My WORD Bukayo IS looking absolutely exceptional modelling for Queens brand Aimé Leon Dore. What I love about this brand is it is perfectly attainable for frumpy men in their late 30s that have creative hobby and enough money to spend $400 on a slightly altered hat. Bigger picture here… this brand is a cultural phenom, the fact they are using Bukayo in their work speaks to his growing profile off the pitch.
Back to Arsenal…
You can ALWAYS tell how Arsenal are going to play after about 2 minutes of a game. Can the same be said about a transfer window? Borussia Dortmund has made 7 signings and spent €60m… Arsenal? We’ve signed one player from Sau Paulo and we’re being sued by Wolves.
Spurs are making big-name signings, incredible to see them making moves, bringing in a 33-year-old from Inter Milan on a 2 year deal for £180k a week. What I love about these brand name moves is they mostly tank, but without fail, there is always a loyal army of people ready to call the move intelligent. The last two big moves of post-32-year-old players I can remember were Willian, who was fresh off the back of a very strong season at Chelsea… he tanked. But there were a lot of people saying he was a great signing. Then there was Cristiano last summer, who people were celebrating as a cherry-on-top title charge of a signing. He scored goals, but his declining ability to press cost United big time, and they had to drop out of the Champions League.
I’m struggling to think of many older players that drop into the Premier League from other territories that really bang? Thiago Silva is probably about the only one that is really registering? Even Lio Messi dropped a level when he moved away from a club specifically built around him. For that matter, Gini W moved there as well and didn’t really do much last season.
Spurs clearly going for the ‘blow it all on the last two seasons of a fit Harry Kane and Son’ strategy. I’m here for it. I hope it’s costly, painful, and lacking in fruit.
Another club that might be running into difficulties appears to be Liverpool. A top 3 side in the world, no doubt, but reality is this seasone they blew the fine margins in the two competitions that truly matter. Sadio Mane is moving to Germany because he has one year left on his deal and word on the rumour mill is that Mo Salah is being offered just a 15% raise on his current deal and he might exit next summer for free. Why does that matter? Well, one of their best players is leaving, and the other won’t committ. That is disruptive in any system. What makes it even better is they aren’t getting Coutinho money in to help keep the train moving when they’ve gone.
There are some fun stories about ‘nearly’ signings going around. Noa Lang, the exciting Dutch winger plying his trade at Brugge reckons we moved for him. That would indicate quite strongly that we are looking for additional output from wide positions, Lang managed 15 assists and 9 goals, he’s only 22 years old, would come at a decent price.
The biggest story about who we will be signing this summer still seems to be Gabriel Jesus, I think the Athletic say he’s the best pressing forward in the world. I understand that he is top talent, I understand that he’s won big things, I am just really worried that this move is one that you need a graph to prove out. I had people in the comments on this site saying he was actually really good in the air… listen, he scored 9 goals in 22 games as a centre forward for City this season, 4 of those came in one game, prior to that, he was trailing Lacazette for numbers. The season prior, he made 38 appearances as a centre forward and scored 12 goals.
What are the basics here?
He’s played a lot of a games as a centre forward
He hasn’t got a prolific scoring record at 25 and he regularly underperforms his xG
He’s exiting the best creative system in the world and coming to a very junior one
City has been trying to replace him for two season with: A BIG TALL STRIKER
Still, the summer is early, there are options on the market, let’s see where this goes and how we try and address our weaknesses.
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Whilst I’m not really defending lukaku, Chelsea is well and truly the graveyard of strikers and have been for 20 years. For every one good striker that made it there you can say 3 who failed. Something about the club just doesn’t resonate with CFs and that has resulted in a combination of talented CFs tanking (shevchenko, Torres, lukaku etc) as well as banter signings (Werner, lukaku can be counted here too lol)
The one thing I’m glad of regarding Chelsea strikers is that we successfully managed to survive 15 years of links of Soloman Kalou to Arsenal and didn’t buy him. That frightened the life out of me every transfer window since forever. I can only assume he’s already retired now since the links finally stopped
China I agree cheslea is the graveyard for strikers alright
Timo werner has won the CL but Zlatan hasn’t. How is that possible? I mean really
Zlatan is the champions league.
I’m on my way to do my second of 4 Chinese driving tests. I got a message late last night from the test center saying don’t forget to bring disposable driving gloves. Since I don’t have any idea what disposable driving gloves are, since I don’t care and since I don’t have time to get them anyway, I have taken a pair of rubber washing up gloves instead 😂😂😂😂
If anyone there asks me about them I’ll say they’re high performance racing gloves which everyone uses in England
Say they are designed by the marrigold racing team China
Bob,
It’s not just Cunte they’re loving, but every player the spurs sign is brilliant according to grover losers.
Besides that, every player we sign is sh1t in comparison according to most here.
Pathetic way to follow Arsenal.
Yes they beat us to 4th, we were a young team, manager included, that choked.
They were far more experienced in the fight this time and they have no future… Who cares about Perisic? You nerds were getting hard over Ndombele, hoijberg, etc.
Grovers envy Tottenham. They defend them against gooners.
The shame of it.
Matt Turner playng for US tonight v Morocco.. looking decent.. Good shot stopper, very vocal about organization of walls and corner defense. Made some good reaction saves. But he is never going to dazzle you with his feet. From what I can tell, he is better at throwing it to release players then kicking it. Has a good long overhand toss. I would say he is more of an old school keeper type then Ramsdale. The US team doesnt really play out of the back as a priority so hard to tell. what he will be like in that regard,… Read more »
Mid
YESA, mAT turner looked very gird tonight.
He does need to work on his aerial challenges, that’s going to come under scrutiny in England
He doesn’t dominate his area and needs to punch the ball/or everything else out…instead he flaps.
*Yes, Matt Turner looked very good tonight.
Nigel,
Put your pom poms down big boy.
Whats the crime in rating Spurs signing Perišić?
He was consistently dangerous at Inter, his loan to Bayern and for Croatia notably when he equalised vs England in the semi final. He performs at the highest level, admirable quality in a player.
Direct and incisive pretty much always. As for Conte not alot I like there, leaves too much carnage in his rear view with less success than the original carnage layer Mourinho.
Sal
you know full-well that there’s two things the mouth breather Dame Nigel absolutely detests, thinking for himself and fact-based commonsensical accounts of anything football related
I, like yourself, see the merits of a Perisic acquisition, as I discussed earlier…I likewise agree with the somewhat troubling scorch and burn approach of Conte’s travelling managerial carnivale, but I must admit I wouldn’t mind enduring the potential fallout if a League title was in the cards
Spurs are absolutely nowhere near a title tho
They’re not winning the league or CL in the next ten years. They might struggle to even win a cup considering they are huge bottlers
When conte eventually comes crashing down it won’t be with league titles a la Chelsea, it will be with an old and tired squad that needs a massive rebuild but has limited resources
salparadisenyc June 2, 2022 00:31:17
Zlatan is the champions league.
**Zlatan IS THE champions league.
You made me laugh, man
If you hate Pep or Klopp, pray that they manage Spuds. Even they can’t win a trophy for those bastards.
Was it Pedro who said, our loanee AMN has more trophies than Spuds in last 25 years?
And it’s true mB
Spurs are the most overrated team every damned season and it annoys me to no end
They only came 4th because we bottled it and it’s bottled it. They were not a good team last season. Good teams don’t have own goals as their third top scorer over 38 games. They don’t depend on ref decisions so heavily. I will be mightily fucked off if we finish behind them again next season because they are nothing special whatsoever. Our squad is better than theirs. We have money to spend this summer. No excuses for this
Like really Conte can only deserve so much credit for finishing 4th in a season when Utd had the worst PL season ever and Arsenal were trying as hard as possible (successfully) to shit the bed. Conte and Spurs only picked up the present that was absolutely gift wrapped to them by us and Utd. All they had to do was hold their hands out and take it. It wasn’t the work of miracles
LoL. It’s not about loving Spurs🤣🤣🤣. It’s really about what many of us feared would happen when Conte was appointed. It did happen didn’t it?
Besides, not sure there were as many complaints when Rangnick was being spoken of in glowing terms. Yet United have done more damage to this club in the last twenty years than Tottenham can ever dream of.
I wish my d*ck was as over rated as Spu*s.
It happened because Arteta made too many mistakes not because Conte did something brilliant. He only improved their organization and the rest was just depending heavily on two elite players and other teams to score for them
China,
I think the title for most overrated team has to be Man Utd. Were they not “title challengers” just 10 months ago?
I think Spurs are just par for the course. How many of us have actually rated their recent signings? Romero, Hojlberg, Emerson, Reguilon, Kulusevski? Not many of us thought these were good signings. I certainly didn’t.
Spurs are just a very beatable team who are equally capable of pulling off a surprise win or loss.
Pedro needs to set up a sub section / thread for wig loving Conte fans.
The amount of unadulterated love for the guy and for those who are still sulking that no one will apologise for some random prediction that Conte would win, errr I mean finish 4th.
All I know is that Kane had still won fuck all in his career and Conte hasn’t helped him on that score.
“Pedro needs to set up a sub section / thread for wig loving Conte fans.”
😂😂😂
Aston Villa have already signed Kamara, Diego Carlos and Coutinho, but The Athletic says the club want three more new arrivals.
Now that’s what I call getting down to business, looks like Steve G. is not messing about. Hope that our Brazilian Buffoon is not lost somewhere on a yacht in the Mediterranean.
Killroy,
Villa were similarly fast with their signings last season. We’ll just have to wait and see if it actually makes any difference to their season.
https://youtu.be/JgJ1XOuRHlU Eddie Nketiah ladies and Gentlemen. I am not for fixing your issues just by going out to the transfer market. Watch this compilation and he shows where the big improvements are. I think he is ready to be our 2nd choice striker. We can’t get better than this for second choice STs on the market and with the budget we will probably have. CM, ST, RW/LW, LB. Go all out on these. We are getting a GK too. After that backup RB and A fresh CM will only be the concern. Tielemans, Jesus, Gnabry (or any top winger), Hickey… Read more »
Our deal making duo had since January to draw up a plan and get things lined up so that come July 1st they are ready to sign seal and deliver the promised goods as many here are expecting. Attacking talent, midfield generals plus competent backup in the positions where we have injury prone players. Just don’t have that fuzzy feeling that we will have another excellent TW as so many other clubs are looking to strengthen their squads. If you get your players in early then you don’t get into the dilemma that because another club’s number 1 target fell… Read more »
But did Eddie sign to be 2nd choice striker? What did Tet promise him. I see a danger in Eddie going into sulk mode if he does not get the game time. We do not want another Pepe.
Killroy I share your concerns. The factors you mention plus likely poor revenue from player sales could easily result in a weaker than needed squad for next season. Also we just do not have the pull that we had under peak Wenger years players that could improve us seeing quite happy to choose Aston V. Or Newcastle instead.
Where most Arsenal fans see opportunity, the doomsters see danger. Wee cowerin’ beasties.
We should have believed that Haaland is coming to his best friend Odegaard. See how that turned out.
“But did Eddie sign to be 2nd choice striker?”
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This is exactly what Arteta has to improve. Look at MC. Even Phil Foden, Jack Grealish and Riyad Mahrez couldn’t start every EPL game. He should tell Eddie that there will be smart rotation. Eddie could get 1/3 of EPL games if he keeps his good form.
Where most Arsenal fans see the reality of things, the minority see fairies and twinkly stars and live in cloud cuckoo land.
Perisic is a good signing IMO. No injury issues, knows the manager well enough and is bags of experience.
Who cares about the Spuds and Conte. We need to lower our expectations re new signings. We are way down the pecking order of clubs to sign for. Once the big clubs have done their business we will be in for the leftovers. Im sure Jesus is looking for a bigger club than us.
“Our deal making duo had since January to draw up a plan and get things lined up so that come July 1st they are ready to sign seal and deliver the promised goods ”
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I thought that our primary targets are from MC and Leicester City. We could sign them on Jun 10.
Habesha. “https://youtu.be/JgJ1XOuRHlU Eddie Nketiah ladies and Gentlemen. I think he is ready to be our 2nd choice striker” If this link that YOU posted doesn’t convince you and the other doubters that he can be our 1st choice striker then there is no hope for you. They said he couldn’t do it in the premier league. They said he was just a tap in merchant They said he couldn’t link the play They said he couldn’t hold the ball up. They said he was too weak on the ball . They said he couldn’t run with rhe ball They said… Read more »
United twitter admin announcing these exits like an obituary lol
Raptora
Grahm62
We see that both of you have included yourselves amongst the doomsters. A sad confession
Pierre He isn’t ready to be the main man. He doesn’t need the pressure of expectations of 20 to 30 goals a season. Because that is what is demanded to be first choice. But as a genuine rotation option that can play up to 30+ games a season, I think he is capable. Before he had Auba and Laca ahead of him. But now he will have to compete with one striker. I have had a change of heart regarding his abilities during this past season though. I think if he keeps on improving he can be a quite consistent… Read more »
Pedro
‘I’m struggling to think of many older players that drop into the Premier League from other territories that really bang’
Cavani was awesome in his first season at Man u. I’d love someone like that at arsenal on a one or two year deal.
There’s nothing wrong with signing a journey man if they’re the right journey man.
“I’m struggling to think of many older players that drop into the Premier League from other territories that really bang’
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I would love to have Karim Benzema at Arsenal.
Alex
Every signing is a gamble whether young or old. The player just has to be someone whom the manager can utilize properly and can help the team.
I hope we get in some experience in the squad this summer especially up front, seem to rely on the younger players a lot and that in turn becomes an excuse when we stutter
EB,
Just last week, were you not cowering at the thought of Arsenal being back in the Champions League? I wouldn’t be so quick to judge, Braveheart.
Deep down, you probably have less faith in the squad than the majority of this site.
The age old problem with Arsenal is simply this: –
They’re never bad enough to create a total meltdown, but equally, they’re never as good as the majority of us expect they should be.
Fast approaching 20 years without being near a PL title, and instead of showing any meaningful intent or offering fans a mission statement, the club are happy to waste years dithering with empty ‘projects’ so they can kick the can down the road and opt out of genuinely competing.
Arsenal really didn’t need to move stadium if this is the best they can offer.
IAT-Robbie
Another doomster.
Straighten up, take a deep breath, and cross over to the sunny side of the street. You’d feel much jollier over there.
HerbsArmy
Yet another doomster
Try looking to a bright future rather than dwell on what you regard as a couple of dismal years.
englandbest
Count me in too. A 5th place finish was unacceptable to me.
For the team to improve, we have to know our weakness and find ways to solve them.Here are our major weakness
– scoring goal
– play through a high intense press
– loss of confidence when we are behind
– over play players without rotation.
I hope that the club could improve in the above four areas.
“so they can kick the can down the road and opt out of genuinely competing.”
Herbs, it should have been obvious to us from the start that the club was waving the white flag🏳 when they began this process. Most clubs aiming to compete usually have at least one of elite coaching, elite executives, elite playing staff or a combination of all three. We, on the other hand, have gone with none.
The players are most likely of the three to become elite but even that is a big ask.
Habesha
“He isn’t ready to be the main man. He doesn’t need the pressure of expectations of 20 to 30 goals a season”
The pressure will not be as great as the pressure he was under when he was afforded his first start of the season in the league.
It was his last chance saloon and he proved he can handle the pressure , i think because he has confidence in his own ability.
Sorry to have to say it, but those clothes look awful on Saka. Makes him look like Gunnersaurus that got dressed in the dark.
HAHAHA Andy!!!!
I thought the same but didn’t quite know how to word it!!!
Pierre
You are underestimating Arteta. Martinelli was generational last year. ESR was scoring for fun at some point of time. We were talking how difficult it would be for Tierney to replace his LB from Tavates. Auba was top scorer..
*regain his
“You’d feel much jollier over there.”
There?
EB, your choice in adverb implies that, you too, are not on this sunny side either. Shouldn’t that sentence read – You’d feel much jollier over here?
Like I said, I know how you feel deep down. You can’t fake it forever buddy😉
englandsbest Are you just being deliberately thick or obtuse? It’s the reason my avatar is of Herbert Chapman, we have never seen another dynasty at Arsenal like the one Chapman created, now we are bystanders looking at other clubs do what we once did wishing it was us. If you only use league table placings to judge a managers performance, you are wilfully ignorant. Taking into account the size of Arsenal’s operating machinery compared to that of Crystal Palace, or Brighton, both Patrick Vieira and Graham Potter far outperformed Arteta, you know this deep down, but you’re such an Arteta… Read more »
Pierre Can you honestly see us competing with Eddie upfront when Spurs have Kane, City have Haaland, Liverpool have Jota and Salah. And added to that Chelsea are looking to cut their losses on Lukaku and ship him off to Inter and bring in another Striker. And Man United have Ronaldo and are going to add another Striker. Eddie has done well but we need a top striker beside him. That much is obvious. And we aren’t going to bring a second rate striker for cheap just because you think Eddie can be the main man. If as you say,… Read more »
Andy,
No need to apologise when it’s the truth😅. Pedro’s sarcasm revealed as much. The outfits look frumpy as hell, while those awfully bland and neutral colours don’t do Saka any favours.
If I were in his shoes, I’d just take solace in my bank account balance tbh.
Hi Robbie, hope you’re good.
Not really here taking an emotional sabbatical from all things Arsenal, I just find it insulting when people tell bare-face lies trying to spin a false narrative.
Sal,… I hear you, and I always like your posts No offense to Perisic. Very good player. But who TF cares? That team is going nowhere.. . I’m talking about everything Spurs do getting applauded as exciting, brilliant moves on legrove, while our guys are called rubbish the minute they sign… Even before. For example, a resident genius here yesterday… As we are heavily linked with Hickey… Watches one game and proclaims him as average. Definitively. Too many losers with no knowledge but big mouths here. There’s no need to leap to the defense of Spurs or Liverpool. It doesn’t… Read more »
sunshine is great but too much exposure can give you heatstroke, which might explain Haaland to Arsenal and Arsenal are better off in the Europa league takes
“No offense to Perisic. Very good player. But who TF cares?
Nigel. apparently Pedro does since he dedicated a couple of paragraphs to him, which is usually a sign he wants the comments section to pick up the topic.
I know , it’s crazy.
‘’englandsbest
‘’HerbsArmyYet another doomsterTry looking to a bright future rather than dwell on what you regard as a couple of dismal years.’’
Spot on .. and so much more to come with this team
‘’ For example, a resident genius here yesterday… As we are heavily linked with Hickey… Watches one game and proclaims him as average. ‘’
Lol noticed that yesterday as well
mb
How will you feel if we win the Europa? Stillinacceptable?
“No offense to Perisic. Very good player. But who TF cares? That team is going nowhere..”
Eh, that team is going to the Champions League next season. At our expense.
So Pogba leaves Utd officially.
Such a strange player. On his day he looked a world beater and a throwback to Yaya Toure but he didn’t even have a fraction of Yaya’s consistency or substance over the course of a full season.
Always lovely to see a £90m player walk away for nothing from United still at their peak (28-29). 10 times funnier that he walked away for nothing once already.
Mane is also off to Bayern. I get Liverpool’s angle here but not really Bayern’s tbh. Pool want to cash in while they can as they are not willing to hand a bumper new expensive contract to x2 30 year olds and Salah is more important to them. They will survive without Mane with Jota and Diaz able to play LF/CF. Bayern on the other hand are stacked already as far as wide forwards go with Gnabry, Sane, Coman and Musiala. I suppose no traditional striker on the market right now looks like they would come in and score more… Read more »
englandsbestJune 2, 2022 13:15:12
mb How will you feel if we win the Europa? Stillinacceptable?
Eb, that would be alright then.. but since when have we started judging managers on what can / cannot happen in year(s) to come?
We already have 2.5yrs of Arteta’s reign.
englandsbest
There’s being optimistic and there’s being plain silly.
Based on what you see and feel ( deep down) do you honestly believe we can win the Europa League under Arteta?
Herbs Army
Telling “bare-face lies” and spinning “false narratives” is the norm on here.
Would not be surprised if Pool look to Gnabry to replace Mane. Definitely the type of high energy player Klopp loves
And as Graham said
…there’s being optimistic and there’s being plain silly.
Commenting on Spurs, Pool, Persic etc in closed season is totally justified as our destiny next season is not just based on what we do but how our closest competitors strengthen their Squads. We could improve 25% but if Spurs etc match or exceed us we could be at best standing still.
Herb,
I don’t blame you. That’s been the blog’s MO since I’ve been here.
Ha! Ha! I didn’t know that someone actually reads my post. Let me be more specific since I watch Hickey for the first time. Hickey was average in that game. He couldn’t help his team to win.
The catalogue of gloom from the doomsters is masochistic, inaccurate and tedious. Tedious? The same thing over and over. Masochistic? The worst possible. Inaccurate? The persistent denial that the Club is on an upward trend.
As for the rest of us, we are happy walking on the sunny side of the street.
On the other hand, ask about the state of the world, and you’ll find me on the doomsters side of the street.
Graham62
Another confession of guilt?
Even Robertson who we all know is a world class LB looked average yesterday in that poverty Scotland team so I wouldn’t really take notice of Hickey’s game.
What only matters is how he performs for club level and I haven’t watched Bologna but we did get Tomiyasu from there and he turned out well.
“sunshine is great but too much exposure can give you heatstroke, which might explain Haaland to Arsenal and Arsenal are better off in the Europa league takes”
Hahaha
The fact that Hickey has been playing for Bologna for two seasons and is not straight out of a youth team or Farmers league is a positive foe me.
Didn’t Tomi come from Bologna? Assume him and Hickey were both playing together before last season?
Wenger eagle Pogba needed structure and stability to get the best out of him. United have been anything but stable. 89 mil and now walking away for free is as bad as a business that I have seen from anyone. Chelsea’s Kepa comes close. And Mane is going to be the CF af Bayern. His game has been transitioning to that the past few years. Bayern are hoping to replace Lewa with him by the same transfer fee and wages that they are going to save from the lewa to Bayer deal. Pretty smart if you ask me. Mane could… Read more »
RP. A term much used on this forum a lower league where they play hoof and chase ball. Brawn rather than brains
We must not gloat too much on Pogma leaving on a free in view of our record. Ozil, Auba, for a start and Pepe could end up being another.
englandsbest is Pedro .
One incredibly intelligent but suffering from Artetatitus.
The other just plain silly and consumed by Artetatitus.
It makes perfect sense.
Anything to balance the blog out.
save from the lewa to Barcelona deal**
Lacazette to Lyon on 90k a week. Can’t say I didn’t see that coming. Good for him though. Although the “I want to play CL football” chatter was crap from him. No one in the CL with their right minds would have signed him after the terrible form he has been the past season. I wouldn’t call him a flop but he hasn’t been a success for 50 mil either. We massively overpaid for him.
Habesha
” I wouldn’t call him [Laca] a flop but he hasn’t been a success for 50 mil either. ”
He’s a flop, let’s call a spade a spade.
” Any news on Dybala to Arsenal?”
I thought Dybala was headed to Roma?
Nigel
I hear you there is a faction that love to go in studs up but thats what Le Grove was born for, opposing views depending on where you sit. I think it’s great Pedro has taken his Arteta stance after penning years of posts against Wenger second term, then the Emery days causing many natives to go mental. Some imploding. I may not agree with it all, would be dull if I did. Have to go with what you feel in the end.
I wouldn’t call him a flop. 76 goals and 30 something assists in 206 apps. We overpaid for him. There is a difference between overpaying and being a flop. If we had signed him for 30 mil instead of 46 mil then those stats would be okay. And he has won player of the season one year if I remember correctly.
Have a feeling we’ll underwhelm with our signings this summer
Laca is a flop and a half. We sold Giroud for 1/3 of the money to buy an inferior striker. Why? How? Who does this?! Laca should never have been bought. Auba + Giroud would have been a fantastic duo that we never got to witness. Also the whole bromance between Auba and Laca, they almost never had chemistry on the pitch and we persisted with trying to make it work for years. It’s not Laca’s fault btw. He tried. He just had too many shortcomings in his game to be a big success for us. Again, Giroud the superior… Read more »
If we’re talking flops Pepe takes that title. Lacazette is polarising now due to the absolute collapse of form coinciding with us needing him the most, he literally lost the ability to shoot. Overall a serviceable signing but certainly didn’t remotely hit the heights some on here expected and posted about for ages. Fact club brought in Auba in the winter window after his acquisition certainly didn’t help imo. Bati All signals thus far leading to just that but we always move slower than the organised clubs like Dortmund who seem to have it all mapped out and in motion… Read more »
Habesha GoonerJune 2, 2022 Wenger eagle Pogba needed structure and stability to get the best out of him. United have been anything but stable. 89 mil and now walking away for free is as bad as a business that I have seen from anyone. Chelsea’s Kepa comes close. Kepa is an interesting one because as we know on the back of selling Courtois to Real M Chelsea paid the buy out fee for Kepa in effect £40 ish million . It surprised me but he has actually played in 124 games for Chelsea 80 in the league and in those… Read more »
Teraloon
Do you mean all the games Ramsdale played for Sheffield and Bournemouth? Context is important. Kepa played all his games for Chelsea. Ramsdale has kept 3rd most clean sheet and is a nominee for YPOTY.
Raptora
Giroud was a success for what we paid. 12 mil and stats of a 30 mil player. It doesn’t mean Lacazette flopped completely. He was just average for the fee we paid.
After all the big talk about transfers this summer following the abject January failure, I’ve been wondering how long it would be before the “expectation management” project would get underway. Seems we didn’t have to wait long. The tone has changed already. Of course there likely to be an element of pleading poverty in the hope of not getting price gouged. But that would carry more weight if the club wasn’t wasting money hand over fist by letting players go for a pittance, and even paying them to play for other clubs. At a guess, it could be that discussions… Read more »
Habesha “Can you honestly see us competing with Eddie upfront when Spurs have Kane, City have Haaland, Liverpool have Jota and Salah. And added to that Chelsea are looking to cut their losses on Lukaku and ship him off to Inter and bring in another striker” Eddie in the top 10 for goals per 90 Smith rowe in the top 15 Saka in the top 40 Martinelli in the top 50 Odegaard in the top 70( maddison top 20) Lacazette top 80.(Jesus in the top 30) So the simple equation is to play Eddie and smith rowe, replacing Lacazette and… Read more »