GOOD MORNING.
How are you today? Still sad? Still raging at the dickheads that ruin nice things for England?
Be all of those things, but it’s time to get things back on track. The Arsenal are about the start preseason and there’s simply loads to talk about.
William Saliba did leave to go to Marseille for his third loan back to his home country. Call me mean, but I think this is a weak move from the player. If you think you are ready for a starting spot in our back four, and you’re told you are not ready, go to a Premier League club and make a statement. Maybe the offer wasn’t there… but I suspect it probably was. What tipped it? Comfort? Or a lack of desire? We’ll find out next season. Good luck to that man.
There is VERY interesting news that Joe Willock has seduced MIkel Arteta with his outrageous run of form at the back end of the season. The coach wants to keep him as part of the Arsenal plans next season. I’m not sure about this, we’ve been here before, this is AMN all over again. If there’s £25m swimming around for him this summer, we should probably let him go. I suspect this is negotiation tactics from Edu. We don’t need to sell, but we’ll lose him if the money is right.
The Arsenal Admin is playing games with our heart. Smith Rowe is getting a new number. Will it be #8 or… #10. Really hoping he lands that #10. What a statement that will be from the club. No way he’s not signing a new deal with that sort of prestige on his back.
Question is, what would that mean for a HUGE name like Maddison? Surely that would end that idea? Would Maddison at #8? For double money, I’m sure he’d take #67. I mean, I am still struggling with the idea that Arsenal are going to find £70m for anyone this transfer window… especially with the bargains going on in Europe. But we’ll see, I didn’t expect us to move hard on Ben White this window, but that seems to be happening.
Balogun has been given the #26 this season and promoted to the first team. I’d love to see him land minutes this season, so I hope if he’s the third striker, he’s picking up time in a season slim on games. He has an edge athletically that Auba and Lacazette don’t have.. so it’s a big chance, but he really has to make his moments count next season. Stand up, be counted, make a difference.
Short and punchy one today. I am recording a Twitch Stream Podcast with Johnny a little later. Tune in at 6pm GMT, come with questions, enjoy the live vibe of it all.
Willian is undroppable not unstoppable.
Happy Birthday Guns.
45 to 55 is a good age to enjoy and savor and enjoy as you can choose the fun laden mistakes you want to make from experience. 🙂 🙂
After 55 depends on people who have looked after themselves as to how enjoyable life can be.
Hah thanks Tony
MD-Gunner
For the first timeI decided to detach myself from the TW and not get wound up by exactly what you said.
I have expended zero emotion to the TW and feel far better for it. I don’t bother reading TW news and only get news from my daily quick pop in to here.
Super glad I didn’t miss Pedro’s haircut: his hairdresser certainly has a sense of humour.
As for the shirts, Pedro has always favoured the “Jacob’s coat” colour wise.
Takes balls to wear shirts like that.
There’s being creative in fashions and then there’s Pedro.
Bless him!
Happy birthday mate
Have yourself a nice drink (or three!)
The only way Willian is unstoppable is if the useless cunt is rolling downhill
Sack that jackass Arteta FFS!!! He is freaking shit. No player with a slice of ambition left in him will ever join Arsenal as long as this aashole is around
So, apart from being most unsporting and graceless, English fans showed they do have ambition. They do have pent-up anger in them. I wonder if there were any Arsenal fans among that crowd. If there were, i hope they did not vent the collective anger of last 20!years of arsenal failure around the Wembley loss.
So many bad comments on here on Saliba , I cant understand why Saliba has to play in PL to get into Arsenal’s first team. Goalposts always gets moved like this , first it was he was not ready then it was that no club plays a teenage CB , now its bad that he chose French league over PL club ? If he has a great season there it doesnt count ?
Divine
again, its the Kool Aid man. Dont drink it. Resist
Guns
Happy birthday mate
Signed
Your current European Champion
Thanks Bati !
“its going to rome”
Guns
Happy Birthdayy , dont go overboard with the booze , haha.
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Its very strange and I only find it here on Legrove , people chosing to slag Saliba . I hope he has a great season like he had with Nice & St.Etienne.
Happy Birthday Guns
It’s conceivable that we don’t win a pre-season game looking at the fixture list, but, but, as long as the process is trusted thats all that matters.
Gracias Leftside!
Gracias Divine, dont drink that kool aid. Im with you bro
Guns
Many happy returns mate. Hope it’s a good one.
Thilo kehrer is a poor centre back …. Decent as a full back due to his speed and agility but a poor centre back watched him from his schalke days with draxler.
Guns
That is not kool aid , its just sparkling water xD
Where are the millions Stan and Josh donke?
If nothing else this game illustrated perfectly how much “Deadwood” still remains at Arsenal.There’s no surprise seeing a team containing Kolasinac,Willian,Bellerin,Nketiah,Elneny and Cedric get beaten.Although this result was presumably aided and abetted by a coach who continues to show his tactical shortcomings and a decision to play a kid in goal as Arsenal currently have absolutely no backup first team keepers….and so the shambles continues!!
Arteta has started early with his excuses…🥱🙄
I’m really not looking forward to the season ahead at all. If he is that quick to excuse this result when it doesn’t matter… what’s he going to say for the games that do?
@Guns, happy birthday.
Happy Bday Guns of San Fran!
Morning,
Couldn’t care less that we lost to hibs, don’t care if we lose all our preseason games as long as we win against Brentford when it matters.
The concern should be the familiar faces getting game time when there supposed to be moving on.
I’d rather have seen a team of kids than give game tome to the likes of Bellerin etc.
Whatever the result or performance last night, Arteta or Arsenal would receive no credit., that is obvious. Win , lose or draw , in the scheme of things this result or performance makes no difference…it’s all about getting match fit. Any reports about players leaving is 95% speculation so we don’t know if Bellerin, Xhaka , Lacazette, nketiah, willian etc are on the market so of course Arteta will play them in a pre season friendly to get them match fit. The pre season games v chelsea and Tottenham in August will tell is more. Probably the only thing i… Read more »
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Rich I appreciate that our squad is currently bloated, but I do think that by the close of the transfer window it will be much reduced. Last season we reduced the number of registered players to 25 in the second half of season with a ruthless cull and I suspect that will be replicated this season. The club has already offloaded the following players in last season’s squad: Ryan GK Luiz CB Ceballos CMF Odegaard AMF We know already that the club will be also offloading several other players: Runarsson GK Bellerin RB Xhaka DMF Lacazette CF [If we can… Read more »
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