Summer Transfer Speculation and Shit

[Özim]

Never seen this in the papers before myself, seen stuff like this on here and people laugh then so why not when it's in the papers.

If they have done so for the last 8 years etc (and I haven't seen it), then it can only due to the way we conduct business in the transfer market. Do they do this about Man U or Liverpool?

[Özim]

Be honest, did you write it?

Honestly no, there's an injunction against me to prevent me from writing this sh*t.

[Cripps_orig]

Guardian attempt at humour

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2...suarez-arsenal

That's not humour. Thats actually what happened

[Ollie the Optimist]

Never seen this in the papers before myself, seen stuff like this on here and people laugh then so why not when it's in the papers.

If they have done so for the last 8 years etc (and I haven't seen it), then it can only due to the way we conduct business in the transfer market. Do they do this about Man U or Liverpool?

no paper will take the piss out of united, or least they wouldnt before this summer because they just get banned, arsenal are an easy target for papers. i read somewhere that we have the most active and largest online fan base, be it facebook, twitter etc, so newspapers and websites can write stuff, and know it will cause a reaction, arsenal fans talk about it, they get more hits, more money from advertisers on website plus are being talked about online so they win.

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

Did you see that on Twitter?

no, Ollie posted it a few pages back

edit: macca stop editing the bloody post gayboy

[Özim]

no paper will take the piss out of united, or least they wouldnt before this summer because they just get banned, arsenal are an easy target for papers. i read somewhere that we have the most active and largest online fan base, be it facebook, twitter etc, so newspapers and websites can write stuff, and know it will cause a reaction, arsenal fans talk about it, they get more hits, more money from advertisers on website plus are being talked about online so they win.

I reckon it's more of case of can't, they win all the time so you're going to look stupid making jokes like this about them.

I'd be surprised if we have the most active and largest online fans base to honest, there's clubs with a lot more fans and logically that would also mean they have more people online.

[Ollie the Optimist]

I reckon it's more of case of can't, they win all the time so you're going to look stupid making jokes like this about them.

I'd be surprised if we have the most active and largest online fans base to honest, there's clubs with a lot more fans and logically that would also mean they have more people online.

i think you would be surprised. quick google search shows, that of all the football clubs in the world, arsenal have fourth highest follower count, largest out of all english clubs. barca, madrid, galatasery are top three (insert 4th place trophy joke here)

of course everyone on twitter doesnt follow their club, but using logic, the club with highest amount of followers is likely to have a larger online fan base. also, one thing i notice is most twitter trends about english football are arsenal related, hence why i say we are likely to be one of the most active online fan bases. journalists have commented on this before too

[hobson's choice]

That's not humour. Thats actually what happened

Yep

[Master Splinter]

people have written funnier, similar stuff on here.

And in bottle banks on Sesame Street.

[Niall_Quinn]

There is certainly potential for humour in the way Arsenal do (or, rather, don't do) business but that was a rubbish attempt at it.

The second "do" should have been outside the parenthesis.