Scouting and feeder clubs

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It’ll be very casual writing over the next couple of weeks. I don’t have much interest in the international matches and there’s not an awful lot going off on the Arsenal front.

Houssem Aouar wants you to know he’s ok. Honestly, he’s just fine.

“It wasn’t really Arsenal or nothing else, although at the end it was close to that. Really, a choice had to be made and I’m happy to stay here.

“I spoke about it a lot with sporting director Juninho. He shows me confidence every day and it’s a real pleasure to work with him. To stay here for another season – or more – with him, it’s a great pride.”

Those are NOT tears. It’s runny icing from a cake or something.

I have to say, looking back on the window, I am kind of happy we landed Partey, despite the priority clearly being attacking capabilities. If we were looking at how the season would shape up right now with just a creator signed, I think we might be wondering about how we’d deal with the lack of power in our midfield this season.

Don’t get me wrong, Houssem is an excellent player that could have been a game-changer for us. However, I do think we’ll have more luck finding a creative spark with a stable midfield, than trying to find power and control.

… and look, missing out on him likely means the move is over. I truly hope a greedy agent didn’t scupper his move. Anyway, that could open us up to better options next season. If we manage to sneak into the Champions League, we might have the finances to make Jack Grealish happen. A player that produces the numbers we need, someone who says The Grove is his fave stadium, a player that’ll be finding peak next season. One can dream, right?

Just to deviate back to Thomas Partey, the below video should get you excited. A stats person actually excited about the signing, and I am all for it.

I was wondering to myself whether the club will go back in for a Head of Recruitment type figure. We lost Cagigao, Sven is in Germany… there doesn’t seem to be much in the way of rumours with regards to that role. One would assume another £1m a year hire is probably not on the agenda of a club guillotining the club mascot. So what does that mean? Did the head of recruitment job get the internal solutions treatment? Wenger would be proud. The analysts must be picking up the slack and one would assume Edu and Arteta are probably more wired into what good looks like that Raul and Emery.

Not to cover old ground, but I still can’t believe Emery had Partey at the table last season and thought the priority was £72m winger. The best winger on the planet wasn’t making Arsenal a force last season. Baffling.

The transfer strategy this season looked fairly sensible, but we didn’t do anything overly curveball. I’m looking forward to seeing if that changes as we increase revenue over the next few years. Will Arsenal spend more time in eastern Europe, a well of exciting players with elite mindsets. When will we start paying more attention to Africa? North Africa has been a talent hive for years, same for the west. But what about the more southern areas?

Patson Daka, striking sensation playing his trade at RB Salzburg, originates in Zambia. He scored 27 last season, and he’s on 11 already this year. Following where teams like RB scout is never a bad bet. They have an ingredients list for their players and it doesn’t stop delivering hits. Keep and eye of this guy, he looks like the sort of player that’d thrive in the Premier League. He’d certainly be a good replacement for Lacazette when we look to upgrade. At 22, he’s hit the Logan’s Run age where they’ll look to move him out to the German Franchise or to whoever has the cash to get him.

I also wonder why we aren’t organising a feeder club system like City and others are attempting at the minute. The Colorado Rapids aren’t up to much this season, but it seems odd that there aren’t closer ties to Arsenal. Firstly, because the United States and the MLS in particular, has been producing some hits when it comes to young players. Factor in that lots of parents of precocious athletes might start favouring football, because, you know, it doesn’t melt brains… well, there’s probably not a better time to start expanding the new Arsenal IP and creating a feeder factory.

This is what happens when there’s no football.

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AFC Forever

Marko

Yes mate. Beveran are now out of business but we got Eboue from them. We have an arrangement with a club in Ivory Coast, Mimosas & one in Scotland too, as well as Colorado.

Freddie Ljungberg

AFC

I agree that he needs more experience, and that he didn’t get that this season past, but that’s not why we loaned him back. It was a non negotiable stipulation from St Etienne if we wanted to sign him, we didn’t have a choice.

AFC Forever

Gervino & the Toure boys came from Mimosa, Cc.

AFC Forever

Freddie.

I know mate, sorry you were right to spot that error. Shame he had those injuries, we always seem unlucky with injuries one way or another.

MidwestGun

Well the MLS does get some good young talent from Central and South America…. but the way it is set up it is not really a feeder system.. it’s more of a retirement League. Because teams here need the big name players to get the people to come to the matches. And the retirement players slow the overall play of the League down. . So as I have said before.. If Kroenke and the Rapids wanted to help Arsenal they would use the Rapids as a way to move players who are past their best and clogging up our wage… Read more »

Valentin

Karim, You under-estimate the impact of the link between France and its former colony. You also under estimate the link in term of training, coaching, organisation method on the African football. If the country has enough resources to sustain professional football, coaches will come. Half the Algerian and Morrocan teams is composed of trained in France players. The same with Senegal. Even those in the Senegal team that were born and raised in Senegal rather than in France have learned their football in football academy run along the same line than Europe. The successful Ivorian team was composed by 90%… Read more »

MidwestGun

The problem in general is that the Kroenke’s are not think out of the box type owners. Their idea of progressive is to build a new stadium. Build it and they will come like Field of Dreams.

I doubt they have even considered there could be synergy between their 2 Football(soccer) teams.

Valentin

The academy JMG was first established in Abidjan Ivory Coast. Arsenal had an informal agreement with them because of the relationship between Wenger and Jean-Marc Guillou. The academy then moved to Beveren in Belgium and Arsenal made a formal agreement. Arsenal had first option on their player and we were able to send our loanee there. The idea is that if by parking player in Belgium for 3 years, they could get Belgium nationality via residency. Yaya Toure lacked the number of international games to get a work permit, so he was supposed to join us a year later, but… Read more »

Champagne charlie

AFC

Spot on, Eboue and not Toure. Even less impressive a return from our fleeting feeder situation with the mighty Beveren haha

Dissenter

Talk sports; “ Arsenal ‘made £5m offer’ for £350,000-a-week outcast Mesut Ozil by Saudi Arabian club but German playmaker doesn’t want to go”

For the pleasure of all the Ozil fans here, the ones that hang unto every stupid tweet he throws out.
The Gunnersaurus man is still expecting Ozil’s help.

Sid

Africans should invest in their football leagues it unfortunate that posters here think its okay and normal for it to be a feeder continent to farm players for European leugues

UNFORTUNATE

Leftfootcurler

Bamford
I don’t know if you have read my comments on Pepe before.

Pepe will be ” like a new signing” in Wenger terms, next season

Arteta is improving him and by next season,I expect him to be ready.

DivineSherlock

Ozil just doesnt want to play . I am so so enraged at this shit , he doesnt wanna move his ass off the bench . So now we have to see Pierre defend this piece of shit for 8 months more.

Tony

Yep Pedro AKB poster boy; Wenger was class for the last 12 years of his tenure: a classy disingenuous cnut!

A narcissistic megalomaniac herding his cult like followers (AKBs) to a promised land of 3 FA cup wins in 14 years while in the process of the financial and football destruction of a club leaving it with the likes of Mustafi, Ozil, Xhaka et al

Wenger? The man who sanctioned the hiring of his puppet CEO: Gazidis.

Wenger talks only AKBs listen

Such a winner that he was fired from nearly all his management positions.

karim

Val

Very true.
I don’t underestimate those facts but it’s also true that some places are blessed with « natural talent ».

Tony

I find it extremely laughable that reportedly Wenger should try to offer Arteta advice on Ozil who ran roughshod over Wenger at every opportunity. Wonder what the Ozil advice was: sell Ozil quickly? Even more hilarious that Wenger is reported to be open to telling The Arsenal how to run the club. Don’t know about anyone else but Arsenal seems to be heading on the right track with Edu, Arteta and Vinai if recent events are to go by, such as hiring a very mobile and defensive minded DM/CM the was never replaced after Vieira left. Wenger gave us Xhaka… Read more »

Guns of SF

Honesly, Ozil does not give a shit.
A lifeline and he just does not care.
Why would any team, in the entire world want this joker?

Im hearing Milan also interested?

Gratitude and Ozil do not mix. The fella has been thrown 2 lifelines and he dont care

Tony

Guns
What did you expect from a pet Wenger acquisition?

Someone who cares about his employer (Arsenal) or someone who only cares about Himself?

Tony

Still I guess we all here have one thing to thank Wenger for: Le-Grove Geoff, Pedro, and myriad of mostly interesting posters and laughable trolls, which made the footballing wilderness years a little easier to live with for us fans who support The Arsenal FC and not Arsene FC.

Sadly only the WOBs can tell the difference with the AKBs living on planet delusion.

Guns of SF

even Wenger now saying, that Ozil off the ball work was lacking but he made up for this by putting defensive players next to him. what a lazy player. Its true the game has become more athletic and explosive and Ozil is a throw back to about 2000 when it was all technical skill. Time has passed him by. Time to move on. I think what gets most people is his lack of sporting integrity. As a pro you want to play as much as you can because you LOVE your job first and foremost! This joker does not even… Read more »

Kaz

I think we should get some kind of deal with Brentford going tbh.

We clearly have a good relationship with them as we keep raiding them for staff and they seem to be picking good talent.

Tony

their manager*

China1

The PL change proposals from Utd and Liverpool look rubbish. I don’t like any aspect of them. Hope they crash and burn along with the £15 a stream bs

Meanwhile how has the international break not finished yet???? Such a drag

China1

Yeah guns at the end of the day ozil doesn’t care if he doesn’t play football I don’t know how he will feel looking back on this period in a few years when he’s (really) retired, but there may come a time when his legs have gone, he can’t do it anymore and he finally feels he wants to start playing again. And he’ll look back on the final stage of his career and wonder why he let it all drift away. Forget the money talk even, playing careers are so short, maybe 15 years. And by the time he… Read more »

Emiratesstroller

We have seen in recent years that making wholesale changes to a team/squad is never going to result in immediate success. Indeed evidence suggests quite the obvious particularly when you see that Liverpool made last season virtually no changes and were able to play a settled team. Last season Arsenal were a club in transition with far too many changes to our squad and it took a very long time to bed in these players. This season there have been much fewer changes with Willian, Gabriel and now Partey arriving. Two of these three players are of course highly experienced… Read more »

Pierre

AFC forever “Arteta has decided he’s not ready. As fans we know how important it is we are solid defensively, so it’s no point using games for him to learn in. Much better he goes on Loan.” I think the question is , will it be more beneficial for the player if he goes on loan to a championship club or stay at Arsenal and play in the league cup , FA cup (possibly)and Europa league.. If Arsenal were not in Europe then going out on loan would be preferable. If Saliba is not ready to play for Arsenal’s 2nd… Read more »

Valentin

Karim, Yes some countries are blessed with natural athletes and natural talent, but talent and athleticism will only carry you so far. Ever heard of the theory that you need 10,000 hrs of practice to become an expert in that field? Most of the so called talent are kids with natural ability who spend most of their free time playing with their friends in the street. By the time a scout spot them, they have already accumulated more hours of informal training than football academy kids will during their life time. Also that informal training is better than formal training… Read more »

Sid

Wenger may be all that his critics say about him but even at his worst, his teams played better football than what we are being served right now.
He also got a fee no matter how little for his want away players than we have got for Guend, Torr, Sok, without public drama

Sid

Kids should play on hard ground with mixed ages to toughen up and weed out the weaklings.

Sid

Jack Wilshere be serving fish and chips under real conditions but he hit the jackpot.

Freddie Ljungberg

Great deal by Wenger and Gazidis this:

https://amp.sportsmole.co.uk/football/arsenal/transfer-talk/news/mesut-ozil-receives-gbp8m-arsenal-loyalty-bonus_418088.html

No wonder we can’t get rid of the cunt.

In other, non cunt related events, looks like Saliba is staying until at least January, they could have said that a couple of days ago to cut down on some of the drama on le grove but hey ho.

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1346666/Arsenal-news-Mikel-Arteta-William-Saliba-transfer

The Godfather

According to the Athletic, Ozil just drained 8,000,000 from the team coffers via a loyalty bonus.
Again the team should have stripped him of his coveted number and pushed him into the reserves unless he accepted a move elsewhere. No need giving this lazy turd, a comfy cushion and a bubble bath while he drains the club.

Emiratesstroller

Pierre The debate over Saliba is not about his ability or potential, but rather whether he is ready to play regularly in first team. Hopefully he has a longterm future at the club, but if Arteta has assessed the situation correctly he needs time to settle in the English game. I would also point out that at least 3 CBs on our books will probably leave the club no later than June 2021. Luiz, Sokratis and Mustafi are all in final year of contract and I will be surprised if any of these three are offered contract extension next season.… Read more »

Graham62

The unfortunate thing in respect to Mesut Ozil is that he will be remembered more for what he has become, rather than his footballing abilities of past years. For me though it all boils down to one thing and that’s ATTITUDE. Irrespective of the problems he had under Emery (and to a lesser degree, under Wenger and Arteta ), it is the way he deals with adversity that he will be remembered for. His lazy work ethic. His petulance when being substituted. His blanking of teammates as he left the field of play. His slightly arrogant persona when sitting in… Read more »

Emiratesstroller

There is also one other matter which no-one has discussed and that is “communication” between defenders, which has been a problem in past at Arsenal.

Most of our backline speak English although I suspect that both Gabriel and Saliba do not.
Luiz and Gabriel can of course communicate in Portuguese.

Habesha Gooner

Whoever approved the ozil deal deserves to be jobless the rest of his life. This are kylian Mbappe numbers. Even at the top of his game ozil was worth half that. 8 mil loyalty bonus? really, he will be our own winston bogarde. Its just a sad end for a player with his ability too. He will regret not playing these past two years when his career comes to an end. Anyway it will be over this year and we will remember him as a negative part of Arsenals history. No one will remember him fondly and its all because… Read more »

Freddie Ljungberg

HG

“No one will remember him fondly”

Have you met Pierre? Just asking.

Jim Lahey

Yeah I have to say that my lasting memory of Ozil will be that of a leech who financially drained the club.

A real scumbag. No interest in playing football, only money.

Jim Lahey

It is no coincidence that both club and country want doing to do with him.

englandsbest

A Head of Recruitment seems superfluous, Arteta and Edu seem to have a firm grip on who to bring in, who to sell off. Too many cooks spoil the broth.

And why a feeder club? Loan out players, do it the Chelsea way.

Dream10

I’ll have good memories of Özil. He’s been a quality player for us. Looks like Saliba is staying now. Club seemed to be confused in how to handle him. He was close to returning St Etienne, linked to Rennes or a possible Championship loan. People say Arteta is focusing on his development. For me, it seems that he is not a big fan of the young fella. Similar to Pépé. Club spent 100m on two players that the manager does not rate. But, he is comfortable in spending 200k a week on a 32yr Willian. With the player choices club… Read more »

Dream10

Said Benrahma to West Ham for 30m. Good signing for them. West Ham play with two defensively capable CMs. That will free up Benrahma to progress and create in the final third and not worry about “tracking back”.

Danny+S

Ah so we find out finally why Ozil was so intent on staying a final year. 8m cash for doing fuck all. You have players buying out their contracts and tearing up deals to play football and you have this cretin content to rot away and leach every last penny out of his deal.

Him and his agent mustn’t have believed their luck when that deal was thrown on the table. To be honest, Arsenal deserve this and I hope it serves as a stark reminder for the future.

raptora

Re Ozil I’ll just say how disrespectful it is to public shame Arsenal re Gunnersaurus one week after he got 8 million pounds cash money from the club. Seriously, what a lowlife.

raptora

Wenger and Gazidis’ last big fuck you to the Arsenal. Almost 3 years later and we still can’t get rid of this gigantic burden dragging us down. I said back then, that deal was going to handicap us for 5 years ahead. Club will feel the repercussion of the extension for years. They gonna be remembered forever.

Left testicle

Bum. There goes Benrahma.

raptora

Re Saliba. Last thing I heard, Saliba was not included in the Europa league squad. Arteta and co are supposedly deciding against loaning him but have obviously cut the roads of him playing in Europa. It doesn’t make much sense. Are they clueless or wtf?

Jim Lahey

I think it is clear that Mesut will do all he can to hurt the club before we are finally done with him. The man has turned down numerous offers just so he can sit at home in London leech money from the club.

Kris

Anyone saw the goal Spain scored against Switzerland?
It’s true the GK’s pass was at fault, but if it’s towards any “top class” MF other than Xhaka, he still gets the ball ahead of the Spanish player. Seriously hope Arteta doesn’t see too much of himself in Xhaka and sells him next year. Much too slow for the EPL.

Graham62

raptora

Re: Ozil.

Couldn’t agree more.

What an attitude.

Freddie Ljungberg

Raptora Yep, it was disgusting before, now he has taken it to the next level is the next level. Just since the pandemic started he has leeched 18m from the club, refused to take a pay cut or move to a club were he can play, all the while being too shite to play for us. And then he shames the club for having to let people go, shameless. And his stupid fanboys are lapping it up like he’s some great fucking humanitarian who’s been hard done by. Unbelievable. He should be tarred and feathered and put on the first… Read more »

raptora

Kris,
That Xhaka got nutmegged was his big fault. He is literally right infront of the ball, nothing a stretching opponent could do but try to nutmeg him and Granit obviously falls for it.

Left testicle
Left testicle

I honestly don’t get why Xhaka was captain. Ducks at every opportunity and a very naive footballer. No balls.

SP

Not able to understand why Ozil’s clause was not terminated before September?

Left testicle

SP
Contract. Both sides have to agree otherwise it would mean more $$$ in Ozil’s pocket.

Graham62

Not able to understand why Ozil was given the contract in the first place.

Mind-blowingly stupid decision.

No doubt Wenger will be covering his own ass in the book.

I’ve ordered my copy.

raptora

Martinelli is my favorite player from this Arsenal behind only Auba. I’m actually more invested in him cause he could be a really special player. Maybe the attacker with highest potential we’ve had in a long ass time. Who was the last young offensive player we had that was a starting 11 player for years? Walcott? He scored over 100 goals for us. Gabi could too.

SP

Left testicle.

Sorry I meant to ask why we didn’t terminate his contract before September ? Maybe it wouldn’t have mattered. I think Ozil must have already inserted a clause there.

Marc

You can’t just terminate a players contract without agreement on both sides or if the player is deemed to have committed something to warrant it ie get caught on the Bolivian marching powder.

If you want to just tear up a contract you’d have to pay up the remaining amount.

Jim Lahey

“Not able to understand why Ozil was given the contract in the first place.” I mean, you just need to go back to when he was offered the new contact, he had the club bent over a barrel with the Sanchez situation, the club couldn’t afford for both of their top players to walk away. Its easy with the gift of hindsight to say what a horrendous mistake it was but to be honest its a lose lose situation for the club. Could you imagine the push back from the fans if both Ozil and Sanchez walked away at the… Read more »

Nelson

I wish I was living in London. Then I could meet up with some Le Grovers in the Emirates, watching Arsenal play on a 86″ scene while continuing our arguments there. LOL!

Graham62

Jim Lahey I get it, the whole saga was a fiasco. The thing is Jim, there was enough evidence prior to Ozil’s contract negotiations that showed we were going to suffer massively by giving Ozil what he wanted and I’m just not talking financially. By allowing Sanchez to run down his contract the club lost out on a possible £60m. Wenger and Gazidis should have been sacked for that alone. Add the Ozil situation to it and you have one hell of a financial mess. Total cost of f##k up, £120m less bonuses. I’m sure the majority of fans would… Read more »

Marc

Jim

Whilst I agree with your point in principle if Gazidis had dealt with the situation properly ie telling Wenger to keep his nose out of it, either tied the players down to new contracts a year or two before or accepted the £60 million bid for Sanchez and reinvested that money into the squad it wouldn’t have been the problem it was.

Wenger rightly gets a lot of criticism on here but Gazidis deserves at least as much.

Paddy got Bored

Wenger rightly gets a lot of criticism on here but Gazidis deserves at least as much.

Never a truer statement written. And they both deserve to be criticized daily

Jim Lahey

@Graham & Marc –

I agree with you both, players should never be allowed to run their contacts down and put the club in a situation where they can demand crazy money or walk away. Club totally at fault there.

Also, as I remember, even before Ozil signed there were serious concerns around him. The man missed close to every third game through “injury” and went missing more often than not when he played.

It was just a terrible situation the club allowed themselves to get into and we are paying the price now.

Left testicle

Graham62,
Please don’t buy the book and line Wenger’s pockets with even more cash.

Left testicle

…all the juicy bits will be online within hours anyway.

Pierre

I suppose the posters on here who adamantly defended Arteta and the decision to send Saliba on loan will now do a complete u turn and heap praise on the manager for deciding that a loan would not be beneficial to the player ……as a few of us said all along..

Pierre

The clubs were mugs for giving Ozil the contract and they have been mugs in their treatment of him the last 2 years , and now they are being mugged off ……they only have themselves to blame .

Nelson

“Please don’t buy the book and line Wenger’s pockets with even more cash.”

But Wenger’s book will brighten up my book shelf.

Marc

Jim

The good news is come next summer Ozil is a mistake we can consign to history, hopefully Edu, Arteta and other senior members of the clubs management will have had their fingers sufficiently burnt to never repeat such a crazy thing.

Marc

Has there been any further news on Tierney and his COVID status?

Graham62

left testicle

Yeh but I can draw funny pictures in the book.

Sid

Tierney took some ginger garlic honey cinnamon hotwater concorcotion and he is good to go

Im telling you for free!

Ernest Reed

The pure fact that Wenger openly admitted to knowing what kind of player Ozil was and still is, and then proceeded, along with Gazidis, to give him that bombastically ridiculous contract extension – how can anyone not have pure and utter contempt for Wenger? And then he has the temerity to ask why he has not been invited back to the club? As with Ozil, Wenger too has absolutely no shame.

raptora

The shitty thing about Saliba supposedly staying is that they’ve already omitted him from our Europa League Group phase squad. Keeping him made most sense cause he would have been training and learning the Arsenal way, while playing some not as important games. They managed to butcher their decision cause now he will almost get no games at all. What were they thinking? Literally all over the place and can’t make their mind up.

Marc

raptora

I haven’t heard any details as to why they’ve changed their minds on a loan for Saliba.

I hope it’s not another case of Arteta not being able to let players go.

Nelson

“The clubs were mugs for giving Ozil the contract and they have been mugs in their treatment of him the last 2 years , and now they are being mugged off”

What the club did was really dumb. What do they gain by humiliating Ozil? It is a lose lose situation.

Left testicle

Give Tierney whatever Trump had.

Marc

“Give Tierney whatever Trump had.”

Not sure a lobotomy is a good idea.

Bamford10

Left

Tierney has tested negative & is only required to isolate because of close contact with a positive. James of Gunnerblog just said on the the latest Arsecast that he thinks Tierney will be able to play Saturday because the PL only requires one week of isolation.

englandsbest

Nothing will ever prick Wenger’s ego. In his chat with God at the Pearly Gates, he will probably tell Him, “You must need me up here.”

That makes any sincere admission of guilt about the Sanchez swap, the Ozil contract, the RVP departure in ‘My Lies in Black and White’ highly unlikely.

Left testicle

I’m afraid it’s 14 days…

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
What should I do if I am a contact of someone who has tested positive for COVID-19?
If you have been informed that you are a contact, you must self-isolate at home for 14 days from the date of your last contact with the person who has tested positive for COVID-19. Self-isolation means you must stay at home and not leave the house for 14 days.

Bamford10

Marc & Raptora

That’s my question: what happened in the last six days to change Arteta’s thinking regarding Saliba? If they’ve had daily training sessions for the players who are not away on international duty, has Arteta seen something in training that has made him more interested in Saliba, in taking Saliba under his wing so to speak? Has he had a conversation with the young man? Did his conversations with the Championship clubs give him pause? What changed?

Left testicle

By the end of the month it should only be Martinelli out with injury.

Left testicle

Even ESR is fit!

Chris

From what I have read in the past, Wenger strongly resented the contract offered to Ozil. So was this a desperate roll of the dice by Gazidis? Perhaps Wenger wasn’t involved as much as people think. Perhaps we will find out his side of it in the book! It is out tomorrow!

Bamford10

Ernest

Wenger is also likely the reason we were negotiating with Ozil and Alexis in the final years of their contracts rather than with two years remaining on their contracts. There’s no reason Gazidis would’ve put off (or not forced) a discussion like that; there’s every reason to believe Wenger would have.

Wenger won’t depict the Ozil contract as a mistake in his book, though, for a number of reasons. He’ll say “Ozil is an artist” and “you must pay top money for great art,” or some such bullshit.

Chris

Regarding Saliba, perhaps there was no forthcoming offer from a club deemed suitable for a loan move by Arsenal. I think the club has come along way from the days off just throwing Gnabry at Tony Pulis and hoping it works out.

Uwot?

Some brain dead tosses is organising an online petition to get Ozil reinstated? I shit you not.un f*** ng belevable!No wonder our club has been taken to the cleaners for the last decade.change.org.zHas to be a wind up.The piss taking c** t actually got an £8 million loyalty bonus recently.Thats right.A loyalty bonus.lol😂Reported on joe.i.e if can be believed? Seeing as their a Bunch of Manure lovers who gleefully report on anything negative when it comes to Arsenal.

Bamford10

Left

Where are you getting that blurb from? If the government health department, are rules for footballers different? I heard they have some exception because of their protocols.

Marc

Left

What’s the point of testing someone who’s been in “close contact” if they have to isolate for 14 days anyway?

Surely a negative test after a few days means you’re clear?

Uwot?

Bam ford.Its escaping from Jockland that is the problem.Not his eligibility in England.

Marc

Uwot

You’re looking at it the wrong way – it’ll be interesting and possibly really funny to see how many times Pierre can sign it!

Ernest Reed

Any way you look at it Bamford, it was horrible business and the results will continue to have a residual impact for a long time to come. No one benefitted from Wenger’s prolonged stay, other than Wenger himself.

Graham62

Uwot

This individual is either not an Arsenal supporter or, and it is possible, it could be Ozil himself.

What do you think?

andy1886

Apparently Wenger has deliberately avoided anything potentially controversial in his book, Mourinho isn’t even mentioned once!

Sounds dull…..