Oh come on, I wasn’t going to NOT mention the great news.
ARSENAL SIGNED SAKA TO A NEW DEAL!
What a moment. The young defender, winger, number 10, put pen to paper and committed to a glorious future with Arsenal. I couldn’t be happier.
The player is simply everything you want in a youngster. He’s extremely intelligent, he’s unbelievably humble (he thanked about 50 people in his Arsenal.com interview), he’s technically excellent, mobile, fast, fit and he is absolutely willing to learn and be the best there is.
He is the benchmark for what Arsenal talent should look like. I love him. Is that wrong? Maybe, I don’t care. Mikel Arteta had some kind words to say.
“Bukayo is a talented and intelligent young player. He has impressed me with his work ethic and attitude to learn and adapt, and it has paid off in his performances. I am excited to continue working with him to develop him further, and for him to help us achieve our goals.”
Edu, the handsome man that always looks like he’s accidentally walked into a photo also offered some words of support.
“This is something everyone involved wanted to happen and we are delighted that Bukayo has signed a new long-term contract. He’s making great progress and is one of a number of young players who have developed through our academy. This is so important for us as we move forward as a club.”
What a great day. Watch the interview on Arsenal.com, it’s brilliant. He clearly sees himself as a Gooner and the way he communicates his love of the club should remind you that we are still a force when it comes to prestige.
“It’s Arsenal, you know. Come on, it’s Arsenal!”
“The stadium is great, the fans are great, the club is great. Everything about this club is great.
“I love playing for Arsenal, you know. I love playing for the coach, the fans, my team-mates, I really believe in the philosophy that the boss is bringing and what he’s building, and I’m just really excited to see where he’s going to take us in the future.
“I felt that it was right in my heart to extend my contract here and I feel like this is going to be best for my development.
I think this signing also says a lot about the new coach he has. If Arteta had failed to convince the player, it would not have reflected well. My hope is this contract sends a message to the rest of Europe’s best young talent, come to Arsenal, and we’ll grow you out and make you better.
I also thought it worth mentioning that 1) He thanked E*ery. That was very kind of him. 2) He also had a HUGE shoutout for David Luiz.
However you package the Brazilian up, it was not a smart bit of business in the grand scheme of world football. It was a deal rooted in cronyism and it was flushing money down the drain for a club that is struggling. However, let’s face it, we are where we are and the man, David Luiz, is a huge name in the game. He’s a legend. He’s a massive personality. He is at that stage in life where he wants to give something back to the future generation coming through and you can see that in his behavior after games, on the pitch when he’s encouraging people, and with the noises that come from inside the club. So, bravo David Luiz.
Also, might as well touch on the tit-for-tat going on with William Saliba. It’s a mad situation where St Etienne called the club out on Twitter for making the finances of the deal difficult. Arsenal responded and said 1) The French club refused to train the player properly 2) They made the financials impossible. From what I’ve seen, they wanted a £2.5m fee from Arsenal to keep OUR player. Madness.
It’s a little sad that they are willing to blow their cup final chances because Arsenal have said they will give them Saliba for nothing, even though they don’t need to. A teenager getting exposure to a cup final would be immense experience, but I guess Arsenal has to look out for their player and their desperately shite finances.
Before I go, Mikhi confirmed that he basically has a deal in place to go to Roma next season for nothing. I salute this deal and hope there are more to come. If a player is too expensive for a fee, and they are a bit rubbish, why keep them for another year if you can terminate their deal? That’s £10m back in the coffers for next season. I suspect we’ll see some more of that. Arsenal, according to lots of reports, really want Upemacano and Thomas Partey. That would move us to a different level of competitiveness, especially if we landed Dominik Szoboszlai. I’m dreaming, but those three would change the face of the club in one sweep, and I CAN DREAM.
Ok, that’s me done. Listen to my podcast and have a very nice day.
P.S. We have a game today, let’s hope it’s more good news. x
Samesong
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Lacazette has forgotten his shooting boots at home.
Laca lost the scoring touch.
Fuck me. Laca-threat
Lacazzete scuffs every shot these days. I swear.
Rofl
what a strike….goal of the season by Auba!!
https://sports24.club/soccer/arsenal-vs-norwich-city-epl1.html
We love opposition goalies!!!
Get IN Auba!!!! See y’all needed me to tune in.. I bring goals.
Pressure by the striker on goalkeepers is starting to really pay for Arsenal.
Another gift.
so he beat Henry to 50 now
These keepers are being very kind aren’t they.
This is why he should be playing in the centre instead of that useless cunt
We are being gifted some goals right now! Keepers getting complacent without the crowd in their ear
Auba so clinical
Auba!!!!!
Come on!!!!
Two goals since restart have been down to striker pressing
Thanks Yim Cruel.
That’s been Norwich’s problem all season.
Over-playing from the back which even includes their goalkeeper.
Only if we Had we Giroud to meet Tierney’s crosses .
That link up would have been something else.
LacaSad needs to lift his game as a striker or we wouldn’t get much £, € this TW. C’mon.
Xhara
2 up
Norwich so bad even xhaka scores lol
Good play.
Let’s do them 5 for the sake of it
Glorious goal.
Nice… Xhaka goal.. would love to put the beatdown.. On a team for once.
Fantastic goal.
Situation looks grim for Matteo.
Reportedly he Hasnt even been training with the squad for the past few days .
Just before that goal Arteta was on the team to communicate more.. I like that. Been needed for ages.. bunch of silent ones.
Our friend Xhaka netting.
Really nice goal by Xhaka.
A midfielder finally contributing!!!!
Cant remember the last time we played such attacking football. COYG!!
How are you Marc?
MkSauce Arteta
Mikel ‘sauce it out’ Arteta
Granit Hacker! All is forgiven!
Let’s get one more before HT when Nor is down
Yeah i remember when emery tried this 3 at the back wingback formation. Worked well. Even got to a EL final. Well done lads.
Might just be that comfortable win I was hoping for, especially 2 goals up.
Arsenal have given up a goal at the 87th minute or later in every match since the restart at City. I would bet on this if I could.
Mustafi is back to his old worst self today.
Mustafi is making a few needless mistakes.
Mustafi and Xhara need to keep their head down and don’t get cute in and around our box. You don’t have that much flair sorry
Xhaka taking stupid risk in his own box
Thanks for the links guys.
Lucky Arsenal. Nelson didn’t cost 72m As ordinary as our dear Pepe, so far.
What a half from Dani C
Buendia is a real handful.
Good save!!!
Norwich players can shoot, thats for sure!
Why was Amn benched for this Championship level RWB?
Good save! had some whip on it.
I do like this keeper
Let’s have a beer n celebrate. When was last 2 up at HT??
Useroz
You don’t have that much flair sorry
The problem is that they believe that they do have flair when they don’t. You know, the “We are at the Arsenal so i play great” type of thinking.
Great save Martinez.
Laca is small and slow. Not a good combination for a striker.
a real panther in goal with good feet aswell……should he be our first choice?
good backup anyways
Well I missed the first 25 mins but the last 20 were pretty good bar the usual defensive letups.. by Mustafi. Nice to see some forward pressing and it has paid off.
Ceballos showing up best in that half.
Still not convinced that he is worth keeping looking at his overall contribution since he has been at the club but it’s hilarious that a certain poster rates Willock higher than Ceballos.
I think the key with Mustafi may be to always keep him on his toes.
When he becomes a regular the mistakes become regular too
Martinez is a better all round keeper than Leno. Good at shot stopping and good at claiming crosses. Blessing in disguise that Leno injury.
Taller keepers who are agile too form the basis of having any chance of becoming word class. Though there are exceptions of course.
Mustafi looking to Mustafi things up for Arsenal.
I really hope we’re looking to move him on.
There’s never a time where you cannot count Mustafi to fuck up. That’s just part of his game now.
Ceballos has scored 2 goals and 2 assists this season dropping his best games against Burnley opening day, and bottom placed Norwich – both at home.
Willock has more than held his own against that level of output with 5 goals. He’s an academy product who will only turn us a profit, whereas Ceballos was being touted as a 40 mil signing.
Not a fucking chance.
Overall a good half. Great work up front. I love the ball movement.
Its like playing at home has finally allowed us to become unleashed. Ok its Norwich but still.
Wonder who will sub in this game? AMN? who else
Keeper is definitely the one position… I’m not worried about. The rest are either up in the air as to who is the locked in starter or.. the quality just isn’t there.
Thrilled that Saka is staying though. we have invested so much time into project youth we need to let it develop.
Ceballos is one of our most technically gifted players. Too bad he disappears his own bumhole when we meet a team with a pulse. Keep him?? Not for me.
Norwich bringing in the shift change, Hockey term for Nelson. 😀
Loise cant defend.
Good save again
CC
I’m not exactly calling for us to try everything in our power to keep Ceballos. Just acknowledging he looked very good that half. If he is available for under £20-25M and finishes the campaign with other good performances I wouldn’t be opposed
And yea Martinez is looking great
Ceballos good performances are few and far between. Not good enough for the Prem imo.
Nelson probably the worst performer today.
Wasi
“Loise cant defend.”
lol
The Mikhi thing resonates with me – I’m all for taking the mickey for nothing. Also for Ozil. Indeed above all for Mesut – that would save £17mill pa. There are others too. With Club revenue falling like sugar Kane, the mo must be to cut expenses.
Pepe would kill this backline.
Ozil has a back issue = played too much Fortnite.
Zfree
Wouldn’t pay a penny for him, he’s not dynamic enough at all and it’s the last thing we needed added to the squad with its current composition.
20-25 mil is good money, let Real Sociedad have him.
Lacazette can leave
Don’t see much ambition in our play anymore
Mid
By the way, Hockey will resume soon. They changed the playoff format.
Bellerin must be sold.
Spanish farmer is so bland .
Bellerin fucking up a good move again..his balance looks totally off
Are the players out of energy already?
Losing possession and late to balls… sloppy and letting Norwich back in the game. Our defence is brittle as it is… we can’t be giving balls away and doing Norwich’s job for them.
Honestly, I would think we would be sick and tired of shooting ourselves in the foot?!?
Wtf was bellerin doing there??!
Willock? Why not let Pepe try when there’s less at stake
Lacazettee has the talent but he simply doesn’t have the temperament of an elite striker. Far too mercurial.
He’s one more player we HAVE to move on.
Bellerin, please sub him off.
Should have gone down in the box.
Does nothing good but gets the best chances!
Why not put Pepe, Soares/Amn on and get their confidence up.
The Spanish farmer and Laca have been nothing but liabilities today.
I want to see a 5-0 scoreline come on sheesh!
Clear Pen.,
Bellerin, Nelson and Lacazette are terrible. Sell them all.
WTF is Bellerin doing?
Stupid Kolac. Can’t keep his dick off Cantwell.
VaR by Dean!!!
Or not maybe
I’m in the firm No .. camp for Ceballos. Prefer a total midfield rebuild. Keep Willock and AMN.. both young and versatile. The rest depending on the money not attached to any of them. Ozil, Matty G, Xhaka, LT .. keep 2 of the 4.. only because we cant bring in 6 new players. Ozil.. has to go though.. seriously. Sorry Pierre.
Kola has very low footballing IQ