FLIPPING EK, £2BN BID INCOMING?!

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Daniel Ek, Spotify mastermind, is back with another bid for Arsenal FC. Is this interesting? Could be. I’m not deeply entrenched in the world of billionaire behaviour, but there are rumblings that KSE might not be as entrenched in the idea of holding onto Arsenal forever as they project.

Understand their vision of sport.

Locked finances. No promotion or relegation. A consistent flow of revenue every year. NO INVESTMENT.

They bought Arsenal, watched it appreciate at breakneck speed, but the vibe in the game at the moment is that maybe the growth years are grinding to a halt. Amazon didn’t want in on the Super League. Clubs are reeling from the pandemic, just look at the whining from the Juve hierachy. The Super League, for the moment, is dead.

To bring Arsenal back to the top is going to take a lot of money. More money than the pittance KSE will put forward for us this summer. That takes deep pockets and deep dedication. I’m not sure the KSE group has either of those when it comes to Arsenal.

So whilst I think £2bn seems low for Arsenal, don’t totally rule it out. Daniel Ek, you would imagine, must have had some sort of encouragement, otherwise, what is the fucking point? It’s not giving him a bump in stock price for Spotify, he doesn’t need a profile massage, and it costs money to put these sorts of deals together.

Remember, Stan Kroenke told St. Louis he’d never move the Rams until he did.

Onto transfer news… there’s not a lot going on. Arsenal seems to be making moves in silence. There aren’t many clues as to who is going and staying.

Granit Xhaka is causing the most panic for some odd reason. Arsenal fans just love to whine. 99% of fans have spent his entire career moaning about how we’ve nosedived to a non-Champions League club since he joined, now they’re panicking because the stats nerds are championing his progressive passing. Stockholm Syndrome well and truly out in force. He’s a solid player, but his limitations have been costly. The errors in his game never went. We can replace him. 25m euros is good money for someone who will be 29 in September.

It’s also interesting watching people cry about the Matteo G fee like it’s Arsenal’s fault. Joe Willock goes out on loan for 6 months and moves from a £10m player to a £25m one. Matteo G, total hot shit for a while, goes out on loan for an entire season, absolutely soils his reputation, and is now worth £8m. No big clubs are eyeing a 22-year-old bargain and none of the elite feeder clubs are willing to take a chance. If this is an Arteta problem, why haven’t any of the major coaches spied an error in the system?

Unai Emery, flush with Champions League cash has ignored him. Sven Mislintat, who certainly has £8m, has also ignored him. Why?

… because talented dickheads are not tolerated in 2021.

The big move, that just dropped, is Arsenal are being linked to Inter Milan’s Nicolo Barella. Mike had him in yesterdays epic scouting report.

‘A tigerish CM who has elbowed his way into a very competitive Italian national team due to his all-round game and reliability. A technically excellent midfielder who will remind you of the much loved Cazorla as he switches the ball from right to left with such natural confidence. At Arsenal he could play as a playmaker or likely in a two but with his elite technical level he could play anywhere. Such fun to watch so take a look…’

It’s hard to judge his pace, because Italy is painfully slow, but my word is the boy talented. He’s aggressive, has an outrageous range of passing and he just won the Serie A title. Absolute class, he’ll drop a big performance this summer, it seems too clever to be a link worth taking seriously, but we’ll see.

Ainsley has been complaining in the press about the lack of contact from Arsenal.

‘I want a decision. I want some clarity. I would like some kind of indication of what is happening. Where they [Arsenal] see me. If it works out it works out, if it doesn’t then kiss Arsenal goodbye.’

Pretty sure Mikel Arteta is on his first family holiday in 2 years, so not really shocked Ainsley hasn’t had a phone call yet. But I suspect we’ll see him exited this summer if he keeps up the pressure on wanting to play as a centre midfielder. Hopefully we can land a good fee if that’s the case, we have to make the most of the homegrown premium this summer.

There’s also a link to Alexander Isak, who scored 17 goals for Sociedad this season. The Swedish striker is having a great year. He’s tall, boasts power, tight control, and excellent technique. Reminds me a bit of Adebayor with the range of goals he’s produced. I can see why he’d be interesting a club that doesn’t really have a powerhouse forward to lead the frontline unless you count Martinelli as a #9. I think a lot of big things would have to happen for us to shell out on a major forward. Flo Balogun didn’t sign a new deal to be Eddie’d this season, he’s expecting minutes and he’ll get them. I’m also not sure we’ll find a buyer for Auba or Lacazette. Those huge deals have minimal chance of being replicated in a bankrupt Europe this summer, so I suspect we’ll keep things the same there.

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Andy1886

To be fair Pedro, no-one goes public to say their boss is a total t0sser do they?

Again there’s a difference between a good coach and a good manager (Don Howe, Mike Phelan etc.).

Foxy

Perhaps we should ask AMN, Guen, Eddie and Nelson what they think as well.

Guns of SF

Pedro
An alternate reason could be these are players who are on loan, young and wanting a bigger contract, or leaving the club and searching for a new team. IT does not behoove them to talk shit. However, I am sure they might think differently inside. Just another possible reason

Foxy

And maybe for a laugh Ozil’s

Guns of SF

Ek is great- so far he is just putting pressure on KSE. Sell the club or invest.
Us minions now have a big fish on our side… and he is doing what he can do make us better.
Good for Ek!

Marc

I’m not going to mention that the first two players Pedro mentions as praising Arteta are: A) Mustafi who turned down a new contract offered by Arteta and B) Ceballos who doesn’t want to come back.

Marko

The picture you paint doesn’t marry to any of the news that comes out of the club, because the picture you paint is untrue.

You know we finished 8th with no european football for next season. Coming off our worst season in recent memory. You do know that right?

Marc

Marko

Spud fans have started a petition calling for Arteta to be given a job for life.

Marko

Also I think that Mustafi and Ceballos not shit talking a manager is perhaps more about them not being cunts unnecessarily than Arteta being whatever…which is nice to see but it’s fairly common players leave without turning into assholes

Marc

Pedro

“Why didn’t they? Because the coaching is top drawer and young players get better at Arsenal.”

Do you just want to bin me now for a couple of days? It’ll be easier all round!

Foxy

I have no problems with Arteta coaching our youngsters I just wish we had someone who knows what they are doing to manage the team.

Nelson

Someone keeps saying that this administration is good. All we know for a fact is that the club is out of European football next season. They failed their target badly. The values of a lot of our players are dropping. The club is losing money. I don’t find this administration anything special.

Mr Serge

Marc he won’t have to bin you if you don’t post on here lol

Marc

Serge

It’s a red rag to a bull!

Danny S

Pierre

I don’t agree that Ozil deserved anything because he was at the end of the day an absolute cretin. However your point about training is true.

Ferguson put van Persie on his own special training because he was so fragile. This got him through 48 games in a season.
He didn’t train with the main team, he was on a very light schedule. Paid dividends in the end.

Tee

“Spud fans have started a petition calling for Arteta to be given a job for life.”

This one is on the loose.

He has won the FA cup as a player and manager for the same club but those miserable lots are still searching for their first trophy after how many years and another more miserable fellow is here posting it to justify what?

Mr Serge

Marc you just charge head down 🙂

Mr Serge

Spurs are hillarious they are trying to hire mad dog Fonseca who plays a 2 7 1 formation

Marc

Serge

Ooh, see the fire is sweepin’
Our streets today
Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost its way

Marc

Serge

On a serious not am I the only one who’s hoping Levy goes for Southgate after an over hyped but depressingly usual Euros?

Marc

Tee

Basically Spud fans are deranged but not entirely stupid.

Mr Serge

No i would love to see spurs get Southgate too
Fonseca will not drive them forward

Aussie+Gooner

“Juventus have reportedly approached Arsenal with an ambitious exchange deal for Hector Bellerin for Aaron Ramsey. ”

Arsenal’s spending spree is kicking into gear according to the Mirror. Does anyone know anything about this young fella Ramsey we are being offered???????

Marko

ASRoma official bid for #Xhaka is €15 M.
Arsenal ask €17.5 M.

Sounds about right.

Aussie+Gooner

So we are raiding Brighton and Sheffield Utd’s ‘bargain’ basements for White (50m), Bissouma (40m) and Berg (35m)! We are going to get mugged again!

Marc

Marko

So we turned down between a reported £23 and £27 million for Xhaka 18 months ago – since then he’s suddenly become a great player and we’re selling him for £15 million if we get what we want for him.

If that ain’t sauce I don’t know what is?

CG

Breaking news.

Spurs employing ‘Zorro’ ( Clown )
Everton employing Benitez( proper manager)

and the old Crustie (Stan).is still trying to eek out more of Eks money.

You have enough Stan, you are 73.
You will be the richest man in the cemetery.

Go on a cruise or something.

englandsbest

Man-management is about getting people to believe in you and your methods. With the young and eager players, Arteta does that in spades. It’s the old and past-it players who moaned and groaned. Thankfully, the last of them will be gone come August.

Marc

eb

If only Arteta could translate that into results? Remember if fans had been in the stadium he’d be lucky to have gotten away with being sacked before Christmas.

WengerEagle

Chavsea matching PSG’s 55m bid for Hakimi.

An odd one on the surface as Reece James has been great for them, maybe Tuchel wants James as a RCB.

Dissenter

“MarkoSo we turned down between a reported £23 and £27 million for Xhaka 18 months ago – since then he’s suddenly become a great player and we’re selling him for £15 million if we get what we want for him.If that ain’t sauce I don’t know what is?”

Da sauce has depreciated Xhaka
Arteta’s sauce is piranha-flavored.

raptora

Saliba, Guendouzi, Nketiah, Maitland-Niles, Nelson, Willock, Martinelli, Balogun.

All binned by Arteta. Most regressed. AMN who was doing good, stopped playing after Arteta declined the Wolves bid.

But spread the false word how good he is with young players.

Of course I can add as many names from the older players who had problems with Arteta as well.

As a whole we have a cunt of a manager and some deluded bunch of people are proud of him.

But yo, Guendouzi is problematic!!!! Not the manager who’s fought with 3/5 of the squad.

Dissenter

After Emery messed up Xhaka and the fans conspired to drive him out of Arsenal, Xhaka was going for 20-25 million on a fire sale inn Jan 2020
After being marinated in Arteta-sauce fore 1.5 seasons, he is going for 60% of the Jan 2020 valuation.

The collective transfer value of the squad has diminished under Arteta with the leaders of the squad seeking quick exits.
Why would anyone try to leave a manager who’s promised a CL trophy in 3 seasons?

Marc

Dissenter

Apparently Brazilian players operate in dog years so that “3 years to win the CL” is actually 21 years.

I still think it’s fucking delusional!

raptora

Maitland-Niles stops playing when he did so well in that FA Cup run. He doesn’t know why. Nothing was ever explained. He just wasn’t in the manager’s plans anymore. He doesn’t know if Arsenal will sell him or not. No one has talked to him. Le Sauce has perfect man-management alright!

Saliba and Guendouzi joking about getting out of prison (Arsenal). Great place to be.

Marc

raptora

At what point when you have a manager who keeps having problems with “others because they’re problematic” decide that the problem isn’t with others but the manager?

Marc

raptora

If we sell Saliba it’ll be the biggest mistake Arsenal have made in decades (other than Arteta that won’t be beaten ever) we’ll sit back and watch him pick up a CL trophy whilst we can’t even get in it.

WengerEagle

It makes a bit more sense now Marc.

Tets’ project works in reverse dog years so we are really only 6 months into it.

By 2041 I fully expect us to be hoisting the CL aloft, Tets still with flawless hair.

Words on a blog

I think that Pedro is The Greatest Arsenal Blogger Who Ever Lived (“TGABWEL”)..

He is inventive, and is brilliant at creating new narratives. He probably should start his own breakaway European Football Bloggers Super League.

But hey, I’m just gonna transfer to Arseblog for a few years.

Cheerio folks. It was real.

Marc

WOAB

Keep well mate.

Words on a blog

Marc,

See ya – and good luck holding Pedro’s feet to the fire when he’s off on one.

Positive pete

🥱 yawn.See we’re back on the Special sauce out dialogue.Jeeez.It sure does get tiresome. Imean really,really boring.Thought we all agreed.He’s got this window & until Christmas to prove his worth? Seems fair enough.Lets talk about something POSITIVE.Daniel eke & his chances of a buyout.Yes please.😐🤞

WengerEagle

Is Arseblog based in Dublin?

Honestly never really checked it out, been coming here for years and don’t go on any other blogs.

Remember way back when used to go on A Cultured Left Foot and Wrighty7 (?) I think was called. Alright but paled in comparison to here.

Sly

Nice post Pedro
Arseblog is brilliant for the podcasts
Arsenal vision podcast is great too

Pierre

Makes you wonder where Arsenal would have finished last season if Smith Rowe hadn’t arrived on the scene….dread to think. It’s amazing how the inclusion of a no.10 changed our season, although to the more educated of us it was as clear as day as to why the team were totally devoid of any creativity. Anyway, Arteta stumbled on a reasonably successful formula, and then for some unknown reason changed the succesful formula for the semi final v Villarael and of course we were eliminated. Of course football management is a learning process and mistakes will be made of which… Read more »

MD-Gunner

With many clubs looking for new managers, when Arteta gets fired before X-Mas while Arsenal are in the bottom half of the table, there will be no decent managers available. At Arsenal things seem to repeat itself, bad timing and then only what is at the bottom of the barrel is available.This basically looks like the results for the 2021/2022 season will be all on Arteta and Edu and no way to get rid of them until another mid-table season finish.

Exit stage left.

RockyRoe

Well he can’ t be in that much need of a holiday he only manages from Christmas to May.

CG, man, that was epic.

China1

My only concern is where does Ek get his money from. He can’t personally afford to buy this club with enormous assistance from a consortium or bank(s).

So the question is who will be contributing what? What’s in it for them? It won’t be charity.

Don’t get me wrong I’d be glad to have someone who cares take over. We need that desperately. But I’d really like to know who else we’d be getting into bed with along the way

Guns of SF

He has the legends with him.. although they dont have that kind of money. Most likey will be some advisors to him or in other ambassador roles perhaps….

Its going to be a group, and there are reports that he does have the money in hand… so lets see what happens.

China1

Dissenter

‘ “MarkoSo we turned down between a reported £23 and £27 million for Xhaka 18 months ago – since then he’s suddenly become a great player and we’re selling him for £15 million if we get what we want for him.If that ain’t sauce I don’t know what is?”’

Wenger paid 40m for the pleasure for him and 5 odd years later and now in his absolute prime at the height of his form and powers 15m looks like a good deal for us as we sell

Magic

Luteo Guenreira

Another one gone too soon. WOAB was one of the good ones, may his soul rest peacefully.

Guns of SF

we need a proper DOF, its been lunacy with our sales and buying players.
We need a reality check.
I do hope EK takes over. Being a fan, and being close to the game, legends, he knows the story… and can do something about it.

Guns of SF

Eduteta out

Tony

Topical song for the post (OUR) My way by Frank Sinatra Kroekes’ please listen here and now close the final curtain Your no club friend, it’s clear You’ll hear our noise of which be certain Gooners live in hope, that much is true they’ve travelled each and every motoway many times up north in the rain and gales that blew We’ve done it our way Regrets, we’ve had more than a few Selling to you was the worst one Curse Fisman, Dein, and Bracewell-Smith They sold us out without contemplation You planned without knowing our club cluelessly hiring Arteta and… Read more »

Tony

rewritten last verse.

But before you go, look what you have done
being our worst owner all along with your son
You’ve caused us gooners far too much pain
and long term misery

So wiggy let us be clear, be left in no doubt
whenever you’re near you’ll hear us say and shout………..

Fcuk off KSE and let Ek do it OUR WAY!!!!!!!

Guns of SF

🙂

Gonsterous

Good morning you lot

Happy to see EK keep the pressure. Stan must hate him because EK goes around bald showing the world you don’t need a wig to look good.

Gentlebris

Kroenkes not selling immediately doesn’t really matter. All we need is for Ek to stay on his case from outside and fans to keep the pressure on from inside. Then we will see some accountability on the pitch.

Gentlebris

Arteta has had his teething problem. The early double glory winning the FA and getting promoted from head coach to manager ruined his head. But he’s bold and always looking to create different ways to approach a game, if he had won with ESR as false 9, it would have been proclaimed in the football world as a genius touch. But he lost and what he did came across as madness. Plus the guy was always devastated each time he lost. I even felt pity for him after the final whistle second leg vs Emery. Everyone hates to lose, especially… Read more »

Guns of SF

Gentlebris Interesting take. I see Mike as a rigid and inexperienced coach who could not adjust on the fly and quick enough. He tinkered until the end, ( a sign of a coach not confident in his best side and tactics) Playing Xhaka as LB when we had soares, and a false 9, then leaving TP as our only mid in the second leg- all of that was just stupidity. He did not take these chances during the season so it was madness to see him getting desperate in the semi final. Makes no sense. Then again Pep his master… Read more »

Gonsterous

Gentlebriss Knowing when to experiment is key to being a good manager. Arteta has no clue when to bring in his experienced players, which games to use to bed in youngsters and win over players, and which games to experiment on. Will and can he learn fast? That’s to be seen. Personally, I was won over when we won the FA cup and community shield but I was soon disabused of that notion when it turned out that in form Auba was actually just playing for a contract. Then the whole debacle of the non negotiable and his insistence to… Read more »

Gonsterous

Guns

I guess we were thinking the same thing when we read gentlenesses comment

Guns of SF

hah yeah… I just hope that he actually knows how to coach next season, otherwise it does not matter who we bring in the summer

Emiratesstroller

One has to accept that once a player chooses to leave a club for whatever reason it becomes difficult to achieve top dollar in the transfer market. From my perspective Xhaka was a decent player and apart from Leno played more minutes than any other player at the club. Since January he was in my view our best midfield player. What I do find disturbing is that we struggle to get a fee of £20 million for a player of this level. I am willing to bet that Athletico Madrid will have no difficulty in achieving such a figure for… Read more »

Nelson

Obviously, Xhaka doesn’t trust the process.

Tee

“Obviously, Xhaka doesn’t trust the process”

Or he is tired of a club with a set of disgusting fans who are poor in debating football tactics but excellent in attacking player’s personalities.

Mee

“You know Stan, your not the man.”
#Bars.

Muppetman

Our main problem with our transfer targets is if they have a good Euros then the price will go higher or more clubs will be alerted. Surely you would like to think we have a list of players required and can go hard to get them at start based on priority? If we can’t due to waiting on sales for even our top targets then we are in for a shit summer.

raptora

We are talking about millions and millions of lost money selling/gifting players way, way below their market value. So many directors changed at Arsenal and none of them can do their actual job and sell well? It’s pathetic. We are talking hundreds of millions lost cause people don’t do their job. Massive losses on Ozil (-42m), Mustafi (-37m), Mkhitaryan (-30m), Xhaka(-25m if it happens), Welbeck (-18m), Sokratis (-15m), Lucas Perez (-14m) 182m losses right there ^ And now, in addition to useless directors, we have a manager who’s managed to decimate the value of half our squad. Torreira is next… Read more »

Danny S

Raptora

Ramsey and Sanchez 40 and 60m respectively.

Leftside

That’s why I posed the question the other day, are we dependent on sells for funding, because if so then someone should ask Josh what the fuck is there to be excited about? Will we get all our business in before pre-season? Or will we mess around with silly offers that don’t meet clubs valuations only to then pay the asking price towards the end of the window?

Useroz

Fortune 500s are indeed fortunate with usually the right people playing in the roles, and systems to appraise , scout talent, recruit, and remove people generally work to deliver results a,cceptabke to the shareholders that keep their market leading positions. None of these are in place or work in out beloved club. Football is different, some say. How? Achieving football glory really isn’t very different from pushing the envelipe regarding market shares, profits, share prices etc You need an excellent board, strong and inspiring leadership ,creative go to market strategies and tactics (to conpete), experts and right players, people doing… Read more »

Positive pete

With regards to our poor transfer dealings,particularly in selling players way below their transfer market value is a result of a bloated squad with inferior players on ridiculous wages.Every club in Europe knows we’re trying to offload deadwood.It’s common knowledge.As a result we’re on the wrong end of any advantage in negotiations from the off.Throw in the fact that most clubs( outside of the doped) don’t have a pot to piss in & its the perfect storm for us to get screwed.We are just going to have to suck it up for the next 2/3 windows to clear it &… Read more »

Mr Serge

Pete is correct these players are on far more money with us than they would get elsewhere this impacts transfer value

Danny S

It is shocking how poorly run we have been for the last 14 odd years. Had we put a proper board and DoF in place post Dein, or at the very least when Wenger left this could have been a very different story.

Allowing wenger total power and following that up with ha ding the reigns to Gazidis who was renowned for being a terrible negotiator who then brought in mr contacts Man Raul was just a snowball of shit.

Mr Serge

The kronkes reign has coincided with how shit we are run they have no business owning a football club never mind one of the too ones historically
Look at how villa are run now with proper owners and Leicester it’s ridiculous how far down the kronkes have taken us

Danny S

Yeah we have lost so much ground on all our rivals. We could be light years ahead of Spurs now and rubbing shoulders with City and Pool had we been properly run. I don’t care what people say about doping, Liverpool/Leicester have proved you can do it properly. I also think had Wenger had a Dof sticking his nose in after Dean left, he’d have soon followed out the door. It wasn’t until Gazidis started poking about in Wengers business that he started getting his nose out of joint anyway. Had that not been happening, no matter what the fans… Read more »

The Bard

Positive Pete you’re spot on. This is why keep changing manager is pointless. Unless we address the structural issues we can have Klopp or Pep as manager and still be a shite club. Imagining that Arteta or anyone else is going to make water into wine is pure fantasy.

DivineSherlock

Useroz with the brilliant post there . Sad reality that we arent run anywhere close to being efficient. .

Danny S

The Bard

I disagree slightly with that. What we are seeing in these 8th place finishes and some of these results is the product of a manager who is learning on the Job.
Had we had the right manager from the start, regardless of how the ‘process’ may turn out with tets, we’d have been in a better place short term.
That’s not to say tets isn’t or won’t learn, but an experienced manager would have had us better off I think.

Gentlebris

Guns/Gons, We are mostly saying the same thing. What I’m saying different is that I love a guy who could roll the dice on the big stage. I love a guy who can dream up an unknown formation and believe in it enough to stake his job and his reputation on it on a big stage. I don’t like the ‘let me do it like everyone does it’ kind of coach. Pep became what he is today through those crazy dreams…it worked for him early enough to give him a big rep that will last him a life time. It… Read more »

Almuniasaynomore

No need for a song to provide comic relief this morning.

Moray

It worked for Pep because he had Messi and fists of cash…

Marko

Apparently Spurs are trying to sign Marcus Thuram… which is a shame because we could do with someone like him

sid

Diet Peps coaching has is proportional to Xhakalsons transfer fee

sid

someone make me understand how Buendias/ruben neves transfer fee is more than double Xhakalsons

sid

Between N’joei Boubawillock and Xhakalson who will fetch more? who has been coached by Steve Bruce

Terraloon

ES “What I do find disturbing is that we struggle to get a fee of £20 million for a player of this level. I am willing to bet that Athletico Madrid will have no difficulty in achieving such a figure for Trippier who is a year older than Xhaka and certainly not a more valuable asset.” The rumour is that Tripper will be going to Man U for a fee closer to £15 million than £20 million Being an HG player that adds to the value of the player and as does the fact that he appears to be wanted… Read more »

Chrispy

Older. shittier and potential for crucial mistakes factored in?

NORG

Tony

Now all we need is a prompt so the fans can sing every verse at the ground. Looking forward to your next song with changed lyrics.

Terraloon

WE Chavsea matching PSG’s 55m bid for Hakimi.An odd one on the surface as Reece James has been great for them, maybe Tuchel wants James as a RCB. As I have said before my brother is a ST holder at Chelsea His opinion on James is that they haven’t yet quite worked out what his best position is.I think in the games against Leicester and the CL final he played in a back three which sort of suggests that if they get Hakimi he will play in front of James and replace Azpilicueta who I think is fast approaching the… Read more »

Marko

What I do find disturbing is that we struggle to get a fee of £20 million for a player of this level But you see that’s the thing we as Arsenal fans (or some of us at least) overestimate his level vastly some might say. Look he’s been debated and debated around here for years and the fact is that when it came down to it the only clubs to try and sign him were Hertha Berlin (who decided on Tousart then) and Roma who finished in 7th and like us with no european football next season. Not big ambitious… Read more »

englandsbest

As usual the gripers are chasing their tails. They finally cottoned on that the owner counts most of all and now they go round and round in circles pining for Ek. Bad timing, the damage has been done. Swapping one billionaire for another with far less cash is not the way to go. Same with Arteta. Give the man a fair chance. He came along, saw Arsenal was a broken machine, set about repairing it. A process that will take time. Instead of showing patience the gripers nitpick, blow minor details into monstrous proportions, wrongly convincing themselves that most fans… Read more »

Marko

Instead of showing patience the gripers
nitpick, blow minor details into monstrous proportions,

Hey eh Arteta fanboy it’s not nitpicky or minor it’s a pretty big deal to miss out on European football for the first time in 25 years especially if you’re Arsenal and that was literally the last thing going for you. I wonder where was this call for calm and patience when Emery finished 5th a point off champions league. Oh I know

Leftside

another shut up and support Arteta whilst ignoring the facts type fan

Chika

You say a player is shit and on wages above his level. Eventually, when this shit player gets sold for shit money as his wages also affects the fee, you come out to moan. lol miserable lot.

Leftside

and enough isn’t made on here, Emery was ridiculed to the high heavens, made out to the most inept manager going and he dumped out Arteta with ease and then went on to win the whole tournament and is now in the CL where Arteta wants to be.

I did say to Ishola it would be more damning if Emery did lose a tie to a novice in Arteta. A guy only championed on here in sections and by some Arsenal fans that are content with mid table mediocrity.

Marko

Odd how the Arteta fanboy is aligning with a kroenke fanboy. Is it cause with actual presence at ownership level and more football people at Arsenal that Mikel would be found out?

Marko

Leftside more isn’t made out of that fact because it’s not as topical to some as some made up table post Christmas. It’s objectively biased who wants to talk about the season on the whole and how much of a failure it was let’s instead focus on some made up trajectory post Christmas. It’s funny cause Wenger had the exact same thing about for years there he’d always pick up just enough wins towards the end of the season to save his ass