Looks like Ornstino the mouthpiece is preparing the fans for a zero transfer window this Jan with the promise of jam in the summer. Not good at all.Its a Wenger window.Weve seen the movie a million times.Crock returns.Like a ‘ new signing’.
The club are playing with fire on this.We all know what’s reqd,urgently.
I like Barcola, And if you offered him to me before the window, I would have taken it.
But seeing Kvara move for that fee and getting Barcola would be such a disappointment and an Arsenal move. If we tried and he chose to move to PSG anyway, I would be disappointed but I wouldn't feel like shit as a fan.
If we try and we actually get him, we would be a CF away from having one of the best front 3s in world football. There is no excuse not to do this.
You think the kroenkes know the difference between Kvaratskhelia and Ronald Araujo? Come on now you're so close to seeing the difference between who sanctions the money and who spends it
This is where we start demanding players like an Argos catalogue, pretending that what we want has any semblance to what the club will sign, because that's the manager's preference.
Did anyone want Havertz, Calafiori or Merino?
When he decides what he wants, then let the campaign start to big up that player
That's how it works in gooner land; reverse engineering logic.
Exactly he buys players no one wants or ever thinks of, bar Declan Rice; all the players signed are from left field and unconvincing, splitting the fanbase. Obsessed with making a project out of that player to fit into his boring system of "control" football. I see no issues signing star players/upcoming star players performing at the top of the game no matter their cost. We are owned by a billionaire, right? Football clubs spend ridiculous sums on human beings that are not worth the amounts, but such is life and the market.
I mean stop pretending that the club will ever sign a £80 million unless this manager approves it.
Ask yourself, how "versatile" is Khvicha Kvaratskhelia in the Arteta philosophy of football
Then proceed to answer the question if he's the type Arteta will want.
Question was asked in jest, can he play left back? That's the Arteta way.
There was a reason we didn't try to sign Isak in 2022 for £63 million on 120k wages but were all over Havertz for £65 million on 285k weekly wages, one year later in 2023.
We're not buying anyone. The sooner you give up on those dreams, the better. I'm not looking forward to Arteta buying more defensive players this summer. Just going to wait until the fans are sick of him and start to turn. He is no Wenger, so surely he's not surviving that.
"We will be involved if a special opportunity comes"
One of the best LW in europe at 23 years of age becomes available for a good fee, and we sit on our ass. I can't defend this crap. I am pretty sure Arteta would love a player like that. There is no way he is watching Trossard and Martinelli every week and wants Kvara to go elsewhere without any competetion.
If we are in for him, who do you blame? I'm sure people will blame everyone including the tea lady but arteta. Just wait a moment when he will start fighting over another left back or goalkeeper.
Oh fuck off. One transfer and you are still complaining. City signed a 100m Grealish, 60m Doku, 50m Haaland (lol, the actual figure is way higher). We have spent 130m in 5 years on attackers because we had Saka and Martinelli.
You thinking our manager has his head buried in the sand is dumb. He knows his attackers are underperforming. If he had a choice he would want him. You just keep talking bullshit.
Lol, he does more work than Trossard. And the guy actually excels in both tight spaces and in transitions. Arteta prefering a defensive attacker is just bullshit if he knows he will get a much more better output going forward. He was playing ESR regularly there till he was injury prone. Trossard is playing for us regularly and he isn't the best at defending either.
"39 year old Ashley Young who won 39 caps for England and was in the squad for the 2018 World Cup - but says playing against his teenage son Tyler would be the greatest moment of his career.
Tyler, 18, is in the Peterborough United squad for Thursday's third-round tie against his dad's current team Everton (19:45 GMT)"
The son said "“If I was to nutmeg my dad, I don’t think he would let me back in the house,"
This is an amazing story, no doubt.
Still grates me that Gabriel Martinelli don't lay a glove on Ashley Young at the Emirates. He didn't break a sweat that day.
Dunno if there's any truth in these Kvaratskhelia rumors but for the love of god I hope so because he's absolutely outstanding. But knowing us...it's unavailable targets we have in mind...can he play CB Arteta would ask
"Arsenal's acting sporting director Jason Ayto has growing internal support to take on the role permanently.
Ayto has taken on Edu's responsibilities since the Brazilian left his role in November, as exclusively revealed by Mail Sport, and is making quite an impression behind the scenes at the club.
The club's ownership are said to have been impressed with Ayto's work since his appointment on an interim basis and is viewed as a genuine contender for the vacancy."
Kvara is on the move apparently with PSG pushing to get him. This is even a player that didn't seem available in the first place. I am so tired of the excuses of players not being available. City trying to get marmoush and now this. Why are we this crap when it comes to transfers? I am pretty sure Arteta would love these players, It doesn't make sense we wouldn't move for these talents when they are available in January.
We are crap because the fans are the ones making excuses for them. Before they even said players are not available, the fans are already saying it. They say how important a player is to their club and how they will die to hold on to them. Instead of demanding improvement and putting pressure on the manager and the owner. Kroenke is meeting his targets every season. He is in champions league and making profit. He doesn't come to the stadium to watch and I doubt he even bothered to see them on TV. How does he care about carabao cup or fa cup. If he cares more than profit making, he wouldn't have renew arteta until he shows results. Trophy.
You keep pretending that we didn't try to sign Sesko last season, because that's the player he wanted. The player chose to stay at Leipzig for his development.
I agree with you that earlier generations are more resilient to illness than those of today.
However, the current virus which is resulting in many patients being hospitalised is debilitating. Both Odegaard and Havertz looked "under the weather" when they played
Before you could see he's upset at not starting some games. Now he's played in every single important game this season, started in 2/3 of all games and he's still upset at something.
I can't figure him out. What is he mad at exactly? At himself maybe cause he's been a bit average? I doubt he wants to be moved on but for the right price and provided a good replacement can be secured, I'd be quite good with it.
Khvicha Kvaratskhelia's chances of leaving Italy are increasing every day.
The Georgian footballer and Napoli have not yet been able to agree on a new contract. The gap between the demand and the offer is quite large, which is why a transfer in January is not ruled out.
PSG's interest is real as reported by
@FabrizioRomano. The Parisians also wanted to buy the Georgian in the summer of 2024. English clubs are also closely monitoring Kvaratskhelia's situation.
A lot of Arsenal own fans don't respect our manager. How do we expect the media and rival fans to respect our club?
Reporter: Other managers in the past have complained about match ball, do you feel it’s different and affected the result?
Arteta: It’s different to the PL, it flies different but you have to adapt.
A bunch of idiots queuing up to ridicule him for making excuses with the ball. He answered a question ffs.
We've got Marko leading the brigade of idiots dropping retarded comments and making fun of it. Our own Arsenal fans. Good effing grief.
A comment taken out of context served as a proof for making an excuse. Keep going. You lot are great servants of the club. Let's all laugh at the incredible jokes made by our own fans ridiculing our manager. Top drawer stuff.
Wenger, the foreigner came to England and revolutionalised the game. Went unbeaten with a lot of foreigners (a lot of black players as well).
I know the hatred goes even deeper from earlier years. The only London team rivaling the Northern teams etc.
Our own fans are laughing at our manager and, as a result, they're making a joke out of our club. Bravo!
People who laughed at Wenger all of a sudden want everyone to stop laughing at a nobody. An average player and on his way to becoming an average manager at best.
The ones that are idiots and are who believes that nonsense. We used the same ball as Newcastle, we were playing at our own stadium and it was not as if he just knew about the match ball that night. Only a lazy person complains about his tools and only idiots believe him.
Arteta shouldn't have mentioned the ball being a problem in the first place is why I think it was ridiculous answer, he's not complaining about it when we win.
Newcastle seemed to know how to shoot this diabolical ball into the net, so why didn't we?
If you think talking about Odegaard's footballing skills is the same as ridiculing the Arsenal's manager for being full of shit and excuses is the same, sure.
Attack on the manager's persona =/= thinking Odegaard's abilities are not what we need from our AM.
I'm glad you lot can get together and make fun of our manager. How cool of you.
"even when he’s playing through his wife’s childbirth and viral infections" you make it sound like I just formed my opinion couple of weeks ago. Big lol!
Or maybe, you know, he was being honest as Pep has commented on it before. Pep even did it after his team had won. He is allowed to speak what he feels and he's probably right - the ball is different to the ball they usually play with and probably feels different to the ball they usually play with.
What's so spectacularly ridiculous about it? Pep has said it before but you know, nobody gave a fuck. Arteta though, let's all laugh at him, right? Anti-Arsenal agenda, not only from the rival fans and media but from the Arsenal fans themselves.
“Mikel Arteta went into this season in his strongest position of power ever at Arsenal, having been handed a new three-year contract in September. That contract, I’m told, was one of the key reasons why Edu resigned as sporting director. He wasn’t happy with Arteta’s increasing authority at the club.”
Looks like Ornstino the mouthpiece is preparing the fans for a zero transfer window this Jan with the promise of jam in the summer. Not good at all.Its a Wenger window.Weve seen the movie a million times.Crock returns.Like a ‘ new signing’.
The club are playing with fire on this.We all know what’s reqd,urgently.
Support the manager and enjoy the journey
I'm sure you will stay "positive" when your 15 million a year manager breaks the same news to you.
Oh wait, hasn't he said that already?
It'd be just like arsenal to not try for Kvaratskhelia but try to sign up someone at PSG that he's replacing.
I like Barcola, And if you offered him to me before the window, I would have taken it.
But seeing Kvara move for that fee and getting Barcola would be such a disappointment and an Arsenal move. If we tried and he chose to move to PSG anyway, I would be disappointed but I wouldn't feel like shit as a fan.
If we try and we actually get him, we would be a CF away from having one of the best front 3s in world football. There is no excuse not to do this.
You want Kvaratskhelia then think you'd settle for Barcola but then PSG offer you Muani or Dembele...and then Mikel signs a CB to play LB...
Lol, I can actually see that happening. Nothing has changed with the kroenkes for me.
You think the kroenkes know the difference between Kvaratskhelia and Ronald Araujo? Come on now you're so close to seeing the difference between who sanctions the money and who spends it
No, they rarely act when we actually need a leg up.
800 million in 5 years beg to differ on that.
This is where we start demanding players like an Argos catalogue, pretending that what we want has any semblance to what the club will sign, because that's the manager's preference.
Did anyone want Havertz, Calafiori or Merino?
When he decides what he wants, then let the campaign start to big up that player
That's how it works in gooner land; reverse engineering logic.
Exactly he buys players no one wants or ever thinks of, bar Declan Rice; all the players signed are from left field and unconvincing, splitting the fanbase. Obsessed with making a project out of that player to fit into his boring system of "control" football. I see no issues signing star players/upcoming star players performing at the top of the game no matter their cost. We are owned by a billionaire, right? Football clubs spend ridiculous sums on human beings that are not worth the amounts, but such is life and the market.
I mean stop pretending that the club will ever sign a £80 million unless this manager approves it.
Ask yourself, how "versatile" is Khvicha Kvaratskhelia in the Arteta philosophy of football
Then proceed to answer the question if he's the type Arteta will want.
Question was asked in jest, can he play left back? That's the Arteta way.
There was a reason we didn't try to sign Isak in 2022 for £63 million on 120k wages but were all over Havertz for £65 million on 285k weekly wages, one year later in 2023.
I think the main reason was he only scored 6 goals in La Liga that season.
FYI anything under 100 million euros is a bit of a steal for Khvicha Kvaratskhelia. He's top bin
We're not buying anyone. The sooner you give up on those dreams, the better. I'm not looking forward to Arteta buying more defensive players this summer. Just going to wait until the fans are sick of him and start to turn. He is no Wenger, so surely he's not surviving that.
Hey what we SHOULD do and what we WILL do isn't always the same
sorry I couldn't like your comment 1000x
€80m figure touted for him. And PSG want to include Skrinar in that deal too.
It is crazy we aren't involved with our shocking left wing options right now. He is on crazy low wages too.
This is the guy you pay £70m+ for not Cunha. He is one of the best out there.
Less than 70 million pounds... absolute steal imo
"We will be involved if a special opportunity comes"
One of the best LW in europe at 23 years of age becomes available for a good fee, and we sit on our ass. I can't defend this crap. I am pretty sure Arteta would love a player like that. There is no way he is watching Trossard and Martinelli every week and wants Kvara to go elsewhere without any competetion.
If we are in for him, who do you blame? I'm sure people will blame everyone including the tea lady but arteta. Just wait a moment when he will start fighting over another left back or goalkeeper.
Leave Habesha and his "I am pretty sure Arteta would love a player like that."
It's head-in-sand, trying to pretend like the Kroenke's didn't approve a £65 million transfer fee, 285k weekly Havert in 2023.
Oh fuck off. One transfer and you are still complaining. City signed a 100m Grealish, 60m Doku, 50m Haaland (lol, the actual figure is way higher). We have spent 130m in 5 years on attackers because we had Saka and Martinelli.
You thinking our manager has his head buried in the sand is dumb. He knows his attackers are underperforming. If he had a choice he would want him. You just keep talking bullshit.
Mike only wants system players. This fella is good, but probably not what Mike wants. Only Mike knows what he wants.
Maybe Artea doesn't like him because he can't do donkey defensive work. Have you considered that?
Lol, he does more work than Trossard. And the guy actually excels in both tight spaces and in transitions. Arteta prefering a defensive attacker is just bullshit if he knows he will get a much more better output going forward. He was playing ESR regularly there till he was injury prone. Trossard is playing for us regularly and he isn't the best at defending either.
"39 year old Ashley Young who won 39 caps for England and was in the squad for the 2018 World Cup - but says playing against his teenage son Tyler would be the greatest moment of his career.
Tyler, 18, is in the Peterborough United squad for Thursday's third-round tie against his dad's current team Everton (19:45 GMT)"
The son said "“If I was to nutmeg my dad, I don’t think he would let me back in the house,"
This is an amazing story, no doubt.
Still grates me that Gabriel Martinelli don't lay a glove on Ashley Young at the Emirates. He didn't break a sweat that day.
Dunno if there's any truth in these Kvaratskhelia rumors but for the love of god I hope so because he's absolutely outstanding. But knowing us...it's unavailable targets we have in mind...can he play CB Arteta would ask
LB
Sami Mokbel, today Daily Mail -
"Arsenal's acting sporting director Jason Ayto has growing internal support to take on the role permanently.
Ayto has taken on Edu's responsibilities since the Brazilian left his role in November, as exclusively revealed by Mail Sport, and is making quite an impression behind the scenes at the club.
The club's ownership are said to have been impressed with Ayto's work since his appointment on an interim basis and is viewed as a genuine contender for the vacancy."
Are you surprised?
He's desperate to impress, very malleable and easily disposed of
...forgot to add cheap too
Kvara is on the move apparently with PSG pushing to get him. This is even a player that didn't seem available in the first place. I am so tired of the excuses of players not being available. City trying to get marmoush and now this. Why are we this crap when it comes to transfers? I am pretty sure Arteta would love these players, It doesn't make sense we wouldn't move for these talents when they are available in January.
We are crap because the fans are the ones making excuses for them. Before they even said players are not available, the fans are already saying it. They say how important a player is to their club and how they will die to hold on to them. Instead of demanding improvement and putting pressure on the manager and the owner. Kroenke is meeting his targets every season. He is in champions league and making profit. He doesn't come to the stadium to watch and I doubt he even bothered to see them on TV. How does he care about carabao cup or fa cup. If he cares more than profit making, he wouldn't have renew arteta until he shows results. Trophy.
I agree with everything apart from the Arteta bit.
Arteta has never heard of them probably. Remember he only knows stars in tournaments or former players
Why do you assume it is Arteta and not our board? Do you think he wanted Sterling on loan on deadline day and not use him at all?
You keep pretending that we didn't try to sign Sesko last season, because that's the player he wanted. The player chose to stay at Leipzig for his development.
This was widely reported but you ignore that.
Easier to blame the "board" though
So what? Does it mean he wanted Sterling? A player chose to stay where he was.
Does it mean we sit on our ass when one of the best LW in world football who is 23 is being sold in January?
Back when i was a boy women would give birth at the farm by themselves and carry the child home, a cold would be cured by swallowing 2 raw eggs.
Now we have young men who are supposed to be at peak performance who cant handle the flu and their partners nursing.
I suppose you'd Bitch slap them sid with your long stuff.telling them to man up.
Sid
I agree with you that earlier generations are more resilient to illness than those of today.
However, the current virus which is resulting in many patients being hospitalised is debilitating. Both Odegaard and Havertz looked "under the weather" when they played
on Tuesday.
I agree. What im Not sure about is whether the viruses are stronger or immunity is weaker because of lifestyle
On this occasion I think that this strain of flu is unpleasant and I do think that
it has had a negative impact on performance of players.
Our match schedule and the fitness of our players is far more relevant to our
performance on Tuesday than the debate about football being used in Carabo
Cup.
Theres a big difference between someone raised on baby formula and another on unpasteurized whole milk
If you’ve ever truly had flu Sid, you wouldn’t be able to get out of bed. Stop being a prick-you’re like the annoying kid in the playground.
I think we live in totally different worlds
Well I’m happy for that. And you’re posting in mine.
Do i little research on Granviler Wood, philip Emeagwali, Otis Boykin then you will appear less ignorant
Another incredibly productive day for raptora coming up.
He spends 19 hours a day on the internet looking up stats and whining about the mean things he reads on TwitFace so the rest of us don't have to.
Thanks mate.
Half of those 19 hours dedicated to bashing Odegaard, the real reason Arteta will never dominate world football
You're welcome!
They do have to sell Trossard
He looks unhappy, has horrible form and his contract runs out in June 2026
They ought to sell him this January, that is if we are well run with a proper director of football looking after the club’s interests .
Yup. His smile is gone.
Before you could see he's upset at not starting some games. Now he's played in every single important game this season, started in 2/3 of all games and he's still upset at something.
I can't figure him out. What is he mad at exactly? At himself maybe cause he's been a bit average? I doubt he wants to be moved on but for the right price and provided a good replacement can be secured, I'd be quite good with it.
Lasha Kokiashvili, La Gazzetta dello Sport
Khvicha Kvaratskhelia's chances of leaving Italy are increasing every day.
The Georgian footballer and Napoli have not yet been able to agree on a new contract. The gap between the demand and the offer is quite large, which is why a transfer in January is not ruled out.
PSG's interest is real as reported by
@FabrizioRomano. The Parisians also wanted to buy the Georgian in the summer of 2024. English clubs are also closely monitoring Kvaratskhelia's situation.
A lot of Arsenal own fans don't respect our manager. How do we expect the media and rival fans to respect our club?
Reporter: Other managers in the past have complained about match ball, do you feel it’s different and affected the result?
Arteta: It’s different to the PL, it flies different but you have to adapt.
A bunch of idiots queuing up to ridicule him for making excuses with the ball. He answered a question ffs.
We've got Marko leading the brigade of idiots dropping retarded comments and making fun of it. Our own Arsenal fans. Good effing grief.
A comment taken out of context served as a proof for making an excuse. Keep going. You lot are great servants of the club. Let's all laugh at the incredible jokes made by our own fans ridiculing our manager. Top drawer stuff.
Wenger, the foreigner came to England and revolutionalised the game. Went unbeaten with a lot of foreigners (a lot of black players as well).
I know the hatred goes even deeper from earlier years. The only London team rivaling the Northern teams etc.
Our own fans are laughing at our manager and, as a result, they're making a joke out of our club. Bravo!
People who laughed at Wenger all of a sudden want everyone to stop laughing at a nobody. An average player and on his way to becoming an average manager at best.
The ones that are idiots and are who believes that nonsense. We used the same ball as Newcastle, we were playing at our own stadium and it was not as if he just knew about the match ball that night. Only a lazy person complains about his tools and only idiots believe him.
Everyday you prove a real immaturity.
Yep weird.Put it down to the fact that they're mostly Accountants ;& bean counters.Sheer frustration.
Arteta shouldn't have mentioned the ball being a problem in the first place is why I think it was ridiculous answer, he's not complaining about it when we win.
Newcastle seemed to know how to shoot this diabolical ball into the net, so why didn't we?
Don’t worry about Mikel
He’s the third highest paid manager in the world. He is well compensated and will be fine.
He doesn’t need you waffling on the internet.
True. Laugh along with Marko in addition to the thousands of idiots doing the same on social media. For answering a question and a clickbait.
You do realize that you’re more guilty of the anti-Arsenal activities you’re accusing others, like Marko of.
You’ve penned thousands of posts attacking our beloved captain, even when he’s playing through his wife’s childbirth and viral infections.
You have attacked the poor dude relentlessly. If I was his ma, I would come after you with a shoe.
You sir have denigrated him and ridiculed him over and over again
What shall we do to you? /s
If you think talking about Odegaard's footballing skills is the same as ridiculing the Arsenal's manager for being full of shit and excuses is the same, sure.
Attack on the manager's persona =/= thinking Odegaard's abilities are not what we need from our AM.
I'm glad you lot can get together and make fun of our manager. How cool of you.
"even when he’s playing through his wife’s childbirth and viral infections" you make it sound like I just formed my opinion couple of weeks ago. Big lol!
Mikel made a fatal error of press briefings and media relations
That post-match press conference wasn’t his first rodeo
He deserves all the excoriations and ridicule he got (and will eternally get) for not handling a very basic question about a match ball properly.
Or maybe, you know, he was being honest as Pep has commented on it before. Pep even did it after his team had won. He is allowed to speak what he feels and he's probably right - the ball is different to the ball they usually play with and probably feels different to the ball they usually play with.
What's so spectacularly ridiculous about it? Pep has said it before but you know, nobody gave a fuck. Arteta though, let's all laugh at him, right? Anti-Arsenal agenda, not only from the rival fans and media but from the Arsenal fans themselves.
The past 2 seasons, the power Arteta had wasnt enough to crush our rivals. The more power he gets the more he will crash, sorry i meant crush.
Sid has been Clockwork Orange'd.
Sunday Times journo talking on a podcast -
“Mikel Arteta went into this season in his strongest position of power ever at Arsenal, having been handed a new three-year contract in September. That contract, I’m told, was one of the key reasons why Edu resigned as sporting director. He wasn’t happy with Arteta’s increasing authority at the club.”
Then he should have fired up the famous Barby - invited Stan - josh over.Problem solved.