MONEY WILL BE THERE

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I’m really struggling to keep my emotions in check with regards to this summer because all the noises are positive. In fact, even the noises that aren’t positive are positive.

There’s a story doing the rounds that Ryan Bertrand is going to take the Leicester offer over Arsenal. I find it odd that a guy who grew up in Gillingham would head to Leicester (I’ve lived there, it’s nice, but it’s no London), but hey, who knows if our offer was real in the first place. He’d have been a very solid back-up left-back, but I don’t think there will be many tears shed on that one.

Granit Xhaka is top of the list for Jose Mourinho’s rebuild. Shows how rated he is. A managers player, one that baffles the fans, but over and over he gets the nod. I’m a bit surprised about this move, I’m not sure he’d have been an expected exit this summer, but fuck it… good for him. He’s 28 years old,  the Italian league will suit him down to the ground, and we have to be honest… Arsenal has to be doing better if we want to go back to the top.

There’s a bit if fear about how we replace him. A lot of detractors don’t understand that Granit Xhaka does a hard job very well. He’s a server, he moves the ball between the lines better than anyone in our side at the moment. Sure, he’s one-paced and slow, but he’s very effective and our midfield without him not as good.

The rumblings that I’ve heard is that this summer will see a focus on Premier League players, so clubs like Wolves and Brighton will be attracting interest. I hope our Premier League hunger is not at the expense of the deals that’ll be available in more financially fucked leagues, but I suspect the logic is pretty simple here: We need a good start next season. If we’re shipping major names in our team, our fans will not tolerate a rough opening.

There’s a bit of fear in the system we’ll be going after Reuben Neves. A player that isn’t exactly a mobile monster in the midfield. I have absolutely no idea who we will go for. I think we’re more likely to move on someone like Bissouma, knowing that Brighton are going to be in the hunt for Eddie Nkeitiah. Remember, we have replace more than one central midfielder. Bissouma is an excellent party crasher that has done really well in Brighton’s midfield, he could do the dirty work next to Partey and give us that athletic bite next season. You still need a midfielder that can be an outlet though, fastballs through the lines with absolute efficiency. We’re looking for a rare breed, but hey, that’s what scouts and analysts are paid to be good at.

Sorry, we have to interrupt this blog to see a SAUCY SHIRT.

Damn. That’s my Klaxons reunion gig outfit set. Neon face paint. Dusted down bright blue skinny jeans. New rave is back baby. Gonna be magic. WHAT A SHIRT THAT IS. Love it. Adidas brings me so much damn joy.

The word on the street is that KSE is absolutely going to try and buy our love this summer. We’re not in a sell before you buy mindset, we’ll be making moves, there is cash to spend and we will spend it. Arsenal lost 22% value according to Deloitte. Honestly, it means fuck all, because no one is bidding for Arsenal based on a pricing, but it’s important because it does show that if KSE don’t get a grip on their prized asset, it’s going to get more and more expensive to fix it longterm. The money injection isn’t just to appease fans, it’s to reduce noise in their lives, and it’s to make sure their star asset is healthy.

That’s not to say we won’t be selling players, we absolutely will. We have plenty of opportunities to make the summer even bigger. Willock, Reiss, Hector, Guendouzi, Cedric, Kola, Torreira, and maybe one of our centre backs will bring in at least £80m. But we’re not in the mess we were last year where we had to run the clock down because everyone was low-balling us.

The market is deflated though. Roma offering £10m for Xhaka is going to be par the course this summer. It’s so amusing to watch fans turn their nose up at getting any fee for an expensive player that will be 29 in September. Move on players that aren’t good enough, find younger models that don’t need galaxy brain systems to protect their weaknesses, do all of the business as fast as you can so we don’t get off to a clunky start next season.

Also, I swear down, if Edu fucks up moving on Willian because he sought out a big fee, I will go to London myself to hand-deliver a stern letter of disapproval. Let him go on a free, don’t top up his salary, move on from this absolute debacle.

There’s a real opportunity to move to the next level this summer, every signing has to be perfect, but if we can manage that, next season could be a major surprise to the league.

I’m excited.

See you in the comments.

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Habesha Gooner

15 mil for Xhaka is good money in this market. You have the likes of Aouar and Soumare being valued at 20 mil. Just get that and try to move for Anguissa who is also being valued at 20 mil. It is a depressed market. The only players we can get good money for are our English hale end graduates. Premier league teams will pay for them. AMN, Eddie, and may be even willock if the price is right. The rest won’t bring much because there is no money in the other leagues.

Marc

CG

I’m not kidding. He actually did it.

Sid

Fortunately Spurs fans are their rivals in that tournament

CG

”””””””’CG I’m not kidding. He actually did it.”””””””””””””’

No chance.

What sort of process is this?

Drive Arsenal fans COMPLETELY bonkers process?

Almuniasaynomore

Kroenkephobe Normally I’m a stickler for original versions but when it comes to Bob,everyone can sing better than him! Harsh, I know, but have you ever seen an artist whose songs all seem better when covered? Give Guns n’ Roses credit, they did a great job on that. Orwellian reference was a rhyming necessity rather than an ingenious nod to our dystopian club. I’ve said it to you before but over here there are only two clubs,utd and pool. They cover 80% of the football loving population. It is their success that causes us most pain over here. But more… Read more »

Northbanker

CG

Can’t remember which game but yes that was the bench line up – only recently

Mr Serge

Gonsterous we are still a big club man what are you talking about match day revenue, following on social media and merch sales puts us in the top 5 in the world fan base wise stop talking shit, have You been to the stadium ? We are box office run by monkeys and still up there, you can’t erase history and we are a historic big club.
Look at the esl debacle we would not be invited into it if we were not
You don’t see anyone in Asia wearing our shirt lol ok mate.

Daniel Altos

People bragging about this since christmas table should be ashamed of themselves. Since christmas we were tied on points with chelsea and they fired a real legend and hired a real manager and look at where they are now ffs…I wont even waste my time anymore with the arteta fanboys you know the thing about frauds is they eventually get caught….arteta will be shown up for the fraudster he is next season,just wait and see

S Asoa

Regarding standing among London Clubs

1- Chelsea
2- Spodes
3- West Ham
4- Mighty Mouse Arsenal
5- Fulham

Let that sink in. Time Arsenal fans aspiring to a false sense of Brahaminism calling other clubs deprecating names in a move to look greater. That is where Kroenkes have taken us. The nadir might be the target for Arteta if he stays on

Daniel Altos

By the way its funny how when Pepe scores it’s statpadding in dead rubber games but the wins still get added to Arteta’s embarassing “since Christmas” table….so arteta can be forgiven for being shit in one half of the season but pepe cant?

Mr Serge

S Asoa is that league or trophy positions or fan base positions ? Stop painting a picture that we are a small club ffs

Daniel Altos

You can say what you want about wenger but I dont buy that our attack is dogshit…..give him pepe,saka,auba,martinelli,esr and laca and there will be plenty of goals…heck even the ‘football terrorist) emery got auba scoring plenty and making assists.He also gave willock,saka,martinelli and guen alot of playing time. Does anyone trust arteta to bring through the likes of balogun next season when his job is on the line?People saying that auba is shit need to get their heads checked,auba has been in the goalscoring business for accomplished managers such as klopp,tuchel,wenger and emery what the fuck do you think… Read more »

Positive pete

Gonsterous.We ARE a bigger club than Chelsea or citeh.Just currently (13 years or so) not as successful.For all the so called social media followers I can guarantee you if a match between Arsenal & one of the oilers is played anywhere on this planet there will be twice the number of Arsenal fans at it.Historically we are part of what’s known as the Holy Trinity of English clubs in terms of History ,succession & popularity.Namely Manutd,Liverpool & Arsenal always have been.The debate is how much longer will that continue with the success of the financially doped clubs of the last… Read more »

Daniel Altos

Its been 18months now what is our style of play?I remember after 3 months under emery people here complaining about identity and style.Isnt that a thing now?It took tuchel 1 month to identify a starting 11 and a style of play meanwhile at arsenal… Lastly fuck mikel arteta and his sideways passing bollocks…if liverpool won the ucl and epl with effective and mechanical football and chelseas did the same…there is no reason why we cant…this technical midgets passing the ball to death style will not take us anywhere…we already tried tha once and though entertaining to watch,it ha taken us… Read more »

Globalgunner

Arguing about which is the bigger club between Arsenal and Chelsea is pointless. Which is the winning club. Wenger brought us down to a 2nd rate club and Arteta is making us 3rd tier now. Yesterdays CL win will have brought Chelsea I’m guessing another 10m worldwide fans yesterday while we languish with the same number we had from the invincibles. What have we won lately. Have we even entertainedour own fans talk less of wooing some young neutrals. Why am I a ChicagoBulls fan?. Because of MichaelJordan They haven’twon anythingi n 20 years now. All the new NBA fans… Read more »

DivineSherlock

Pep Guardiola started Rodri or Fernandinho in 59 out of 60 games . Guess the one game he didnt start either of them . Galaxy brain , monumental fuck up in CL final to say the least . Atleast when we lost we played our best XI . Dont worry lads , we are now in year 2 of Arteta’s brilliant plan of winning CL . Just need to qualify for it first

Rosicky@Arsenal

So did the idiots here at Legroan finally realized getting rid of Arsene Wenger was a big big mistake. Arsene Wenger kept us in CL for 20 consecutive years but the idiots here kept ridiculing him.Now reap what you sow. We are 8th in the league playing dire football and have no chance of coming top4 again for several years.. Just came on this blog after 5 years to remind the idiots here that never ridicule elder experienced people and always remember the old saying A bird in hand is better than 2 in the bush. Pedro made a fool… Read more »

Positive pete

Global gunner.Read the piece again.Whether that will continue or not.?Your assumption is it won’t.Especially under this regime I’m taking it.Don’t confuse your hatred for the board & Arteta to Arsenals global standing.I am more positive that support will grow again when & if success comes again.Whether( as I’ve said already) it’s under this regime or not.

raptora

Stroller,
Tell me again how Arsenal are not in crisis while Chelsea have won their 2nd UCL trophy.

Then we have the audacity to talk against our owners when our fans are the ones lacking ambition. We would have had new owners long time ago. Someone who wouldn’t keep a newbie in a job too big for him.

Danny S

I get tired of explaining the Wenger situation to idiots like this Rosicky guy. They are too thick to understand the situation and why people wanted change at arsenal after 22 years.

Jamie

“Congrats Pedro on destroying the club.”

Rosicky@Arsenal waited 5 years to look like an asshole on le-grove again, it seems.

Positive pete

Hate ,,absolutely hate “ Arsenal fans” running the club down at every opportunity.Comparing us to Mickey Mouse clubs who’ve been financially doped.Next up Newcastle.Try & take some pride in your club EVEN if you hate the regime.It’s hard I know.

Mr Serge

Anyone that does not think arsenal is a global brand and one of the top ten clubs in the world are deluded

Mr Serge

What a prick that rosicky is lol back in the dungeon son

Danny S

We are a big club, but unfortunately at the moment we don’t feel like one.

Being laughed at year on year out can get tiresome when we are Big club being run by amateurs. From Gazidis to Raul and now to Vinai. They have made us a bit of a laughing stock.

Fingers crossed we get new owners one day that give a shit.

Almuniasaynomore

Rosicky, despite the abuse you are receiving here I would like to thank you for your post. Between this season’s disastrous showing and the lack of reaction to it by the owners I was feeling very down. But you have reminded me that at least I have my sanity. Thank you.

WengerEagle

Habesha Free is never free in the modern game as we know it, can bet your arse that each of those players will be receiving a huge signing on fee along with their agents. Not to mention monster wages which is never a good thing for players over 30. Love Aguero and he is a PL and La Liga legend but he’s a desperation addition to appease Messi. Past his best and a terrible fit with Messi and Griezmann in a frontline. Wijnadlum is an interesting one, always felt he was overrated even though he is a good player. Not… Read more »

WengerEagle

Weak-link

China1

Yeah he did 2 keepers on the bench several times this season I think. It was quite demonstrably a 2 fingers up at our best youth players in outfield positions

One can only assume they hadn’t given him enough praise in the media as generational or something. He must have been sending them a message like he owned to up doing with martinelli… testing their attitude or some other such bizarre nonsense

Globalgunner

Wijnaldum would not even be a consideration if his fellow Dutchman wasnt the Barcelona manager. Barca`s recruitment is even worse than us. Its as if they have 5 different scouts and sign every player each scout scribbles on a piece of paper. If they were a proper business entity, the administrators would have long been called in. They make Arsenals management look like a paragon of efficiency

DivineSherlock

Wait till the crowds come in stadiums , I really hope we dont forget the ESL fiasco and this rudderless owners who lack a spine . Full on Kroenke out banners please. Shake them out of their stagnant ass

Marc

Sherlock

I really don’t think banners are going to do much. What would get their attention is empty seats.

G

‘’ Arteta is a symptom, not a cause. So was Wenger. Both shit managers ‘’

Your spot on Jeff I mean wtf did Wenger do for AFC

bennydevito

Rosicky@ArsenalMay 30, 2021    13:57:34 So did the idiots here at Legroan finally realized getting rid of Arsene Wenger was a big big mistake. Arsene Wenger kept us in CL for 20 consecutive years but the idiots here kept ridiculing him.Now reap what you sow. We are 8th in the league playing dire football and have no chance of coming top4 again for several years.. Just came on this blog after 5 years to remind the idiots here that never ridicule elder experienced people and always remember the old saying A bird in hand is better than 2 in the bush.… Read more »

Nelson

ES
“We were in a downward spiral long before they appeared at Arsenal.”
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That I agree. As long as KSE is still the owner, we are fucked. This ss model is like a religion to fool the fans so that the KSE doesn’t need to take money out of their own pocket. Now that they own the club 100%, nobody know how they play with the club finance.

“I WANT KROENKE OUT”

DivineSherlock

Marc

I disagree mate . The one thing we saw from the ESL fiasco was that Kroenkes really hate is bad press , if everyone in the stadium were to display those banners , it would send a message . Empty seats is a pipedream , since people are starved of getting into stadiums over a year or so .

China1

Wenger willfully and gleefully led the first stage of arsenals decline for a competitive European force into passive ambitionless alsorans on a downward trajectory. He (under stans rubbish ownership) oversaw and kicked that into fulls wing talking of top 4 as a trophy, celebrating just taking part in big competitions, rewarding drossy players with huge contracts to buy their loyalty. He blew through half of the vast resources we had saved on several extremely dubious signings, led us out of the CL then handed over the keys to an even less suitable manager in emery. Who in turn has handed… Read more »

Almuniasaynomore

China
Well said. That’s not to say that Wenger’s early years weren’t remarkable and very much appreciated by the Arsenal fans but once the decline started it was hugely damaging to the club. The inability to separate and recognize Wenger’s peak from his decline is essentially how the ‘cult’ followers can be identified. They are a strange breed who have abandoned logic and in their bitterness are becoming feral. It’s a shame, we’re in desperate need of a united fan base right now.

Zacharse

Biggest impact wenger had on the club was deffo the transfers dept. instead of formulating a strategy to deal w the fact that clubs and players were going to ask for more money from us after the stadium move, wenger didnt restructure scouting and opted to just handle everything with his personal charm and savy businessman personality (40m + 1).

salparadisenyc

Can’t fault Pep went for fielding a pure attacking lineup to secure the early goal, have to think if Mahrez commits to the run on Walker cross in first 45 we’re looking at a different result. Certainly backfired in the end, such a harsh gig elite football management. everyone will say Pep fucked the XI by not inserting the holding mid, dude pulls a domestic double and season still looks a failure for many.

Personally have big respect that kind of balls out decision making on largest stage.

DivineSherlock

Wow my comment straight up disappeared .

Tom

“Came across this tweet:Since Arsenal last won the league…Chelsea won 5 Premier League Trophies Chelsea won 5 FA Cups Chelsea won 3 League Cups Chelsea won 2 Europa Leagues Chelsea won 2 Champions League“ Yea, but at Arsenal we have “values “, and last time I checked these are worth at least a couple of CL and PL titles on the values/trophies exchange index. Btw, does anyone else feel sorry for Guardiola after his latest line up fiasco? I mean, I don’t care that he lost……….just to see him in this sorry state where his scrambled brain is trying to… Read more »

Tom

“Personally have big respect that kind of balls out decision making on largest stage.“

You do?
It makes him look like a fool when people question his lineup before the big game and Bayern lose, then everyone questions his line up and City lose to Lyon, then same against Chelsea.
At what point do you think City players start looking around before the game thinking to themselves this is fucking nuts?

Elmo

The Kroenkes’ situation is interesting, though. They NEED the ESL more than just about any other club. We’ve currently fallen into mid-table obscurity and are half a decade out of the CL. By all accounts the next TV deals are anticipated to be smaller than the last. Wages have inflated to crazy levels, but there’s a sense we’re at peak monetisation of football (Pedro covered this in a recent pod with the VC guy, and the words from Flo Perez and Agnelli say the same: effectively “we have to stop sharing TV revenue with ‘smaller clubs’ because that’s the only… Read more »

Tom

Why did City need the early goal btw?
Is there an extra point for it?

Gonsterous

The post saying we are a bigger club than chelsea and city are pretty deluded. In their definition, arsenal is bigger because we have history. Bro, these clubs have long equalled our trophy haul and are over taking us. The only thing we have is the invincible and we are milking that dry by trying to bring it into every argument to try to build some form of relevance. I don’t say this because I’m petty or being hurtful. It hurts me to admit this but the first step to progress is always recognising the truth. Arsenal are moving backwards… Read more »

Tom

Always been Pep’s fan but give any manager the quartet of Busquets, Xabi, Iniesta and Messi in their pomp and I can’t see them fail.

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

Shows what can happen when a team has a passionate chairman.

I fully understand the process BB is doing and support.

Let’s hope rumours are true with clearout.

Dream10

The fact that Xhaka and Bellerin (shortcomings aside), key pieces to the Arteta project, players he convinced to keep, wanting to leave does not reflect well on him.

englandsbest

The worst that could happen right now would be a change of ownership. Bear in mind that I was anti-Kroenke from the moment Hill-Wood recommended him as the ideal owner. I resented the idea of Arsenal as the plaything a of a multi-billionaire. He proved to be much more disastrous than even I imagined. He condemned the Club to unnecessary austerity. Thus began Arsenal’s decline. But at all times I hoped for a change of tune. So far we have seen a change of key: he has loosened the purse strings. But a huge amount of damage has been done.… Read more »

China1

Dream add to that list Willian and Leno

China1

Leno making noises about leaving a month or so back has be the biggest kicker

Forget ability and performances, arteta laid down on the tracks and took a hit for Leno so to have him make noises about being unhappy 10 months later is a proper knife thru the back

Dream10

China1

Yep them two as well. People will point to Saka, Smith Rowe, Martinelli and Tierney being the “core”. But those guys are young and establishing themselves.

Vintage Gun

“Leno making noises about leaving a month or so back has be the biggest kicker” “The fact that Xhaka and Bellerin (shortcomings aside), key pieces to the Arteta project, players he convinced to keep, wanting to leave does not reflect well on him” Both good points. Why are we ‘plastic fans’ for struggling to believe in a project that Arteta’s key players don’t even buy into? I hope Arteta turns it Around next season for all our sakes, i really do but the criticism this season if more than justified and would have been worse if we were in the… Read more »

MD-Gunner

The present state of AFC is dismal and no quick fix is possible bear with me as I try to illustrate this. When a house is infested with termites you don’t give it a coat of paint, it needs to be torn down to the ground and rebuild. No good to do the proverbial and put lipstick on a pig. No new signings or formation even just the replacement of Arteta will bring back the fond memories of Arsenal in its glory days. AFC is infected with gangrene and the infected parts have to be cut off. That hurts but… Read more »

Davi

Cazorla – yeah if you search that, it’s just asserted somewhere and repeated on multiple sites, but the game in question isn’t mentioned. Looks like a myth

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