Interesting, specculation that Villa won’t sell because they may sack Steven Gerrard soon and next manager will have Luiz in their plans unlike Gerrard and that they might tie him down to a new deal
Interesting, specculation that Villa won’t sell because they may sack Steven Gerrard soon and next manager will have Luiz in their plans unlike Gerrard and that they might tie him down to a new deal
I don't understand what we are doing with the squad. How are we going to manage the Europa and PL with this tiny squad? A few more injuries and we are down to the bare bones.
It’s a head scratcher but given that Arteta doesn’t even know how to rotate the players he’s got maybe not that surprising
I don’t think Edu is especially good at the job he does, I don’t blame him for today but in general his record is sketchy at best.
It’s possible we may sack off the Europa league and go all out for 4th via the league but I think putting all your eggs in one basket not especially clever strategy
Arsenal fan twitter meltdown is quite the experience
I liked Douglas Luiz as a player I’d have gone for him a year ago but what can you do. I’d still take him and Tielemans next summer. Bit worried about overall squad numbers and think it was mad not to buy a central midfielder but the apocalyptic meltdowns are something else
As I said.Originally Posted by Chippy
Night.
Deleted my last post because someone objected to me using a certain four letter noun beginning with C
This is Britain, that word denotes affection. I mean it wasn’t meant affectionately because I don’t like any of you but I’m just saying.
At the risk of being serious I will have the final word on our transfer business
Disappointing basically but in a way understandable, we can pull as many accountancy tricks as we like but the fact remains that we’ve hardly kept the purse strings tight in the last few years and getting people off the wage bill even on loan was considered necessary
Whatever I personally think, I think the intention had been to bring in a winger/second striker until the injury to Elneny proved to be worse than originally thought.
If you take the refusal of Blackburn to sell Diaz and the refusal of Villa to sell Luiz together it suggests that clubs are gambling short term on promotion (in Blackburn’s case) or avoiding relegation (in Villas)
I think we tried to apply the pressure on Villa by agreeing personal terms with the player but I think ultimately the club want to player available should they dispense with the services of Gerrard
Yes we have players that are multi functional, and maybe when we consider the World Cup coming in November. As long as we get through 11 premier league games and 6 europa league games unscathed we can reassess our needs in January.
Hard to say really, there seems to be an element of future planning which is all very well but you can’t neglect the here and now.
Bit of a dereliction of duty not buying a wide player and leaving players like Sakashit as first choice.
Not fussed in the slightest by not getting a CM in. Absolutely stunk of panic anyway.
Hope Villa go down tbh. Wankers.
To be honest from their point of view it makes sense, why get in money 20% of which you have to give to Man City for a player that lets be honest when and not if Gerrard is sacked could be the difference between whether they stay up or not.
Of course it’s too early to say they will be in a relegation scrap for definite but they aren’t getting anything at the weekend
Regarding the comments of the silly fool above you, we needed a central midfielder (two arguably) before the injuries happened. If we were going to strengthen in attack I’d have preferred an out and out striker to contrast with what we’ve got given we can play Skeet Ulrich and for that matter Eddie wide right if the need arises.
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