It’s quite a weird week to be an Arsenal fan. Personally, I’m in this football purgatory where I’m not totally detached from the season, but at the same time, not overly invested in the outcome of it.
It feels like the sort of season where it could easily go to shit… or, be a massive blowout for Arsenal as we find our footing against a bang average Villareal side.
The big talking point yesterday mainly focused on the Daniel Ek news. He’s going to fax over a £1.8b bid for Arsenal.
The Daily Mail reported that people in finance circles have had Arsenal up for sale for 2 years. I find the story deeply suspicious because if that were true, I suspect the Saudi Royal consortium that tried to buy Newcastle would have been knocking on Stan’s door. There’s simply no way Daniel Ek is the first to sniff out an opportunity for Arsenal.
You’re not a seller until you sell, anything is possible, but it just seems a bit unlikely that 1) We’d sell to Ek 2) The price would be £1.8b.
I also run into lots of questions when someone can’t afford something outright.
If he’s borrowing, the money has to be paid back. How is that happening?
If he’s buying outright, where is the infusion of cash we need for players coming from?
Outside ‘love’ and process. What is the big change that’s coming?
I mean, elite tech process at Arsenal would be a huge game-changer… but here’s something to consider. Ownership that interferes with the club is usually not a good thing. The Kroenke family do most things right. They let Arsenal spend what they earn, they don’t get involved, they empower their leaders… the problem? They are very bad talent judges.
From what I hear about Ek, he’s the empowering type… and his record proves that he’s a very good judge of what great looks like with regards to said talent.
So we’ll see, it’s an exciting rumour… I’m of the mind that what we have right now hasn’t worked for a very long time and the situation looks more and more onerous for a family that has its focus firmly in America. At some point, it might be easier just to move on from Arsenal and refocus on LA.
Right, short one today, where do you stand on Daniel Ek?
Vintage
What we’re the other three? Luton in the little woods thingy? , Birmingham in the same and the Manure 50 game fiasco come to mind. Or the 8-2. Or that 3-2 home defeat to the spuds about 10 years ago. Or Chihuahua Heid’s 1000th game. Or back to Europe, Galatasaray or Zaragoza. Hang on, can we make it our worst 50 games?
The 5-1 home defeat to Bayern was a pretty big low. I recall thinking how that may be our last CL game for a while, and at the time that’s exactly what we deserved to happen to us.
The disgusting attitude of the PSG players last night reminded me of how Juventus players acted in the CL quarter final in 2006 at Highbury. We were 2-0 up and in the last part of the game they had 2 players sent off for intentionally reckless challenges, Nedved and can’t remember the other guy.
Clearly they expected to show up and win.
I enjoyed when we beat AC milan, i can remember the look on Gattuso, one of my best Arsenal moments.
Kroenkephobe VintageWhat we’re the other three? Luton in the little woods thingy? , Birmingham in the same and the Manure 50 game fiasco come to mind.” I think he was specifically calling out European games, but ye all those rank up there, especially the ’87 League Cup final – after beating Liverpool the year before everyone thought this would be a walk over. Man if Winterburn scores that penalty it’s 3-1 and all over … that penalty miss at 2-1 was on 81 mins and we went on to lose 2-3 … The one that truly still hurts the most,… Read more »
Sorry it was the 88 League cup final, not 87 …
Chris
The disgusting attitude of the PSG players last night reminded me of how Juventus players acted in the CL quarter final in 2006 at Highbury”
I noted in the comments at the time PSG were reminding me of how English teams would lose their shit when playing better European teams back in the day – they lost their heads, I thought at least another one or two players would get sent off. Big job for Poch there, looks like a log of egos to manage and massage …
TheBayingMob
Seaman cost us that Final in 91 and Smith hitting the post cost us the League Cup Final in 88.
TheBayingMobSeaman cost us that Semi Final in 91 and Smith hitting the post cost us the League Cup Final in 88.
TBM
That pain of that sf loss to the spuds was mitigated by two things. First the title win. It must have driven them nuts to win a trophy only to know we’d won something far more important.
Second, the fact that we got revenge in the sf the following year. ‘Donkey won the Derby’ and all that. I will always have a soft spot for TA. What a great Arsenal man.
How the memory plays tricks. It was 2 years later in 93 wasn’t it. 28 years ago… fuck me.
RM will win the CL
you heard it here 1st!
The Michael Owen Cup final in 2001 leaves a particularly bad taste in my mouth . It was almost the perfect day , myself and my 9 year old son George ( born 1991 , named after GG, sad but true), drove down to Cardiff on a beautiful sunny day , we had an open top bus ride around Cardiff , then sat (stood) behind the goal and watched Arsenal pulverise Liverpool for 85 minutes. Freddie Ljungberg scored right in front of us and the atmosphere was electric as we created ( and missed ) chance after chance and of… Read more »
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