THOMAS PARTEY SIGNS

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Bloody hell, Edu and Vinai only went and done it.

LaLiga informed Atlético de Madrid at 11.28pm on Monday that Arsenal representatives have paid Thomas Partey’s release clause at the sports association’s headquarters.

The player has therefore unilaterally terminated his contract with our club, which ran until June 30, 2023.

Ice fucking cold. Have you ever seen Arsenal do a deal so bereft of humanity? Unbelievable. That’s a Panenka in the 90th minute of a World Cup final. That’s a rainbow flick against peak Stoke in the 1st minute. That’s rolling into a Bermondsey pub on an away day singing ‘What do you think of MILWALL.’

This transfer will go down in folklore as the moment we stopped being a banter club.

I was told over and over that Arsenal were going hard at deals, even on Sunday. Arteta and his team pushed the club as hard as they could to do as much as they could afford. I suspect the original plan was to bring in creativity, when that deal stalled because of the rumoured whisperings of Zizou, Arsenal knew the details of the Partey release clause and went to town to activate against it.

I think, on the face of, we have made an immensely positive decision to bring in Thomas Partey. He gives us control in midfield. He is explosive over short distances, he boasts power we don’t have, and I think the club is betting they can unlock a player we haven’t seen in a more expansive system.

What I love about this move is; like the FA Cup laid to rest the idea that Arteta couldn’t handle the job, this buries the notion that we need a dirtbag like Raul running our transfer business. This summer was an unbelievably tough one to navigate. We plundered a ridiculous amount of money on players in 2019 and they didn’t deliver. We had to sell this summer, restructure some debt, and probably get a bit of help somewhere from KSE (I don’t have that sourced).

We made a deal happen for a player that can greatly enhance our ability to get back into the Champions League. This move is massive. Can you name many players better than him in that role? It’d be tough.

I’ve seen some whining from the radar merchants. I can’t have it. Arteta knows a player and he has a group of excellent analysts supporting his judgement. I also find it incredibly weird to read people critiquing his age and his salary.

Firstly, this is a guy that has played consistently at the very highest level of the game for one of the best coaches in the world (188 appearances). He has been part of setup so caked in shithousery, it’s rumoured your face burns when you walk into the training ground (something we badly lack). Simeone is a disciplinarian, a fitness fanatic, and will have imbued winnertivity into the Partey’s bones.

Secondly, he has just turned 27 years old (June). When Auba’s deal finishes, Thomas will be 30. Sure, his resale value won’t be high, but this move is a shrewd attempt at Champions League qualification right now. Questions over his salary are also nonsense. Football players love to play with great names. The squad will be buzzing about his arrival, they won’t care what he earns because he’ll be worth it. This move ticks all the boxes, it’s an extremely consequential transfer for the ambitious vision the club now has.

We still lack depth when it comes to creativity. By not signing a #8, we are relying on a creatively shy group of players like Reiss, Pepe, Willian, ESR, Saka and Ceballos coming up with a more ambitious approach to their play. There’s still time to do something with one of the clubs in the lower league. Benrahma and Buendia are the standout players that still haven’t move. We have a great relationship with Brentford and we also have ESR who could be a makeweight for a season if that works. A stretch idea though, I suspect we blew all our cash at 11:28pm last night.

Still, Arteta is a progressive coach who has not shied away from reality. He knows his job is to make players better and innovate his way out of problems. Partey gives him a different set of strategems to work with. Let’s see what he can do. Worst case, we can have another crack at Aouar in January.

Quick note on the exiting players. Matteo G moved to Hertha Berlin where Jens Lehmann is on the board and acting as a Sporting Consultant. Good luck if the Frenchman makes him look silly, that’ll be a big mistake. It was also great to see LT get his loan to Atletico. The rumours we’d pulled the deal sounded wrong, petty and counter-productive. Hopefully, he proves himself under Simeone and pumps his value.

Mustafi, Sokratis, Chambers, Reiss, Kola, Saliba, and Ozil all stayed. That wasn’t great for our bank balance, but most will exit next summer on free transfers. That is a huge advantage for our Europa League push. It means we’ll have a group of players that are very capable shop-windowing themselves in those games. That’ll give our first team players one less game to worry about until February. That could reap huge rewards for injuries and freshness when we head into crunch time next year. Every cloud, eh?! Thankfully, we don’t have a manager that’ll play his full strength 11 against Dundalk.

Today is a great day. We’ve had a transfer window that felt purposeful. Each player made sense. We improved in most of the areas we set out to make ourselves better. We made the blockbuster signing we all wanted. Our spine is looking… strong. How oddly satisfying it feels to write that. On that high note, enjoy the moment, and start getting excited about the season ahead!

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Habesha Gooner

Guns is SF
If he wasn’t this talented he would have never made it as Proffesional. His physical attributes are weak. He has the worst body language in world football. He had an average attitude which has gone to zero now. I don’t think any body in our team made it only on their talent.

Sid

England are the Spuds of international football, that where the Ozil hate is coming from

AFC Forever

DIss

“Arsenal are right to lay off Gunnersaurus because there’s nothing form the mascot to do right now. Who would touch the mascot in this covid conditions.?”

Excellent point.

He’s also about 50 million years old so he’s ready to retire.

Receding Hairline

AFC Forever if i ran an outfit tomorrow and i want that outfit to compete with the very best i find the best people for the job and offer them the best financial package to join me. This is standard practice in every endeavor and we have missed out on a lot of very good players playing the values card.

I am not for one minute criticizing the club for offering Partey what we did, not for one moment. I am just not buying the whole “pull” argument.

MidwestGun

Kolasinac isn’t going to play this season and I think he will agitate for a move in January or next summer.
____

Didn’t he just play? He is still Tierney’s backup unless I missed a transfer somewhere? We should replace him because he isn’t very good at defending but I don’t think it will be because he is agitating by sitting on the bench. I think he will get time in Cup and Europa games.

Dissenter

Marko “You and Dissenter just want to boil it down to the wage and signing on fee and I think that’s really sad honestly especially given that you two are supposedly Arsenal fans. ” Stop misrepresenting what was written. Now you’re questioning out fandom? The massive wages on offer has to be considered as a big part of why we got the offer past the finish line at the 11th hour. We didn’t want to leave anything to chance and blew out any doubts with those wages. I am glad we can offer such wages and compete with the biggest… Read more »

Dissenter

*our fandom?

Words on a Blog

There is clearly a complex war on a number of fronts between AFC and Ozil, and now Ozil has opened another front in this war: public relations. As many on here have posted out, Ozil could just have quietly paid Jerry Quy’s (aka Gunnersaurus) salary if he really cared so much, but no he made his “concern” public. Like his friend Erdogan, he want to be a man if the people. It’s not clear what he aims to achieve with all this other than a post-football career in politics. He certainly isn’t endearing himself to Arteta, Edu and Vinai. And… Read more »

Pepesuave

Loftus-Cheek and Hudson-Odoi are both on £150Kpw at Chelsea. Simply adding for perspective re LG moaners

Uwot?

Jeez,a lot of bitter meejah out there.Clearly gutted we’ve got Partey & dishing out the negative stories.How much he’s really going to cost & the real reason he left & poor AM weren’t notified by big bad Arsenal,simione is pissed off,not getting a good send off from the fans.!How the chavs decided not to go for Partey( implying hell would have moved there instead.Yada yada yada…c*** ts the lot of em.Wel & truly gutted😂

Words on a Blog

Pepesuave,

Yeah but Loftus-Cheek is a special talent!

Champagne charlie

Weird parallel universe at play here with Marko being the reasonable one talking transfers. If money was such a driving force literally every decent player would piss off to China and the Middle East. Some do, the overwhelming majority do not, and that’s because of the varied factors that go into an inviting project. Arsenal being able to pull talents like Partey, with Arteta running things, is a huge statement of intent and confidence in what we’re doing here right now. So much so elite players in their absolute prime (Auba, Partey) have been convinced to sign on with us… Read more »

Leftside

“Ozil is still the most talented player in the squad”

On the basis of what? I’m convinced some of you think of Ozil at the 2010 World Cup or Real Madrid Ozil. This Ozil now is a far cry from the one that almost broke the assist record in the Prem even.

Words on a Blog

Cc/Marco,

Partey is clearly a mercenary.

I knew that from way back when, when he decided to leave his boyhood club in Ghana for a two-bit Spanish team – not biggest club in Madrid.

Nelson

I thought that the money we spent on Partey is enough for us to sign Aouar, isn’t it? On top of that, Lyon accepts a scheduled payment. I suspect that Arteta wanted to buy Partey from day one and there was not enough left for Aouar.

Marc

“It’s not clear what he aims to achieve with all this”

It’s a clear fuck you statement to Arsenal where he’s trying to embarrass the club.

Best way to deal with Ozil is to ignore him.

Receding Hairline

“So much so elite players in their absolute prime (Auba, Partey) have been convinced to sign on with us and contribute to making our plans a reality”

And there are both our highest paid players so again the financial angle cannot just be brushed off just to make the endorsement argument stronger. Both can coexist.

Jay

Unless arsenal buy a world class replacement , they need to keep playing ozil. A German earing £350k aweek in England, is to much for some to take.

AFC Forever

MW

Yep, the squad will be rotated by Arteta, they will all get game time. The high press makes huge demands and Arteta has spoke about rotation. Long season plus we have the demands of the Europa League.

He will also pick players based on the opposition & the system he thinks is best suited, so Kolasinac and the fringe players should get a good number of games.

Hitman

A contract is a two way thing. In return for a world class salary of £350k pw Ozil has a moral duty to act and play like a world class star. Cleary not keeping his side of the bargain. I have never seen a footballer who has just given up on his career like this before. Everything you hate about modern mercenary footballers. Said it before Govt/ Courts needs to rewrite the law on sacking footballers who aren’t playing – or reduce their salaries. The fake compassion he is showing for Gunnersaurus does make you want to throw up. He… Read more »

karim

Don’t know exactly what’s going on with Saliba.
Pretty sure this ain’t football-related,
He’s an excellent defender with a huge ceiling, hope we’re doing the right thing with him.

Was expecting him to play from the get-go and was looking forward to his association with Gabs.

Graham62

Kudos to Mesut Ozil for offering to bail out Gunnersaurus. Seriously, well done Mesut.😏😏 The PR department at AFC must be on some form of drug related program not to realise that what they( the club) are promoting is nothing short of scandalous. 55 staff + Gunnersaurus = ####### stupidly! The thing is, when you have such a warm hearted and generous individual as Mesut Ozil in your ranks, you know full well that he will bite on any opportunity to promote himself in an honourable light. Regrettably, imo, gaining a sympathy vote is Ozil’s objective in all of this… Read more »

karim

Lyon accepts a scheduled payment

No, they don’t. They even refused our first offer that included Guendo.
They wanted cash

MidwestGun

Well the rumor is Aouar was talked out of coming here by ZZ. The player has to agree to come here as well.. It’s not a one way street. I don’t think it was strictly money either..as far as our bids to Lyon because we were close to what they wanted.. they kept raising the bar though at least in the media.

Receding Hairline

Anyone who read Ozil’s farewell tweet should have seen this on the horizon, “show them you are a great football player” was the phrase used.

He is done here and he will not be going quietly, expect more of this passive aggressive behavior over the course of the season

AFC Forever

CC

“Arsenal being able to pull talents like Partey, with Arteta running things, is a huge statement of intent and confidence in what we’re doing here right now. So much so elite players in their absolute prime (Auba, Partey) have been convinced to sign on with us and contribute to making our plans a reality. Massive endorsement.”

This.

Valentin

Can we stop with the myth that Partey came for the project. He was at a club competing years after year for La Liga and for the Champion’s League, which we are have not been part of for the lastvfew years. He came for the miracle salary. Outside of China and the middle East, Partey would never have received that same salary at any other club and he knows it. Nobody offers £260kpw for a defensive midfielder. Even N’golo Kante is on less than that and he is the best in the world. That type of high salary is usually… Read more »

Hitman

We will probably need Mustafi this season.
After Gabriel he is probably our 2nd ‘best’ central defender.
Luiz is a liability. Holding just not good enough and too slow.
Mustafi & Gabriel, if well drilled could be a good combo.

Or at least the best we can muster.

Words on a Blog

The lesson Jerry Quy/Gunnersaurus will take from all of this is that he should have had a better agent and a more secure contract with Arsenal, a contract that looked a bit more like Mesut’s.

karim

Middy

Réal’s interest came pretty late. Would have been ours had we paid what they’ve always been asking for, € 50-60 millions.

We offered less than 40 and told them we were ready to make an effort in the very last days of the window, but not the type of effort they were expecting, so they decided to call it a day.

My understanding anyway.

Champagne charlie

“And there are both our highest paid players so again the financial angle cannot just be brushed off just to make the endorsement argument stronger“ Their salary is reflective of their stature and ability in an open European market. They sign with other clubs that’s their ‘going rate’, as it is with talents in that bracket. It’s not the significant point and its being wholly oversold by you both, the significance comes that we’ve nailed down two players of that calibre in our CURRENT state as a football club/project. It tells you plenty about the confidence in the plan and… Read more »

Receding Hairline

Valentin just lost his “Arsenal fan membership card” issued by Marko

MidwestGun

Does anybody think that Partey is the final piece of the jigsaw?
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No I think he is more like the corner piece in a jigsaw that you were missing for years and it was messing up your picture. Spine of your team is important.. Auba, Partey, Gabriel, Leno… looks better to me then.. Leno, Mustafi, Xhaka, Auba though.

Words on a Blog

Valentin,

Nothing and no single player guarantees winning the Champions League.

At the same time, Partey clearly improves our prospects for qualifying for the ECL.

In the end, it doesn’t really matter whether his motive is driven by money or “the project.”

He is a professional who should significantly improve Arsenal.

Dream10

Superb gesture by Özil. The club deserve criticism for the decision they took yesterday.

Guns of SF

I think Edu and Co were trying to negotiate a little too much with Aulas. Hence the breakdown.
Aulas is no nonsense.
Also my gut tells me Aouar does not want to go to us, instead Real Madrid or elsewhere.
I am sure he could have agitated a little more but oh well.

TBH I am kinda done with him, we need to find other targets as well…. who can do what he does and more possibly

Receding Hairline

“Their salary is reflective of their stature and ability in an open European market.” One can make that argument for Aubameyang but not for Partey, Charles you are more intelligent than this. Thomas Partey will still be an Athletico Madrid play on about 65k a week if we decided against triggering his clause, we were literally competing with no one for his services. I suspect the major reason we wanted to negotiate his payments with Athletico was due to his salary demands. 260k is not the going rate for central midfielders as i have already proven by posting salaries of… Read more »

Guns of Brixton

Early days, but to replace Aubameyang and more so Lacazette I have been SCREAMING for Jovic over at RM. I hope to god they continue to mismanage him.

Guy was tremendous the season before he joined them and is a very good #9 CF.

The type of striker that can land 20 goals per season with ease imo

Guns of SF

Hitman I agree with you on Mustafi,
Our most athletic defender and has improved under Arteta. Good in the air as well.
I think that Gabriel and he would do well together.

Jamie

My sources tell me Partey didn’t just come for the money.

Dissenter

Karim
I may be wrong but it seems Aouar wasn’t that keen on coming to Arsenal.
It seems he was hoping PSG or Madrid will come knocking and who can blame him. Playing for either club makes it easier for him to play for France.

Receding Hairline

“In the end, it doesn’t really matter whether his motive is driven by money or “the project.” He is a professional who should significantly improve Arsenal.”

Exactly

We as fans can believe in the project without Thomas believing too. If he plays to his full potential every time he puts on the shirt we are cool

MidwestGun

Karim-
I think maybe there was some hard feelings left over about Pepe maybe.. so we didn’t want to give in to demands…..all speculation of course. Anyhow, maybe we will go back in for him in 12 weeks. Just seems like if Aouar really wanted to move here, he would be here. Just from looking in from the outside. Anyhow.. had we gotten a perfect transfer window.. what would we have to complain about? 😀

Jay

Before lockdown, ozil was doing fine under arteta, the hate towards him, started because he didn’t take a pay cut.

Dissenter

What’s wrong in saying that the salary offer and generous sign on bonus blew up any resistance that any player may or may not have about coming to play for a Europa league team? If the media reports are true, we quadrupled his wages in one swoop. We should celebrate the power move Arsenal made, not try to minimize it in favor of the project that the player was sold. Why is important to emphasize the project that was sold to him but not the ginormous financial package we offered? This is not a knock on Arteta or Arsenal. It’s… Read more »

karim

Diss

He was waiting for clubs of that stature but they never came for him, or timidly.
It was pretty clear in France he was about to join us, which tells me he was kind of attracted by Arsenal.
We dilly-dallied for some reason, he lost patience and was never going to war with his childhood club.

Let’s move on.

Dissenter

Pedro
‘Valentin, he absolutely came for the project.”

You are writing like the good propagandist
Are you suggesting Partey would have packed his bags and come to London if we quibbled about increasing his salary from 65k weekly to say…90k weekly?
He would have left a club competing at the top for a EL club for a raise of… say 25k weekly?

Oh yea, it’s absolutely for the “project”. All to work under Arteta. Lets forget that he had one of the best managers in the world as his boss already. All for the adventure.

Marc

It’s like a meeting of the Miserable Bastard’s Society on here today.

karim

Mid

Exactly. It’s been a more than a decent window for us. I’m far happier than I was on Saturday evening, that’s for sure.

Agree about your jigsaw analogy also.

Words on a Blog

Dissenter,

You should realise that calling Pedro a “good propagandist” is in his eyes praise indeed.

He writes a blog, and he works in marketing.

Jay

A Turkish German on £350k aweek, is the biggest problem.

Marc

“A Turkish German on £350k aweek, is the biggest problem.”

Only a complete moron would even think to say that let alone believe it.

MidwestGun

Lighten the mood for Marc… hahaha

Guns of Brixton

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Jay

ozil is on more money then any English player in England, club and fans need to apologise to the world Cup winner.

Marc

Midwest

We sign a really good player who plays in a position we desperately needed to strengthen and still people have to whine about it.

On the bright side I have learned something new today – all the City, Chelsea, Spud, ManU and Liverpool players all play for free – none of them earn a lot of money it’s only Arsenal that have to pay players to come to us.

Marko

One can make that argument for Aubameyang but not for Partey

Partey is comparable with the very best midfielders in Europe so his salary is reflective of his stature finally.

Freddie Ljungberg

https://arseblog.news/2020/10/thomas-partey-by-the-numbers/

Interesting breakdown of Parteys stats and comparison to our other midfielders.

What stood out the most for me was what a beast Ceballos is, anyone thinking Xhaka is starting ahead of him is deluded.

Freddie Ljungberg

https://www.101greatgoals.com/news/exclusive-he-is-a-huge-player-arsenal-signing-nikolaj-mollers-former-coach-gives-101-the-lowdown-on-striker/

Lowdown on our new Swede.

Didn’t know he was that big, 1.94m tall and 90kg, at 19. Looks like we’ve just got our future plan B sorted.

Marko

Also Karim I agree something not right is going on with Saliba. I get easing him into things but easing him out of the club seems braindead to me and especially when you have certain defenders still at the club and Holding starting games. I really hope it’s not a case of not being keen on a player because someone else signed the lad

MidwestGun

Oh ok Jay is Bob the troll who hates all English players especially Jack W. makes sense now.

Wish people would stop changing their names. Gets confusing.

Freddie Ljungberg

Don’t think Partey is actually on 2560k a week, just as Luiz didn’t cost 24m for a season and Ceballos didn’t cost 15m in loan fee last season.

Probably a little bit under 200k with incentives.

Marc

Freddie

I think we can start to believe that we have an actual midfield again.

Freddie Ljungberg

Ha, could have put that salary too high. Meant to be 260k.

Marc

Midwest

I think 99% of English players are fucking useless but I’m not pissed off at Ozil because he earns more than them.

We can’t even manage “good trolls” on here today!

Freddie Ljungberg

Marc

Yeah, if Ceballos keeps up his form I wouldn’t mind if we made his deal permanent next summer. Real doesn’t seems keen on him anyway and the way he’s been treated by them he probably would like to stay, especially if we make the CL.

karim

Marko

No doubt losing his mum and having to deal with it in your first experience abroad played a big part in it, but I can’t help thinking there is more to it.

If it was a case of him not being ready ( I don’t believe it for a nanosecond ) and needing regular game time, St Etienne would have been a good choice imo, better than a championship side where everything will be new again.

Hope we’re keeping him.

Dissenter

Words
When pedro uses “absolutely” in that fashion, it’s propaganda.
I’ve made Pedro part of my routine for the better part of 8 years now so I can bloody well write what I think.
He’s strong like an oak tree so he can take it.

Freddie Ljungberg

Mid

He was pretty obvious, can spot that hate of the English a mila away.

Subtle to name himself Jay now…

Jay and silent Bob, as if any confirmation was needed.

Champagne charlie

“Thomas Partey will still be an Athletico Madrid play on about 65k a week if we decided against triggering his clause, we were literally competing with no one for his services“ Actually Atletico were keen on him signing a new deal worth circa 150k per week so that’s what he had on offer by comparison. But look, overstating his salary compared to what he was on at Atletico is a real ignorance to the significant outcome of his decision to join us. We know Arsenal can pay high wages, we have a leech on some of the best around. But… Read more »

Marc

Pedro

Weren’t Vieira’s bags all packed until he saw what Madrid wanted to pay him?

Dissenter

Freddie So what if we paid him 260k weekly? If that’s what it took to get the deal done then so be it. Does that figure offend your sensibilities since you’re always trying to play down wages to suit whatever argument you have for the day. It’s not my money and I’m sure Vinai has crunched the arithmetic well enough to know it’s affordable. I would rather have us pay over the odds to get a deal for a key target over the line than to quibble like Wenger and let it fall trough the cracks. All over the media… Read more »

Freddie Ljungberg

“Now in recent time, name one English player to left the world cup like ozil?”

In disgrace, having played shite and exited at the group stage and then kicked out of the team for his shitty attitude? No one comes to mind Bob.

As for your Ozil is hated because he makes more than english players schtick it’s boring s fuck, most english players are vastly overrated but that has nothing to do with Ozil. He’s holding the club back, intentionally. If he was on 35k a week he still wouldn’t be worth it.

Marc

Freddie

If Madrid do intend to buy Aouar next summer then that puts Ceballos even further down their pecking order.

Pierre

To stop this stupid charade , one of 3 things needs to happen

1) play him.
2) pay him off and he leaves the club
3) tell the truth and say that Ozil will not be considered for selection due to the non negotiables.

It’s that simple ….tell the truth.

The questions from the media will cease , Arteta will not have to lie anymore , and the club will look more professional instead of looking like an amateurish 2 bob club who haven’t a clue how to treat players.

Freddie Ljungberg

Dissenter

Settle down there champ.

Just saying, the initial reports in the media is seldom accurate and they do this all the time with Arsenal players. If he’s on 260k so be it, he’s probably worth it. Still don’t think it’s that high.

Do you think we paid 15m in loan fee for Ceballos last season? Or that Luiz cost us 24m for one season? Of course that was just made up bullshit to generate clicks.

Freddie Ljungberg

“3) tell the truth and say that Ozil will not be considered for selection due to the non negotiables.”

Pierre, only you and a handful of maniacs thinks that’s the case. And some people who hasn’t watched him play for the last 2 years.

Pierre

Fred
“In disgrace, having played shite and exited at the group stage and then kicked out of the team for his shitty attitude? No one comes to mind Bob.”

Did he play shite…I think you’ll find that he created more chances per 90 minutes than any other player during that world cup .
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.givemesport.com/1358727-mesut-ozil-stats-from-the-2018-world-cup-emerge-after-he-quits-international-football%3Famp&ved=2ahUKEwi2mKmjx6DsAhWDYsAKHR8zBvsQFjACegQIARAB&usg=AOvVaw0ac27Y_cgbRqeF88bNHuBz&ampcf=1

But you keep believing he was shite .

Freddie Ljungberg

https://dailycannon.com/2020/10/thomas-partey-arsenal-contract-details-deal-length-salary-more/

This makes a whole lot more sense regarding the Partey deal and salary than the guesswork from the Mirror.

AFC Forever

Pedro “Valentin, he absolutely came for the project. The money is great, sure, but no athlete can compete at the top of their game if they don’t believe in what the vision is.Arsenal is one of the hottest projects going. The chance to rebirth a sleeping giant of the club. Not sure why people are whining about signing an elite player we’ve missed for 10 years.” This. Hit out of the ballpark. VALENTIN “All we can hope for is that he brings energy and discipline to the team, but don’t let the hype and hyperbole cloud the fact that in… Read more »

Freddie Ljungberg

“But you keep believing he was shite .”

Thanks Pierre, I think I’ll do just that.

Marc

“Or that Luiz cost us 24m for one season? Of course that was just made up bullshit to generate clicks.”

The only place that got any traction was on here with the “anything to bash Sallenhi with” crowd.

Luteo Guenreira

I fucking swear the way the Mirror reported the Partey fee, as a total expenditure of £110m, specifically mentioned a signing-on fee and agent fees, felt like a direct nod to the Le Grove comment section. All that was missing was some mention of the VAT, but even the Mirror aren’t that daft. Anyway in all likelihood he’s not on £260k per week.

Marc

Luteo

I don’t know of another set of fans who debate the salary of a new player so much or have the media jack up the cost of the deal to such a ridiculous degree, if anything they down play these things with other clubs.

AFC Forever

What is this obsession about Parteys wages?

This is seriously weird.

We just signed a player we have needed for christ knows how long and we’ve got some people out of their minds about his wages, as if their own private banks accounts will be affected.

It’s like going on a beach holiday and complaining the Sun is shining.

Something is afoot and it’s not wearing a shoe.

Buzzy

Any Cigar aficionados here? I’m smoking a Don Rafael watching Don Parteys videos..the word tackle doesn’t do justice to this freaking monster, he hacks the players down and that too cleanly..Thomas “Lumberjack” Partey!!

salparadisenyc

Poor ole Nasri on the free agency list, he always felt like a carpool mom in footie boots after his Arsenal departure to me. Totally disconnected.

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Marc

“We sign a really good player who plays in a position we desperately needed to strengthen and still people have to whine about it.”

THIS.

It’s weird, seriously weird.

Luteo Guenreira

“he always felt like a carpool mom in footie boots after his Arsenal departure to me.”

Oh god this reminds me of a topic that came up years ago on LG of how much Nasri looked like a lesbian. Are we even allowed to talk like that now? Lot’s changed in 5-6 years.

MidwestGun

Option 2 please. From above. Pay him off. That requires Silent Stan’s approval though. Option 3 However is not 100% accurate, Ozil wasn’t being selected for his in game performances as well. Ozil wasn’t always shit clearly, one of my favorite players in full flow.. his first 3 season here were amazing at times. . People were talking about building the team around him. More mobile strikers.. etc.. Well we did all that signed Auba and Laca and he signed a huge contract, and the game of football changed with the advent of pressing and playing out of the back… Read more »

salparadisenyc

Haha theres no crime in stating Nasri looks like a bulldyke’s lunch.

Luteo Guenreira

It’s weird, seriously weird.

Well in general it’s weird but you have to realize who you’re dealing with. RH is playing his usual “unimpressed dad” role of frowning at everything just because the kids are excited, and Valentin’s hobby is dropping seedlings of potential “I told you so” moments that may come to fruition at some point later on. Don’t mind them.

MidwestGun

I just saw the replay of Patrice Evra crying during the Man. United massacre and that mad me a little more happy then it should have… watching another man’s misery.