My dad went on a stag-do with his younger cousins about 15 years ago, I wasn’t allowed to go. He had his own style, always, a sharp dresser if ever there was one. His best bit of work advice to me was.
‘If your clients aren’t talking about what you’re wearing, you’re wearing the wrong thing’
That has stood me well, being a bad dresser and all. Back to the point, he went on a Marbella stag do and decided he liked a £1000 cowboy jacket. It was black brushed leather with Eddie the eagle tassels so he looked like a bird when in the Jesus pose. Everyone told him he shouldn’t buy that jacket, but he wouldn’t listen, he knew it would crown his outfit… and that night, he was going to look like a hero.
He bought the jacket, owned the night, and never spoke about that jacket again.
To Arsenal fans, I think Aron Ramsdale is the jacket, we’re the friends wondering what’s going on… and there’s nothing we can do to stop the purchase. Arsenal are ten pints of data deep on this kid and they can already the dopamine hit when everyone is fawning over the tassels on the dance floor.
There is only one thing I can tell you to make you feel better… the same people that have identified Lokonga, White and Tavares are heavily skewing this decision. There’s something in his profile the club think they can work with. It’s not just him, it seems he’s quite popular in football circles, remember Chris Wilder is a proper coach and he made him his star signing (do NOT look at how that turned out). It is also worth noting that despite playing for relegated teams the past two seasons, both sets of fans voted him player of the season.
He’s also very, very young for a Premier League keeper.
So we’ll see. I’m just happy we’re bringing in a backup keeper. Even happier that the money would suggest he’s coming in to replace Leno as #1 as soon as the German drops a major footwork clanger against Brentford.
What I’m not happy about is that we are heading into the first game of the season having not added a single body to our attack. Arsenal had the 3rd best defence in the league last season and an attack that dropped just 55 (9th). Chelsea finished 8th for goals and spent £100m on Lukaku. I appreciate that attack often starts in defence in 2021. Ben White and a keeper that can pass will show us plebs that in due course. However, it is still quite baffling to be at a stalemate with our strikers and to still be fumbling around hoping Leicester or Madrid decide to deal this week.
Brentford will be a tough game, just because they have no history of the Premier League yet. We should beat them, but I’ll be honest, I don’t think I’ve ever known an Arsenal start to the season to be so pessimistic. There are a couple of reasons for that.
- Arteta burned all his ‘hope’ capital at the start of last season with that dreadful 14 game run. If you were a non-emotional fan, you’d be looking at the 60% of games we played post-Christmas for clues as to how we’re going to play this season. But you’re not, you are a hot mess of emotions and all we’re thinking about is how bad that start was last season.
- Preseasons against London rivals was a bad idea. Nice if you win, but back to back derby losses really was a waste of energy.
- Our start is hard.
A lot of the fear isn’t grounded in truth. I saw someone write ‘I just wish my team could register 15 shots a game’… our worst showing this summer was Spurs and we had 11 shots, 2 on target just like them. Chelsea 14, Watford 15+, Millwall 15+, Rangers 19, Hibs 19… shots hasn’t been the issue, but our forwards certainly have been.
There are going to be a lot of eyeballs on that teamsheet on Friday.
Is it going to be Hierahy FC this season? Are we going to see the rebirth of Laca/Auba as a mainstay? Will Arteta panic and start Mo Elneny in midfield next to Granit Xhaka? Who will start as right back, because Hector has been atrocious? Will we have to see 4 bad results to see the best starting 11?
Many questions I will look to tackle tomorrow.
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DivineSherlock – They’ve had a great summer, very interested to see how it all fits together for them. Could be great, could be underwhelming but financially its good business!
Put it this way serge, if Ozil had played in the first half of last season would we have suffered such a chronic lack of creativity …of course not
A day before the season and a back up goalie and a creative mid at the very least is yet to be sorted out. I can’t blame anyone for not being bullish about our prospects. I’m not sure if our transfer/negotiation team are inept or some of the other clubs are exemplary. Fofana was injured a week ago I believe, and inside a week Leicester sourced a Premier League proven replacement. We may not have funds currently to acquire Maddison’s services but for the fees touted for Aouar and Onana this summer, assuming they are interested in moving to Arsenal… Read more »
Chalie
I have never rated Auba but yes it’s more a case of hope than any conviction when it comes to Auba that he will score goals again.
There are 19 days left before the transfer window closes.
I am not surprised that the incoming transfer business has slowed down, because we need to offload players in departure lounge before we recruit any more outfield players.
The one position in team which needs to be resolved sooner rather than later is the goalkeeper. The idea that Runarsson or Okonkwo comes into team should something happen to Leno is frightening.
F*ck me, Pierre can’t let it go!
I’ve suspected all along we’ve been holding out for Odegaard.
I know our CFs need rationalising but I’ve felt that a RB upgrade was almost more important- can’t see it happening. White will need to stay fit otherwise we’ll be vunerable to pace down our right and whoever plays RW suffers significantly. Pepe in particular needs to make runs inside and an overlapping RB orchestrates that.
A back 4 of KT – Gabriel – White – ‘upgrade’ looks potentially excellent.
We don’t need a RB. Chambers, AMN and Soares can play there.
Bob N16
It was obvious last season that the right side of Arsenal’s defence was brittle. Hopefully White
will provide the appropriate partner for Gabriel when he is match fit.
I am not convinced that Arsenal will recruit a RB in this transfer window. We have got three on
the books so even if Bellerin leaves we are still left with two.
DigitalBob
Their scouting and recruiting has been so better than us , since they won the title. Even sold Maguire for 80mn .
TR7
Think that’s the same with everyone at this point, just not sure it’s a cheque that’s cashable anymore. Can hope for a glut of goals, but Auba’s days as a clinical marksman throughout a season look over unless something drastically changes within him.
His decline is very noticeable because he doesn’t off a great deal else outside the finishing prowess, which was ranked 142nd best last season in the league I believe I found.
Laca and Pepe were 6th and 19th respectively for shots to goals.
True ES, my wishful thinking sells AMN, Bellerin and Holding leaving Soares as back up with Chambers main focus as White’s back up.
We may see AMN and Bellerin go but not sure of even that.
Following on with discussion about RB it is fairly obvious that we are struggling to offload
Maitland-Niles.
Maitland-Niles has zero chance to make our team in midfield. So the question is whether he
will finally accept the view that his best option for a place at Arsenal is as at right back.
Dear lord I hope these rumors of breakdown in negotiations for Ramsdale are true. And I hope we get Sam Johnstone. For 10 to 12 mil too. And at 28 he is still in that sweet spot age for Goalkeepers. He might even push Leno out.
Elmo that tells you something. The idea that we are going to be seriously challenging for t4 is ridiculous. Currently we are mired in midtable and I don’t see any change on that front this season. Sure we’ve still got time in the transfer window but do we have the money to bring in a couple of top players ?
I’m fairly confident Pierre has an ozil tattoo covering his entire body akin to that one in Alan partridge
Pierre you keep talking about ozils creativity but even when he played for the last couple of years he was getting fuck all assists and not creating many chances. This was then continued into turkey where he was gash
Let it go…
People still counting on AMN? Those who vetoed his sale last season but miraculously kept by the club have been vindicated. He would have been at Wolves, got our money and perhaps might have upgraded that RB position.
That’s why the Willock deal makes a whole lot of sense.
Inter buying Dumfries for 14 million euros.
Somewhere in Bulgaria, Raptora just punched a wall.
Arsenals main problems last season in no particular order
CM
AM
RB
GK
CF
Arsenals transfer biz to date one day before the season begins:
Backup CM
Backup LB
CB
It’s genius at play, it really is
‘The order you make signings doesn’t matter’ – Pedro 2021.
This quote is aging like a fine wine Pedro right?
I mean let’s imagine we complete a deadline day swoop for a proper RB, CM or AM. Cool. But said player would be WAY better served joining us 3 weeks ago whereas Tavares coming in as a deadline day addition would’ve been absolutely fine.
Personally, I think some managers have a lot to answer for in the way they can almost destroy a players career. There are many instances at Arsenal in the last 12 months, Guendouzi, Ozil, Saliba , Torreira , AMN…. to name but few Mourinho did similar at Tottenham with DelibAlli and Eriksen. The stupid thing is that some fans start believing the rhetoric that comes from the likes of Arteta and Mourinho. They can’t see how being ostracised by a manager affects a player’s career and these fans jump on the bandwagon and are usually proved wrong in the long… Read more »
One of the worlds best for 14 mil Euros
How have we not already sold laca? Fans have been saying fix the mid for years, falling on deaf years. Look at utd, shit squad but great mid. Hence why they finished second. May not win against the big boys but against any lower teams, they dominate the middle and win games. What’s our plan? Dominate our back line and bypass the mid? Surrender the middle of the park? You wonder why arteta doesn’t get it, considering he played in midfield during his career. Too set in his ways to please his mentor pep I think secretly he likes the… Read more »
Rumour has it that AMN could stand in as the Reserve keeper!
Gonsterous
The plan seems to be bypass the midfield, get it to the wingers and play aimless crosses to whichever solitary striker is hopelessly surrounded by 4 defenders
It’s genius I’m telling ya
I am a big Ozil fan. Ozil and Sanchez era was probably the best in last few years where we were scoring for fun. However, I got a chance to see Ozil in the stadium in his decline and his lack of efforts for the ball. You can’t take away someone’s talent, which he has a lot, but watching a loanee Ceballos (who was crap) trying to do more than Ozil in that game put me off. I could see something similar for Auba these days. Modern day football is not about the shirt and pride anymore, it’s about money.… Read more »
Arteta’s press conference literally all about transfers so far, says there’s still lots to do and he expects to see movement in the last part of the window.
Noted how you can see the speed of the window change the past week with clubs finally breaking their standstill, many things to work out still, but confident and with the owners backing to make changes.
DivineSherlock – 80M for Maguire was great business. The way they operate is really first class from a board room level, Edu can certainly learn a lot from them!
WEagle – I would rather have Dumfries for 14M euros than this version of Bellerin that’s a defensive liability(I fear he will actually make Ben White look bad as the right side will continually be targeted). Bellerin actually wants to move on so that’s another reason to get rid.
I’d also rather have Dumfries at RB than Cedric or Chambers.
Charlie
You might be right. I for one wouldn’t be against trying our youngsters in case Auba and Laca continue to flatter to deceive. The front 3 of Laca, Pepe and Auba have little to no chemistry between them. We might see Eddie and Martinelli getting more opportunities as the season progresses.
Pepe needs to be sold. Enough of his 1 goal wonder in every 6 matches.
Bellerin should be nowhere near our starting Xl as he is a busted flush. I actually feel sorry for him on the pitch because i know he tries his best for us but that ACL did him dirty. Pace, flexibility gone.
The fact that Cedric and Chambers were preferred over him during our worst season in 25 years says it all. I understand we can’t sell him if nobody’s bidding, but to start him when all other RB’s are fit doesn’t make sense to me.
Vintage yeah like many of our underperformers, re bellerin it’s not personal. But we want arsenal to be successful and he like so many others is detrimental to that so it’s hard to accept seeing his name on the team sheet and people have emotional reactions. Tbh it all goes to the management team for picking him, not selling him in previous years etc
DigitalBob
So would I. I know that international tourneys aren’t worth solely going off as teams get burnt at times doing that (Janmaat, Pilar, Yerry Mina, Cheryshev, etc) but I did really like the look of Dumfries and his numbers at PSV are impressive too.
Very low risk, high reward type of signing for 14m euros which isn’t much over £10m.
14 million for Dumfries is a steal.
Wasn’t it on here last summer people carrying pitchforks saying no deal when we got offered 18 million for AMN but now doesn’t seem anyone will take him even for a loan it seems.
This club runs on emotions 99% of the time and that’s just horrible business practice
Deals to be had around Europe but we’re fucking around the premiership with clubs who don’t necessarily need the money
TR7 Auba/Laca/Pepe flat out hurts my eyes at this point, can find too many flaws with them all combined to be content watching. So far from where I personally would like to see us operate as a front three. I’m keen on a mobile CF that can move defenders around and provide a varied goal threat, with inverted wingers like Mahrez who are seamless in midfield areas, and intelligent during the build up. Instead it’s Lacazette never threatening in behind or running channels, then him struggling to turn from deep and get into scoring positions, and Auba/Pepe recycling the ball… Read more »
China 1
I disagree with your prioritisation.
It should be:
RCB to replace Luiz [ White is that replacement]
LB second string to replace Kolasinac. Tavares is replacement [we played second half season without second LB
GK Second string to replace Ryan
AMF to replace Odegaard.
CMF to replace Ceballos [Lokango is that replacement]
Other positions needing upgrade but requiring first players to be offloaded.
RB if two RBs leave.
CF if Lacazette leaves.
China 1
The all-knowing know-it-all
According to you all Arteta has to do is snap his finger and -lo and behold – miraculously the players he wants appear and the players he doesn’t want disappear.
“Our goal is to get the best version consistently that is going to bring us closer to winning football matches. That’s what I want from the team. If we do that consistently in every match we’re gonna be in a good place”
This guy is a Fool.
https://dailycannon.com/2021/08/aaron-ramsdale-gutted-as-arsenal-move-collapses/
God I hope this is true 🙏🙏
China
That tactic sounds generational. Bet it took arteta ages to come up with it.
When you prioritise recruitment the first step is to fill the holes in squad and team. I think that
Arteta and Edu has done that sofar whether you agree or disagree with the selections.
There are still two holes to fill in the squad which are GK and AMF.
Then if you have the budget and can offload additional unwanted players most notably at
RB and CF we can and should upgrade.
Sheff Utd want £35 million for him? Thank goodness we have finally seen sense! (Hopefully!)
What a ridiculous valuation for a bang average player. Jokers.
Any more news on what is happening with Willock?
Jonny and me on the podcast completely aligned on saliba, that was the key decision for me where I lost trust in arteta.
I wish him well in his career
Funny how the spin now is lakonga was a key signing and makes a good window. He was bought as a backup, it’s a joke how the season now rests on his shoulders.
Let’s not spin a narrative that this summer has been handled well
No point getting worked up over transfer rumours. The reporters don’t have much clue what’s going on. Reported yesterday that we’re close with Ramsdale for £24m + £6m. 9 hours later the same person said were not going above £20m.
The Odegaard rumour is another that changes daily. He’s staying. He’s leaving. He’s staying. Seen his price range from £30-70m.
“Very low risk, high reward type of signing for 14m euros which isn’t much over £10m”
Exactly WEagle, it fits in with the Tavares and Lokonga deals, strange that we’ve really not looked into it but probably down to the lack of interest in Bellerin, Cedric and Chambers.
Fully agree China. The problem nowadays seems to be if you criticize anything to do with Arsenal your immediately classified as “Anti-Arsenal” or “Toxic” . My argument is how can you blindly consistently praise something that gets worse and worse over the last decade at least? If my kid’s school grades was dropping year upon year, would i be ‘Anti-Child’ if i expressed that they could and should be doing better? Especially if I’m investing resources into their education? We got told right at the end of last season by the boss that this will be a summer of massive… Read more »
It is ridiculous to spend a lot on a backup Goalkeeper. If someone at Arsenal had sense, they would have bought Ryan. If they had a long term vision though, they would have brought in Onana. And it would cost no more than 7 mil in transfer fees. I wouldn’t think Ramsdale at 15 mil was a good idea let alone 30. Because we have too many weaknesses to spend that much on a player that isn’t necessary. What is necessary is a Goalkeeper that is under 10 mil. The player’s quality might be up for debate. But whether we… Read more »
And yeah I am the one who said it. I think Arteta is a cunt.
For me the whole strategy of the window is off, emphasis on positions (CB 50 m) and markets.
When Europe is on its knees why are we fishing in the uk market. Granted we have a bloated squad but if you just cleansed out the deadwood for minimal moneis and be done with it. You then go to the continent and buy young high potential talent, some will flop but some may look good( lakonga).
Buy the dip, we can boss people right now but are not doing it. It’s so frustrating
Charlie “.Instead it’s Lacazette never threatening in behind or running channels, then him struggling to turn from deep and get into scoring positions,'” Yes he never seems to have enough space around him does he ? Always seems to get tangled by his markers. Eddie is not a finished product, far from it but unlike Laca he always finds space. He moves very very well. I have absolutely no time for Pepe, too predictable and lazy. Doesn’t have much in his locker. Seems to liven up when he is inside the box but outside that he is meh. Our front… Read more »
How can anyone blame Sheffield Utd for wanting Ferrari money for a Transit van. They have just seen us pay Brighton Lamborghini money for Rover
Everyone can see we are managed by Pinky and Perky
A Luiz replacement RCB as our number 1 priority this summer Emirates Stroller, really?
Arteta on Willock:
“He is our player. We have had some conversations. He’s put himself in a strong position where he can choose what his future could look like. That’s what we’re trying to define right now.”
On whether Willock will be here in September:
“I don’t know.”
So seems like Willock has clearly communicated if he doesn’t get game time he will rather choose Newcastle. Arsenal probably will let him go if we get a midfielder of our choice. It will probably drag on until then.
HG We did not need to “buy” Ryan. His contract with Brighton ended in summer. Goalkeeper is the one position where a second string is unlikely to get much game time unless first string is out of form, injured or ill. That is certainly the situation at Arsenal where we are not playing in Europe this season. The logic of spending £20 million+ transfer budget on such a player is ridiculous when there are other holes in the squad and starting X1 to fill. Arsenal are in rebuilding mode this summer. We are not in a position to focus on… Read more »
“Funny how the spin now is lakonga was a key signing and makes a good window. He was bought as a backup, it’s a joke how the season now rests on his shoulders.” Yeah the mental gymnastics has been funny to watch on that one. Went from being a solid back-up young talent to beef up the squad’s MF numbers (desperately needed) to now being hailed as ‘the best young midfield talent in all of Europe” which was an actual non-ironic quote on here by guess who and has been earmarked as a starter and a Partey partner this coming… Read more »
Wengereagle
Absolutely yes.
TR7
The club clearly want the 25m or they wouldn’t have agreed to the sale.
Tets is just hedging his bets in case Willock doesn’t fancy the move up north.
Not sure what Arsenal you have been watching this past year and a half then Stroller.
TR7
What do you expect Arteta to say in response to question about Willock?
Everyone knows that he is likely to be sold to Newcastle, but that he is an Arsenal registered player until that happens.
Charlie will tell you that Dumfries’ only interest was from Everton. Funny that he goes to the actual champion of Italy. Weagle I’m pissed off. The idiots will probably extend Bellerin like they did Xhaka. Horrendous stuff. Dumfries also made perfect sense as we don’t have a tall CF, we don’t have a brute, physical DM/CM and White, for all his qualities, is going to suffer in the air. Adding a 189 cm RB was going to be an actual escape from high pressing teams, a chance to win long balls and be an aerial threat in offence. Another big… Read more »
I read that Willock;s sale is held up by the length of the contract
His camp wants the standard 4 years, with the option of an extra year but Newcastle tends wants a longer term of contract.
The deal has to go through for Newcastle sake. They love Willock up north.
WE
I am on the same wavelength as Bob N16. The right side of defence was brittle and often targeted last season. I don’t consider Holding, Bellerin, Chambers and Soares starting X1
players.
Dumfries also a leader on the pitch, can’t remember many Full backs without leadership qualities that captained their club.
Emiratesstroĺler Can you tell that to Arteta. He doesn’t have a plan it seems. Wengereagle I like Lokonga. But we have are now being convinced he was the main target when we had bids accepted for Locatelli? It is just pure lies to hide the fact that Arteta wanted better midfielders. But as soon as his first target didn’t want to come, he reverted to giving Granit Xhaka a new deal. That is a stupid decision if I ever saw one. There were players that would have elevated us. Instead of buying Locatelli for 34 mil we could have done… Read more »
well you know Englandsbest, actually putting money on the table for available players who would demonstrably improve us in some of our weakest positions would be an actual start you know… Aouar, Dumphries, Onana… No one is blaming the club for failing to close the Locatelli signing, but you can’t be serious that besides him we had no other ideas for who we can buy to upgrade on 10m valued Xhaka, the awful Bellerin and the not even funny runnarson at a reasonable price during a covid market when we keep being told we have money to spend. As usual,… Read more »
Weagle I’m pissed off. The idiots will probably extend Bellerin like they did Xhaka. Horrendous stuff.
Bloody small club. Mot#^*<#ing small club
Relegation club Arsenal 2022. Arsenal will fight relegation in spring of 22
HG
Locatelli and Nunez would have been replacements for Xhaka if he had left club and joined Roma. Lokonga was replacement for Ceballos.
Stroller
When you only score 55 goals in the league and concede 39 (3rd best in the league) I don’t see how RCB and RB ought to be your priorities.
Put Ben White in there last season and it makes little to no difference to our tepid attack and non-existent MF. The numbers back this with/without David Luiz in the side as we actually won less points per game with him in the side than without.
Neves not Nunez
What is the target for this season in the league standings?
This dummy tardy and misdirected spending is proof that we need a proper DoF in charge of the transfer business.
The manager should communicated what style of football he wants to play and leave it to the DoF to make the purchases without any drama.
The balance of power in the club appears to be too skewed towards Arteta. They’ve just made him a mini-Wenger.
It shouldn’t just be that “Arteta likes him”
Raptora
You wanted to pay 30 mil for Dumfries who’s moving for 10 mil to Inter alongside Calhanoglu, Vanheusden, and Darmian this window. Let’s get you in charge of the money.
Who else are you super jealous of Inter signing from that bunch?
China, Less than 50m would have secured the players you meantioned Aouar (25m), Dumfries (10m) and Onana (10m). Add it to White, Tavares and Lokonga and we’d be in a very decent, competitive place, with tons of competition for every position in the team for relatively small amount of money – 120-125m spent. Sales would have been 10m Xhaka, 10m Bellerin, 25m Willock and even if we stop there we’d end up spending 80m NET. Add 15m Nketiah and 10m AMN we’d be in the 50m NET spend region which is shockingly good for adding so many talented players and… Read more »
XhakaAss and Arteta are a perfect couple . How can they stay apart.
but that said, never knew before the euros XhakAss can shoot long balls to CFs and wingers.
WE
Arsenal have a plethora of forwards on the books. Admittedly some are not performing, but
you can only buy a new striker if you manage to offload some of these. Currently Aubameyang, Lacazette and Willian are costing £650K pw in wages.
The CB situation is as far as I was concerned a priority, because Luiz was leaving and Holding is not as far as I am concerned a starting X1 player.
The RB position needs improvement, but as I have pointed out only becomes a priority if we
offload two of those on the books.
Raptora
Transfer fees are not the only consideration when you buy a player.
CC, First you said that no big club wants him, now that a big club got him, he is suddenly too cheap and the club’s signings are bad? You will never give up so it’s fine. The lowest price confirms that Arsenal focusing on the English market is shocking stuff again. But you will do everything to support the current regime so cudos to you. In my mind Arsenal lost on a really big upgrade down the right on the cheap too, in your mind they didn’t. Go back to pumping up the Ramsdale to Arsenal for 30m, that’s surely… Read more »
Bizarre Tets/Edu decisions since Tets’ appointment: 1) Perisisting with Nketiah over Martinelli for most of 2020. 2) Sticking 31 year old Aubameyang on a 3 year 350k a week deal when we were only near the end of the dark tunnel of Ozil’s contract albatross. 3) Talking Xhaka out of a move to Hertha Berlin who were putting up good money in Jan 2020. 4) Excluding Saliba from the first team squad in the Europa League and failing to give him a single senior minute in any comp. 5) Rejecting 20m for a fringe squad player in AMN when we… Read more »
11) Pulling out of the Xhaka Roma sale, of course.
12) Rewarding Xhaka with a spanking new deal afterwards.
13) Going into 2019-20 with EIGHT CBs on the books and 1 recognisable CAM in ESR (who we did not play until nearly January)
14) Signing Pablo Mari and Gabriel for 40m only for us to have RCB as a supposed massive weakness a year on.
“Champagne CharlieJuly 27, 2021 22:53:20
PedroRaptora wants Denzel Dumfries over an attacking midfielder, that’s his idea of excitement. A 25 year old at PSV getting tepid interest from Everton.”
Goes to the current champions of Italy and the team with 2nd most titles in the history of Italian Serie A. Nice L bro.
WE
13. Playing Willian in every game despite him being woefully out of form
14. Making Guen and Torrera persona non grata and thus devaluing them in transfer market
So what happens to Bellerin now
He has to be pissed off but he’ll still sign that increased wage contract extension. It’s like taking candy from a baby.
TR7
Could stretch that to 17 with us giving 32 year old Willian a 200k a week three-year deal to start with too.
WE
May be I am clutching at straws now but letting Ryan go when he was both capable and willing to stay as no 2 is a mistake too in my opinion. So 18 mistakes in 18 months.
Stroller
Plethora of forwards?
At CB before signing White we had Gabriel, Holding, Mari, Saliba, Chambers and Mavropanos on the books.
Who do we have for CAM? Just ESR.
Who do we have for wide forward? Saka, Pepe, Willian and Nelson. So two credible options for two postitions.
Wengereagle
😂😂😂
I didn’t even know there were these many fuckups. Surely Arteta is now on his last chance. Because he has been at least in stackable territory twice last season. One before that Chelsea game. And one after Villareal.
TR7/Habesha
They’re not even little mistakes either, many of them have been catastrophic and damaging to the club.
Sackable*
I don’t know of a single blogger who frequents this blog who trusts or expects our transfer team to get the required/ necessary players in ,either before tomorrow’s match or by the end of the window.Let alone get rid of anymore deadwood.Astonishing really.When you think about it.They have had around 3 months to plan & target .Yet here we are.Edu brushing up his suntan & Arteteta BS that there are more arrivals on the way.Really?Who do they think they’re fooling.Our fanbase had 10 years of Wenger/Gazidis waffle every transfer window.we’ve heard it all.What they ( our transfer jockeys) don’t get… Read more »
Wenger Eagle
I’m surprised your charges have been left unchallenged for so long
Totally shocked there’s no push back but wait for it, it is coming..
Honestly we are paying the price of giving a rookie manager so much power too early
Arteta is making all his mistakes on our dime, one day he might even become a proper manager. Arsenal is what Barcelona B was for Pep.
At least I am glad some fans see some sense. Arteta for me has to deliver starting from brentford. No more excuses. No more defending him due to lack of players. This is his team now and I want us to judge him as a we would any manager from now on.
Raptora
Oh excuse me, he’s off to Inter and not Everton, as they embark on a truly exiting splurge following their title win, that’s his pedigree etched in stone.
We’ll ignore the bit about them torching the manager, selling their best talents and going on an Aldi recruiting binge this summer though, horribly inconvenient context.
Been touting the player as amongst the worlds best all summer, claiming we should be all over him for 30 mil, now he moves for a third of that you’re handing out L’s to others? I’d keep hold of one.
Has Pedro gone bald yet?
I believe Arteta when he says there’s more to come.
The window is still dormant but we all know there are players that have to be moved on from every club. The likes of PSG have to shift many players out to make room for Messi, Icardi has to leave.
There will be lots of movements in the last 1-2 weeks.
Arteta on course for his 19th mistake in his 19th month :
Martin Ødegaard has always been Arsenal’s priority, more so than James Maddison. Arsenal are now waiting on Real Madrid’s final decision on the player. Arsenal are ready to bid for Ødegaard. [@FabrizioRomano]
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Odegaard isn’t coming again
Madrid were set to keep Ceballos ahead of Ode but Ceballos returned from the olympics with major ankle ligaments injuries
I expect that we’ll move to other midfield targets this week.