WEDNESDAY ROUND-UP

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Arsenal just lost a preseason friendly to Brentford.

The starting 11 had a bit of the ‘who is going on loans’ about it. I’m not really sure why they had the friendly when I’m looking at this group of players, but I guess building minutes into the legs isn’t a bad thing. You never know when you’ll need the second string of players.

I don’t like that Eddie is in this group, but then you realise we only have two strikers,  with Folarin Balogun heading out on loan somewhere.

Are we making a mistake heading into the season with two recognised strikers? One of them gets an injury and you don’t have an option off the bench. That could be an issue, especially if we lose someone during crunch time. My guess is maybe Marti comes in as a #9? But who knows.

The exit rumour mill is heating up. We’ve agreed an £8m fee for Bernd Leno. My oh my are Fulham getting a good deal there. Still, he was a good chap last season, he didn’t sulk, and you have to let older players get the minutes for World Cups. Just a shame that fee is terrible.

I believe Lucas Torreira is going to exit Arsenal for a transfer fee of roughly nothing. It’s quite sad how a hype player from back in the day has absolutely tanked his career through no fault of his own to get a transfer fee of zero. The hope is that we put a 50% sell-on clause in the deal so he doesn’t get flipped for mega money and we look like chumps.

The Mikel Arteta resume builder kicked up another gear. The video above was shot after we had a shocking start to last season. What you see there is the special sauce that you’ve not witnessed before. His ability to inspire, open up about pain, and absorb criticism for his staff. He’s a good leader, he has flaws, but it’s hard to watch that sort of thing and not feel something.

No doubt when the series airs, he’ll be verbally abusing a kitchen staffer for not buttering his toast to the corners, but we’ll wait and see. Jokes aside, you’re likely to see the inspirational parts of his persona… and maybe the bits that make him look like a ruthless bully. Weirdly, if hammering players is in the name of standards, the reaction will likely be very positive from fans. Everyone loves someone with next-level standards because secretly, we all want to be that weird about high standards in our own lives… and we’re not.

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In the weirdest transfer of the window, Kasper Schmichael quit Leicester for Nice. Very lovely. That leaves Leicester without a keeper. There’s also talk Chelsea are hustling them for Fofana after losing out on Kounde. Maddison is also attracting interest from Spurs. They haven’t spent much money. I think they’d rather fund a spending spree from the player with one year left on his deal. Will Arsenal move on Tielemans? Why has it taken so long?

Mad Jens Lehmann did a madness on his neighbour.

Quite something, but one this is for sure, you couldn’t say ‘unexpected.’

Right, not much else going on today. If you want some podcast juice, jump in below. If not, I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Nigel Tufnel

Bacary, Mr Serge, I’ll agree on one point about Bellerin.. it sucks for Arsenal. I just think that limiting us to one team in the whole world is unreasonable.. you know there are back channel conversations with the agent and Betis working things to their advantage, probably many months earlier. Obviously I’ve been down on Hector as a player for more years than most. It was clear he was never challenged as a starter, was ok defending, but offered absolutely nothing going forward. Very active as a fashionista. 2 seasons back I was saying that Cedric was the better player.… Read more »

englandsbest

China1

There is no better bang for the buck than Old Bushmill’s Original. Give it a try. And by the way, the Ugedal and Lagavulin don’t come cheap over here.

Nigel Tufnel

Rich,

Really.. Saka is not going anywhere. Don’t live in fear of something that’s as likely as getting hit by an asteroid.

jwl

I don’t understand why premier league teams are so half assed about developing their young players. It is ridiculous that best talent train with first team but don’t play much, or go out on loan with manager who doesn’t really fancy it, or u21s which seem likes a graveyard. Turn the u21/23 into proper competition, make premier teams play their best players against one another, and the not likely to make it can go out on loan.

Rich

EB Arteta still green lighted Runarsson + Turner, and the club pushed the boat out to secure him Ramsdale. Okonkwo was extended by Arteta, once Leno leaves, everyone of our goalkeepers will have either been signed, or had their contract extended by Arteta, they’re his goalkeepers. No club gets everything right, but Arteta needs to own his decisions. Ramsdale – signed Arteta Cedric – Could have been a Sanllehi signing? Tomiyasu – Signed by Arteta Tierney – Extended by Arteta Zinchenko- Signed by Arteta White – Signed by Arteta Saliba – Arsenal are currently trying to extend his contract. Gabriel… Read more »

Nigel Tufnel

All except the fact that he gave the job to Emi and the guy didn’t have the trust or self confidence to stay. He took the sure thing from Villa. Maybe the safer personal choice. It’s understandable but I don’t blame Arteta for Martinez choice.. How many years was Emi with the club with no manager giving him a real chance until he won the job finally? At least Arteta realised that Leno was not good enough. Very good, but with big flaws in claiming balls and distribution against the press. Problem solved for now. I’m very happy with the… Read more »

Bob N16

Graham, still trying to find fault with Arteta, hoping that GK wets the appetite..

Dissenter

Rich
“No club gets everything right, but Arteta needs to own his decisions.”

You’re becoming the doyen of balanced takes here

This will be 100% Arteta’s team, once Pepe is shopped out and replaced, which will happen this window.
Artea comes across as one that does not shirk responsibility so why do people try to do it on his behalf. He and Edu have made big & bold decisions everywhere, they own it for better or for worse.

China1

Englands I’ve not had bushmills yet but Monkey shoulder really is exceptional bang for buck

It’s not as complex as some of the best ones out there but for price vs taste it’s a 9/10

Positive pete

Wow.According to “Give me sport”,a report by “ live score” into most popular social media clubs in the world has us down in lowly 10th position? Amazed to say the least.Didn’t expect top 5 but would have thought above the likes of oilers.,chavs, PSG.Juve to name a few.
Maybe Pedro can throw some light on it,if true? Thought we’d be 5/ 6 ish? That’s what trophies does I guess.Whether you buy them or otherwise.

karim

Johnny did a rap so you’d sign up to our Patreon.

The one I saw on YouTube was quite good actually !

Nigel Tufnel

Tom,

I’m still hoping you’ll tell me how Man City and United both wanted Bissouma, but somehow the player and Brighton chose to go for less money to Tottenham over the league Champs or United, while his criminal worry was dissipating, at the start of the window.
2 months left to have a bidding war, lol.

I know inexplicably, all the scouts in world football also missed out on watching him start weekly in the premier league for a couple years.

I’m just fascinated to hear the explanation. Try to get back to me.

Pierre maybe? Other Bissouma lovers?

Ishola70

BobN16 “still trying to find fault with Arteta” tbf until he gets this top four some will continue to find some faults with him. And he hasn’t surpassed the “shitbag” of a team that Emery had in relation to Emery’s first season. He has matched it by finishing a close fourth season just gone just like Emery did in his first season. Looking at that snip of that documentary I feel like people who don’t have that real attachment to Arteta will continue not to have it. What might change though from some people’s perspective is that they have a… Read more »

Un

Karim

I actually thought it was very the streets like but with superior lyricism

Un

Man Johnny’s got them skills
Witty fella he is too. I love hearing him on the pod. Brings a unique flavour.

englandsbest

China1

Will try

Bob N16

Ishola, Arteta is far from faultless, as am I!

I have mixed feelings about this documentary. I’ll admit I haven’t watched the previous ‘All or Nothing” series. I will give the first episode a go but I wonder what the edit will be like. Feels slightly like doing your washing in public. Just hope Arsenal come out well, we know we finished 5th already! PEA might be watching it from behind the sofa.

Ishola70

Bob What made me giggle in that snip was the zoom in on the players faces when Arteta was making that speech. You get it in every dressing room. Many are putting on that earnest face when listening to him but you know their inner thoughts are get the fvck on with it or stopping themselves from giggling or just trying to stop themselves looking bored. The cameras being present actually don’t help in these instances. The documentary will be interesting in some aspects but the notion of fly on the wall is a misnomer really. Everyone knows they are… Read more »

The Bard

I’ve enjoyed most of the All or Nothing Docs although I wasn’t invested in them. Might be different with this one. How’s its viewed might depend on how we start the season.

englandsbest

Rich The first thing to say is we’re all looking in from the outside – so I’m surmising here. But I think most managers who were outfield players would listen to the opinion of GK coaches – experts, if you like. I believe it was the Arsenal GK coach who recommended Runarsson and with Turner, who knows, the push may have come from Josh. Let’s hope he turs out well. As to the rest on your list, I make most of them positive ticks for Arteta. Extending Holding, Elneny, Xhaka makes sense because they were already there, and because all… Read more »

Bob N16

Agree Ishola that Arteta’s intensity could be hard to take at times. But PR aside, the players seem to accept his ways when talking about him. If Zinchenko and Jesus thought he was OTT then they would have easily found other clubs.

Bottom line is if Arsenal are successful I couldn’t really care less.

Matt

Arteta’s speech is no competition for Al Pacino’s in Any Given Sunday. Now that was a speech!

Shaun

Bellerin willing to end his contract.
If this is correct AFC no longer pays his £100k a week , he goes to Beth’s on a free and then gets paid by Beth’s

If this is wrong Betis pay AFC a fee and pay Bellerin his wages and we stop paying him £100k a week

how on earth does this benefit anyone apart from Bellend And Betis, and as it doesn’t, unless I have missed something we sell him to another team for a fee.

Zacharse

MattJuly 28, 2022 16:43:27
Arteta’s speech is no competition for Al Pacino’s in Any Given Sunday. Now that was a speech!

😂

Zacharse

i think we write that clip off to
‘it’s fucking weird to have cameramen in here’
I’d be surprised if we weren’t seeing a very different on camera arteta by the end of the season.

How come no one’s talking about how the amazon doc fucked up the team chemistry for the first 3 games!?
😂😂😂

Nigel Tufnel

All or nothing Spurs made me like Mourinho much more while still hating Tottenham even more. Was pretty compelling.

As someone else said, if people don’t like Arteta, they will only see this as reinforcement. Fans of Arteta will be lapping it up like a kitty with a saucer of milk.

Bob N16

Nigel T,

Your last paragraph sums it up nicely.

Dissenter

Bellerin has been trying to convince the club to cancel his contract
That’s why Sociedad refused to pay a fee.
He’s working in concert with Sociedad to get the best deal for himself, even if it means Arsenal is deprived of a fee.

He’s only 27 years old and still has 5-8 years of footie left.

Hopefully we move away from these cycle of bad contracts

Bob N16

Dissenter,

I don’t really blame Bellerin, if he really wants to return to Betis then what does he do?

Dissenter

Bob N16
I don’t blame Bellerin too but he’s trying to deprive Arsenal of a fee
We’ve had him since his teens, paid him a 100k weekly contract for about 5-6 years, why shouldn’t we get something when he’s leaving at 27 years.
He’s short changing Arsenal which doesn’t sit well with me.

Nigel Tufnel

Bellerin can let the clubs work out a fair fee, even considering they have very little money. Stretching out payments over many years,, whatever….Then he can negotiate his best possible salary with them.

Him refusing any other club in the world already ruins any little leverage we might have had.

This is why Betis know they can get away with offering nothing, spread out over infinity. He’ll get a better salary and contract because they spent nothing on the fee.

No reason to try and make him look like a good guy.

Wicked Willy

Shaun

My vague understanding is that Bellerin would have to buyout his contract of 5,200,000. He may also have to pay back some loyalty bonuses

Rich

There’s a game of brinksmanship going on between clubs and players who are into the last 12 months of their contracts. The whole world knows Arsenal currently have too many players, three non homegrown players we can’t register in the league, and 8 we can’t register in the Europa League. Arsenal have Tomiyasu, Cedric, White, Niles, Bellerin, who can all play right back. Betis + Bellerin are gambling that we either fold late in the window, or we fold earlier, because we’re resigned to doing it later, and if we do it now, we can save a few weeks wages,… Read more »

Wicked Willy

Ishola

If Arteta lacks charisma, then how comes Jesus turned down Conte and Tuchel and Champions League football for him? Same same Zinchenko.

DigitalBob

Unfortunately, we have set a precedent when it comes to allowing players to move on for little to no fee, Bellerin knows this and also has a year left on his deal so it’s understandable this is the type of exit he’s pursuing. After that Edu interview I think its clear we’ll grant Bellerin his wish. Sad considering only a few years ago he was a £30-£40 million player. I’d be less impressed if we do the same with Lucas Torreira, surely the 6/7 million from Fiorentina after they went back on the obligation to buy is a better alternative… Read more »

CaliGooner

Guendouzi scoffs at the word friendly.

Mr Serge

RIP Terry Neil club legend as he managed and played for us
Never liked his team as a manager although we won the first cup final I ever went to so I will eternally grateful for that at least

Dissenter

Guendouzi was roughly tackled by two players amd had had his hair pulled like a little girl and he reacted.

It’s like blaming Jesus for over-reacting to Yerry Mina’s rough treatment when we played Everton in Baltimore

Paddy Gooner

Rip Terry. He was the manager when I first started following Arsenal. 3 Cup finals in a row and one of our very rare European Cup finals. (lost on pens, unfortunately)

Markymark

Terry Neil has passed RIP. The first Arsenal manager I grew up with having just really missed Bertie Mee.
Went to his Sports Bar in Farringdon regularly back in the day and he was always jovial.
RIP my good man

Markymark

The 79’ cup final . Gutted in 1980 but the win over Juve in Turin . The long haul of cup matches against a relentless Liverpool side and I believe a win against the odds at Forest away in the cup
A good man if not perhaps one of the great Arsenal managers he had his moments

Ishola70

Willy

“If Arteta lacks charisma, then how comes Jesus turned down Conte and Tuchel and Champions League football for him? Same same Zinchenko.”

Because he may respect him as a coach.

That doesn’t mean though that he has great charisma.

As we said as long as he brings success then nodoby will care if he hasn’t got great charisma.

Just Another Customer

What about Reiss Nelson? I’d rather Arteta keep him as back up to Saka/Martinelli rather than be sold. Adequate enough to play in Europa and considered as home grown too so no problem there.

englandsbest

I’ll be happy to see Bellerin go whether we get a fee or not. He flattered to deceive. A full-back who thought he was a winger, a footballer who fancied himself a fashion icon. Self-centred, it’s no surprise he doesn’t give a monkey’s if the Club that paid him £5 mill pa don’t get a penny for him. He screwed Ox and he screwed Gnabry, getting underfoot all the time.

CaliGooner

Dissenter if you think those things happened to him by some sort of coincidence then good for you.

There’s a reason he finds himself in those type of situations more then most.

Bob N16

Englandsbest, not sure if you’re being altogether fair when it comes to Bellerin. ‘He doesn’t give a monkey’s’ – Arsenal didn’t pay any sort of transfer fee for him. Whether you like him or not, he’s entitled to being paid what Arsenal were willing to pay him.

Why is he being self -centered? He’s allowed to try and get himself a good deal. He always gave 100% for Arsenal.

Pierre

Terry Neill RIP Gave me some great times as a manager and some pretty rubbish times. 4 cup finals in 3 seasons , won 1 lost 3 , and i went to the 3 defeats v west ham , Ipswich and Valencia at the crappy Heysel stadium and never managed to get a ticket v united. I went to some epic semi finals v liverpool where we went toe to toe with the best team in the land, seeing Brian Talbot head the winner at highfield road was a great moment . Don Howe was probably as much the reason… Read more »

John Munoz

Man there is a woman on Twitter right now who is saying she is the one that was assaulted by a certain arsenal player. She’s posting rapidly rn with screen shots.

There is an active thread on gunners reddit right now.

It’s wild

karim

Un

Glad you liked it too.

Berg10kamp

Turner is player that is willing to get a few minutes in cups and play back up considering where he is in his career, Leno did not want that. Agree that Leno is better, but u will not find a keeper with Ramsdales or Lenos quality willing to play back up. Turner will play his role and I’m sure the Kroenkes had a hand in this and have already discussed with him what his role will be. On the documentary, looking forward to it. Yes some stuff might be scripted but u cannot script emotion after a hard loss or… Read more »

John Munoz

Bro this stuff is wild. I have no idea how UK laws work so I’m being extremely careful on anything I’m writing but its definitely worrisome.

izzo

Utd should stop messing around and let Ronaldo leave. understandable if it were another player but since its him they should terminate his contract and move on. He’ll tank them even further not that I care I just feel its about time Ronaldo learns his career is at its end and he should find a club here in the MLS for his last hurrah.

John Munoz

I was so excited for the start of the season- and now it’s looking bleak!

Topside Northbank

RIP Terry Neil The 79 Cup final my first taste of seeing Arsenal win something a game we had in the bag almost threw away when it looked impossible to do then the ending with Sunderland’s winner. The CWC final a year later real sickener after beating a truly world class Juventus that had never been beaten by a British team at home Valencia beat us on penalties. We lost Brady and Stapleton never replaced them and despite having a 3rd then 5th place league finishes had become very mediocre.Poor signings mainly. I remember I was meant to go to… Read more »

John Munoz

The woman accusing an arsenal player of assault is currently posting tons of things about it on Twitter. It’s happening in real time. It’s absolutely wild.

John Munoz

I’m surprised no one else on this site has noticed this. Seems like a huge deal.

Mr Serge

I have seen a few of her posts not sure why she is going online with it now ?

John Munoz

I have no clue but I can’t imagine we’re not going to try & sign another DM. Not really sure how any of this works but it looks pretty awful.

John Munoz

I was fortunate enough to get tons of pics with our first team when they were in Orlando, Florida for the tour.

He was one of the only players I didn’t get a picture of but I saw him a few times

Janky

I can’t see Jesus of Zinchenko signing with Arsenal if they disliked Arteta. I’m not sure that’s a huge endorsement of him, we are paying those two a lot of money to play for him, but if Tets was toxic or a basketcase, I doubt any amount of money would have lured them Emirates way. I don’t know how much fun it will be watching that doc from Amazon. Amazon is basically the devil anyway, and I can’t imagine them being concerned with bigging up the Arsenal as much as with creating a dramatic and compelling narrative. I felt like… Read more »

Rich

“His fashion choices, though, unforgivable. They should give him one of those shirts Pete was peddling the other day as a going away gift.”

Lol @ Janky

Pedro was definitely trolling us with those shirts…

TheBayingMob

Ye this Twitter deal looks mental. Partey is the most important cog in our midfield but this looks ominous …

Dissenter

“The woman accusing an arsenal player of assault is currently posting tons of things about it on Twitter. It’s happening in real time. It’s absolutely wild.”

If it’s true then it may suggest that she has no case …because she is undermining her credibility

Dissenter

Yea, Partey is cleared
The “accuser’ pretty much said so.

Now he has to get his attorneys to issue the typical warnings of libel
You had your day with the law, they investigated it

Twitter shouldn’t be allowing those posts to go on though.

TT

“If it’s true then it may suggest that she has no case …because she is undermining her credibility”

Spot on. She can’t have case after this. I thought you were not allowed to talk publicly about a case while its still being investigated.

John Munoz

She is saying she signed an NDA agreement and took some kind of payout to not speak out against the player.

She’s saying she doesn’t care if she gets sued. She wanted to put the players name out in public.

izzo

Going to Twitter when she should go to the authorities sums her up. I’m all for supporting those that have been abused but in her case it just looks like she wants money (very Amber Heard- like) so Twitter is the best way to get that for any mug that’s willing to back her. This is the world we live in now.

Nigel Tufnel

Bob,
I agree with you 99% of the time.

But would you buy any player if he said to you, “In the future, I will only allow you to sell me to Real Betis (broke-ass club) ?

No. You wouldn’t, because it’s not fair or reasonable. He was well compensated for a lot of years by us.

Dissenter

“She’s saying she doesn’t care if she gets sued. She wanted to put the players name out in public.”

She wants to destroy the players reputation, which amounts to libel
The police have reviewed the damn screenshots she’s displaying like a trophy
If there was a there, there…they would have charged him

I was circumspect before but this has swayed me in favor of Partey. I feel sorry for him he even went there in the first place.

Danny

Rice and Nelson were of course in defence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjqEApo6ss8

Danny

…….and Storey was in defence for England.

Bob N16

Nigel T, do we know that Bellerin is insisting on Betis?

The Bard

markymark different days mate. Players loved the club and wanted to play for the Arsenal. He wasnt the success of later days but a good Arsenal man.

Karsa

Rice and Nelson. My favourite full backs ever.

azed

“She wants to destroy the players reputation, which amounts to libel
The police have reviewed the damn screenshots she’s displaying like a trophy
If there was a there, there…they would have charged him”

Dissenter

According to the lady, they can’t charge Partey because of a change in the laws regarding crimes committed in the EU.

Markymark

The Bard – sometimes looking back within our lifetime it could be 100s of years ago so much disconnect to today . As you say different days , different times

Almuniasaynomore

Terry Neill RIP
The Irish trio of Stapleton, O’Leary and of course Brady were the reason a generation of Arsenal supporters were born over here and their greatest successes (and bitter failures) came under Terry Neill. His reign left a taste of something unfinished, what could have been,but I’ve rarely heard anyone speak ill of him. From someone who remembers standing beside a radio in his kitchen as a young lad in 1980 with his dad and listening to updates from Heysel,thank you Terry for the memories.

Habesha Gooner

I believe Partey a 100%. This girl is sending screen shots of supposed conversations on Twitter because she can’t prove he raped her in court.

It is a crazy world we live in when there is judgement though social media than a real fair trial. And these whores are coming from everywhere to try and take down famous men for money FFS.

Habesha Gooner

I am not saying she wasn’t raped. But she has gone for social media Justice. And all she has is some vague conversations with some account. And some videos of them hanging out together.

Innocent until proven guilty. Or at least there is concrete evidence of wrong doing. It is either a victim that doesn’t have evidence or a man who is wrongly accused. Either way Social media Justice isn’t justice to me. Especially when there is a rich man who can lose everything is involved. Not saying he is innocent. But he isn’t guilty as of now either.

englandsbest

BobN16

I don’t mean to be ‘fair’, I’m sick to death with Arsenal players taking the Club for a ride on the ‘leaving’ issue, it’s customary for a club to receive a transfer fee. I won’t name any, the list is long, and you know who they are. Yes, I know the Club has been stupid, overpaid wages, etc. But anyway, what matters most is that money received (if there is any) will buy players that would strengthen the squad.

Left Testicle

That All or Nothing team talk by Arteta comes across as naff and cheesy.

Brian Muff

Habesha goes from “I believe Partey 100%” to “I’m not saying he’s innocent” in two posts…with a load of poncy horse shit in between.

This highlights why it’s best to stfu if you don’t know what you’re talking about. Just don’t comment at all I reckon.

Brian Muff

Yeah sure, just get rid of her whatever. He’s our player yeah?

Some ugly scenes in here tonight blimey.

Left Testicle

This highlights why it’s best to stfu if you don’t know what you’re talking about. Just don’t comment at all I reckon.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
In England the accused is innocent until proven guilty.

Habesha Gooner

Brian Muff
Go through all the tweets that she has supposedly tweeted. There isn’t any concrete evidence..I don’t know for sure whether he has raped her. That’s only something they both know. But there isn’t evidence. And it’s not because he is our player you dim wit. It is because I don’t believe in cancel culture. I need to see some evidence before condemning him.

Naija+soccer

So she claims they signed an NDA agreement and she got some payout, but she’s out here disclosing anyway ? She got paid, she knows she might get sued however she don’t seem to care.

Either he really did it and she can’t let it go or she’s a psychotic Jezebel. Simple.

BacaryisGod

Btw, got to give Johnny a solid 8/10 on his return to the booth..

Left Testicle

Muff trying to cancel Habesha. Calm down Muff it’s just somebody’s opinion which happens to be different to yours.

Habesha Gooner

If he really did rape her then I hope he goes to jail. And I hope the truth comes out. But I don’t believe in social media Justice until there is sufficient evidence. All I have seen so far is a bunch off accusations and some vague claims. The only thing she has posted so far that might be in her favour if true is if she really did break NDA agreement. Even then it is 200k. She might be playing a long game of trying to be famous through social media and to be an influencer. She might make… Read more »

Leftside

I mean the only video evidence of them supposedly is where you can’t see any faces clearly and can just see two people swimming. There is no concrete evidence.

Dissenter

Yea, what she did there is character assassination
AlL the talk about it occurring 10 days before an EU law change is BS
It exemplifies all the evil in social media.
The numbers she showed in the screen shots weren’t for Partey by the way. It was for a random dude who looked anything like Partey. Unless Partey used burners, someone is complaining to twitter for having their phone number misused maliciously

BacaryisGod

With Bellerin, Arsenal can do one thing and that’s pay him 100k a week to sit on the sidelines for the next year and maybe get some minutes in the Carabao.

That’s the choice we have. Play chicken with Beria to get something out of them (literally like 2-3m) or spend 5m sending the message that we won’t be pushed around..

Bank of F

Terry Neill’s finest night and probably the best Arsenal result of all time was the 0-1 win in Turin. I remember listening to the Radio and crying as the match played out to 0-0 draw before Paul Vaeseen arrived at the far post. The silence on the Radio was deafening, what a night.

Paul Vaessens life after that was so so sad. Probably one of the saddest stories in football. He should also be remembered.

Dissenter

“That’s the choice we have. Play chicken with Beria to get something out of them (literally like 2-3m) or spend 5m sending the message that we won’t be pushed around..”

We all know how Raul dealt with Koscielny, Bordeaux paid up promptly.
The issue is that is Arsenal prepared to get rough and dirty?
Tell Bellerin he will not be registered and won’t train with the first squad. He will sort out the nonsense with Betis promptly.

The Kroenkes are too nice. It’s not my money.

Naija+soccer

Habesha

Not a fan of social media justice either since anyone can just come online and post anything. Too many Amber hearders out here, to be throwing people under the bus without proof. For me i need evidence then we can talk.

Habesha Gooner

Naija Yep. We are too loose with cancelling or labeling people with a heinous act such as this. It should be very seriously considered first. I want to see some pointers. I wouldn’t mind it if he was suspended with pay till he clears it out with some of his side of the story. But I will not say he should go to jail before I see some evidence. https://twitter.com/deffonotchaur/status/1552728258420023296?s=20&t=HZv4jCjcmNdTQgx5-K0fAQ This is a video she posted of a conversation between her and some one named Lion (which she claims is Partey). Just slow every bit of the video down to… Read more »

China1

If bellerin won’t go to anyone else and Betis won’t offer anything then let bellend train with the kids and see out the last year of his contract to make an example of him

If we let him win at that why won’t any other players who want to leave do the same?

Ben D

I have read some of the Twitter posts and I’m less worried about Partey being in big trouble than I was prior to the USA tour.

It all distractions we could do without though. I can’t imagine that it won’t bother him in some way

Ben D

Sorry Pedro. Your warning cane too late!!!