A wise man once said…
‘You CAN read into preseason when it’s one game out from the start of the season’
… and I believed him.
Arsenal ripped Sevilla apart in an outrageous afternoon of elite football.
Calling us City Lite last season felt like a sleight; this season, I think it’s going to be a warning.
We pressed like monsters. We were setting traps to get the ball back. Everyone knew their job and there were NO passengers.
Our defence looks fabulous, Saliba played like the VVD Regen we’ve been dreaming of, we didn’t miss Tomi or Tierney, there were no weaknesses.
Thomas Partey was absolute silk in the middle of the park, he was at ease on the ball, he pinned the midfield on his own, and he had a stunning flair about his game.
Have you been whinging about Granit Xhaka? How many assists does he have to get before you realise he’s the best midfielder in world football right now? Ok, I took it too far, but he has been in great form.
CAPTAIN ODEGAARD. Perfection, the kid is a leader, he’s a role model, forget about my daughter, I WOULD MARRY HIM. I just love his intensity, he’s playing like a man on a mission, it is a delight.
The front three were electric. Bukayo is BACK. Top class all the way. Martinelli is clearly LOVING his Brazilian pal to play with, his diagonal cross was outrageous.
GABRIEL JESUS! As Benny Devito said in the comments of The Arsenal Opinion Podcast. He IS the resurrection of Arsenal.
What a talent. Forgive me father for my blasphemy about his height, I AM A SINNER, punish me with goals. SO MANY GOALS.
Then to cap a wonderful day off… a moment that said it all about CULTURE. Granit released Martinelli through the middle, the Brazilian could have gone solo, instead, he put his mate EDDIE KRUEGER in for a tap in. That’s when you know the squad like each other.
So where are we?
Our squad looks fit and cooked to the perfect temperature.
Everyone knows their role.
The squad is VERY strong.
We are scoring goals for fun.
I’m telling you, this season will have ups and downs, but keep focused because we are going to be a problem this season.
Everyone can play the ball out the back.
Everyone is press resistant.
Everyone has a fighting spirit.
Now we have goals.
We’re on a very exciting journey this season. Let’s enjoy it. Let’s not catastrophise bad results. Let’s buckle in. The hope is underpinned by truth this season.
I CANNOT WAIT.
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I hope we’re prepared for that this week already….Palace will have gone over the videos from our preseason. The first mission for them will be to disrupt as much as possible. You know what that means.
I hate to say this.. but I’m pretty sure gd4 is kilroy.
The hatred of the club, prophecies of doom and bedwetting, all wrapped in ignorance. There can’t be 2 such sad cases.
Howard “Always prefer ESR to Martinelli because he knows where the goal post is but fans don’t recognize that. ” I think if you asked Arteta ( and he was being truthful) he would say he prefers Martinelli because his intensity is higher and is more adept at pressing, even though Smith Rowe is the technically better footballer. I suppose ideally he would want a cross between the 2, the energy of Martinelli to go with the composure of smith Rowe. I’m not sure smith rowe is a natural high intensity player or ever will be, some players love that… Read more »
Hi every one, hi Pedro, been a while since I commented on legrove, I am a 33year old Ethiopian man, a year and ten month ago, Ethiopia 🇪🇹 was a peaceful country, things changed quickly in life and we have experienced a bloody war, my generation has not seen. It made me very sad and uncomfortable, it added more misery after the Covid ordeal the world gone through, I remember mentioning the war here in legrove and Pedro telling me how sad he felt and how horrible it is, war is very ugly. Then the Russian Ukrainian war followed, men… Read more »
Robel I hope things become better for you here on in and you enjoy Arsenal this year as well
We are very lucky over here not to,have to go through things like war,
Sending you big love Robal. Ethiopia has a proud history and some amazing cuisine. Have always wanted to visit your country and experience it first hand. Politicians often become successful because of their thirst for power, often in response to soundings from their childhood and their need to prove themselves and to somehow realise themselves as people of worth. When you have a domain such as politics whereby the most ambitious self select themselves into power, and where they have to keep making compromising decisions in order to succeed in their goals, they end up becoming a shadow of the… Read more »
*woundings
Robel
Good to hear from you, Robel, and that’s a fantastic post you sent out.
Spot on Wicked Willy, history has shown us the love of power can turn a man in to evil. The war have eased in here, it’s just my generation of Ethiopians have never seen war and when it happens and your own country men killing each other like it means nothing, so many horror stories, I feel lucky to still be alive after this war and Covid. It’s been a strange two years. 2020-2022. Any way I cannot keep you English lads doomed with sadness it’s your time to celebrate your lioness, what a game, what a win, brilliant final.… Read more »
According to The Athletic, Leno to Fulham is done for a fee around 8m. That’s a fantastic deal for Fulham. As long as Ramsey can play like he did for a good chunk of last season and stays healthy then we won’t regret it but I’m disapponted to lose Leno for a relatively low fee. He’s going to be a busy keeper though!
On the evidence of the team which started both games against Chelsea and Sevilla we have
the makings of a decent side.
What is unclear sofar is how good is our bench? The options currently available are Turner,
Tomiyasu,Soares, Holding,Tierney or Zinchenko, Elneny, Lokonga, Vieira, Smith-Rowe,
Pepe and Nketiah.
My areas of concern remain the same most notably GK and CMF/DMF.
I have a question. We paid 19 mil or so for Leno. I like him. Great shot stopper for those Emery games with dozens of shots at our goal. He’s leaving because he was not good enough for where this team is going, for how its being constructed. So he’s no longer a number 1 keeper for his club. He was going into the last year of his deal. We are accommodating his desire to stay in London, which severely limits any competition for getting the price bid up. Tell me … how much did you think we would get… Read more »
***That is only for the moaners who blame the club for some players behaviour and how it limits us in selling.
This is the first time in a long time I am actually really excited about the start of the new season.
We look prepared and ready to go, we know our starting XI, the players seem to understand what the manager wants, the pressing is meaningful, plenty of movement up top. Bring on the good times.
Keeping Leno absolutely is an option, even though I’ve frankly no idea if it’s the right one because I have no view on Turner so far If Turner is good enough then there’s zero point in keeping Leno. If Turner is there for numbers and not seen as ready to step in for major games, then we should keep Leno It only takes a bit of bad luck or a nasty challenge from an attacker to take Ramsdale out of the game for several months. It’s exactly how Martinez got his chance ahead of Leno As for him being disgruntled,… Read more »
All the best Robal. When calm all these pointless wars end? Little men with little man syndrome sending their people to their deaths at war to compensate for their own shortcomings and look tough. Such a pity
leno is on big wages – gotta be close to 100 wk? no?
I think that there are two reasons why Leno is leaving.
First from the players point of view he wants to play regularly and that is no longer possible at Arsenal.
Second the club do not want to pay a second string goalkeeper £100K pw.
This has been the problem with far too many squad players at club. We were paying them
inflated wages.
My concern about the recruitment of goalkeepers in recent times has to do with talent
identification. Why are we recruiting US and Icelandic goalkeepers with no experience in
English football?
ES I don’t think which league you play in is going to make a big difference for a keeper
Making saves, passing the ball, catching crosses, organizing your defense are pretty universally applicable skills and not league specific
Runarrsson was signed from France I think. Plenty of good players are signed from France, he just wasn’t one of them
As well America tends to produce decent keepers. Brad friedel and what’s his name who used to play for Everton. Both reasonable PL keepers
Stroller I actually think that US keepers have a pretty decent pedigree in the Prem. Man City have a US reserve keeper, and haven’t Chelsea just bought someone from Chicago Fire? Does that mean Kepa is off? Like many here I’m yet to be convinced by Turner, bothe from a talent perspective and from a distribution perspective, but let’s wait and see. Leno just does not suit our system and it would cost us £13-£15m to keep him. Our defence clearly don’t feel very assured when he’s there either. Let’s give Turner a season, hope that Ramsdale stays fit, and… Read more »
The difficulty selling players encapsulates the essence of the modern game. Players would rather sit on their high wages and not play than be transferred to another club on lower wages and play.
Robel – keep as safe as you can be and wishing you all the very best .
There was a very brief thought after the wall came down that we were living in a post war world. The end of history apparently. Well sadly not . So much suffering due to nasty power crazed fools .
Take care and will enjoy reading more of your posts hopefully soon
China1 i often wonder what makes strong/intelligent young men follow these little men called leaders to war, death and destruction. Will we ever get a break from such small men and actually have a leader who works for peace and well being of all. Doubt that though
Yeah Robel, hearts with ya mate. Good to see that the Arsenal is giving you something to be excited about.
Keep safe!
Madhu, money.
And not wanting to be on the losing side
Still intrigued by what business could still be done, but we really are raring to go for the start of the season for the first time in a while.
So damn excited for pl football
I don’t think that Man City or Chelsea have recruited second string goalkeepers who are American. No-one suggests that American goalkeepers cannot be decent, but I would prefer
that they are “tested” elsewhere in a major league before coming to us.
ES
Valid points.
Our GK dealings have been a joke.
Turner in a WC year it’s actually a backward move for him as he’s not going to get infront of Ramsdale.
Been a lot of good USA keeper’s back in the day we were always linked with Friedel always seemed to have a blinder against us I went to a game 2002 Edu scored both end’s we lost 2-1 but the GK was motm was immense.
I’m less worried about which leagues our keepers come from and more interested in how good they look
Let’s not write turner off yet guys it’s just a couple of preseason games
Graham, you don’t rate Ramsdale?
I think he has moments of rashness but for a comparatively young GK there is potential for improvement. Otherwise he does a lot of things really well and he seems like the sort of guy other players are very happy to be around.
Surely you’re not digging up Martinez again?
Runarsson is undeniably a joke though!
I think we go into the season with a bit of optimism pre season has gone well and Saliba returning with Zinchenko and Jeus already settling in the team is certainly better not just on paper, but the eye test. Last season opponents would rotate foul on Saka a lot of our moves were built down the right side, teams got wise to it. Touched on it the other day Zinchenko and Martinelli look like there is already a good understanding between them down the left. Watching Saturday and highlights of the Chelsea game it’s something that really will give… Read more »
I see Ashley Barnes is interesting Newcastle’s as well as Maddison, Fofana – Chelsea, Arsenal -someone beginning with a T.
Are Leicester about to have a meltdown or is this just journalists needing to tap something?
Any chance we can make our move?
Halaand missed a sitter and couldn’t take his chances the other day against liverpool. Anyone can have a bad couple of games. It’s whether those are just that or whether that’s the players true level which matters.
For turner I never watched him and don’t know. But our recruitment has been mostly good recently so it’s safe to assume we did scout him properly. He was presumably doing something write before he joined us
tap = type
Arteta is optimistic Tomiyasu, ESR, Tierney and Vieira will be fit to be involved in the squad Friday.
If we can move 3/4 players out hopefully we can get another midfielder in it’s the one glaring weakness in the squad.
Bob it might be bad for us if Leicester are selling all their best players because if they get some money coming in and lose Maddison etc they might decide to dig in on Tielemans
Hope I’m wrong
China,
Don’t see the point in waiting any longer with Tielemans. Leicester need money, one year left on his contract and he wants to come. If Leicester get money in for him it will possibly mean that they can hold off other clubs who are circling. I have no idea about their finances but I’m sure I’ve read that they have FFP issues- didn’t know that was possible right now.
China
Tielemans is the one holding the power into his last year of contract if we are seriously interested in him and he wants to come to us it will get done.
I don’t see us or anyone else paying anything more than 20-25m.
Leicester by all accounts need to sell before they can buy Fofana and Maddison longer contracts will both be around the 50m mark. Chelsea in for Fofana makes a lot of sense, PL proven young and a very good defender.
China You Echo my thoughts. I read that Leicester were demanding £80M thereabouts for Fofona which begs the question what they were demanding for Tielemans who’s one of their stars albeit on the last year of his contract. I believe we’re gonna go exactly what Fulham did to us regarding Leno. Wait it out, the player clearly wants us if the ITKs are to be believed, he has no other suitors that we know of and this is Leicester’s last chance to cash out so the waiting game seems like the last strategy since the club isn’t desperate. All this… Read more »
From my perspective it is important when recruiting a goalkeeper to assess their performance
against top class opposition and that is not the case in MSL.
I am not suggesting that Turner is not a good goalkeeper, but he is untested at EPL level.
Runarsson turned out to be a very poor decision.
Runarsson was a very strange signing recruited off the back iirc of the GK coach at the time recommendation?
ES I disagree in that I don’t expect being a goalkeeper in a weaker league is so much easier. You’re still going to face plenty of testing situations. Hard shots, one on ones, crowding at corners etc etc It’s not like in MLS all the shots are going to be tamely passed down the middle or skied to row Z. Even average players will take a great shot sometimes. Just look at the women’s euros where the football quality wasn’t always very good but there were still plenty of great moments, elite shots etc. look at the first two goals… Read more »
Bob We need to create the space first. We’ve currently got 31 first team players, 29 if Balogun + Leno complete their moves over the next few days. We can only register 25 in the Europa, and 25 aged over 21 before Jan 1st in the league. 17 non homegrown maximum in that 25. We won’t do what we did in 2020/21 where it was complete carnage, 31 players, Ozil + Sokratis not registered for any competition, Saliba + Runarsson not registered in the Europa League. That’s a recipe for a unhappy training ground + dressing room, I’d be really… Read more »
lol Rich another CB who can play LB. we already have 4 CBs (not counting Mari) and we have 2 established LBs.
Rich, Understand your point that we need to get rid of players but not sure our bargaining position changes much when considering the players who are surplus to requirements: Mari, Runarsson, Torreira, Bellerin, AMN, Pepe etc The message is loud and clear to those players and their agents – find another club you would be willing to go to and let’s negotiate. The understanding is clear, if you want to play football it will have to be elsewhere. ‘There is no room in the squad for you’. Players and their agents are not native – they know this is the… Read more »
We also have Tomi who can play CB
We absolutely do not need to flood the squad with more and more defenders
native = naive
China If you think Mari + Holding can play the way Saliba. Gabriel + White did on Saturday? Then I’ll have some of whatever your smoking, because I bet that’s some really strong stuff, absolutely wipe out…. If you think we should be banking across an entire 60 game season on Tierney + Tomiyasu, not picking up sustained injuries at some stage, then I think we’d be crazy to bank on it, not when the margins are so finely balanced. The way we attack + press as a team, is inextricably linked to how we defend, we make the pitch… Read more »
So, both Tomi and White can play at RB. White, Saliba and GM can play CB and Tomi too if need be. At LB, we have Tierney and Zinchenko.
Who do we have in midfield? Partey + Xhaka + Elneny? We need to prioritise here, I would love a VVD in our defense but not before we get a Partey cover, a Xhaka replacement.
And I forgot about Holding, who is not going anywhere!
I don’t know Rich, may be it’s about preference but I am more leaned towards Klopp’s way of keeping a constant playing XI till something goes wrong.
Pep likes to mix things up and I guess Arteta just inherited that approach.
MB You think Partey, Tomiyasu, Tierney, Smith Rowe Are going to play 3 x a week consistently? Or even stay fit for the duration if they’re not? Their game time certainly needs to be managed, i love all 4 players, but we need to build a squad with their potential absences at the forefront of our thinking. There’s no value in getting to semi finals and a strong position in the league, if we don’t have a squad capable of sustaining consistency across an entire season, and juggling the workload We’ve got the players for 40-45 games, The issue in… Read more »
Less than 24 hours in and the Lionesses are excruciating.
Time to get back into the kitchen, for those dykes.
Am I right?
I laughed slightly guiltily at your post Guns!!
I personally would be less worried about our backup and more worried about our starting keeper.
Some stories linking us to Timo Werner. Thoughts guys ?
Would he be a good fit ?
‘ I don’t think that Man City or Chelsea have recruited second string goalkeepers who are American. ’
Err….
Zack Steffen Was the second keeepr for.city, only left to get playing time ahead of the World Cup
American goal keeper have established their Bonafides in European leagues, outfield players, not so much .
outfield players, not so much .
Obviously not familiar with the bundesliga and serie A where there’s plenty of Americans doing well. Also there’s been some very good Americans in the premier league too. Brian McBride was a great player for Fulham back in the day
Everton too
Some decent Canadians too getting brought over to Germany.
Chelsea just signed an American keep who’s barely even played in the MLS
American goalies ha pedigree. Turner will be okay.
Like Marko said, it’s Ramsdale we should be worried about.
We want the Ramsdale that started last season, not the one that ended it.
Bob
I’m right though. Classless and the irony! The dames want parity and equality (which is fine) but then they go onto act exactly like the men. That press conference was mortifying.
Horrible. Looked like a hen do in Blackpool. Chubby legs and dripping make up. Blurrghhh
Good luck to them.
Personally I find the standard so low compared to men’s football. Of course they have touch, vision etc but still so poor in comparison. The RCB for England dived in one time comically missing the ball and then looked so slow and heavy trying to get back. Fortunately the German shot meekly at the goalie. The commentators can’t say it how it is either.
I haven’t watched any of the press or celebrations.
It’s really unfair to compare women’s football to men’s it really is. Best to judge it as it’s own thing because if you do hold it up with the men’s game you definitely won’t like it.
My wife summed up my view of Woman’s football in a few words. She walked into the room after it had been on a few minutes and said ” womens football does nothing for me, too slow and boring” and walked out. She does like cage fighting mind you!
I am pleased that the women’s game is doing well though and Arsenal have a v.good team, but there is a huge amount of Industry and media over hyping going on as in the end it is all about money and headlines.
How did a moment of glory for these young women, winning Englands first football trophy since 1966 become an misogynistic brickbats for the likes of Guns of Hackney?
…and yea, the FA should pay them the same match bonuses they pay the.men. The men didn’t need it and donate it but these young won’t absolutely depend in such money for subsistence.
After all the women’s team filled Wembley to the rafters and actually win a trophy..
We can’t be worrying about a 4th choice CB (Holding) when injury to Partey can derail our season or jeopardize our top 4 chances. All the other upgrades can wait but we must buy a player who can replace Partey when he is not available and replace Xhaka when Partey is available.
Toerrera getting linked to Galatasaray. I guess upon his departure we can possibly see some movement on Tielemans’ transfer.
Yeah I dunno why we haven’t moved for any CM’s yet but I don’t buy the whole waiting until we get rid of others line. We’re able to sell (not well tbf) and big clubs don’t wait until they sell before buy they’d be confident either way
Lucas Torreira ‘can be considered’ a new Galatasaray player, after they agreed a €5.5m fee, plus €1.5m in bonuses, with Arsenal for the player. Torreira will have his medical in Istanbul & sign a three-year contract, with the option of a further season. [@asmarcatr]
Very low fee if true but I guess given our track record anything more than a free transfer is welcome.
I want Tielemans or another CM as much as anybody, but we need to calm down. As someone said, who knows what ridiculous price was quoted by Leicester? It could be an outrageous number…. and I’d wait till the end of the window, as long as we have a plan B that we like. They way the word was put out to the Arsenal sourced “journalists” to slow their roll many weeks ago probably means we got unrealistic demands from Leicester when we approached. It’s common sense. Since we don’t know what’s really going on… stop criticism of our own… Read more »
7 million euros for Torreira is pittance considering how rated he was before joining us
We really are shit at selling for good fees.
If true I’d much rather take that small fee for Torreira even if those shady scumb@gs at Fiorentina offered a little more. Disgusting how they handled themselves on the loan option. We could have sent him to a club last year that would have honest intent if the guy played great as he did last season. It turned out to be a wasted year.
Oh nevermind. Marko could’ve done much better managing transfers.
It’s only sad that he hasn’t applied for the job as technical director at Arsenal. I’m sure his rousing success in some other field precludes him.
Rich it’s not me who is smoking something We have three quality CBs competing for two positions. Tomi is also really good and can play there. Holding is a squaddie and I challenge you to find any other teams with a 4th or 5th choice CB who is better than him. You are a proponent of having expensive elite players clogging up our bench in positions where we have depth whilst we’re one injury to Partey away from throwing our season down the drain again It’s a matter of priorities AM and CB are our deepest positions in our squad… Read more »
They should be lining up around the block for Torreira at €5.5 million, + €1.5 million in potential add on’s.
Would be surprised if he goes to Turkey, always need to be careful with reports coming out of there.
I like him, but since he doesn’t want to be here, and we need to clear up the surplus, we need to put this to bed ASAP
Nigel your ability to offer up a counter argument is second to none
In their excitement the ladies of the English football team gatecrashed their managers after match press conference dancing in singing “Football’s Coming Home”
Before they had literally left the room the first question the media asked the manager was “Isn’t that song meant to be banned?”
Don’t you just hate this modern day media.
Tuffers
“Not much mention of Granit excelling”
He won’t be “excelling” consistently even if that is the right term to use in regards Xhaka.
Never has done. Never will do.
I understand the huge optimism within the fanbase which I go along with at this certain time btw but it extending it to pretending Xhaka is all of a sudden an excellent player is a bridge too far for me.
LT gone to Galatasary 8m euros
Another cheap sale but at least we got some money
One more out and we can bring a non HG player in
we can bring a non HG player in
I think we were absolutely solid in that area either way.
Saliba and Martinelli count as home grown since they’ve been registered 3 years before they turned 21
Torriera ruined his value himself by repeatedly saying he doesn’t want to at Arsenal
He even left the preseason tour early, a tapir he should ]not have gone on to ge honest. The likes of Patino should have had that spot.
All the best to him, good riddance.
I’m sure he’ll love Turkey.
I do love the way we stuffed Florientina after their unprofessional conduct.
China It’s not necessarily about having an expensive player in there, although I would say no to an upgrade at left centre back, it’s about ensuring consistency in the way we attack + defend as a team. Holding + Mari can’t play in the way that we need them too, this is pretty basic stuff, and if at some point we ask them too, in the big 6 pointers, or in the big cup games, that’s the fine margins between success + failure. Tomiyasu can play centre back, he plays there for Japan. We’ve got 2 excellent left backs in… Read more »
The HG rule is a joke
How can Saliba be considered HG, when he’s yet to play a competitive game, three years after his signing?
It’s been trained/registered for 3 years before they turn 21. Thems the rules
Ishola, All I’m asking for is honest appraisals of the guys actual performances. We all know he was better than ever before under Arteta last year, thats generally accepted here….. and even though this was a friendly, he had some real eye opening contributions. I’m just saying, give the guy the credit that he earns for the club. Nothing more than that. Old animosity is a shitty thing to hold on to. People should learn to let go, and enjoy something positive if it’s happening right in front of your face. You don’t think any of those plays I mentioned… Read more »
Tuffers Implying that Xhaka is an excellent player by using terms like “excelling” about him isn’t a really honest appraisal is it. The situation we have had with Xhaka for a long time now is because everyone has been aware of his faults as a player when he doesn’t fault and has good games they become overblown and become heightened in praise because of the very fact of him being seen as not one of the best players. This situation happens a lot with other clubs as well. This is a player you have been requesting to be sold all… Read more »
I mean if Xhaka is typecast as shit/scapegoat it’s absolutely warranted at this point
It’s not Russian roulette to have two good LBs. how many top teams have more than two quality LBs and 4-5 elite CBs? Who are Liverpool’s, Chelsea’s, Utd’s and Spurs’ 4th choice CBs? I agree Holding is not best suited to playing a high line. He’s more of an old school CB. But you’re selling him well short. He’s not some useless donkey or a mustafi. He’s pretty consistently solid when he gets a run of games. I don’t know how you can ask more from a 4th choice CB at a club that isn’t money bags (unless we are… Read more »
Here’s the real counter argument. Torreira is a great little player with real emotional issues (not funny). He’s acted like a weirdo in his statements and behaviour, and screwed Arsenal over to milk his contract. Fiorentina had every right not to exercise their buy option, but…. to try to haggle down was pathetic because they did want Torreira for sure. That was a wasted year that put him into his final year, and he’s still making dickhead statements publicly, so yes, he’s a cancer in the team and every potential buyer knows it. A loan to a decent club last… Read more »
Arsenal have educated Saliba between the age of 18-21, they might have used the loan market to do that. But they’ve still developed a youth player through their actions, The whole point of the homegrown rule is to ensure we get young players into the game, and to do that they have to incentivise clubs to develop talent, either by giving them opportunities themselves, or by getting them minutes elsewhere, before getting them into the first team. It’s a great rule, I’d like to see it go further, bring it down from 17/8, to 14/11, or 13/12 We can still… Read more »
Ishola,
The fact that you can’t even give credit when a player has a great match, or a great moment in a game… says everything about you.
Not even a slight chance you’ll give someone a fair appraisal because you’ve made up your mind that you hate the guy.
It doesn’t take a psychology professor to see that you are not judging him on performances, but your personal feelings.
I wish people could be better to our players. Pedro talks about positive vibes, togetherness that’s coming from all over the fanbase.
Just not from you.
Do Chelsea have a single original thought when it comes to player recruitment or do they just wait to see what top teams go for and then try to hijack the deal? Now its Cucurella from under the noses of City.
I don’t know how bad LT’s wages were but it seems pretty primary to get him Bell and Leno off the payroll for their wages even if the fees are less than satisfactory. None of those players are going to make huge increases to their fees.
Pepe… who knows. I think most of us would think a year or two in the bundesliga and pepe would probably be more sought after…
I’m gonna go full Nigel here and say had Partey mugged off Lukaku and nutmegged Alonso in one move at the edge of our own pen box to spring our counter and goal v Chelsea , or nutmegged Sevilla player in traffic on the way to our sixth posters would’ve been waxing lyrical for ages. Xhaka does it and it’s kinda banter fodder more than anything. Nigel, how low is your standard for excellence when a forty yard ball from White to Jesus, who’s adjusting himself the whole time the ball is in the air, is the subject of such… Read more »
Tuffers
I’m consistent in my views about Xhaka.
You aren’t.
Again you were saying you wouldn’t mind seeing him sold this summer previously.
We are not even into the proper season.
If Xhaka keeps having good to decent games which are propelled in praise because of his known limitations as a player going into the new year then even I might change my overall opinion of him.