knowing us we sent him on loan without a recall clause - we're always doing stupid things like that... :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Bumble
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knowing us we sent him on loan without a recall clause - we're always doing stupid things like that... :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Bumble
Tbh, we hardly notice he left, so I’m not sure what vaiue he’d add coming back.
There’s also apparently a fee for recalling him, which just wouldn’t be worth it as he has been trash at Fulham and wasn’t that much better here.
Chambers is pretty average really.
Manolas apparently has a 35m release clause. Could be worth a punt.
Ozil agent has said he is going nowhere, contracted til 2021 & would like to extend beyond that.
Well he’s right about the first bit, Ozil a career anyway.
But yeh, of course he’s happy here, earning a fuck ton of money for a part time role at best, who wouldn’t want to carry on doing that!
We need to offload him ASAP tbh
Can’t see anyone taking him off our hands anyway, unless we take a hit on his transfer fee and massive wages.
He doesn’t even assist anymore either. A player well on the decline and we are stuck with him.
He’ll go in the summer. When a manager shows a player he isn’t wanted, they never stick around. Especially one of this level.
It’s funny though, as there were legions of fans telling the club just to pay him the money to avoid him leaving.
Quite he downfall in less than a year - he’s become enemy number one for the national team and now a running joke in the most watched league in the world.
Ozil is a better footballer than 95 percent of the Arsenal squad. His problem is laziness, nothing to do with footballing ability.
Brings into question whether talent or application is more important for a footballer. I’d go for the latter every time.Quote:
Originally Posted by AFC Leveller
Agreed. Nothing more frustrating than watching a player with obvious ability but not mentally strong enough to produce consistently.
Dafoe to Rangers on loan apparently. Could be a title winning move by Gerrard. A very smart move.
We are the only Premier League club that has had zero owner funding in the last ten years (100% self funded).
The fucking Krankies are raping us
Not sure the Glaziers have either. They’ve piled about half a billion of debt onto the club and since they took over about one billion has gone out the door in dividends and fees etc.
318m according to Swiss Ramble.Quote:
Originally Posted by SMatthews
He’s usually on the money
Good blog that. Fingers crossed now that Kroenke has full control he doesn’t do the same to us.
Bayern have bid £30m for 18-year-old Hudson-Odoi who has barely played a game for the first team. The PL money fever has finally spread overseas.
A day after Bild laughed at the PL for spending crazy on Pulisic.
This is exactly what I was getting at the other day when I said we should get rid. It’s better to have ‘a playmaker’ who is committed and can play every game than a ‘superstar’ who hardly ever plays.Quote:
Originally Posted by SMatthews
It just makes no sense.
And bar his second season when he got an amazing 19 assists, he hasn’t hit double figures.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aubameyang's Wang
I agree, but it looks like the summer is the time it will happen. The agent has come out to say his player is ‘committed’ and will then say in the summer Ozil has ‘no choice’ but to leave because he isn’t wanted. Team Ozil are protecting the brand after a disastrous six months (World Cup included). He’ll probably take a pay cut to go elsewhere. Maybe Real Madrid will take him back as they are rebuilding. His contract ends up in 2021 and I doubt Raul and Vinai will let any player stay on without signing an extension. They were pretty ruthless in tearing up Ramsey’s offer once Gazidis was out the door.
Most of those assists came in a freak spell before Christmas as well. He only managed a few in the second half of the season when there was a possibility of us winning the league.Quote:
Originally Posted by SMatthews
He’s flattered to deceive for most of his 5 years with us.
Ramsey is close to signing for Juve.
If he is he will have to learn about tactically honing his skills. Probably the man thing his games has lacked in his career so I'll be interested to see how he gets on there.
Is that a pre-contract for the summer, or meaning we actually get a couple of pennies?Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
At the time I wasn't too bothered about him going. Now I'm thinking we should have kept him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
Although defence is a bigger concern than midfield overall.
Pre-contract apparently.Quote:
Originally Posted by LDG
Us getting some pennies. :lol:
We hardly ever get value for our players sold and for a self-sustaining club that is pretty terrible.
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Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
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Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
Rumour is that he's leaving this month? So we must be getting something out of it? He's contracted until the summer, he can't just walk out the door.....
Yeah we'd get some peanuts if he goes this month but I'd rather he stayed, as we're unlikely to find a replacement for him right now and our squad is light anyway.
I don’t see why. He doesn’t score enough, doesn’t assist enough and is out injured for a period every season. He can’t be trusted in deep midfield, and gets in the way of strikers upfront. I still don’t know what Ramsey does after all these years. He’s highly replaceable and symbolic of the old mess we had under Wenger for the past 5 years. He’s also worked hard, scored some important goals in finals and is a good professional but I won’t miss home one bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
Our midfield needs just as much work as defence. If you can’t control a game in midfield, the best defenders in the world will end up looking like clowns when exposed too often. We need a couple of really good buys in there too.
Not fussed on Ramsey either. We need a playmaker
Has to be done - we desperately need to slash that wage bill before we have any room to rebuild and Ramsey represents that sweet spot that we’re looking for where he’s a) on high wages, b) prefers to play a role that the coach has little use for, and c) his contract is nearly up so he’ll be easy to move on.
In an ideal world Özil and Mkhi would follow him out the door, but unfortunately they only signed (BIG) contracts with us recently, so they’re going to be much, much harder to shift.
Close to signing Suarez, apparently.
I think we could be in for quite a brutal culling over the next couple of windows?
There’s older players there like Kos, Nacho and Cech who must all be on pretty big wages by now, and they’ve got to be approaching the end of their time with us. And Lichtsteiner was only signed on a one year deal - I’d be surprised if that gets extended.
Chambers and Elneny both look like they’re done at this club, and I wouldn’t be surprised if we gave Welbeck the option of a free transfer or a reduced contract.
(I’d love to think that Mustafi was on the way out too, but for some reason the world of top flight coaches seem to have this collective illness where they can’t see that he’s crap?!)
Xhaka will probably stay - he has his limitations, but he is at least occasionally useful, and turns in a decent number of good performances. Plus he actually plays a role that Emery wants. Don’t know if he’ll be here until the end of his contract, but I think we’ll be seeing him next season.
Lacazette could be a bit of a wild card? I’m a big fan, and I certainly wouldn’t push him out, but I do wonder what the club’s reaction would be if he asked to leave (or if we received a big offer)? Again, given the need to free up wages and reinvest, I wouldn’t be surprised if the club didn’t fight it too hard.
All in all I wouldn’t be shocked if we see this squad stripped right back to little more than academy graduates and Mislintat’s signings (plus two or three players who we just can’t shift) before we start the rebuild...
Cesc is off to Monaco.
Still one of the best passers this league has ever seen IMO.
Best Suarez in Premier League history tbh.Quote:
Originally Posted by GP
Barca are our feeder club. :bow:
If it’s true, then Ramsey may be on his way out this month.
I'm not a big fan of Suarez, not sure he's that good to be honest, seems an odd signing to me, hasn't really pulled any trees out at Barca.Quote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
I'd be happy for us to sell all those guys (including Xhaka please :pray:) but not Lacazette, he really makes things happen and is a danger I really rate the guy, moreover Auba is nearly 30 so he won't have years left at the top, so selling Laca would be foolish.Quote:
Originally Posted by I am invisible
Let's face it though, this club reall messed up, we kept Wenger for far too long, allowed him to waste loads of money on substandard players and when we finally did get rid we did so at a time when we were out of the CL and thus hampered by the wage rule, we made it as difficult as possible for any manager to follow a guy who had been here for over a decade too long, pretty poor to be honest.
So far we've been hampered and our signings have been a bit hit and miss, Torreira the highlight with Guendouzi decent and Sokratis and Leno OK and Lichsteiner awful, if we don't get into the CL we're going to need to do better than we have so far with signings as it's certainly been a bit hit and miss.
Would rather have seen players like Xhaka not being given new contracts however, even if it meant letting him walk away on a free, as quite frankly we'd struggle to shift him for any significant wage anyway, the damage with players walking away for free was done many years ago, losing Sanchez who was great for us meant being lumbered with Mikhi who hasn't been much good, Ozil we had to give mega wages to to keep and now wouldn't be able to sell, Wilshere walked away for nothing when we could have got 30 odd million a year before and Ramsey who also had market value walking away. Just wish we could let a few of the duds walk away like Mustafi and Xhaka because they only hamper us and have no market value now.
A culling might be just what we need. Too many players in this squad still have the Wenger mentality.
If we've don't have much money... I don't think any of us should expect a culling anytime soon.
Any culling will be in the summer I’m sure. We do need to start changing things around though, and any new players coming in under the new regime should add something different at least.
Apparently Bayern have bid 35m for Hudson-Odoi. :blink: