Arsenal aren’t messing around. They are flooding fans with so much news, they don’t know where to look. It’s an avalanche that almost looks like a distraction.
First, we won the FA Cup… hooray!
Then it’s leaked that we’re going back in the Kia trough for Willian… hmmm?
Then we officially tell the world we’re laying off 55 Arsenal workers… say what?
buuuuut… Coutinho… maybe… PARTEY?
Back to lay-offs. A large chunk of that sits in the recruitment department… names like McDermott and Cagigao… SAY WHAT?
THEN the David Ornstein of Lille newspapers announced that Gabriel Magalhães will be joining Arsenal as our right-sided centre back. That’s a fucking coup. Tall, aggressive, great on the ball, and one of the hottest young defensive talents in France (video)… SEXY?
Where do you start?
First, let’s start on the redundancies aspect of things.
There are two ways of looking at this. The first is that billionaire owners have some responsibility to stand up and be counted when the world is hurting. This was Wenger back in the day.
‘What matters to me is when you have a club with 600 employees you have the money to pay them at the end of the month.’
Letting go of 55 people when society is sick is heartless. Stan K is rumoured to have personally gained over $400m during the pandemic. The Walton Family, of which he is married into, has amassed $25 billion during the pandemic. Josh K said he wanted fans to ‘be proud’, I’m not sure slashing 55 peoples livelihoods at this time levels up to those words.
The other way to look at this is pure play capitalism: Never let a good crisis go to waste.
Businesses around the world have been given the cover of a pandemic to cut the fat and get lean. It’s grim, but there’s always 10% of a workforce that could be improved, and in this moment, there’s not only substandard talent to be rid of, there are also people that have nothing to do, so why keep them?
For me, this looks like a blend of self-sustaining-business-model ‘necessity,’ opportunism… and a bit of a power grab.
The biggest sledgehammer apparently went to the scouting department. That’s where a lot of the cuts will be directed. Are we really surprised though? The 3 years of Don Raul, Sven, and Edu was not the moment the weird recruitment started. We’ve been pretty bad at bringing through the cream for a very long time, so it’s hardly a surprise leadership is looking to upgrade there.
The big question Arsenal fans will have is: What is the plan post-lay-off-shake-up looking like? At the moment, this has the feel of a dictator hollowing out government institutions to concentrate power.
Most fans are spitting feathers because we’re not hiring in expert talent, we seem to have outsourced decision-making to cronies of Raul and Edu. Jason Rosenfeld of StatDNA quit, Sven Mislintat was moved on because he despised the approach, a whole collection of youth scouts didn’t have their contracts renewed, Cagigao who was promoted post-Sven is out, and Brian McDermot has apparently been moved on. We can pay £24m for David Luiz for a year, but can’t afford scouts and some corporate admin, really?
5 or so weeks ago, Kia J, the Shadow Tech Director numero 1 said this when he was asked about David Luiz’s deal.
‘There are several issues within the whole structure that will be resolved.’
Kia isn’t just a fee printing machine and an average talent spotter, he’s also clued into Arsenal’s restructuring plans that involved people losing their jobs. That comment on Talksport Radio now looks even more disgraceful than it did at the time. How can that not be a breach of trust or some sort of corporate protocol? It’s basically him admitting that ‘problems’ at Arsenal will be resolved. What problems were they I wonder? One can only speculate. Either way, if I came out and said something like that about one of my clients in the media, I’d be kicked off the business and I’d be in big trouble.
The whole thing is very sloppy. The worst thing is that Arsenal aren’t out ahead of these very obvious PR problems. That press release doesn’t cut it with a fanbase that chases down the planes of players on transfer deadline day. Where is Raul to explain what the future holds?
I understand that staff are having conversations this week on the redundancies, so maybe they are waiting to make things official before they come forward with a plan. However, from my understanding, if you make someone redundant, you have to kill the role, or the redundant parties can file for constructive dismissal. If the scouts are being made redundant in that 55, we can’t legally replace them, so we’ll be running with a severely depleted department or relying on junior talent to pick up a lot of important slack.
We’ll have to wait and see where that lands because I’m sure Arsenal’s head of HR is well aware of the law and will have made sure Arsenal has the maximum flex to do what is best for the club.
Regardless, I’ll say it again, days like this remind you that Arsenal is not being run properly. The lack of leadership, true expertise and empathy is palpable.
Gutting data, scouts, and dissent is not a plan, if KSE thinks it is, we’re in trouble. If cronyism is the strategy, watch Arsenal burn, I’m sure QPR fans loved it initially when Kia was pulling the strings at their place, ask them how they feel about that now. Ask Barcelona how their ‘we don’t need scouts’ approach has gone for them… no, ask Lionel Messi. We’re gravitating towards football structures most clubs are trying to get away from.
Doing things the hard way is the only way, shortcuts always end in tears, especially when super-agents are close by. Our infrastructure should be built out with elite specialists in every department. Technology and data should support experienced people making tough decisions. Our staff should feel empowered to find marginal gains, innovate processes, and eke out advantages where others aren’t looking. Raul should have the whole club pulling in the same direction with a grand vision for the ages. There should be no doubt about where his priorities lie because he should bleed Arsenal like Arteta and the fans do.
Still, there’s time for a plan. We might see it this summer. We might make some elite backroom hires in the vacant positions. We might mix it up with the players. I might be totally wrong about our leadership. This summer could be the one. My worry is that all the things I’ve told you to watch out for haven’t just happened, they’ve gotten markedly worse in a very short space of time.
This summer feels scary, promising, weird, exciting, and a little bit sad.
Fingers crossed it works out. We can’t afford another disaster. Arsenal has to get it right.
” Arsenal are always linked to bright talents across the Europe but in most cases we lose out either due to low transfer fee or wages on offer”
And yet we seem to over pay all of the players we have.
If someone new to football or Arsenal came on here they’d be put off of both for life by some of the comments on here.
I wasn’t going to respond to your comments again but I just can’t resist. You quite clearly can’t grasp the fact that there are far more costs involved than just those that are on several websites” It’s not a question of being caught out it’s all about understanding the realities as opposed to those who aren’t able to hear a bad word said As has been pointed out time after time it’s not just about the transfer fee, the players wages, and agents fees charged to the club add the numerous frictional costs which all add up and need to… Read more »
The argument that scouts are to be blamed for our poor record at spotting and signing good players is faulty.
It’s not when you factor in the players actually signed. Like I said earlier at some point in time there was a scout who had (insert name of dogshit signing made by Arsenal over the years) on a list of players for Arsenal to sign. Tell me we couldn’t do better. We talk about the Dortmund model till the cows come home meanwhile we’re buying up Eisfeld and Sanogo.
Before anyone says it i know Eisfeld came from Dortmund. Point still stands
Do the 55 redundancies come on the back of
poor season ticket uptake.?
With qualification for second tier European football and the money that goes with it
things financially look much worse than they appear .?
Six signings might be 2.?
Marc
‘And yet we seem to over pay all of the players we have.’
You are being contrary just for the sake of it. There is a whole array of players in the last 12-14 years we missed out on because City, United, Chelsea etc. offered more.
Funny how, when discussing Cagigao, no one seems to bring up Amaury Bischoff, Emiliano Viviano, Kim Kallstrom, Gervinho, Andre Santos, Park Chu Young, Julio Baptista, Joel Cambell.
Every club has bad signings, but since 2010 Arsenal have had some fucking unbelievable ones, that can only be down to either incompetence or corruption.
Either way, sacking the whole scouting team is long overdue.
Sky Sports – Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is close to ending speculation about his future by signing a new contract with Arsenal.
Terraloon If that was directed at me you’re sore because I’ve slapped you silly on here today. The VAT the VAT – yeah the stuff we get an effective refund on from the Government so it doesn’t cost the club a penny. Agent fees that are huge then not huge but they are because we pay them through other methods so they don’t appear on official figures. Bringing up National Insurance contributions for players as a cost in the transfer when no ones ever included that when talking about signing players before. It’s pure desperation trying to make the numbers… Read more »
“James Benge@jamesbenge
In November Arsenal overhauled a youth scouting department with a great track record. They have won swift plaudits for their recent recruitment there.
It’s not what I’d do but here’s an examination as to why Arsenal are cutting their scouting numbers.”
https://www.football.london/arsenal-fc/transfer-news/arsenal-transfer-news-sanllehi-cagigao-18725398
James wood
The redunancies are nothing to do with saving a few £££, and everything to do with right-sizing the business in the post-Covid world.
If it was about a bit of money, we could just sell Flo Balogun for £8m and keep everyone on for another 4 years.
You cant employ people to do jobs that no longer exist.
TR7
People can’t have it both ways on here. We sign a player they like and the scouts / Mislintat get the praise. We sign a player they don’t approve of and the scouts have nothing to do with the recruitment process.
The bullshit on here today has been crazy.
I’m still trying to get my head around how we get offload as many players as we need with the Premier League start not much more than a month away. Add to that the unusual financial environment which leaves many clubs unsure of their budgets and I’m guessing we’ll not see us much transfer activity as we’e being told in the papers and clickbait sitess. Willian feels real and has already been discussed and everyone knows that bringing back Auba and Cebellos is a priority. Beyond that, we’ll be desperately trying to move a number of players in order before… Read more »
him=Torreira.
“There is a whole array of players in the last 12-14 years we missed out on because City, United, Chelsea etc. offered more.”
Simple fact really, we are not the only club with scouts.
CC, You are the one who stated that 5~10% of the people in the scouting department are let go. There is about 40 peoples who are associated with the recruitment who have been let go. That would mean that the Arsenal recruitment team would be about 400~800 people. Arsenal employs less than 1000 people’s full time. Do you genuinely believe that nearly the entire Arsenal workforce work in recruitment? A few years ago the entire scouting network was about 40 peoples. Assuming that it grew from that number. It is more likely that the entire department was no more than… Read more »
Receding I was all set to read that article until you see the writer saying that we have a great track record of scouting youths. We don’t we really don’t.
“Football finance expert Kieran Maguire to Sky: “In the Premier league, Arsenal have the greatest proportion of income that comes from match day. It’s around about 24%. They make about £3.5m to £4m per home match, so you can understand that they’re looking to cut costs.”
As far as I’m aware ST’s haven’t been renewed as yet which given that we don’t know when fans will return isn’t a surprise. That’s the million dollar question, I’m sure that they will find takers once things are clarified. Probably also worth remembering there is a cultural difference between British and US business. Correct me if I’m wrong but hiring and firing in the US isn’t typically a big deal, letting staff go is simply a business decision. In the UK companies are typically more reluctant to let staff go if it’s avoidable and any such decisions are viewed… Read more »
Un
Pedro won’t like that white board video – he’ll feel he’s got competition on the marketing front!
Marko
“And yet we seem to over pay all of the players we have.”
No wonder why you’re not against us ditching so many scouts.
You don’t seem to know what scouts do in football clubs. Do you think the scout determines who gets paid what?
andy
There hasn’t been a peep on ST’s from the club as yet.
Said it yesterday, very Arsenal supporter to list Cagigao’s gems without showing the carnage at the other. end of spectrum.
Dissenter
No but it was being claimed that the scouts identify all these great players who we can’t get because we don’t pay enough but yet we have loads of players who are overpaid.
We either pay good wages or we don’t.
Andy,
Scouts do not decide on the level of remuneration a player receives, management does. I doubt any of them were consulted when Gazidis made the decision to give Özil £350kpw.
Gambon is right.
Scouting been poor last few years.
As the the song goes rip it up and start again.
I do think then problem was Wenger he famously said Kanye weren’t ready .
sal
Check when the “gems” were signed.
Andy 1886/Gambon Season Tickets Renewals have not been issued and the earliest that they will become operative is sometime in October. However, my guess is that there will be a considerable shortfall in revenue from this source next season. Also the statement issued by Arsenal also suggests that commercial and tv revenues may also be tighter next season. I seem to recall that Adidas needed German Government assistance when there was a lock down and I would assume that Emirates rather like every other airline on planet is not in great financial situation. So Arsenal are almost certainly taking a… Read more »
Marc The scouts job is done once the player is identified and comp data is presented. Finto.. the scouts job is done. Haven’t you rad all of Wenger’s stories of coming so close to Mpabbe. Kante,, Cech etc. How do you think we were placed in the position to even start proceedings? “We either pay good wages or we don’t.” Ask that question of the executive decision personnel that are supposed to act on scouting. It was Wenger and later Wenger+Gazidis. You have your head tucked away not to realize that we have changed our recruiting strategy in one swoop.… Read more »
https://www.football.london/arsenal-fc/transfer-news/arsenal-transfer-news-sanllehi-cagigao-18725398 “Equally Arsenal have already proved to themselves and others that an overhaul of their recruitment can bring with it positive changes. In November of last year Edu and Per Mertesacker led a dramatic trimming back of the youth scouting network, including the department’s chief Steve Morrow. Seven other members of staff departed in a decision that was greeted with much confusion and frustration among supporters. Yet in the nine months since – and it should be noted that these assessments can only be brief and that it is hard to fully evaluate youth development until several years worth of… Read more »
Yeah I’m talking about the execs not the scouts. Old baldy fucked us over in so many ways before he fucked off to Milan, but he wasn’t the only one to agree many of those deals. We’ve been overpaying average players for more than a decade. Marc, thought as much, they can’t sell a ‘product’ until they know what it is they’re selling so ST’s are going to off the agenda until there’s agreement on fans in stadia. They will sell them though, I’d put money on that for every fan who gives up their ST there will be another… Read more »
Dissenter
No you’re missing the point. It was stated that the scouts were identifying all these great players but when we tried to sign them the club couldn’t pay the wages.
We then constantly hear on here about players who we can’t move on because they earn too much.
Something in that isn’t right – if the scouts are presenting players that are being chased by everyone then they need to dive deeper and find players who aren’t on everyone’s radar.
I’ve never claimed the scouts set the salary level for incoming players.
How is it that some have come to the conclusion that Arsenal will be foregoing any foreign scouting from here on out because 55 employees were considered redundant, and one of them happened to be Head Scout? Some folks just really need something to moan about don’t they. Yeah it’d be nice if everyone got paid to not work but I really don’t understand the conclusions some arrive at based on a few minimal bits of info. All this talk of shady agents, I remember it wasn’t too long ago many fans were bemoaning the fact that Wenger never wanted… Read more »
Hearing everyone go on about how Arsenal works, what scouts did and what execs did and who decided what….is like hearing a blind man trying to describe the inside of a building he’s never been inside of based on what he heard it looked like.
Luteo
I said the other day that we’re at risk of becoming a fanbase of accountants – every other team celebrates a new signing we worry what the VAT and NI contributions are.
Luteo
“.is like hearing a blind man trying to describe the inside of a building he’s never been inside of based on what he heard it looked like.”
You forget the person who told the blind man about the building hates the Architect who designed it!
Marc Do you ever take time off being a complete dick? We aren’t talking about what we have ever factored in when talking about what other players have cost this was exclusively around the claim by Amy Lawrence that the cost of Luiz for what was potentially a one year deal was £24 million. As I pointed out Arsenal will have had to pay VAT on the deal and again I have accepted that they would off set that payment against the sum they would then due to pay over. You nor I have any idea whatsoever what Arsenal paid… Read more »
Guns I disagree. Our PR/Image has been poor for far too long. In fact, I would go as far as to say that those assigned with promoting the club have let us all down. Our image has been tarnished ever since we started to tolerate abject failure. That’s right, being force fed, for all those years, rhetoric that clearly didn’t add up, created a negative image of the club. Togetherness. Belief. Spirit. Commitment. Desire. A winning mentality. Values…………………etc etc etc😴😴 What a load of codswallop! How can we show togetherness and belief when we accept abject misery. You know, all… Read more »
Terraloon
Do you ever take time off from lying?
Good match in prospect between Sevilla Vs Roma.
Kounde is the Sevilla CB that I have been impressed with not the Diego we were linked with.
Let’s see how MKHIT still have it.
What me Marc ?
I acknowledge how right you are!
Radio
Zaniola is fantastic watch that kid ball, just back from doing his cruciate and has not seemed to miss a beat.
Get him da F in.
With Banega starting I’m expecting a comfortable win for Sevilla.
Sal
I’ll be watching him.
Terraloon So let’s go through that a step at a time ” this was exclusively around the claim by Amy Lawrence that the cost of Luiz for what was potentially a one year deal was £24 million.” So one journalist with a gripe. Also as you’re now dismissing the VAT how do you still get to £24 million? “As I pointed out Arsenal will have had to pay VAT on the deal and again I have accepted that they would off set that payment against the sum they would then due to pay over.” So not actually a cost because… Read more »
“You are the one who stated that 5~10% of the people in the scouting department are let go.
There is about 40 peoples who are associated with the recruitment who have been let go. That would mean that the Arsenal recruitment team would be about 400~800 people.“
Who are the 40 people in the scouting deartment that have gone? Where’s the breakdown of who and what in the 55 are recruitment based?
I made those remarks based on the named people associated with scouting, the half a dozen to a dozen that have been referenced.
Gambon16.11
The redundancies are nothing about saving money.😂
Read Receding 16.19.
Yeah kounde looks a good player. Surprised there’s been no links with Boubacar Kamara this summer lad looks mustard
Wow such LIES We are stil o. The £24 million David Luiz bullshit? After being disproved? Here what arsenal officially said after the made-up athletic report “However, Arsenal are denying the report. A spokesperson told The Athletic: “We don’t recognise these numbers. We rarely discuss figures but the payments to intermediaries was less then £1 million.” Here is what Kia said on a separate forum: ” He told Sky Sports: “The agent’s fee that was reported by The Athletic is so, so, so wrong. The fee for David was less than 10 per cent of that.” Joorabchian then said in… Read more »
Roma needs a new GK.
Oh he looks good. But his agent is Kia so fuck him
In the past even when in the rare occasions we identified the right plyers we simply couldn’t sign them because of the lack of Rauls in our setup.
Like I said I expect a comfortale win for Sevilla. Watched both sides enough.
Sevilla for Europa, Bayern for Champions league.
I heard that all 55 redundancies were all our scouts across the world. And from now on raul and edu will be getting the scout reports from legrove.
Expect us to sign benteke in a swap with lacazette.
Ryan Fraser instead of willian.
David Silva’s brother hi ho instead of coutinho.
And some fat bloke from hackney marshes for midfield( he’ll still be better than xhaka!)
Arteta better have some special sauce for them lads.
RR
I pick Manure for Europa.
Well done Marc, good job.
All companies get VAT relief goods in goods out simple.
Arsenal like all companies going forward must be slimmer and fitter and we must concentrate on improving our results.
The past is gone can’t change it.
🔴 Arsenal squad want answers from club hierarchy on redundancies
🔴 Changes to staff perks
🔴 Scouting dept broken up
🔴 #AFC feel right move for efficiency amid global crisis + no ideal time
🔴 Window / team plans unaffected
And here some of you are desparate to paint it as a long overdue and rather welcome shake up of our scouting network
8 of Sevilla’s starting 11 were bought this season. Monchi is still the daddy
Marc Marc Marc It’s not really that difficult. Amy Laurence wrote an article in the Athletic in which she stated that fees payable for intermediaries were potentially £6 million. Arsenal and Kia said the fees Arsenal paid were around only 10% of that. So yes under £1 million. In one way or another that’s the sum you will see on the schedule published by the FA The article then goes on to state that Luiz would have been paid £10 million. No denial from anyone nor does £125k a week get close to that sum. There’s around £4 million difference.… Read more »
Nelson
It’s a decent shout with their forwards. That’s something Sevilla lack. Shaktar another good one. I’d be surprised if it isn’t from one of those three.
And here some of you are desparate to paint it as a long overdue and rather welcome shake up of our scouting network
No it’s a sign of the apocalypse
The above points with red bullets have been pasted from Ornstein’s tweet. How can a move be right when our players are aggrieved about it ?
Diego Carlos looking good
More tweets equal more money. Doesn’t have to be correct the internet does lie.
Terraloon
Amy Lawrence is full of shit – just another journalist trying to be relevant and sound ITK.
Now you’re saying
“She doesn’t say that Arsenal paid £6 million she says that’s what they were paid.”
So the money was paid by someone else? Not Arsenal’s problem or cost.
You’re getting more and more desperate.
RR
Manure’s starting 11 is well rested now. They played their 2nd team yesterday. You can’t believe that their only weakness now is their GK and their LB, since Shaw is injured.
Roma’s defense is weak.
U4GN
You’ve sold me on it – anything to get rid of Xhaka!
Diego Carlos is a really good tackler. Clean is very apt
“The above points with red bullets have been pasted from Ornstein’s tweet. How can a move be right when our players are aggrieved about it ?“
Because maybe the players were told their pay cut ensures no departures and we’ve not abided by that agreement.
Says nothing about whether the scouting department should be reinvented though, that’s clearly not where the sentiment is.
Auba is ready to sign a contract with faith in our proposed business.
“Arsenal squad want answers from club hierarchy on redundancies”
I mean, this is the bare minimum of pretending to care from a group of public athlete figures during a global pandemic innit? Unless anyone thinks they’ll be reducing their salaries to keep everyone on.
“No it’s a sign of the apocalypse”
I’ve always thought being one of the 4 Horseman was a good job opportunity, real career opportunities.
Admittedly I can’t ride a horse but maybe I can get Kia to pull some strings for me.
Yeah can’t be that aggrieved if our most important player and capt is about to sign on. Besides nothing gets players more on board than signings and ambition
Terraloon
Let go of the shovel brother.
CC
It’s also possible that the salary reduction was based over a set period of time and no redundancies was part of that time frame. It seems a bit of a coincidence that the season finished last Saturday and the redundancies were announced a couple of days later.
I mean, this is the bare minimum of pretending to care from a group of public athlete figures during a global pandemic innit? Unless anyone thinks they’ll be reducing their salaries to keep everyone on.
This is exactly what they did . Part of the way it was sold to them was to avoid wider redundancies . They are the only team so far to have agreed a pay cut
Henry
Really check on the continent.
Amy Lawrence is full of shit – just another journalist trying to be relevant and sound ITK.
What rubbish ! Amy is genuinely connected at the club and the6 use her like a Ornstein to break some stories .
Revelations that fun book written by a drug addict.
Arsenal in purgatory.
Black clouds over Highbury.
Move on you wokers,
The real world is more fun.
Marc,
Unfortunately new season on it’s way and I bet he’s still in the midfield.
Henry
She might have been connected when Gazidis was about which would explain why she’s pissed off and making shit up.
The only thing that made her career credible is gone and now she’s got to survive.
Freddie
That seems like the logical explanations of the stuff cullings.
That Diego Carlos guy is a monster in defense.
U4GN
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Marc
That’s the whole point.
David Luiz would have been the one that incurred the charge for services carried out on his behalf . Arsenal would not have been invoiced directly but they almost certainly settled the account on behalf of Luiz but as it has to be treated as a benefit in kind then all of the fees including non reclaimable vat will appear as a benefit in kind
In the accounts the matter would appear as a benefit in kind . It wouldn’t be on the list of sums paid to intermediaries.
Just a feeling that he’s one of artetas favourites and will be shoehorned into the side.
If that’s the case he needs to be surrounded with pace in the midfield for us to even have a chance.
We need eleven players doing there job not carrying a dead weight.
It is saddening to hear that people are being made redundant in this period of covid 19.
There’s dictum in politics; Never waste a good crises Raul showed that he’s a brutal boardroom gladiator with the move to oust many of the scouts from their jobs. He’s moved the club away to a new direction where grassroots scouting won’t be as important. Maybe the modern times does not require that level of scouting because even youth players have massive amounts of data compiled about them already. Only time will tell of this move is the right decision. Make no mistake though, this is more of a strategic change than cost saving. It doesn’t mean the club won’t… Read more »
Terraloon A £6 million benefit in kind? You really think no one’s going to ask questions with that figure going through the books. Remember Sanllehi is DOF, Venkatesham is MD and would have to explain this to the Kroenkes / the accountants working for them. Also “She doesn’t say that Arsenal paid £6 million she says that’s what they were paid.” So one minute it’s a cost on our books so included in his cost, then it’s not then it is again. Make up your fucking mind – either we paid it and its a cost on the transfer or… Read more »
There will be a million more redundancies yet. The furlough money runs out by October.
Boris and co have wrecked the economy for 0.07 deaths in the Uk . Average age 80 years old , young people loose jobs for years to come.
More people are dying from flu, pneumonia and cancer now.
Masks don’t do a lot for them.
Terraloon
As benefits in kind are taxed under PAYE – and the income tax rate over £150,000 a year is 45% who paid the £2.7 million additional tax bill Luiz would have received on this?
Amy Lawrence is Pam the tea lady and i wouldnt mind her serving me breakfast in bed
You heard it here 1st!
Sid
She’s a dog, really not attractive in any way shape for form.
Maitland-Niles has been told by Arsenal that he will be made available for transfer this summer in order to raise funds for a club which finds itself in a difficult financial situation although it would be Arteta’s preference that the young academy graduate stayed [@TeleFootball]
Oh yes
“Amy Lawrence is Pam the tea lady and i wouldnt mind her serving me breakfast in bed”
You’re into animals then.
Why are we the only top premier league club that consistently has this type of drama?
Yea. Selling AMN is the right thing to do
We made him redundant once we signed cover for Bellerin. He can’t be the back-up to a back-up.
He needs to move on for his own good like Iwobi did.
Cha cha
“””””Auba is ready to sign a contract with faith in our proposed business.”””””
Another huge long term strategic error.
No one doubts PEA is a phenomenal goalscorer. The record books tell us that.
But he is another one, that ain’t going to get you top 4…..let alone win the league championship.
(I note Dortmund have improved immensely since he left them.)
31 years of age. ( not 25)
3 years @ £ 13 million a year ?
In these cost cutting ,Corona times too.
The Insanity continues.
I guess the word of the day is redundant.
“Auba is ready to sign a contract with faith in our proposed business.”
So nothing to do with the 250 grand a week we are giving him.
I googled Amy Lawrence with a glimmer of curiosity.
Sid you cunt