The absolute peak of arrogance is conducting grim business in plain sight of the whole world.
Raul and Edu have moved into the ‘I don’t give a fuck’ territory and it is utterly miserable. We’ve let the foxes into the chicken coup and no one is concerned that there will be no eggs for breakfast tomorrow, next week, or in 5 years time.
We are a super-agent fee trough. That my friends is a terrible place to be. I have been warning you things aren’t right at Arsenal for a while, now you’re witnessing first hand what’s important to our leadership as they double down on average deals with new contracts with a cadre of select super-agents.
Now, to be clear, you can find good deals from super-agents. Their presence in the game is very grim, they suck money out of the sport and offer next to no value, but sometimes the cost of dealing with them is worth it. At a modern superclub, the process should always go in the order of data > extensive scouting > club engagement > super-agent. Not super-agent first. We are now the latter and that has lead us to one of the saddest David Ornstein tweets of 2020.
🚨 Hearing Arsenal have signed:
🔴 David Luiz to a 1-year contract
🔴 Cedric Soares to a 4-year contract 🔴 Pablo Mari to a 4-year contract
The defenders will be part of Mikel Arteta’s rebuilding job at #AFC@TheAthleticUK: https://t.co/qDXi0s3GLI— David Ornstein (@David_Ornstein) June 23, 2020
The problem is this: If the majority of your average deals go through the same people, serious questions arise about the truth of how you landed on the decisions. Why would a club as prestigious as Arsenal lean so heavily on 2 agents? Why do we keep signing up average players from these people? Why, even when our money is being spent badly and we’re 10th in the league, has the club not stopped making these awful deals? How has no one at Arsenal flagged that a technical director using his own agent for a bunch of shoddy deals looks very bad? Huss? Vinnai? Friar? Where are you? Who at Arsenal has the power to scrutinise these deals?
At the moment, it looks like Arsenal are beholden to two agents that are favoured by Raul: Kia and Arturo Canales.
They both have abysmal records with Arsenal.
Canales repped Unai Emery who was an absolute disaster. He repped him BEFORE he officially represented him. His recommendation was so powerful, Raul managed to jam the deal through even though Emery couldn’t speak a word of English to the CEO.
Kia has managed to push Edu, Luiz, and Soares our way. He’s working on Willian and maybe even Neto according to reports in Spain.
Yesterday, despite Arsenal pleading poverty, it was announced that those two agents have managed to land deals for Pablo Mari (4 years), Cedric Soares (4 years), and David Luiz (1 year).
That is contacts football at its peak.
I like Luiz, but his record this season has been atrocious outside a small patch of good games he had before the break.
David Luiz with a red card once every 160 PL games with Chelsea, once every 13 games with Arsenal. Gave a penalty away once every 53 games for Chelsea, once every 6.5 games for Arsenal.
— Duncan Alexander (@oilysailor) June 17, 2020
Pablo Mari, a player I really want to like, has managed a single full 90 minutes for Arsenal, outside that, he has 22 competitive games in Brazil to his name. He lands a 4-year deal with an injury that sees him out until November. Why not a 2 year deal with an option for an extra year? Just to play it safe? He’s a risky signing and let’s be honest, Raul hasn’t exactly been hitting 6s with these sort of deals.
Cedric Soares, a player that Southampton were willing to lose for free because they thought he’d go to a lower league club, has landed a 4 year deal with Arsenal without playing a single minute of football for us. He arrived injured. The player is 28 years old, we’re in the worst economic crisis football has faced in its existence, and Huss Fahmy is out here dishing out long-term deals to questionable talent AGAIN. The man who wanted to instil high-performance culture and smarts on deals is locking an average player into a longterm deal before we’ve seen a single minute of him play? Quite remarkable. Where are the standards?
You’d be hard-pressed to find many people in the world of football looking at these deals positively. The length of the contracts is generous given what we know, the quality of the players is barely subjective, and it is very, very unlikely the players move us onto a level we require. They are unimaginative deals and they are all tainted by cronyism.
Where does Arteta fit in all of this, after all, he’s in the media praising the deals?
Well, you have to put yourself in his shoes. It’s his first job out of coaching University, it’s a huge one, and his boss is in the front seat of the Raul bus of average.
What would you do? Slay your bosses publicly?
I can’t have it.
Martyrdom is for idiots. Very few are remembered or effective. Arteta needs Arsenal to work out for his career to move forward. More than that, he genuinely wants Arsenal to work for him because he loves the club. You cannot affect change if you get yourself marginalised or fired. Complaining in the media doesn’t help him this season and it’d make him look petulant. It’ll also depress an already fragile squad and further fuel uncertainty and stress. He doesn’t have enough reputational capital in the bank to be demanding so soon. Sadly, he has to play the game.
I feel for him. Worse, it now seems apparent that part of his appeal to Raul and Edu is that when you are a maker of Kings, they are in your service. Emery was going to Sociedad before Raul leant a hand. The exPSG coach wanted Zaha, but that didn’t work for Raul who wanted to deal with Lille, so Emery needed to stfu and deal with that. Arteta was a target of Newcastle and Everton before our interest. This is the best first job in Europe he had a chance with. He’s not squandering it, he’s too smart for that. Look how long it took Poch to pipe up about his unhappiness at the way Daniel Levy would run summers. No wonder Raul didn’t want Jose Mourinho at the club, he’d pipe up and get in the way of his special friends.
Not that I think Edu’s decision was a bad one. I am convinced Arteta will earn the right to speak up eventually. It really wouldn’t take much for him to earn more cache at the club that his overlords boast. We know that Josh and Stan love an exciting manager, so let’s hope that despite weak football leadership at the top, he can still achieve something… because my word, we need him to come good, the alternative is bleak.
It’s also up to the people who work at Arsenal to speak out against a Football Director that has taken over and rooted out any possible dissenters or wielders of oversight. Maybe Josh Kroenke should show a bit of interest in the people that have left Arsenal. Sven, Sir Chips, Lord Harris, the data guy to who left for Wenger to name but a few… do they have some insight into the inner workings at the club? Do they have opinions on why we’re landing on deals like this despite all our scouting and technical prowess? Highly likely. I just don’t understand why Arsenal’s owners don’t seem to want to inquire. It baffles me that you can have so little curiosity about what’s going on at something you have a vested interest in.
Still, don’t despair, things always work themselves out in the end. Arsenal is a huge club. We have a curious media. There are a lot of people that are angry about how we’re being run. I don’t think Raul will get away with this sort of performance forever, the question is how low do we have to go before someone at KSE pays attention and makes the necessary changes to push Arsenal back to the top?
A question for the ages, fingers crossed it’s answered soon. x
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Tr4phy
The defenders will be part of Mikel Arteta’s rebuilding job at #AFC
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So in the next transfer window the rebuilding of the rebuilding of the defence will start?!
Joke club with a compliant manager.
I fully expect Louise to be putting in some world class performances now that his future is sorted. 🙂
Soares is 29 at end of August. Great one for future on a 4 year contract… the only one who should be signed up is Saka!! He is definitely off as why wouldn’t he have signed by now?
An average right back with an older, more average right back as back up. Let’s hope Osei-Tutu can step up. Although his recent good performances have come from the wing.
Josh knows f all about football so he is letting them do whatever they want.
Arteta is woeful clueless and a novice coach. The team constantly changes and half the squad want away as the ship is sinking.
We will just drift down the table and have the usual promises that it will be alright next season. Why should it be?
My advice to Saka is leave son. This club has no ambition.
So Soares didn’t arrive on a Bosman he had his loan turned into a 4 year deal. Wow just Wow
Mari will be slaughtered when , or if, he gets into the first team. People thought that Mustafi was a liability.
So how many CD do Arsenal have on their books?
Irrespective by my reckoning that means that there are now 16 non HG players and that’s before you count in the players out on loan.
There it is, our supreme leader admits, Arteta is a meek lamb
You heard it here 1st!
Well, I said yesterday that if these deals are legit, Arteta has no chance. It appears this to be the case. Arsenal are being controlled by salary men who are exactly the same type that Arsene had laying about for a decade. No one wants to lose their job while everyone is on the gravy train. Who exactly is Edu? I knew this was a joke at the time and it appears to be 100% correct. We were conned. We’re being conned. Every single day, supporting Arsenal is getting harder and harder. It’s not fun. It hasn’t been fun for… Read more »
Nuno doesn’t seem so bad now does he? Or Ancelotti. They’d be able to state which players they want and attract them and be able to push back against Raul. Nuno looks like he can draw anyone from the Portuguese national side and he has his Wolves team flying and playing decently. Ancelotti is God damn Ancelotti, respect his name. That Liverpool side would have torn us apart, but only manage a draw with Everton. We would argue we have better players than Everton. I fully expect us to be firmly mid table for the next 4 years or so.… Read more »
Getting ready for the Championship league by the looks of it !! and if the fans keep buying the season tickets and shirts they have no reason to change do they !! if you care about the club then refuse to renew your season tickets or buy them in the first place !! i know they wont listen, I gave up my season ticket the season we moved to the Emirates as i saw what was happening and that was and is now the club and the fans being used as cash cows !! if you do not listen now… Read more »
It’s always about attack and dismissing defence and as time goes on the attack becomes less and less potent. Always. Pepe signed over getting the midfield right and that includes defensively. Signing ball playing CBs and not giving a shit if they can defend. Continuing with Xhaka who is poor defensively on the whole at the base of the midfield. And we know where this laissez faire attitude comes from don’t we in not wanting to get to grasps with the less glamorous aspects of the game. It’s in the DNA from years and years of Wenger and the club… Read more »
when you can say honestly the best player at the club is Leno then that tells you all you need to know !! Abua and Laca wont be here next season !! Instead we will have to rely on youth !! we are finished !! Arteta is a quality manager and for is sake he should leave now !!
Yep – we are all set up….to slide down to depths I’ve not seen in my 40 odd years as a fan. The whole set up is rotten from ownership to the pitch, young talent will bail out and we’ll end up with dross like Soares and Mari et al. How on earth David Luiz got a deal beggars belief, an utter car crash of a signing, still at least his mate Willian will be here soon to have a good laugh. We have become to Chelsea what West Ham used to be for us, a pension home for one… Read more »
Arteta does speak up
On Luiz
“Me personally, I am going to defend him with everything I have because I believe in him. He has shown me a lot of things in his time here and his career speaks for itself.”
On Mari
“We’ve been trying to get the [Mari] deal done because we were happy with what Pablo can bring to us.”
On Soares
“It was the plan from the start [to make Soares’ move permanent],”
Im telling you for free!
Well, I wasn’t paying attention when the new post went up I can say that.
Arteta veto all the deals, the buck stop at his feet. If he didn’t all those agents we complaining about would be a non entity in this conversation. Edu is also a concern because he was also apart of the team that hired Mikel. They won’t survive next season!
So how do you reconcile: “What would you do? Slay your bosses publicly? I can’t have it. Martyrdom is for idiots. Very few are remembered or effective. Arteta needs Arsenal to work out for his career to move forward. More than that, he genuinely wants Arsenal to work for him because he loves the club. You cannot affect change if you get yourself marginalised or fired.” With “It’s also up to the people who work at Arsenal to speak out against a Football Director that has taken over and rooted out any possible dissenters or wielders of oversight. ” Is… Read more »
It matters not where the blame games goes and in what direction.
Arteta will be the one to be shot before others.
You watch those around him turn on him if things go tits up. They will pile in on the lack of experience angle.
And those that rate him well that also doesn’t matter. He’ll be gone.
“The exPSG coach wanted Zaha, but that didn’t work for Raul who wanted to deal with Lille” The fact we couldn’t afford Zaha doesn’t come into it does it? The fact that the single connection between Arsenal and Mari is Arteta doesn’t come into it. “Maybe Josh Kroenke should show a bit of interest in the people that have left Arsenal. Sven, Sir Chips” Fuck me you’ve got a shot memory. The “In Wenger we Trust Banner” was paid for by Sir Chip’s family. Mislintat the great “Diamond Eyes” managed to bring us not a single outfield player who is… Read more »
andy Actually if things are as Pedro is saying “Martyrdom” is the best route for Arteta even if it’s a dramatic thing to call it. You’re in your first big job and you’re the public front of the organisation, things are being run piss poorly if they go seriously pear shaped you’ll be blamed. Walk away without slagging off the club – sometimes silence says so much more than looking like the bitter ex (take note Sven!) and you’ll find another job easily enough. Get fired when Arsenal are in a relegation battle and your reputation will be damaged almost… Read more »
How long before the protests start up again?#we care do you?
Again with the Unai Emery disaster thing… We finished on 70 points and got to an EL final under him in his first full season here despite his language limitations. I will not tire to point that out.
As for the signings, Arteta has signed off and agreed on each of them, so he should coach them which is his job really. Emery did what he could with what he got despite in your words being a disaster.
No need to absolve him completely, if results don’t improve we all know what will happen come next season.
Beta males everywhere in this club, from top to bottom
(good post)
But PedRo will have to soon face up to the reality that:
Arsenal will need a new manager soon.
Arteta is complicit in all of these suicidal deals.
That elite culture nonsense he hammers home – is now one that consists of Louise , Mary & Cedric.
Sounds like 3 geriatrics together in a nursing home in Port Elizabeth.
Thats a culture that gets you the sack.
Those ‘good vibes’ he was mentioning extinguished in less than a week.
Haha how can anyone back Arteta after this?
Marc, there’s a big difference anyway between not rocking the boat and actively campaigning to sign up Luiz, Mari and Soares which is what Arteta actually did. Unless MA is playing some super machiavellian game it’s difficult to see how he’s not complicit in making these signings. But that doesn’t fit the narrative. Edu said that these signings were part of a plan that he and MA agreed. It would make more sense if Pedders were to switch tack and claim that Mikel has a master plan that we’re not nuanced enough to understand and that it’ll all come right… Read more »
Who is really in charge of the club?
It seems to be running as a committee which is the worst kind of set up.
They will all be looking at one another pointing the finger.
Loose to Southampton and then what?
Shambles
I was willing to give him time but not after this.
Every single one of those signings are disgusting. Absolutely no way can they be justified. Arteta was appointed because he wouldn’t rock the boat. Quite frankly if Arteta had balls he’d tell them to fuck off. Weak and lilly livered. Next year 100 % we’re getting relegated.
Pedro
Has it not occurred to you that Arteta may very well be the one driving these deals?
This is what you get from a “club man” appointment I’m afraid.
Too cosy and too passive.
Arsenal are still in dire need of a manager who is going to question the status quo and look to shake things up from previously.
Arteta at this point doesn’t look to be that man.
Well
Spanish
“”””Loose to Southampton and then what?””””””
Saints who have lost 9 zero at home this season are FAVOURITES to beat us!
@ishola70
The board won’t appoint anyone who’ll ruffle feathers. They want a yes man. After Arteta goes they’ll get another yes man.
We won’t win another game the rest of the season. The only team that are worse than us are Norwich, and I’m not even convinced we’ll beat them.
Remember the narrative was that Arteta worked with. Pablo Mari at city and wanted him at Arsenal.
Arteta also wanted Luiz- the public comments proves this.
Soares, I think was signed over his head but he would have to stamp it.
Arteta is part of the problem already.
He’s either a young manager with no backbone and is a yes-man OR is in over his head and loves players who blow smoke up his arse.
andy
I could see the point of signing Soares on loan as back up right back – that’s not saying he’s a great player but just it was a way to flesh the squad out.
Signing him on a permanent deal only makes sense to me if we’re going to sell Bellerin and he’s viewed as being the first choice RB for next season. If that’s the case Arteta has to be complicit in the deal.
Depressing!
The Kroenkes deserve to get rinsed. They have no idea how to vet senior management.
I don’t understand how you can sign players in 6 month loans, never get to try them meaningfully in actual games, only to sign them to PERMANENT FOUR year deals.
Then who pays their back up central defender 120k a week in this economic climate?
Now it makes sense why Ozil didn’t want to agree to a pay cut.
Right now I reckon 2 – 1 to Southampton tomorrow. With one of their goals scored either just before half time or the full time whistle.
The Soares deal is indefensible, did we not learn from his namesake (not in spelling) a year before. How can we consistently make such questionable decisions.
Rather than tying up this lot whats happening with Saka and Auba? Thats what the majority are interested in.
I hope the tabloid reports of Guendouzi being sold because Arteta didn’t like the comment he made to Maupay are rubbish.
If we were selling him because we brought in better midfielders- no problem
Selling him because a 21 year old said something bad in the heat of the moment would be material for stand up act.
Guendouzi is one of the few players in the team who truly hates to lose. He would do everything to win, including gamesmanship. He still has to grow up quickly though.
When will Arteta drop Soares into the starting line up? Now he’s signed up you’d think you’d give Bellerin a break as he’s still on the come back path from an ACL.
Says it all really.
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/arsenal-news-mikel-arteta-sanllehi-mislintat-joorabchian-luiz-a9580756.html
Is Flamini a billionaire yet?
The proposed transfers of Soares, Luiz and Mari are not exactly overwhelming. At best these are squad fillers and not Starting X1 players. The main question to be asked is are they upgrades on our current bench players in RB and CB positions? Also are we paying them realistic wages? Too often we have brought in such players and landed up unable to offload them because their wages are grossly inflated. What Arsenal does need to sort out if possible this summer is our starting X1. We need at least one CB and two additional MFs. Also we may need… Read more »
Danny
I could take Mislintat’s comments more seriously if we’d signed one outfield player under him who’s been a success.
Compare that to the Evil One’s transfers last summer.
Pepe
Martinelli
Tierney
Saliba
Luiz
Only one of those is unpopular with the majority of fans.
Pedro have you ever imagined Arsenal would sink so low?
Leno is only out for 4-6 weeks ES
Danny S
Thanks for that link to the independent article
This paragraph captured the essence of the brilliant reporting; ‘ Arsenal are really a club in need of a “cultural reset”, as the football jargon goes, and stepping back to take the hard decisions that will really benefit them in a few years’
We aren’t making any tough choices- just operating auto-pilot mode into the sweet spot of mediocrity.
“and maybe even Neto according to reports in Spain.”
We were linked with Joe Hart the other day – does that mean we’re signing him?
Mislintat got us PapSok from his old club when he could have had Papa Diop for a little more.
Mislintat also got us Lichsteiner
Mislintat left because he wasn’t promoted . He left because he wasn’t;t thrilled with the idea of having to share power and decision making.
Stuttgart are back in Bundesliga for next season. Let’s see how he fares over there.
Dissenter
Mislintat was a complete failure for us – it would be funny if things weren’t so serious that Pedro is actually suggesting the Kroenke’s take his advice on what the club should do.
Dissenter. I tried to get over to some in here a week or so ago that there was a likelihood that his loan deal would be converted into a permanent deal. Southampton could not extend his loan deal nor could Arsenal sign him on a Bosman and play him this season. It was obvious that he had Arsenal over a barrel but even then a four year deal is utter madness. ES. These are squad fillers they are using up valuable NHG spots in effect they are very much in contention as starters. As I pointed out earlier the squad… Read more »
How has the club become this desperate? Another year for a 33 year old clown who could never defend anyway. 4 years for an average right back who was surplus to requirements at Southampton. 4 years for a slow centre half who’s out until november and has only played in Brazil, LOOK ELSEWHERE, SCOUT SOME YOUNG PLAYERS. Arsenal never fails to amaze me.
Raul must be daggering Pam the tea lady too
LEFTSIDE
Okay I missed that piece of good news.
I have switched off from Arsenal for a couple of days, because everything is so
depressing at moment.
The three signings should be bench fillers and nothing more. Arsenal’s priority for next season is to sort out our first X1. That is going to cost money.
Will Kroenke release or provide the funds? That is or should be the question,
which needs to be answered and not what we are spending on these three players.
Terraloon
Doesn’t Saliba / won’t Saliba qualify as home grown? I’m sure someone on here – could’ve been Valentin – made the case as to why he would qualify a while ago.
Well those are 3 extremely dubious deals How much will they all cost us in total? I was open minded about Mari and cedric as cheap options who we can evaluate then buy/kick out, but we’ve just not even bothered with the evaluation part. Southampton, flamengo, luiz… TAKE MY MONEY. TAKE IT PLS!!! Luiz is an odd one. Arteta dropped him vs city… then talks highly of him… then he gets a fat new contract. What does this even mean? New contract for ozil next, surely? Pedro you’re absolutely right that Arteta would be a fool to go hard against… Read more »
Dear god it never crossed my mind? Who is ozil’s agent?????
:((((((
Can’t wait for arteta to use a new formation against Southampton. 3rd formation three games running, yay, the no identify club in full force.
Of course I’m Arteta in before anyone jumps on me 👍
Dissenter agreed re guen
Drop or sell him because we’re meaningfully upgrading not because he got fucked off that we lost
Cesc threw pizza at a legendary manager, would Arteta have sold him too?
Meanwhile Leno gets fucked by a hunchbacked cunt (no offense hunchbacks) and guen gives it some and gets in trouble lol.
If we’re losing anyway, I’d rather have 11 guens who actually care than 11 soft as fuck wankers who could take or leave winning actual games against trash opposition
Terraloon
I still don’t get why we didn’t let Soares run down his deal and then sign him as a free agent. There s no way Soares is on 40k weekly because he earned more than that at Southampton- he was in £65k weekly at Southampton
https://www.spotrac.com/epl/southampton-f.c/cedric-soares-22941/
I’ll concede to you that I never knew Arsenal could be so daft to do this.
Gonsterous tbf maybe he will switch to a 3-6-1 and we can finally control the midfield!!
I’d totally be up for that haha
Can we try a 4-6-0? That should provide adequate defensive cover and we’d DOMINATE that midfield!
Find the reaction to these deals hysterical and out of touch as folk look for the negative in everything ArsenaL currently. We’ve added a CB we deem good enough for 14 mil total (half of which is paid up front), and we’ve given a contract to a genuine RB when the only other RB in the squad is Bellerin. David Luiz is villain of the piece as usual, never mind him being our best defender all season – little point covering him. What I see is a marriage of our finances, our questionable approach, and Arteta wanting to change the… Read more »
“Why would a club as prestigious as Arsenal lean so heavily on 2 agents?” Because the common denominator in the whole Arsenal decline, Admiral Kroenke, has been asleep @ the wheel of his ship of fools. M V Arsenal is just that, a merchant vessel for the dormant Yank.
I have no problem with the Mari and Soares deals. Haven’t seen enough of Mari but he looks decent. Soares has Premier League and International experience and still has a good few years left in him. We needed another right back.
Of course I’d prefer better but we don’t have the money. I’d much rather we spend on the midfield which has been under par for years.
Just managing to get rid of Ozil would make my summer.
“ow do we have to go before someone at KSE pays attention and makes the necessary changes to push Arsenal back to the top?”
Sadly, we know that KSE have infinite patience with mediocrity
That’s the point isn’t it? Mari and Soares haven’t kicked enough ball to warrant a 4 year deal. This season is marked by the consistent poor defensive displays even by Arsenal standards. Saying Luiz is the best of them isn’t saying much. Nevertheless, I think Mustafi has been our best CB this season. The season is a write off. I’d be happy if we played the kids for the rest of it with a view to establishing whatever vision led to the appointment of Arteta. I don’t see how Luiz and these other signings convinces of a long-term vision that… Read more »
Do the Kroenkes know about relegation?
@Raheem, we have players on salary reduction, yet apparently we are handing out 4 year contracts to pensioners who have been largely Injured for months and whose quality is at best mediocre.
It also doesn’t help us bolster the areas in the squad that really need it (I doubt any of these cunts are being signed as first team)
There’s a promising RB youngster, Lamptey, playing for Brighton. Speculating on players like this (not necessarily him) and developing such in the Arteta way is the type of move that’ll show a change.
I don’t mind good old pros bolstering the young ‘uns just doubt that Luiz is in that calibre.
Yep Luiz is such an awesome professional that we should totally look past the frequent mistakes and red cards costing us points.
As long as he’s a great head in the dressing room, that’ll do!
I bet he collects the fines from those who are late to training as well! Beast!
That, what do you think Soares will be offering the team in 2024? He was controversial as an interim signing to plug a gap. We just signed him on a four year contract apparently.
“That’s the point isn’t it? Mari and Soares haven’t kicked enough ball to warrant a 4 year deal.“
Not one new signing has ever kicked a ball for the club, ludicrously daft logic.
We’ve seen both train and behave for 3-6months plus the previous info on them as players. I’d say we’re prepped to decide to offer them a deal.
Luiz was a shit signing and we doubled down.
I once doubled down on a two ace hand and lost the Fuckign lot. Luiz is more like doubling down on two 8s.
We look and feel like a 2010 Liverpool team atm.
Just a complete mismatch of players knitted together to make up a squad
CC
Now that’s an idea – bring in a rule that no new signing can be made unless they’ve previously made a minimum number of appearances for the club!
“We’ve seen both train and behave for 3-6months plus the previous info on them as players. I’d say we’re prepped to decide to offer them a deal.”
Really? You don’t see the stupidity of this comment? How dense are you?
So Charles you are saying that these three are great signings and that these is no reason Arteta can’t rebuild our defense with them?
Feeling sorry for Arteta now. Professionally and within reason because I don’t know him. He looks like a lost puppy. He looks like the school gym teacher who could’ve made it big, had natural talent and ideas that could change football forever. But he got eaten up by the snakes and sharks that run the game. No more is the game about beauty talent and expression. Idealistic thinkers like Arteta are too kind, too soft, and too passive to survive this jungle of power hungry predators.
It’s over. Already.
Raheem
I’d skip the stupidity remarks from someone that just questioned why we offered contracts to players that have never played for us.
The exact process of every transfer ever.
4 years is the go to deal, not 2 years with an option or any other variant.
I’ll leave to keep making your dense comments but you keep telling yourself how so very clever you are.
“So Charles you are saying that these three are great signings and that these is no reason Arteta can’t rebuild our defense with them?“
Yes, because calling the remakes about them out of touch is calling them “great” signings. Do spare me, I’ve said exactly what I think about them.
@Radio Raheem
Lamptey looks very very promising. But in all fairness why would jeeave to come to us? We’re no better than Brighton so hardly a step up for him.
Raheem
Projecting are you? Your intolerance is something else entirely.
You idiot how much football has Soares played in the last year for us and his previous club? Is he youngster whom we are speculating might turn out special?
*why would he leave brighton
Arsenal already have 20 plus squad players, adding 3 more is just stupidity. There’s no defending these signings, absolutely none. If this is what Mikel Arteta was calling ruthless when he was hired he’s not the manager for this football club. I want him out ASAP!
Raheem
Who the fuck are you calling an idiot here? Don’t speak to me like that and expect me to take you with an ounce of respect you jumped up prick.
Marc
Yes potentially Saliba will be classified as HG if he stays long enough at Arsenal.
My point is if someone came in with an offer for him that was too good to refuse will he be shipped out before kicking a ball?
Radio
Brighton signed Lamptey in January from Chelsea for around £8.5 million. A very promising player but he wouldn’t sign a new deal so rather than let him leave for compensation Chelsea got a not too shabby fee for him.
GunnerDNA, in my experience you can never have enough CBs in the books. Same as CMs back in the day. These guys can play anywhere across the pitch, even up front and in goal. I reckon we have a whole XI in training comprised of centre backs. Anything up to and including 15 is reasonable.
Charles
You’re an idiot plain and simple. I know because I inadvertently read your comment (maybe you should do the same). Never mind lesson learned.
Bloody idiot.
There’s still fans online expecting more defenders to be bought. Smh. It’s sad. It’s sad because its not nice to see people lied to and deceived. It’s not nice to see people being taken advantage of. Its not nice to see fans loyalty being monetized. The club literally signed 3 defenders and still some hopefully optimistic fans think, “we could still get upamecano”.
“We’ve seen both train and behave for 3-6months plus the previous info on them as players. I’d say we’re prepped to decide to offer them a deal.”
Put a crown on this man and color his nose! lol