Well, yesterday was quite a spectacular one in terms of mega news.
Lio Messi exits Barca, he’ll end up at Paris, because the Spaniards realised that paying someone £65m a year post-pandy was probably not a good idea if you’re basically bankrupt.
It’s incredible that Barcelona mostly wasted the opportunity that Messi gave them. How can you have the worlds most iconic sporting asset and end the relationship broke? They didn’t think about how they were building the team out, they didn’t control costs, and now they are about to head into a dark period where they try and unfuck everything that has gone wrong for them. The Darkside of fan ownership in full flow over there.
Pochettino has gone from begging Daniel Levy to take him back so he could take care of their broken squad, to rolling into next season with Mbappe, Neymar, and Messi in his attacking starting 11. It’s going to be amazing to see them choke the Champions League final next season.
The news didn’t stop throwing up gifts. Real Madrid, leaders of the super league breakaway rebels, is extremely upset that La Liga sold 10% of their audiovisual rights to an investor group for the next 50 years. They weren’t consulted on the deal, which is amusing because now they know how the rest of Europe felt a few months ago.
One thing is for sure… football really is feeling the full force of the pandemic and it’s been absolutely devastating. La Liga has lost its one megastar. Italy is haemorrhaging talent, losing its best coach and now a collection of its top players. The Premier League seems to be doing the best, but even here, most clubs aren’t spending lavishly.
We’re about to see how broke everyone is because we’re one week out and hardly anyone has done their business. Will that hold or will the purse strings loosen?
One club that isn’t broke… Manchester City. They dropped £100m on Jack Grealish. An outrageous fee. You have to hand it to the player, he gifted them by allowing that release clause in his contract. Again, it amuses me that everyone is clapping the Villa response to the sale. The CEO explained the thinking, which was basically: they gave us £100m. Still, in the cold light of day, they sold their best player and that is a big, big shock regardless of the money they’ve spent. They were basically relegation fodder without him, now they have to see if they can progress in his absence.
Nuts that City, with all the accusations about how they do business, are out here splurging in such a grotesque manner.
It’s painfully quiet on the transfer front for Arsenal. Southampton can shift Danny Ings for £30m, but we can’t find a buyer for Lacazette. Keep an eye on Eddie heading to the Saints as the replacement, let’s hope we don’t get rolled on the transfer fee.
The Willock deal is still at a standstill.
Nothing on Maddison.
Nothing on a new keeper.
Nothing on Hector.
Nothing on a new right back.
Hopefully, things will kick on at some point, but as it stands, the summer has been a bland one… the big reshape has barely moved.
Short post today, I’ll be back tomorrow. Maybe there’s a Friday drop a bit later. Doubtful.
That even in your head you assume that Conte can have a similar disastrous season says it all really. It’s anyone’s fault but the manager in your mind isn’t it? Arteta has done all he could, right? There clearly is different reason why he’s dropped the worst Arsenal season in 25 years, right? I like how you say in his first full season, but you forget that Arteta almost landed the job when Emery was named as our manager. He was an Arsenal captain and as City’s assistant manager, he’s been around the EPL the whole time. He’s had his… Read more »
I would really love it if we signed a cheaper CAM with a Good CM at a combined 50 to 60 mil than Maddison at the same price. Locatelli or Guimaraes+ Fekir or Aouar would actually make us a lot better than Maddison alone. That is why I am not in favour of Maddison. We still have a lot of holes. Buy 1 from each of those and sell Elneny. Then we would be cooking.
Pedro ..
I would like to call it humouring what is occuring at the club.
Club is being run like a Sunday morning over 60s walking team
They need to get hard ball with contracts .
Block If you like but truth is club in free fall on a season that showed great promise.
“That even in your head you assume that Conte can have a similar disastrous season says it all really“
Still don’t get it, sick. I’m not saying Conte would drop a season like that, I’m saying YOU would be marketing it differently were it a Conte. Get it? Good.
Conte finished 5th after winning the league and was sacked. He lost 10 games. Went from 93 points to 70. How is that not a disaster?
Pedro,
I didn’t drop Conte in the conversation. It was your brother in arms.
Ten Hag is available and ready.
Roberto Mancini did a great job with Italy and has the EPL experience.
Both managers are proven and known for coaching our brand of football. Both will drastically improve us.
If The Arsenal is relying on a 30 year old & a 32 year old ‘up front’ to swashbuckle it’s way back to relevance (Top 4) then it is still in big trouble. Especially when the 32 year old can’t bulge the old onion bag from 2 metres out anymore.
Anyway Pedro, only 6 sleeps to go till The Arse takes the field. And, going forward, I get all 10 games live for free on Optus. I just hope by Round 5 I’m not saying “when does cricket season start?” Oh, November is cricket season in Oz 🙂
The way the club handled the goalkeeper
Situation speaks volumes..
Martinez was the nasty bastard in the pens.. yet we choose German.
Bellerin captain material at one stage quoted at 50;m… Now ..5m ?
They would be better getting Mr Harris to lend us few of his top carpet right sellers … To knock out some shit…
CC,
It’s like saying – if Messi joins Arsenal tomorrow people will still say Arsenal are not ambitious.
But Messi will not join us and Conte wouldn’t have dropped an 8th after an 8th. Nice line of thought though.
Raptora
Oh ok so you don’t get it at all. Nvm then.
Wow.
We are getting to the lows of comparing Conte to Arteta to defend the generational one. I am speechless. Conte doesn’t have to prove anything because his record speaks for it self. And he hasn’t failed as much as Mourinho yet. So he is not washed up.
Arteta on the other hand is a rookie that has it all to prove. And if he doesn’t next season, it will be a struggle to be a relevant coach after that. This is his make or break season.
These two are completely different.
Peter..
It’s not shitting on the club…
It is more an onlooker looking in with bewilderment …
A club I have followed since 1970.. travelling all over the shop under strict arsenal way management is now run comically .
In my opinion.
Don’t care whose to blame ..
But the current regime don’t seem to be the correct fit to repair it.
I would love to be wrong in may … Please make me be wrong in may… But we know they won’t.
Pedro,
You will find that Conte wanted to have a say on transfers and Chelsea refused to do so. They brought him players he didn’t fancy, no questions asked. Not too dissimilar to Emery btw. Except that Conte actually deserved full backing by giving them an outrageous league campaign. The 2nd highest points tally in their EPL history. It’s not like they’ve done far better in the league since him now have they? 72, 66, 67 pts in the 3 years after him.
Conte’s Chelsea reached 93 pts, the 2nd highest points tally in their EPL history – best since 2004-05.
Arteta’s Arsenal reached 56 and 61 pts, the 2nd and 3rd lowest points tally in our EPL history – worst since 1994-95.
Conte’s supposed shit campaign is still better than any of Lampard’s two seasons in charge.
Pedro,
A question can I?
Do you know how long the Villas-Boas experiment lasted at Chelsea?
You are here defending his Arsenal equivalent 20 months in.
Raptora, You said Conte was incapable of a bad season, well, dropping for Champions to Europa League is pretty disastrous. He has a say on transfers and look at the name he brought in… Danny Drinkwater the absolute standout. No wonder Chelsea told him to pack his bags the second time he went begging. Your suggestion of Ten Haag, it’s a good one… but again, what do you really think will be different? You think he’ll play Saliba? You think he could make players do thinks they’re not capable of? Notable that Spurs, Madrid, and Everton all passed on him… Read more »
RSPC, they’ve signed a 50m centre back, a back up left back, one of the hottest midfield prospects in Europe… we’re trying to do a deal for Maddison, we’ll sign a right back, and the hope is we sign Abraham.
That’s a good summer. Hardly ‘joke club’ territory.
Raptora you think it’s laughable to mention Conte and Arteta in the same breath, but perfectly reasonable to have the same expectations of them in charge of Arsenal. Do you ever stop and think how caught up in bias you get? Bad enough you’re dishonest and putting down 56 points as an Arteta season even though he took over at Xmas. Arsenal went young and he dropped a poor season, but one with clear explanations of what went wrong. There was also the matter of showing obvious improvement from the point one of the major errors was rectified midseason. If… Read more »
Pedro
According to arteta they want to splash out on 23/24 year olds
I have this feeling they got the green light from kroneke as these be assets i.e Ben white
So anyone over 26 they ain’t spending £30m plus
Martinez is 23 Maddison is 24
Bissouma is 23 I think
Locatelli is 23 Bruno gumaires is 22
Aaour is 23
So the age range is important next two windows
I actually think Abraham would be signing if Chelsea get Lukaku but we will need to let go of lacazette
You think inter would be interested Pedro
CC: Great post, says it all really
Shabz, did his sky thing come out?
The age range shift has been an excellent move so far. Build a team that is ready to fight for Champions League when we qualify for it is much better than trudging over the line and having to reboot with three games a week.
Pedro
So I am guessing we been linked with 23/24 year olds it is believable but I think with Maddison it depends if odegaard is available he is 22
Tammy Abraham is 23 as well so I think he is a good plan b striker especially tierney crosses in the box
But I do think we need to offload a lot but if I was edu I be offering Niles, nketiah and nelson to villa and Southampton
Guys
Would you be happy with £70m Maddison or if we can sign aaour £25m and bissouma for £36m
Shabz I don’t think Bissouma is the type of player we need personally, much more inclined to see a technical player in there just ahead of Partey playing as a #6 70 mil for Maddison is excessive, but there appears to be something amiss with Aouar, and the alternatives are all still 50 mil when considering the profile you mentioned just a minute ago. I like Maddison, and think you’re talking 60 mil for him to be in red. He’s ideal, a statement, great PR, and it hurts Leicester who are right there where we intend to be. Can’t put… Read more »
CC: “you’re dishonest and putting down 56 points as an Arteta season” Arteta had a 1.65 pts per game in his first 6 months and a whooping 1.60 pts per game in his 1 full season. Sorry that I’m counting his better period towards the opinion I have on him. That you think that after a combined 1.62 pts per game he’ll lead us to a “very exciting little chapter getting etched in the clubs history” is your choice of course. But it’s not realism. It’s wishful thinking supporting a manager who has not 1 proof of being able to… Read more »
“That you think that after a combined 1.62 pts per game he’ll lead us to a “very exciting little chapter getting etched in the clubs history” is your choice of course. But it’s not realism“ Not what I said. Second time today you’ve been ignorant to plain English in search of an argument. I didn’t say he would, I said “IF”. Only way it’ll be known for certain is by extending the chance/support – which the club is willing to do. But what is realism? You getting the tarot cards out and pretending you know for certain how Arteta’s managerial… Read more »
Good content CC. Agree with the time frame. Rap wants Arteta out based on the first 14 games. Not sure many CEOs would be using that metric to decide a future. Most would look at the data of the proceeding 60% of the season… which was pretty good.
Most would look at a full season. Pedro you are embarrassing yourself. For real.
Raptora, what was the trend for the whole season?
Three ways of achieving an 8th place points return:
– good start, falling off, trending down to 8th.
– nothing but middling form throughout
– bad start, turning a corner, trending up to 8th
Talking nonsense to call all three equal.
Raptora, no mate, most wouldn’t if they’d decided the opening 14 games wasn’t enough to sack someone. They’d say: We stuck with Arteta because of these reasons: The pandemic has been shocking to most coaches There was no preseason We didn’t really invest in the starting 11 The squad was nuclear levels of toxicity Post December what happened: Attacking output 2nd best in the league Defence remained fairly strong, 3rd best Club racked up 2nd most points Underlying data also points to Arsenal getting the ball into far better positions This all happened with a glut of unforced errors, which… Read more »
Charlie I do agree those are not equal We had the third one which is the best of the three because at least we finished the season with something resembling momentum I think the problem is as much tho that despite our improvements in the second half of the season there was still a lot of really poor shit going down there too. Like the EL embarrassment was very very hard to accept, it was not ok. If we’d had a good league campaign and fucked the EL that way, ok, but the EL was in fact our best hope… Read more »
Wow are we really comparing arteta with conte?
That ain’t a pretty comparison
Charlie last summer you were all in for Aouar and I notice this year you seem to have lost interest in him even tho he’s half price
I’ve done the reverse because last summer I was saying 50m was way too risky for him but at 25m I’d roll that dice all day
What made you have doubts
China When you’re analysing the season you don’t ignore anything, but you address patterns and look for trends. Takes a really, really suspect person to look at the league campaign and fail to spot from the moment we had an attacking midfielder available our results and performances sharply increased – that stuff is super measurable. Does that abolish any and all that went wrong? No. But if you trend upward you’re inevitably going to earn a stay of execution after a big wobble. You’re free to argue the merits of that, but when you consider the profile of manager we… Read more »
China Availability of others, suitability of players, but also the somewhat mysterious reduction in price coupled with no interest. Speaks of there being an industry known question mark over some element of him. I love the player from a talent perspective. But after Odegaard spent time here, Maddison is linked, and Bernardo is itching for a move, I have other preferences. If we land Aouar I’d be very happy though, just don’t think he’d have the immediate impact Maddison or Bernardo would to this team. Plays a lot of his game inside left, and that’s a position I think ESR… Read more »
Charlie if we could compare all possible players with all external factors excluded I’d choose Maddison in terms of expected impact and quality
But considering price, our funds, position, competition for places, availability id just take that risk with Aouar and out the remaining 45 odd million towards keeper and probably a RB.
Then if still an issue, AM and presumably CF would be my priorities next time
I think Aouar partey and lokonga could be a fantastic midfield 3 if you wanna rest ESR or put him on the left
Likewise you could play any 2 of those 3 behind ESR if ESR is playing 10
I think that would give us a lot of options
Who here thinks arteta can get us in the top 5? I’ll be good with that. Top 5 and 20% more goals scored.
I’ve decided not to get into arteta debates, what’s the point? he either gets top 5 and stays or shits the bed and is fired, and we end up mocking thr arteta fan boys and torch bearers. It’s a win-win for me, I guess. Arsenal has been gash for years, add another one to the tally. Im amazed how apathetic I’ve become.
Arsenal get Messi and Martinez. Bin Kola contract and give Ozil old pay and its possible.
Same time bin Willian contract.
There was a time Arsenal were quoting 100 million pounds for Mbampe its time those times came back.
China
I’m more risk averse given the sensitive state of the team, the right creative player can hugely influence outcomes for a club. Much sooner we took gambles on lower priced talents, and guys in less impactful positions.
Lyon need money but Bruno is valued higher than Aouar suddenly? Explain that to me. Either the figures are being lowballed to encourage interest, or there’s genuine reason for a significantly lower fee. Idk about you, but Arsenal need a couple of ‘sure things’ to push the club on a bit. Maddison is representative of that imo
How does Aouar drops from being #1 priority for Arteta, to someone we don’t want for half the quoted price?
– was Partey his direct competitor so after we got Partey, Aouar is claimed redundant
– did Aouar offend them somehow last time we went balls deep for him
– did Aouar demonstrate something on or off the field that made them reconsider their desire to have him
It’s a grand mystery.
I’m always a bit confused when Arsenal (or any other club for that matter) are unsuccessful in a pursuit of a player and they never go back in for them. If Aouar was the answer last year, and the squad hasn’t moved on, why isn’t he the answer this year?
Aouar seems like a political gimmick from the Arsenal. To appease the mob. Arsenal really to go back to the basics of delivering good football and not bad politics.
Juve got demoted to Serie B in 2006, came back up in 2007 and finally won the league in 2011.
Arsenal failed to reach top 4 in 2016. And since then has been going back wards.
Pray we never get relegated, cause we wouldn’t know how to get out of the championship.
Aouar would be great. A nasri type of skill player. WE need those to take on players, break the press, make assists and score.
A mobile midfield is needed badly
We need to seriously get moving here
GonsterousAugust 7, 2021 03:22:47
Big difference from being relegated vs binned for supposed match fixing after winning title.
If we wanted Aouar he would have been here a month ago. I don’t see any other reason but that. Unless the player is holding for a club in the UCL. And they have weirdly not come knocking on the door at a cut price deal.
Champagne
Its easy they have Guimares and Paqueta , Aouar suddenly isnt the first choice , he has been angling for a move since last season . Why would anyone keep an unhappy player in the squad ?
Sal
Yah, big difference. Juve started serie B with points deduction of -25
Arsenal if relegated would start at 0, and still wouldn’t catch up.
The point isn’t they got promoted, it’s that in a matter of 5 years they went from being demoted to winning the league for the next 9 years, one of it was an unbeaten season. That’s what a club does
Obviously Lokonga is still early days and we don’t know if he will kick on, but if he does, samba, partey, Aouar would be an absolutely fantastic 3 in midfield. We could control games, beat the press, dribble, create and pass. Aouar can shoot too. There’s enough power and athleticism from Sambi and Partey and a bit of genius from Aouar. That midfield would be fantastic potentially. The fact that Aouar and Sambi combined would’ve cost about 40m is really the icing on the cake And like I said if you wanna go 4-2-3-1 you can drop one of them… Read more »
The one thing I dont understand about auoar…
If hes so good how come no ones moved on him for the half rate price?
Aston Villa for instance
😂
It would seem the ‘Sharp” boys in the back room did the following: – Promoted Arteta to equal Edu’s position with Josh as oversight? – Sanctioned the sale of Emi – Look how that turned out. – Sanctioned the purchase Willian – Now a Tele Tubby look alike -Overlooked the Saliba debacle that could lose us millions -Overpaid at least £20m for White and added a sell on clause for a player we don’t need most and poor aerially. – Offering Xhaka a new deal and more income instead of Xhaka running his contract down – Appear happy to let… Read more »
https://twitter.com/ChrisWheatley_/status/1423665300587831300
Worrying that Bellerin was having some camera shots yesterday. Maybe another one expected to leave is about to sign a new deal.
If so, are we actually improving our squad or are we happy to keep everyone including the players that have underperformed and we know we can upgrade on? We are either broke like shit or Arteta/Edu are giving contracts left and right to players that we should be moving.
To be fair I got to wondering what the plus side of have Arteta for 20 months is:
FA Cup win
Loaning Ode
There is the ‘Process’ that none of us can work out, so not yet a plus and buying White, Lokonga and Travares have proved their worth, so unknown value until they’ve played according to Pedro more than 14 games to be able to judge them fairly.
haven’t proved their worth*
Chelsea looking to buy De Ligt from Juventus… and they are apparently open to a swap deal with Jorginho in the mix.
Here’s a thought, throw Xhaka in there and ask for Sczcesney in return? In my mind a fair trade…
Raptora From what I’ve read this week no one wants Bellerin except for a loan. Therefore, unlikely to be sold but no idea if a new contract is being offered. Willock is the only player with a bid from Newcastle for £25, which Chine1 rightly questioned after Willock’s successful loan. I’d say Willock with the British premium should be at least £35million for a player who hit 8 goals in 14 games on a loan who can clearly improve being so young. Sadly our sharp boys and manager think differently. Personally, I hope Willock and Eddie stay and wait it… Read more »
Tony
Willock for 35? That would be the equivalent to dropping Newcastles pants and spanking them.
8 good games doesn’t make willock a 35m purchase. Yes it’s good to price him as such but taking 25-28m and running with the money will be the better option.
If Ben White is 50m, Willock should be atleast 55m
Gons
I was pricing Willock on what we paid for White and accounted for the 8 games and not a full season and why I said £35m.
But no matter we will sell at £25m now LCF doesn’t want a player and cash for Madders. Just hope we get a 20%+ sell on clause or buy back.
Zarchese
Aston Villa might have the little money they have now, but there are rivers they can’t fish from.
Hence I found their pursuit of Smith Rowe insulting.
If I were Edu, I would have unsettled Tyron Ming’s while going really for Ben White. Silly souls.
Even if Aston Villa meet Lyon’s asking price for Auoar, the player will definitely turn them down and they know that.
“Chelsea looking to buy De Ligt from Juventus… and they are apparently open to a swap deal with Jorginho in the mix.Here’s a thought, throw Xhaka in there and ask for Sczcesney in return? In my mind a fair trade…”
Except juve knows what they want.
Pointless even considering bringing in an offensive player, we have them coming out of the ying yang… I said 3 months ago that we should take a hit on a number of players to streamline the squad or we will be in the same position as 12 months ago …..a bloated squad. No European football , means less games , means less opportunities , means a number of dissatisfied players in and around the squad . So instead of playing hard ball with the likes of Xhaka, Bellerin, Lacazette, kolasinac Willian, even Aubamayang , we should have taken what we… Read more »
The best players we have been linked with this summer were Camavigna & BrunoG, shame that nothing materialised as they really would have been elevated the middle of the park for us. Interesting to see reports of BSilva, even at the expense of a couple years (is he 26/27?) he’s quoted at 25m less than Maddison. Think I would pull the trigger if it allows you to get in a RB and CM. Not even a sniff of who will be coming in at RB, I think the club are happy to go with Cal & Cedric. We’ve been very… Read more »
Willock has as many goals as Maddison in less minutes played
Sid comparing willock to maddison is like comparing a lada to a Ferrari let’s not go there
Im just hoping Arteta isnt stupid enough to go in to this season without an extra cm. Maddison would have been great but Auoar will do
A ferrari will get you nowhere in Rural Russia, Arsenal are rural Russia…….
Sid, they have roads man. A ferrari would make you a GOd
I guess All or Nothing means we gonna have Nothing .
Expect AFC to be wheeling and dealing when all is quiet..
Expect AFC to be wheeling and dealing when all is quiet..
Yea when the window is closed. LOL
Jim ” Think Auba has had long enough to show it isn’t just a rusty patch and Laca just ain’t the same dawg he was before. No wonder Eddie has looked so good, he can probably smell blood and thinks he might get a nod this year. He would be great at Southampton though, ” Strange that one would say that one of our young strikers “has looked so good”….and he has, and yet you think he should move to southampton to score a bundle of goals . How good would it be to see an Arsenal offensive line up… Read more »
I looked at the title and immediately thought it must be a post about Xhaka.
Any chance of Odegaard coming to Arsenal
has been blocked by Real Madrid after Tony
Kross suffered a bad injury in a pre season
incident.
Am not trying to shit on ben white but its safe to say that his ‘ball playing’ abilities are being a bit exaggerated
https://twitter.com/Worville/status/1423618089573363713?s=19
Also,the link above shows just how shit elneny is
Pierre, haha very true all case of relativity ! I really like your assessment and agree with you. Think we are not in a position to be so brazen and really double down on operation Hale End. Pressure is way too high to be fielding a side like that unfortunately. The other bonus would be that these players have already been playing together for years – you hear them mention it quite a lot in interviews. I think the reality is that we want players who sit right in between the level of where they are and those we can’t… Read more »
Pierre.
Pedro will tell you all the highly rated youngsters are signing on new deals.
Not to cover old ground but with us seemingly needing to sell to purchase, maybe we should have gone for a cheaper option than Ben White? Its patently clear that we will wait to the end of the window to conclude business, I just hope we’re not already playing catch up.
It’s not going to be the same as last season, fans (including myself) are back and if this side doesn’t perform we will clearly voice our dissatisfaction. I hope it doesn’t come to that.
Guen was a talent, everyone could agree, except arteta
Saliba was a talent, everyone could agree, except arteta
Martinellia was a talent, everyone could agree, except arteta
And the list goes on…
Jim ” The other bonus would be that these players have already been playing together for years – you hear them mention it quite a lot in interviews” This is a very important point , they all know eachothers game and have a great on field relationship and trust each other on the pitch… As yet, they have never let the club down over the last few years in europe or domestic cup comps. And yes know that its easier in the europa , and the prem is harder blah blah blah but until the likes of willock , Eddie,… Read more »
Leftside, what irks me most with the sell-to-buy thing is that we were told we wanted to get business done quickly and early on. Yet in true style we’re back sniffing around for bargain deals for essential roles. Should have got ourselves in order and then be here waiting for a ‘luxury bargain’ if you will. People will sight the fact that we need to reduce the size of the squad and that you can’t do that without buyers but we should have had things locked and loaded ready to pull the trigger at the earliest opportunity (which I do… Read more »
unlike the so called fans here. The emirates crowd are more patient and understanding. The only people that will be baying for blood will be CG and the likes like they did to arsene(the greatest manager the pl has ever seen)
Goonsterous: So how come Marseille were the only team in for Guen? How come Martinelli has had limited time at the Olympics? How come no-one other than Marseille and Newcastle were in for Saliba?
Raulishuss: Agreed — looking forward to being in the presence of proper supporters, not perennial moaners
Pierre, Beyond Arteta this is surely what the “process” of the club at large was always meant to be. Strong emphasis on bringing through young players who know the club and play The Arsenal Way. Divine’s point about the youngsters signing up for me is true which really puts us on the cusp of being able to do that in a meaningful way. But that being said I don’t think the Prem affords us the opportunity to do that anymore, gone are the days where we knew we could walk over the smaller teams (both because the level on the… Read more »
Jim, yes indeed. I think most haven’t been realistic about players that needed to be shipped out. As I said the other day it would be difficult to find buyers for the likes of Elneny, Willian, Laca to an extent etc and so far, it has proved to be true. We then have an indecisive manager that is on record stating we need to be ruthless and will have a big window but then doesn’t want to let any players go! I wish the Brentford game was at home, it is a recipe for disaster in my view. Brentford’s first… Read more »
pierre name a coach that will start and make an attacking core of gab,bal,wil and nketiah. Sometimes you baffle me
Happy to be corrected but for my money I think the Emirates support is pretty wank. Maybe I just harp for something more than we would ever get but it’s never rocking, boisterous fortress feeling when you pull up in N5… I always felt like it was a place of middle class niceties?? Theres a reason we get bantered about being a library.
Raulishuss & Matt B am I completely wrong ? If so what do you both make of it?
Loosely related but what do you all make of ‘singing sections’ and safe standing areas??
Jim
It does feel like Edu is really doing his job of Technical Director by snapping up youngsters .A vision of young 20-24yrs old coupled with some experienced heads is what the squad will look like in future I guess
Proper support doesn’t mean fans shouldn’t voice their discontent if there is genuine need to do so. You holier than thou fans that perceive yourself to be superior than others are a bunch of mugs.
Much of the fanbase at the Emirates mirror the sentiments of those on this site. Do you even attend games to be talking about fans?!
SidAugust 7, 2021 07:53:16
A ferrari will get you nowhere in Rural Russia, Arsenal are rural Russia
Lol so true 😅
Pierre, its not intelligent for Arteta to field those youngsters in the side, we wouldn’t finish in the top half. They have some promise but they’re not ready to do it over the course of a season.
I can’t wait to be back at the Emirates god how I have missed the rituals that come with it
“China1August 7, 2021 00:49:24
Wow are we really comparing arteta with conte?“
Can’t wheel out the Arteta is exactly on Klopp’s Liverpool trajectory no more, but that was a fun one while it lasted.