A little less football news to chew through today, but look, I’ll put in a shift regardless because that’s the type of player I am.
Bukayo Saka scored an absolute screamer against Austria to take the game for the mighty England. The 90 was quite uninspired if I’m honest. Gareth Southgate giving minutes to everyone felt a bit weird, no one needed to see Pickford between the sticks. It was fun watching Grealish draw fouls, people just love to kick him, a bit reminiscent of our very own Jack back in the day. He’s an awesome player, it’ll be very sad when he moves to Manchester City this summer… and Arsenal fans, please stop pushing him as an option on the internet, it’s depressing. Not as depressing as reading fans thinking they are too good for Raheem Sterling. What the fuck is wrong with people?
There’s big talk that Spurs are trying to lure Mr Conte out of self-enforced retirement to have a crack at Daniel Levey’s ‘CAN YOU HELP ME WITH A TROPHY’ problem. This move isn’t as banterous as Roberto Martinez. Conte worked wonders at Chelsea in season one, before things went south. He turned Inter Milan around. His pattern tends to be, step into a mess, win something, complain about lack of signings, get fired or retire as a result of petulance.
I honestly don’t know why he’d go to Spurs. Levy isn’t exactly free with the cash and the Spurs rebuild job is a big one. We’ll see though, who thought he’d replace Poch with Mourinho? Maybe Levey will give him control over transfers? Always remember he oversaw Morata, Zappacosta, Bakayoko, Drinkwater, and Ross Barkley.
There is a tantalizing rumour in the French press via Loïc Tanzi that we’ve been talking to Luis Campos about moving to Arsenal. I think we could all agree that a move like that would be immense for the football leadership at Arsenal. No one moves a club quite like him. A hire like that seems almost a little too smart for Arsenal, so I’ll hold judgement on that. He fits the bill though. He knows how to identify value, he’s good at picking coaches, and he’s built transfer eco-systems on small budgets… and won titles.
Arsenal will head to Florida this preseason for a Florida Cup with Inter, Everton, and Millonarios. UK Arsenal fans complaining they can’t go. Can you believe that? THIS IS NOT FOR YOU, NOT EVERYTHING REVOLVES AROUND YOUR NEEDS. I’ll be jumping in a camper van and heading down. I might even do some LGTV interviews. Should be fun.
Martin Ødegaard does not know what to make of Carlo heading back to Madrid.
‘He is a coach I know and with whom I had a good relationship when he was last there.’
‘In that sense, it is positive. But beyond that, one day has passed, so I do not know too much about what he thinks about things.’
The hiring of Carlo is a control move by Perez, so you’d imagine if the President likes Martin, Martin is what he’ll see in the side next season. There is also talk that he’ll be sent back out on loan again, so we’ll see.
Kola is coming back. Schalke can’t afford. Hopefully we can bin him off like we did Mesut Ozil.
The club announced the players released.
Men’s and women’s first-team squads:
Dani Ceballos
David Luiz
Leonie Maier
Martin Odegaard
Mat Ryan
No shocks there.
Let’s finish out on a FRESH podcast. Get your ears on it. I talk with Johnny about transfers out of the club, Willy Saliba, and the moves we should be making this summer. It’s a good one. No Arteta talk.
“ Xhaka IS shit and needs to be replaced. It just shouldn’t be with Neves”
In a nutshell really , puts the same strain on partey , the same hindrances
“”””” Bisoumq is probably the most athletic player in the league
His tackling, positioning, ground coverage and even his passing shits all over Neves
Neves takes a better free kick, I’ll give him credit for that”” “””
Declan Rice seems more Athletic than Bissouma and Neves is a better passer statistically.
Im telling you for free!
Who is this aimed at, always with the cryptic shite aren’t you. Arsenal fansssss. It’s a generality that gets proven time and time again. Also Neves fanclub really are you that juvenile? I think he’s a good player therefore I’m in his fanclub while I literally have mentioned Locatelli and Soumare as players I’d like signed. Why don’t you just admit that you don’t like the player and that for some reason you’re going to try to convince others they shouldn’t like him because that’s what people do around here. Again I say this happens all the time with Arsenal… Read more »
Also I’m very open minded when it comes to the midfield because I think until we get in an actual good manager in it’s pretty pointless. There’s little strategy to our targets in that area cause there’s no real style or direction in our football under this bum so why get worked up over this target or that target. Especially when Arteta will fuck it up
Yeah Arteta is going to make this a tepid midfield anyway.
We have already heard one poster say that long passing is absolutely essential in a midfielder under Arteta.
And of course no-one is going to be the least surprised when Arteta proudly announces that he has persuaded Xhaka to stay at Arsenal yet again.
Look let’s be honest here we’re in a situation that in to sort out (insert any area in the team) that we’d need to get rid of the manager. I wouldn’t trust him with a good signing or a bad one
Its a funny one cos we’ve seen what Arteta can do to our more productive players but I still would like squad improvements as we’re going to need to do well in spite of him, because it won’t be due to Arteta.
Marko Calling someone juvenile in the same post as using an ‘Arsenal fanssss’ euphemism is a good one. Are you not also an Arsenal fan btw, strange way of interacting. Again I’m not sure who this is directed at as I too advocated for AMN to be sold and I want us to cash in on Willock’s purple scoring patch. I’m not trying to convince anyone on Neves being average, we’re having a little something called a football debate is all. I’m not going to change someone’s opinion on him, just stating why I don’t want us to sign him.… Read more »
So the jist of it is some think Neves would be an upgrade on Hacker,particularly in the middle.Others think he’s almost a like for like player.slightly more mobile.That’s it.Nothing outstanding.still looking for any positives?
Marko
I wouldn’t trust arteta with the kids loose change to go to the ice cream van . They’d want lollies and ice cream and arteta would come back with a loaf of bread and half a dozen eggs
“They say empty vessels make more noise,”
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That makes sense, LOL!
Are you not also an Arsenal fan btw, strange way of interacting.
Yeah but I have some self awareness. Arsenal fans are often meek and idiotic and yeah I understand that
What we have seen from Bissouma at Brighton is only the tip of the iceberg.. I believe he has a lot more to his game than what he has shown so far.. He has quick feet , good pace, has good technique, plays with his head up and has a nasty side to his game. I wanted him this time last year, now his price has doubled. i don’t think the fans will be disappointed if we do sign him. Partey and Bissouma would be a formidable midfield pairing in my opinion…put Willock in with them and give him the… Read more »
WTF! Buendia has the same agent as Emi Martinez, and both players are close friends with their families intertwined.Now I hate Martinez.
Pierre – Top post. Bissouma has all the tools needed to partner Partey and revitalise this midfield.
Unfortunately the fact this deal hasn’t been done yet feels to me like he is top 4 bound. Most likely a Manchester team but maybe Liverpool.
Pierre,.The worry there is that it seems to have gone v.quite on the Bissouma link.Though that could be a good thing behind the scenes.Depending which way you spin it.
The differences in perspective are interesting: to us fans, the Kroenkes aren’t stepping up financially to re-float a sinking club (completely aside from the angle of them having no idea at a managerial level how to oversee the club); meanwhile, over on the largest private ranch in the USA, the Kroenkes’ view will be that in the last few years they’ve extended financial largesse in Arsenal’s favour on a scale that they never thought foreseeable (£184m to restructure our stadium debt, though as a loan to Arsenal; £120m in repaying the club’s BoE Covid loan in May, though again, likely… Read more »
Don’t know what you’re so angry about lads. I spent 20 minutes yesterday morning destroying a perfectly good song for a player who by the end of the day was signing for Villa. That’s about 19 minutes more work than our management have put into the transfer window. I won’t make that mistake again. This time I’ll try and catch the mood on Le Grove,well for some of us anyway. Agadoo by Black Lace Artetedu du du what the fuck is going on? Artetedu du du are we signing anyone? For the left or the right anyone at all will… Read more »
Arsenal had offered 35 million in the 2nd bid for Buendia. But that player is going to Aston Vila for 33 million Ruben Neves who was touted as Arteta top target preferred to go to Leicester. We are not competing with the likes of Vila and the Foxes or Everton. Arteta’s irascible treatment of players, his vindictiveness has brought our stock down. It could be argued that AFC is bigger than most, has bigger revenues, which anyway do not matter since we have much bigger expenditures. How long will the few dodos dig their head into the litter pile and… Read more »
‘Arsenal Outbid By Villa ‘ is typical of the sports media. They have this long-running story that Buendia was the main Arsenal target – was he? – and rather than admit they were wrong, they come up with an explanation that gets them off the hook.
We should bear in mind that with transfers the football press deal in self-made rumour, make-believe and outright lies, a way of selling newspapers when there’s not much else to write about.
Marko
You know I’m all for foreign based absolute ballers. Been banging the De Paul drum for a while now and seems he’s off to Athletico.
I did like Buendia because he’s going to contribute not just in terms of flair but he’s got very good numbers championship or not plus he was quite good the one time he played in the league.
I’m just hoping we don’t go and spend same or even more on someone like Odegaard
I’m not bothered by Arsenal’s failure to sign Buendia too much but it is discouraging to see him pick Villa over Arsenal if I’m honest. Apparently Arsenal bid 30m and Villa topped our bid with a 33m of their own to seal the deal. It reminds me of the Alexis Sanchez transfer from Barca, where Wenger was the difference between Alexis coming to Arsenal or going to Liverpool even though Pool bid 3m more for him. Some Arsenal fans can burry their heads in sand pretending Arsenal are an attractive destination and still a major draw under Arteta, but on… Read more »
Fuck buendia he has shown his ambition by going to villa a team that finished below us even though we had our worst season in 35 years
Newcastle are keen on taking Saliba on a loan. Arteta has his “ problem Saliba” solved. Fortunately Saliba will be illegible to play against Arsenal. So no rubbing of too much salt into an open wound there.
#foArteta
England’s best.It’s what I’ve been saying all along.Was he ( Buendia) the main target at this stage? Or just a limited half hearted punt? It would appear the meejah had it wrong & it’s been Neves as the current main target.
How can Arteta not find a space in the squad for Saliba ? Beggars belief
WE the £350-£400 million would be the equivalent sum Arsenal would be spending pa in wage terms whereas it’s what £220 ish million
Again in transfer terms if I take your £500 million spent by Arsenal the £260 m spent by Leicester Pro rata is higher as a% of turnover.
Yes they have made good money from transfers out but they are spending far far more in wage and transfer fees paid than they do from all income streams
Tom
👍🏽 We should take our “ since Christmas table “ while negotiating to sign players.
Edu deserves to be fired for hiding this USP
We should get Conte in the nutter will sort our squad out quick sharp he will not suffer fools
One ofthe reasons I’m not overly bothered if we don’t sign Odegaard or Beundia , is that it will force Arteta’s hand and he will have to include Willock in the premier league squad for next season. With either Smith Rowe or Willock as CAM it may be case of horses for courses on who he selects for the role. Of course they are completely different players , Smith Rowe would play just off the striker , whilst Willock will arrive from deeper positions but both can be effective and both would be happy to drop in and out of… Read more »
Current Arsenal Squad:
Keepers: Leno Runarsson Ryan
Defenders: Bellerin Tierney Gab Holding Cedric Chambers Mari
(Loan: Saliba Mav Kolasinac)
Midfielders: Xhaka Partey Elneny
(Loan: Guendouzi Torreira AMN Willock)
Forwards: Saka ESR Pepe Willian Nelson Martinelli
Strikers: Laca Auba Eddie Balo
30 first-teamers on the books. Anyone upset about a lack of signings is underestimating the hot mess we’re in.
We’re out of Europe and playing a game a week next season. We need to move out half the squad. Until that happens, no sense in having any expectations of progress.
Great post @ Valentin 11:37 I was always of the impression that we needed a deep lying CM in the ilk of cesc/ cazorla to partner with partey and provide a deeper layer to creativity Folks are talking about having a second DM alongside partey and relying on a 10, wingers and FBs to create I would still love to see the creativity from a CM also Any ideas on players in this category We’ve been relying on partey to make ‘creative’ runs from deep which is not his game and haven’t been beneficial If we can get a creative… Read more »
Tom ,the extra £3 million to “ seal the deal” by the sounds of it had addons bringing it up to an eye watering £40 million it’s been widely reported.Big difference.
Word does get around about Arteta’s pettiness and peurile vindictiveness.
Saliba goes to Nice for 6 months and fans is liguebun shortlist him on the team of the season
Yet Arsenal is still reportedly searching for a defender in the same position who may not even be better than Saliba!
..and to think that there are posters like englandsbest that will defend every inch of this soggy mess
Tony How are you doing? Get the sense you’ve got the aul priorities sorted,family before football,good man. Especially now with Arsenal breaking the hearts of those who love the club, spending time on the golf course with the young lad is very wise. Liked that clip you put up,very funny, all the best humour contains truth doesn’t it? My young lad is a bit young still so I’m entertaining myself by coming on here and trying to write worse lyrics than Kroenkephobe, very little in it! If it’s a choice of laughing or crying I’ll take the former but with… Read more »
Sometimes one has to agree …..even with a Dissenter 😂
Seems we are having trouble offloading Eddie
Tabloid talk is that we are offering him to Leeds for £20 million
That’s crazy because they had him on loan and weren’t playing him so why would they spend £20 mil on him in a market filled with cheaper and more rounded prospects?
We have a booted squad of pretty poor players, with 4-5 exceptions.
Serge
””””’We should get Conte in the nutter will sort our squad out quick sharp he will not suffer fools””””””’
Conte clearly fancies his chances for the Old Trafford job.
Stan , and Josh , Edu and Vinny and all the other imbeciles on the payroll could ‘nt handle Conte.
Conte if he ever arrived at Arsenal, would probably resign within a week.
*bloated squad
Neves talk seems like agent talk so not to worry lads
Marko
Do you rate Neves to replace Xhaka?
Agent talk.. yes , but what’s your view cos it seemed lost in that rant you just dropped.
Tom ,the extra £3 million to “ seal the deal” by the sounds of it had addons bringing it up to an eye watering £40 million it’s been widely reported.Big difference.
Pete, same addons that would’ve been in his Arsenal contract( many of which he would’ve missed cashing in on) the club offers to every player they sign or extend.
Does anyone really believe Auba is getting the maximum from his Arsenal deal he signed last season?
There’s way too much credence given to paper talk during transfer windows.
They are making things up to gain clicks. And it works.
Karsa
Not sure I can agree with you. The sun have a story today about Duncan Ferguson being offered a coaching role at Real Madrid by Ancelotti. Can you not see big Dunc illuminating the Madrid dressing room with his footballing philosophy?
Dissenter
“Reportedly”
If you’re going to get upset over every report about a player we might buy, sell, loan, or who we “may” have missed out on, or a fee we might or might not receive…..
Then you’re in for a really rough summer of pure frustration
Like Jamie says, our biggest issue will be clearing the decks
Let’s see how things play out first
Pre-season training doesn’t start for 5 weeks, the PL doesn’t start for 9 weeks
The Euro’s kick off on Friday night, which will hopefully distract the rumour merchants from silly season
30 plus pros on the books we are bloated
It does not matter how excited Gooners get over new signings, Arteta is still the manager.
The incessant 94 minutes of Arteta coaching, yelling and gesticulating from the sidelines on match days is enough to make any player go off his rockers.
Almunia
Indeed I can. Would love to witness that.
Neves will be needed because Parteys fitness issues are not going to improve.
We need a 1)versatile DM as well as a 2) Dynamic CM who can rotate with willock.
Try this little ditty Almunia. ‘Thank you’ by Dido (had to be careful there. The spellchecker wanted to add an ‘l’) and ‘Stan’ by the wonderful Eminem
Arsenal’s left me cold I’m wondering why
I love this club at all
Arteta’s fucked the transfer window
With lies and dour football
And even if Aouar signs
It’ll still be sad
When he’s with Xhaka in the wall
And the free kick hits him, in the balls, in the ba-a-alls
Geor-orge I want to thank you
For being the best Arsenal coach in my life
So what’s the latest nickname of the fraudeta?
We had pep lite, diet pep, rookie, fraudeta.. what’s next?
Also If you had the choice, would you choose prime cesc or prime ozil?
Personally I prefer Cesc, the one who played for us before leaving. That player was a beast with hefty ambitions.
Prime ozil at leverkusen was a joy to watch, but he was basically a stats merchant when he went to madrid.
dissenter
‘word does get around’,.’reportedly’ – a definition of rumour, make believe and lies, wouldn’t you say? All meat and potatoes for the sports press off-season, wouldn’t you think?
We have all seen this movie before!
There will be NO transfers in, and we will be lucky to offload anyone of our average players.
So, diet pep will go into next year with same said squad, including kola, xhaka and co. and AFC will herald the return of Willock as a “new signing”.
Mid table here we stay or further we slide…..
I’ve been loving these rhymes. It’s good stuff.
Can you not see big Dunc illuminating the Madrid dressing room with his footballing philosophy?
Excuse the oxymoron Almunia but is that a real rumour or one from your own comedy archive?
Imagine him saying to Modric, get up in the air with the bastard and just elbow him in the face ya cunt!
Lol kroenke
Wonder what month Arteta gets sacked this season, shit manager, seems like a shit guy too
Yeah after a while ozil became so preoccupied with his reputation as the assist king he started to play like a parody of himself.
If you watch his assists video reels you see just how many were in easy shooting positions and him opting to square it to anyone who is willing to score for him so he could pad the numbers. Same at the national level in his last World Cup when some of his layoffs when in good shooting positions were bordering on comical
What a waste of a supremely talented footballer
China
“If you watch his assists video reels you see just how many were in easy shooting positions and him opting to square it to anyone who is willing to score for him so he could pad the numbers”
If only football was that easy ..
Here’s the evidence , I’m sure you’ll find a few to prove your point…
https://youtu.be/ECcq6r5GBWk
Really not enthused by Neves. Especially for 35 million. I think there’s some truth to this deal with Athletic reporting. Pedro himself stated we are looking at Wolves’s players. But the question is, is he really better than Xhaka ? Because we are goingg to pay double of what we get for Xhaka. In terms of passing, Xhaka is much better. In terms of Pace and Power. Maybe Neves has better pace but Xhaka is much more strong. Aerially it’s not even a competition. In terms of dribbling both are very low volume dribblers. Neves I think makes less mistakes… Read more »
Neves is the superior player i am not that enthused with xhakas passing stats most of his go backwards and to the FB the sooner he is gone the better
Pierre right on queue 😂😂
China
Say Ozil three times and Pierre appears to defend him. xD
Ozil ozil ozil
Afternoon, Right now we’re an above average mid table side. Yes Pedro can say we were six points short of top four but we never looked like we would make it all season. People saying buendia was only a good championship player makes me laugh. So playing in a better side and we are better than Norwich at least Wouldn’t have improved him? Plenty of good players have come from the championship. Is Tierney a bad player because he came from the Scottish premiership? A league thats not much better than league one outside of Celtic and rangers. Buendia was… Read more »
Ozil is shit, so is anyone defending him.
CT If Xhaka leaves then it’s a like for like replacement in that Neves is a high volume passer, leader, durable, plays with the game in front of him, he’s 24 too. Talked it over with Weagle a few days back, can understand the rationale behind him vs more of a tackle merchant. Agree about there being alternatives, like there always is (unless the name is Buendia apparently), but hard pushed to find one as ‘easy’ a fit into our midfield imo. For my money Neves is much cuter and lighter footed than Xhaka, can play in tight spaces better,… Read more »
Just drawn our family sweepstake for the Euros. 6 people (well 5 plus joint tickets for dog and cat) and 4 teams each. I reckon my quid stake is as good as gone already.
Croatia
Denmark
Hungary
Portugal
Sob… I’m never gonna gamble again.
Kroenkephobe Straight in at no.1,brilliant!! I was only listening to that the other day,would never have dreamed of using it,well done. With every passing year George becomes more untouchable in my mind,gave great success, rebuilt a club on its knees,left behind a defence without equal. Wenger could have overtaken him,perhaps with the invincibles he did,but destroyed both his legacy and the squad in his latter years. That Duncan Ferguson story came from the sun according to the gossip column on bbc football webpage. Wouldn’t you love to meet the journo who concocted that,see has he still got a pulse. I’m… Read more »
If we were waiting on campos to join Surley we would not buy anyone until he was in the door
Surely
I find it’s always better to look at the evidence..
What i will say is , i didnt realise how wasteful the rest of the players were in front of goal….chance after chançe wasted .
And some think the chances creates stat proves nothing…fools.
Isn’t Ozil doing shite in turkey? Have to check out his chance created stat to verify… apparently
Kroenkephobe
You’ll get a run for your money out of Portugal. Must be sickening being Hungarian, imagine being out of the limelight for so long and finally returning to get that group. Reminds me of when we got Spain,Italy and Croatia in the 2012 Euros, wittily nicknamed ‘the group of debt’.
Captain
“”””Pedro himself stated we are looking at Wolves’s players.””””
He may know nowt about the game and most certainly nowt about managers but no one can say he aint good at getting these exclusives
1 Lenogate.
2. Signing Wolves rejects
Credit due where credit is due.
We all like an exclusive.
Arteta and pedro out yet??
Vickingz if Pedro was out who would have people like you not there blog ?
Tee
“Ozil is shit, so is anyone defending him.”
When i run out of tees the next time I’m on the golf course, I’ll give you a shout as the thought of balancing a golf ball on your thick head will give me great pleasure as i shave your head with my driver.
Hoiiiih
I tried my luck…and can you believe…it wasn’t a life ban!
I must be on best behavior to at least last the summer.
Welcome back GentleBris,
I am back for a while , on thin ice though methinks.
Hows that little one, must be bigger than Torriera by now?
Gentlebris you been in the sin bin ?
Why have i never been binned seems it’s an elite club
Buendia is gone lets move on and just keep it as a fact of how Arsenal is failing in the transfer business. I do feel that Arsenal’s transfer stooges didn’t up their offer or match Villa’s because they believed Buendia would choose Arsenal over Villa. The OPTICS of this are a rude awakening for all supporters that hope Arsenal will have a successful TW. Next point of interest is will they repeat this mistake. Do they actually know who they want as incoming players or do they role the dice for players that their money allows? Don’t site Partey as… Read more »
Welcome back @Gentlebris,
He works in mysterious ways! He is good all the time!
Looool
Just watched a YouTube video named “most unforgettable mistakes of the Season.”
Dear Lord.
Aside a few classics from Allison Becker, it is mostly arsenal. Leno is a walking, talking gaffe. Xaka and Luiz deserve their own reel. Dani cabellos, you greasy haired bastard,a Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
I actually wanted the door to hit ceballos on the way out what a shit player
Looks like Campos is taking the RM role.
From football 365 an interesting article “Every Premier League club’s most valuable asset” Besides the most obvious ones Kane, Zaha, Grealish, Sala and De Bruyne it is for NORWICH CITY: Emi Buendia and WOLVES: Ruben Neves. For Arsenal it is Saka. “Oh how the mighty Pierre-Emerick Aubamayang has fallen and oh how the mightier Bukayo Saka has risen.” that dome jornos think that a 19 year old is the most valuable asset at a club like Arsenal should tell you a lot. Quote for the day: These two dummies (Edu & Arteta) and their partner in crime Vinai and the… Read more »
Neves is clearly better than Xhaka, it should not be up for a debate. We can always argue how much better he is but see some of the other names that are bandied about may or may not be interested in moving to us.
new post
https://twitter.com/Armziinho/status/1401561454327873539?s=19
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