Well, the weekend was very interesting.
Spurs lost. Leicester lost. UNITED DROPPED POINTS LOLOLOL. Everton lost.
Project #Top4 Hope continues, even if unlikely.
What has been interesting is reading a whole number of Arsenal fans trying to reframe the last 5 weeks to keep up the pretense that actually, they were right.
Here’s some things we need to deal with.
The Squad
Arteta stumbling on ESR as a creative solution isn’t a problem. In the apocalypse, if you stored canned fruit, no one would say… ‘fuck that guy and his peaches, that was luck.’ Arteta and his backroom staff massively rated ESR, they kept him around when they could have loaned him, so ‘stumbling’ on him is a bit like calling the canned fruit guy a wanker for being well prepared.
Reacting Under Pressure
I’m also seeing a lot of ‘he caved under pressure’ with the kids. Well, sure, he changed tact. But when you cave, you generally don’t do something more risky. Going with youth was always the right thing to do, but let’s not pretend that was easy option. The easy option would have been to bring Mesut back into the mixer. To whine in the press about a lack of talent. To stick with experience. Going with the kids was balls out, especially against Chelsea. Dropping Willian and Luiz was a big move. It worked, thankfully.
Also, we live in this weird world where people think changing strategy is a sign of weakness. NO. Pivoting in the face of new information is the adult thing to do. ‘haha, you changed to get to the right solution’ in any real-world situation would not be something that you’d say… because people would call you a fucking moron.
He was close to the sack
Here’s the big one, ‘he only did it because he was nearing the sack.’ Actually, he wasn’t. Not at any point. Arsenal didn’t flinch. They told the world he was part of the longterm plan. They held their ground. This seemed to have worked.
Chelsea is called elite because they fire loads of managers. I think this is an incorrect assessment. Sacking people isn’t elite, it’s a luxury. Players at that club have a direct line into leadership. When things go south, they whine, they’re listened to, they normally get their way.
We are thankfully not Chelsea. Vinai and Edu stuck to their guns and it paid off. The players found out the hard way that they couldn’t down tools on Arteta. The club shipped out the problem players. They totally backed the manager. This might have been because they didn’t have a plan. It could have been that they worried for their own careers if this decision went down the shitter, but whatever it was, so far, it looks smart.
Aston Villa didn’t fire Dean Smith after a narrow miss last season, that decision looks smart right now.
Southampton didn’t fire Ralph Hassenhutl last season, that looks really smart right now.
Brighton didn’t fire Graham Potter, again, it hasn’t fully paid off, but it looks pretty smart now.
That said, if Arteta had been fired, it would have been fair. You couldn’t have argued it. However, it might have set a Chelsea like precedent with the players.
So, moving on. It’s transfer deadline day. The club is in far better shape than it was. There’s a vision forming and the football is getting better.
Today, I really hope Ben Knapper pulls his finger out and moves on the players we need to move on.
The back half of the season is about preparation for next season, which will look a little more like normality.
Joe Willock and Reiss Nelson made a fuss about not leaving last summer. That ‘we’ll be good’ experiment failed dismally. Time to get some game time into their legs and get them firing. There can be no excuses for them staying. They aren’t going to play and we have no cup games for them.
AMN, a player I really like, needs to find a loan. If his beef with the club is that he wants to play as a midfielder, we need to find him a club that’ll give him midfield minutes. I think I’d prefer to see him at West Brom than Leicester or Southampton. He should go and play for Sam Allardyce and be a star. Keep them up. Sharpen the concentration. Learn the lessons Serge G did in the midlands. Come back to Arsenal next season a more mature player.
Callum Chambers also needs minutes. He has a 43 year deal with Arsenal, so it’s important he gets back to full fitness. The path is blocked at Arsenal. I think he could be really useful for us and apparently he’s a bit of a gem at the training ground. Get him to a club and develop him. He was doing great things before that horrendous injury.
Then we need to move on Mustafi. Get him out. He’s played 43 minutes for us in the Premier League this season, give him no more. It’s so sad to see a 28-year-old see out his deal for the money. What a waster.
Players in
Unless it’s more loans, I really don’t see the point in spunking money on 30-year-olds. We have cover in most positions. Go with it. No more deals for players fading physically.
New deals
I really, really can’t stand listening to Arteta pump David Luiz the way he does. His one true weakness is a men in their thirties. He CANNOT possibly be considering a new deal for a player that was all over the place earlier in the season. You ‘hope’ it’s just fluff talk to get us to the end of the season, but we’ve seen him double down on his love once before, so who knows. That temptation should be killed.
Same with Lacazette as well. I love what the player has given us, but it’s time for the next plan. We need to be thinking about fresh blood. We have to ship him out.
Summer transfers
The hope is that we’ll make some cash this summer. Covid vaccines are rolling out, which is superb. That’ll mean fans will be back in the ground. That should awaken the markets. Matteo G will fetch a pretty penny, the Fail-Enders who don’t cut it will bring in good fee, and Torreira will have plenty of suiters. If we can rake in £70m, that’ll give us what we need for a world class centre midfielder and the loan fee for Odegaard for next season.
The remainder of this season is low pressure. Rack up points for a speculative run at top 4 (8 points to 4th now). Try and win the Europa League. See how the team handles the next blip that’ll arrive.
All eyes are on next season though… we need to see the project come together for a full 9 months. Fingers crossed, we’re shaping up nicely.
P.S. We dropped an ON THE WHISTLE with Johnny (check out his Youtube), Dom, and Matt. It is a GOOD conversation. Tune in.
Arsenal hire an unproven coach who is learning his trade with no guarantee he will make the grade.
Dissenter
“They have to stand up to Arteta and curb his instincts for hoarding players.”
That’s called keeping them in the can.
The England international looks set to join the Baggies for the remainder of the season
There goes one can!
WE Yes good work by Arteta and Edu in identifying and offloading players who are either not good enough (Kola, Mustafi, Sokratis) or in the case of Ozil a player who probably cares more about politics and religion than his football. Real shame though that we didn’t get one peny from selling Ozil, Mustafi, Kola, Sokratis etc. We spent close to 85M on buying them. Moreover, I am happy they did not lose their faith in Holding who I have always rated as a player. Cedric and Mari in hindsight look smart acquisitions. AMN is another player who I think… Read more »
Still annoyed Rat Face version 2.0, wasn’t sent off for raking his studs down Xhaka’s ankle.
Thought when VAR interfered the plonker Penandez was off not knowing Oliver was a bigger plonker
Niles off to West Brom to save Fat Sam from relegation?
Hope the Fat cvnt show serious gratitude to us for the favor! Still want them to go down tbf
At least as this window is concerned, Edu and Arteta have played a really bad hand quite well.
-We’ve bitten the bullet with Ozil, Kolasinac, Mustafi and Sokratis.
-We’ve found non-threatening homes for AMN and Willock (hopefully)
-We demoted Runarsson by bringing in Ryan and added creativity in Odegaard.
Basically, every decision has made sense. This is a huge improvement from our summer business..
Does letting Niles leave
Without getting in another full back
Seem like negligence to anyone else?
This leaves Soares, Bellerin, Tierney
Chambers isn’t full back, and he’s our only right sided centre half to cover for Holding
Have we got a full back ready to come through from Hale End?
3 full backs doesn’t seem like enough
Rich
Cedric can play both wings. Saka if needed can play as a left back. Holding can play right back. We are well covered.
Great window this for getting rid of most of the deadwood, another 35m ish off the wage bill, should help with mitigating our losses. Almost all clear now of the wasters, too bad we added another one in Willian but with the talent emerging in his positions and the fact we brought in another Cam makes me think that he won’t be seeing nearly as much game time as the old guard did. A shame the AMN move doesn’t seem to come with an obligation to buy. a CM/DM, Cam and Laca replacement in the summer and we start to… Read more »
Seriously I’d be very angry if we don’t sign a genuine LB
Cedric is more suited as a RB and there’s been zero goal threat from the left since Tierney has been out;
Get a specialist LB in and considering the massive clearing out of deadwoods it’d be a 100% satisfying window
Victorious “Marc we were made to believe you took a break because Arteta turned it around and your man crush Xhaka was then playing like peak Pirlo? Found it hard to believe at the time I mean I dunno Welcome back all the same” Thanks mate – yeah Pedro would have you believe all sorts of bullshit. I was getting too wound up by things and decided to take a week or so off. Pedro then sent me an email checking I was OK which I thought was a really nice thing to do – almost classy for a guy… Read more »
History tells us you can never rely on players like Tierney! Plays a blinder one game and they go off tje next couple of matches, we absolutely need a decent back up, simple .
“It all went a bit strange after that, Pedro kept emailing me begging me to come back and spank him like I used to”
Classic Peds.
“They have to stand up to Arteta and curb his instincts for hoarding players.”
What the fuck does this even mean?
Agree have to hand it to Edu showing signs of being pretty much what we asked for, so many dead enders out, many others headed on loans with elite attacking Mid field cover to get us to summer.
Not the most exciting window overall but certainly looking effective in doing the dirty work.
Holding is now our first choice right sided centre back I’m not convinced we want to unbalance that, or that I really want to see Holding running up and down the right wing for 90 minutes Cedric has had injuries this season Bellerin did his cruciate 2 years ago, and looks physically shot since he stopped eating meat Tierney has been plagued by injuries over the past few seasons Chambers has struggled at right back, and we won’t be doing him any favours playing him there coming back after over 12 months out Unless we’ve got a young player coming… Read more »
Lol Marc, see you still have that sense of humor intact! Seriously it is never a dull moment having you around here!
Your back and forth with Pedro was the only interesting action on Legrove when we were in a ‘relegation’ battle a few weeks back. You’re a legend for always attempting to give Pedro some whooping and yet never seem to be in danger of a ban! Cheers
“Seems Edus obituary was written a bit early, done good work the last 2 windows. Never really had a chance to do anything with the squad before that so always felt the criticism was unwarranted” It was a bit bizarre, he hadn’t even got his feet under his desk ffs!!! Some people just moan because it turns them on; it has to be a fetish, no different from wearing a gimp mask and sucking on an orange while someone gives it to you large. In all seriousness, they are getting rid of the deadwood and I never thought I would… Read more »
Rich
It might be a little risky to have Cedric cover for two positions but we’ll see.
I’m definitely against using Holding as RB cover and Saks at LB. both of them have earned the right to be first-choice in their preferred positions when fit.
There will be no more incomings but I tell you this, this AMN situation is eerily similar to the Keiran Gibbs one. We turned down £10m for him in a window if I’m correct, only to sell him for £7m in the same window.
What are they smoking over there at the Emirates for real?
AFC
Totally disagree on Edu-he still has to prove himself. This summer was a mixed bag and it’s too early to tell about this window although he moves all seem to make sense.
Who in their right mind wants to move Holding? That is insane.
We had enough of that nonsense in the past putting square pegs into round holes. Our defensive improvement speaks for itself, the one thing you don’t want to do is fk with that. The back-line is a unit, they all have to know what they are doing especially the two CB’s and the keeper. You do not mess with that if it’s working – which it is.
Bacaryisgod
You totally disagree that he should be given time before being judged?
Victorious
I will never surrender or give up the fight against Kim Dumb Pedro.
Who in their right mind wants to move Holding? That is insane”
Mind boggling really, the very moment we seem to be having a settled CB pairing, people would like some experiment, lol
Willock should also go out on loan.
Spurs loose back to back and Marc is back in fold, that a boy.
Hope all good with you!
Some of you have real comprehension problem. Nobody is suggesting Holding be moved to right back. All that was said was if there’s any emergency he could play there, wasn’t that difficult to comprehend.
According to
@Scottwilsonecho
, Joe Willock will sign for Newcastle on loan for the remainder of the season – & there have been suggestions #Arsenal will agree to a deal that will see him automatically return to Tyneside for the whole of the 2021-22 season if all parties agree.
Makes sense to let him go out on loan for more than just 6 months.
Kris Chambers playing right back petrified me, he’s beyond slow over the first few metres Gives away silly free kicks, has no recovery pace He’s just coming back from a cruciate, and as we’ve seen with Holding + Bellerin, it takes time to find rhythm, and players often pick up niggles along the way You’re right he has more experience at right back Right back 89 games Centre back 79 games Defensive mid 40 games He’s been targeted by pacy players time and again, he might be an option, but I’m not convinced he’s an option I want to see… Read more »
Wouldn’t mind seeing Chambers at right-back. Stays on his feet and another 6 footer, which gives us aerial presence and physicality. He’s good with the ball, he’s not going to go sprinting down the line but be a good option especially in those games where you need a bit more defensive security imo.
We took a 120 million loan facility and suddenly these players are all leaving …because we are paying them off. No magic there, it’s just money talking. You don’t need that much technical director acumen to pull off these outward movements.
It’s like crediting Edu for Partey when all he did was use the club’s money to activate a contractual clause.
sal
Cheers mate I’m good.
How are you getting on?
What I’d like to know is if everyone knows Kane’s got glass ankles then why hasn’t some one put him out earlier in the season?
Diss Not sure we’re paying anyone off, except maybe Ozil. The rest we have just agreed to terminate their contracts so they can move without a transfer fee. It has obviously been made easier by the majority of the wasters only having 6 months left of their contracts, that has always been the stumbling block before. Did you expect Edu to convince Atletico to sell a player that they wanted to keep when that player had a release clause? We tried but when that failed we took action, that’s not something we have been great at in the past. Not… Read more »
Dissenter
Best signal of intent from Edu is Ødegaard, that and concluding the dead enders we’re just that.
Naive to think Arteta isn’t giving maximum input as well.
From Arsenal.com
“Kieran is continuing to be assessed for discomfort in the right lower leg. Kieran is unavailable for Tuesday’s match.”
At least Auba is back.
The £120m loan must be paid back by the end of May along with an undisclosed sum of interest. It has strict rules attached to it because it is designed to cover losses. It will not have any effect on transfers, contracts or player dealings.
Freddie
Make no mistake about it, we are paying these players something to agree to mutually cancel their contracts. We are probably meeting them somewhere in the middle.
I’ll wait till the summer to drop accolades on Edu when he moves out the players that Arteta wants to keep.
It’s a mixed bag for me- he gets credit for Mari and Cedric – high marks
Willian is a major demerit – a big festering ulcer
AFC Forever
“The £120m loan must be paid back by the end of May along with an undisclosed sum of interest. It has strict rules attached to it because it is designed to cover losses. It will not have any effect on transfers, contracts or player dealings.”
It’s a net gain to pay off the players for a portion of their remaining contracts. Player personnel cost is about 70% of the club’s expenditure so why else would we need to borrow wo much money, relay the turf?
All good Marc, enjoying this roller coaster season and the Arsenals recent revival notably ESR and Saka dueting.
No idea how it all plays out though, but we’ve definitely turned a corner after finding the deep Pacific.
We’ve turned a corner and will hit a brick wall when we play some decent teams.
“Brighton transfer news: Moises Caicedo signed from Independiente del Valle”
It will make it easier to sell Bissouma, come July.
Redtruth/Marble
Good thing you’re around here, now no one will call me negative.
Looks bang on the business is done with W BROM FOR MN.
Big mistake again but he just does not want to play full back
and I suspect he has made that clear to the manager.?
Lighten up Red worst case for you Arteta actually pulls 4th and you can then compare him to Wenger.
Suspect you’ll be safe there though but if these results keep dropping anythings possible.
Spurs fans are really not a happy bunch. Players fighting, another storming out at half time and Gareth Bale on over £300k per week and making Willian look like Ronaldo or Messi. Losing to Brighton, playing boring football and the documentary exposing the problems in their dressing room. That documentary was such a bad idea. Dele Ali’s rant during the defeat to RB Leipzig last season they claim pissed off Maureen: ”Come on boys, want the ball. Play. We’re just smashing it long and f***ing defending. We’re not going to win nothing like that” Then there are arguments in the… Read more »
“relay the turf?”
You just can’t help yourself, can you.
Sal
“Lighten up Red worst case for you Arteta actually pulls 4th and you can then compare him to Wenger. Suspect you’ll be safe there though but if these results keep dropping anythings possible”.
If we pull 4th, Pedro will have to very quickly come to an arrangement with the Samaritans and have their helpline plastered all over his blog.
Relay the turf? Sod off!
Pedro get his wish WBA it is for AMN this has been a good window onwards and upwards
Does anyone miss days like this in the past when you’d see twitching ‘arry announce from the window of a spivvy range rover that he just signed the third highest scorer in the Albanian league for 18 million (while neglecting to mention he’d trousered another 18 million for himself)? No, me neither.
Considering Arteta at one time was using Sokratis as a right back, Chambers wouldn’t be a huge surprise. Cedric can cover both positions until we are forced by a double injury. Unless we have a left back in the pipe line in the next hours.
Some really good moves today.
Glad AMN is at WBA. He can make a meaningful impact there.
Good for Willock to go to Newcastle, they are shite creatively.
Also… some other sharp loan moves.
A VERY good window.
Bally, Arsenal will still be picking up the wages of Mesut… the agreement would have been how much. Same for the others.
Some Algebra
AMN +WBA = FBM squared
Fucking bad move
Even if he looks like Fernando Redondo in the Baggie’s midfield, he must be sniffing the wintergreen if he thinks he’ll get into our midfield after they get relegated. Its a bit like changing your mum’s doctor when she’s ill to Harold Shipman.
If you’d of said Jan 1 club would be cut shot of Sokratis, Ozil, Mustafi, Macey with Kolasinac, Willock, AMN and Saliba all sent on loan. Add in Ødegaard and Ryan in as cover till seasons end have to think overall consensus would be a pretty fucking glowing review. Considering financial state overall and our needs.
Still a great window Pedro, I am so happy right now we can keep our powder dry for the summer and bring in some fresh young blood
Just wish we could sign Balogan up and get him some game time
Seriously Forever we all hate Spurs and hopefully they will be ‘in crisis’ as the season goes on but the double standards are a bit much all the same. Club in sixth “In Crisis” Club when fifteenth ‘Not in Crisis’ Spurs players fighting “Crisis” Arteta hunting leaker following scuffle “Not Crisis” Gareth Bale on over £300k per week “Crisis” Ozil on £350k/week and not even making the PL squad “Not Crisis” Losing to Brighton – “Crisis”, Losing to Burnley at home “No Crisis” Playing boring football – “Crisis” Playing terrible football and averaging 2/3 shots per game – “No Crisis”… Read more »
Mr Serge, it’s been electric if we’re honest.
Moving out players far more important than moving them in.
Deadweight is all but gone.
Yep Sal.. Now we just need to get some damn points in the table for some validation. I pretty much agree with Marc from earlier too.. Given the huge revenue gap due to Covid.. Cant see us go on too much of a spending spree in the summer no matter how many players we sell or wages.. saved. If we are going to continue with the facade of Sustainabilty there is like a 250mill gap in revenue that has to be paid including our short term loan.
Andy, weird that you were here through November and December and you don’t think Arsenal fans were talking about a crisis?
I’ve not seen a take that detached from reality in a year.
How about Mourinho in the process of nuking yet another Club though?.. Got to love it.
Andy1886
Great great post
Andy, your comment was so detached from reality that Henry19 liked it. The guy that hung his hat on Emery as a top 3 coach in the world and thinks Chelsea are a shit side.
Hahaha Peds has a point, Red just gave your post the kiss of death, Andy. We were in crisis… just look at Mourinho’s history though.. and you know you wouldn’t want to be them right now.
Every Club in a sense is in crisis…barring maybe City who don’t worry about such trivial things like money… . it’s how we handle it.. and this window is a great start along with not losing. Losing heightens everyone’s sense of crisis.
Willock 18 month loan apparently, hopefully we gets plenty of game time
Would only have 12 months left on his deal on return
Hopefully we can renew him for at least an extra 12 months, or we potentially leaves ourselves in a weak negotiating position in the summer of 2023
Pedro, perhaps you’re being deliberately obtuse but I’m referring to the ‘cheerleaders’ who were claiming that we were nowhere near a crisis back then, yet claim one for the scum now when their position is not nearly as bad as ours was.
The thing is, for anyone who did believe that fifteenth and terrible football IS a crisis we can say the same of Spurs if they end up in the same boat and be 100% consistent. Unlike the ra-ra band who couldn’t do the same.
As I said, I hope that happens and we can all pile in.
Kris
“If by ‘many’ they mean Pierre, they’re not lying.”
No , but you are ……I’ll wait.
Still a few hours left to get a decent manager on loan… fingers crossed. Jokes aside, it’s been probably one of the better January transfer windows in recent history. I just wish Xhaka was one of the departures as well but hey, can’t have everything, I suppose. We do need another LB though.
Andy1886Great great post”
Of course Red! Aren’t you the other pea in the clueless pod
Middy,
Agree it’ll be a low key summer, suspect at most 3-4 depending on outs.
We all know areas we need to buy, whats potentially more interesting is who’ll be in shop window with club accepting offers.
“I really, really can’t stand listening to Arteta pump David Luiz the way he does.”
Did no one really comment on this?! Here’s looking at you, Pedro The Hypocrite, and way you pump Arteta every chance you get. Top generational coach, my arse.
Sal-‘
Yep .. the big one for me.. will be Lacazette.. lots of variables involved with how he finishes out season. But seems to me.. he would be biggest asset to shop around.
We have made a lot of poor signings in the last 4-5 years, absolutely imperative that from here onwards we focus on quality than quantity. Arteta and Edu will not only have to show great judgement but will also have to make sure they don’t cave in to the pressure to spend from fans and the media.
TR7
” Arteta and Edu will not only have to show great judgement but will also have to make sure they don’t cave in to the pressure to spend from fans and the media.”
I don’t think we’re going to have a huge amount of cash to spend so it’s going to be about smart signings not big names. We are still looking at a possible chance of no European football next season which will just compound matters.
The biggest thing right now.. is to continue the Pepe reclamation project … that could save the Club a huge amount of money just by him playing well and of course helping to ease the goal scoring burden. Was looking like we were going to take a ginormous bath on that one. Fair to say he was on his last leg (left leg of course) as a starter before it seems to have kicked in. Him playing well..eliminates the need for Willian as a starting option. as well.. so a lot riding on it.
SkySports news presenters pushing the climate change agenda, sustainable clothing, vegan leather shoes and vegetarian pizzas…..
I kid you not…..
Mustafi apparently out of the door.
https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/done-deal-arsenal-defender-mustafi-joins-schalke-kabak-free-to-leave-for-liverpool/view/news/379335
How can they not bring in a LB tho? Any form of injury to Cedric now and that’s a team of no specialist LB and no back up option for the erratic Bellerin
We’ll end up regretting not bring in a cover I’m telling you now, Tierney can’t stay fit and Cedric isn’t really a LB
Did ANM go on loan to WBA or was he sold?
Joe Willock for 18 months is a good step
This window is a reflection of how poor the club has been run for the last 3 years. AMN loan move to WBA is just another example how poor decision making has cost the club millions during this period as we were offered and turned down good money for him and then never played him …makes sense. Ozil Mustafi Guendouzi Torreira Sokratis Saliba AMN Willian Kolasinac We have not received one penny for these players and no doubt had to pay millions for some of the players to terminate their contracts . And yet we give Willian a 3 year… Read more »
Pedro 18 months is a long time. But he will probably play. I think we need to assess these players and sell who isn’t good enough. Players do develop a bit later sometimes but no one can know that unless the talent was there for all to see like gnabry. Anyway at the end of that loan we need to either sell him, Or know he is worth keeping.
Andy Why am I not surprised you get all the up because we laugh at Spurs in crisis. To actually go out of your way to turn the conversation around to be a negative attack on Arsenal is truly an eye opener. Well Mr Miserable, it wasn’t Arsenal fans who were bragging about them winning the league, except Dissenter and a couple of others, it was Spurs fans and their mates in the media. The fact I shouldn’t be enjoying it because we were in crisis, Jesus mate you’ve got something wrong with you. Fk Spurs and the same to… Read more »
Pierre, there’s plenty to celebrate.
They still rate Willock and AMN… so giving them Premier League experience is smart.
Saliba is in their plans next season if he improves at Nice.
The wrong’uns have all been moved out… the fee really doesn’t matter at this point, it’s all about the culture.
Odegaard helps with creativity and Mat Ryan stops us having to deal with an amateur in goal.
Nothing to celebrate… really, Pierre?
if you don’t understand the relief people feel when we are getting shot of dead weight.. and players not good enough that we have been forced to see play when they clearly weren’t good enough..
Then you are beyond help. I guess.. I understand your having separation anxiety issues over .. you know who .. starts with an O.
Pierre
You might want to get used to a deflated market, clubs aren’t just skint, they’re haemorrhaging money
And it may be a while yet before they get people back through the turnstiles
Ligue 1 apparently put their TV rights out for tender today
And whilst some big hitters gone involved in the bidding, none of the bids weren’t enough to keep French football afloat
Guys, cut Pierre some slack. He’s finding it hard to celebrate anything since Ozil moved to Turkey.
Pedro
“The wrong-uns have been moved out, the fee doesn’t matter it’s about the culture”
5 Star comment, take a bow.
We had a lot of poison at the club and that helps nobody. Especially young players. As far as I am concerned we have got rid of a lot of deadwood and taken the decision to bite the bullet on some of those. Good. About bloody time we started acting like the huge club we are. Something we all wanted, surely.
Pierre,
All I understood from your post is that, why keep Willian and let Ozil go lol.
As Pedro said, it’s not about the money, it’s about the loser mentality that Ozil and his boys develop during Uncle Wenger years.
Forever, did you actually read my post? Doesn’t seem like it. Remind me where it’s an attack on Arsenal? It’s an attack on hypocrites and double standards. Read the bit again where I state that I hope that they do end up in a real crisis and we can all laugh at them. I hope they sink lower than we did earlier this season and stay there. Laughing at them in sixth is a little premature isn’t it? If we finish sixth would that be a crisis when fifteenth wasn’t? You seem confiused…
Hope Willock does well & plays regularly as I believe there is a decent player in there, even if a squad player for us.
“The wrong’uns have all been moved out… the fee really doesn’t matter at this point, it’s all about the culture.”
And the new wrong uns will be Willian and Aubameyang…
The mamager loses faith in them, can’t sell due to high wages, so they sit tight intil the end of their contract.
And Xhaka will probably be given a new contract.after a few good games..
.
We’ve learnt nothing .
Jamie,
“Guys, cut Pierre some slack. He’s finding it hard to celebrate anything since Ozil moved to Turkey.“
Sorry, I should have been more considerate towards him.
Pierre,
I actually agree with you about Willian and Auba, I can see them as a problem. But, not so much Xhaka, age on his side even if we gave him new contract, no to Laca sell now.
Everything is OK
Mustafi has finally gone
Willock and Ainsley are gone to get minutes.
Nothing about Reiss tho…
Pierre, Auba isn’t a wrong’un… but, Willian might be.
Talking about the pandemic and the effect it’s having on football clubs, the Messi deal seems bonkers.
According to El Mundo, Messi’s four-year contract was worth around 555,237,619 euros. Just think about that for a minute. At 33-years of age, Messi could be receiving up to £123m a season on a four-year contract. £10m per month….!! Sounds even crazier when you consider Barcelona’s total debt is €1.173 billion and their net debt €488 million, over £200million of which must be repaid to banks by June 30.
Wow.
Who knows whats going on inside Willans head?