THE EUROS TONIGHT LADS AND LADETTES.
Can’t wait.
It’s nice that to commemorate the Italians and Turks game that we’re being heavily linked to Serie A players.
Locatelli as a Granit replacement?
Barella as tasty number 8 with bite to his game?
RODRIGO DE PAUL FOR CHANCE CREATION, BALL PROGRESSION AND BIG ENERGY VIBES?
Those are three very sexy links. I read someone say we go from ass to class and I am absolutely here for that sort of poetic internet prose.
Rodrigo De Paul is 27, repped by Mino Raiola, and probably going to Atleti… but his profile is exactly what we’re looking for. He’s tasked with progressing the ball from deep at Udinese. He creates a lot, scores a lot, has an energy profile that has attracted Bielsa. Give me that sort of talent over some of the one-paced merchants we’ve been looking to replace all day long.
This is an excellent scouting report if you’d like to read up further on him.
Locatelli is exciting because he’s handsome and Italian. He ticks all the Xhaka RPL boxes from a stats perspective. He’s at a small club in Italy, Sassuolo, so should be attainable. Though I do wonder how the P&P merchants are rationalising him more than the other slow deep-lying midfielders because he’s very one-paced even in Italy. I guess Italians just hit differently?
I’m not sure how much is actually going on, because I know Arteta is out of the building on holiday and it seems that Edu is still away because he keeps posting to his public IG stories. Breath though. Everyone is entitled to a holiday. BUT WHERE ARE THE SIGNINGS BECAUSE THE EUROS HAVE ALREADY STARTED. Breath. It’ll be fine. IT WILL BE FINE.
Tyler Adams feels like a dead cert now.
Agent Smith Rowe is on the blower as we speak luring him over to the mighty Arsenal. Journos are saying he’s a hot target of clubs with Champions League football. I’d say WE ARE ARSENAL, but Emi B just binned us off to play cards with John Terry, so who knows how the Arsenal pull is working at the moment.
More journos are talking up the prospect of Lokonga, a great talent, but not for the first team I’d imagine.
Then there’s the story of Eddie getting a new deal. Not quite sure how this one is working. If he’s getting a new deal, you would imagine it’ll be because Huss Fahmy put an option of an extension in his last deal so we could preserve his value… because I don’t see a world where he’d sign another year knowing how far he is down the pecking order to protect Arsenal’s right to sell him?
Granit Xhaka is about to move out of the club for £18m or so… if you spent the last 5 seasons calling him the worst player in the world, I can’t have you moaning about the fee in a post-pandy world (pandy is ok to use, right?).
On the note of moaning, word for the comments. I let a whole bunch of people back on a few weeks ago and predictably, the misery is back and the conversation is starting from a low point. People need to pick it up. Misery breeds misery and stops interesting conversation flowing like we have a few months back. If perpetrators don’t pick it up, I’ll do a sweep again.
On that note, I bid you farewell, enjoy the Euros, it’ll be fun!
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Are Edu and Arteta really on holiday?
Just like the good old days when we needed to add to the squad and Wenger would be hanging out on the beach in his budgie smugglers.
On the note of moaning, word for the comments. I let a whole bunch of people back on a few weeks ago and predictably, the misery is back.
Again we finished 8th with no european football next season…the misery never left
Bob
I don’t want to be miserable about Arsenal and what many don’t seem to understand is this isn’t about me being right or ego. If Arteta nails it next season and is everything Pedro believes it won’t bother me one jot because I’ll be in the Tolly having a beer and celebrating the wins.
We ultimately improve as a team when this central midfield gets sorted.
CB is secondary in comparison.
Marc The worry is: where is the money coming from? KSE apparently paid off our £120m Bank of England Covid loan in May, as well as arranging the restructuring of our stadium long-term bonds. In both cases we can assume transferred into a loan from KSE to Arsenal. We want money to be spent, but are the Kroenkes just quietly loading hundreds of millions of owner loans onto the club since they took it private, with the risk that if our annual losses continue to spiral, we end up like Liverpool under Hicks & Gillett? No-one really knows what the… Read more »
Left
I can understand Arteta needing a break but surely Edu can take a week or 2 off in September?
Marko,
Agreed. Unfortunately when the shit is hitting the fan some people still want to see a world of rainbows and unicorns. 🌈 🦄
Elmo
Agree it is a worry. What Rich says makes sense but that doesn’t mean that the Kroenkes are going do what’s logical.
We’ll find out over the next couple of months and as Pedro said it’d be strange for Ek to put in a fresh bid if he hadn’t been given signs that it’d at least be considered.
Pierre/CG
Just to be absolutely clear, Wenger spent 10 years slowly building us into this mess we are now. This didn’t suddenly occur as soon as he left.
His slide just wasn’t as fast. But it was evident.
The only upside is that consecutive 8th place finishes shows that maybe we have halted the slide or hit our rock bottom. Only way is up I hope.
Left Testicle
Did you actually just question the work ethic of Arsene Wenger? The guy literally had a bed in his office and didn’t go home for days on end he worked so ridiculously hard.
At the same time, Arteta (once he’s identified targets) doesn’t really need to do anything that can’t be done remotely to ensure transfers go through. Edu being on holiday at the moment is shifty though, I’ll give you that.
The guy literally had a bed in his office and didn’t go home for days on end he worked so ridiculously hard.
Explains the failed marriage more than anything
Ollie
” Edu being on holiday at the moment is shifty though, I’ll give you that.”
A man who clicks his fingers while talking is more than enough evidence of shiftiness let alone inapt holidays.
Marc, I’m waiting to see what happens in the TW before I get too optimistic. Hope springs eternal!
Ollie,
Calm down. Not his work ethic. His inability and refusal to see the squad needed improving rather than persist with the likes of Denilson for seasons on end. Instead we got the ‘I will only buy if it improves the team bullshit!
Rich I think the Kroenkes’ decision to keep the club boils down to: will the ESL and its free pay days go ahead (the Holy Grail for all the American investors who tried their luck in English football: risk-free, profitable ownership)? I think the clubs will force another attempt at it within 2-3 years, that the likes of Perez and Agnelli are keeping the fires going, and that the Kroenkes will not walk away as long as there’s a likelihood of it going ahead (Arsenal’s value sky-rockets if it does). The Kroenkes need to keep Arsenal within the conversation for… Read more »
Danny
“”:Pierre/CG Just to be absolutely clear, Wenger spent 10 years slowly building us into this mess we are now. This didn’t suddenly occur as soon as he left.”””
off course he did.
x 20 top 4
x7 fa cups
x3 league titles
balanced the books
was always loyal and classy.
won most of his home games in style.
won his Cup finals.
Was he faultless or blameless? No
Who isnt at top level management!
Wenger done his job.
9/10
Bob
I have no idea who we’re going to sign, who we’ll manage to sell or how much we’ll spend either net or gross.
All we can do is sit back and see. Hopefully the Euro’s will give us an entertaining distraction.
The biggest critics, are usually the biggest optimists
Because they can see what’s they perceive as being wrong, and believe that things can get better
It’s that torment that transmits into frustration, that’s then perceived as negativity by other people
Fans becoming apathetic is the thing to worry about, because at that point, they’ll have lost hope altogether
Left
Sorry I didn’t mean to give the impression of an angry man there. I get what you mean, he was a stubborn man. However, it is difficult with young players. For every Denilson (literally the exact same player from the age of 19-23, maybe even got worse) you get a Ramsey where it suddenly (and randomly) clicks like it did in 2013/14.
Diet Pep needs to tweet pics of himself on holiday in speedos, le groves supreme leader would love that
The big question is, does Diet pep let his other hair overgrow like his facial hair?
Elmo Assets minus liabilities, equal owners equity Arsenal’s debts are KSE’s debts All borrowing does is reduce the amount of equity KSE have in the club, and they’re currently nowhere near a position of negative equity They paid roughly £1,050,000,000 for Arsenal, they’ve reportedly just turned down a bid north of £2 billion Since any new owner is highly likely to debt finance any Arsenal takeover, any loans guaranteed by Kroenke, would need to be settled, and all that would do is eat into their profit Borrowing doesn’t bother me, interest rates are unlikely to rise, and if KSE do… Read more »
Marko Why are you still trying to educate people that we’re interested in Ben White because he’s better than a few CB’s we currently have? That’s known by literally everyone. You’ve yet to actually reconcile how we splash 45 mil on him and still have enough for the areas left untouched. Kolasinac, Xhaka, and Odegaard are going/gone. We’re going to earn 20 mil combined from them and it’ll take comfortably 80 mil to go near replacing them. That’s not been considering the loans that are still getting repaid for previous duff transfers. You flat out refuse to comprehend the prioritisation… Read more »
Rich
Right. So I hope the Kroenkes have a good plan they are committed to, and don’t pull the plug to downsize to break even. A lot rides on Edu.
Kroenkephobe How are things man? At least there’ll be a good atmosphere in the pubs today, cant beat the optimism before the 1st game in the finals of a major tournament,hope Wales do well. Takes me back to Stuggart ’88, cant remember who we played though…… Anyway hope you’re out and enjoying a few beers with the red army. Here’s one for our boss on his hols,Pedro,forward with haste Canter(Banter) Gerry Cinnamon (I’m sure most of you know this one but if you don’t I cant recommend it enough, great tune) This is the big window for the rest of… Read more »
Marko,
To add to what Charlie says, do you see in difference between the players Liverpool and ManU have in midfield and attack as opposed to Arsenal? They’re fine in those areas so makes sense to bolster their defence if they choose to. Mind you ManU are still looking to sign Sancho.
I am happy with the players that are linked , I have no problems with Arsenal approaching for Ben White . The problem is I wish I knew what the plan is , what Arsenal are meant to be doing when they play . Is it gonna be a 3-4-3 , so we can play Holding Saliba/White and Mari/Gabriel ? and Chambers and Tierney as Wing backs with Saka and Pepe forward
I am at a stage, and I think any reasonable fans should be, where I couldn’t give a shot what plan Arteta and Edu are cooking up. They’ve shown they’re crap at their jobs and shouldn’t be trusted with more money. The link to White is further proof of that.
I have a feeling Arteta’s #1 priority is not to lose. Ar least White is young. If money is not an issue then why not.
KSE’s hockey just got eliminated in the Staney cup play off. They may now have time to take a peek at their investment in London.
It’s interesting that some keep on hanging on to what a great job Wenger did in is last 10 years or so. Throughout this period I was a season ticket holder and I’d make the following conclusions; The money available broadly across the PL increased thus enabling sub group of 6 clubs to buy better and smarter if they had the right mgmt in place AW and his mgmt team did not “train on” payers. Arshavin is the prime example, i remember sitting in a box on the half way line and he was stuck on the right wing and… Read more »
196 days to go till boxing day
Am glad that the debate is opening up re KSE in terms of them potentially loading debt onto the club. KSE aren’t in this because they love football or more particularly they love Arsenal they ar3 init for the bottom line. AST have raised concern after concern about how the moneys used to but out Usmanov, settle the stadium bonds and now pay off the £120 million are coming from and just how those loans will show up in the accounts. There is no doubt that KSE have borrowed big but be under no illusion serving most of the loans… Read more »
Buying Ben White at 40-50 million when we have serious gaps in our midfield, a plethora of Backs and no Europe, show how important non- negotiables is to Arteta. All THE CUSSED STUPIDITY just to show Saliba who is the boss. Arteta is a sick individual, and the biggest concern for Arsenal. Only positive would be he drives down the Club and thereby drives Kroenkes to cur their losses and sell. Assuming, there will not be another owner who is as negligent as the Kroenkes it will also herald #ArtetaOut
Marko really thinks that we are going to spend 200m+ this summer…
Links to Joaquin Correa are interesting. 25-30m fee being put out there.
S Asoa
Dont say it out loud Pedro doesnt want misery .
‘Just to be absolutely clear, Wenger spent 10 years slowly building us into this mess we are now. This didn’t suddenly occur as soon as he left.’ Do you actually believe this? Let me tell you why you and others are still blaming Wenger 4 years after: because you lot don’t wanna look stupid for bullying Wenger out. Wenger sure had his sins, but he’s not responsible for all the obvious wrong decisions the club has made since Wenger left. For example, Wenger was definitely not the reason we didn’t sign Buendia(a player that exactly fits the description we are… Read more »
Any Sheepshaggers on here?
I know that Tunnygriff used to be a proud Welsh lad when he posted.
Kroenkephobe?
Get to see Ramsey and Bale in action.
It really is that simple for you Gentlebris, isnt it? Delusional is the only word i can honestly use in summarizing your rant.
Take our Hale Enders out of the squad and look at what’s left…that’s what our transfer dealing over the last 15 years has given us. It’s horrific. There’s no strategy there and we certainly don’t act like a club that has to exist within its means. Second point. After they were caught trying to select he family jewels, Josh has said he expect the fans to be wowed or something similar. So I expect they are finding money for transfer investments. My main problem is Edu and Arteta. There’s little they are likely to do to wow me unless they… Read more »
Moray
Remember that when Josh said that ST renewals were coming up – now they’re done let’s see what he says now / does now.
Gentlebris, Wenger spent a decade failing to sign a player like Buendia. Many of the issues we have now are perpetuations of Wenger issues from years ago.
Lets hope Xhaka doesn’t get injured.
Can the BBC stop licking Bale’s arsehole now? Vomit inducing.
Left
God knows what they’ll be like when Scotland play – probably say that any win is proof that Scotland should have independence!
Marc, the cunt’s gone for another nine months.
I doubt he’s thought once about Arsenal since his private plane took off and the stewardess started fellating him.
East
”””””’Trolley dash signings…..crazy way to do business. Socialist wages….insane. Bendtner……say no more. Ultimately no one else has employed him, that says everything””””””””
All true.
Still got us in the Champions league every season for 2 decades.
Klopp has had a 7-2 loss, x 5 successive home defeats ( their worst ever sequence) , injuries to their best players , seen his expensive players flop BUT still got his team in 3rd.
Great managers find a way.
Focus on the achievements not the minutiae.
The Welsh anthem isn’t so good unless it is being sung by a lot more people in the stadium than today.
What a motley crew this Swiss team is.
Bale and Xhaka.
Mongs together.
Ricardo Rodriguez once upon a time was hot property on Le Grove lol.
Where is he playing at nowadays? Was a Milan reserve last I checked.
Weagle
“Ricardo Rodriguez once upon a time was hot property on Le Grove lol.”
Hot was the word.
They liked his languid style.
Xhaka never gets injured when he’s stinking out our team.
Watch him pull a cruciate now we want to offload the useless prick.
Was the hair I think Ishola.
Magnificent in it’s heyday.
Marc,
Did you see Robbie Savages strange whinge about Boris Johnson before the game last night?
Bale and Xhaka. The Chimp and the Chump.
Left
No what did he say?
Is there a bigger cunt on the planet than Robbie Savage?
Robbie Savage looks like he should be a character who gets shot early doors in Sexy Beast
So the Swiss team have moved beyond Djourou and Senderrors. Arsenal stalwarts of yore
Unsurprisingly the Swiss are better on the ball than the Welsh
Nope^.
More time for Nazi sympathisers.
Djourou did ‘dominate’ a prime Didier Drogba in 2010 as a claim to fame.
Other than that little spell he was utter shite though.
Freuler is a nice player in CM.
Very good on and off the ball.
Boris had wished England and Scotland good luck in the tournament. He didn’t mention Wales.
https://twitter.com/YesCymru/status/1403443844151119885?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1403443844151119885%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fd-21836130603867434253.ampproject.net%2F2106030132000%2Fframe.html
The best thing about Wales is that they are no longer managed by that deviant sex pest
A true vile creature birthed in Hades
Robbie Savage looks like Cher in the second Mamma Mia film.
Talking of Welsh with Manc accents Rodri pulls that tart on the premise that he is Ryan’s brother and then he is surprised when she shags Ryan furiously thereafter.
What a beautiful slut lol
Robbie Savage shagged that tart as well.
The best thing about Wales is that they are no longer managed by that deviant sex pest
A true vile creature birthed in Hades
__—————
Are you a victim of his or just going by what’s reported?
Ishola
He has managed to make a career off of being his brother’s cuck with the ad campaign and media apps.
Impressive stuff.
Weagle he is a twat Rodri
You just now he was making by even in his youth by just telling everyone that he was Ryan’s brother.
Jesus, sounds like half of Wales has been up there!
Fanny like a wizards sleeve!
Has Arteta found out his best starting 11 yet? It’s been more than a year and a half.
Maybe if he buys 50m players he’ll start them in every game so we get some understanding going.
Oh James was in full flow then.
Book him
Dull, dull game.
I’ll be shocked if any Arsenal CBs started more than 10 games together in the EPL this season.
Dan James is one of those ordinary players that will be relevant for as long as his pace dictates it.
Like a Walcott-lite option that big teams like to have as a weapon off the bench.
Aaron Ramsey is complaining loudly about Juventus ; “‘In the national team, on the other hand, I am happy to have a team that follows me step by step. ‘They understand me, they know what I need and also what my body needs. Unfortunately sometimes the teams always continue to work in a certain way, too” “‘When a player would need more attention… at least now I have the right people around me and then I’ll do everything to get back to a place where I can feel good again, and have confidence.’ He deserves all the love he gets… Read more »
Seems that Xhaka is just another example of the Swiss school of tackling. Cynical wankers.
You’ve yet to actually reconcile how we splash 45 mil on him and still have enough for the areas left untouched.
Again we don’t know the actual price and I literally did many times over. Sell Holding Chambers Mavropanos AMN Nelson Bellerin Kolasinac Willock Xhaka Elneny Nketiah Guendouzi Torreira Lacazette…is that not enough for you or is it beyond the realm of possibility that we could sell them? Maybe
Wales going big on counter attack.
We a counter attacking team.
Always remember that little twat Evra talk about how training at Man United was like a holiday camp in comparison to Juventus.
No real shock that Ramsey would struggle to adjust to that sort of environment. Dream I think it was predicted on here a while back that he would come back to England to somebody like Everton before long and it certainly looks that way.
Can’t imagine things will get any better for him under a punisher like Allegri.
Again we’ve been over this priority needs stuff before you were arguing it when we brought in Litchstenier and suggested Antonio Valencia while we still didn’t address the midfield and we STILL need a new starting RB.
Seferovic getting some strikes in.
He’s warning Wales
lol who is the guy with the beads.
Looks bang average.
Bit of a borefest so far..
I don’t think Arteta knows his best team. Even now, with a fully fit squad, you could probably only say that he selects Leno, Tierney, Partey and Xhaka.
Seferovic is shite.
Marko The fee quoted is 40-50 mil, I know you have you own special fee attributed but maybe go with the journo breaking the story before you pick at it any way you please. How much are all of those players getting us? Interesting that you’re saying sell Xhaka, Elneny, and Lacazette. So after we spend 45 mil on a CB who are we getting in CM to bolster the ranks of Partey, and……Partey? And who is replacing Lacazette’s 14 league goals? As Weagle says, you’re full of contempt for the guys at Arsenal but also firmly behind a 200… Read more »
The rest he pulls out of a hat.
Kevin Mbabu.
African. Get him in.
Moray,
Outside of le grove, do you seriously think football people think Wenger is the reason Arsenal finished 8th twice in a row under the third manager since Wenger left the building?
Robbie Page has been up her as well.
Gentlebris
Join Wenger in retirement.
“Again we’ve been over this priority needs stuff before you were arguing it when we brought in Litchstenier and suggested Antonio Valencia while we still didn’t address the midfield and we STILL need a new starting RB.“ I’m sure you think you’re making some cogent point with this, but you’re not at all. RB isn’t a problem area for Arsenal because at the very least we have 4 players that can play there (Chambers, Bellerin, Cedric, AMN). You can argue quality of those 4, and nobody disagrees that we haven’t a top class RB, but you’re being top shelf stupid… Read more »
Peter Collins, really?
What did we do to deserve this.
Tom Jones?
Wales have some half decent players but they don’t want to really play.
They just want to sit and rely on James and Bale on the break and some setpieces.
‘Kevin Mbabu.African. Get him in.’
Time to hang the bottle for the day, Ishola.
‘Join Wenger in retirement.’
Man is not retired. He works a prestigious job at fifa.