Listen, we have to talk.
You’ve all been ‘ooooh, Mesut has to go’, now he ‘might’ be going you are crying into your keyboard sharing 2016 GOALS AND ASSISTS comps?
Grow up.
If Mesut is leaving, it’s because it suits his back account (at last).
Chris Wheatley said there have been talks between DC United and Fenerbache. It seems like the lean is more towards Turkey.
I suspect if he goes this month, Arsenal will still carry a portion of his wedge until Maybe, but any help is better than nothing.
The rumblings I am hearing are that there are three major priorities at the club right now.
SELL PLAYERS
The squad is badly bloated. That hits the bank account, but it also affects the training camp. Big names, dropped for kids, feeling very embarrassed is not how you create a high performance culture.
Our squad needs a dramatic trimming. Losing Mesut would be a HUGE win, hopefully he’ll take the toxic fanboys with him. The next highest priority on the list has to be Sokratis, who is taking the fancy of Genoa. Then we have to pray someone can pick up Mustafi, who can be difficult.
David Luiz will take care of himself within 5 months and the kids seem to like him, but we still have big issues. Xhaka, Mo and Willian need to be shipped as well, but I think that seems less likely.
BACK UP KEEPER
This is an absolute necessity. The most dangerous miss in our squad. The club knows this. We’re about to move Matt Macey to Hibernian, but we’ll still be lumbered with the wholly unsuitable Runarsson.
Expect a loan deal here. It goes without saying, but the goalkeeping coach should be absolutely nowhere near this decision. Leave it with the analysts to pick the options. We need someone a bit older, that’s played at a top flight club in Europe, and ideally in the Premier League. Experience is absolutely key… no chances on the mates of someone at the club. Data driven, with an eye test as the confirmation.
At a basic level, look at keepers with 6 months on their deals: Fabianski, Sergio Romero, Gigi Buffon, Marko Dmitrovic, Tomáš Vaclík, Rui Silva, Begovic, Donnaruma and John bloody Ruddy. Nearly all of those names have extensive top level experience. None of them would crash us if the worst happened to Leno. They’d all be cut price right now.
CREATIVITY
The final priority is creativity, but this will only happen if there’s a really sexy opportunity. It seems fairly clear now that Arsenal has stumbled on a way forward. The obsession with short term fixes needs to end and we need to move forward. The biggest concern for the next 5 months is ESR and his fitness. Arteta went from ‘CANNOT COACH ATTACK’ to ‘THIS IS INTERESTING’ and most of that was because we added a competent #10. If we lose him to a hamstring, we’ll go back to being painfully bland again.
The rebuild now and in the summer needs to be heavily skewed in favour of fast players with the hunger to press for 90 minutes. The shape of the creative midfielder we find has to match that. There’s no use bringing in Eriksen… I’d even say that praying Isco wants to run of his gut seems a risk. I don’t know if Buendia is the answer, but at the very least, he matches the profile of player we should be taking a chance on.
So… an interesting month ahead. The right move is cull the squad before we grow. If we grow, let’s pray that we do it with a future facing mindset.
Right, I’m off to watch William Saliba run the defence over in Nice, a start right away, you love to see it.
See you in the comments. x
There’s tabloid talk that Balogun is being linked to 15 clubs but so long as Arteta doesn’t play him, he’s crap.
His agent is probably whipping up a storm but it’s evident that there’s something about him.
Wilko
So you weighed the woman even though she was seated in a car?
Glad to see what intrigues you in a sordid affair
nope dissenter was the fat white woman crying in the car
Andy is an incel.
Those guys always hate Wenger because he achieved so much compared to them.
Wilko, he clearly states that may not have signed him, for a man paid millions to win football matches that’s not acceptable. As I said previously if he didn’t realise the amount of abuse that would result then he’s plain stupid. He’s using the situation to make headlines and sell his crappy book. Not much empathy there.
So the bottom line, we are 4pts worse off than we should be. Extrapolate that over a full season and you have 8pts worse off. 8pts is the difference between getting 4th and finishing 8th outside the European places.
Absolute nonsense.
Speculation at best. No-one knows what the remainder of the season holds. Using your logic Sheffield Utd will end the season with 2 points. And what about the points gained via wonder saves?
I get it. You don’t rate Leno. That’s fine.
4 points.
An ‘incel’ Kris? What an odd term to use, maybe a bit of projection on your part?
“So according to some Arteta is not trying to clear the squad at the expense of Willock, Nelson, Balogun…” Where was is it written in the link you posted that edu objected to the sales of those players mentioned in the article? It’s clearly known that our incomings depends on outgoings which means we need to trim the squad to accommodate new players. The clearing could be loan moves or outright sales which was not stated in the link you shared. The names mentioned are nelson, willock, eleny, papa, ozil mustafi, Balogun. But you made it sound like Arteta is… Read more »
“put pen to paper”
Karsa
Hypothetical question.
If Martinez was still our #1, which he should be, do you think we’d have more points than we currently have?
Based on team focus and disruption, what do you think?
Talk of twisting the obvious to suit one’s agenda. I’m not surprised.
So we are loaning money from the Bank of England , Stans a bit short at the moment he’s down to his last 7 billion.
Can’t make it up.
Badly run, from top to bottom.
Based on team focus and disruption, what do you think?
I think there’s every chance that we would have more points with Martinez.
Doesn’t mean I think Leno errors will cost us a European place which was the claim I disputed.
Arteta on Saliba: “He is going to a really strong league…”
Pedro on the same league: “the overall standard of the league is very low”
Oh oh, do I hear a first lovers’ spat?
“Hypothetical question.If Martinez was still our #1, which he should be, do you think we’d have more points than we currently have?Based on team focus and disruption, what do you think?” We will be where we are. Our run of bad performances wasn’t due to bad goalkeeping but unrest in the dressing room, players underperformance, imbalance in the team which is why we lack the cutting edge in these matches. We did more of defending than attacking because we lack creativity along our front line. Players had grudges against the manager because they felt he had favourites. Our midfield was… Read more »
Leno is one of the last players we need to replace in the squad. Not even worth discussing until we’ve replace: CM, LW, ST, RB, RCB.
Karsa,
Exactly my point. Leno isn’t our problem and no one can say what the table will look like at the end of the season.
Can remember everton been touted as title challenger. Even chelsea turned from title challenger to fighting for top 4 within two weeks. Sheffield were moving mountains last season but are now on the brink of relegation.
Exactly my point. Leno isn’t our problem and no one can say what the table will look like at the end of the season.
Yes. Leno is the least of our problems.
He may cost us points or he may win us points. Same can be said of any player.
With the present form of man city, they can go ahead and win the league. Liverpool can also win it even without their defense marshall, Van Dyke
Leno IS a problem and we did have the solution which we let go without a fight. Nevertheless there are far worse problems and I agree we need to get back up rather than upgrade. That ship has sailed for the time being.
There are far more urgent outfield issues to fix.
Leno is not a problem, not in the very least.
We better hope he never gets crocked or is sidelines by exposure to a positive covid-19 individual..
Northbanker,
Leno isn’t a problem as far as am concerned. As bad as were during the bad run of matches, leno wasn’t pummeled as bad as some goalkeepers better than him in a single match.
To the people going after Leno
I hope you get a lengthy dose of Runnar for three games.
Tee
Sorry my friend but that’s a very naive of you.
Do you not think that Martinez leaving disrupted team confidence?
Do you think it was just coincidental that we started underperforming when Leno came back into the fold?
Yes we have visible frailties but losing Martinez had a massive affect on team moral and team cohesion
If I was a multibillionaire owner of the club and had a basic understanding of the game( which Kroenke doesn’t), I would not have sanctioned the move..
Buy the way making flashy saves doesn’t make you a top keeper.
Dissenter
This has nothing to do with Runarsson because we all know now just how shite he is.
Who’s to blame if it is all down to Runarsson?
I wonder.
Leno has kept 5 clean sheets away from home which is only equalled by Martinez funnily enough.
Personally I find the goalkeeping debate tiresome. I would have preferred Martinez given a choice but we have Leno and he is a very good goalkeeper.
The upgrade needs to be the back up keeper which we all know.
“Sorry my friend but that’s a very naive of you.” I know it will degenerative to name calling which isn’t a surprise for me. You said you wanted people’s opinions but you can’t stand other’s opinions which goes to show how irritating you are. We did badly not because of leno and for you to say our martinez leaving disrupted team confidence shows you lack football knowledge. Leno wasn’t responsible for our toothless performance. He wasn’t responsible for laca and Auba firing blank. He wasn’t responsible for our players’ indiscipline I have made up my mind.not to go that lane… Read more »
Why does the club need to take out a £120m loan when they have a wiggy moustachioed billionaire twat for an owner?!
Arteta on Saliba: “He is going to a really strong league…”Pedro on the same league: “the overall standard of the league is very low”Oh oh, do I hear a first lovers’ spat?
The Mrs is always right, enjoy the couch supreme leader!
Just spoken to my MP
He thinks it’s ok for people to hire taxis to get to a vaccine centre that is in the middle of nowhere.There are no buses.
A lot of people do not earn his wages to afford to hire a taxi.
They just live in a bubble.
Unreal
Arsenal have to beg for money.
Our owner is despicable.
Embarrassed
Businesses borrow money all the time and using a credit facility is part of life.
Let’s dispense with the BS, shall we?
Businesses borrow money when there is no other means.
Sums up our lovely owner.
This Leno/Martinez debate is both tiresome and mostly uninformed. Martinez demanded assurances that he will be no1. Arteta refused and said he will fight for position with Leno as every outfield player has to fight for his. Martinez had no1 for the time being but no promises were made. When Villa came for him, Arsenal let him go on merit for being a good servant (Villa did guarantee no1 spot to him). To be honest, I did felt sorry for him leaving, but as Arsenal fan that remebers Arsenal being classy club i find that decision fair. You have interviews… Read more »
“Businesses borrow money when there is no other means.”
Actually that’s not true
Sometimes the loan is just working capital to cover operating expenses. The cost of borrowing is very low at the moment.
Kroenke never presented himself a a sugar daddy owner like Abramovic.
@ Dissenter
Kroenke never presented himself a a sugar daddy owner like Abramovic
But he told us that we would be competing at the highest level. You need money for that.
Business that borrow tend to go out of business.
So poorly run they have to borrow from the devil. Slipperly slope. AFC must be one of the most wasteful businesses out there.
350k pw to a player who doesn’t play. And 250k to a retiree. Goodness me.
Tee
So, as a fan, you were happy with the outcome and are adamant that it had no affect on the team.
Good for you.
What about knowledge of life.
MGooner
You don’t need to spend massively to compete at the highest level.
You need to spend sensibly
We have 19 yr old defender that cost 29 million that was demoted to U-23s, a 72 million transfer fee winger that’s good enough every five games and midfielder who earns 350k weekly that’s home playing fortnite for one year.
Punt on Matt Ryan as our new backup goalie? Brighton are willing to let him leave now that Sanchez has emerged as #1. He is borderline shit and struggles with passing out from back but anything is better than Runnarsaurus
NYT and Washington Post instigated and incited violence and protests against Trump for 4 years and yet it’s Donald Trump whose account is blocked by Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey. Not so long ago the mainstream media and social media was cheering the violent BLM protests and what transpired in Capitol Hill in the last two days was basically a mini reaction to violence and harakiri perpetrated through BLM. Facebook and Twitter are not social media platforms anymore but active state players. They are meddling in internal affairs of several countries and using their might and reach to tarnish the right… Read more »
TR7
“what transpired in Capitol Hill in the last two days was basically a mini reaction to violence and harakiri perpetrated through BLM”
mini reaction? a bunch of goons breaking into a parliament filled with elected representatives carrying out their lawful duties.
Are you aware that four people died?
I subscribe to the WP and read it at least 5 times weekly.. That notion that the WP has been promoting violence is a blatant lie from the dregs of Q
TR7
what on earth are you smoking dude?
NYT and Washington Post instigated and incited violence and protests against Trump for 4 years
TR7 clearly off his meds today
Guns
Let him be
That’s the type of conspiracy theories that lead to mayhem.
People just fabricate stuff and pass it off as facts
Twitter and Facebook are private entities who have come to realize that the guy is a psychopathic narcissist who will burn everything down to save himself.
Did you see how he turned on his his vice president?
In a free market, if there is a need for a right wing leaning social media platform, one will be deployed.
The fact that there isn’t tells its own story.
Arteta better doesn’t register the 19-year-old Omar Rekik in the Europa Cup competition if he doesn’t want to excite his critics. .
Diss
He has turned on his right hand man, pressuring him to do something he has no legal right to do.
Good for Pence to do what is right. Not bow down.
Trump is so desperate in his last days, he will take anything down.
People took to the streets in protest of the killing of innocent African Americans.
I fail to see how any of that has anything to do with what happened yesterday, not how did any major newspaper incite violence…
ignorance!!
*nor
In a free market, if there is a need for a right wing leaning social media platform, one will be deployed.The fact that there isn’t tells its own story.
——-
Parler?
TR7 Sociial networks are PRIVATE BUSINESSES They can do as they wish. If they want to add to your profile that you are a Man U fan they CAN do it, because when you accepted the terms and. conditions of. the platform you agreed with that. You are not happy? Well then create your own product and move your own agenda, you are free to do it. Madrid and barza has a newspaper to move their agenda and bend the facts as they wish. That is how the world works. You said China, well how. do you think they move… Read more »
“Parler”
Had to google it. 4 million active users..
Facebook 2.7 billion.
Nelson – if Rekik is that good then I will be quite happy if he does. Guendouzi was playing regularly for us at 19. Youth players have different rates of development and Saliba has lost a critical 18 months of development. Fingers crossed Saliba will be a huge player for us but we cant just sit around waiting to see if it happens. We continually attempt to raise the bar and the competition for players. The current surplus of CBs wont last for much longer as we ship out the crud. Wouldn’t it be great if by next season both… Read more »
TR7 – I think you’ve mssed the point. You might even be right in part – those papers may have incited violence. BUT 2 wrongs don’t make a right.
If i was American I probably would have voted Trump in 2016. Probably even in 2020 given the weakness of Biden. But his behaviour since losing has been deplorable and yesterday was unforgivable and outright criminal incitation. He should be impeached and imprisoned for his fascist behaviour. There are some parallels with Hitler’s bully tactics in the 1933 elections when the National Socialists won power with a minority vote in Germany..
And Facebook and Twitter are absolutely correct to not let their platforms be further infected with the man’s narcissistic and violent rants.
was a massive fan of trump but he had handled the loss terribly and disgracefully. He should have handled the L with dignity and then won the next election in 4 years if Biden failed as president. Instead he has destroyed his legacy and all his achievements he could of at least the very least bowed out as a very economically strong president who changed the course of US politics by putting USA first and putting China in their place. Instead he will go down as inciting anarchy and anti democracy and be remembered for this instead of his many… Read more »
What’s this news about a CB being signed today?
Luteo
Are you referring to Omar Rekik?
Omar Rekik 19 year old cb comes in
saliba 19 year old cb exits
hmmm doesn’t look good
London
I appreciate your candor but you’re still wrong when you write that Trump was an “economically strong president who changed the course of US politics by putting USA first and putting China in their place.”
We were already in a mild recession in January 2020, just before the pandemic struck
All China has done is make China greater by ceding the international politics space to them. Don’t confuse isolationism with strength my friend,
Rekik was bought for 500K, he’ll play for the U23s…Be loaned out and probably sold for a profit. Just like Mavropanos.
*All Trump has done is make China greater by ceding the international politics space to them. Don’t confuse isolationism with strength my friend,
Samir
“Rekik was bought for 500K, he’ll play for the U23s…Be loaned out and probably sold for a profit. Just like Mavropanos.”
Don’t bet on it
If the lad is good he will be promoted to the senior team. Holding didn’t cost a lot of money too.
@LondonGunner
Putting China in their place?
China is not there yet. It’s GDP used to be something like 70% of the global total 200 years ago. But it should reach close to 15% this decade.
@Dissenter
International political space….. Why is there the need/desire to dominate that space? Cant they live quietly within their space 😉
London,
China is projected to have the largest economy by 2028
Trump and the COVID-19 pandemic hastened it from the previous 2033 projection.
https://www.dw.com/en/china-to-overtake-us-as-largest-global-economy-by-2028-report/a-56061395#:~:text=News-,China%20to%20overtake%20US%20as%20largest%20global%20economy%20by%202028,by%20a%20UK%20think%20tank.
There’s a difference between tough demagoguery and reality.
Did Saliba pull a Zaha? Does Arteta have a niece or young cousin that Saliba fucked or something? Why loan out a 27m CB to bring in a 1m CB?
Dissenter My understanding of American Chinese relations is that under Bush and then Obama american bent over backwards for China and allowed China to take a mammoth piss in trade negotiations and basically paved the way to become a super power. The reason was globalist desire for cheap labour and cheap goods and also perhaps a little fear of the potential of China as a military force better to let them eat at the table then turn it over. Trump is a bit of a shark a bully in some ways he reco gised china’s game and it seemed that… Read more »
Wouldn’t it be great if Rekik was the real deal. Lot of clubs already though. A Mertesacker recommendation. He has apparently also played DM.
Luteo – they’re separate decisions. If i recall correctly this deal was set up last Summer but too late for the paperwork. Get over Saliba – he will hopefully return a better player. If Rekik is good then it adds to serious cometition. If he isn’t its a small investment and not another 27m burned
* competition
“was a massive fan of trump”
The only way it’s possible to have been a massive fan of Trump is if someone believes completely fabricated and/or biased reporting to be true. That, or you might just be an idiot racist that falls easily for propaganda. I guess those things aren’t mutually exclusive though.
The US used to be the country of innovation, not so much now. China made the most of WTO. The US corporations grew exponentially during that time but they did not invest back into their country, choosing to keep their cash abroad to pay less taxes if at all they paid. So, the issue of the US was one of taxation also. The other thing is that when you open up global trade, you have to retrain your labour force as foreign imports change the industrial landscape. Why did the US not retrain them… in fact most countries in the… Read more »
“Get over Saliba – he will hopefully return a better player.” I’m not a fan of things that don’t make any sense on multiple levels, this Saliba thing is one of them. If he plays well in France, the question becomes why didn’t he get his chance here? If he stinks then the question becomes why was he bought at such a hefty price tag in the first place? I’ve got no desire to see Saliba in league matches if he’s not ready but feel like it’s reasonable to be curious as to why things have gone the way they… Read more »
Luteo
why do.people have to play identify politics and accuse people of racism.
Looks like Balogun is out
Wtf
London It has nothing to do with Obama or Bush. Trump just used that to scare people. It’s what happens when the forces of a capitalist drive economy meets with the opportunities that globalization. China provided excellent cheap labor and industry for American business. The American consumer lover the cheaper made in china goods so it should have been mutually beneficial to both countries. It’s the American consumer that has also contributed to the advantage China has obtained. That’s how Walmart and now amazon.com became successful. .then you add the impact of automation and robots in industry. Why should 10… Read more »
why do.people have to play identify politics and accuse people of racism.
Ask Trump, your beloved leader
**It’s what happens when the forces of a capitalist driven economy meets with the opportunities that globalization can provide.
“Bojangles
So it would seem.Whatever you and I think It’ll not change the way the incompetents run the club from Arteta upwards.”
I imagine the worse thing that has happened at Arsenal, for you, the past week was us winning three games in a row. At least you are not alone at LG.
“Arteta better doesn’t register the 19-year-old Omar Rekik in the Europa Cup competition if he doesn’t want to excite his critics.”
All what the critics can is to moan and whinge. He doesn’t even know if they exist
“NYT and Washington Post instigated and incited violence and protests against Trump for 4 years…”
TR7
Care to give examples of these instances ?
I’m assuming they should be fairly easy to find since NYT and WaPo have been doing it for 4 years.
Tom – does it make ny difference.? TR7 is desperately trying to excuse Trump by finding another antagonist. See my previous post – nothing excuses Trump’s terrorist actions.
Tom
Don’t hold your breath expecting an answer from TR7
It seems he’s been drinking from the QAnon streams
Northbanker
Yes it makes a difference
It the “alternate facts” that got us to the place we are at now..
a number of senators and congresspeople drank from the Q stream.
in fact, they drank gallons and gallons….
So did the 5000 people who attempted a coup, with guns, bombs and zip ties to take prisoners.
The “president” is deranged. Not sure how else to put it… his followers are sadly brainwashed as well. Eerily resembles Nazi Germany…
Wilko
I thought you were still fantasizing about fat women
Go face a wall and wank off to your heart’s desire.
Wilko
Of course you assumed, based on the fetishes you struggle with every day.
I bet you have calluses all over your hands from all those hand movements.
When you’re a hammer everything is a nail… when you’re a pervert everything is about fat women.
“Wilko” is the yet another assumed alter
Probably the 10th in the long line of loser-monikers you’ve assumed here.
Wilko
You do realize you have the power to skip past posters who bore you with their content.
Also, I hate to brake it to you but your football related input isn’t very insightful or interesting, if I’m honest.
Now, mine might not be of the highest level either but at least I never claimed one should only head the ball with their forehead lol.
Jamie,
Seriously, you had to look it up on Google?
I thought everybody knew about it.
Parler is the forum where TR7 chats shit with his Trumpistani mates about nefarious globalists like you.
That’s when he’s not busy storming The Capitol in the name of freedumb or communicating with Q on 8-Chan about traitors and satanist paedo Democrats.
The rest of the time (he’s a busy guy) he’s on here.
The red neck, Appalachia types and inner city demographics should realise they are facing a common tyrant
Just caught up with the events happening in the US. Trump actually asked his followers to march down to the Capitol and to take over the congress so that the election result cannot be officially announced. It is just like chairman Mao Zedong calling on his red army to destroy his opponents or Hittler burnt down the Reichstag after losing the election. Trump is definitely one of the kind.
Bojangles
‘I imagine the worse thing that has happened at Arsenal, for you, the past week was us winning three games in a row. At least you are not alone at LG’
Too much beer last night or not enough Bojangles or you need new glasses?
Please feel free to quote any of my posts that says I wanted the team to lose to get rid of Arteta?
Stick to the truth Bojangles it’s a better optic for you.
‘under the aegis of corporate globalization, the immigrant laborer should have no different status than the worker who moves to Chicago from a rust-belt city like Youngtown looking for employment. Both are engaged in the same endeavor. If the immigrant reveals the machinery of coloniality that still surrounds the US economy, a similar coloniality, interior to the US border, is reflected in the Youngstown worker’s decision to cross state lines. Yet they stand on opposite sides of an ideological boundary, whose many names include “ethnicity” or “national identity.” ‘
VAR: ThaI vet 1 vs Viet vet 0
Sid
lol
Deplorables will be deplorables Trump voters got exactly what was promised and they lapped up every second of it. Not one person was surprised it would end this way. That woman who died (it’s a tragedy that it came to that btw) was saying on Facebook that trump was sent by God to do gods work on earth. Like on what planet does someone have to live on to actually believe that a person who has spent *so* much time lying, cheating and behaving in such an ungodly way was doing gods work If Obama had been president and done… Read more »
China
I am sure studies have been done on how the masses are easily swayed to follow facist or cult leaders.
It is remarkable how easily folks can get completely indoctrinated.
we speak about how Islamic radicals get converted, but in some ways its the same thing,….
Keep feeding lies over and over and a percentage of folks will believe.
You keep saying the sky is purple, after time, some will really believe it.
The election lies have been spouted off so much that about a 100 senators/ congress people drank that kool aid by the gallon
Its crazy