FULL BACKS ON THE MOVE – YOURI TIELEMANS NEXT?

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The full-back circle of life is a thing of beauty.

Arsenal have signed Zinchenko, the Ukraine captain is heading to Orlando, he had his last supper with Pep, the 25-year-old is an Arsenal player.

Manchester City are going to turn their attention to Marc Cucurella of Brighton, a superb player, trained in the basics of what City do.

Brighton, according to reports, are now going to target Nuno Tavares on loan this season, with Marseille turning their attentions elsewhere. Give me the Brighton move all day, Graham Potter has a great system, he’s a top class coach, and he’ll make Nuno better in the Premier League.

Then you have Spurs. They just signed Djed Spence for £12.5m, a player that was put out on loan by Boro’, who terrorised Arsenal, is now the star boy at Spurs.

Right?

Right?

This is the Antonio Conte unendorsement:

“Spence is an investment of the club. The club wanted to do it. I said okay, this player is young but he showed he can become a good, important player for us. The club decided to buy him.”

hahaha

Pure leadership, as usual. Now, Spurs has to sign young players, if they left Conte to his own devices, he’d be buying eleven 32-year-olds… but this shows you his mentality and why he doesn’t last long. It’s all about him. Imagine how Djed feels reading that? Imagine what they does for his standing at his new place of work? Super amusing.

Back to Arsenal.

Next on the agenda is Youri Tielemans at Leicester City. Edu is finally showing a bit of maturity with the way he moves on players. The player wants Arsenal, the club wants the player, no one else can be arsed to create a bidding war, Leicester has no leverage… so the deal will be done and it’ll be done on our terms.

The move reminds me of Georginio Wijnaldum when he went to Liverpool. Newcastle had a bad season, they were relegated, Liverpool moved, and the player smashed his chance under Klopp. Youri doesn’t have a lot of credit in the bank because fans would rather pine over someone playing for Rennes than a talent doing it at a high level in England. Also, far too many people think the only way you can exist as a midfielder is if you are Bissouma. Sorry people, you don’t need sprinter pace to be an elite midfielder. Tielemans doesn’t need pace. He’s operating in a small section of the pitch. He has to be able to turn in tight spaces, he has to have the intelligence to create openings. He has to have the ability to executed complex instructions. Thierry Henry’s fave player in Monaco has all that. He’ll be an absolute star at Arsenal, do not sleep on his talent, you’ll end up looking silly like I did when I championed Tall Boy Summers.

Tielemans has it all, he’ll be a top, top signing for Arsenal if we get him.

After that, we’ll need just one more player: A wide forward that has elite levels of production in their profile.

I have no idea what that looks like but Raphinha was interesting to Arsenal for about £40m with incentives. You can do some damage with that sort of money. Remember, cash really isn’t flowing around Europe, our sort of money can get you a very good deal if you know where to look.

Leroy Sane would be ideal, but it feels a bit naive to think we have that pull now, I’m not sure we’re going to be dropping £290k a week deals when we’re in Europa. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t other players that could do the job. Johnny on the latest Patreon suggested we might source a wide player that can operate as a #9 if needed. We’re short in the striker department, so who knows.

… but, whatever your thoughts, you can’t deny that we have gone very big already and with two more players we’re talking about a 10/10 summer on paper.

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Dissenter

..and Xhaka is a blind spot for Arteta

Nigel, you’ve said you wanted him gone too last summer so don’t start something./

Ishola70

Emery was close to getting rid of Xhaka.

And Dissenter I said that the club as a whole has had a blindspot over Xhaka including the three managers that have overseen in Xhaka’s time at Arsenal not Nigel

Believe it or not a club itself can make that error of judgement. Which includes the managers.

Rich

.………..Ramsdale
……Holding Mari
Cedric Elneny Tavares
….…….Niles Sambi
…..Pepe……..Martinelli
………..….Eddie

MidwestGun

I thought maybe AMN would be used as cam ..They tried it second half with Everton… I hope it works better. It’s bascially the second half lineup last match except Ramsdale in goal.

Freddie Ljungberg

Except for the front three that’s a scarily below average line up.

Need to get some players out the door and get the new signings settled.

Would have been really nice to see a wonderkid or 2 this preseason.
Can understand if we want to remind the world that some of these bozos exists, might backfire though.

Rich

No Leno, Torreira, Okonkwo, or Runarsson on the bench, close to moves away?

MidwestGun

I guess the match has a 30 min weather delay already.

GD4

“ Graham Potter has a great system, he’s a top class coach, and he’ll make Nuno better in the Premier League.”

Isn’t thus a major indictment on Arteta?
Hell if you give Potter half of what’s been given to Arteta plus the incentive of playing in London he’d do much much better than the guy currently in charge.
Just saying ../

Pierre

Regarding the starting 11 tonight, maybe it’s all a cunning plan by Arteta to confuse Palace for our opening game of the season…
Choose 40% of outfield players that probably won’t be at the club in 3 weeks time.

Rich

Pierre

Or we’re playing 3 games in a week, we’ve got Tomi, Smith Rowe, Tierney all injured, White who’s only been training since Monday, and Vieira who’s only started ball work today.

Players are building up their fitness, and we don’t want to buckle our first choice who are available, by starting them 3 x in 7 days, so they end up injured as well.

MidwestGun

You should be happy Pierre … your favorite CB pairing is starting.

MidwestGun

And of course your.. adopted son Eddie.

Samuel

Oh Lord, that’s am interesting back four lol

MidwestGun

Could be worse… Bellerin could be starting.

Samuel

You think Bellerin would be worse than Cedric?

MidwestGun

Yes. At least Cedric can take a decent corner.

Naija+soccer

That starting line up should be called the Fringes 11. Let’s see what our b team can do without the A-listers.

TT

Yes. At least Cedric can take a decent corner.

And a throwin

Samuel

That’s not saying much. Bellerin is better going forward I feel like, the way he started that FA Cup final winner in 2020, Cedric couldn’t do that. But then again, as overall right backs, they are both average and need shipping.

Br0wnie

Stream anyone?

Tom

Hey Middy, who’s showing the game?

MidwestGun

Hi Tom .. I get it on ESPN +.

MidwestGun

Some sort of lightening storm plus some rain going on though.. so nothing happening yet.

Tom

Thanks Mid

Dissenter

Ishola
Yea, everyone who’s managed Xhaka have had blind spots
Must be some kind of infectious visual field defect

Dissenter

Where’s Wayne Rooney
Watching the Bayern vs DC United game

Has our game started?

MidwestGun

Nope still weather delay they originally said a half hour. which would be 7pm my time or like 15 minutes.

Marko

Rob Holding “I’ve seen a few centre halves that have come in (at Arsenal) and have now gone, and I’m still here. So I must be doing something right. It’s another challenge, and we go from there.”

It’s a combination of dumb fucks and you adding to the HG quota and not kicking up any fuss when you don’t play. That’s the only logical reason for you lasting this long

georgia boy

Is a trip to Orlando, Florida something that a European person would look forward to? I have to think no, given Florida’s status in pop culture as a mad max style wasteland. It really ain’t so bad; what many people *think* Florida is, is what Mississippi *actually* is.

Freddie Ljungberg

Marko

Shh, you’re going to break Dons hea

yeah nevermind, carry on…

Guns of SF

wtf is this weather delay shit

MidwestGun

Yep I don’t get the Rob Holding better then Gabriel thing.. before his knee injury I thought he showed promise to very good.. But afterwards unless we are going to play lowbloc defending all season., like we pretty much did Arteta’s first full season.. Hence the good stats for him. It really isnt gonna work out. He doesn;t have the pace or mobility to play a high line or make recovery tackles. Plus the footwork to pass out of the back very well with any consistency. At least that’s how I see it. Decent sub to defend a lead not… Read more »

MidwestGun

Must be a major storm.. Chelsea is playing two states away and they are delayed as well.

China1

Pedro I have a question which you may be able to answer I saw for your vid you’ve done the now common YouTube thing of putting a caps title of something dramatic whilst the thumbnail is you with an exaggerated expression On YouTube this has become the absolute go to for all big channels because it’s believed to generate more hits obviously I want to know if there’s any real evidence that such thumbnails increase the number of clicks or is it simply presumed because the most successful channels do it and it’s just taken as a given that those… Read more »

Just Another Customer

5 more minutes to kick off?

China1

Georgia boy I would expect Orlando to be a nice place with a fuck off big Disney land somewhere on the edge of the city. And loads of fat people in colorful untucked shirts. Boiling weather and Very Expensive and gaters getting in to the large number of swimming pools so many have in their back gardens

Am I warm?

MidwestGun

Not sure .. they were holding the fans under the stands.. so they would have to give them time to get seated And if there is any lightening at all in the area they have to wait.

MidwestGun

All I know is by now I would be about 4 or 5 beers in standing by the concession stands.

MidwestGun

Oops coverage back on…. they are warming up again.. fans in the seats.

Just Another Customer

of course all the clickbait videos need that thumbnail for the unsuspecting kids and third worlders who don’t read the description and title of the video

and what’s with reaction videos that react to the most inane things?

anyway back to the match starting soon any second now….

Ishola70

Dissenter

“Yea, everyone who’s managed Xhaka have had blind spots
Must be some kind of infectious visual field defect”

It went right over your head didn’t it.

Arsenal Football Club have decided that Xhaka has qualities in midfield that is required over these years.

Liverpool Football Club wouldn’t touch him with a barge pole.

Switzerland are not major hitters on the international scene and neither are Basle or Moechengladbach on the club scene.

Ken

China I also want to know the answer to your question. You’re correct that all the major channels are doing it but to be honest I find it a bit cringe.

MidwestGun

Hey there is Pato… he looks old.. sheesh.. makes me feel old. haha

Ken

To clarify, I’m not saying Pedro in the thumbnail in question is cringe but some news channels do the whole open mouth amazed pose that makes them look like a stereotypical sex doll.

Dissenter

Is our game cancelled?
ESPN just took off the live streaming links

MidwestGun

Diss no it’s on…. about 5 mins to kickoff.

Dissenter

It seems they rescheduled it for 8.30pm

MidwestGun

It starting you might be in blackout though because of DC.

MidwestGun

Away kits are nice.

Dissenter

Thanks Midwest

MidwestGun

Holding foul.. yellow card.

georgia boy

Holding cmon brah

Just Another Customer

too slow has to take a hit that

GD4

Any game links lads.

MidwestGun

Nice … Goal..hahaha accidental but Martinelli was going for the curler.. might be an own goal.

Just Another Customer

of course it’s gonna be Martinelli

Dissenter

That didn’t take long

MidwestGun

Definitely shooting for goal

Dissenter

They have to find a new home for Pepe

MidwestGun

Yep Pepe looks like a lost soul. … He will probably score now.

MidwestGun

Pato… Row Z.

Nigel Tufnel

Dissenter, You all try to deftly dance around the fact that 3 VERY different Arsenal managers (2 great managers) kept and started Xhaka week after week. This was not because he’s on some superstar salary obligating them, but because they rated him. You’re lying if you insinuate that they didn’t. There’s some made up fact about Arteta begging and convincing him to stay twice? Last summer, the offers from Italy were not satisfactory by the clubs estimation. You all know how Italian clubs offers are….so, To keep his value Arsenal extended him with a small raise to not let his… Read more »

MidwestGun

Nuno is all over the place but damn he can run… when he wants to… got some afterburners.

Dissenter

Nigel
You should be directing the comment at Ishola1.
Those are his quotes. You’re making the same arguments I made when I had the conversation with him.

MidwestGun

AMN killed that attack. bad pass.

MidwestGun

And now a yellow card.

Dissenter

Nigel
Also you too have written that you wanted Xhaka gone last summer, didn’t you?.

Arteta stopped him twice so he rates him more than most.

Just Another Customer

what was he thinking doing that in front of the ref?

China1

Ken yeah it’s actually a huge pet hate of mine along with clickbait titles But I am curious if the dramatic expression picture genuinely works. Because right now the default assumption would be it does because all the big channels do it. However I’m not clear whether that’s really making much difference or if it’s really the case that some successful channels did it first and others assumed it was making a big difference to hits and did the same and it became the viral default go to approach to getting hits before anyone actually confirmed if the dramatic photos… Read more »

MidwestGun

Eddie looks pretty sharp though… Think he might get a goal.

China1

Like it’s usually the mouth open in complete ‘shock’ photo which gets me lol. I think every mr beast video has that

You see that expression in real life like once a month so seeing it in every video thumb nail is so overly fake it just irks me lol

Dissenter

I suspect that tavern is the best athlete we have in the team.
He’s the king of sheer athleticism

Ishola70

Nigel “How does a “club” have a blind spot for any individual player?” Easy. A club can have a certain profile of player they like for a certain position over another type. In Xhaka’s case it would be the notion that he is a notable passer of the ball. Liverpool on the other hand would not be interested in that profile of player for many years until Thiago arrived recently. They go for on the whole more physical aspects in a midfielder rather than fixating on a so-called good passer of the ball. Don’t pretend that the midfield issue at… Read more »

MidwestGun

Wtf!! Great save by Ramsdale. !HOw in the world do you split a simple pass between Holding and Mari..

Dissenter

I suspect that Tavares is the best athlete we have in the team.
He’s the king of sheer athleticism

MidwestGun

Ramsdale has looked sharp.. thank goodness.. was worried about him end of last season.

MidwestGun

Holding and Mari in a high line is suicidal at this rate.

Aaron

Like AMN, but he looks gassed, and ain’t no way in hell he is making it as a cm.
RB or lb maybe, but does not have the technique or instincts to make it there, and I like AMN.

2nd team looks like 2nd team!

MidwestGun

And a goal… Nuno all over the palce and Mari too slow.

Dissenter

Ha, Arsenal strikes

I knew we would get a game tonight
Ramsdale’s placement was poor

Just Another Customer

lol how easy it is to beat the press just hoof it to the fast Orlando players

MidwestGun

1-1

Ishola70

How can you conceded against Orlando.

At least be 4 or 5 goals up before you do.

MidwestGun

That dude spun Nuno like a top. But our cbs.. were about 10 yds behind the ball.

Dissenter

I was hoping Arteta would have learned from the Spurs game, Holding is not suited to the high line.
Also Lokonga is meh, I haven’t seen anything special from him yet.

GD4

Mari and Nuno are just two junk players.
Lucky to be tied.
They missed a clean break away..
The stupidity of not buying BIssouma to shore up our midfield will be so glaring through out the season

Nelson

I wish this is the last time Mari plays for us.

MidwestGun

If we want to win .. we may have to play some starters second half.

Ken

Totally agree China, I also tend to boycott videos with those thumbnails out of principle unless it’s something I think I really should inform myself about. If it really does make a difference in terms of hits for the video then it’s a bit of a sad indictment of our times.

Just Another Customer

getting schooled by old man Pato….

MidwestGun

The are just relentlessly popping passes between our cbs.. Not sure what Lokonga or AMN bring to the game. Elneny is having to do everything

MidwestGun

Moutinho is schooling Pepe.

GD4

We really have some junk players.

Tavares
Lokonga
Pepe
Holding
Mari
Niles.

Yuck.

MidwestGun

Ok who we got on the bench? Martinelli decent.. Eddie decent.. Elneny did his thing.. but the rest … not very good. Ramsdale made one good save and then kind of messed up the second shot on him….although that was a good shot.. low and hard.

Rich

That first half demonstrates why Tavares should be loaned to the Championship, and not to a PL team.

And why we need a better 4th centre back than Mari or Holding

Freddie Ljungberg

AMN still braindead
Mari still slower than a turtle
Holding still can’t play in a high line
Tavares still out of position
pepe still no confidence

Think Sambi had some good moments, and Martinelli always looks lively, other than that meh.

Hope we get some more starters second half, that was kind of embarrassing to see.

MidwestGun

Lokonga to me just looks lost.. It;s not that he played bad necessarily but he didnt really defend nor did he really attack.

GD4

I love how people big up Xhaka.
The superstar Roma wouldn’t shell out more than 8 million quid for.
LMAO.

Rich

Not much competition, but I thought Sambi was our least worst player

Freddie Ljungberg

Mid

the only midfielder that actually did something with the ball and didn’t just pass it on like a hot potato, not a high bar but with this line up you take what you can get.