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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Giroud and Laca may have worked better than Auba Laca. Annoyingly Giroud proved he still had a few seasons at the high level left in him and we never replaced and still need his aerial ability
Dissenter
“He’s( Lacazette)a flop, let’s call a spade a spade.”
Oops
Lacazette was a flop. Not a spectacular flop, more a disappointing one that had his moments.
76 goals in over 200 is a very poor return considering a fair few of those were penalties. And his £50m fee goes against him on top of that too, no fault of his own but come on it counts towards it.
If we apply the same rule to Pepe he wasn’t as big a flop but he is because he cost £72m and not £25m.
Wow that Jesus goal vs South Korea today was special.
https://twitter.com/GolsDiario/status/1532344853312462849?s=20&t=UIBimf7yIuLfDQvTlFqNJw
Habesha
Mane has scored above 20 league goals once in his entire career and he is 30.
Not sure how you can pencil him in for 25+ Bundesliga goals on the back of that.
Just looked there and it was actually 71 goals in 206 apps Laca’s record for us.
10 pens means only 61 of those were from open play. There are midfielders with better scoring rates than that.
Habesha, Pierre,
What has always impressed me about about Nketiah is that he scores so many different types of goals. Rare for a young player.
Eagle
Those numbers are grim for an Arsenal #9.
Laca, Ramsdale and Pepe – £150 000 000 down the toilet, I am afraid. Bought by different managers/ executives – but still mediocre in everything about them – except the purchase price. We simply do not buy well these days- especially since D. Dein left. And its getting worse- if you look at the links. Tielsman £ 35 000 000 ( a right footed version of Xhaka- but without a suspect temperament) Jesus £35 000 000 – a player City dont really want or they would be keeping him. Not going to make inroads on the top teams- if the… Read more »
Nkunku has scored 33 open play goals this season alone and he is not a ST.
Ramsdale for Arsenal in the PL over one season
Played 34 let in 39 and 12 clean sheets
So 1.14 goals a game on average and a clean sheet every 2.83 games
Kepa for Chelsea in the PL over 4 seasons
Played 80 ,let in 96 and 26 clean sheets
So 1.2 goals a game and a clean sheet every 3. 07 games
Sal
1 in 2 is passable if you have other facets to your game. Really though if you want to be competing at the top end you need a 2 in 3 ST leading the line.
TH14 averaged 2 in 3 his entire PL career for us. And even taking the goals out of the way in a vacuum he was 10 times the player Laca has been.
Lacazette is/was a good midtable PL level ST at best.
It is a shame that we never signed Vardy in 2016.
I wanted to say also that no matter what profile of CF we may bring in, we won’t be missing an option for different types of goals. I’d prefer to bring in a big boy striker, for most contrast in style, but Eddie can cover a lot of needs. I really think he has a higher ceiling than anyone expects.
Why are we comparing Kepa with Ramsdale? I don’t think Ramsdale is all that but Chelsea’s defence has been solid for almost 20 years straight.
Gabriel Jesus gets my vote if it is remotely possible.
Rate him over Tammy, Vlahovic, Nunez, Toney, Schick, etc.
“Lacazette is/was a good midtable PL level ST at best.”
Agree hence the serviceable label, mostly because Arteta extracted a bit out of him after he was shot. Rare to see a player fall that far he was a shambles this season.
London Gunner and I used to debate Lacazette to no ends, I was opposed to signing him think I even labeled him the French Darren Bent in his Villa days.
Sal
2 open play goals in the PL this season. Fair to say Laca fell off a cliff from being ok at the back end of last season.
This season he has genuinely been as bad as famous names like Chamakh and Bendtner.
2 league goals from open play!!! At least Chamakh scord headers the odd time.
“It is a shame that we never signed Vardy in 2016.”
Its a shame we never signed Suarez in 2013, Leicester would not have a title i’d hazard a guess.
French Darren Bent, I remember that. Turns out it was a proper comparison after all.
I still laugh when I remember that Darren Bent went for more money than Barca paid for still great Henry in 2007.
£16m even in ’07 for a 30 year old TH14 was gross underpayment. Kind of got forgotten about because we were much better the next season without him.
Laca like Pepe was never cut out for the PL.
It was clear Laca’s legs had gone mid last season. He should have been sold and replaced last summer so just another Edu and Arteta screw up.
raptora Why are we comparing Kepa with Ramsdale? I don’t think Ramsdale is all that but Chelsea’s defence has been solid for almost 20 years straight. See there’s the things Kepa really only played consistently for Chelsea over 2 seasons. In 2018/19 he played under Sari in36 league games they let in 39 in total joint 3rd best defensive record in the league . Arsenal let in 54 . Chelsea finished 3rd Sari left and Lampard replaced him for the 2019/20 season. That season Kepa played 33 games and in total Chelsea let in 54 goals which was the 11th… Read more »
Wenger Eagle that’s high praise for Gab Jesus.
I think he’d fit in perfectly for what Arteta wants us to do.. mad pressing and quick, city style passing.
He’ll add so much even if not up front. Imagine him in this squad instead of Pepe,Lacazette or a Willian. Massive upgrade.
I hope we can convince him to come. I know he likes Arteta, but CL and salary play a bigger part in the decision. I hope we dial up the cash.
Darren Bent what anomaly.
I like Jesus whats not to like has it all just needs a proper #9 roll as many have stated.
Not convinced Arsenal/Arteta have the pull to bring him in with whats on market and other clubs needs. Be shocked if Champions league club don’t pounce like Bayern with Lewa leaving regardless of Mane coming thru.
Had to share this: Ozil’s agent: He doesn’t want to go anywhere Mesut Ozil will not be leaving Fenerbahce this summer, despite his ongoing exclusion from the club’s first team, his agent Dr Erkut Sogut has told the Daily Mail. Ozil has not played for the Turkish Superlig side since March 20 after being excluded from the squad following a row with interim head coach Ismail Kartal over his fitness. But a move away from the club this summer won’t be happening, according to his agent. “He’s more mature now, more relaxed in that sense,” said Sogut of Ozil. “He… Read more »
Tom, I recognize you’re right that Pedro brought it up about Perisic… it’s not like we shouldn’t discuss it, it’s just that … and I mean this sincerely…… ….If you go by Legrove reactions to any new signings by the spurs at the time they happen…. every single one is a great signing that destined to be brilliant for them. I gave the examples of Ndombele, Hoijberg, but it goes all the way back to the use of the Bale money. Everyone was saying how genius Levy was when he signed Soldado (Slodado). There isn’t and shouldn’t be total acclaim… Read more »
Saka needs to stick to football, modelling is not his thing, I won’t want to buy them clothes just to look like Saka in them bro, for the new season I just hope we are lucky with a new striker and midfielder that will click with everything we and arteta plans in his Lego haired head, we need some skill and energy in the middle, we need to win the war in the middle 80 percent of the time, our defenders would be good and full of confidence if our middle and strike force is hot. I think we have… Read more »
HerbsArmy your assessment of our “settling” organizational model was spot on…lip service and half measures appears to be the MO, regardless of the prevailing underlying narrative…already I’ve noticed that MA has started to slow the money train roll regarding the TW…now some have suggested that this is part of an elaborate ruse to fool any potential transfer partners, but that would only work if everyone involved were willing to forget his “loose lips” following our pitiful winter window…talk about playing checkers, when ever other real footballing club is seemingly playing chess…I hope I’m wrong, but I’m worried that this window… Read more »
Pierre simply put, seriously??? the very fact that you’ve predicated your whole rise of the purple patch kid narrative on the the unrealistic notion that ESR is going to overtake Ode on MA’s depth chart suggests that you’re once again wading into some pretty delusional waters…now, don’t get me wrong, I’m on the same page as you in regards to the ESR/Ode debate, but that appears to be a non-starter for our manager-in-training, much like his inability to cut the Xhaka cord…in fact, my greatest fear is that we show up on opening day playing a possession-based 4-2-3-1, with Xhaka… Read more »
WengerEagle I am basing Mane on the last 6 months. Since he has moved to ST position his scoring record has increased. Lacazette hasn’t been the best but he hasn’t been a total flop. Not just a 50 mil striker. On price basis he has been a 30 mil striker at best though. Pepe isn’t serviceable at all. We paid double to triple his value. I can’t say the same about Lacazette. Gabriel Jesus is the best we can get this summer. I agree with that. He needs to focus on being a ST and I can see him getting… Read more »
New star in American tennis with a very FIT looking Coco Gauff into the finale, not that any you boys paying attention to the lady’s draw.
Pierre You dodged the question like Keanu Reeves in the matrix. I didn’t ask you to compare ESR to Odegaard and Eddie to Lacazette. I said do you think Eddie is in the level of those rival strikers? That is the question. Because in order to think that he is ready to start for us, you must think that he is closer to those strikers in level than anyone who can find in the market. If we were to get Gabriel Jesus for example, do you think Eddie is better? And I am not saying Gabriel Jesus is in the… Read more »
The fact lacca took a 50 percent pay cut to return to Lyon on a bosman shows you all you need to know about us and over paying players from the Wenger era
Its madness
I mean the last remnants of the Wenger era of course
The issue is will history repeat itself I literally have no faith in the board to get it right
Most of us on here know 100 times more than vinai imo
We are fucked
raptoraJune 2, 2022 14:54:23 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 player… Read more »
Mr. Serge
it’s not so much that we brought Laca into the fold, it’s the fact that once he no longer suited our tactical purposes that we didn’t sell him on and recoup some of our investment…how many times are we going to prove the old “insanity” adage right, before we make a concerting effort to change the way we conduct our business
We bought two 50 million strikers btw summer of 2017 and Jan 2018. Then we proceeded to let them leave for nothing.
Just shows how badly run we’ve been as a club
Either of Laca or Auba should have been sold 2-3 seasons ago.
TRVL
Real talk tight here in business you get rid of a team member dies not work at arsenal we let them go for free it’s madness
The fans will not let this shit go on if tets bombs by Xmas
I just renewed my ST at £2600 I will make sure by voice is heard
I should put my glasses on when I type lol damn I am ageing and not like a fine wine
Diss totally hence my apprehension we will get it right
It will be by luck not knowledge of we do
You have to laugh at the scouting department on Le Grove, people like Dissenter dismissing Hickey as nothing special or average based on one game, in which the whole team he played in didn’t do themselves justice. Probably never seen a minute of him play prior to that.
I actually thought hickey played well yesterday he is a major upgrade on tavares and is 19
Love the love in for Giroud… described as shit by many when he was here..
Sometimes you don’t know what you had until it’s gone g
Old enough to remember a time when whole posts were dedicated to how Olivier Giroud was holding the Arsenal back… even a few guest posters had a turn and writing about his limitations.
Notably gambon whose gone twitter nuts.
Chris
I didn’t dismiss Hickey, just said he was too similar to Tavares. He’s a winger or wing-back type of wide player. That’s why I would take a pass on him.
I don’t think Nigel was referring me tbh.
Habesha I like jesus , i think he would be a good signing for us, plus i think they would work well together as they both can play centrally or out wide. The thing is , it is impossible to assess how good Eddie is or can be due to Arteta refusing to play him over the last 2 seasons. Personally, i have a feeling that Eddie will surprise a lot of people in the next few seasons.. I would have no worries having Eddie as our first choice striker , in fact i would welcome it. Eddie is a… Read more »
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“Notably gambon whose gone twitter nuts.”
There more behind this story? Always had time for gambon here.
Don’t care how many trophies Giroud has won since Arsenal. He was not a hit for us. If he was we would have won us the league in place of Leicester city. He wasn’t a flop but wasn’t a great fit either.
He*
If you look at Lacazette thru the lens of his being the potential big upgrade we all waited for on Giroud he’s was hugely anti-climactic.
And thats before he got really bad.
Eagle not much else to report Ahern whose a twitter god shares a few of the more colorful posts.
Mental as ever.
I keep forgetting Hickey is a leftie. The lad uses his right a lot. Clearly ambipedalness is a running theme with Arteta’s fullback. I’m not sure how much of a difference that makes to our phases of play. Hopefully someone can explain that aspect to me. As for Hickey himself, I’ve watched two of his games. Which isn’t a lot but it gave me an impression of him. Like Tavares, he’s VERY raw (as is expected for a 19 year old). I think he’s good at the things Nuno is poor at – combination play, positional discipline, shooting on target.… Read more »
Pierre
you were obviously scouring the internet for League One hidden gems, like the Loch Ness Drogba…you’re starting to remind me of Wenger, in that your desire to be considered ingenious far supersedes your concern for the future success of this club…I guess Will Keane, Cole Stockton and Alfie May didn’t fit the height and age profile for your “longshot” narrative
Giroud should have been in compliment to a main striker with us, he cannot be relied on as a main striker.
I will never forget the 14 odd games he went without scoring for us. He regularly went on little dry spells.
No doubt he is a quality plan B striker and has proven so but he isn’t a number 1.
Just read that LUIS CAMPOS is joining PSG. He is the one who bought Pepe for €10m and sold to Arsenal for €80m. WTF!
Dissenter it wasn’t you I was referencing.
Dissenter doesn’t make snap judgements on one viewing.. also not a crowd follower.
Gambon is on Twitter as @ the mighty Gambon … I only follow him for contrarian content as most of the big accounts like Pedro and larger are more constructive about our trajectory.
Gambon has a tiny amount of followers for a Twitter account though.
Sal.
Gauff has always been good. Only that female tennis is just so predictable nowadays. Ashley Barty got tired of winning and left at her peak. Iga Swiatek just dropped her first set since February or April.
Compare that to the unpredictability of men’s tennis and you’ll understand why people tend not to pay attention.
Naija
bang on with your Giroud commentary…he made perfect sense as a second fiddle, when tactical changes were required, but from a top dog perspective he made about as much sense as Wenger trying to shoehorn Ozil or Ramsey out wide…just another example of revisionist history by those who seem to forget the circumstances of that particular time…if only we had showed some real intent when Sanchez was carving up the League, we could have won a couple titles when several of the big boys were experiencing some rather unsettled times
Arteta watching Morata score for Espana and thinking……
Please no.
With you on that Naija, some rose tinted glasses where Giroud is concerned. He was one of those streaky strikers, had runs of games where he couldn’t hit a barn door.
People have been mentioning the 2015/16 season and our failure to capitalise as Leicester took the title. What has been forgotten is that Giroud went 15 league games without a goal in the second half of that season arguably costing us our chance.
Pierre A fair enough answer. I am surprised at how good Eddie is because I haven’t seen a lot of the qualities he showed this past season before. Holding up the ball wasn’t his quality. Neither was dribbling to find space to shoot. He was always struggling before this past season with his touches and finding space. I am pleasantly surprised at his improvements. I hope he can continue improving. Nelson Luis Ocampos is a genius of scouting. But I don’t think he would have a free reign at PSG. Mbappe is to be consulted before any signing. And Luis… Read more »
No one is saying that Giroud was world class, but he was a much better player than Lacazette. The team that finished 10 pts behind Leicester had other problems as well.
Danny S, TRVL
Exactly guys.
We ve forgotten how we use to look over to our neighbors at Drogba, Rooney etc when Giroud was starting for us. He’s won a bunch of trophies since he left us and revisionism seems to have set in for his sake. Sometimes it feels like some Arsenal fans have a 3 year memory span.
We were so close to winning the league in recent seasons gone by, we were often missing a top striker to close the deal.
07/08 for example, we missed out on the league by just 4 points. The Leicester city year we finished behind them with 10 points. Imagine having a top striker. When you see us finishing the league nowadays 20-30 points behind the league winners, it put in perspective how close we were in those days.
Raptora
that was largely predicated on tactics…not to mention, the argument became incredibly skewed in Giroud’s direction when the national team decided to go with a more traditional target man, which doesn’t mean that Laca wasn’t good enough, he simply didn’t fit the script…this is likewise why they chose Gignac as his back-up…of course this whole situation could have played out vastly differently if Benzema had been in the mix all along
RDT has swag. He’s an interesting player that we were supposedly interested in the Summer.
Vera “you were obviously scouring the internet for League One hidden gems” Don’t be daft , i spend half my life at the golf course. I really couldn’t give you one other name from division 3 or 4. Stewart played against us in the league cup earlier in the season and watching that match there was something about his game that i liked and I’ve taken an interest in his performances and haven’t been disappointed. Not saying he’s elite or close but as a back up striker when we are doing our usual and getting overrun away from home, having… Read more »
Who is RDT ?
Pierre
I’m far from daft and much like your speculative claims about Eddie, Eriksen, Ozil and the Loch Ness Drogba, you would be wise to never underestimate me…the fact that you don’t take any ownership over your proclivity to take the path less travelled comes across as rather disingenuous…just saying
Serge, Raul de Tomas. He subbed Morata tonight. He made a fool of Ruben Neves with a sweet, sweet nutmeg, completely embarrassed. I’ll correct myself – it wasn’t the summer but the winter when he was our back up plan for Vlahovic that also didn’t happen.
De Tomas is quality but he is nearly 28 I believe.
Then again he could be a late bloomer Vardy/Di Natale type. Only really burst onto the scene in the past 2 years.
Ideally you would sign Gabriel Jesus but RDT as an alternative wouldn’t be a bad signing if Jesus as expected goes to a CL club.
Morata would just be a depressing signing, lol.
Has failed to score goals everywhere he has been since leaving Real Madrid for Chelsea all those years ago.
Giroud was the beginning of us as arsenal fans accepting mediocrity. We consistently scraped top 4 in a much less competitive league and that became our main target and the top 4 trophy was born.
Kos, Xhaka, Bellerin, Mertsaker, mustafi etc etc all players that optimise our decline into average.
DS I still remember when Giroud was originally packaged to the fanbase as the backup option to RVP, yet all along the club, or should I say Wenger, knew full-well that he was brought in to replace our world-class Striker…I don’t know what was worse, the fact that Giroud was being considered as a viable option, in light of our closest competitor’s options, or that we sold RVP for such a pittance, to our most hated rivals…as for your list, I might argue Kos, but everyone else, including a myriad of others that immediately come to mind, were a clear… Read more »
Romano (the only person on this I trust) has said we’re on a second round of talks directly with tie Lehman’s and that the players preference is arsenal. Considering it looks like the Jesus and hickey transfers are also close and that we already have a keeper, we appear to be close to having all of our main priorities signed already. Are any of these players my first choice? Jesus. No Hickey – not sure Tielemans – maybe But do all of these players clearly improve us? Yes. If all of these 3 can be signed in the coming two… Read more »
Tielemans not lehmans
This is reported in football.london:
“Hickey didn’t have a comfortable night at Hampden Park and that’s reflected in his Daily Record player rating of 5/10. Furthermore, the publication’s description of the defender’s performance was that a game of this importance came too soon in his career. ”
In my post, I was comparing Hickey to Zinchenko, who was clearly better on that night…
China I’m not disputing the fact that our team would be better if we secured both Tielemans and Jesus, but I just don’t see where the former fits in, considering our tactical pursuits, unless Xhaka is sent packing, which would be a wonderous yet seemingly unlikely move… just imagine if we got rid of Partey, as some have speculated, and MA tried to rollout a midfield that consisted of Xhaka, Tielemans and Ode, we would get run out of the park on most evenings as for the latter, Jesus is a far better option than Eddie, at least at this… Read more »
Jesus is 5″9. I mean that is not even that short for a forward player and while he is is not built like Tevez, he isn’t exactly slight.
Forwards 5″9 or less who had a lot of success in the PL:
Rooney
Aguero
Tevez
Fowler
Owen
Wrighty
Defoe
Robbie Keane
I cannot believe that Rooney was only 5″9 tbh. Always had him at 5″11-6″0. Was such a physical force of nature in his prime.
Nelson,
Here’s your quote:
“Game over. Hickey is quite average. Zinchenko is good.”
You are full of sh1te just admit it.
The important word…. “IS”.
You didn’t say he was average in the game, because then you would have used the word was.
You made a rash opinion after watching the guy in one game. Own it.
That was no in-depth comparison between him and Zinchenko. You said he is average. Fine. Stick with your call and we’ll see if he joins us.
WE
no one is disputing that a “shorter” striker/forward can’t succeed, but when you have two of them, as Eddie is likewise listed at 5’9, that’s a bit more problematic from a tactical flexibility standpoint, especially if you take into account MA’s predilection for crosses from wide positions
Nigel
Fuck off. I watched the game. I compared the two players. I find Hickey IS average. Of course it is about his performance that night.
Get lost and don’t read my post in the future. I won’t read your post from now on.
tbh here’s some things this organization can do to both show intent and change the culture for “real”: (1) flip the script when it comes to commonly-held narratives regarding the novice nature of our managerial and administrative teams by bringing in a few individuals of consequence…the fact that what’s currently on offer is eerily reminiscent of the previous regime, when Wenger surrounded himself with rather inconsequential “yes” men, isn’t a good look and simply allows skeptics to logically lean into a negative narrative that already has legs…more importantly, it just makes sense from a footballing perspective (2) get rid of… Read more »
“Giroud was the beginning of us as arsenal fans accepting mediocrity.”
Lol at this. Giroud is a starter for the Serie A winners so i don’t think he is mediocre.
But I get it. He is limited.
“tbh here’s some things this organization can do to both show intent and change the culture for “real”:”
Don’t know and don’t care.
All Arsenal FC need to show me are lots of wins, a good goal difference and great xG score.
At the moment, I am concerned about the goal difference. That is a better measure for the team’s progress.
I hope we get Jesus. But the players we have on our list aren’t the worst options either. Abraham isn’t a bad player either. I just think Jesus is better. I don’t want DCL. I would rather have Richarlison with all his extra baggage rather than DCL if we are getting a forward from Everton. The option that surprised me the most was Gianluca Scamacca. I have seen a bit of him and he looks like a good player. He has got good feet for a player his size too. But Italians don’t travel well to the Premier league. His… Read more »
Giroud is and always was a very good player. But he was always a whole level lower than Henry, RVP, Bergkamp etc.
Signing him was a great idea to compliment a world class CF, not to replace one as we saw with RVP leaving.
Vieira surely Tielemans replaces Xhaka in the starting 11
If we are signing any CMs to sit on the bench behind xhaka then next season is a write off because nothing has been learned. But I don’t believe we’d be looking at a pretty high profile PL player like Tielemans to sit on the bench.
Him, partey and Ode is pretty good and swap aids for an informal ESR and it’s probably better again
Giroud had very good technique but was woefully slow
Wenger Eagle
Rooney was 5”9’ high and 5”9’ wide . Certainly a force of nature and I’d guess as a teenager probably a lot stronger than his peers and excellent centre of gravity.
As he gets older he’ll have to fight the fat man escaping out of the younger athletic body
Vera “I’m far from daft and much like your speculative claims about Eddie, Eriksen, Ozil and the Loch Ness Drogba, you would be wise to never underestimate me…the fact that you don’t take any ownership over your proclivity to take the path less travelled comes across as rather disingenuous…just saying” Now there’s a daft comment if ever I’ve seen one. Fancy you getting your knickers in a twist because i light heartedly said ” don’t be daft” . Some people may be smart but lack common sense and are full of their own self importance, i would say you come… Read more »
I love Saka, we all do. It’s not just his footballing abilities it’s also the way he conducts himself. He is, without doubt, a truly decent young man. There are few players who make it look effortless when they have the ball at their feet, he is one of them. He plays on the front foot and always looks at creating things for his team. Unfortunately, I don’t think he’s playing for the right kind of manager. That’s right, I personally feel that Arteta will be a detriment to Saka’s future progression. I also include our other youngsters here who… Read more »
Pierre
You’ve called me daft on many occasions over the years but I don’t hold it against you.
Have you been out on the golf course over the bank holiday?⛳️ 🍻
Vera “tbh, here’s some things this organization can do to both show intent and change the culture for “real :(1) flip the script when it comes to commonly-held narratives regarding the novice nature of our managerial and administrative teams by bringing in a few individuals of consequence…the fact that what’s currently on offer is eerily reminiscent of the previous regime, when Wenger surrounded himself with rather inconsequential “yes” men, isn’t a good look and simply allows skeptics to logically lean into a negative narrative that already has legs…more importantly, it just makes sense from a footballing perspective (2) get rid… Read more »
Gonna go to war with those cunt slugs today
They keep eating my asiatic Lily before it can grow
It’s beautiful
I’m going to get a hanging basket today and re-plant it, high up, where the cunts wouldn’t move their lazy slow slimy arses near it
And any of those fuckers I see near it are getting salted into oblivion
Un
I like your deviation from the football talk.
I have a problem with next doors cats.
Don
You angry with the slugs because they eat your Lily or because they’re brown?
You can be honest with us.
Love it Freddie.
Or is it because they’re just lazy f*kin homeless snails who’ve never done a day’s work in their lives?