back 5.
No one can dispute he ain’t skillful.

But if Arteta thinks he can play in a back 4 in England- he is pretty clueless.

Dissenter

Funny enough the TPP was actually the only meaningful way to slow down China’s dominance of the region. Since Trump cancelled it , he’s fled the region and China has rightly filled the void. Trade deals are always done in secret away from the press conference. There was nothing wrong with TPP. It was the run of the mill trade deal as anyone who pretends otherwise is relying on conspiracy theories to demonize it. Obama was the meekest president there ever was who’s M.O was to avoid conflict which was why he wasn’t my type of politician. I voted for… Read more »

Marc

Dissenter

And W Bush assumed office just under 8 years after the first attack by Bin Laden on the Twin Towers but you still blame him for the attack in 2001.

What the fuck was Clinton doing for all those years?

America must have the most partisan politics going.

Sid

A jobless marketer on the defence of an oligarch president son of a billionare,
An immigrant not voting for another president because he’s too meek
Another immigrant who is all defensive about wifys country, criticising a president about the patriot act.
cant make this stuff up

Terraloon

Valentin I just like everyone on here has no idea how the transfer of Saliba is going to work out. His ability and potential seems to be unquestionable so we await with anticipation Romeyer has a track record when dealing with English clubs . Once he knows a club is sniffing around he trots out the phrase “ The player isn’t moving this season” The las big home grown CD that St Etienne sold to an English club was Kurt Zouma. Zouma was bought In the January then loaned back till seasons end which completely exonerated Romeyer who had maintained… Read more »

Tom

Dissenter Damn straight Obama was too meek and soft in the run up to the elections when all the lights were blinking red Trump campaign was in constant contact with the Russians. Especially when Flynn was undermining the official US Russia policy with the Russian ambassador Kislyak, while at the same time also lobbying for the Turkish dictator, and even taking part in discussions about kidnapping the leading Turkish dissident residing in the US. Posters like Un are either too ignorant of facts or have their right wing ideology clouding their brains ( probably both) to see the Obamagate for… Read more »

Pierre

CG “If Luiz was so great, why did the man who know him best ( Frank Lampard) get shot of him so quickly?” For your information, in the 2018/19 season , Chelsea conceded 39 goals in 38 games with Luiz in the side. This season ( without Luiz) , Chelsea have conceded 39 goals in 29 games . Will also add that Arsenal ( with Luiz ) have conceded 3 goals less Chelsea this season. Plus Arsenal conceded 51 goals in the 2018/19 season without Luiz. So , whichever way you look at it, defensively Arsenal have improved with Luiz… Read more »

Dissenter

Marc You should have lumped Reagan in with the other lot you mentioned because he was probably the most useless of them all. He was a great communicator who used his Hollywood charm to good effect. I’m not so sure UK politics is putting out the best candidates either. You have Boris in charge, I mean he’s a BS merchant too. Look at the wonderful deal Westham got for their stadium when Boris was mayor of London. Doesn’t it provide match day catering and stewards for The premier league club that’s generating £200 million a year. is covered for the… Read more »

Marc

Pierre

Everyone knows it was a personality clash between Lampard and Luiz, they also know that his contract not being extended is a financial decision not a football decision. Having Luiz available next season whilst Saliba settles in would not be a bad thing in my opinion.

Dissenter

Luiz was a terrible acquisition
I just hope it didn’t financially cost us as much as the tabloids are suggesting .

Dissenter

The pandemic is definitely over or rather the FEAR of the pandemic is over.

Marc

Dissenter

I never said UK Politics is beyond criticism but the issue’s in America are something that anyone from a mature democracy would just laugh at in disbelief.

Reminds me of an old joke:

An American and a English guy are having a chat and the American is taking the piss out of the English. “It’s a sidewalk, not a pavement. It’s a elevator, not a lift. They’re pants not trousers”.

The English guy sits nodding and taking it all in good humour and then replies “It’s a school not a shooting range”.

CG

Pierre

So armed with those stats.

You want Luiz to stay and be integral to the team going forward ?

David Luiz without question is the worse pound for pound signing Arsenal have ever made.

It looked a shocker at the time.
As time goes by, and the numbers leak out- it looks totally diabolical.

If this doesn’t cause Josh to sack Raul and Edu ,nothing will.

If Luiz trundles out at Maine Road in a few weeks time- it will also be the beginning of the end for Arteta to.

China1

Dissenter you’ve skirted very nearly around the point by simply excusing his crap record on civil liberties.

One minute you say he doesn’t have one, the next you say it’s fine because of 9/11 and other politicians being the same?

Either it happened or it didn’t. Me thinks it bothers you that a guy you obviously respect is getting called out for the realities of his presidency. Shady as fuck lol

Marc

Un Some of the numbers being used in the transfer do not add up unless you start including VAT and NI – have you ever heard those included in any other transfer? Aren’t clubs supposed to publish how much they pay to agents every season? I’d like to see that number. I am surprised that he wasn’t sign on a 2 year deal, which is what was reported everywhere at the time and was still being noted on all the usual football websites a couple of days ago. I suppose its possible the idea was it gave us an easy… Read more »

Valentin

Terraloon, That is exactly my point. They went all gun blazing to Romeyer, thinking that throwing money will change his mind. If they had done their due diligence they would have known that it would not. Plus it is not like he hided that fact. He went and publicly repeatedly said on TV and radio show: If somebody offers me €20 millions for Saliba I’ll take the deal as long as Saliba stays for an extra year with us. To me it is a mix of hubris and unpreparedness. I was hoping that once Gazidis and Wenger left, the negotiation… Read more »

Marc

“David Luiz without question is the worse pound for pound signing Arsenal have ever made.”

Er Xhaka and Mustafi? £70 million in fees, circa £30 million in wages and we won’t even include that the NI and any other cost that’s suddenly been included in the Luiz deal.

China1

And this really underscores my point very clearly dissenter The patriot act is one of the most notorious pieces of legislation in modern American history. Bush had that government overreach around his neck as a stick to beat him with for his critics. But those critics were mostly silent when it was Obama renewing and upping the ante on it Don’t make excusing for Obama man. It’s not really that surprising that the guy’s administration was morally dubious at best – I believe he went into it with the best of intentions but very quickly became part of the swamp… Read more »

Valentin

If the right wing conservatives media have rewritten the history. US citizens may still think that Reagan was a great president, but the reality was that he was a terrible one. He simply got lucky that Carter left him a sound economy. When Reagan left with his huge deficit and a wrecked economy (even his vice President called it vaudoo economic) whoever the next president would have to pick the slab. Unfortunately for him, it was Bush Senior who despite being overlooked in the history book was a very good president. Bush Jnr was a bad president because he had… Read more »

Marc

Reagan did bring down the Soviet Union with a big bundle of cash and a cartoon.

Beats the shit of a war that ends in nuclear holocaust.

China1

Yeah Marc and 35m went further in those days too!

Combined at 70m in those day and we could’ve bought some serious, serious machinery for the team!

Marc

“Bush Senior who despite being overlooked in the history book was a very good president.”

Agree there – guy seems to have been written out of the history books. He also was head of the CIA Black Op’s so knows where the alien bodies are buried!

Marc

China

It wouldn’t be quite so bad if they weren’t still stinking the place out.

Graham62

Dissenter and fellow US bloggers I’m voicing my opinion from across the pond but have spent a great deal of time over the past forty years in the States. My wife is Eritrean and most of her family live in around Washington DC( Maryland and Virginia). I have visited most of your beautiful country and in all areas bar none, the same problems prevail that are evident in and around DC. I have witnessed the underlying issues first hand (with my own family) and the divide that unfortunately exists in America. These problems have always existed but when you have… Read more »

CG

The same man ( Raul) who is sacking lowly paid youth scouts ( who could be unearthing tomorrows superstars) is the same man paying out £6 million to his Spivvy chums to sign ageing has -beens.

Totally unacceptable.
And if the owners condone this.

Arsenal R.I.P

GunnerDNA

Marc
Un
China

When was the last time you guys traveled to the USA?

Dissenter

PSG just announced the signing of Mario Icardi
-One less transfer option for Auba even though Inter Milan now have money to pursue Aubameyang

Whatever happened to the broke club theory – that now clubs will be doing massive trade by barter ?

Fairly Used Gunner

China1 “These riots are a terrible shame because it should’ve been widespread peaceful protests against police brutality and inherent racism in the system being propagated all the way from the top (trump) but now the opportunity has been hijacked and many who had sympathy for any movement will not any longer.” Sympathy? Freedom gotten from pity is not freedom. The black community has been living on white sympathy for centuries and racist behaviours have remained the same, worse it’s getting filmed; hence the magnitude of outrage. Racism is still very much everywhere and in every circle, nothing changes despite the… Read more »

Tom

Un your post is too incoherent to even attempt a reply.
But I’m glad we have a peace deal with North Korea though.
That’s fantastic. I’m also glad they’ve stopped their nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs. Oh , wait. No, they haven’t.
According to the UN experts the Trump North Korea strategy has been fruitless.

Bob N16

Great post Graham

Dissenter

Marc
Reagan just happened to come along at the tail-end of a broken Soviet Union.
Their system couldn’t sustain a long term challenge. Reagan didn’t do any thing special.
He left a colossal deficit as Valentin pointed out, one which Bill Clinton [your proclaimed leftist]
Our right wing presidents are economy destroying here, Reagan, Bush and now Trump.

Rich

The Luiz signing was a shocker, particularly as we could have got Soyuncu for €20 million a year earlier, and on much cheaper wages.

You can offset some of it by the €5million we got for Koscielny, and then Koscielny’s wages, and the money for Bieik, which probably amounts to the whole year deal for Louis.

Dissenter

Graham The divisions existed before Trump but he’s definitely poured petrol on them more than any one in my lifetime. Like I said, any world leader that follows him is doomed. Australia mistakenly jumped on the bash-China campaign even though they handled COVID-19 excellently. They are laying a massive price for it because they actually had a massive Positive trade balance with China. It’s every country for itself now. Self interest ought to reign now. Stop all these pretension of ‘leader of the free world’. There is no leader and the concept of ‘freedom’ is relative. I was impressed when… Read more »

Tom

Fairly Used Gunner
Right?
I love how white middle aged men ( I’m one) tell the blacks the proper way to protest for equality.
Kneeling at the national anthem is definitely too strong a statement.

Wasi

Psg are such bulls man. Shoving out 50+ mil during the pandemic. Is someone familiar with Psg’s finances. Like are they really generating so much funds in this time of crisis or still breaching the FFP’s after the decision against City recently? Anyways this was supposed to be the transfer window when the prices finally boiled down but PSG with Icardi have already set a bad predicament. Coyle and Matt have been regular for the u23s and are good prospects is what I have learned through my lil scouting . And it only seems rational to promote some youth players… Read more »

Dissenter

Unai Do you think the US should be pulling out of the WHO during a global pandemic? Do you always take your ball and run off home when things don’t go your way? I ask because China has every right to exact some nuanced treatment from the WHO same way the west used to dominate the international economic order. The US owned the world bank while the EU dominated the IMF…the rest of the world were spectators. Guess what, the Chinese have massive influence and they aren’t afraid to use it. I see nothing working with that. Trump was praising… Read more »

China1

Gunner 2 years ago Fairly used gunner I think you’re taking my wording too literally re sympathy. I am using it as a synonym for ‘supporting the cause’, even if it’s not a good synonym for this All lives are equal unless we’re gonna get into child murdering pedos or whatever where I suddenly become less liberal about life lol. With all the media spotlight on this case and a big swell of public support in the media behind this, this was a good opportunity to keep a very focused narrative on the issue at hand. Widespread looting has now… Read more »

Tom

Un
Dude, I’d take the UN North Korea experts Trump policy evaluation over your plumbers local any day.

Marko

Whatever happened to the broke club theory – that now clubs will be doing massive trade by barter ?

Oil rich and stupid club PSG got Icardi for 45 million when previously Inter had been looking for something like 70 million and upwards. Sign of what’s to come

Dissenter

Taking a knee is the most respectful manner of expressing dissent. You take a knee to propose to the person you want to spend your life with, you take a knee to show respect….but you can’t do that to protest police brutality. When you talk and they don’t listen…..you shout When you tell and they don’t listen….you march When you march and they don’t listen… people throw stones The difference now is that it’s a mass movement that’s multi-racial because most people know there’s a problem. It’s hard for millennials to channel frustrations constructively besides blogging of course. They just… Read more »

Marc

DNA

Never been – too dangerous!

It doesn’t mean we you can’t observe global events.

Tom

Dissenter
Trump pulling out of WHO is purely a political ploy to divert attention from his covid19 failures.
100$ sys he’ll rejoin after elections ( if he wins) under pretenses he will have extracted concessions.

Marko

I highly doubt George Lewis is going to be a signing akin to Kubo or Salah one that’s going to get shirts selling. Born in Rwanda and spent his career in the lower leagues of Norwegian football doesn’t really come across as a hot sell.

Dissenter

Marc That trade by barter theory was crap to begin with. You lot didn’t consider the fact that even in a depressed housing market, people don’t decide to trade their houses in with swaps. There will be price depression but the transfer window will still be with fees. The club will sell that player for a lower price and use it to pursue the replacement player in a depressed market. Clubs have to sell what’s not necessary because most will be financially stretched. The player swap thing was bonkers. This memo is to you, Pedro, Emirates and all the protagonist… Read more »

Marko

That trade by barter theory was crap to begin with.
You lot didn’t consider the fact that even in a depressed housing market, people don’t decide to trade their houses in with swaps.

What are you talking about honestly. We’re not talking about houses and there’s a whole league (serie A) who show every year that trades/swaps/loan can and do occur.

Dissenter

China1
On that looting point, I wholly agree.
It muddies the water and makes the clear argument less clear.
There’s a theory here that some of the damage in Minnesota was done by undercover cops.
Sounds crazy but that’s how disconnected policing has been in America. They slowly lost the trust of some communities here.

Marc

Dissenter

Think you’ve got the wrong name there.

Marc

“There’s a theory here that some of the damage in Minnesota was done by undercover cops.”

Does that come with a tin foil hat or do you have to make one yourself?

Marko

Marc he’s gone the wrong full stop that lad. I dunno what he’s trying to do he always wants to go against the grain which is fine but using the Icardi transfer as an example that things won’t change much and swaps and barter are going to be ridiculous in the forth coming transfer window is silly. Lots of clubs are going to have to go down that route now. That’s not to say that money still won’t be spent

Dissenter

Marc
PSG could have offered a host of players for swaps to get Icardi
Inter could have listen to offers involving several players to swap for Icardi

Guess what, it didn’t happen because it’s impractical

Your deduction from a depressed market was that clubs will engage in trade by barter instead of trusting that the market will adjust itself to lower cost of transfers.

Icardi would have gone for more than that pre-COVID 19. The market is adjusted to lower fees not trade by barter.

Your player swap theory is already Lola-sing as we speak.

Dissenter

Marc
You’re clutching at straws
Did you read what I wrote after I mentioned the conspiracy theory. They trailed the masked and hooded guy who broke the first windows in Minnesota- he walked into a police presence and his ex-GF confirmed it was him with a tattooe.
I also said the fact that people are willing to be,wife it shows how much the police are despised by some.

Stop feigning faux outrage- read the entire comment.

Dissenter

* police precinct

Marko

Your player swap theory is already Lola-sing as we speak.

Genuine question but are you a silly person? Have you only just started to watch football? There’s swap deals happening every transfer window you only have to have a basic knowledge of Italian football to know that. Christ Man City done one last season with Danilo and Cancelo.

China1

The one way this clusterfuck could work out well for minorities is that trump is battling the entire universe on several fronts as his whole house is on fire lol Right now you can see certain media outlets still holding off from talking of rioting and going with the purer sounding protester wording specifically because this is now a very easy stick to beat trump with as a blatantly racist leader. Democrats will be looking at this as risky but an opportunity for points scoring imo. I suspect they don’t care that much about the actual problems at hand but… Read more »

Marc

Dissenter

I haven’t mentioned the Icardi transfer – you’re telling me to read whole comments!

China1

Un na do you honestly hand on heart believe trump cares about anyone but himself?

He literally makes every single sentence in every single conversation on every single topic about him

Whether or not you agree with any of his policies, you can’t seriously believe the guy has sufficient empathy for others to care about any sort of bigger picture than his own ego, surely?

Marc

Dissenter

I think you’ve gone completely mad – you’re assigning comments to people who didn’t make them and referencing parts of comments you haven’t made.

Fairly Used Gunner

Tom
Kneeling at the national anthem is definitely too strong a statement.

No. It’s not. It’s called civil disobedience. And it’s a strategic nonviolent form of appealing to the conscience of the nation. Nonviolent forms of protest are never too strong a statement, throwing Molotov cocktails is. Boycotting, peace march, kneeling are examples of such nonviolent forms of resistance.

Marko

Why do you think so much funding from the likes of Soros is being poured into divisive groups such as Antifa, Isis and BLM?

The sheer stupidity of this comment should be enough for people to stop engaging with a clear imbecile. Don’t waste your time folks stop flooding the comments section responding to a clear mentally handicapped person. Your day will be the better for it

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

We well n truly had our pants pulled down signing Luis …

Just shows people running the club don’t know luck all about football..

I’m done with club.

China1

Un yeah I’d be fine with that but I can’t see what you’re seeing because there’s very little rhyme or reason to anything he says as he pivots 180 in a matter of days on 95% of his issues I actually give him full credit for walking away from the transatlantic and pacific partnership plans, but if they weren’t Obama’s plans he wouldn’t have hated them. If they’d never been proposed and were suggested to him now he’d be like THATS A HUUGE BIGLY GOOD IDEA. I’m 100% sure on that Just look at his blaming Obama for the lack… Read more »

Marko

Hector Bellerin will not commit his long-term future to Arsenal until there is an improvement on the club’s current Premier League position, according to ESPN.

Hmmm on the one hand good for him having ambition but on the other hand the absolute cheek given he’s a bit shite

Ishola70

Pierre “David Luiz is widely held to have been important to Arsenal’s improved form under Arteta, drawing praise from the head coach for his commitment in January. But there are understood to be mixed views on the Brazilian among Arteta’s coaching staff, including suggestions that his influence in the dressing room is not always wielded positively.” https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/may/27/david-luiz-arsenal-future-football-finances-contract-expires-coronavirus Stating that Luiz has been Arsenal’s best defender for the last few months is like saying that Xhaka is Arsenal’s best midfielder. They are both not good enough if Arsenal want to become a really serious side again. There are always question marks… Read more »

Marko

China I’m telling you this because you seem like an alright guy don’t bother with him.

Marc

Why are we suddenly accepting that Luiz was on £200k per week when every reasonable report had him on £120 – £125k per week?

Marc

Marko

We’ve also just paid him a year or so’s salary whilst he was out injured.

Terraloon

Dissenter Inter dropped their initial agreed price. I doubt that they will be bringing in any new forwards although it’s remotely possible they will bring in Sánchez. My guess is that as per Contes wishes they will buy Moses albeit for a sum below the agreed £10 million likewise they will probably either buy or loan Emerson from Chelsea. Chelsea’s loan army is going to reap them handsome rewards in all this. From. Morata to Moses and a player I never knew was Chelsea’s player who Atlanta have agreed to buy following his loan for £14 million add to that… Read more »

Marko

I think people are reading way way way too much into the negatives surrounding the Luiz deal. Not ideal in the first place sure but he was an experienced defender replacing another (Koscielny) and one who we thankfully didn’t saddle ourselves with long term and were smart to offer a short deal with the potential at reduced terms for the second season. The real outrage/disappointment that conveniently gets overlooked should be why in the previous summer under Sven did we sign the likes of Sokratis and Litchsteiner when the likes of Diallo and Soyuncu among others were moving?

China1

Lol marko thanks you too

I take the bait all too easily sometimes

CG

Josh Kroenke June 2019.

“”””It’s no secret that we have a Champions League wage bill on a Europa League budget right now.””””””

12 months later.
June 2020

It comes to light, Arsenal have paid circa £24 million for David Luiz for his 25 games.

Taking us for fools for a decade.

Marko

We’ve also just paid him a year or so’s salary whilst he was out injured.

Marc shush apparently he’s captain material and we’re lucky to have him.

No but seriously I’d bin him as soon as possible. Despite never even playing for us and being a bit average I’d consider keeping Cedric over Bellerin cause we need a new starting RB imo have needed an upgrade for a number of years honestly

Fairly Used Gunner

China

You need to understand that you can’t beat someone and choose how they should cry. A people who has no where to run to will always find a will to fight back. That’s the option the blacks chose and they don’t care about any eventuality(which is always the usual retorting to type by the white).

Terraloon

Marc I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Luiz had already received a decent signing on fee and probably will get a loyalty bonus As for his wages again the estimated wages came from the same reports that led us to believe he was signed on a confirmed two year deal Either way , and this isn’t without hindsight, he will turn out to be an extremely expensive signing. He is being let go because he can be and as mad as it may be I suspect that more would be told goodbye if they could irrespective of their potential… Read more »

Marc

Marko

I wouldn’t be surprised if this isn’t Bellerin making it look like he want’s out before he’s told you’re second choice / surplus to requirements.

China1

Would be glad to see the back of Bellerin. Not a great defender. Not a great attacker. Lost a yard of pace. What’s his value to us anyway?

If psg have bought Icardi I assume they’re not buying auba which means the number of realistic options for him has now fallen to ??? Barca (doubtful), real (possible), probably no one in England. That leaves Bayern (not happening) and just a couple left in Italy. I wonder if he’ll end up staying even if he wants to go and we want to sell…

That would certainly be an interesting outcome

Marc

Terraloon

I’m highly cynical about anything that appears in the media / internet regarding signings / transfers etc. Most of the time we have to put up with some click bait around the football – right now that’s all they’ve got.

Marko

Why are we suddenly accepting that Luiz was on £200k per week when every reasonable report had him on £120 – £125k per week?

Narrative my friend. When you hear people talking about him costing 20 million including wages and everything and they bring up a player going for a transfer fee no wages of 23 million (Diallo actually went for closer to 30) that we could have got you know you’re not in an honest conversation.