It’s Pride weekend in London and Arsenal is going all-in on a float. There’s a very sweet video of all the players going to meet the LGBTQ fans and making a fuss of them. I recently had the pleasure of meeting Carl Fearn, who heads up the Gay Gooners, and all I can say is that he is a top, top guy. He was willing to help me on a project and my team absolutely loved him. Arsenal also led in this area, telling fans they’d give representation to the community if they set up a group. Now, I believe, it’s the biggest one of its kind in the world.
At the very core of initiatives like this is inclusivity in football. Arsenal aren’t going to change the world with activations like this, they’re not going to stop all the weirdos beneath the club tweets, but what they will do is make a statement that, at The Arsenal, everyone is welcome. Having players get involved is also great, there are only a handful of openly gay athletes on the planet, and part of that is because they fear what the fans will sing, part of that is they fear how the dressing room will react. I feel like we’re moving forward on all those fronts.
Arsenal is one of the most inclusive clubs on the planet. We have a diverse set of fans, people are accepting inside because that’s what London is all about, I think we’re a beacon to most clubs in the world, initiatives like this one just reinforce why I love Arsenal.
If you have your finger on the ‘I’M OK WITH THE GAYS, BUT…’ comment, hold it back today, no one gives a fuck.
Right, onto transfers!
The summer is getting messy. Some fans are spitting FURY.
You have to put away what you used to believe about Arsenal and accept our new reality.
- We’re competing at the upper end of the transfer market, we don’t have Champions League, and it is competitive
- Missing out on your main target doesn’t mean it’s over in 2022.
- Big clubs miss out on players. City missed out on Harry Mcguire, Jadon Sancho, Cristiano Ronaldo… how are they doing right now?
- Arsenal have a Plan A, B, and C. We are not coming out of this window without bodies.
What we know so far is this:
Lisandro Martinez is at a club that is run by the exlegendary United keeper Edwin Van Der Saar. I mentioned the other day that is was weird that we were the preference for Martinez because of the connection and the money on offer there and it looks like that might be the case.
Still, let’s be real here, there are other options, and if we ended the window with someone like Zinchenko, would you be sad? I’m not sure you would. Don’t fall in love with rumours, I did on this one now I’m 4 spoons deep in a B&Js mega tub. £35m for a left-back is HUGE cash in a market that has very little of it.
Raphinha is now more than likely going to push for a move to Barcelona. As Matt K said on the podcast, if he ends up in Spain, I won’t lose any sleep. Chelsea was the move I worried about. This transfer always felt a little ‘WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE.’
There are light rumblings that we’ve put the feelers out for Wilfried Zaha like I suggested a few weeks ago. He gives you all the same bits you get with Raphinha, except he’s a little older and he’ll be way, way cheaper because he has one year left on his deal. I’d prefer we moved for someone younger, but when push comes to shove, if you had him on a 3 year deal, you’d guarantee goals and a bit of menace with an attitude we lack.
Youri Tielemans is also on the agenda, the club has apparently agreed terms, the players wants Arsenal, but we haven’t bid. I have no idea why, one would suspect Arsenal are playing the game and want to force Leicester into a tough situation where they don’t have options and have to accept a pitiful bid. But again, who knows, I just hope we know the players wants us and the rumors that Spurs want in on this deal aren’t true.
So when you see fans whine that our summer has been a disaster, remind them that part of joining elite is that it is competitive. You can’t win all the transfers. Chelsea don’t. City don’t. Madrid don’t. People have to grow up with the ‘THIS IS A DISASTER WINDOW’ because it’s not.
Look what we’ve done so far:
- Signed Eddie down to a 5-year deal
- Signed Gabriel Jesus over 6 clubs worth comp
- Brought William Saliba back into the mixer, he’s probably going to sign a new deal
- Signed USMNT #1 as our back-up keeper
- Signed a devastating final ball merchant in Fabio Vieira
- Rumours are Gabi Martinelli has committed
It’s July 2nd. Plenty more of this window to go. But all you need to know is there could be up to £200m spent this window (it won’t end there after sales).
Before I go, big shout out to our right-back superstar in waiting, BNC, for his HUGE U19 European Championship win with England. The player has been getting rave reviews for his standout performances, he’s basically a modern-day all action right back. I suspect he’ll get a more competitive loan this season, then he’ll be at Arsenal the season after to move on Cedric Soares.
InsideRight why do you bother to post? No one wants to read your miserable comments. Are you sure that you’re on the right blog? $puds fans would love your drivel
Teilimans is waiting for a better offer from another club. He wants CL football, so he’s waiting.
We are second choice club now.
curse
“I can’t say I’ve been a fan of it either but that’s modern football. wide players have to track back and help the fullbacks so they don’t get overloaded.”
I was more on about dribbling from deep rather than tracking back in itself.
Anyway as we both agree on it’s getting a tad boring now talking about him.
Good old Sid with his ‘take’ on Zaha.
Not that I want Xhaka to play for Arsenal but if Zaha were to sign, the commentators would have their work cut out with Zaha, Xhaka and Saka combining!
indeed
Martinez likes what Mikel is doing…
Tielemans agrees personal terms…
just a wide forward and we’re cooking
CR7 is leaving Manure apparently cause he wants to join a team with a chance to win trophies. Same reason that had me questioning his decision to join them in the first place… He wasn’t going to win the EPL or the UCL with Manure absolutely no way lol.
United will be better off without Ronaldo
Remove Ronaldo’s shadow, and other players will step into the light.
I think Ten Hag will be happy to let him go, rather than building a team that’s designed to accommodate Ronaldo’s strengthens, he can focus on the collective, and building a cohesive attacking structure
In my opinion Zaha will not fit in our style of football and he is hot tempered and this results in him getting red cards.
Bonus for Ten Hag with Ronaldo leaving as Rich also said.
Mephis Depay is available for about £20 million
Barca have ti sell him to fun Raphinha’s transfer so they may be willing take less.
Something good will come out of Raphinha
We are going for Memphis Depay and we’ll get him without drama.
Someone at the club was reading all of Charlie Champagne’s musings.
Zaha has 2 second yellow cards in a 9 year long EPL career. A lot of yellow cards sure but a winger that’s willing to get dirty shows how much he cares about winning. Alexis was another one with many yellows per season, but it wasn’t a problem for us back then as he was such a force.
Zaha is the flavor of the day ? Yuck !!!
You know we are getting close to the barrel (though we shouldn’t be) if we are being linked with him again.
Close to the bottom of the barrel *
Memphis kinda weird one. Great at PSV, flopped at Manure, revived at Lyon, to yet again being released by a big club supposedly. Might be a case of a big fish in a small pond etc.
Rich
Hes mainly the reason why they didn’t make top 4 and most of the their start sucked throughout the season while Ronaldo shone. They literally paid all that money for him just to get worse and become weaker. Guys like Rashford who had been doing well before he got there stalled. Even Greenwood caught a case, didn’t catch it the season before. Its the Ronaldo effect haha, wasn’t a regular starter anymore so he took out his frustration on his girl.
Anyhoo, like you said, if they were smart they would get rid.
Most of their stars*
raptora
Everyone flops at current day United
Even Bruno Fernandes fell off, after a crazy start.
Blaming CR7 for Rashford stop being a footballer but a social media influencer is crazy. Then the Greenwood thing also somehow related to Cronaldo? Wonder how Real won 4 UCLs in 5 years with this horrible influence in their team.
Shite!
CR7 is leaving.
MU on the up then.
Memphis? No thanks, outshone by Auba who apparently isn’t good enough for us, average to poor whenever I’ve watched him.
If CR7 hadn’t gone back to OT, I’m convinced that they would have done far better last season.
Dissenter,
He was just 21 yo but was playing under his compatriot van Gaal. 2 goals, 1 assist is a pretty dire outcome for a £30m. Then Mourinho right away didn’t want him and sold him after giving him 0 chances to impress. Similar to Di Maria really.
He’s a flashy player, no doubt. Just a lot of unrealized potential and injury problems lately.
Naija + soccer Ronaldo is a phenomenon, but at 37, he’s not worth the hassle They could do some serious damage in the market by freeing up his £26 million p/a wages I agree, the likes of Rashford, Sancho, Elanga, and maybe Antony if they sign him, would be more free to shine, and take on responsibility in his absence They’d certainly need to enter the market for another centre forward Ronaldo was a weird signing that unsettled them, I hope he stays…. Ronaldo leaving would be bad news for us. Talk Napoli want Ronaldo, if they could do a… Read more »
Raptora
The Ronaldo that won 4 in 5 champions league is gone. The old man playing at Man U currently is a deterrent to their previous youth project and further development of their young stars. Can you imagine us bringing in Ronaldo to start ahead of Saka or another ESR/Martinelli or even Nketiah/Jesus
If you say ronaldo is not the cause of man united problem then ask juventus and dybala.
Yeah, 1 year after Ronaldo joined they actually grew a pair to sign a competent manager after wasting years with average after average. Goodness gracious that’s so horrible for Manure… I wish he never joined so that OGS would have finished 4th barely and still be employed.
LFC probably signed on Salah because of Mane leaving and probably intend to sell him next year.
From what was reported Pep was about to sign CR7 last summer after failing to bring Kane there, until Ole called Ed Woodward in what turned out to be a successful attempt to hijack the deal in place and bring CRonaldo back to Manure.
I guess Pep was about to sign a horrible influence too.
Raptora
That report has been questioned for it’s authenticity.
Great story isn’t it that Ronaldo rejects city rivals to go back to United.
Maybe a bit too much of a great story.
As Ronaldo keeps saying himself it’s about the team and the team since he joined has been bordering on disastrous.
So his time back at United can only be described as a miserable one despite him getting goals.
These are interesting takes from Carragher + Henry, that I agree with
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxTdkwA9EQ0
Rich Hahaha 😀 really sorry to hear about your anxiety coming back. I concur with you on last week feeling like the sun was different and the air smelled fresher. Like you I had gone to fantasyland a few times imagining what a front three of Saka Jesus and Raphinha can do to opponents, with ESR/Martinelli, Nketiah and Vieira/Marquinhos backing them up but alas this is the life of an Arsenal fan. Like Pedro said, I do hope we have a plan B and C locked in a safe somewhere ready when needed. Re-Ronaldo yeah their bet is to get… Read more »
Fabrizio Romano just tweeted this:
Barça president Laporta on de Jong: “There are many clubs that want him, not just Man United. We have no intention of selling him, he wants to stay”. 🚨 #FCB
“I’m going to do everything to keep Frenkie, but there’s also a salary issue and that would have to be adjusted”. #MUFC
Hopefully United winning the transfer window will be as short lived as ours….
Go on Frenkie, take the pay cut….
Rich, https://fbref.com/en/players/d70ce98e/Lionel-Messi Incredible defensive stats there. One of the best players in the history. https://fbref.com/en/players/e342ad68/Mohamed-Salah This fella too. Part of one of the 2 best teams around lately. The notion that the CF or your star winger has to pressure and defend the whole game is some idiotic new generation bullshit. How is the attacker supposed to run at defenders with the ball at his feet if he had spend all of his energy running down the touchline all the way to his own penalty area or a CF dropping in a CM position when in defence? Forwards defending is… Read more »
I remember a pod that was speaking about the amount of fouls Saka picks up and it lead onto who is the most fouled.
It was Zaha, by some distance so I’m not surprised he picks up so many cards and has a bit of a temper, given these biased (to be diplomatic) northern officials have no problem giving other teams free reign to assault these guys.
I pray to Jesus manure can’t get rid of the best player of modern times. where is he gonna go? is there a team more stupid than manure? hopefully not…
A proper hot take:
Auba’s game suffered the moment Arteta decided he has to press and defend like an animal. Wonder why afterwards he was one step behind too often or how he managed to scuff good chances that he’d normally score with his eyes closed. Teaching someone to start defending at the age of 30… I remember Auba looking like he’s sick pressing all the way back to our own box clearing in corner or a throw-in and making tackles on the regular. Incredible stuff.
Raptora Using the stats of arguably the greatest player of a generation in Messi, at the peak of his powers, really isn’t the point you think it is. Using the stats of Salah, who’s 1 of the 2 best players currently playing in the PL, isn’t either. Ronaldo is a phenomenon, but he’s 37, he’s way past his best, and United would be much better focusing on the collective, than building their team around one exceptional individual, who best days are long behind him When Ronaldo was scoring more than a goal a game at Real Madrid at the peak… Read more »
raptoraJuly 2, 2022 20:34:48
A proper hot take:Auba’s game suffered the moment Arteta decided he has to press and defend like an animal.
Gosh I don’t ever remember Auba pressing like an animal, that’s interesting…
Teaching someone to start defending at the age of 30
Gosh you’d think a world class football player might have been taught how to defend before joining his
4th or 5th professional club
Rich, a week is a long time on politics. It’s a lot longer in football. Transfers are a roller coaster. This window started off well and has stalled to a juddering halt. It’s an improvement from most windows, where we were just window shopping. Raphinha and Martinez interested me because of their work rate and energy. The former is a ball carrier- dribbling isn’t present to any degree outside Saka. I think we’re worried because plan Bs aren’t very clear. Like you I was very happy last week except for a worry about sitting back on Tielemans. I’m still worried.… Read more »
‘Piers Morgan tells Cristiano Ronaldo ‘it’s time’ to sign for his beloved Arsenal after the Manchester United top scorer ‘requests Old Trafford exit’
Is there a more clueless gooner public personality?
Anyone watching K v T at Wimbledon?
Rich: “When Ronaldo was scoring more than a goal a game at Real Madrid at the peak of his powers, he was absolutely worth it, but now he’s not. Same with Messi who’s not worth the wages PSG are now paying him” I perfectly agree with this. I’m just sick of the next gen hyperbolic ideas that the whole team should defend and the whole team should attack. It’s true to a degree that you can’t be nonexistent when the opponent team has the ball but it’s going far above that where forwards play like defensive midfielders almost our own… Read more »
I doubt there was a living gooner who was desperate for us to sign Martinez, before the tabloid talk started.
Same way no one saw us signing Fabio Vierra
I’m going to assume that Edu and his team have some kind of ‘war room’ with data sheets and are talking to multiple agents daily.
We fans use morsels of info from tabloids to prepare three course meals, then we get just upset when it doesn’t happen.
Bill Completely agree, transfers stress me out the most, because we largely sucked at it for many years. Managers come + go, the average lifespan of a PL manager is a little over 2 years. If it’s not working out, we can sack the manager, not ideal because it’ll likely mean we’re doing badly, but it’s not the end of the world either…. But if we spend £200 million, and we get that horribly wrong, those are mistakes that the new manager will inherit, and likely be stuck with for the medium term Those type of mistakes can be disastrous,… Read more »
I would take Zaha to be honest. We need a senior forward that can get goals. He can play on the right wing too and that makes him an attractive proposition to get us through the next few seasons while our youngsters mature. He got 14 goals last season. He is more of an individual player but he would make us a threat in the bigger games. When he gets a bit of space to counter he is dangerous. I was totally against it when he was talked about for 80 mil. 20 to 25 mil now and I would… Read more »
Reactionary arsenal fans everywhere… if we sign someone it’ll be too expensive. If we don’t then we have lost out. It’s fucking boring. Sure we have had a crap week concerning transfers. But people need to get a grip and don’t be like the toxic rat lee gunner.
Kyrgios don’t go changing you absolute nutter. Good for the game? Not so sure but what a shot maker on his day.
Tsitsipas living up to his choker label with aplomb.
Ornstein dropping this bomb on a Sat night:
“Arsenal scheduled to meet Ajax next week as Lisandro Martinez battle continues. #AFC + #MUFC both think he’s keen & personal terms no issue. If Ajax get what they want (~€50m fixed), 24yo must pick. Ten Hag factor key but race still open”
@TheAthleticUK
Looks like we’re prepared to fight….
Both Tsitsipas and Kyrgios are a disgrace tbh. And refs that fail to control them are even worse. I felt like I’m watching the Premier League and the twat refs calling it wrong even with VAR’s help.
Raptora “. I’m just sick of the next gen hyperbolic ideas that the whole team should defend and the whole team should attack. It’s true to a degree that you can’t be nonexistent when the opponent team has the ball but it’s going far above that where forwards play like defensive midfielders almost our own Laca being applauded for his selfless behaviour on the pitch” Let’s say we have 2 playmakers , Odegaard who gives the team 6 assists a season, and fabio who gives us 20 assists a season. Let’s say Odegaard does the defensive job exactly how Arteta… Read more »
All that fight for a 5’9″ CB that we might play out of position. I guess Arteta and Edu must absolutely love him or they hate the fact that Manure is trying to hijack our deal.
Pierre: “Wenger would always choose the offensive playmaker.
Arteta at present would always choose the defensive playmaker ….but that may change.”
Absolutely agree.
Raptora
Few moments in that match where it definitely should of been reined in, Tsitsipas lacks the confidence to call it out, Nadal would of been up at the net having a serious go at the Australian without resuming play.
Can’t be a nice moment when you as an umpire look at your draw card and its say Kyrgios.
Pierre The analogy is perfect for Saka + Pepe the last few seasons. I think Saka will be prolific, but educating him the last few seasons has come at a cost, same with Martinelli The top teams have forward who bag 15-20 goals PL goals. Had we played Pepe consistently, and with a manager who gave him confidence, I think we’d have got more end product out of him, but that end product would have come at a cost to the overall collective, because his all around game is poor, The fact Arteta preferred to play Saka who’s end product… Read more »
We’ve probably suffered more rejection by players under Arteta than the club have suffered in its entire existence!
I only remember Jammie Vardy rejecting Wenger.
I’ve lost count of players rejecting us under Arteta.
NOW, let’s fight!
Sal, it’s fine losing your temper here and there, it’s sports, huge money, fame and ego is at hand, and with Kyrgios and Tsitsipas there’s even the backstory of the Greek rivalry, but because the refs don’t punish them for going way overboard leads to them doing it so often it’s absolutely unacceptable. They have to take measures because people are going to get hurt like Tsitsipas had the stadium as a shooting course striking the ball with max power towards the crowd on purpose. And the other cvnt moaning like the crybaby rich boy he is about getting a… Read more »
Missed Kyrgoa Tsitsipas.
Had a double punt on them: Kyrgios to win a set, and over 42.5. Just checked and both entered but some other idiots messed my accumulator up.
Get the feeling if Tsitsipas put more effort into his Tennis he could be a serious problem for the top 2,and the next Gen devils coming behind.
Martinez for €50m? Not at that price, that’s your CM money spent if we’re not careful. And no trying to be clever playing him in midfield either, this isn’t Ligue Un.
Kyrgios is a prick but I quite enjoyed how salty the stuck-up posh wankers in commentary were as he was winning.
Btw everyone
What’d I tell you about Marseille? A McCourt ownership is one of the worst things that could happen to a club. Like having your manager quit unexpectedly a week before pre season every season.
We.
Tsitsipas dissapoint far too often. He’s like the tennis version of Arsenal. I won’t be surprised if he falls out of top 10 soon.
“We’ve probably suffered more rejection by players under Arteta than the club have suffered in its entire existence!”
Where do you people find the guts to spew these trashes? Don’t you have shame? I mean ain’t your age suppose to rein you in?
It won’t kill you if you say the truth for once in your life by mentioning like 10-15 players who rejected us because of Arteta. Don’t forget to back it up with facts else, it’s disgusting reading this kinda take here
And please, don’t lose count, search your brain
I’m yet to see a report, this window, that says we matched the club’s demand but the player rejected us.
Raphinha and Chelsea debacle is what I can call rejection
Tee.
Like I care what a soulless miserable keyboard warrior think about my opinion. Go f yourself, plank.
thorough
isn’t there a whole category of players that rejected us under wenger that went on to be world class!?
what do we call them? almost signings? 😂
jesus christ how thick can you be
Zacharse
Off the top of my head I can remember Vardy. Feel free to mention the others.
But in the recent past alone weve had: Dusan Vlahovic, Manuel Locatteli and Raphinha. Im mentioning the ones that were publicized and confirmed btw. There are probably 10 others that went under the radar.
How thick can you be to be blind to what’s right in front of you.
Dissenter, My point exactly. We still have clowns here looking for Aouar because he was rumoured for 1 month. Then they shredded our club because we didn’t get him. The guys value has dropped by 80% and still nobody wants him. Blame Arsenal anyway. I love that we tried for a player that Arteta has a vision for. Between Van Der Sar and Ten Hag, the deck was stacked well against us. We gave it a shot. Unafraid. If united decided they didn’t need him, he’d be ours. On the 1% chance we could get him, it would only be… Read more »
I was liking a comment that explained why Zaha wouldn’t work because he’s too much of an individualist for our style. Then I thought about it. For years he played in the most boring, untalented attacks in the league. Of course he took things into his own hands. What choice did he have? Even last season, they still had nothing like what we could offer for him to combine with, their best player a loanee. We offer Ødegaard, Vieira, ESR, Saka, and Jesus! He might love a change to a place where he can be part of a collective. Unless… Read more »
There’s a fair few extreme cynics here, always have been. Good to see them getting called out by Pedro and other normal people.
Where is Zaha going to play? The front line is set it’s marti/the smith Jesus and Saka. That to me is set in stone.
Get a midfielder to compete and cover for partey and hopefully take xhakas starting spot. Cover for tierney and we are set.
I’m a Pommie sport cynic when it comes to Rah Rah 🦘& cricket 😂
https://youtu.be/3ehxW9MKRH0
Written in the Corner Hotel, Richmond. The greatest sporting precinct in the world 🖤💛
Tee, spot on mate, the people that do best in life are those that are comfortable with rejections. If you never get rejected, you’re living in too much comfort and your lot is probably quite average. We’re competing with the big boys for proper players, I’ll take a few knocks, because when Wenger was manager, we’d never compete for signatures. Martinez thing is interesting. Suspect there are two similar packages but two different offerings on the pitch. We’re offering up left back, United, maybe centre back. Clearly he has something special, hopefully we get it done, if not, onto someone… Read more »
In so bored. Wish we could wrap up our next signings sooner rather than later. No games to watch and two gaping holes in the squad to fill.
Thorough
Lets start w ibra move on to yaya toure and messi
😆
Jesus how many fucking times did wenger say ‘i almost signed him’
Jamie vardy!? 😆 who gives a shit about that one!!
The wenger nearly signed 11 if the greatest team in history
Buffon
Varane
Pique
Kompany
Bale
Toure
Alonso
Zlatan
Messi
Ronaldo7
Suarez
Pogba
Ribery
The list is endless it really is lol
That’s a
Did we bid for Kante as well or we just stood by and let him go to Chelsea for peanuts?
Rich why would we rely on white + Gabriel for 60plus games when we have saliba and holding both capable of filling in? If it wasn’t Arteta in charge I’d state that saliba would have a great shot at displacing white even. (White is artetas mega signing so no chance of that actually happening)
We need another fullback that can play either side if we want to be smart about it. We don’t need a CB in any capacity, we have white Gabriel saliba holding and tomiyasu who can play there.
Pedro im so proud of you!!!!
“Andy, Emery was spot on with Nkunku as well”
Nigel
“Box to box maybe if its the same box.”
Now that is a crack up 😂
Only Jamie Vardy rejecting Wenger. That’s made my day.
In an era where we knew little of transfer negotiations- we always had Le Great One to tell us first hand who he tried to buy with a low ball bid. Only he and he alone knew the true value of a player. All others overpaid. I suspect that they thought the trophies that they subsequently won were consolation.
I assume the name “thorough “ is ironic?
‘Thorough’ ???
More like ‘Not Thorough’
Or maybe ‘Thoreau’ as he seems to be living in a cabin in the woods by himself
Anybody that thought we were signing Raphinha and Martinez without incident just based on rumours floating around in June….you guys are dumb as bricks. Being disappointed by it is beyond stupid. That was never going to happen as quickly and easily as we would have liked. Real progress and accomplishment would be pivoting quickly enough where we move on from those missed targets and still actually succeed in filling the positions of need before the season begins, rather than dithering the whole window only to make a less than impressive mad dash at the end of August, already 3-4 games… Read more »
Do we add cesc to the list as well since he literally wanted to rejoin us from Barca and instead we let him go to Chelsea and win them the title
Rich
“The analogy is perfect for Saka + Pepe the last few seasons.”
It’s not, because Saka has always had a good output.
My analogy was for a playmaker with a low output and the other with a high output and whether the manager should pick the playmaker with the low output as he is better defensively…
Cesc acted like a cunt when he forced his way out of the Arsenal. Don’t give a fuck what he did at Chelsea or any other club, good for them, glad we did not take him back.
Arsenal signed Xhaka over Kante the summer of 2016. For a higher fee.
“Then I thought about it. For years he played in the most boring, untalented attacks in the league. Of course he took things into his own hands. What choice did he have?”
Nigel, I think you will find that Crystal palace had a more exciting attacking play than us last season. Even with the players you mentioned that was available for combination. Hopefully we will play an exciting brand of football this season 🙂
Curse,
In what way did Arteta handle auba well? Apart from dropping him for being late to the spuds match and when he didn’t return from travel when he was supposed to?
He paid him an exorbitant contact then couldn’t get him to score, then paid him to leave
Contract*
Luteo it’s not joke Friday yet. 🤦♂️
We shouldn’t lose our shit over Raphinha and Martinez if they don’t sign. We should not even be going for them if I am being honest. Our priority positions to fill this summer are CM and CM! And for someone like Martinez, he’d be choosing United anyways and not because of previous managerial link but cos of the package on offer. He will get more money and of course his preferred playing position (CB) and as a starter. No convolution about tucking in from an unfamiliar position and playing what he may not understand, albeit from the bench! Unless we… Read more »
Zacharse.
Thorough
Lets start w ibra move on to yaya toure and Messi.
Wenger asked Ibra for one more training session or something of such. Ibra said No.
Yaya Toure was dying to play for us. Wenger said not now.
I don’t know anything about Messi ever getting linked to us.
You see what was common with all those players you mentioned? It was Wenger that said No. Not the player. Maybe you didn’t even understand what I posted initially.
The other 3 I mentioned though, said No to us, not the other way round.
Zacharse.
English is my second language but it seems you’re the one struggling to understand the basics. ‘I almost signed him’ is not the same as ‘the player rejected Arsenal’. What’s difficult to understand in that? And most of the ‘I almost signed him’ players you spoke about was because Wenger was being cheap, most of those players were actually dying to play for us. It’s different from meeting the release clause of a player or bidding what’s acceptable to the club and the player says No.
Get a fucking dictionary man.
Zacharse. Thorough’ ???More like ‘Not Thorough’Or maybe ‘Thoreau’ as he seems to be living in a cabin in the woods by himself You see where you reveal how dumb some of you people are? We’re talking football but you’re sending out insults about the life of someone you have no idea about. Let me burst your bubble, I’m a fucking professional, I’m schooled, I earn, I have a girlfriend that can take a bullet for me, not that it’s any of your business because it seems the only place you win in life is by insulting people online. So discuss… Read more »
Mysticleaves
The brand of football that Arteta promotes still worries me.
Thorough Yaya wasn’t possible because of work permit issues. Same with Ronaldinho and Cech (when he was at Rennes) and others. Wenger wanted it, the player wanted it, but the Home Office wouldn’t permit it. Yes he asked Ibra to be a trialing and Ibra said no. Ronaldo we got gazumped by Man Utd. The one where Wenger defo made a mistake was Alonso. If David Dein had been there he would have got it done. We also had a signed contract for Angel Di Maria for £7m from River Plate, but then we didn’t send the money to execute… Read more »
Wicked Willy.
Thank you. So none of those qualified as those players rejecting Wenger or Arsenal right? That’s all I was trying to prove.