Arsenal’s dire on-pitch performance matched by shoddy off-pitch antics

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Well, that was a thud back down to earth. Arsenal are shit. Take me back to lockdown.

Our first game back was a nightmare, but so very, very Arsenal.

2 injured players inside 20mins, check.

Unforced error leading to goal, check.

Sending off, check.

Away loss in the Premier League, check.

Insipid performance, check.

It really was all there, about as familiar as an unchanged pair of pants you’ve been wearing for 7 years.

I think what a lot of people are missing is that behind the scenes, Arsenal is still an absolute shit show.

Mesut Ozil was dropped, again. He has a bad attitude and he’s already managed to fall foul of Arteta’s rules.

Auba played like a lost sheep, is that because we haven’t offered him a new deal?

David Luiz, if I can read the tea leaves, didn’t play because he’s had his contract pulled (wonder what took Raul from being favourable to that deal, to reneging). He was subbed on for an injured Mari and he played like a player worried about what he’d be doing in 13 days time.

“I said to the players after the game, nobody needs to speak (to the media), it’s me, I have to show my face.”

“I want to stay, the coach knows, the coach wants me to stay. We are waiting for the decisions.”

This is one of the worries I had about post-covid football. The market is fucked. He’s a luxury now. His contract has basically expired and he’s not focused because THE POOR MAN CAN’T FEED HIS FERRARI HABIT.

Everyone is VERY worried about Pepe not starting. From what I understand, there are challenges there. If he was pulling up trees, do you really think he’d sit on the bench?

Players are picked on what they deliver in training.

Mesut Ozil was dropped, so Joe Willock stepped in and offered nothing. That said, Arsenal haven’t won an away game in the Premier league since 2015. Might as well give Willock a go, even if he did stink out the place.

As a side snippet, the club have been training Saka in lots of different positions, he’s been great everywhere, but the hot talk is that he’s been VERY good as a number 10.

Anyway, back to it. Not a very good starting 11. Lots of promise, not a lot of ability to deliver right now.

The reality so many seem to forget is that City are Champions, they had a fully fit and rested squad to choose from, we haven’t won away in the league in 25 games. Even on a good day, we’d have likely been beaten. Today, we had a bad day, even without injuries, we were still going to lose that game bar a shithousery miracle.

Our squad lacks most things. We aren’t bullies, there’s not a lot of athleticism, and we’re short on experience. The absolute kicker for me is that there was nothing in that performance. Absolutely nothing. Could have been Emery, Wenger or Freddie.

BUT

There’s a lot of room to grow, but that’s going to be hard when there are so many fires going on with the squad dynamics, contracts, and the general unrest in the game at the moment.

This season won’t be 9 more games of that. We’ll win some, we’ll put in performances, but we have to eat a big spoonful of reality… this season is a write-off, and it tastes like cat puke.

That doesn’t mean you need to douse yourself in petrol and set yourself on fire in front of The Tollington.

Mikel Arteta is a great coach. He’s doing the right things behind the scenes. He’s holding players to high standards, he’s working out who can cut it next season, he’s modernising the club and he’s slowly but surely trying to fix the culture of mediocrity. He’s going to work out just fine, I can take the Ls right now, but know this, longterm, if you’re calling him a bum… you are wrong and I will come for you with your own words late at night when you least suspect it.

We have VERY talented young players. They might not be ready to blow up now, but they will do. With the right senior players supporting them, good coaching, and good life choices, they could be very special. Put Chelsea’s kids in with our seniors and they’d be shit too. The future of Arsenal is local, young and elite. City doesn’t change that.

We’re still being run badly, that’s what many don’t understand. The David Luiz stuff sparks a little bit of intrigue. Two weeks ago, his agent said the deal was close, why are we not there now? Do we think head office is paying attention to the games that are going on with Raul’s squad of feeders? There’s a chance on that.

Edu and Raul are not running a tight ship. It’s harsh on the Brazilian, so maybe I’ll leave him alone, but Raul has not delivered. He’s spent bad money on suspect players, he’s snuggled up on the super-agent comfort blanket, and he continues to let money  walk out the door (Rambo, Welbeck, Auba). It’s not good enough. Josh might be absent, but if there’s one thing I know about billionaires, they don’t like to look like faaaaacking mugs. I think Josh looks like a fucking mug at the moment. Raul needs to shape up or he should be shipped out.

If, if, if… the club can get smart about building a proper football club, then we might see some positives moving forward.

Edu talking to The Athletic about data and being smart with player purchases sounds like a reaction to the poor press he’s been getting lately. We know he can find better players than Soares because he let the club buy Martinelli. We know we have great scouts because Cagigao recommended him. We don’t have to be shit at transfers, we really don’t. Edu needs to detach himself from Raul and do his job properly this summer.

Arsenal will hit the bottom at some point, my hope is that we get it done sharpish so this summer isn’t another unmitigated disaster. We need a rebuild, no more transition bullshit. We need exec leadership to think about the club first. We need everyone to buy into the coach and give him the best possible platform to succeed with this batch of kids that could be really, really good.

We need to move on from the Arsene nightmare and stop running towards like irrelevance like we want to be 90s Liverpool for the rest of time.

… but first, we need to move on from City and win this weekend. Yesterday was a terrible performance. Everything went against us. We didn’t show up. That needs a response. We simply don’t have time to feel sorry for ourselves.

On that note, I bid you farewell. x

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Chris

“Stain on our history” That’s a bit strong. Emery isn’t the first manager to fail here and he won’t be the last. He will be remembered ultimately for getting us to a Europa League final before it all unravelled and he was rightly dismissed. He is clearly a decent coach judging by his other achievements, but he failed here for quite a few reasons that have been discussed many times. He doesn’t deserve to be vilified for it. He is gone and that’s if. And I would agree with Dissenter that some Arsenal fans treat the EL with far too… Read more »

Marc

Dissenter

That was my point. Emery didn’t work out so fucking what let’s move on.

Champagne Charlie

“I love how gooners love to dismiss the Europe league when our European trophies wont fill a 20 inch carry on luggage“ It’s a trophy nobody wants to defend, don’t make out like it’s worthy of reverence beyond its due. Also, we sacked a washed up Wenger who was overdue being replaced because he slumped outside the top 4 spots consecutively – and even that season we got knocked out in the semi’s on away goals. Don’t try and make out Emery going to the final the next season with a better squad to get spanked was a marvel for… Read more »

RockyRoe

Azed

You are on fire today son!! Pulling pants and taking names :p

Tom

“We lost the game because of Luiz “ is probably the funniest comment on this thread. City were going to win this game 11 v11, 10 v11, 11v10 , 10 v10 , or any other combination allowed. The dam was gonna break sooner or later and it did when Leno chose to stay ( his only mistake of an otherwise excellent game )instead of closing the angle on Sterling after Luiz’ fuck up. Arsenal don’t have the players to give City problems and we aren’t very good at a single facet of the game, none. Even the bottom of the… Read more »

Postrockydave

The selection of the front 6 yesterday was diabolical. I’m baffled by the tactical intent behind it, if not as a too-clever attempt to make the Man City players overconfident.

Overmars

Moving on from the City game and with Mari, Luiz and Chambers out, now is a great chance for Rob Holding to re-establish himself into the first team.

A back for of Bellerin, Mustafi, Holding and Tierney looks good, although I’m not sure how much our full backs will have in the tank on Saturday.

I’d like to see Leno, Bellerin Mustafi Holding Tierney, Guendouzi Ceballos Ozil, Pepe Nketiah Aubameyang… 4-3-3.

I think we’ll have enough to beat Brighton and get back on track.

The Godfather

Does anyone know the status of Sokratis?
Is he carrying an injury, and will he be ready for Brighton?
Any news?
I’m just not confident about Holding .

alex cutter

“They are under extreme financial pressure and have behaved differently wih their US teams then with Arsenal. He is billions of dollars in debt for the LA stadium because of personal loan guarantee. All his other teams are mediocre and loose money.

Nuggets $252M
Rams $290 M
Avalanche $130M

tl;dr – all his teams “make” money, not “loose” money.

Danny M.O

How does everyone feel about citehs tactical fouls?

I for one feel that they need to stopped by using yellow cards for deliberate fouls. They know what they are doing however are allowed to continue to suffocate teams. Slapping them each with yellows would surely prevent this.

I really hope the COA decimate that club. Cheating underneath the noses of the ref. Im glad Garcia got his stuffing knocked out. Did anyone see his foul on NKetiah? Its like the refs turn in to Stevie wonder whenever we play a top team.

Overmars

Godfather Apparently Sokratis picked up a knock a couple of days ago. And now suddenly, our only 2 available center backs are Mustafi and Holding, players who were way out of contention at the start of this year. Mustafi I must admit has looked reasonably solid since Arteta came in, but he’ll always have a mistake or a calamitous moment in him. Holding needs games to bring him back up to speed, Saturday could be an ideal time to bring him back. Alternatively, if Arteta starts Tierney or maybe Kolasinac at center back, then we know he’s not a fan… Read more »

Overmars

Danny M.O
June 19, 2020 00:37:48

“How does everyone feel about citehs tactical fouls?”

I wish we done the same to be honest. I would have thought Arteta would have told the players to foul them in their own half before they can start an attack, but the problem was that we couldn’t even get near the City players to be able to do that. The referee didn’t help either.

Wasi

Un Bad signings? Bar Luiz he didn’t make any bad signings. Pepe – you say he’s going to become one of the best in the league. Gabi , Saliba – No explanation required here. Tierney – Im sure you rate his ability and potential highly Ceballos – Average signing. Not the best but definitely good as a rotational option who has looked good under Arteta. Let me also point out that Arteta has a final say on incoming transfers. In a recent Ornstein article Edu says something in the lines of – the preparations were made for Soares to be… Read more »

Wasi

Overmars

Kola at CB is a recipe for disaster. Man cant defend.

Ernest Reed

“And it got him the sack.”

You saying that Emery got the sack because of his handling of Ozil, Pierre?

Not once but twice you intimated this. Emery losing the dressing room likely got him the sack. Emery’s treatment of Ozil should get him a medal!

Overmars

Wasi

“Kola at CB is a recipe for disaster. Man cant defend.”

In a back 3, he’s not too bad.

Nelson

Just watched the replay of the last goal. We had six defenders and they had only Aguero and Sterling. Just 2 passes, Aguero was one on one against Leno. Our players all caught ball watching. Did Arteta tell the players to play position defending and no man marking. Our players looked like those training poles.

Guns of SF

Nelson

Haha- we lost our heads completely thanks to Luiz and some bad tactics and lineups.

basically we suck…

Until we sort out leadership on and off the field and actually have a plan A,B and even C, we will not get shit

Guns of SF

Ernest
Damn straight… i loved how Emery took no shit when it came down to the BIG names on the team. No one was above any other. Merit only.

Ozil clearly was going to be a lost cause in this

Guns of SF

After 3 months to see this type of performance, bar the injuries is highly disappointing. I usually recover in 24 hours but this shit show has really irked me.

I hope we give Brighton a straight up thrashing….
Will it happen- I doubt it!!

Its like how many excuses can we come up with!

I hope Pepe scores a hat trick just to say Fuck you… should have played me

Guns of SF

Sorry Mari, bad luck.
Best of luck…

https://arseblog.news/2020/06/pablo-mari-ruled-out-for-season-with-ankle-tendon-injury/

Take Luiz with you ….. good luck

Guns of SF

Holding and Mustafi,,, i dont mind that pairing against Brighton…
both are limited in their own ways, but do not exhibit the arrogance of Luiz…
They try!

Guns of SF

Prioritize Saka and Auba.
Let Mari, Luiz go,,,, Soares too. Use that money to offset the extension for Auba.

I want to see someone grow a pair at the club and do what is right!
Auba or Luiz extension is a NO brainer! Its coming down to this?

Guns of SF

This was good. I want Auba to stay if he is COMMITTED to the club.
This article was well said.. We do not want another ozil at the club

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/arsenal-news-aubameyang-mesut-ozil-latest-a4473321.html

Guns of SF

As much as we criticize Arteta and co, this was one of the tragedies of Wenger and Gazidis….

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-8435375/Arsenal-paid-Mesut-Ozil-8-000-minute-NOT-playing-season.html

Just shocking its beyond comprehension.
At least man u sent Alexis on loan. We cannot even move this great player!

LOL….

Aussie Gooner

And now for the bad news…Mari will miss the rest of the season. Worse news Xhaka may be back before the season concludes!

Aussie Gooner

This kind of talk is what will sink Arteta:

“Mikel Arteta had said he would love 33-year-old Luiz to sign a new contract at the Emirates, hailing him as a ‘key role model’.

“I like what he produces on the pitch,” said Gunners boss Arteta.”

Guns of SF

He is too young and is relying on vets like luiz to help

I question his authority with the players

He is also too close with some

DivineSherlock

Aussie Gooner

You cant publicly say you dont like a player or criticize him . Arteta is smart hes keeping his options open , incase we have to resign Luiz what good will it do if Arteta has publicly criticized him . He knows club is working hard behind the scenes to land a defender.

jwl

Joke Friday –

There once was a man from Nantucket
Whose dick was so long he could suck it
He said with a grin
As he wiped off his chin
“If my ear were a cunt I would fuck it”

jwl

There was a Young Man from Kent
Whose Rod was so long it bent.
So to save himself trouble
He bent it in double,
And instead of coming – he went!

jwl

The gift that we gave her was grand
She no longer relied on her hand
On the sofa sat Alice
With vibrating phallus
And Alice was in Wonderland.

jwl

There once was a man from Racine
Who was an amazing fucking machine
Both concave and convex
He could fuck either sex
and jerk himself off inbetween

jwl

A strange young fellow from Leeds
Rashly swallowed a package of seeds.
Great tufts of fine grass
Sprouted out of his ass
And his balls were covered with weeds.

Dissenter

Can you imagine the reaction here if Emery had tried to keep. calamity generator like Luiz?

Why is the club even deferring to Emery. He’s the head coach and is job is to use whatever players the club signs for him.

Dissenter

** Why is the club even deferring to Arteta. He’s the head coach and his job is to use whatever players the club signs for him.

Aussie Gooner

Devine

Likewise you don’t have to heap praise on a liability!

Guns of Hackney

‘Calamity generator’

Guns of Hackney

As a person of integrity and honesty, I will hold my hands up and say that if Arteta does keep Luiz…he will have gone down in my estimation, significantly.

I don’t think he will and I believe he’s just paying lip service to a fellow pro. But, based on Luiz’ career at Arsenal, he has no place in the squad.

I hope Arteta is his own man and not other goon, propping up the board and his own salary with bullshit.

Let’s all forget the next two years and look forward to having a decent club in 2022/3.

Aussie Gooner

Guns

But for how many years have we been saying that?

Gonsterous

We should have gone for a born winner like sol Campbell to manage the team, get arteta as his assistant, because I feel arteta is a great second in charge. Sol, like in his playing career, is a born leader. Hell he went to the furthest part of English football to show his ability, didn’t sit around being a pundit till he could talk his way into a job, like many ex footballers. We really need more winners in our staff. Maybe teach leno to be more like lehman. Grab lousy defenders by their necks and yell at them to… Read more »

Guns of Hackney

AG

I know we’ve been saying it for a long time but we have to believe that this time will be different.

I’m not naive and I appreciate Mikel may be another stooge…but I’m always hopeful that he won’t be. Only time will tell.

The fact remains, we can’t buy our way out of this, so perhaps the focus on good coaching will take the lead for a change.

2022.

Overmars

Gonsterous

Sol Campbell, as great of a player as he was, has won 4 games in 23 matches at Southend United a 17% win rate.

We already have Ljungeberg, Bould and Mertesacker on the coaching staff, as well as Edu as Technical Director. How many more ex players do you want?

Colney Gooner

Now that England is open for non essential shopping, spurs have bought a trophy cabinet.

Freddie Ljungberg
Sid

If Raul is a stooge Arteta was not hired based on merit

peanuts&monkeys

Arteta is a great manager. He will deliver us a treble. May be after we all pass away. Arteta is the new Emery. Arteta is Emery 2.0.

Sid

Arteta is Emery without the trophies, without an accent , without the bad teeth
Im telling you for free!

Guns of Hackney

Medication time on Le Grove.

I think three months away has rotten your brains.

Arsenal are a nothing club at the moment so why does anyone think or expect miracles?

As I said yesterday, we are the new scousers.

Habesha Gooner

No fucking way we should give Luiz a 2 year deal. That would absolutely be on Raul if that happens. I wouldn’t mind him as a backup for a year but under no circumstances should we still have Luiz as one of our Centerbacks at the start of the season next to the coming one. I want him to stay because he adds something when we play against lowly teams. I would like Mustafi and Sokratis sold regardless of him staying.

Valentin

I like Arteta and I believe that he is a great coach. What we are discovering now is whether he can also be a good decent manager. Both job do not necessarily require the same quality. Football is full of people who are great coach but poor manager and vice versa poor coach but great manager. I believe that with a good transfer window, Arteta has the ability to grow as a manager. He will have to make some difficult decision with regard to who to keep and who to sell. Some of the decisions may be taken off him… Read more »

Freddie Ljungberg

Don Welbeck Wilshere Ramsey Cazorla Luiz Lichenstiener (whatever) Suarez Mari Soares Ceballos Your list can be divided into 2 groups, crocks on high wages in their last year of contract (Ramsey had 1 year more) and loan players/stop gaps that were signed of necessity because our finances were fucked from all the bad squad decisions taken by the former management, including the bloated wage bill holding us back. Almost every long term signing has been good, the debatable ones are Torreira and Guen maybe but they’re both still young and if Torreira leaves we’ll get our money back and we’d… Read more »

Leedsgunner

Last summer Raul Sanhelli was lauded as a master of the transfer window for landing us Pepe. It’s too early to pronounce judgement on Pepe… until he’s had a full season under his new manager.

However, since then Raul been poor. He talks the talk but he doesn’t walk the walk in tying our best players down and he has been virtually ineffective in moving on our deadwood for good prices. What’s that about?

He needs to start producing results or he needs to move on.

Terraloon

At most European clubs the idea that a coach determines the structure or has anything like the final say on transfers would be laughed at. Look at the likes of RM, Barca, Bayern, PSGand yes even Chelsea they don’t blink when it comes to replacing their head coach. If things aren’t going right after a few months they don’t keep giving the man more time they make changes and fast. Head coaches may get the privilege of appointing an assistant or two but by and large they work within a structure and with people that are already in place. What… Read more »

Valentin

Torreira has an ankle injury, hence his omission from the squad. Nothing to do with Arteta not rating him.

Valentin

Terraloon, I don’t think that Arsenal has a bloated structure compared to other club. What we have is a structure full of people who should not be in their position. Raul is a marketing guy why is he is charge of football operation? Edu is a former player who in his previous job did not deal with recruitment in Europe. Per was a great player who has been dropped into the position of head of academy without experience in dealing with such position before. The rest of the behind the scene is exactly the same. Full of people who may… Read more »

Wasi

Un How are all of them related to Raul? For Emery’s first window , Sven was in charge. And letting Jack , Santi and Welbeck was the right decision. Santi might have done his ankle again if he played in the Prem after his comeback . He needed a safer , slower environment and in La Liga he found that and ripped up the league. I dont know if Welbeck and Jack have a combined ten league games this season. I dont think they have. Ramsey wad allowed into his final year by Gazidis. Apparently the club did offer him… Read more »

CG

Question for Wasi.

Tubby is 2 years into his contract.
Presumably its expires in 18 months time or thereabouts.

Do you:

A) keep him until it expires?

B) sack him now and get someone competent to clear up his mess?

C) Renew it and ultimately get us relegated?

There aint no more options.
A, B or C…

Off you go…. a bit of multiple choice for you.

Terraloon

Val Ok let’s just look at the exec board. We know Sir Chips has no gone but you’ve got the two Kronkes, (I was tempted to put Krankies ) Ken Friar, Richard Carr, & Lord Harris alongside Miles who is CO sec, Vinai who is Managing director and Raul head of football. Chelsea’s exec board you have Buck ( Chairman,) Granovskia, Laurence and Tenebaum. That board with the addition of David Barnard has dual responsibility for matters football. Granovskia is perhaps the most powerful woman in football but at board level you don’t see the owner. I agree fully about… Read more »

Graham62

GOH The negative perceptions surrounding the club over these past few years will intensify if Arsenal decide to extend Luiz’s contract. In fact, I would go as far as to say that there will be mutiny amongst the fan base if this were to happen. This would not only show just how badly things are run, it would also place a massive question mark against Arteta’s standing and credibility as manager. I for one would not tolerate yet another cock up on contract negotiations with another player who is clearly a detriment to the progression of the club. It must… Read more »

Wasi

CG This is the real world and there are definitely more options. My option no. 1 would be- If Kroenkes can find a good Technical Director with a proven track record. Someone like Rangnick or Luis Campos or Zorc then kick the tubby Spaniard out right now. Because even though he is clean and working in the club’s best interest he is no match for the aforementioned three. My Option 2 – Give him the end of this season i.e. until Ozil’s contract expires. If the club is moving in a positive direction on and off the field and we… Read more »

Wasi

end of next* season.

Freddie Ljungberg

There’s also talk that we’re giving Mari a contract and paying a fee of around 10m. Just save the money for him and Luiz and buy a proper long term CB ffs. Even if we don’t have the money for someone like Upa, or Gabriel there’s Disasi available for just a couple of million more than Mari would cost. Sure he’s not the finished article but at least he has all the physical attributes needed in the PL. Mari’s lack of pace is already showing and he’s only played 3 games for us. There’s also players like Kouassi that’s available… Read more »

Wasi

I forgot to mention Leno under Sven’s signings.
Beast this guy.

Wasi

Freddie

Kuoassi is off to Bayern.
Id be interested in Disasi tho. His concentration is a concern according to some but his physical attribute and young age is something that interests me a lot.

Graham62

The more money that has come into football over these past twenty years or so, the more undesirables have been attracted to the game. You see the suits these days are not just suits. Many of these people have one simple goal in life, which is to accumulate as much power and wealth as possible. Parasites, as I like to call them, come in all shapes and sizes and I’m sure you all have your own experiences of meeting and dealing with these sort of people. I certainly have. Many of these individuals are not trustworthy, have a tendency for… Read more »

Pierre

Wednesday night . How events unfolded 5 mins …our defensive/holding midfield off injured. 20 minutes…a central defender was taken off injured. 45 minutes…defensive error leads to first goal 50 minutes…red card and a penalty given by the Manchester born referee…game over. Considering we were playing one of the top 4 sides in Europe away from home, I’m not sure what more Arteta could have done. We had ten men , our left back was playing at centre back, our right winger was playing at left back , the only thing we could do was make it a damage limitation exercise….which… Read more »

shaun

well I think we all hope that we haven’t hired the world s best number 2 to be our manager……………..managers seem to be very different creatures to coach’s and number 2’s .I am no expert but I just can’t seem to trust managers who are putting there faith in players like Xhacka and luiz they are both so obviously not suited to current Prem football .we all know Luiz should never have been bought in by arsenal that was just stupid as he was the last type of defender we required .Every aresenal fan will tell you we just need… Read more »

andy1886

Pierre, nobody is slating Arteta because we lost away at City. It is however perfectly justified to question a line up that has our best players not starting in their favoured positions. What was he trying to achieve? Whatever it was it didn’t work at any point in the game. Graham, agree with your last post, the single biggest issue in many walks of life are the selfish, greedy self-promoting bullshitters that seem to rise to the top in direct correlation to their lack of ability. Just take a look at the White House, or to a lesser extent Number… Read more »

Valentin

Terraloon, Regarding the board, there was clearly a war of influence. They wanted to appoint David O’Leary to be appointed as advisor. Raul threw a tantrum at the possibility that the board could have oversight on him on executive decisions. It was not just a clash of personality, it was a clash on the principle that the board could have an football advisor to help them oversee the football operations. https://arseblog.news/2019/11/report-sanllehi-against-oleary-board-appointment/ Nobody with football knowledge on the board means no possibility of any football reasoned rebuttal of Raul’s action. All the other departments are subject to the same scrutiny. People… Read more »

Wasi

Un
I clearly mentioned.
Best signings under Raul vs Sven.

Valentin

Wasi, Except that Saliba and Martinelli were not Raul signing. Saliba was a Sven’s signing even if that happen later. He spotted him even before he joined Arsenal and then initiated the deal. Martinelli was done on behest of our Spain and South America head scout. Remember that initially he was supposed to join our U21 team not the senior squad. He is on the official U21 team, but only appears on the second official senior team photo taken in October/November. Leno was a Sven signing, but despite his heroic I would say that there was better and cheaper player… Read more »

Terraloon

Pierre

What more could he have done?

For a start you wouldn’t have started with Saka on the right, Auba wide.

Luiz if his mind wasn’t right, which clearly it wasn’t should l not have been allowed any where near the squad.

There’s three things

The Backpass

Valentin

Stop saying what you are not privy too, this is not the first time you have been saying Saliba was Sven signing, did you get this information from the execs, and how can you say Sven signing when Sven wasn’t with us when we signed him.

Did he watch Saliba and different others, maybe, possible. But calling him Sven signing is ridiculous.

Wasi

Valentin Theres no proof that Saliba was spotted by Sven. There were 0 links to Saliba when Sven was at the club. And Martinelli was spotted by Cagigao who is a scout and thats his job to find good players for the club. The signing was completed by Raul. Bad signings under SvenMkhi – 180 k a week contract ( 1 and a half years he was at Arsenal so about 13 mil) Lich – 60-80 k a week contract ( assume 60 so about 3 mil a year ) PapaSok – 17 mil transfer fee + 90k a week… Read more »

Wasi

https://youtu.be/Ni3CAB_9Vos

Why Santi was such a crucial piece of our puzzle.

The Backpass

New post

Valentin

Wasi,

Dortmund enquired about Saliba the year before when Sven was in charge. So what is the most likely that Sven went to Arsenal with the same list of players he had at Dortmund or that Raul discovered a youth team player?
Same thing with Mavrapanos, who in your view spotted him Raul or Sven?

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