Arsenal Banter Archive July 31 2018

 

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31 Jul 2018 23:05:59
With Ivan Gazidis potentially off to Milan will Raul Sanllehi get the gig or could the board go a different route and appoint Arsene Wenger, has the economics degree knows the club would be a great ambassador.

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31 Jul 2018 23:26:52
Arsene is a great ambassador of Arsenal football club no matter what.
That will never change.
The man loves the club and the club loves the man it was just time for change, and then some.

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01 Aug 2018 07:16:28
Absolutely zero chance of Wenger returning to replace Gazidis, if he departs.

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01 Aug 2018 10:24:53
Club ambassador is the absolute right position for Arsene and it should be always available to him when ever he wants to take it up.
Someone who represents Arsenal football clubs image without any responsibilies for the running of the club.
Arsene power and influence days at Arsenal are and should remain in the past but who better to represent us as a club world wide?

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01 Aug 2018 10:57:10
Wenger for the board nah he would meddle too much tbh and I don't think he woud be keen on that much anyway he is football man and likes to get hands on with day to day coaching. I can see him either going back to Japan or China perhaps for a new challenge as coach, or bide his time for the French team manager position. He will always be a good global ambassador for Asrsenal regardless mind even without a offical position with us.

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31 Jul 2018 19:35:21
I listened to the shark pod again today and was wondering do you think we will go for Gomez or any midfielder, or do you think it depends on Ramesy staying or going.

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31 Jul 2018 21:53:33
Gomez is crocked, so he's a no go.

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31 Jul 2018 21:59:59
Max Meyer maybe an option but could be heading to Fulham. Strange if true.

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01 Aug 2018 03:30:51
If Fulham get seri, meyer along with keeping sesengon, they've had some window!

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31 Jul 2018 20:39:11
Great to see the whole squad, with the exception of Koscielny, are back in training as of yesterday.

How many years since that happened, that includes Joel Campbell and Lucas Perez as well as Torreira and Lichtsteiner.

Two more friendlies, Chelsea Wednesday and Lazio Saturday, the latter is being streamed live on Arsenal.com kick off at I think 7pm over here if anyone wants to watch it.

So looking forward to the new era.

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31 Jul 2018 23:03:23
Cheers I watch it.

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31 Jul 2018 16:52:45
one thing i think its clear wenger recieved the brunt of unfair critism for is spending. Its pretty clear that the £50 mil stated earlier after sales is probably going to be pretty close. so it seems its the board that don't want to spend the money, or for some reason its not there which seems fishy! they aluded a few years ago that there was plenty of money available and our net spend since then been very low.

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31 Jul 2018 17:33:27
It's really a bit of both tho. Maybe the funds. Have been so low because of stupid contracts we've been giving out. High wages for players that don't deserve it and we don't even know how big the signing on fees are. Just a guess mind you who knows.

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31 Jul 2018 18:04:36
I think it's a fair point Eden but we've been spending a lot on players who have not delivered plus letting a lot of players get us into a corner financially.
What was Sanchez worth with 2 years left on his contract? But what did we actually get for him with half a season left on his contract.
Liverpool got 140 million for Courtinho while no disrespect but we got miki for Alexis.
We've been poorly managed but still bought Pea in January.

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31 Jul 2018 18:26:15
The money has to be generated and things like sales and champions league make a huge difference, just look at the difference it has made to liverpools spending. Our buying and selling under wenger, along with no champs league, is pretty poor. Most teams in the top six could get 100 mil+ and 50mil + for more than half their squad if they had to sell, we would struggle to match that. Financing the arsenal team has not been that clever in the last five or six years and it is catching us up. Most of our better players are older and would command less money in sales, we are now entering a vital part of arsenal football clubs future of being in the big league of clubs. Dick has to start the rise back in, with his hands tied.

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31 Jul 2018 18:34:06
I think two years out of the CL has hurt us. Look at Liverpool’s spending in the past two years compared to before now there are arguably the second best (if not best on their day) in prem . Then you have goliaths in untitled who generate so much but have spent poorly in my opinion. I’m not really interested in the money side per say, but my main criticism of Wenger was the rigid thought processes and not addressing areas that a blind man could see. I believe the change in manager and direction is worth 200m, you only have to look at spurs and Liverpool’s managers to see that, yes klopp has spent some coin this year but a lot of that is coutinho cash. As a starting 11 our attacking 3rd is up there with the best. I hope Torreira will be as good as I think he will be.

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31 Jul 2018 18:52:04
Leicester have bought well and reluctantly sold high.
United have wasted 100s of millions but still spend 100s of millions more
Liverpool have sold high and bought well
Arsenal have bought poorly and sold poorly but unlike United can generate money for fun.
Chelsea have balanced the books pretty well in recent years and have 2 of the last 4 titles with thier name next to them.

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31 Jul 2018 19:45:47
It's like anything else in life it's not all about what you've got but whether you make the most of what you have or not.

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31 Jul 2018 20:11:58
Exactly g62. Your back, your really back 😀.

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31 Jul 2018 19:36:35
I’ve always said it’s the board and wasn’t Wenger he worked miracles with the budget he had and kept us up there.

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31 Jul 2018 21:36:26
Liecester 2015 16 made the most of what they had Sanago mate and regardless of who did or didn't turn up that season they still got 80+ points, I'd be well pleased if we matched that point total in the season ahead mate whether it's enough for 1st 4th or whatever place it would be the first time we'd managed it for more than a decade and unquestionably real progress.

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31 Jul 2018 23:00:39
Crybaby, if that is the case that, as people say, is the reason we are behind citeh, utd and chelski. what's the reason we are behind liverpool and spuds, when he had a far greater budget than them to work with. The truth is he spent his budget poorly on average players with no sell on value and blindly ignored all the obvious problems with his philosophy. Tell me which player in the last ten years did he buy for any amount of money and we have gone on and sold for over 100 mil. Liverpool and spuds have because they bought well or produced. Most of ours have lost money in the transfer market in real terms. He has strangled this club.

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31 Jul 2018 23:14:47
Steve you know as well as everyone that we were the 4th place happy club under Arsene, that was the aim the ambition the requirement.
Once you no longer aim to be the best there is only one way you can go and that's backwards.
We rode our luck far to long and in the end oops here we are now.

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01 Aug 2018 03:43:55
I personally think they missed a beat, had they taken a bit longer to pay off the stadium but bought some eye catching transfers to build the profile of the club and aimed for more than top 4 we might of been able to increase our commercial potential like utd have.

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31 Jul 2018 09:57:29
For me this Ramesy contract is taking too long it needs to be sorted he needs to sign or leave, and we need to replace before the window closes for me i am not bothered,.

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31 Jul 2018 10:10:46
Like wise I'm not bothered if he stays or goes but if the chioce was mine I'd say tata Aaron.
Making a fresh start with no prima Donna's at the club would be a good thing in my opinion.

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31 Jul 2018 10:36:54
he just spins in circles when there is a ball to be played.

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31 Jul 2018 10:55:00
if we were buying him, how excited would you be? and what would you think the max we should pay for him would be? anything over £30 mil i would think we were being stupid.

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31 Jul 2018 11:16:00
For me Aaron Ramsey is one of our better players and we should try to keep him . However it’s not keep him at all costs - new regime offer him what you think he is worth and no more . If he won’t accept, which he is entitled to do, then sell to whoever . Want players who want to play for the Arsenal not just play for us because of the money! COYG.

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31 Jul 2018 11:36:13
He is a good player but far from ireplacable we can't have players holding us to ransom like this. Yes Ozil kind of did but he is a special talent that cannot be easily replaced, ramsey is not that standard. Ramsey is a player that is better without the ball with his runs than he is with it, useful but not a game breaker. If he will not sign get him sold and move on rumours about a swap deal with dembele but even if Dembelee was keen not sure where we would get the extra cash for that at present as Ramsey is about 30Million at best. Perhaps a with a set clause to buy next season could work taking the 30Million for Rasmey off that fee.

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31 Jul 2018 12:34:44
That's the thing, getting a player to sign up for the pay packet isn't always getting the player to commit or buy into the manager and his ways of doing things.
If money is your only motivation for staying at or joining a club where is the motivation once the money is guaranteed?
Alexis Sanchez springs to mind, he has his half a million a week but does he enjoy life at United and really want to be there or was he just desperate to get away from Arsenal and jumped out of the jelly and into the rice pudding for the money.

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31 Jul 2018 13:16:50
Clearly we must sign him up or sell him. The danger is that at his age he can afford to run his contract down and benefit financially as a free agent next year.
It very much depends on the formation Emery intends using as to whether we should do all we can to keep him.

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31 Jul 2018 19:04:55
We don't have to make it attractive to run down his contract.
If we offer him first team football and to allow him to run down his contract then why wouldn't he?
If we say " either sign a new deal or leave in this window or spend a year training away from the rest of the squad with absolutely no chance of playing any football at any level during that 12 months " then running down his contract doest suddenly seem so attractive to him I'm sure.

It's Aaron's job to do what's best for Aaron and it's Arsenal job to what's best for Arsenal and the club has to be bigger than any player or its in trouble.

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31 Jul 2018 06:25:39
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