Arsenal winning games makes life better. It’s as simple as that. In a complicated and stressful world, football is the antidote. Mikel Arteta has not made life easy over the past year, but it’s clear, if things get better over the next two months, fans will get back on side… because it’s hard to be angry when your team is winning games with style.
That won’t happen this weekend.
We’re probably going to get pasted.
BUT, I would like to see a concerted effort to show up and play some pragmatic football.
The Chelsea game was naive, probably on purpose. I don’t want to see that against City. The moron brigade demanding we go up North and put on a show are painfully deluded about where we are with this project. I want to see a shithousing. 3 at the back, everyone dying for the cause… Auba with a 78th-minute chance that could decide the game. This squad can defend, we’ve seen it against good teams, I’d like to see a boring starting 11 with a street-fighting attitude.
That might involve a really boring performance from Mo Elneny in midfield, but if it’s what we need to get the job done, let’s have it. It certainly can’t involved Kola as centre back or any other galaxy brain move.
The WBA outing might have been against meek opposition, but it was with our first team, and it was beyond a conventional win. If you are a striker, you don’t say after a hat-trick, ‘well, that didn’t feel great because it was against kids’, confidence doesn’t work like that. All the players will be feeling like some ideas clicked that they can take into the next game.
Auba has the confidence that he can score with limited chances, but more importantly, he will feel confident that if he makes a run, there are players in the starting 11 that can find them with accurate balls over the top.
Everyone is going to feel a little sexier having Odegaard in the starting 11, because he will make that tough first time pass someone like Granit will shy away from.
Saka looked on fire in the week, that’ll give him confidence he can make something happen.
I don’t need to see an evolution of style in a game we have almost zero chance of winning. I want to see spoiler tactics and ruthless discipline.
The transfer deadline is fast approaching, here’s what we ‘think’ we know:
- Torreira will move to Fiorentina for the season and get games
- Eddie will move out of the club, probably to Palace for £11m
- Kola will have his deal terminated and likely head to Besiktas
- Willian has scrubbed his feeds of the Arsenal name, Corinthians looks a real possibility
- Reiss will have to find a club, he cannot possibly think it wise to spend another season rotting away
- I’m not sure what the deal is on Ainsley, I’d love him to stay, but only if he’s considered a serious squad player
- There’s talk Lacazette will be exited, but I’m not sure about this. We are SO late in the window. Lacazette moving only works if there’s a deal coming the other way.
There’s talk of Jovic moving if Mbappe goes to Madrid.
There’s talk of Calvert Lewin, though this feels very fanciful
I’m just not sure what to make of it all.
All I know is this… I really hope Trippier ends up at United. Arsenal shelling out on a 31-year-old really doesn’t sit well with me. Trippier would basically be the Lichtsteiner move this summer. He’s a good player, way better than what we have, he’d also be the only senior defender we’d have… but it’d be expensive and our funds really should be going on a player with more long-term in the tank.
This is Arsenal though… every time we right an expensive wrong, we jump right back in and do it again.
Ok, quick one today, I’ll see you in the comments… watch my damn video or listen to the podcast.
Weagle
How do you get understanding the thoughts behind a signing as justification for it? It’s not the same mate, what’s confusing you?
We lost Luiz and bought White. I totally understand why, but I wouldn’t have done so because my issue was the attack, goals scored, and chances created. I suspended criticism on the idea we had money in the pot, it’s a unique summer, and there’s lots of movement to come. Now I’m judging it more harshly because the movement since hasn’t addressed the biggest issues as I personally see them.
Man U may have signed Ronaldo but they haven’t tied Xhaka down to a new contract to 2025 have they. Now that’s business!
*Arteta
Ronaldo obviously isn’t quite as good as he was a few years ago, but the guy is an athletic freak, so his version of slowing down is to be faster than Lacazette is at the moment.
I reckon they’ll make the money back in merchandise alone, so it’s just good business.
Let me ask you all something though: if at the beginning of the transfer window you were offered Ronaldo + Varane + £3m OR an aerially suspect, ball playing CB to replace Saliba… Which would you have taken?
This Transfer Window has been utterly shit
Lets be honest
Aside Lokonga and Tavares, we still have not boosted the club forward.
A CAM, Striker and RB were needed… badly.
But nope
And I feel for White… not his fault about his fee. This fella will be getting the Pepe treatment. Maybe Pepe can give him some advice on being overpaid for and how to cope with that …
Anyhow, good luck to White…
Edu needs out if we cannot get in anyone in 4 days….
Dumb ass
We are officially the BANTER FC. And for people to still forge excuses for Tets is shambolic. Its only AFC that promotes a rookie head coach to manager and are surprised things are in a mess. By the time Tets is sacked, we maybe in the pit of no return. So many excuses to the extent that winning against City is seen as an achievement. How further have the chickens roost?
Biggles
I would have inquired about their wages lol thats close to 1m/wk in wages btwn 2 players
I am so pissed off with us right now my pool and spurs mates are getting on my last fucking nerves we are a laughing stock
I will have to disoown the plastics and spud cunts
Thoughts/justification ….pure semantics. It’s football, keep it simple. We’re Arsenal, a team who finished eight and had to improve the squad in a depressed Covid market. You shouldn’t understand the “thoughts” behind signing Ben White for £50m while adding tavares, Lokonga, Ramsdale and Odegaard when we have a shit attack all the while you’re a card carrying member of 3rd best defence last season debate. It’s a pretty stupid thought and we all saw it at the beginning, you’re now doing a quick 180 at the last week of the transfer window coming up with faux criticism when your blind… Read more »
the total salary of all 5 signings weve made probably dont equal ronny wages
“”””Ronaldo + Varane + £3m OR an aerially suspect, ball playing CB to replace Saliba… “””””””
Buendia turned us down, the thought of Ronaldo signing for us is comical in a sad kind of way
Arsenal should Not be left behind, we should resign Wenger
Sid
Ho Ho that’s really funny. Joke Friday right. And what happened to your blowmance with the bfg. Keep em coming big oga at de top.
Charlie Because there is no understanding behind the signings unless you take each one in a mini-vacuum without considering the implications on other business to help actually move the needle for the team which is silly to do. What is the understanding behind the White or Ramsdale signing? How much do either even improve us and set us in those positions for years to come? Chelsea didn’t go out and spend a fortune on a midfielder a little better than Kovacic or Jorginho or a wing-back a little better than Reece James/Alonso, they badly needed a ST that could put… Read more »
anyone know who was missing from training today?
I heard Willian…
This is maybe the best guage to see who might be moving…
Read some clickbait Auba to Juve?
I think its worth doing but who to replace with???
Zacharse
Paying Ronaldo and Sancho £1m a week to help them win trophies sounds like more pragmatic business than us paying Ozil, Kolasinac and Mustafi over £500k a week to have Fortnite sessions and knife-fights, I don’t know maybe it is just me.
eagle
by the end of the week hopefully none of them will be on our books but paying ronaldo 500k/wk doesnt seem like good biz to me
Weagle Called what wrong at the time? The second we were in for Ben White I lambasted the move for its potential implications on other business. I’m not going to apologise for then suspending criticism until the rest of the business was laid bare, what a ridiculous comment. And it’s dead simple how you can understand a signing but not be for it. Take the GK situation, there’s numerous outcomes that result in a new #2. We could’ve bought Ryan, Onana, or Ramsdale, 3 different ways to fill a role and each with their own merits short, medium, and long… Read more »
Klopp saw his title defense collapse last season in the absence of VVD. What is the first thing he does in TW ? Sign a CB who can be the leader of their defense when VVD gets injured instead of signing an upgrade on Firmino. Every club should have a transfer priority list and plan.
Zacharse
How long were we paying that waster £350k a week? Not even to be involved in the squad.
We paid Aubameyang £350k a week last season to deliver a lower PL goal return than Chris Wood and Callum Wilson.
If Ronaldo scores 20+ league goals and United are up thereabouts it will be money well spent.
WE Excellent post as usual. We had other pressing needs that were almost non-negotiable especially the attack but we spent most of the budget on what Arteta wants. The process, rationale, thoughts behind the thinking of bringing those we shipped in this summer (except Odegard) doesn’t matter as it was clear to anyone who watched us last season that the leadership of the club haven’t got a clue whatsoever on how to get us back to the top. You don’t put the cart before the horse, a ball playing defender is only effective when he has a midfield that can… Read more »
Charlie Mate forgive us for saying I told you so but have you not been supporting us for decades now? Have we ever spent £200m net in a single window? Or close even. You make out as if they are 3 comparable and reasonable GK solutions. Ryan would have been free and knows the club from last season, Onana is comfortably the best of the three and would have cost Ramsdale’s left leg with maybe his right pinky toe on top. And then you have £24m rising to £30m for Ramsdale, likely the least talented of the three and no… Read more »
Guns of SF anyone know who was missing from training today? I heard Willian… I hope you are right. But fuck me, what a total waste of resources he was. It took buying 3 has-been Chelski players to realise that this is not the type of investment one should be doing if one has serious aspirations. It just smacks of desperation with the hope that ex-winners could do it. The only problem with that, was that we were dealing with rivals. And rivals don’t give you access to an easy PL win, unless you are Arsenal of course (RVP)). It… Read more »
Jesus, now Pedro is calling this a ‘project’. It’s not a project. Arteta is simply the current manager of a team with a rich, 135 year history.
Guns of SF
“”This Transfer Window has been utterly shit
Lets be honest”””
its been a total dogs dinner- except for the Lukonga signing.
Our ‘ Old ‘ rivals are spending the majority of their resources on adding to their firepower and A&E are spending theirs on the defensive side which was not the priority.
We take 6 weeks to get a deal done.( eg White , Ramsdale): Man Utd get Ronaldo signed and sealed in 6 hours.
#DogsDinnerTransfer Window#
WE
No need to explain much really, we all see through the BS. At the end you’ve got to trust the process right? Same thing as understanding the thoughts…
On Ramsdale we were being served with “he has been player.of the season twice in a row” hot take. And yes, White a “progressive” passer.
Weagle
What are you saying ‘I told you so’ over? Can you remind me where I said I expect us to spend 200 mil? You’re repeating the same words I said to Pedro at the time of Whites announcement.
I don’t like the price, as I’ve stated more than once, but it’s quite clear how buying a 23 year old keeper you think has a really high ceiling is a worthwhile strategy. It’s the timing that’s the issue.
As TR7 brilliantly and succinctly put it a few days back, ‘project’is a euphemism for pretending that this is all part of a master plan that will come to fruition down the line and exonerates Tets from receiving criticism and ulimately sacking for failing to deliver in the short-term. And funnily enough, it could be forgiven if there was actually a discernable plan at hand as you could witness watching Liverpool under Klopp from late 2015-2017. Back to back 8th place finishes, embarrassing European exits and dozens of massive mistakes/bizarre decisions on the player front along with shit football, confused… Read more »
‘No, no, no, it’s not a project.. it’s a… uhm… it’s a… it’s just football’
Well, got me there lads.
Charlie Is there a difference between believing we would spend £200m and still having faith after dropping £135m on White, Ramsdale, Odegaard and the two young lads that we would perform surgery on moving the needle in the forward positions? For £30m? When other far cheaper alternatives were available? “I don’t like the price, as I’ve stated more than once, but it’s quite clear how buying a 23 year old keeper you think has a really high ceiling is a worthwhile strategy. It’s the timing that’s the issue” Sounds a lot like the thinking behind the Saliba signing which you… Read more »
Tavares is the worst of them all so so raw. Terrible window withot a rb and st signing. Tic toc. Arteta is running out of time
Allegri: “Weston McKennie has to stay here at Juventus, he’s not for sale. He’s part of the project and he can improve”
Nedved: “The UCL is a very complicated competition where the details will make the difference. With the return of Allegri, a new project has begun and we are sure that he is the right coach to undertake it.”
Both quotes retrievable from Twitter in the past 24 hours. “Project” is such a standard industry term, load of nonsense trying to make it an Arsenal/Arteta buzzword said for the sake of it.
Pedro
I believe every project has a deadline, so when should we be expecting to see results of the project?
Pedro
The whole point is that managers like Arteta and AVB dress up their nonsense with words like process and project to make it look like there’s a master plan. There is no master plan. Arteta, like AVB, is simply out of his depth.
Pedro
Lamps often used the word “project”, Tuchel delivered results with the same set of players in 6 months. Andre Villa Boas is yet to see any of his “project” come to fruition. The word “project” is a tell tale sign of bullshit merchants. Tets has been here 18 months and we have regressed under his reign. I was a fervent critic of Emery but even he wipes the floor with Arteta.
Exactly Le Sauce.
Our recruitment has just been comical for half a decade now, £600m+ spent since summer 2016 and were are competing with the West Ham, Leicester and Evertons of the world in 2021.
Sid,
I will say that Wenger coming back as manager might even knock Ronaldo off the back pages. That alone might be worth his return despite it being a backward move from the club.
Charlie
He is in the door 5 minutes after 2 years away and major player turnover.
How is that at all comparable to Tets rambling on about the project coming up to 2 years in the job with regression if anything?
Allegri just got there 2 mins ago so it’s a now a project. We’ve had our own project for about 2 years now, it probably is a NASA project
Cant wait for tomorrow’s game, i will give my final judgment on what really think of arteta
‘Project’ is for CL clubs, midtable clubs should look for another word, like ‘program’
TR7, you spin this idea up like the difference between Arsenal and Chelsea right now is as simple as the manager. A gross, gross simplification that reads nicely, but isn’t grounded in anything serious.
Secondly, most managers refer to what they are doing as a project. It’s such a triviality. Call it what you want, doesn’t change that Arsenal is a project the same as Chelsea is a project.
saying ronaldo is a better signing than the ozil contract extension is fine. but it doesnt make it good biz. ronaldo does not win them the league imho.
Bacary, going off on the word ‘project’ is the sort of thing I’d expect to hear my dad complain about. Even he wouldn’t be that petty.
Wenger merchandise would bring good money
Pedro
“TR7, you spin this idea up like the difference between Arsenal and Chelsea right now is as simple as the manager. A gross, gross simplification that reads nicely, but isn’t grounded in anything serious.”
Pedro leave semantics aside and kindly tell us what has been two major improvements under Arteta in 2 years. Just 2 will suffice.
We could have just used Saliba, got in Ryan or Onana and really strengthened our forward options instead of doing what we have done. It is the window a side looking to consolidate mid table status would be proud of.
The White signing was bizarre due to the fee being touted and him being relatively lowkey and the fact that we knew he would be our marque signing when we have far more pressing needs that are yet to be met and with days left in the window, won’t be.
Weagle
Are you reading anything? I’m critical quite literally because we’ve spent the money in White and Ramsdale and no attackers. Holding out until the end of the window is just standard practice because football is by nature unpredictable.
“Sounds a lot like the thinking behind the Saliba signing which you were staunchly against at the time due to budget concerns.“
Again, almost like I was against spending that sort of money on Ramsdale too. But you can understand the sense in Saliba cant you, if not the application that summer? Yea…exactly.
TR7,
> 3rd best defence in the league.
> Big games.
Charlie You’re playing around with the goalposts, you savaged the club for the Saliba signing (I was right there with you) at the time as a supremely reckless utilisation of funds. There was none of this nuanced ‘understanding the profile/thinking’ behind the signing which you are wheeling out now. You’re critical with a caveat and are giving them some rope when they don’t deserve any with the ‘understanding’ behind the signings. There is little more to understand than us wasting the majority of our funds on players that were of a much lower priority to strengthen the XI and were… Read more »
Pedro
The first manager I can remember irritating the hell out of me by saying project was AVB. Arteta reminds me so much of him, it just sets me off. You’re right, it probably shouldn’t but it gets to me.
“> 3rd best defence in the league”
And in your own words Pedro, a RCB was our no.1 priority signing to be made this summer along with using nearly half of our entire budget to facilitate it.
Pick one.
Pedro
Does an improved record against big 6 matter when our overall points tally has gone down ? I take your first point about improved defense even though it has come at the cost of our attacking prowess and everyone knows getting a team to defend is easier than to get it to attack well. I still take the first point but the second one is rather meaningless in the overall scheme of things.
Charlie You’re playing around with the goalposts, you savaged the club for the Saliba signing (I was right there with you) at the time as a supremely reckless utilisation of funds. There was none of this nuanced ‘understanding the profile/thinking’ behind the signing which you are wheeling out now. You’re critical with a caveat and are giving them some rope when they don’t deserve any with the ‘understanding’ behind the signings. There is little more to understand than us wasting the majority of our funds on players that were of a much lower priority to strengthen the XI and were… Read more »
@Pedro Well said tomorrow’s game is mission impossible and for Arsenal this season is only 35 games long. The TW was not what many here including myself expected. As it has been pointed out several times here by others and yourself said AFC had 3rd best defense last season so why being so defense focused this TW? We got GK2, LB2 and one of the midfielders. What was more desperately needed was in the attack CAM and the primary choices are either gone or will be gone by Wednesday. RB was an absolutely necessity and with White you need a… Read more »
It’s likely that Laca will be sold this summer so the club has to hold unto Eddie
Not sure how signing a replacement for Leno who will leave next season is the same as signing a 30m 18-year-old defender from France.
I don’t get this “project” baloney.
It’s just a cop out.
I’m allowed to make mistakes and poor decisions, it’s part of the “project”.
I can show tactical ineptitude because it’s part of the “project” process..
I’m inexperienced and lack the prerequisites of being a top manager but, give me a break, we’re in a “project”…………………
Project is the modern day word for allowing for excuses.
The weirdest thing for me… IS paying the English premium seems to have been our biggest priority. Mission accomplished.
Weagle
There’s no caveat to either, that’s your imagination. Only savaging was the response to Marko’s condescending bullshit about Saliba being a demi-god we had to sign and anyone against it was stupid.
I didn’t agree with the move for Saliba because he wouldn’t do anything that season, but I still understood what we wanted from the player and saw with the move despite disagreeing. Exact same thing with Ramsdale.
Also Pedro, unlike some on here, I don’t mind you bouncing around on Arteta like a pinball. It at least shows some flexibility. The problem is that when you keep switching back to AKB mode, you are so confrontational and forceful that when you do you criticize him it rings a little hollow because we know what’s around the corner with you..
A last minute swoop for Jovic would be a decent move. Real probably still looking to clear out players. Although he is still trading off 2019 with Frankfurt to a large extent (the year he got better than 1 : 2 scoring rate, he is still only 23 and is the ideal Arsenal type turnaround player. Better than Laca
Bacary, if AKB mode is defending the use of the word ‘project’ I’m here for it. It’s a proper petty attack that would not hold ground in a normal conversation because it would such a boring point.
Bacary
Your latest post gave me an idea for a fun pile on. Almunia get your thinking cap on too. Top 5 most irritating bastard managers, who have managed in the PL but NOT managed us. I’m going to be accused of going soft on Arteta now, but let’s keep our powder dry on that for a few hours.
Anyone who thinks even remotely a top 4 for Arsenal is doable after the transfer news of the top 4 clubs needs to make and urgent appointment with a shrink to have a reality check. Next season UEL is the best AFC can achieve but realistically a mid table finish with no European football is what to expect, which means no elite footballer or manager may be attracted to the club.
Wenger Eagle
The only case Pedro can make is that Luis was vital to us having the 3rd best defensive record. Tough sell.
Northbanker, do you have any hope that we’ll move on Lacazette?
Just like Lacazette was leaving us this summer Pedro?
Leno is contracted till 2023. We will likely have him for 2 more years. Where is a realistic landing spot for him next summer on £100k a week wages? No Bundesliga club paying him that who could afford it.
Using that straw man argument again Pedro. The word project has almost nothing to do with being an AKB. Strange line for you to take.
Charlie
Yet you tactfully positioned that Ramsdale rationalisation ahead of outright calling it a mistake and a terrible use of funds like was your initial reaction to Saliba.
Come on mate.
What a fantastic deal for Man U. A half decent Ronadlo is 20 goals a season. Too optimistic Pedro. Our game is the equivalent of Liverpool v Soton. We are nowhere and going nowhere. We need a change
Pedro – I’d never rule out a last minute swoop either way. It won’t be for more any more than £10m though. If we got Jovic for 20 then still happy days
As in Bayern and Dortmund.
What have we become if we are just writing off games with a loss just before a ball is even kicked. Why can’t we go to City and get a result? Fuck me we should be setting our sights like a top 4 team if that’s our ambition. If not we might as well set our sights on just avoiding relegation.
Pedro
You also clearly missed me saying that it probably shouldn’t bother me but it just did.
Being unnecessarily irritated and bothered by certain things is something you of all people should understand.
Northbanker Saw that Jovic link, and honestly forgot he even existed given how his time at Real has largely gone. Wouldn’t be opposed to that sort of a move if he’s hungry, but so little in the way of moving Lacazette on that it makes me question the likelihood. We fucked the CF position not getting Abraham, he was itching to move here and it was a loan to buy that we didn’t commit to because Eddie and Laca are on board. Such a resentful situation given both are in their final years here and should’ve been pushed out before… Read more »
Pedro
What is the next milestone in Arteta’s project? I mean what do you expect Arteta to achieve this season or what is the bare minimum he should achieve.
And if Arteta is so generational surely he can come up with something
Nobody knows what is going on, not even the top managers. Ask Pep. Anything can happen at any club in the next four days.
Tomorrow I’d expect Arteta to pack the midfield, hold off Man C by sheer numbers. A mind-numbing display of the un-beautiful game. Who cares if we grab a point? Oh, I forgot. The anti-Artetas always complain.
Pedro
‘Petty attack’ and ‘boring point’
Isn’t that a little petty in itself?
BIG
Tough sell indeed as we crunched the numbers on that a few weeks back and turns out that in Luiz’s 19 odd apps and 17 starts that we actually won less points along with conceding more goals.
Some impact that for outright ‘best’ CB.
Just seen the news City dodged that Ronaldo shaped bullet or was it a case of manure jumping in the line of the bullet in a selfless act of loving thy neighbour?
WE
Those are inconvenient stats you just posted.
I see lots of peopler are beginning their backwards cycle away from the White signing
That signing brings back memories of the Mustafi signing- Brighton sold us their least experienced and smallest central defender for a king’s ransom. Ben White his so freaking elite that didn’t even bother buying to replace the player.
To think the usual Arteta backers used the late invite to the Euros to defend the signing.
Imagine what that £50 = 5 million would have done for us In the midfield?
Ronaldo moving to United makes them genuine title contenders, if they weren’t before. Just the belief that is going to give them will be unstoppable. City though are the losers this window. Gabriel Jesus and Feran Torres are good players but there is no way they are defending the title with that. I would have gone for Haaland before Grealish if I were them. And they have won multiple times so I don’t know if the hunger will be there as much as Chelsea and United. We are a million miles away from competing. We won’t get there by short… Read more »
englandsbest
Trust me, no-one will criticize getting a point at City.
TR7, we discussed this the other day.
There has to be a sustained attack on top 4 this season.
The football has to improve, but not at the expense of our defence
We need to see our young players find the next level
If he can’t do it this season, he’ll never do it, then we can move onto the next manager.
1. Fat corrupt Sam Allardyce – the absolutely worst human being in football 2. Tony Ayatollah Pulis. Without that ill fated loan to WBA by chihuahua head (see how I got him in without listing him?) Serge G might still be a Gooner. And for backing cunty Shaw Ross. 3. Twitching Arry Redknapp. Wholly untrustworthy and a perjurer – allegedly…! 4. Ole Gunnar Gobshite with his fake Manc accent and his skill with cones. 5. Scott Parker. A po-faced tailor’s dummy with a personality to match. So, so, soooo many others. I reluctantly gave SAF, Mourinho, Keegan and Klopp a… Read more »
Pedro
With the benefit of hindsight, do you regret repeatedly writing that the sequence/order of transfers doesn’t matter.
Oooh Steve McLaren… Forgot him.
Weagle
You’re being wildly suggestive at this point. I’m just way more mellow about Arsenal than two years ago. Very much due to the goings on at the club, it doesn’t hit my emotions in quite the same way.
My view of the two is very similar, and I think I even made that same point recently. I wouldn’t have paid that for Ramsdale, flat out. I would’ve went Onana or Ryan, and put the money into the forward line.
“Ronaldo moving to United makes them genuine title contenders, if they weren’t before. Just the belief that is going to give them will be unstoppable. City though are the losers this window. Gabriel Jesus and Feran Torres are good players but there is no way they are defending the title with that. I would have gone for Haaland before Grealish if I were them. And they have won multiple times so I don’t know if the hunger will be there as much as Chelsea and United.”
I would still bet on City to finish above United.
Ah Abraham. FFS I will be seriously impressed by the end of the season, if we will regret missing out on him. He is a good player but I don’t think he will reach the levels we want to go to. I think we should focus on the likes of Vlahovic and Isak next summer.
WE, except the numbers you have access to don’t tell the story the club is looking at. You can keep telling yourself we weren’t better with him in the team, but that story wouldn’t marry up with any analyst at any club in the league. We signed Ben White because he has similar qualities to David Luiz, but with 10 years on him. He was a good signing and you’ll see that this season… and you won’t be begging for Rob Holding and Pablo Mari to be in the starting 11… or whoever you think are our best defenders right… Read more »
City should go for Cavani.
Dortmund v Hoffenheim should be entertaining. Kick back and enjoy.
Pedro
Good, clear answer to TR7. I can get on board with that, especially as we should know soon enough if we have any shout at competing for Top 4.
Habesha
What was the point of paying £45m for a prime 27, now 28 year old Partey if the project is all geared towards developing us into a top team years down the line?
Or extending Auba on a 3 year 350k a week deal?
Or giving Xhaka an extra year on an improved deal till he is well into his 30s?
Or giving Willian a massive 3 year deal as a 32 year old?
@Muppetman “What have we become if we are just writing off games with a loss just before a ball is even kicked.” Those are the bookies predictions they have no vested interest in football just how they can make money on bets. Before the WBA game started the odds for AFC was lower than when the bookies saw AFC’s starting line up a full strength team. It has nothing to do with writing of a game it has all to do with the players on the field, the strategy and the past records. No amount of will power, gusto and… Read more »
Is Cavani still at Manure? If so, how the fuck will he and that prancing self centred cunt play in the same team?
You just gave Arteta 10 games to prove himself earlier this week, we beat West Brom and we’re back to the project phase with no definite deadline. Good work Pedro, time will tell how accommodating you’ll be with the next Arsenal manager.