You'd have to be so gullible to believe Guehi rumours unless, maybe Gabriel is being sold. Otherwise.. people should have a tiny bit of common sense to filter out obvious bullshit.
I can't believe the Guehi rumours. We already have the numbers in defence, if you don't believe me I think ES might have posted once or twice on our squad numbers. With Calafiori coming and say Kiwior leaving, that would still leave us with five international CBs!
The only reason that would make sense is if Tomiyasu has a longterm injury. That way we have Saliba and Guehi for RCB, Timber and White for RB (timber would take up Tomi's role of playing everywhere) Calafiori, Zinchenko and Gabriel as left sided players.
I still think we shouldn't rely on Tomi regardless. But I want a free signing like OG Pepe at 40 years old to have a guarantee than spend 50 mil on a backup. The money could be used else where like an 8, a 6 and a Winger.
"Our 2024/25 campaign gets underway when we take on Bournemouth in Los Angeles, and the only place to watch the action live is on Arsenal com and the official app!"
The game is a 7.30pm kick-off local time on Wednesday, July 24, and tickets are still available to purchase.
However, if you are based in the UK or the Republic of Ireland, you can catch all the action live on our channels by purchasing a match pass for only £4.99, allowing you to stream the game from the comfort of your own home.
Coverage starts at 2.30am UK time in the early hours of Thursday morning, with a full hour-long build-up show getting you ready for the start of our 2024/25 season!
This game is being sold separately from our other matches this summer, so make sure you also pick up an Early Bird Match Pass to also see our games against Manchester United and Liverpool Stateside, plus our home matches against Bayer Leverkusen and Lyon, all the for the price of £9.99 - find out more."
As long as Europe continues with imperialist activities in Africa, they will reap the fruit of Africans coming to Europe and having as many offspring as possible
- "Official: Arsenal youngsters Ceadach O’Neill & Louis Zecevic John are among the 11 new first-year scholars at the club ahead of the 2024/25 season"
- "Chido Obi-Martin (16) has NOT been named in Arsenal’s new first-year scholars ahead of the 2024/25 season, all but confirming his departure from the club."
The squad of players travelling to the States includes a significant number of Under 21 players. Also the squad will be without 9 first team squad players [8 on holiday post Euros and Copa America plus Tomiyasu who is out injured]
The next three friendlies are all against EPL opposition covering three games in 10 days. My expectation is that Arteta will use these games to test the youngsters at this level, but also to make
final decisions on players who could potentially leave.
What needs to be decided also is the size of next season's squad and also how we redress the "home grown" rule if players like Ramsdale, Hein, Smith-Rowe, Nelson and Nketiah were to leave.
My expectation has been that Arsenal will recruit this summer 4 new players. Specifically a third
string goalkeeper to replace Hein who will be sent out on loan. A defender who will become our first string left back [most probably Calafiori], a midfielder and a forward.
Common sense dictates that if we are going to challenge for EPL and Cup honours we need at
least 20 players good enough to start first team games and/or come off bench.
Both Real Madrid and Manchester City cut the size of their squads last year to 22 and 23. So it is
possible that Arsenal will follow a similar route. Both Cedric and Elneny were virtually unused and
do not need to be replaced. So if we recruit 4 new players this summer we need to replace only
those additional players that are actually leaving
Firstly, If you believe the rumour Mills, we are already working on the home grown thing because we have submitted second bid for guehi. I believe it because he is another defensive addition. So as per usual, let us make ourselves difficult to beat. Secondly, those list were just there for the sake of it last season. I doubt if all of them had 20 starts combined. So he can as well put some unknown names there just to fill the slot. What is the point of home grown players that won't get to play.
If we reduce squad to 23 then of course we can reduce the number of home grown requirements as well.
The easiest solution is to recruit a third string goalkeeper who is home grown. That
appears to be one position in squad which is easy to fill without spending a lot of
money.
Also I do think that Arsenal will promote at least one player from U21s most probably
Nanweri. Arteta will be under considerable pressure to promote someone not only
because what has been going on in Academy, but because it was the declared policy
of club's owners to recruit youth from within club.
This has been always my opinion as well. There will always be games in a season where a player such as Nanweri can be given 20 minutes gametime without risk
Nwaneri should be selected for the early FA Cup games and Carabao Cup that we have. And subbed in for the final 10 minutes of an EPL game which has clearly been won.
This should be enough time and a great incentive to give proper real game time to a young player finding his feet in our first team.
Nwaneri shouldn't be put in the squad just for the sake of filling a spot. The guy is a generational talent like saka and Smith. His development will be stalling if all he gets is 3 injury time minutes every month. He needs to trust him with the hopes of using him to help the team and not to waist time. He can as well loan him out immediately to a manager who has no fear in trusting talented young players.
Shouldn’t bring politics into it especially as Joe doesn’t know he stepped down. Arteta would play the kids if they were good enough. We were very unfortunate last season to not get a decent draw in the cup competitions so we could bed a few in. COYG
Sleepy Joe might not know he stepped down, but now that he has you can be sure old age , mixing up names of important people, and drifting off subject mid sentence will no longer be seen as impediment to presidency.
Talking of knowing the right time to leave. If arteta also fall short this season like the previous 5 seasons, will it be right time for him to leave? Or is the rule meant for players and Wenger alone. Just asking please. No harm intended.
It’s interesting to see you Brits weigh in on US politics. Most of you are so concerned with trump being the leader but as I told all of you after the 2020 election you have little understanding of what u are wantjng. Biden and any Democrat atm has no ability to stop the US from being led by the military industrial complex which leads the world into another world war. Biden’s war, Ukraine, cough ahem…and the continuation of the invasion by the rest of the Americas must stop unless u think you and your sons should put their life on the line for these elite assholes. Was Brexit not partially due to the immigration issue? Well it is infinitely worse here. We have the cartel and gang members infiltrating this country not to mention the threat of terrorists. Acknowledged or not, a fractured US is a threat to peace amongst the world.
Is Trump perfect, hell no. Is he the polished politician? Hell no. But he is not the idiot you all make him out to be. How many wars did he start the first go round again? Peace and negotiations are very important at this time and so many of you just get your news from such biased sources that you need to reconsider your sources.
Pedro, first and foremost, I have so much respect for u. You have given me so much joy with this blog that I will not disrespect u ever. Say the word and I’ll stop but I implore u to check the source. That has been throughly debunked… a la the Russian hoax. Anyway, let’s assume it’s true. A “suggestion” by a president is a least free choice. I didn’t don’t fall for his clot shot. And yes I blame him for it. He’s not perfect. Trust me, but a choice is all I’m asking for and Biden wanted to rule over you and make u take it… ask the veterans and airlines.
Oh wow. Ultraviolet light kills Covid on contact?! Wow, know what else does… the common cold! And every other virus. UV is 99 percent effective against virus. Any water filtration lackey could have told u the same thing. .. and in a much more educated way. News flash… Trump isn’t Einstein. He also didn’t bring down the full force of the state to make u obey. Not getting the point.
‘idiot’! well done Luteo… u moderated yourself. Your intelligence usually involves some serious vulgar language. I relent,both of you are enlightened to the understanding of the American people. Please, educate me on the bill of rights next.
No thanks. I’d rather teach an autistic child how to wipe himself than talk to you further. At least with the child there’s some semblance of hope that he won’t be smearing himself with shit at some point.
Also, should go without saying, I have total respect for you. Just pointing out that Trump did say it and no one can debunk it. I watched it live on TV.
If it's true that a Saudi club really likes Jesus I'd sell to them at anywhere near 50m, I'd add to that money and buy Gyokeres if possible and still a good winger. We can afford it unless all the discussed sales completely fall through. Gyokeres will score twice as many goals as Jesus and works hard too.
I usually don't do speculative transfer ideas, but I really think Jesus is going to end up a bad purchase financially overall.... and he just misses far too many chances, and games, for his cost.
The lack of noise interms of midfield recruitment is concerning. If or when ESR leaves we will be left with Odegaard, Rice, Partey, Jorginho, and Vieira. I am assuming that the Merino links have some truth in them, That makes 8 players with Merino coming in and ESR leaving. I am assuming Rice and Merino will be the 8s , Partey and Jorginho the 6's with Rice shifting when needed too. There lies my problem. Partey can't be counted up on to be the 8th midfielder. We can't bank on him.
There needs to be 2 midfield additions at the very least when ESR leaves. Our season can't be dependent on a player who hasn't been fit in cruicial moments during the past 4 seasons.
Same goes for Tomiyasu, A CB/RB is needed to phase him out and sell him now or in January.
We also need a Winger with that, possibly a keeper if Ramsdale leaves.
Calafiori looks some player. And judging by the disappointment of him leaving the Serie A of all these Italian pundits and ex players , I think we will get a quality player. The serious issue more than anything has to be fitness first and foremost. We need him to stay fit for the season to be sure this won't be a mistake.
Vieira - you must be joking right! See Utd made a nice 30mill profit on Greenwood, whilst Marseille only want Eddie on loan, taking the mick out of Arsenal & getting away with it as usual. Sold Auba to the Saudis, Edu paid him to leave. Useless .
https://x.com/scrapytweets/status/1815688210657206778?t=xUK6mhRnwlM-zEhKKT1ryg&s=19
A magic touch for assists and shooting. Could be a Bruno Fernandez level or better with enough playing time... somewhere.
And enough about chido nobody. Let me know when he's scoring 20 plus goals anywhere in decent league.
We're the Arsenal. One of the best teams in the world, and he isn't even getting my attention anymore.
You'd have to be so gullible to believe Guehi rumours unless, maybe Gabriel is being sold. Otherwise.. people should have a tiny bit of common sense to filter out obvious bullshit.
I can't believe the Guehi rumours. We already have the numbers in defence, if you don't believe me I think ES might have posted once or twice on our squad numbers. With Calafiori coming and say Kiwior leaving, that would still leave us with five international CBs!
The only reason that would make sense is if Tomiyasu has a longterm injury. That way we have Saliba and Guehi for RCB, Timber and White for RB (timber would take up Tomi's role of playing everywhere) Calafiori, Zinchenko and Gabriel as left sided players.
I still think we shouldn't rely on Tomi regardless. But I want a free signing like OG Pepe at 40 years old to have a guarantee than spend 50 mil on a backup. The money could be used else where like an 8, a 6 and a Winger.
Still feels like defensive overkill!
Arsenal website -
"Our 2024/25 campaign gets underway when we take on Bournemouth in Los Angeles, and the only place to watch the action live is on Arsenal com and the official app!"
The game is a 7.30pm kick-off local time on Wednesday, July 24, and tickets are still available to purchase.
However, if you are based in the UK or the Republic of Ireland, you can catch all the action live on our channels by purchasing a match pass for only £4.99, allowing you to stream the game from the comfort of your own home.
Coverage starts at 2.30am UK time in the early hours of Thursday morning, with a full hour-long build-up show getting you ready for the start of our 2024/25 season!
This game is being sold separately from our other matches this summer, so make sure you also pick up an Early Bird Match Pass to also see our games against Manchester United and Liverpool Stateside, plus our home matches against Bayer Leverkusen and Lyon, all the for the price of £9.99 - find out more."
Bet I can get it on Bingsport - but watching a low level friendly at 2.30am is not for me
Yes, I wondered if there would be more than 3 gooners willing to pay a fiver for friendly against Bournemouth at 03:30 early thursday morning.
No, maybe not over there. But it's 9:30pm CT for gooners like MidwestGunner and myself.
SST hitting em up with his longstuff.
Wait, the Sidster is a MAGA Trump guy?
Didn’t see that one coming.
But he won’t tell us from what “shithole” country he hails.
Weird.
Hardly a surprise. Sid is a white African with an identity crisis.
Its good for Africa if its hard for immigrants to get into the US of A.
Trump will withdraw from Ukraine and Vlad can reunite the 2 brother nations.
'Its good for Africa if its hard for immigrants to get into the US of A'.
Same feelings for African immigrants to Europe?
As long as Europe continues with imperialist activities in Africa, they will reap the fruit of Africans coming to Europe and having as many offspring as possible
‘Imperialist activities’ Putin?
Think China might be more of an issue these days!
Ukrainians and Russians are like the Welsh and English.
Dont make me laugh about your misguided views on China, the data tells a different story
Obi is gone as I said before if he does not want to stay bollocks to him very rare a player that young makes it anyway.
From twitter acct AFCstuff -
- "Official: Arsenal youngsters Ceadach O’Neill & Louis Zecevic John are among the 11 new first-year scholars at the club ahead of the 2024/25 season"
- "Chido Obi-Martin (16) has NOT been named in Arsenal’s new first-year scholars ahead of the 2024/25 season, all but confirming his departure from the club."
The squad of players travelling to the States includes a significant number of Under 21 players. Also the squad will be without 9 first team squad players [8 on holiday post Euros and Copa America plus Tomiyasu who is out injured]
The next three friendlies are all against EPL opposition covering three games in 10 days. My expectation is that Arteta will use these games to test the youngsters at this level, but also to make
final decisions on players who could potentially leave.
What needs to be decided also is the size of next season's squad and also how we redress the "home grown" rule if players like Ramsdale, Hein, Smith-Rowe, Nelson and Nketiah were to leave.
My expectation has been that Arsenal will recruit this summer 4 new players. Specifically a third
string goalkeeper to replace Hein who will be sent out on loan. A defender who will become our first string left back [most probably Calafiori], a midfielder and a forward.
Common sense dictates that if we are going to challenge for EPL and Cup honours we need at
least 20 players good enough to start first team games and/or come off bench.
Both Real Madrid and Manchester City cut the size of their squads last year to 22 and 23. So it is
possible that Arsenal will follow a similar route. Both Cedric and Elneny were virtually unused and
do not need to be replaced. So if we recruit 4 new players this summer we need to replace only
those additional players that are actually leaving
Firstly, If you believe the rumour Mills, we are already working on the home grown thing because we have submitted second bid for guehi. I believe it because he is another defensive addition. So as per usual, let us make ourselves difficult to beat. Secondly, those list were just there for the sake of it last season. I doubt if all of them had 20 starts combined. So he can as well put some unknown names there just to fill the slot. What is the point of home grown players that won't get to play.
If we reduce squad to 23 then of course we can reduce the number of home grown requirements as well.
The easiest solution is to recruit a third string goalkeeper who is home grown. That
appears to be one position in squad which is easy to fill without spending a lot of
money.
Also I do think that Arsenal will promote at least one player from U21s most probably
Nanweri. Arteta will be under considerable pressure to promote someone not only
because what has been going on in Academy, but because it was the declared policy
of club's owners to recruit youth from within club.
This has been always my opinion as well. There will always be games in a season where a player such as Nanweri can be given 20 minutes gametime without risk
in doing so.
Nwaneri should be selected for the early FA Cup games and Carabao Cup that we have. And subbed in for the final 10 minutes of an EPL game which has clearly been won.
This should be enough time and a great incentive to give proper real game time to a young player finding his feet in our first team.
Nwaneri shouldn't be put in the squad just for the sake of filling a spot. The guy is a generational talent like saka and Smith. His development will be stalling if all he gets is 3 injury time minutes every month. He needs to trust him with the hopes of using him to help the team and not to waist time. He can as well loan him out immediately to a manager who has no fear in trusting talented young players.
Nwaneri. Nwa-neri.
Nanweri sounds like an adjective to describe the feeling if you have a dodgy Grandma!
Shouldn’t bring politics into it especially as Joe doesn’t know he stepped down. Arteta would play the kids if they were good enough. We were very unfortunate last season to not get a decent draw in the cup competitions so we could bed a few in. COYG
Sleepy Joe might not know he stepped down, but now that he has you can be sure old age , mixing up names of important people, and drifting off subject mid sentence will no longer be seen as impediment to presidency.
Nor will constant lying.
Talking of knowing the right time to leave. If arteta also fall short this season like the previous 5 seasons, will it be right time for him to leave? Or is the rule meant for players and Wenger alone. Just asking please. No harm intended.
Lol. When he's just in phase 5 section A?
“well done Luteo… u moderated yourself.”
This was probably the gayest thing I’ve heard on Le Grove since Dissenter threatened to eat everyone’s butts with peanut butter.
Okay. Let’s get the hysterics started.
It’s interesting to see you Brits weigh in on US politics. Most of you are so concerned with trump being the leader but as I told all of you after the 2020 election you have little understanding of what u are wantjng. Biden and any Democrat atm has no ability to stop the US from being led by the military industrial complex which leads the world into another world war. Biden’s war, Ukraine, cough ahem…and the continuation of the invasion by the rest of the Americas must stop unless u think you and your sons should put their life on the line for these elite assholes. Was Brexit not partially due to the immigration issue? Well it is infinitely worse here. We have the cartel and gang members infiltrating this country not to mention the threat of terrorists. Acknowledged or not, a fractured US is a threat to peace amongst the world.
Is Trump perfect, hell no. Is he the polished politician? Hell no. But he is not the idiot you all make him out to be. How many wars did he start the first go round again? Peace and negotiations are very important at this time and so many of you just get your news from such biased sources that you need to reconsider your sources.
My biggest worry with Trump is not war mongering but US isolationism. That itself causes wars
He suggested injecting bleach to cure covid.
Pedro, first and foremost, I have so much respect for u. You have given me so much joy with this blog that I will not disrespect u ever. Say the word and I’ll stop but I implore u to check the source. That has been throughly debunked… a la the Russian hoax. Anyway, let’s assume it’s true. A “suggestion” by a president is a least free choice. I didn’t don’t fall for his clot shot. And yes I blame him for it. He’s not perfect. Trust me, but a choice is all I’m asking for and Biden wanted to rule over you and make u take it… ask the veterans and airlines.
Haha. Now say the Pledge of Allegiance and you too can be a citizen. Or u can just cross the border. To each his own!
… have always appreciated your humor TT.
Oh wow. Ultraviolet light kills Covid on contact?! Wow, know what else does… the common cold! And every other virus. UV is 99 percent effective against virus. Any water filtration lackey could have told u the same thing. .. and in a much more educated way. News flash… Trump isn’t Einstein. He also didn’t bring down the full force of the state to make u obey. Not getting the point.
The only thing that’s been debunked is your mental capacity 🤣. What an idiot.
‘idiot’! well done Luteo… u moderated yourself. Your intelligence usually involves some serious vulgar language. I relent,both of you are enlightened to the understanding of the American people. Please, educate me on the bill of rights next.
No thanks. I’d rather teach an autistic child how to wipe himself than talk to you further. At least with the child there’s some semblance of hope that he won’t be smearing himself with shit at some point.
Luteo’s brain pan size isn’t up for debate here SST.
Yours might be.
There’s a better chance of a wide regional conflict in the Middle East under Trump, then in Eastern Europe under Democratic president.
Israel under Bibi is just itching to take this country to war with Iran and Trump might just accommodate him.
Biden wouldn’t.
Bill of rights, that’s easy,
Something something to do with having a right to own guns?
Aced it!
Also, should go without saying, I have total respect for you. Just pointing out that Trump did say it and no one can debunk it. I watched it live on TV.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zicGxU5MfwE&ab_channel=NBCNewYork
😂😂😂 Hilarious.
If it's true that a Saudi club really likes Jesus I'd sell to them at anywhere near 50m, I'd add to that money and buy Gyokeres if possible and still a good winger. We can afford it unless all the discussed sales completely fall through. Gyokeres will score twice as many goals as Jesus and works hard too.
I usually don't do speculative transfer ideas, but I really think Jesus is going to end up a bad purchase financially overall.... and he just misses far too many chances, and games, for his cost.
The lack of noise interms of midfield recruitment is concerning. If or when ESR leaves we will be left with Odegaard, Rice, Partey, Jorginho, and Vieira. I am assuming that the Merino links have some truth in them, That makes 8 players with Merino coming in and ESR leaving. I am assuming Rice and Merino will be the 8s , Partey and Jorginho the 6's with Rice shifting when needed too. There lies my problem. Partey can't be counted up on to be the 8th midfielder. We can't bank on him.
There needs to be 2 midfield additions at the very least when ESR leaves. Our season can't be dependent on a player who hasn't been fit in cruicial moments during the past 4 seasons.
Same goes for Tomiyasu, A CB/RB is needed to phase him out and sell him now or in January.
We also need a Winger with that, possibly a keeper if Ramsdale leaves.
Calafiori looks some player. And judging by the disappointment of him leaving the Serie A of all these Italian pundits and ex players , I think we will get a quality player. The serious issue more than anything has to be fitness first and foremost. We need him to stay fit for the season to be sure this won't be a mistake.
Vieira - you must be joking right! See Utd made a nice 30mill profit on Greenwood, whilst Marseille only want Eddie on loan, taking the mick out of Arsenal & getting away with it as usual. Sold Auba to the Saudis, Edu paid him to leave. Useless .
I gather as well as Bologna trying to renegotiate sell on clause with Basle, Roma are now litigating against Basle to up their own sell on clause
You couldn’t make it up - a contract is a contract. Really disgraceful behaviour from both Italian clubs