via @Arsenal Instagram
I am STILL buzzing on a Monday morning, and yes, I’ll be honest, I went in for round two on the game because that’s how good I felt. It’s a lot easier to watch those ties when you know the result.
A few things stood out the second time, the first being that Kieran Tierney really was fantastic. He slipped in as the left-sided centre back, presumably to give some pace next to Luiz, then he was moved out left when AMN moved inside, and occasionally he bombed forward as an LWB. Magnificent. What a great player we have there.
I also think Granit Xhaka has to be given his dues, he has been mostly excellent under Mikel Arteta. He had another really, really good game. He put his body on the line over and over again, he lead like a warrior, and he gave the team a calm player to look up to when City were coming at us.
I also didn’t give enough credit to Pépé for his showing. I’ve been very critical of him over the last 3 months. I know there’s a player there, but he doesn’t show it enough. He’s a very quiet player and sometimes, that comes across as meek on the pitch. I didn’t feel like that after the game on Saturday. He gave more to the defensive side of things, and going forward, he was quicker and bolder with his decisions, plus, he made decisive contributions for our two goals in a game that wasn’t going to give us much.
I know I might be early on this, but I also feel like that was a game the fans needed to see from Arteta. We’ve been watching him make steady improvements over the last 6 months, but generally, there’s always been something not quite right about our game. Injuries, mistakes, red cards, contract induced brainfarts… factored with the harsh reality that this team hasn’t been coached to an elite level in over a decade.
City felt like the game where we delivered an innovative performance against the odds. The gameplan was bold, it was very unArsenal, and it was executed to near perfection. Our last manager couldn’t get us passing out the back in 18months, our new coach has us using it as a tactic to play around a Man City press. That’s not to say we haven’t seen other really good performances. Chelsea at home, United at home, Sheffield United away and Wolves away spring to mind… but this had something important on it, and no one gave us a prayer. It just felt bigger, particularly after the absolute spanking we took against Liverpool in the week.
The Manchester United vs Chelsea semi-final wasn’t that interesting. Ole G, after receiving all the press plaudits for 3 wins on the bounce against shit teams, didn’t show up for a Wembley semi-final. United lacked drive, a decent plan, and a good goalkeeper. Frank Lampard cooly took the game and at an absolute canter. I fancied our chances against either side, but I think I prefer Chelsea. Lampard is a better manager than OGS, so it’ll be tough, but I think everything that was wrong under Unai Emery came out in the wash in Baku.
- Our players weren’t focused before the game. I was told they were complainining about travel arrangements and senior players in the side knew we’d lose just by how much of a farce it was pregame
- We played an extremely negative game. No one showed up for the final. It was an embarrassing performance. The worst final I’ve ever seen us play in.
- The plan was confusing, watching Iwobi trying to decipher what the fuck Emery was trying to say on the sidelined summed it all up. We gave Sarri his first ever trophy and we shouldn’t have
This final is the chance to right the wrongs of last season and prove that elite coaching can be a driving force in our return to the top. Ironically, it’ll give us the opportunity to get back into the same competition we were trying to escape so desperately last season, but after the mess of this year, it’d be more than welcome. We made £42m last season from the Europa League last season, that sort of cash takes us from a very bland summer to something mildly interesting.
Still a longshot… but the other upside of us making it to the final with Chelsea is that I believe it’ll open up Europa spaces to 7th place. Currently, we sit in 10th. The league chase is not in our hands at all, but there’s always an off chance we could make it. What is gratifying is that we’ll know where we stand before the game. It won’t make a difference to the performance either way, but it adds a little bit of spice to the young managers final.
Talking of summer, it’s going to be very interesting to see what we do.
It’s clear to me that Don Raul isn’t going to be able to do whatever he likes this time around. He’ll be answering to someone this summer and that’s a good thing. Also, have you noticed that he’s being briefed against? John Cross dropping precision bombs his way, The Athletic went very hard at his approach, and we saw similarly aggressive stories from The Guardian. Those are no accidents.
That said, it won’t stop him working with who he wants to and my fear is that we’ll have another crack at trying to drag ourselves into the Champions League with the ‘one more job for the boys’ type signings, versus just accepting the reality… football isn’t won with contacts, and if Arsenal wants to be like Liverpool, they are going to have be smarter about transfers.
One thing is absolutely clear from this week. Arteta and his coaching staff are desperate to get into the Champions League as quickly as possible. Given the choice of a City like injection or taking it slow, he’s going to go for the fast route in. He wants to win the biggest prizes. That’s why I would not be surprised to see him entertain the offerings that’ll come his way.
He’ll take Coutinho if it’s offered because regardless of where he is now in his career, he’s better than what we have. Willian is a very good professional and gives us something we don’t have. I wouldn’t take either of them, because we’ve seen what signing players on the way out does to the squad.
We should be focusing on a 5-year plan. Ship out the players that are problematic to the culture. Find new homes for players that aren’t mentally up to the task. Don’t make the mistake of thinking you can save a body part that has started to go green.
We don’t have a lot of money, we have a disgraceful wage bill, and Raul has been doing everything in his power to exacerbate both problems. Arsenal should not be giving anyone £250k a week unless it’s Auba. We should not be signing any players over the age of 30. We should be clearing our wage bill, upgrading our older players with younger ones, and implementing a plan to be competing for the league and Champions League in 5 years time.
Trying to become elite by investing premium money on players that have no sell on value will not kick us on and it’ll delay the inevitable reality: we have to move to a sustainable approach to player recruitment.
- Scour the world for value. Look where others aren’t. Or go where RB do. Salzburg have players from Mali, Hungary, Bosnia, Ghana, Japan, and Zambia.
- Pick up players with 1/2 years on their deals from smaller leagues that blood young players earlier
- Focus on young players with high ceilings
- Use data to drive your decisions, not super-agents
- Accept that to get back to the top, you have to be a selling club
- Build a conveyor belt with that in mind (Pulisic > Sancho)
Matteo G and Lucas Torreira are prime examples of this in action. Both look likely to move this summer, but we’ll get more than what we paid for, and at the very least, we’ll retain value. The current model of chasing the Champions League with battle-hardened pros has left us with what? Sokratis? Mikhi? Lichtsteiner? Soares? They’ll all be worth nothing, so what’s the point?
We also have to be smarter about players values. Nicolas Pépé might blow up, he might, but we spent such a horrendous amount of money on him, the chances of him having a resale value higher than what we paid is unlikely. He’s a £35m player, not £72m. You only spend that sort of money when you need a VVD or an Alisson. We spent world-class money on someone that still needs a lot of coaching. Again, not saying he can’t come good, just that it’s very hard to think that move was money well spent… but that’s the reality, we don’t have a Head of Football that has the future in mind. He’s rolling the dice with his closest pals, he doesn’t really give much of a shit about how this pans out for Arsenal.
We have all the tools to succeed at the club, the big question is whether there’s a smart plan in place to drive Arsenal forward. My big fear is that this summer will look much like the last one. Rushed deals through a small collection of agents that reek of short-termism.
Let’s hope I’m wrong.
Firstly, Kieran Tierney is a fucking boss. Secondly, really gutted for Nigel Pearson, under rated is an understatement
Jamie, exactly.
Didn’t take long for Raul to start making decisions that genuinely hurt us… but there we are, could have been worse.
It’s concerning that this Coutinho talk wont go away, its like we haven’t learnt from the Ozil debacle. We dont need big names, we need soldiers like Tierney
Val
Don’t be an idiot, we have gone through this before and the numbers you provided was from last season. There are no official numbers for this season yet as far as I’m aware.
We got rid of a bunch of high earners last summer, think it was 15 players total, and brought in 5 players, where only Luiz nd Pepe are on more than 100k. If you think our wage bill isn’t reduced THIS season you’re deluded.
Un, who’d have guessed it, coaching can make players better!
‘Northbanker, Sven was involved in Tierney and Saliba.’ Looks like Pedro and Val have got the same sources. North and everyone who believes the lies Pedro is spouting that Tierney is a Sven signing. https://youtu.be/mjjBihmEieQ Brilliant Interview with Kieran Tierney. He clearly mentions that Arsenal BID for him when Rodgers first joined Celtic. We weren’t just interested , the scouting team clearly saw his potential because we bid for him when he was very young and very few people knew about him. But yeah , Pedro will keep spouting that Tierney is a Sven signing because he knows Tierney better… Read more »
Coutinho for a year loan wouldn’t be bad. I’m skeptical of making it a permanent deal though. We have done a few good business in the TW. Tierney, martinelli, pepe,leno are going to be part of the team for years to come. Sadly guen and torreira couldn’t join that group. Then we have the likes of saka, martinez, nelson and co that have come up from the academy. Add to that auba, and laca and we actually have a strong squad. Sadly midfield has been our undoing and it’s going take more than a single top signjng to sort it… Read more »
Pedro
You keep pretending like Arsenal didn’t have good scouting in place before Sven Mislintat came to Arsenal.
Backpass just busted that myth with that tabloid story- we had been tracking him since the Wenger days.
The cult of Sven Scouting has never been a problem for us, we have always been linked to great players/ talent, just look at our nearly signed list from Wengers era. The problem has always been the decision making, who to actually go for out of the dozens names scouted in each position, player profile, attitude, age etc. Another problem has been getting the deals done. Both of these areas has been vastly improved under Raul, doesn’t matter who the scout was, I don’t think Sven as head scout is out there watching every player we’re linked with, he compiled… Read more »
Re. courtinhio
Avoid like the plague.
Great player, undoubtedly.
But If Bayern or Barca and arguably Liverpool or Inter Milan dont want him- why do we?
No more Kia’ s crap needed.
There is an ocean of talent out there- the club should stop being bone idle and unearth it.
Eg Dortmund and Bellingham.
Unai na
‘Ceballos at £20-£25m is a snip but I read we are taking him on loan again with an option to buy for £17m”
You do realize that amounts to just about the same range of financial’s – we have to pay a loan fee for this season and then pay the balance of the transfer over time.
Marc
Ofc you are deluded.
Raul was making decisions (bad ones, like pushing Malcom over Auba (again no proof ) ) when he had no power , no role at the club.
And after getting into the club and pushing Sven out, he’s lost power because he is only responsible for signing of Luiz, a bad signing . While Sven has used his outside influence to make all the good decisions like the signing of Tierney , Saliba , Martinelli and now maybe even Ceballos.
Dissenter , Backpass
I think it was Sven not Dein who was watching Tierney way back when. Sven knew he was going to be signed up by Arsenal in the future and we might need a quality LB .
Source – Pedro’s and Valentin’s trusted source.
Dani is playing well but I’ll be impressed if he is playing like this during the winter season. Players from Spain do well during the summer weathers but need time to adjust to playing during the cold season.
Only Pedro thinks Raul (who didn’t start officially till February) was calling the shots during the Jan 2018 transfer window.
If Arsenal desperately wanted Raul to be responsible for the transfer in that window they would have made him start earlier. There’s a reason his start day was February. He may have been in the know but there’s no way any CEO would cede his authority like that.
At this point in time Pedro should just change the name of the site to CultSven or FraudRaul or something like that
Since the false agenda of Raul lining up his friend’s pockets was smashed to the wall by the FA.
Pedro has found a new agenda of pushing all the good transfer as Sven’s signings and all the bad ones towards Raul.
Sven probably also used his outside influence to sign Arteta while Raul pushed for Nuno , Allegri et al.Thank god we have Sven looking out for us even from afar.
Not hard to grasp fact Rauls not a real talent spotter, comes from a background in marketing. I’m sure he’s like the classic ad man sitting with a group of creatives listening to all the input and cherry picking the gems that he will then make his own.
The problem we had in Jan 2018 was goals so why in the world would Malcolm had gotten a mention in the conversation that involved Aubameyang.?
That story is an abject lie, a very easy one to spot.
We had tried to sign Auba in the summer of 2017 but BVB were still trying to keep him or sell to a Chinese club. That didn’t work out and then January 2018 came.
Dis
“””Only Pedro thinks Raul (who didn’t start officially till February) was calling the shots during the Jan 2018 transfer window.””””
I know he did.
So he is not the only one.
I also know, Gazidas and Raul signed off on Ozils contract.
The damage Raul has done to Arsenal is incalculable.
And only naive posters cant see it.
Well played to the Guvnor for not being one of them.
Sal
“Not hard to grasp fact Rauls not a real talent spotter, comes from a background in marketing. I’m sure he’s like the classic ad man sitting with a group of creatives listening to all the input and cherry picking the gems that he will then make his own.”
Yes …precisely why those stories of Raul trying to sign Malcolm are silly.
CG also knows that you can’t beat Man City with David Luiz in the starting 11.
Diss, only you think that people in high powered jobs start their actual roles on the stated date.
Again, you know no one in the game, I do. So let’s leave it there for believability.
https://soccer.nbcsports.com/2018/01/10/report-arsenal-pursuing-61-million-rated-brazilian-malcolm/
Jamie
“”””CG also knows that you can’t beat Man City with David Luiz in the starting 11.”””””
You can when Arteta is in charge.
Pedro
So you still really think Raul was calling the shots in Jan 2018
You mean he was working from a remote location to over-rule Sven, Gazidis and Huss Fahmy who were camped out in Dortmund doing the business.
This is not about you knowing people in football. This is about a basic work-place tradition. There’s a reason why Raul’s start date was Feb 1st, 2018. If the club wanted him in charge sooner – they would have made it January 2018.
Please stop digging in further. This just makes no sense.
CG
Was Arteta in charge when you told everyone to buy City goals because an Arsenal win was impossible with David Luiz starting?
Dissenter
Malcom makes perfect sense as a Raul target, clear history there. Thank fuck that crashed and burned.
Raul is responsible for bringing the Kroenkes to the Arsenal.
Pedro
That article you posted is dated as Jan 10 2018.
Arsenal had been in direct contact with Dortmund since Dec 2017. You ought to know since you know people in football.
CG
Arteta was in charge when you told us to buy City goals because its impossible to win against City with Luiz in the starting 11.
Top three post Wenger era traffic generators on Legrove:
1.Did Emery have a top four squad when he failed to make top four?
2.Who signed what player and when, and on who’s recommendation?
3.And of course the all important, who should take an L or W on any disagreement including but not limited to the aforementioned, with Pedro the final arbiter even though he’s been proven wrong as often as anyone on here.
Dissenter, you can fight it all you like, but
1) this is very well sourced
2) the article for Malcolm is literally there with the same price tag
Clubs often have two or three irons in the fire. That we started speaking to Auba early means nothing.
Jamie
“””CG Was Arteta in charge when you told everyone to buy City goals because an Arsenal win was impossible with David Luiz starting?””””
Yes. In total charge.
So much so, Pep ended up talking to himself and the empty seat next to him in the dugout.
He will end up the same as Our Wenger, if he ain’t careful.( bonkers)
I will copy Tony Adams ‘ example.
He slaughtered Luiz for his performances
But, when Luiz plays like he did Saturday- he deserves plaudits.
Tom
Looks like Pedro cant be an arbiter in my arguments . Well ofc, he doesn’t have any answers because he’s just spouting lies now.
CG
Then if Arteta was in charge so why’d you tell us to buy City goals.
You are countering yourself here 😂
Raul was brought in as the head of football management – his work was more supervisory of overall operations There was a specific post created for the technical footballing director, which was what Sven was effectively [not formally] occupying in the autumn of 2017 [leading up to the Jan 2018 window] The Jan 2018 window was the work of Sven, Gazidis and Dick Law. Gazidis, Svenand Huss travelled to BVB while Dick Law moved out players. It was Dick law who convinced Granovskaia at Chelsea to let Michy Batshuayi go on loan to Dormund [they refused to sell Auba without… Read more »
“”””Then if Arteta was in charge so why’d you tell us to buy City goals.
You are countering yourself here 😂””””
I an wrong sometimes Wasi.
Dissenter, huge difference between influence and absolute power.
Dissenter
You’re having a Weston lad.
Why would the malcom stories be bullshit?
We needed a winger and I’m sure we paid £72m for Pépé 6months later.
Take the L lol
Dissenter,
Let it go.
Every Hollywood movie, every Trumpian narrative has to have clearly identifiable Good Guys and Bad Guys so that the rubes aka “mass market” buys into the narrative. Any attempt to inject nuance is pointless.
Over here at Le Grove, the prescribed narrative is Arteta/Sven = responsible for everything good, Raul/Edu = responsible for everything bad.
Big Perm
‘Why would the malcom stories be bullshit?’
Because we were already interested in Auba and its just Pedro’s word against Dissenter’s.
And Pedro clearly is not as honest as some believe.
Respect Pedro people…
He knows people in football.
I’ve read the Karma Sutra, it hasn’t turned me into a love god.
Aubergine
“Why would the malcom stories be bullshit?
We needed a winger and I’m sure we paid £72m for Pépé 6months later.”
The contention was that Sven wanted Auba and another certain man wanted Malcolm.
It was a Auba vs Malcolm argument.
Unai na
Thanks for your honesty regarding Raul.
I too am not that keen on him but he did have a decent overall performance last summer. Moving out Iwobi for that sum quoted was crazy and refusing an initial offer from Everton takes balls.
He still has a lot to prove, lets wait and see. Trying to make a pantomime villain isn’t okay.
Wasi
We will be talking to plenty of players and their agents. We don’t just decide the day before we want to buy them so let’s make an offer see if they’ll come and wonder what salary they want.
This is all done before you make the bid, sometimes over months.
Our need for a winger was more pressing than a CF seeing as we’d just bought Laca in the summer before.
Don’t be naive enough to think that the club don’t have deals in the pipeline.
Pedro
You mean the same Malcom Wenger wanted when he was @ bordeaux.
What Pedro can’t deal with are people who don’t have an agenda.
As far as I’m concerned Sanllehi is an employee of the club – if he does a good job then great if he does a bad job move him on and get someone else. People are disposable and can be replaced. Pedro’s agenda and claims against Sanllehi actually reflect what Mislintat did at Arsenal and not last summer.
Because Pedro picks favourites he then has to back them no matter what happens.
https://www.90min.com/posts/istanbul-basaksehir-ready-to-make-offer-for-arsenal-mesut-ozil-transfer?utm_source=RSS
It’s the hope that kills you.
And he reads books on leadership.
He drinks oat milk to keep fresh and avoid being in the red zone.
Before his injury,
Ceballos made an impressive two assists in the first 45 minutes of his debut and literally had a perfect game which saw him named the man-of-the-match credit to his former manager at Madrid as much as diet Pep
That’s a nice interview with Dani C.
I never tire of reading/hearing how much of a powerhouse we can be as a club. We just need to start believing it ourselves and begin acting like it.
Arteta is giving huge belief for the future, I am sure I am not alone in stating that my enthusiasm for the club has been the highest it has been for some time.
This one for you Sven!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjRas1yOWvo
Marc,
Your agenda:
Emery was great > he was fired
Raul is a god > he is under intense media scrutiny and has a minder at the club
Arteta is not good > no one agrees
Sven didn’t scout players > untrue
What you can’t handle, is that you have very poor judgement, and you keep getting exposed.
If we’re insistent on playing with a 10, I’d rather Chanaloglu than Coutinho. Player has matured so much the past year, still only 24 too
Ceballos’ run in the Arsenal team resulted in him being called up to the Spain squad for their Euro 2020 qualifiers against Norway and Sweden
Freddie
Why would Ozil end his working vacation one year early?
Pedro Complete bullshit. Emery was great > he was fired – Er no I was willing to give him a chance and if you went back you’d see that I was calling time on him in the November International break last year. Raul is a god > he is under intense media scrutiny and has a minder at the club – Not at all, but last summer he gave us the best transfer window Arsenal have had in years. Arteta is not good > no one agrees – I said Arteta was a risk as he had no previous managerial… Read more »
I would definitely not be moving on Coutinho but if we do, at least our midfield jumps in quality quite significantly and he would add a bit of star dust to a team that really has close to none outside of auba and dear old Mesut
Un ‘Either way Pedro called the contacts scouting and super agent bed lining early on.’ Most of the signings under Raul have been data driven and with the future of the club in mind. The super agent agenda was thrown down the pit by the FA. Also Pedro portrays the Athletic article as an aggressive stance against Raul when in actuality it is a very well written article from a neutral perspective with the pros and cons we get with Raul. The fact that he had a full article published shows he is an influential figure in the football world.… Read more »
Big perm
Ofc the club has deals in pipeline.
And that moment in time the club had Sven running the transfer department and so I’d rather believe that Sven had Malcom in pipeline over Raul had Malcom in pipeline.
Especially when the source on the latter story has been caught lying in recent times.
Wasi
You missed off that Liverpool paid over £30 million to agents during the last period compared to the less than £14 million by Arsenal.
Dissenter
Ozil will leave if he has an incentive to do so. My guess is if he is offered a deal
in Turkey, which pays him similar money for 2-3 years he would go.
Arsenal will no doubt add a sweetener to the deal which has to include a compensation package. My guess is that the payout would have to be at least £8-10 million.
The fact that Arsenal have reached the FA Cup Final and Ozil is unlikely to play will send the clearest message that he is no longer needed or wanted.
Fun fact
Rb liepzig have 3 different groups of 3 players represented by the same agent firm.
So guess that makes Leipzig a club run by agents too.
“I agree with Marc that the business last summer was very promising and our best window probably”
But it didn’t help us this season. We are now sitting outside the Europa Cup competition. Hopefully, we’ll be doing better next season.
Un
Willian is also being linked to the Spud’s and ManU and is quoted in one of today’s papers as “holding out for a longer deal” from Chelsea.
I think it’s highly unlikely we’ll sign him especially for the numbers being quoted. Quite simply we don’t have the money.
Who is raul going to answer to this summer? Tim lewis?
Raul will be answering to Le Grove.
Don The only purpose of untold nowadays since the dear leader is gone seems to whining about how many players we’re being linked to. At least that’s what I have gleaned from their headlines on newsnow. Current count last I saw it was 122 players linked leading up to this summer. Now I don’t know if that’s right or not but 3 players linked by one agent doesn’t seems too much in perspective as long as they’re only links. Pedro would have more of a case if we actually made the rumours reality. The only Kia clients we have atm… Read more »
Just listened to Arteta’s press conference. He is looking for players who are professional, care about the Arsenal football club, not selfish, willing to fight. Obviously, Ozil is not one of it.
I doubt Tim Lewis was brought onto the board just to keep an eye on Raul, that’s just agenda talking. Our board had an average age of about 97 and needed refreshing for years. Not that they actually do anything anyway but maybe that can change with some additions that doesn’t have to get up 5 times a night to piss.
Freddie Ljungberg, probably not the only thing, but he’s there for oversight, has a thorough eye for detail, and he’s a massive Arsenal fan.
Combine that with all the leaking against Raul, and, well, you don’t have to be a genius.
Damn,
I’ve missed a lotta fireworks here?
Am I missing something?
We won a big game right?
So why all the aggro here?
Cmon fellas let’s just bask in the glow of an great WIN!
Believe me we will have all the time in the world for beefs in the coming weeks lol
I won’t be surprised if there aren’t like undercover players lackeys or team agents
using handles here to push an agenda or make a case … there are some suspicious posts here
Un It makes 6 only we sign all of them which we wont. It just might be the case of media putting 2+2 = 5 to gain some clicks. Not one reputable journo has heavily linked us with Kurzawa or Coutinho or even Willian. One player we can definitely say we have genuine interest in is Partey. Dont know who will be credited with that signing too if it happens? Sven or maybe the new guy who probably has 0 influence in footballing operations as he is a Non-executive director. ‘My point was simply that Pedro called the contacts thing… Read more »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehgIIKesS94
Just a reminder of how good this little guy was!
Wasi, it’s not an agenda, it’s straight-up facts.
John Cross, Ornstein, Lawrence, Ames… all reporting the facts.
We inject agents into deals
We have paid above market rate
We work with a small collection of super-agents on some of our worst deals
You can choose to ignore the above and pretend it’s normal, and that’d be your agenda.
‘How does that work?’
Since we have 1 group of 3 players from the same agent firm , people are calling us a club driven by agents.
So by that logic it makes Rb Leipzig a club run by a band of agents.
Godfather
We would be doing just that if someone wasn’t spouting lies.
RB Leipzig is run very well. Certainly not a super-agent run trough.
Guys
Go easy on Pedro.
Don’t just accuse him of lies
He’s written this blog through thick and thing, come rain or sunshine.
I, lie many can see through his agenda but I will refrain from calling him a liar. He’s done more than enough to be entitled to blogging with his slant.
Pedro
Gazidis is living up to your hype…just 10 years later than expected.
He’s been bossing it at Milan for a while, firing club legends and making ballsy financial decisions.
*I, like many
Well If John Cross said it it must be true.
I mean all football journalists are 100% right about everything all of the time.
If John Cross said the sun was shining I’d prepare for a flood.
In the haze of Mislintat’s beauty and Rauls darkness Ornstein’s tweet regarding Havertz to Chlesea has been missed.
That will gut me hard.
Imagine a summer of Timo Werner, Ziyech and Havertz.
Massive summer right there.
Bati
“If we’re insistent on playing with a 10, I’d rather Chanaloglu than Coutinho. Player has matured so much the past year, still only 24 too”
Are you talking AC Milans Calhanoglu?
Pedro Its a fact we injected some cash into agents to get some deals done. And I dont argue that . I have always argued against the agenda that Raul is lining his friend’s pockets and acting solely upon self interest. The reason we missed out on centurion players like Mbappe and CR7 and whole host of top quality players like peak Higuain , Suarez , Kante , etc is because we refused to pay a little bit above the market rate or were too stubborn to deal with super agents. This is also a fact . And Raul was… Read more »
Don The untold part wasn’t really aimed at you, just something I’ve noticed lately scrolling through newsnow and the only place I’ve seen any mention of how many players we’ve been linked with. Still, 3 rumours out of 122 rumours is still.meaningless unless something happens. Just like Emery got shit for the players newspapers linked us with like we had actually signed them, it’s a bit ridiculous considering sport rags are only in it for the clicks and make shit up all the time. I’m not going to hate on Arteta if we’re linked with Sanogo for 50m, I will… Read more »
Did anyone else notice how Valentin conveniently disappeared ? 🙂
Dissenter
What’s happened that would make Valentin disappear?
Diss
Maybe I hurt his little feeling ms when I called him an idiot? Oh well, at least it came from the heart.
He can take his debunked facts and 1 year old official numbers and cram them where Don bleeds.
In the last 2 years we have Signed 4 ( Saliba , gabi , pepe , Tierney ) top quality players for the future. Got very handsome amounts for dross (Iwobi ) and untested prospect (guy who was sold to Derby for around 8-10mil) Fired a dud manager hired by a committee led by Gazidis and hired a visionary. The only negative signing we have made is Luiz who is loved by Arteta and the club for the quality and leadership he offers behind the scenes. This is a major improvement on how we were run pre-Raul. Raul may not… Read more »
Wasi,
Don’t call processes you don’t understand lies.
Tierney was scouted under Sven. Simple as that. Raul is not a talent spotter unless his mates are involved.
Pepe, Luiz, Mari, Soares, and Emery.
If you read the below story as a positive, then that’s on you.
https://theathletic.com/1934607/2020/07/18/raul-sanllehi-arsenal/?article_source=search&search_query=raul
But understand, these stories leaking are not an accident. You being cool with how he’s operating is fine, but thank god people are Arsenal aren’t happy with it.
Pedro
The athletic has a paywall
Kindly organize a group access for anyone clicking on a link from le-grove.
Tell the we’ll help them spread their rumors faster if they let us in 🙂
Un
I know you see whats white , whats black and whats grey.
I couldn’t care less if the criticism was accurate and truthful.
Just like Dissenter doesn’t like it when I call Pedro a liar , I dont like it when you(not you , you in the general sense 😂) call someone a Fraud and stuff like that without any proof.
Makes it even more frustrating when theres counter proof that Raul is actually doing a good job.
I think the Kroenkes will review the sale of Iwobi for very good money and weight that against whatever evil Raulis accused off.
He’s a ballsy man, that Raul. To tell Everton to up their offer on Iwobi was massive. The owner would have liked that.
Diss, it’s about 2000 words!
Great to see PedRo educating the Le Grove dimwits ( can I say that?) about Raul Sanllehi shenanigans.
‘Don Raul ‘is running out of friends.
As the media hunt him down.
The only complimentary thing that come out of The Athletic article about him is that he has a deep voice and walks his bichon frise on Hampstead Heath.
Arsenal have had 2 decades of Wengerism and total class- how bloody low have we stooped to have this bullshiter at the club.
Just so you know: Chelsea are likely to join Liverpool and Citey at the elite council next term. Why? Ziyech Timo And now Kai. Add that to Mount, Abraham and Odoi and you will see what I mean. That could be three CL places decided before a ball is kicked. Then: Unlike guys here would like to very much insist, Jose(for all his crime, both imagined and real)knows how to over achieve. He didn’t always have ridiculous money to spend. In fact, Jose won his two CLs with clubs where money was not always the solution. More importantly, Jose knows… Read more »
Wasi Watch the Tierney interview video. I have shared the link in my previous comments. The man himself states that we BID FOR HIM WHEN RODGERS JOINED. This clearly proves that the Arsenal scouting team had him on their tabs way before Sven joined. So Sven didnt scout him , we was already on our radar. And if he came in and ran some numbers on him then thats his FREAKING Job. Raul is not a talent spotter he is a fixer. He is here to get complicated deals like Saliba’s and Pepe’s over the line which he has successfully… Read more »