Well Arsenal fans, I think we’re at that stage of the transfer window where we’re starting to see slight patterns emerge. 4 days. Yep, I have patterns to share.
- We’re going to be in a scrum for players this summer
- We’re going to sell a lot
- We’re going to buy a lot
Arsenal has money to spend, no doubt about it. The KSE apology tour comes with Benjamins.
Arteta seems willing to move on players we thought were his favorites, Granit Xhaka proving out there’s a ruthless streak we didn’t know existed, especially after last summer when it felt like he hoarded.
If things go well, we’re likely to see a very different 25-man squad next season. Wenger said you shouldn’t add more than 3 players, well, we’ll need at least 5 to stand still.
This is a hugely consequential moment however you cut it.
The thing that’s exciting me the most is the profile of player we’re looking at. I’ve been writing for years that we need to shift to a Dortmund+ model if we want to get back to the top. That means you adopt a model where you create a good coaching environment for the best young players in Europe and you snatch at them before it they the top level. Monaco, Leipzig, Atleti, Lille, Dortmund, and Ajax are superb at this.
The better you get at it, the more you make in player sales, the bigger the pot you have to play with each season. Arsenal needs to get good at selling if we want to get back to the top. That’s why it’s essential this summer is clever.
Ivan G convinced himself we could get back to the top by signing ‘experienced’ players in their prime. It did not work. Sven Mislintat barely got going before he left after seeing what the Barca guy was up to. Don Raul, the least creative of our football hires, thought you could beat the market using ‘contacts’ scouting, it did not work. Now Edu has the chance to show the world he can do something more interesting than what has gone before.
Edu has done some VERY weird stuff, but if we’re going to be kind, maybe we can lay the blame at the door at over-controlling scuzzy execs that are now out the door. This summer will be his last if he fails. Career death has a funny way of sharpening the mind. It is not a surprise that the Brazilian player cartel has told Willian to move on this summer. I expect best behaviour and signings closer to Martinelli and Partey vs Willian and Cedric Soares.
So far, things are looking sexier. The average age of the players we’ve been linked to is lower. The names are coming from less obvious sources. There have been very few names linked to mega-agents. Everything on paper ‘feels’ smarter.
Emi Buendia is the sort of player Arsenal SHOULD be looking at. Young, great technically, perfect athletic profile, ready to bang… without doubt we moved for him, there are just too many big journos on it to think otherwise. Something clearly put Arsenal off, because we are a bigger pull and no way he’s says no if we’re at offer stage. However, the ‘why’ it failed doesn’t fuss me. Who cares? Didn’t like the slag anyway. What seems clear is:
- Martin Odegaard might be harder to sign than we hoped. No way we’re signing two creators in that #10 role this summer
- If the Norwegian is off the agenda, we are might be looking for someone who can bring energy and numbers to the operation
If you can’t make Buendia work, fund someone that has lookalike statistics. Rodrigo De Paul? Sure, maybe last season when the Le Grove comments section was repping him, but probably too late now, once Mino is involved, you’re dead. But what does he have that we need as well? Bang-bang energy, chance creation, power, pace, ability to transition the ball PLUS sexy versatility.
Who else could we find? Well, we’re being linked with Lazio’s Joaquin Correa, for £17m. He plays as a second striker, but can very much occupy that hole in behind like a #10. He has pace, strength, great technical skills and he can move through tight spaces. Do I know if we’re in for him? No. But do I like the idea we’re looking where other clubs aren’t? Absolutely.
We didn’t nab Buendia, but two players that could do something similar are linked right after. Again, I have no idea if I’m the conspiracy theorist piecing together the relationship between Elon Musk and the Bill Gates tracker bots he put in the covid vaccine… but the rumours feel smarter than they did last summer.
Our transfer window cannot be about chasing the coattails of clubs already in the Champions League. There is a HUGE opportunity to take advantage of a burning European transfer market and build a squad that can bang. Give a stupid Tech Director £100m and they blow it on a player that will return fuck all. Give it to a smart one, they’ll turn that into £250m.
Do we have the Edu who took £36m and turned it into Willian over 3 years? Or the guy that pulled Martinelli out of Brazil and made him a £50m youth sensation that Klopp called a GOD? Who knows. Who knows.
But the rumours are sexier…
Lokongo, yes please. Huge potential from a country that has players banging all over the world.
Caqueret? Absolutely. The French league is full of diamonds and their clubs are BROKE.
Onana? What a good bit of business that would be.
Locatelli? He’s a big boy, but what a player.
Barella? OH MY LORD YES PLEASE.
Smart money can still be sexy.
There are obviously going to be positions we have to stock with Premier-League-ready players. I understand that. If you ship Xhaka, you can’t give his role to someone that’ll take 5 months to settle in England because that position is so important and the fans will oust Arteta if that doesn’t work.
Same for the RCB position. I honestly find the rage surrounding Saliba baffling, because it generally comes from the people most critical of Arteta’s inexperience. No club in the world takes a chance on a 20-year-old center-back for the first team with no Premier League or Championship experience. That. Would. Be. Absurd.
… but, if you bring in Ben White or someone of his profile, then Saliba has a good mentor and we can develop an amazing talent over the season in conjunction with a player that can give us stability (To just regulate how crazy starting Saliba in our defence at 20 is, remember, Brighton sent Ben White to Leeds at 21). I honestly believe Saliba is the safest of our centre-backs because he’s the only one that can play football the way Arteta needs him to play.
People also need to move away from the idea that you sign players in order of need.
No one slags their mum on Twitter for not loading the weekly food shop in order of physiological priority.
‘MUM I NEED TO SEE LEGUMES IN THE TROLLEY FIRST, WHY WOULD YOU PRIORITISE PICKLED ONION MONSTER MUNCH YOU LUNATIC?’
A transfer window is a jigsaw puzzle. There are 5 or 6 pieces that need to drop in. It doesn’t matter which order as long as each piece is filled come the end of July.
So there’s the view of the summer patterns.
Hopefully, we can ship players out in a ruthless fashion.
Hopefully, we can buy with intelligence and do it with speed.
Hopefully, 80% of the deals we do can impact the starting 11 before December.
This is the true start of a new era. Let’s see what the club has. If it’s shit, we’re absolutely finished.
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The Christian Eriksen collapse was the worst thing I’ve seen in live sport.
This is not a moment for finger-wagging about things we do not understand.
We should celebrate the rapid reaction of everyone involved, especially the talented medics that kept him with us. We should celebrate the leadership of the players on the pitch. We should pray to whoever we pray to and celebrate that Christian is alive.
Life is really precious, there’s nothing more important, let’s hope he gets back to his best as soon as possible. xxx
Rich: “Right now we’re building a new team, probably for 2022/23”
Proper excuse before the season has even started. I guess the upcoming season is a write-off.
“Right now we’re building a new team, probably for 2022/23….”
Rich, whatever happened to yours “ Arsenal aren’t that far off, and adding two or three quality players can put us right in the top four mix next season.”
Raptora No excuses, that’s just the reality of our current position Let’s see how this summer plays out, but we’d have to do some immaculate surgery to challenge for the title next season, it’s unlikely we make up 30+ points next season Realistically we need to aim for top 4 next season, and then try and build from there Even if we have a very good summer, the margins between getting CL and finishing 7th or 8th, likely won’t be very big What we’re building with is: Gabriel 23 Saka 19 Smith-Rowe 20 Martinelli 20 Saliba 20 Tierney 23 Willock… Read more »
Tr4phy!
Again, why was Saliba not given a chance in the Europa League? Mustafi started 5 of our 6 group phase games. We scored 18 goals in 5 games or 3.6 goals per game. We still conceded 4 goals. How worse could Saliba have done? It’s a shocking mismanaging, giving minutes to a player who’s leaving instead of a player the club invested 27m in. It’s just plain stupidity. It has no explanation other than Arteta doesn’t care about protecting the interests of the club, he cares about the absolute here and now and he will not work with players who… Read more »
It may be that the Saliba non-integration was a very obvious error done by a young manager who was handling his FIRST pre-season.
We all expect that a young manager will make mistakes, the Saliba mishandling was an obvious example.
The Saliba non-inclusion can be put to rest here when Arteta’s supporters stop trying to re-invent the wheel; stop defending the obvious errors.
Obviously I’m a pervert since I think Saliba was hard done by a rookie manager handling his first ore-season.
Dissenter
Saw that comment yesterday about pervs re the Saliba issue and it was totally unnecessary, it’s incredible how anyone who doesn’t remotely belive in the manager( evidence suggests he’s out of his depth) or points out obvious errors is immediately tagged some ridiculous name. I mean look at Bob on the previous page with something about moaners e.t.c. I mean how about just skipping comments from posters whom you know their stand and discuss with others like you, why the need to always classify and give posters names is funny really
“Obviously I’m a pervert since I think Saliba was hard done by a rookie manager handling his first ore-season.“
Just admit how many times you’ve watched the Saliba wank tape and we can all move on, Dissenter.
“””””””raptoraJune 14, 2021 09:56:01
Pedro has an itch for Marko. Probably because Marko is more knowledgeable””””””
Lmfaooooooo, the most offensive post in my books!
Also no matter how much you try to excuse it, someone like Wenger for example would not allow the mishandling of Saliba , its been borderline criminal and not exactly the right way to handle assets. Can’t point to Europa league games even Wenger used to field the second string up till the quarters and say there wasn’t some kind of way to integrate the lad, not like we were playing to win the league anyway, instead we had Mustafi and co taking up squad places, players who didn’t have any future here. Heck we even got a group stage… Read more »
Wenger would enjoy watching Saliba,
Yes Marko is badly treated by Pedro
It’s seems unjust and uneven-handed when Pedro ignores comments that label people as perverts for arguing that Saliba should have been kept and banishes Marko for every slight infringement
Become a great CB in this team,
sorry its a continuation from my previous post, i was interrupted.
It’s quite telling that the Arteta appeasers are throwing false claims at anyone who questions what the club is doing at the moment Saliba being a prime example. I haven’t seen anyone say Saliba should be first choice from day one of the season the criticism is a fear of a repeat of last season where we could have used him in the group stages of the EL and then sent him on loan in Jan but this season we don’t have that option so he begins to look surplus to requirements. For my part is looks abundantly clear that… Read more »
Marc
Our mistake was not getting Saliba out in October, and not sending him to the Championship
We had Luiz, Sokratis, Mustafi all out of contract
Saliba would develop more from playing every week, than he would sat around twiddling his thumbs
We’d then have a more experienced internal replacement this summer, when we lost three centre half’s we couldn’t get out last summer
Would have been decent succession planning, particularly as we were already blooding Gabriel this season
Rich
“Realistically we need to aim for top 4 next season, and then try and build from there”
The problem is the appeasers move the goal posts and add excuses – is it top 4 next season or the sack (unless their are seriously mitigating circumstances) or will you just turn round and say 7th is an improvement on last season and if you look at the table upside down with one eye closed everything’s fine?
So Saliba wasn’t good enough says the guy who signed Runarsson. Question of judgement I’d say.
If I never get to post again, thanks Sid!
Rich
We all agree that it was an almighty fuck up last season with Saliba the difference is should he be part of this seasons squad as back up?
raptora
We’ll remember the fallen! You won’t have died in vain.
andy
Offered Mustafi a new contract as well?
Many want Kroenke out. Most if not all of the fans and supporters have expectations and care about upgrades to key positions in the squad. Yet, some appear to be willing to put up with glare deficiencies in arguably the most critical roles of the team, the .manager and coaches. Other than the ingenious Christmas Table trophy, the generational one managed to make many interesting decisions and headlines, and broke many club records….most in the wrong way. 😳 Btw, this is completely different from the Wenger situation few years ago. Wenger cumulated so much trust, stock and credibility from his… Read more »
I agree about Wenger. A lot of the fans, including me, loved the guy – for everything he won for us, but also for the character he had, the intelligence, the humility. I was proud I that Wenger was the manager of my team. And it was painful to admit he was past it at the end.
But Arteta? How a decent % of the Arsenal fanbase defend Arteta so viciously and make up excuses for him every single step of the way? Why? Just try to compare this unlikeable, egotistic twat to Wenger. He’s not worth it.
Most definitely
Kroenke is only a bad owner insofar as he keeps hiring the wrong people to run the club, not because he doesn’t make sufficient funds available to improve the squad.
The fact simply don’t bear that out.
Net spend over the last 10 years (Feb ’21 and prior):
City: 1B
Utd: 950M
Chelsea: 500M
Arsenal: 470M
Liverpool: 340M
Spurs: 170M
And so on. We’ve spend just 30M less than the sugardaddy Oligarch Chelsea owner and significantly more than Liverpool who have won a PL and CL title in the last 5 years.
The facts*
Batistuta,
Arsenal have gone progressively in the last three season’s from a manager who mostly had the club’s well being at heart and not a lot left to prove …………through one who always knew that no matter what happened here he would get another job offer again and probably soon………. to one who may never work in this capacity ever again if he repeated the last season’s results.
Why would anyone think his self preservation isn’t his main motivation?
Marc Let’s see what we do this summer, I was pretty accurate with my overall picture last season, other than Liverpool doing worse, and West Ham doing better than I though Obviously wanted us to do better, and there was certainly room to do slightly better in the league overall Our FA Cup defence + Europa league elimination was disappointing But I wasn’t surprised with the end picture, I said 60-65 points, and thought finishing 5th or 6th and we’d be hitting par 3rd or 4th slight overachievement, 7th or 8th slight underachievement, with fine margins separating a cluster of… Read more »
Pierre if you think the English refs have learned a damned thing from how other refs use VAR you will be sorely disappointed.
Our refs aren’t just poor, they lack even the slightest common sense, self awareness or ability to critically analyze the good from bad. If they had the capacity or self awareness to analyze or learn anything at all they’d be learning from their own mistakes
On the contrary if they watch the euros they’re probably shocked and appalled by their unwillingness to use var for 10 mins a pop every 5 mins
China
See the pen that was given to Denmark against Finland on Saturday, absolutely horrible decision and guess what an English ref in charge
Rich, you were accurate with your predictions probably because regardless the agenda driven narrative pushed on here of a total cluster fuck of a season for all clubs, the top four places were all taken by four most valuable clubs in the PL.
Shocking , I know.
Liverpool slightly underachieving because of injuries.
United slightly overachieving because of Liverpool’s injuries and Frank Lampard putting Chelsea in a hole.
Marc We need to be decisive with Saliba, his contract apparently runs until 2024, next summer he’ll be down to 24 months, and likely very annoyed with us by then… It looks like we’re definitely in for a right sided centre back Something will have to give with Saliba, Holding, Mavropanos, 2 of them will have to go, unless we continue with our hoarding obsession of central defenders Is it better to renew Saliba, protect his value, and loan him out, rather than have him as a bit part player? Is Saliba or Holding better as understudy to a new… Read more »
Rich
The only hope we’ve got of keeping Saliba is Arteta getting the sack soon and a new manager fixing the relationship.
We’ll have Pedro pushing the “he’s a trouble maker” line about Saliba soon – just wait and see.
Tom If we make some astute moves, we can definitely gatecrash the top 4 next season, but we’re a long way from a title push Villa, Leicester, Everton, Leeds will likely improve Mainland Europe is skint, clubs down the league with smart people, will be able to pick off some serious talent this summer at very good prices The PL is going to get stronger, the youth coming through is the best it’s been in my lifetime, and will go into overdrive over the next few years, that talent will then filter downwards Chelsea have been building a team for… Read more »
What happens to Kieran Tierney again???? He is not even in today’s squad!
Rich, Stop repeating the slight underachievement bullshit. I understand that this is how you feel about it. But dude, we are the 5th most valuable club. To finish behind Leicester, West Ham and Spuds isn’t a slight underachievement. It’s a god awful season. Stop twisting and calling our worst season in decades – slight underachievement. It’s not. It’s slowly turning into a nothing club. Also why are we suddenly building a team for 2022/23? Oh, I forgot, cause Arteta and Edu did nothing good regarding transfers in the last Summer and Winter so now it feels like we lost a… Read more »
Raptora
Le Grove has a big following , but expressing Arteta aficionados as a % we will just see 0.00000—. But Artetalove numbers can clearly and fully enumerated in a hand that wanks. Counting fingers it is just 5 , albeit noisy or authors of big repeatetive posts. Naturally , they have no substance.
Rich
The whole excuse / agenda was missing out on Europe is actually good because it means we can focus on top 4, you’re position is that even with an improvement we probably won’t make it.
So we’re going to spend big – not get CL football and lose a shit load more cash – at this rate Arsenal will go bust.
“Also why are we suddenly building a team for 2022/23?”
I thought we were supposed to be wining the CL by then?
“””””””RichJune 14, 2021 13:15:20
TomIf we make some astute moves, “””””
Stop right there!
See, this is why is is imperative that we sign a proper LB that can fill in for Tierney because for as much as I like him, he is a crock and will miss chunks of each season.
Not some traffic cone like Bertrand.
Include, ESR, Ode, Partey in missing huge chunks
Marc
“ Also why are we suddenly building a team for 2022/23?”I thought we were supposed to be wining the CL by then? “
Shifting goalposts gets more time for astute mediocre
Looks like we may need a new first choice LB next season if Tierney cannot stay fit.
If Saliba manages to hang around the club beyond Arteta’s reign, he’d be deemed old enough to play CB for a PL team, according to certain metrics, hopefully we’d still be in the PL then….
Meantime, if Saliba isn’t playing, the question of Holding or Saliba becomes a moot point sadly 🤔
I am sure that deep down, those Artetalovers know that both Edu and Arteta are pretty average. But KSE is keeping them in the job. As Pedro said, instead of being miserable, we might as well supporting them for now. We’ll see whether KSE actually do something for this TW.
Jeez, 8th is a “slight under achievement” ?
Next season, would 7th be meeting expectation!?
And God forbids, 6th would then become the new Trophy??
A. Wenger would have Gendozy, Pepe, Saliba, Willock,AMN et al purring, performing and entertertaining all the way in the Top 4.
No doubt about it.
(Arsenal players would be having fun too.)
Btw, I recall the generational one did say 4th was the goal… before the 2020/21 season started…
Batiboy, didn’t mention ‘moaners’ at all – that’s on you twisting my point.
I said it was understandable why Saliba’s handling, which was completely mismanaged,was such an obvious example of where Arteta/Edu screwed up, second only to Willian’s recruitment, ineffectiveness and therefore a justifiable stick to attack Arteta.
Marc, ‘fighting the good fight’ against Pedro, as per. Does his apparently successful career as well as running a popular blog somehow hurt your ego as your constant , daily attacks feels too personal to be just be about Arsenal matters?
Some plagiarism of a lighter vein
‘Jordan Pickford surely can’t be the best English goalkeeper in England. He looks like a farmer’s son who once drove the tractor through the side of a barn, destroying an entire harvest’ = a majestic injury time penalty save to prevent elimination.
‘Harry Kane is a massive lump with all the mobility of a cinder block and half the IQ’. “
So since the Euros and Copa has started should we keep expectations down and not hope for any signings till they ends , right ?
Bob
I don’t attack Pedro – I’ve taken the piss out of him on occasions because he’s in marketing, I’m in sales it’s something that always goes on. I don’t like agenda’s and will call them out when I see them, I also believe that if somethings right it’s right but most importantly on here all I care about is Arsenal doing well.
I do regularly attack Arteta it’s strange that you can’t see the difference between attacking the manager and Pedro?
Finishing 7 points behind your target
When hitting your target would have been a slight overachievement
Is a slight underachievement
West Ham overachieved, Leicester slightly overachieved
Arsenal slightly underachieved in the league
Forget about our finances, or being the 5th biggest club in the PL
Look at our squad, it was an unbalanced mess, due to years of mismanagement
There was room to do slightly better, but not a huge deal overall
If you think we should have been nailed on for top 4 this season, that’s serious delusion
Sherlock
I think that’s probably not a bad expectation. It’s difficult getting business done during a tournament at the best of times but with COVID as well it’ll just make things harder all round.
Rich
Hitting your target isn’t an over achievement it’s the minimum level expected.
Any Scots on here?
Haggis and Irn Bru at the ready for this one.
Tierney injured
Robertson not.
no surprises.
Gary Neville on Southgate – “But l have to say, it wasn’t in a doubting way because l don’t doubt the manager. We have an outstanding international manager who has unbelievable experience. Our biggest assets is our manager.”
Pedro on Arteta: “Firstly, we have a world-class coach at Arsenal. People keep chiding me about that, but it’s not even debatable, Arteta is one of the best young coaches in the world and he operates at the cutting edge.”
The Kane slander is as amusing to read as it is ridiculous.
We can all agree that Pickford is shit at least. Would sooner pull David Seaman out of the boozer and attach a customised pony-tail toupee and throw him out there for the knockouts than Pickford.
Rich
“ West Ham overachieved, Leicester slightly overachieved Arsenal slightly underachieved in the league Forget about our finances, or being the 5th biggest club in the PLLook at our squad, it was an unbalanced mess, due to years of mismanagement There was room to do slightly better, but not a huge deal overall “
We have valuable assets , and very good players.. aka We have fine China. And we recruited a bull into the China shop
Man Tierney needs to sort his fitness out
He is EXACTLY the kind of market we should be in for these days. 25 mil of pure quality, work rate and the rest. But deary me he’s fragile for a scot
Marc Aiming above your level, is what every club does 1st or 2nd wouldn’t have been realistic 3rd or 4th was our target, but would have been slightly above what most sensible fans would have expected, and if someone had told you we’d be 8 points behind 3rd and 6 points behind 4th at the start of last season, would you have been that surprised? 3rd or 4th would have been seen as a relatively successful season, and something to build on, and if someone had offered you that in October, you’d have likely snapped their arm off If we’d… Read more »
Needed to get Dumfries before the Euro started. Right back with 22 goals and 33 assists in his career. Captain of PSV Eindhoven.
With just 2 years left on his contract, we could have gotten him for 20m. I expect his price to double now.
Marc, you attack Pedro and Arteta with equal relish! Anyways…
@Andy “So Saliba wasn’t good enough says the guy who signed Runarsson.” And Played him!!! Allowing him to make high profile mistakes against Man City. Just so everyone knew just how shit he was, and how fuckin stupid Arsenal were for selling Martinez. As for Saliba, the excuse that Rich gave about not being able to play next to Gabriel…. We obviously would/could have played him with Luis, a highly experienced player. Funny how that escaped you when trying to excuse Arteta. The excuses still roll on too, how Saliba will have to fight for a place and maybe we… Read more »
If we have quality offensive Full backs like Tierney and Dumfries (or someone similar) we could safely go the double pivot road with Partey and Anguissa/Bissouma in CM. We’ll have enough threat down the wings to make up for the 2 more defensive midfielders. Then it will be about completing the puzzle in the 4 attacking positions.
“Customized ponytail toupee….”
Count me in as well.
Rich you’re looking at the season based on only one metric, how many points behind 3rd and 4th. In doing so you have whitewashed an overall horrible campaign where we broke loads of negative records, where the manager likely would’ve have survived Xmas if fans had been in the stadium, where we played half a season of rubbish football with rubbish results to boot and where at least 70% of the tonne of problems we faced were entirely and gleefully self inflicted by this own regime Stats mean less than nothing without context. The context of this season is it… Read more »
Robertson… b u r y that!
What a chance.
It’s being too nice to say finishing 8th is a slight underachievement. You could say it is extremely disappointing to be nice, but really, 8th for two seasons in a row, with what money we have spent, is awful. Arteta can count himself extremely lucky to have patient owners otherwise he would be out on his ear. We all want Arsenal to win it all, those who aren’t so confident in Arteta/KSE or whoever’s ability to get us there aren’t just going to sit silently in the background. I have big reservations based on what we have seen so far,… Read more »
Would be highly amusing if the Jocks went out not winning a single point or scoring a single goal.
Marc,
You’re such a hater.
Certainly not the Czech Republic of Neved and TR7 but still taking the lead, really should be 1-1.
Wouldn’t have survived**
Marc is such a negativity champion
He needs to get reformed like me, Now I’m singing “kumbaya, oh lord Arteta”. That’s the song of the Arteta converted.
Shit the Czechs scored. Still think Scotland can come back.
Club need to sign a quality alternative to Tierney. Someone who is capable of playing at least 20 PL matches with no issues. And be willing to play Saka there as a LB/LWB. Have to accept that he is injury prone
raptora
I’ve no time for the Scots – they spend their lives celebrating if England lose and then get bitchy when English people don’t support them.
Pick your position and stick to it – I don’t expect other supporters to want Arsenal to do well in European competitions and I don’t want other PL teams to do well either.
Rich so we ‘supplement the good parts and get rid of the bad parts’. My question is how do we do that ? Getting rid of the bad parts is massively complicated because of the depressed state of the market and the huge wages they are on. Supplementing the good parts is difficult because we’re a midtable club with no money.
It’s not football manager.
Dream
Agreed.
And you had mentalists on here defending the potential Bertrand signing…
Wenger Eagle
You know it’s likely that the club spend wages to sign someone like Bertrand on a Cedric type deal. Hope they get it right
Marc,
I’m not entirely aware of the dynamics in between the UK countries. Thanks for explaining some of it.
‘I’ve no time for the Scots – they spend their lives celebrating if England lose and then get bitchy when English people don’t support them.’ Yeah that’s fair to be honest. Wouldn’t at all begrudge English supporters smirking at us [Ireland] failing to qualify for competition after competition and embarrassing ourselves when we get there [2012]. I have no qualms in saying that I have always actively rooted against England at international competitions, not a hate for England the country at all but the media love-in/propaganda and naturally preferring the underdogs like Croatia at the World Cup or Iceland at… Read more »
Oh my god so many opportunities.
Was just about to say that I like Schick, what a fooking goal!
WE
I don’t get offended by people not rooting for England it’s their choice just don’t get pissed off with me i I don’t support your team in return.
That’s so harsh on the scots.
Wtf was the keeper doing there? That being said, the shot is absolute perfection!
Wow… when its clicking, its Shickin.
Marc
You mean to tell me that you didn’t have a green, white and orange scarf at the last Euros? And didn’t jump about the living room spilling your Coq au vin when we took the lead against the French?
The bard I agree, moving players in this market will be difficult But instead of wallowing in our own misery, and seeing no hope We need look at how we can improve next season, we can’t control what others do, so there’s no value stressing about it We need to ruthlessly dispose of a lot of players, ideally permanently, but if not, give them clever loans, that’ll put them in the shop window Then we’ve got to hope KSE put some money in, I don’t know, but I suspect they will, because unless they’re selling, they don’t really have a… Read more »
He’s just nicked goal of the tournament so far off of Yarmolenko.
Can we replace the has been Auba with Patrik Schick? We should be shipping the dross out and Auba is part of that lot.
ARTETA OUT KROENKE OUT
Czech Republic is up 2-0. Scotland goalkeeper was trotting well beyond the D
WE
Well you’re getting into my enemies enemy is my friend territory there.
China1 You can’t dismiss the upward trend since Xmas Then say you need to look at the whole season as a disappointment Then dismiss the fact we finished 7 points behind what would have been considered a successful season, as being irrelevant You can’t have it both ways City are one of the best sides in Europe, but even with the squad Pep inherited, he need a season + £400 million to win his first titles, and in spite of spending close to a billion, still hasn’t won the CL, and only got past the quarters once United have spend… Read more »
Shocking misses by the Scots. They deserved at least a goal already.
How is Ryan Fraser reserve for the Scots? lol
Rich,
You can’t proclaim that 7 points is a fine margin and how we slightly underachieved, when we were never in the fight for top 4. Season ended in November. It has not happened in decades.