Any chance of us doing anything in January?
Probably more attacking players. :ninja:
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Any chance of us doing anything in January?
Probably more attacking players. :ninja:
Think we blew our load in the summer, can't see much happening in the way of incomings.
If a big offer come in for Auba or Laca, and no hint of a contract renewal in the pipeline for either of them, I'd be worried they will decide to cash in.
Sokratis, Xhaka, Mustafi. Sell. Sell, Sell.!
We wish, those clowns seem to be trying to re-integrate Xhaka worryingly, so it's not beyond the realms of reality that they might keep hold of him and make him a regular again.
Only at this club can stuff like this happen, the guy should have never appeared in an Arsenal shirt ever again after not even having the decency to apologise, but here he is having played the last two games, the fans seem to have accepted it as well.
there must be an injury prone creative little midfielder available on loan
we still need 11 players to play a game of football... you cant just get rid of every player... if we got rid of all our defenders you don't rate we will only have Bellerin and Tierney left.
plus you have to question the sanity of any club looking to take those players on in anything more than a loan. Maybe Xhaka is worth something say £5m as long as he doesn't have to play as the deep lying midfielder.
Yes we do, but for a start we have two DM, Luiz (he's actually decent there, but hopeless at CB) and Torreira, Xhaka isn't needed. We have Tierney so Kolasinac doesn't have to play unless he's injured, not saying we should sell him now, but certainly in the summer. At CB we need to buy or loan one in January because frankly Sokratis and Mustafi are a car crash, get rid ASAP and players Chambers, Mavorpanos or Holding next to the new guy.
That would be a good start, we have decent attackers, Martinelli should definitely start ahead of Saka, it's not really that hard to pick a better team. The lineup on saturday was a car crash to be honest, if that's the best we can do we're in trouble.
Maybe we'll do something in January if we can sell Xhaka but that's most likely going to be a loan anyway. Can't see us doing much else, not a chance we've got the funds to buy a top CB mid-season.
Next season we have that Saliba guy coming in, so hopefully he'll be decent, but we needed another top CB.
A new coach, that is all we can afford.
Maropapapappapapalopolos (sp) ;) think he was in training today impressed Ljundberg with his passing. And the new kid next season.
We can only hope.
Liv 2-1 Eve
Random stuff that ended up in the net.
[Edit: That's an update for those who can't be bothered to look in the PL thread - btw]
First part was about Mavs - I thought the last sentence was asking about Saliba?
No idea what the issue is with Mavs? I know he was out for a long time with a groin problem, but that’s about it. Emery really didn’t fancy him, so I guess that’s one endorsement for him...
What's the betting we will go and spend another 70million on a winger!
Sort out Central Defence you bunch of fucking IDIOTS! Spend 70million there.
Chelsea’s transfer ban has been lifted.
Hasn’t been too damaging to them really, considering the contribution of their young players. With a couple of top signings they will probably challenge for the league again soon enough.
Sounds like Auba isn’t going to sign a new deal. :rose:
If a big offer comes in Jan I think we'll take it. Same for Laca. They won't want another season outside of the Champions League and at this rate we may not be in Europe at all.
We'll just have to hope Martinelli comes good, at least he's there to step in to the gap
This is anothe reason I don't understand why the club took so long to sack Emery and didn't have a plan when they did, our two strikers (and two best players) have 1 year left, if you want to convince them to stay and sign a new contract they need a reason, a big manager they believe in, positive results that show we're going somewhere or something like that.
Instead now they'll probably leave (can't believe it's happening again) and we'll be left with a huge hole to life and probably go another 10 years before seeing another decent goalscorer at Arsenal, I honestly don't know what goes through the mind of these people, these are the same people that gave Granit Xhaka, yes Granit Xhaka a new contract a guy with no market value whatsoever because he's not much good.
Some people made a case for sacking him in the summer, but I think it was right to give him a bit longer the Sheff Utd result a shocker, but probably after Palace, we'd been poorly all season going back to the previous season, if not then then 100% after Wolves.
When you look at the performances at the tail end of last season and all the performances this season, really he should have been sacked before he was, as you said though a replacement should have been in place immediately, this scenario is a disaster we're dropping more and more points.
Think he should have gone earlier but you are only talking weeks really. Not like august or September. We all thought we had a very good summer. Im hindsight spending 70m on a winger and not proper defenders looks foolish.
The board didnt want to sack him when they did hence no plan of what to do next or who. Am sure the board were hoping freddie could steady the ship and buy time.
Im Rafa we trust
We need footballing men at the top who can make the tough calls and have the foresight to see where things are going and hold the team to a certain standard.
Sarri wasn't deemed good enough despite finishing 3rd and winning the EL. If Emery delivered that he would have been given a new contract. Levels.
You're right, this club hasn't had football men for a long time, it started with Gazidis who profited massively from our failures and then walked away, the new guys again aren't really football men other than Edu and it's pretty clear.
Another day still no sign of a new manager, despite the horrendous results, unbelievable really, how long are they going to wait, until we're in the relegation zone?
Depends what you define as football men. Do they have had to play football or be involved in football admin. As gazidis and sallehi are from a football admin background. Think the sallehi power grab is really hurting us. Minesalat sounded like the future planner particularly on the player front. But there seems to be no plan anymore.
We are 4 points ahead of the drop zone.
We are 4 points ahead of the drop zone.[/QUOTE]
It seems unreal. How the fuck can we be in this state?
I used to love football, but now it is a dread to watch or hear the results.
I am finding myself looking nervously at the results of the teams below us!
I dread to think if we lose to the Spammers tomorrow night :(
Do you really care that much? I don't. Not because we're losing. But because, around about 8 years ago, we stopped playing football that was worth watching. Tip tap. Tip tap. That's how they killed it for me. The dreadful, year upon year, relentless, tip tap. Can we qualify for the top 4 with tip tap? Will we get relegated with tip tap? I really don't care.Quote:
It seems unreal. How the fuck can we be in this state?
I used to love football, but now it is a dread to watch or hear the results.
I am finding myself looking nervously at the results of the teams below us!
I dread to think if we lose to the Spammers tomorrow night :(
I wish that I didn't care, I really do.Quote:
Do you really care that much? I don't. Not because we're losing. But because, around about 8 years ago, we stopped playing football that was worth watching. Tip tap. Tip tap. That's how they killed it for me. The dreadful, year upon year, relentless, tip tap. Can we qualify for the top 4 with tip tap? Will we get relegated with tip tap? I really don't care.
But, after so many years of supporting Arsenal, it is difficult to just switch off.