Listen, I’ve had my say on Arsenal this week. The bad news must surely all be out, so I’ll move on and land more positive vibes.
We’ve ditched our scouting department. From what I understand from multiple places, this is a really smart move and we shouldn’t fear it. Our hit rate has been miserable for years and we’ve wasted a lot of money.
If Edu says he wants to move to a Michael-Edwards-Liverpool-style of data intelligence, then let’s see if he does it. Nothing he’s done at Arsenal so far suggests that’s what he’s about, so the onus is on him to make the right promotions, bring in the best talent, and move beyond CHECK DIS GUY e-mails from Kia for his transfer inspiration.
With regards to the layoffs, it sounds like they went right at the areas of business that are, well, pretty redundant for the foreseeable. Sales, admin, and premium partnerships. I’d have had them on commission for selling our best players for ‘very good price’ to the highest bidder this summer, but it is what it is, Arsenal wants to be a cost-conscious business in a pandemic, so there we are.
What all the bad news won’t change is that the manager we have at the club is the real deal. The players finally have someone in charge that commands respect, the training ground is buzzing again, and there is a very clear and ambitious vision Arteta is trying to unlock.
So what next?
Well, summer is about to start. Let’s walk through the smoke and see if we can identify where the fires🔥 are at.
Auuuuuuba
Our BEST player is apparently nearing a 3 year £250k a week deal to stay at Arsenal. He’s happy, the elders are happy, the deal is close. This would be huge news and a testament to the coach that he’s managed to convince a man in his absolute prime that 8th place Arsenal is the destination for him. Auba has been committed, he’s developed his game, and his leadership has been all about setting an example for others. What a deal that’d be.
One of his stipulations is that he wants to see that Pam in accounts safe in her job… along with some big money spent on this squad. Some papers are saying the club is looking to drop £100m… if we can shift on talent.
QUESTION: How long does the club wait on the deal? What happens if he says no?
Ainsley
One of the players who has been put up for sale is Ainsley. The versatile midfielder turned right-back has been told if the big money comes in for him this summer, he’ll be moved on. The caveat is that Mikel doesn’t want to see him go. Bit of a weird caveat. One thing is for sure, we’re stocked down the right and no one is buying Soares out of his freshly minted 4-year deal. A £30m fee is being mooted, which seems quite high given the moment. I don’t fully understand the thinking here, I think the player has been excellent when called upon, he seems to pick up Arteta’s instructions quicker than most, and he’s executed plans to the T at the highest level. Maybe we’ve pumped his value? Maybe the player wants to be the name ALWAYS on the teamsheet? Seems an odd one, but if that’s what the management brain trust wants, then there we are.
Torreira
I read a tweet where someone said ‘I feel like Torreira has been talking about leaving since joining’, and I agree.
“Today I need to think about my future very well. I have a contract with the club and I have to respect it, obviously if I have to leave it will be for the best. We have to be calm and wait”
Look, this is what happens when you bring in the right profile of player and pay them market rate. LT had some promise… it didn’t work out, so we’ll sell him back to the country he came from at a similar price point. Torreira looked like he made sense, aggressive, good on the ball, with sharp technical skills. The problem has been that he just isn’t at the right level physically for the Premier League. If we can get a deal from Milan (YO IVAN) or Torino (his old coach now there), then everyone would be happy.
Hector
There are also a lot of rumours doing the rounds that the socially conscious right-back wants to lay down roots (geddit) in another league. He’s been with us for 9 or so years, I’m not sure he ever recovered physically or mentally from that injury so it might be time to try another catwalk. He is a good player, he’s young, and he’d fetch a pretty decent fee.
… I’d have to find another muse, but it’s fine, I’ll be ok.
CENTRAL DEFENDERS
Look, it’s obvious we need to shift on some of the centre backs, especially if we’re bringing in Gabriel. Sokratis is on a big salary, so he might have to be offered a way out of his deal in the same way Mikhi was. No one is going to him with £90k a week and a fee. Rob Holding would be perfect for a sale. He’s currently on his holidays with Jenks. I think he’d do well in the Premier League, he’d fit perfectly in a setup that didn’t require too much passing under pressure, like, maybe Burnley? We also have to exit Kola. He’s on a big contract because we bosman-d him a few years back, but he just hasn’t hit the mark, he’s not up to the mental rigours of the game, and his defending is really, really poor. There could at least be a fee there.
THE YOUNG GUNS
I think we’ll see some movement with the young players for sure this summer. I have no doubt that Matteo will find a new home, absolute LOLz from the back of the room that BIG UNAI is sniffing around for a loan deal, not sure that’s what the Frenchman had in mind. We really need to max out the fee for Matteo or get a major swap involved. Lyon beat Juve last night, they are back to the big time, we know they are interested, so maybe something can be done there with Aouar? We know that Balogun will be moved on for a fee of £8m, I’m having GnabryMalenJeffBennacerHOTsweats over that potential exit. Talking of Bennacer, he’s on his holidays with Reiss Nelson. Another player I expect to fetch a good fee this summer.
ALEX LACAZETTE
‘There ain’t room in this town for the two of us’ is what Auba apparently said when Edu told him the money for his new deal was coming from selling Lacazette. It’s apparent the French striker maybe doesn’t quite fit what we need in our forward line next season. He’s apparently drawn to Juventus. He’s a top goal scorer, he has a great attitude, and he’s a big name. We’ll either need to max out the fee there or make the swap count hard. We’ll also need to find a replacement, we can’t be heading into the next season relying on just Auba and Eddie.
SWOPPORTUNITIES
This summer is likely to be nuts. Stretched clubs trying to save money and face. Rich clubs trying to pick off the weaklings. There will be opportunities that pop up that could surprise. Mesut Ozil, our contractually obliged rock, might not fancy spending a year in Turkey doing nothing, hardly good for the profile. Someone might make a sexy offer for one of the players we thought unmovable (Granit/Mustafi/Leno). There are many things that could unexpectedly happen and I think we have to be open to them.
THE GOAL
We have to come out of the summer with a squad that is shaped to the vision of the manager. We need technically proficient players. That doesn’t simply mean being good on the ball, it means having the intelligence to absorb and execute complex ideas. We need to have a set of players up the physical challenges of the league. The right size, explosive pace, the ability to go 3 games a week without injury or loss of form. The major difference between ok players and the elite is the lack of mistakes. Pep always says that Garcia, who wants Barca, doesn’t make mistakes. Our Didier-Drogba-like-nightmare last year wasn’t a player, it was ‘UNFORCED ERROR.’ We need to change that up. We also need to bring in players that have the right mentality so when things inevitably go off the rails, we don’t have lower back pain issues for big away days.
We also need to start buying with long-term value in mind. Willian should be the exception, not the rule. If we’re a cost-conscious club, then we need to focus on players that have value if they don’t work out. We should look for opportunities in the market, like Gabriel and Saliba. That applies to the other end of the scale as well because we bought Pepe at 24 years old, but we spent so much on him, it’s very, very unlikely we’ll ever recoup that.
One last thing on the vision of Edu now focusing on data and analytics. We had a bit of a debate about it in the comments yesterday, some saying that it was logical that the Brazilian focused on restructuring the youth setup in his first year, over the scouting. I can’t for the life of me unpack those mental gymnastics. Firstly, you can do more than one thing at a time. Secondly, the youth setup, for all its failings, has produced Saka, Eddie, Willock, ESR, Balogun, Tyreece, and Smith.
The burning hot mess at Arsenal was surely our transfer approach? Why would you wait until year two to implement data and analytics? Because at best, if you are starting from scratch, it’s going to be at least another year before you see the fruits of a new centralised approach? Unless there is some tech partnership I’m unaware of? I mean, look, there is obviously a lot that I am unaware of, I’m just asking why you’d wait an entire year to decide all those people you’ve been working with are shite and that the approach was backwards. Surely the red flag was having to sign David Luiz to replace Laurent Koscielny when the club had a 3-month headstart? It seems like the corporate version of starting a job at Blockbuster Video and focusing your first year on a logo redesign versus addressing the Netflix issue.
Regardless, it’s done. Let’s see who Edu brings in or promotes and what sort remit they are given. I am more than game to see us try and behave like Liverpool and I’m glad that people at Arsenal think this move is a good one IF Edu is capable of hiring the right people.
Right, on that note, fuck off, see you in the virtual bar. xx
Dream10
We’ll have to see if they can shift Ramsey on, unless he dramatically lowers his wage demands.
Marc
He’ll probably hold on for at least one more year.
Ozil leaves and we sell AMN and Laca and there is your Partay release clause fee and maybe part of signing Gabriel.
I think the reality is we have to lose players maybe better then other players we would want to sell like Kola and Mustafi to get players we need to make our team better. It’s not going to be a perfect transfer window where we lose all the deadwood. Not enough time or willing buyers.
Ramsey is older than Coutinho. He’ll be 30 in December. Surprised he hasn’t retired already.
Midwest
I don’t think anyone reasonable is expecting a “perfect” window. If we can shift on some of the deadwood, bring in the players we’re linked to or similar, we’re getting the financials back under control whilst also having a squad that should give us a really good crack at getting top 4 next season.
Marc- Yep.. But you get people making lists, we need to get rid of x,y,z and get x,y,z. And the list is 7 or 8 or 9 players long. And for the most part I agree with those lists but we have to manage expectations too. Agree it is possible we could set ourselves up for a good run and that didn’t seem like a real thing halfway through last season, I’m already happy about that. If Ozil leaves, I might start making my Arteta shrine as the manager who could make it happen. Said when we released Wenger the… Read more »
Mid
Yeah, we’ve been saddled with too much expensive junk on too long contracts that even 2 years later we still can’t get rid of all of them.
We need to try to ditch the majority though.
Don’t try to give Arteta credit for if we manage to dump Ozil, that’s Pedros job. You’ll leave him without a job you monster.
Freddie-
Damn it.. now you tell me. I already bought the Poster and the candles.
Just print out a photo of Raul looking extra Don -y and you can still use the candles. He’ll be the real hero if Ozil is moved quietly out back and taken care of.
Looks like PSG could be in for Guen, hope it’s true so we can make a serious profit on him. They’re not afraid to spend big if they feel like it. 40m price tag reported seems a bit much but would be fantastic and would really help any plans we have for the summer.
Raul pushes a hard bargain. Look at Iwobi.
CG
Do you ever have anything positive to say about Arsenal?
Graham
Well he said if Brentford won the other day he start supporting them!
Magalhaes signed
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/aug/09/liverpool-xg-jurgen-klopp
Written for le grove
Lots of Zaha stuff circulating again, but with Willian on board I can’t see it.
Unless…..maybe Arteta sees Willian as more of a central playmaker and he’s an alternative to a Coutinho, with Zaha making a front three with Auba and Pepe.
Seems more like easy transfer speculation though.
Yeah I’d honestly prefer Coutinho on loan to Zaha anyway.
Kolasinac has to go too but that exit will have complications too.
We won’t be the first club that he will run out a contract on, that’s the problem with getting players in free transfers . They will do to you what they did to their last club.
CC
Could be Zaha’s agent trying to drum up interest as well.
Dissenter
There are rumours that Kolas’s wife isn’t happy in London and wants to go back to Germany. A couple of months she was caught trying to smuggle a stun gun into the Country on a private flight.
Maybe the mugging incident scared her.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8349457/Arsenal-star-Sead-Kolasinacs-wife-27-caught-trying-bring-stun-gun-UK.html#:~:text=riders%20last%20year-,Arsenal%20star%20Sead%20Kolasinac's%20wife%2C%2027%2C%20was%20caught%20trying%20to,UK%20on%20a%20private%20flight.&text=Bella%20Kolasinac%20has%20been%20named,’protection’%20following%20reports%20yesterday.
Marc
Kola should move to Florida, that way his wife can get a Smith and Wesson’s 500 0.5 caliber magnum hand gun that can blow the head off a man’s neck clean.
Why is she wasting her time on a stun gun anyway.
Dissenter
She had a cunning plan, she stuns then takes them home and then it ends up the shower scene in Scarface.
She can’t fit a chainsaw in her handbag.
Marc,
Honestly. It’s going to take a while to move out our deadwood. We pay them too much.
Did you see what the Turkish club offered for Elneny?…. €1.5 million loan feee and we still pay his wages. Who decided to give Elneny a 4 year contracts worth £50k weekly in 2018?
Dissenter
Elneny isn’t a great player but he should be able to pick those sort of wages up else where – sending him out on loan to Turkey was the mistake. Need to stick him into a promoted team over here.
Zaha rumors originated from him pointing to ‘Zaha to Arsenal’ neon sign in a nightclub. Nothing serious.
Marc
I think we sent him to the only clubs interested in him.
I’m sure there are automated training machines that can do whatever Elneny did for us.
Elneny’s signing was one of the StatDNA mistakes. He passes laterally 99.9% of the time and padded certain metrics to look better than he really was.
If Zaha is available for 30M then Arsenal might/should be interested.
Liverpool close to Kostas Tsimikas ( Whatever his last name is) Olympiakos LB. From what I’ve seen, looks great and is too good for his current side.
Great business again from Liverpool and I suspect the fee will be low.
Dissenter
No argument but to sell him you need him to be somewhere where there’s money to be thrown around and there’s more loose money in the PL than any other league.
Two Atletico players tested positive for covid. Two weeks isolation no confirmation on who though
Looks like we are going to pay ozil 18m to fuck off.
I really hope we do, I think he will go down as one of the worst signings in football history. From his lapsidasical attitude on the pitch to his controversial personal life. I mean this is a guy that complained about human rights in China while he had a dictator as his best man.
Can’t wait to see the back of the cretinous little cunt.
TR7
‘ If Zaha is available for 30M then Arsenal might/should be interested’
I like reading your posts even when I disagree with you but c’mon bro.
Can Zaha play attacking midfield, central midfield of center back?
You didn’t realize that signing Soares was the beginning of the end for AMN
You don’t seem to understand that us signing Pepe last summer and now Willian means there’s no place for Zaha, not even if he cost 5 million. Zaha is on 125k wages at Palace.
We have enough wingers; veteran, world. Lass potential and super-talented academy graduate.
#sayNOtoZaha
If Ozil has any sense of pride he will take that pay-off and move on.
We gave him the message for the FA cup; we don’t want enough around anymore. He needs to do the honorable thing like Sanchez did for Unkted
Sanchez took a much lower offer though. Ozil knows he can hold out for full whack cause he doesn’t give a duck if he plays or not.
Sanchez took 9m and he was on 450k or something like that.
Danny S
Sanchez still had two years on his contract so he took a bigger hit than anything Ozil could possibly give up.
Gabriel’s sister has now started following Arsenal on instagram, this follows his cousin from a few days back.
Our fans are unreal with this shit 😂
The Ozil deal is winding down already, honestly
I’ll rather have us just make him train ALONE. on the hardest and unheated pitch at London Colney for the next 10 months.
It;s only 10 months left. We can take the hit.
CC
Maybe Gabriel’s sister is dating a gooner
Dissenter
That’s the mark of the man. Ozil and Sanchez are polar opposites in that respect.
One will do what he can just to play football and keep his pride. The other will squeeze as much cash out the game as he can weather that means sitting at home for a year playing fortnite.
Gotta love the consistency, been spreading your fanny that Cedric cost 5 mil (he didn’t), but here you are telling Arsenal to throw money at Ozil just to bin him.
Just Dissenter things
The club has promised Willian Ozil’s number
Haha …Raul is a street fighter
He’s locked in. That’s as good as a picture of him signing a contract and sharing a cigar with Raul
CC
Will be paying Ozil 18m regardless. Don’t let agendas stop you looking at simple facts.
He’s a blight on the club, I’d rather see him gone personally and have a nice clean slate with no problem children next season.
CC
Did you read the news. It said we were offering to pay him the full 18 million wages to let him leave. What’s the point of paying him his full salary to leave when we can pay him the same to eff him up?
Secondly I quoted £5 million for Soares because that’s what a every tabloid reported. It was contested here so I have d]fone with the 2.5 million loan fee for a long time now.
What’s the point of paying him his full salary to leave when we can pay him the same to eff him up?
Huh?
Secondly I quoted £5 million for Soares because that’s what a every tabloid reported
Again reported Southampton were saving 5 million getting him off the books not us paying 5 million for him.
Danny
What’s the agenda here do explain?
I’m not the one lambasting bosman transfers and telling the club to take an 18 mil hit in the same sentence.
CC
Explain how we are taking a 18m hit first please.
Marko Actually. Some tabloids ran with the story that it was 5 million because they factored in his bonuses that were supposedly transferred to us along with agents fees. ..and yes, I mischievously added in VAT for food effect] Marc will tell you that I’ve used the £2.5 million as the basis of my opposition to the Soares signing since the initial day of arguments back and forth. Read the Ozil stories again. It states that we are offering to pay him 18 million to end his contract early. If that’s the case then we aren’t saving any money are… Read more »
Sanchez and Ozil are two very different people.
One is a proud active footballer while the other is a lazy retired footballer who loves eating beans with crazy dictators.
Actually. Some tabloids ran with the story that it was 5 million because they factored in his bonuses that were supposedly transferred to us along with agents fees. ..and yes, I mischievously added in VAT for food effect]
I’ve read saving 5 million I’ve never seen anything about bonuses transferred to us because it sounds dumb as fuck. Mischievously added in VAT is basically you admitting to being a bullshitter.
No way we pay ozil his fill salary to leave more like 4m and he can get a 200k deal elsewhere with his arse mate the Turkish leader
The fact that Inter City, United and now Inter have come in for Sanchez and not even Palace want a thing to do with Ozil just keeps making the contract handed to that parasite look even worse and worse. And when you see a man of pride like Alexis take a deep pay cut to ensure he plays the game he loves, while Ozil sits around dividing the club and playing video games, the characters of the men become crystal clear. Mesut Ozil is Simply the biggest waste of football space ever. And yet people co,Ed here to slate the… Read more »
Danny
So no agenda then? Weird that.
Two members of the AM team was found positive with COVID-19. Partey may not be clean!
Serge
Maybe at this point not many clubs would touch Ozil. And maybe the ones that would, he won’t go to. I honestly think he would rather sit on his arse for a year and get that money rather than go to a club where he will have to play.
The only way out is to settle his contract. Gets him gone and it’s money you would have paid anyway.
‘He’s a blight on the club, I’d rather see him gone personally and have a nice clean slate with no problem children next season.’
One would be tempted.
But the deserving treatment for Ozil is to leave him eating his money in a limbo.
Like a rich lost ghost.
Marko
Legrove is the blog of lube because we are all bullshitters.
I mean you’re here every day quoting rumors [like everyone else] cooked up by a ‘journalist’ while having a shitter.
CC just dropped the erudite line about Gabriel’s sister now following Arsenal on Twitter.
99.9% of what takes place here is bull-shitting. Now go meet Sid, he’ll write you a check.
CC
Ok. I will plays the game.
You are digging out Dissenter for his view on what arsenal should do with Ozil. Whatever his choice is, it all works out the same.
We pay Ozil 18m.
Not difficult really. But you pick it up and turn it into something to try and make a point against another poster.
So there is the agenda.
Danny S
You do know why I made that comment about keeping him for eff him up?
If we are not going to save any money by ditching him early…what’s the point. We might as well waste one footballing year of his life.
” It states that we are offering to pay him 18 million to end his contract early. If that’s the case then we aren’t saving any money are we?”
As Emirates pointed out earlier Ozil only has 10 months or so left on his contract so he’s not currently owed a full years salary. It just demonstrates how moronic football journalists are whilst claiming to be “good at what they do”.
Bris
I think Ozil will happily sit and earn 18m for fuck all. Basically done it the last 2 years, why not continue.
CC
The £18 million comment about us keeping Ozil had nothing to do with Soares as a free transfer.
We gain nothing by paying off his contract early. That’s what spurred my comment about keeping him and making him train along – to waste his time just as he’s wasted ours.
99.9% of what takes place here is bull-shitting.
Right but you actually admitted to adding a lie on top of something to back up something you were claiming. That’s pretty low if you ask me
“Gets him gone and it’s money you would have paid anyway.”
Yes and while it won’t affect Profit and Loss accounts etc it would affect cashflow, something the club will be feeling acutely. Unless there’s money to be saved ie a club picking up a percentage of his salary then you just isolate him and keep him away from the first team squad.
You want to piss him off – make him attend training (obviously not with the first team squad and now where near the kids) and fine him if he steps out of line.
I still can’t believe our first game is against Liverpool in 20 days.
Better wrap things up quickly and get all the new players on board.
Dissenter
I disagree there. We don’t ‘gain nothing’.
What we do is rid the club of an odious little cunt and start fresh. Weather he trains alone or with the first team, his presence at the club is a dark cloud. Fuck him off. Don’t be petty about it. New start
Danny
That’s not an agenda. I’m pointing out the hypocrisy in parading outrage about 5 mil paid for Cedric (which wasn’t 5 mil) AND staying we should pay Ozil’s salary in full and “take the hit”.
Do you not see the inconsistency? Simple as that.
CC
Will we not pay his salary in full if we keep him?
And btw, although it wasn’t clear at first, diissenter would rather keep him.
‘I think Ozil will happily sit and earn 18m for fuck all. Basically done it the last 2 years, why not continue.’
Danny,
If we pay off Ozil, he would immediately begin image repairs so as to seduce another club and con them.
We have to be our brothers’ keeper.
Ozil and his rat groomer weird looking agent are two most disgusting characters in football right now and we have a duty to save others from them for as long as we can!
Danny
Yes, obviously, but the club seem keen to negotiate their way out of it now which inevitably saves us money, augments the wage bill, and an Ozil-shaped headache.
Yet here we have Dissenter positively foaming at the mouth over a 5 mil outlay that never was, for a player that will actually contribute, AND then wanting us to avoid any savings to instead continue the drain on finances and team spirit out of spite.
Work that accounting marvel out.
‘That’s not an agenda. I’m pointing out the hypocrisy in parading outrage about 5 mil paid for Cedric (which wasn’t 5 mil) AND staying we should pay Ozil’s salary in full and “take the hit”.Do you not see the inconsistency? Simple as that.’
CC,
Those are two very different scenarios.
For someone to say we shouldn’t have paid whatever we paid for Cedric is purely financial criticality.
But to say pay Ozil off is to say get this odoriferous situation off my view.
Danny You do realise that salary’s are paid monthly and the club would usually be sitting on a pile of cash having just sold 40,000 ST’s (everyone I know pay’s it up front in a lump sum). Right now our revenue is being severely restricted – the idea that the club can throw the balance of Ozil’s contract (£16 odd million) out in a lump sum to soothe your hissy fit is naive. Unless there’s a good “business” reason to pay him off ie he’ll take less or another club will pick up part of it the club won’t do… Read more »
CC
Yeah have to agree there with the spirit draining. I want him gone.
Bitchyness and spite will get you fuck all. Cut the losses and move on.
Marc
X million out the budget is x million out the budget.
Weather wages or lump sum, it comes out of our yearly budget.
Had we been paying him 2 years I’d agree with you but whatever we do it’s coming out the same financial year.
Marko
The VAT comment was tongue in cheek, I haven’t stopped joking about it since then I’m I’m even tempted to get a patent on it.
Nothing low about about anything.
Keep swinging though, Pope Marko IV, whatever floats your boat.
Danny
No it’s not – this is about cash flow as much as budgets.
Do you pay your yearly mortgage in one hit or do you do it monthly? Why don’t you do it in one hit – get’s it out the way.
Dissenter
You can’t petition for frugality and wise spending in one transfer and then throw that mantra out with another. That’s the point.
Even if Arsenal have to pay every penny of Ozils 12 month deal it’s a win from the levity it gives our wage bill and training ground. Nvm the fact we could pay him 10 mil, he can sign a 10 mil deal elsewhere, saving us 8 mil and netting him 2 extra.
Marc
Arsenal have cash, there’s the 36m we had to keep in reserve for a start. Now Stan has paid the stadium we have that to use.
Plus, if I owned an asset that was being affected by a certain component, and removing that component would make it function better, I might think about ways I could remove it. Even maybe taking a financial hit.
Danny
You can ban him from the training ground and still spread the cost.
I don’t you realise how crippling cash flow problems can be for a business.
Marc
Maybe for a normal business, but arsenal are owned by a billionaire at the end of the day
Although we are ‘tight’, we arnt exactly broke.
Sometimes making a point or grand gesture can be worth more than anything.
We will see anyway. I’m hoping we fuck him off.
Even if it’s the same amount we had to pay to Ozil to get rid of him, it should be done. He has let the club down and if the finances allows, let him go.
The other part in me says tie him up, ban from the ground, make him train everyday for nothing or shift him to U23 may be! But that’s now how big clubs do things.
Mwepu as a cheap midfield option?
Danny
I don’t have an issue with seeing the back of him – I just think it’s more important to use any “free” cash we have to strengthen the squad. If we can get someone to take him and contribute – fantastic. If not make the fucker attend one on one training and make him sweat blood, if he’s late fine him and so on.
Marc I work in an industry that has very little foresight. We live within our yearly budget, which in the long run costs us far more through short sightedness. I have many members of staff i would gladly pay to fuck off. This would have an upfront cost, and would obliterate period on period budgets, however in the long run would improve morale of the better staff and improve productivity no end. If paying off ozil gets rid of that cloud, and improves team morale even a tiny bit it could be worth it compared to minor financial gains. It’s… Read more »
CC
If we can get him out on a loan and lay the bounce if his wages even if it’s a high proportion of his wages. It will be a victory for all parties. This won’t happen unless Ozil wants it though. He’s always insisted that he’s going to honor his contract.
My comment was solely focused on the notion that we will pay him 100% if his wages to get him to leave one year early. That’s why I suggested we waste one year if his footballing career same way he’s wasted the club’s time.
Un Top 5
QOTSA Bowery Ballroom w/ Dave Grohl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlI1l7cdCn4
*and pay the balance of his wages
Marc
I think if negatively affects our cash balance if we pay off his wages in one swoop rather than spread it out over the next 10 months.
If we pay him off fully, would we have a clause that he can’t sign for another club do the next season. I wonder if we can say that once he signs for a club the contract defaults to paying the balance of his wages.
Danny
The big picture fades pretty quickly if you’re dead.
I’m not also convinced that the other players are that bothered by Ozil.
How do Charlie’s balls taste?
There’s those debating skills again.
Marko
“There’s those debating skills again.”
I would say Un’s comment
“Marko How do Charlie’s balls taste?”
Is probably the most intelligent comment of the last couple of hours.
In all honesty, I wouldnt expect anything different from the Ozil obsessives.
Marko calls it “debating skills” , whereas I would put in on par with whinging schoolgirls in the playground.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/wilfried-zaha-teases-arsenal-transfer-22494286
Zaha issues a come and get me plea to Arsenal
Pierre
Really what do y9u think is going on in Ozil[s mind right now?
Do you think he gives a rat’s behind about Arsenal right now?
“If you don’t feel the futility of things like politics the older you get then your a better man then me.”
Have some google “false equivalency” for you next time you’re whining about being screwed either way.
Maybe you should leave Texas. It’s making you stupid.
Godfather
Got to feel for Zaha. Palace effed him up last summer and also shafted themselves in the process.
Besides Everton, who else will pay modest money for him now? He should have had written assurances in his contract and never trusted Mr Parish’s word agreement.
alex cutter
The dude extended an olive branch to you and you replied by emptying a full cartridge from your AR-15.
Zero need for Zaha if Willian in.
Dissenter
I presume he does know why he has been left out of the side since lockdown.
It would be nice if the club would tell us the truth instead of hiding behind the “pure footballing reasons “, which doesn’t make sense as he was an ever present before lockdown.
He has obviously done something non football related during lockdown that has upset Arteta…
It would be better for all concerned if the club tell us the truth and then it might put an end to the speculation.
@Dissenter:
Totally agree on Zaha.
He really should’ve just forced his way out of there especially with the outrageous price tag floated by Palace.
He is basically screwed unless a big Euro team comes for him.