Guess who isn’t leaving?

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Newcastle United will NOT be taken over by the bad folk that chop up dissenters.

I absolutely LOVE to see it.

Their fans, the greatest on earth, spent the last 3 months justifying the takeover, completely throwing all ethics to the wind… they were dreaming of Pochettino, MBappe, and spending £300m in a single summer.

Now they have nothing. Another season of Steve Bruce football. The hope that Andy Carroll might sign on for another year.

Good.

After that carry-on, they deserve Mike Ashley, and to have SPORTS DIRECT painted on their stadium.

My worry is that sports washing fund has just moved onto another Premier League club. I hope it’s not Spurs, who are rumoured to be looking for a buyer.

ONTO ARSENAL.

Arsenal inquired as to the availability of Jack Grealish and were told £70m. A silly sum of cash that basically says they don’t want to sell him this summer. I love the player, but we really don’t need to play with fees like that. We’d get better value from a distressed Europe this summer. If City can get Torres for £20m, then we should be looking to match that sort of value.

The Zaha rumours are also hotting up. Palace is not going to be a club with hundreds of millions this summer, but they do need a rebuild, and Zaha could be a good make-weight for them. I think he had the second most take ons in the league last season, and he’s readymade for the league.

If we are in for him, you’d have to wonder about the future of Pepe. I would not be surprised to see him moved on this summer and the fact he came from the Lille factory of talent via some Mendes dealings likely means there will be a club that they could find for him. I’m just not sure we’d get much in the way of recompense.

Interesting to see Lille getting €50m for a player with one solid season in Ligue 1 under his belt. That sort of price level would be obscene in normal times, why would anyone spend that in a depressed market? Even weirder when you consider they finished 7th this year. No Champions League. Notable that the same team were in the market for Pepe last year as well. Still, one thing is not in doubt, Luis Campos is a god of footballing talent.

Granit Xhaka had some nice things to say about the man who convinced him to stay in December.

“He convinced me to stay with Arsenal,”

“We had a very good conversation shortly after his appointment, and I can really only say positive things about him. He is a young, very meticulous trainer who gives more than 100% in every training session, who optimally prepares us for every single game.

“I have rarely experienced this. He is really a great guy as a coach, but also as a person and I have already learned a lot from him during the time he is with us. Many details that have made me even better.

“So it’s really a pleasure to be able to play under him.”

It’ll be interesting to see if he stays beyond this summer, I suspect he will.

Mesut Ozil’s agent has once again said his client won’t leave this summer. Super odd that the German doesn’t seem to care about football or playing at all. I hope Arsenal cut a deal and he leaves on a free. We cannot have his shadow lurking over the club for another season, it’s too disruptive.

FA Cup news has been hard to come by, so I guess we’ll save the chat for tomorrow after some prezzers drop and we get a bit of news.

I’m starting to get excited, I hope you are too.

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Freddie Ljungberg

Leeds

Osei Tutu was apparently so weak defensively that they had to move him to RW, in bundesliga 2. So I don’t think he’s a viable alternative there for us, Cedric has only played a couple of games and is just a back up, should be fine. Wouldn’t mind an upgrade on Bellerin though but that’s probably asking too much this window, unless he wants to move on.

Valentin

Pep Guardiola signed to become manager of ManCity on 1 February 2016.
John Stones joined ManCity in August 2016.
Pep Guardiola.

Raul did the scouting… 😋

andy1886

Val, as long as Pep keeps him and doesn’t try and flog his old rubbish to Mikel I don’t care. Read somewhere that they’d spent £300m+ on their defence which only gets away with it the way it does because the opponent has so little of the ball.

Leedsgunner

Freddie

I believe he started badly but improved as his loan progressed.

What we need a RB/RWB equivalent of Tierney.

Max Aarons?

Valentin

Sanchez excelled when he is the main man. He creates havoc around him and the rest of the team plays for him. The problem with Sanchez starts when he has to play in a very discipline system and/or when he believe that he can do everything on his own without the team. Most great players have that character flow, because in most cases it is true. They are so much better than their teammates, those can be an hindrance. However there is a limit at which no matter how great a player is his selfishness becomes self defeating. Ronaldo learned… Read more »

Marko

You’d have to be at least mildly aquatinted with humour before passing judgment so you can just sit this one out eh kid

You’re right Don it was real rib tickler George Floyd scouted Dennis Bergkamp. There’s levels to it honestly

Champagne Charlie

“Mesut Ozil has spent the last few days in Turkey and won’t be involved in tomorrow’s #HeadsUpFACup  final. #Arsenal #AFC” – Christ Wheatley

But I’m assured by Pierre that Arteta has something against Ozil, and it’s nothing to do with him being the furthest thing from a team player.

Odd, now I’m torn who to believe.

CG

The G

“””””The problem with Sanchez starts when he has to play in a very discipline system and/or when he believe that he can do everything on his own without the team.”””””

Phenomenal management from the peerless Wenger
To extract from:

(Sanchez 122 games at Arsenal ( 60 goals))

Sanchez 54 games post Arsenal ( 7 goals)

How the £72 million flop Pepe would love that output.

Champagne charlie

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Chris

Sanchez is one of my favourite Arsenal players from the last decade. I admired many things about him, namely his work rate, his explosiveness, his sheer will to win.

He scored some absolute thunderbastards, but also goals with a lot of finesse.

I was sad to see him leave and sad to see his career stutter. Hope he can pick it up permanently at Inter or elsewhere.

Pierre

“But I’m assured by Pierre that Arteta has something against Ozil, and it’s nothing to do with him being the furthest thing from a team player.”

Yeah , greedy sod that Ozil , shoots on sight, tries to dribble past the whole team, never passes to a team mate, only interested in personal glory and getting his name on the team sheet.

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