Summer Transfer Speculation and Shit

[Power n Glory]

??? Burn down the Emirates? Who said anything even approaching that suggestion? You are the master practitioner of extremism, in all your arguments. This is just the latest example. Always taking a point of view and pushing it to the extremes so you can knock it down.

Some may be trying to make football a consumer item, but it isn't a consumer item. It's more than that and anyone who is passionate about the game would tell you the same thing. Wenger, Ferguson, Clough, Paisley, Shankly, these people aren't and weren't in it just for the money. "Honest" players today aren't fit to lick the boots of these past and present icons. If someone is a greedy cunt who tarnishes everything around him provided he gets his barrow filled then okay, there have always been fucks like that, always will be. But you don't applaud them or sympathise with them like an obedient dog, do you? You call them what they are. Like this Qatar business. What do we do? Shake our heads and say that's the way it is? The very, very least you can do, now there's an open line of communication with the Internet, is say hey, what about that guy Platini? What about Blatter? Cunts! When the whole world is calling them a cunt, and rightly so, and everywhere they go they are scorned, yeah they still have their cash but there's a price to pay. Or you can just let them off the hook, let them laugh in your face, piss on you. We can't do anything directly as individuals to change this shit, but at least we can avoid grovelling or apologising. Surely this will only encourage them to be worse?

I'm taking the piss, obviously. It's the comment about taking 'action' and working as fans to get certain figures out. How exactly? Abuse on Twitter? Abuse at the games? Protests? Death threats like the sort Gerrard received when he wanted to leave Liverpool? Sorry, but no thanks.

I can still enjoy the game for what it is and see a good game of football. If I didn't, I'd switch off. If the money in the game offended me that much, I'd watch lower league football instead. What's encouraging the Blatter's and Platini's of this world is the money that keeps flowing. Obvious solution really. Or we can take to Twitter and type abuse.

[Power n Glory]

Actually, that isn't as easy to do as it sounds.

Arsenal Football Club have taken fire safety very seriously and there really isn't much there that will burn and what will burn is unlikely to do much damage to the integrity of the infrastructure.

Thank goodness! Some people may get ideas.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Well if he pulls on a chav shirt then that in itself gives us every right to declare open season. Same goes for any chav. Anyway, all we have to go on right now is media speculation. Which means there is absolutely nothing of substance to go on. But if the club are passing up quality and letting that quality go to our rivals, yet again, then they are setting themselves up for a deserved kicking if even bigger quality doesn't come walking through the door. The cash is piling up now, time for those who are directly concerned to declare what the cash is for. Long way to go but if nine figures doesn't leave the vault this time around (which would still be a modest spend given our track record of transfer profiteering) there won't be any excuses to cover their arses.

I won't be wishing him any luck, especially if he's at Chelsea. However, it seems we don't want him and Barca are forcing him out, so whatever he does in that scenario is his own business.

If it is true that Barca are forcing him out and we don't want him, it is a pretty crappy situation for him. Hopefully he can do better than the Chavs or the Gypos.

[Niall_Quinn]

I'm taking the piss, obviously. It's the comment about taking 'action' and working as fans to get certain figures out. How exactly? Abuse on Twitter? Abuse at the games? Protests? Death threats like the sort Gerrard received when he wanted to leave Liverpool? Sorry, but no thanks.

I can still enjoy the game for what it is and see a good game of football. If I didn't, I'd switch off. If the money in the game offended me that much, I'd watch lower league football instead. What's encouraging the Blatter's and Platini's of this world is the money that keeps flowing. Obvious solution really. Or we can take to Twitter and type abuse.

I'm not going to bug out of a team I have supported for decades and are associated with some of my best memories just because some crappy cunts have descended and are grabbing whatever isn't nailed down. Apply the same logic to a burglary. What do you do if some cunt breaks in and starts robbing you? Understand him? Say fuck it and abandon the house? Hit the fucker with a 1 wood and piss on him I'd say. At the very least. Now the cunts who are robbing the game have the crooked law on their side, so we'd get in a whole heap of grief if we battered them to death. A fun idea but not worth the hassle. More modest methods might include not buying fucking hero worship shirts with somebody else's name plastered over the back. I never did that anyway, seemed a stupid idea to be called by a name and then have another name pinned to your back. So buy a shirt without the name on the back, that's a way of supporting the club - sort of, as it's also a way to support Kroenke, fuck it, maybe don't buy a shirt at all. These individual decisions add up, greedy fucks take notice when the combined action of many individuals hits their bottom line. Cultures can be changed when there's a will. Dog shit on the pavement, litter flying about the place, smoking on the underground, cultures can change. If people held their nose every time a footballer walked past instead of asking for a fucking autograph (another thing I never did), well maybe somebody somewhere will take notice and change their tune. Worth a go. No need to burn stadiums or watch Southend Utd, far less extreme measures could be applied. Sensible stuff. That actually keeps the money in our pockets. Because if the money stays there then the cunts can't demand bigger and bigger pay days, can they? And agents can't be paid the drug addled fees they get for doing whatever the fuck it is they do.

But this is all on the back of stupid comments like, yeah, I get why so and so would be a greedy, traitorous cunt, I understand it, nobody has the right to call him what he is, blah. That's what sets me off. The Twitter thing we should do anyway, as a matter of routine. Why not? Spreading the truth can't hurt. Glad there are people on there now calling Sagna what he is. Wouldn't do if he forgot it.

[Flavs]

I won't be wishing him any luck, especially if he's at Chelsea. However, it seems we don't want him and Barca are forcing him out, so whatever he does in that scenario is his own business.

If it is true that Barca are forcing him out and we don't want him, it is a pretty crappy situation for him. Hopefully he can do better than the Chavs or the Gypos.

Monaco

[Niall_Quinn]

I won't be wishing him any luck, especially if he's at Chelsea. However, it seems we don't want him and Barca are forcing him out, so whatever he does in that scenario is his own business.

If it is true that Barca are forcing him out and we don't want him, it is a pretty crappy situation for him. Hopefully he can do better than the Chavs or the Gypos.

Grass wasn't greener as it turned out. Who could have guessed?

[Xhaka Can’t]

Grass wasn't greener as it turned out. Who could have guessed?

Sometimes shit happens. He didn't go to Barca for the money. As much as I was pissed off at his antics, I understood why he wanted to go to Barca and it was for a reason that was to do with the heart rather than the wallet.

[Niall_Quinn]

Sometimes shit happens. He didn't go to Barca for the money. As much as I was pissed off at his antics, I understood why he wanted to go to Barca and it was for a reason that was to do with the heart rather than the wallet.

He'd already had a taste of the Barca "culture" though, hadn't he? He can't be surprised at their Christmas morning puppy antics.

[Power n Glory]

I'm not going to bug out of a team I have supported for decades and are associated with some of my best memories just because some crappy cunts have descended and are grabbing whatever isn't nailed down. Apply the same logic to a burglary. What do you do if some cunt breaks in and starts robbing you? Understand him? Say fuck it and abandon the house? Hit the fucker with a 1 wood and piss on him I'd say. At the very least. Now the cunts who are robbing the game have the crooked law on their side, so we'd get in a whole heap of grief if we battered them to death. A fun idea but not worth the hassle. More modest methods might include not buying fucking hero worship shirts with somebody else's name plastered over the back. I never did that anyway, seemed a stupid idea to be called by a name and then have another name pinned to your back. So buy a shirt without the name on the back, that's a way of supporting the club - sort of, as it's also a way to support Kroenke, fuck it, maybe don't buy a shirt at all. These individual decisions add up, greedy fucks take notice when the combined action of many individuals hits their bottom line. Cultures can be changed when there's a will. Dog shit on the pavement, litter flying about the place, smoking on the underground, cultures can change. If people held their nose every time a footballer walked past instead of asking for a fucking autograph (another thing I never did), well maybe somebody somewhere will take notice and change their tune. Worth a go. No need to burn stadiums or watch Southend Utd, far less extreme measures could be applied. Sensible stuff. That actually keeps the money in our pockets. Because if the money stays there then the cunts can't demand bigger and bigger pay days, can they? And agents can't be paid the drug addled fees they get for doing whatever the fuck it is they do.

But this is all on the back of stupid comments like, yeah, I get why so and so would be a greedy, traitorous cunt, I understand it, nobody has the right to call him what he is, blah. That's what sets me off. The Twitter thing we should do anyway, as a matter of routine. Why not? Spreading the truth can't hurt. Glad there are people on there now calling Sagna what he is. Wouldn't do if he forgot it.

So if Arsenal were a house, wouldn't we be inviting a burglar back in if we brought Cesc back?

He's not our player anymore and we've chosen not to buy him. All this other stuff...changing culture....really? I usually hate it when people say this sort of thing to me but what the heck! It's just a game!

[Xhaka Can’t]

He'd already had a taste of the Barca "culture" though, hadn't he? He can't be surprised at their Christmas morning puppy antics.

Maybe not - but unlike those who are mercenaries and whose loyalty is only in line with the size of their next paycheck and whoever offers it, he made a decision from the heart. He could have gone about it better, but there you go.