Arsenal Banter Archive May 07 2018

07 May 2018 12:15:58
So we want Enrique or Allegri, nice to see we aren't going down the hookie rookie root.

07 May 2018 13:28:13
Should be an easy choice steve. In my opinion allegri is by far the better coach. As much as i don't like his playing style, we all have to admit that he gets results and is a good man-manager. Allegri over enrique all day for me.

07 May 2018 13:44:17
It sounds like they are worried about transfer budget and other things before taking the job Steve as well?

07 May 2018 15:12:11
Don't be fooled by the 50 million people are going on about we will spend a lot lot more than that this summer, I'd bet closer to 200 than 50 million.

07 May 2018 15:34:20
I think it’s closer to 200m also but unlike the rest - it won’t be 200m every year. Our cash doesn’t build back up that quickly and we kill what we eat with no external money coming in outside of sale of players / gate receipts / commercial deals and TV.

07 May 2018 16:08:21
From what I been hearing we are close to agreeing with allergi which would be great news.

{Ed001's Note - peanut allergy?}

07 May 2018 16:42:39
PG i think for a couple of seasons these players need drilling first and then slowly giving them their head. Personally i think there will be a pot between 50 and 80 mil but the rest will come from sales to make a total spend somewhere near the 150 to 200 mil. There will be some of our so called top players/ high value that he probably doesn't think suits us going forward as a team. Plus i think Allegri is the one to sort out our defence. His teams rarely get hammered.

07 May 2018 18:13:34
Sorting out our defence and the defensive part of our whole teams game would be brilliant.
The best teams I've ever seen defend from the front first hassling players into mistakes that the midfield capitalise on stopping an attack before it even starts, when that fails the midfield protect the defence and ultimately the defence it's self needs to work as a unit and the whole team has to take collective accolade for every clean sheet and collective responsibility for every goal conceded, get that attitude running through the team where clean sheets are celebrated as much as goals and we will be back in business in no time.

07 May 2018 18:56:59
Allegri would be my choice of the two. We have great attacking options, but we desperately need someone to sort out the defensive side.
I am eager to learn who will be our next manger.

07 May 2018 19:36:35
I think we are all getting to the stage where we would like to know RG, personally I've been happy to wait because I think it would be disrespectful to name someone to soon after Arsenes leaving was announced but we are getting close to the seasons end now so the sooner the better now in my opinion.

07 May 2018 20:00:47
A few weeks to a month and we will know. I’m edging towards two weeks.

07 May 2018 20:31:07
David Ornstein:
Arsenal hope to name boss by World Cup. #AFC want proper process and to respect those in jobs. No idea who but not Simeone, Tuchel (#PSG may confirm Wed) , Löw (#GER stay likely) , Rodgers, Faria etc. Don't sense Enrique, hear Allegri plans to leave #Juventus but unclear on next move

At least it’s not Rodgers!

07 May 2018 21:45:02
Ornstein in my experience is usually pretty reliable when he knows anything but in this case he seems to be just expressing his personel view based on the very little he actually knows.
I have long had a hunch it might be Lowe that follows Arsene and although he's under contract to Germany until 2020, he suits on so many levels, (just for RG) he's German he's used to working with the players available to him so would have no problem with not having full control over who comes in which would make working with the Sven men easy.

07 May 2018 22:47:00
If we have no chance of simeone, Allegri for me would be an excellent choice. The man isn't ancient, he is used to winning things and i think he is somewhere in between wenger and GG as regards tactics. While there may be more exciting coaches out there, i just want us to be a little more reliable for a few seasons. I never got over the 8-2 and then to stick the knife in 10-1 in champs league did it for me once and for good. Allegri would bring knowhow to the club. I would be happy with that. He is a respected winning coach.

08 May 2018 00:28:16
gunner62, i don't think it will be lowe. He is managing at the world cup and he will probably get deep into the competition and hence will be drained. IMO, the next arsenal manager will be probably allegri. Major reason being majority of the fans want him and he will galvanize the team.

If Arsenal go for a german manager, it will most likely be nagelsmann as he is a very good coach but a disillusioned one as he keeps losing his best player. Lost sule, wagner, rudy etc. The other german option would be tedesco but he just got started and schalke are a bigger club than hoffenheim and schalke have probably the best director in heidel in the whole of bundesliga so i don't think tedesco is likely to leave at least not soo soon. So i think it will most likely be nagelsmann if we go for a german coach.

My conclusion is the next arsenal coach will either be allegri, enrique, viera, arteta or nagelsmann.

08 May 2018 06:14:19
Sorry ed didn't mean the r lol.

08 May 2018 06:37:15
Hi G62 - German a possibity, but Loew would be a concern as he hasn't managed at club level for many years, is busy this summer with Germany and the 'syrup' he wears worries me!
I believe we need an experienced manager to take over the reigns from Wenger:

Allegri, Ancelotti, Benitez, Enrique or Simeone.
Allegri is my current first choice, although I freely admit to changing my mind daily!

Benitez is another of my favourites.

Your choice?

08 May 2018 08:25:47
I agree Steve, getting hammered have been lower than low points .

Get the defence sorted and we are a better side, scoring goals in the PL hasn’t been the issue.

08 May 2018 17:19:06
Times they are a changing, i am not convinced on this cb we are supposed to be signing we need ready made ones now throw in another cb a proper cdm and a world class winger and we are set.

07 May 2018 10:55:02
Happy retirement Per - lovely reception and a lovely touch by Wenger to put him on the bench and bring him on. What a reception the BFG got - loved it and I must admit I am a fan of the BFG! Hope he helps our youngsters read, understand and appreciate the game as well as our great club. We would all give an arm to play for Arsenal yet some get paid 100s of thousands a week to do so. I get the impression Per knows this.

07 May 2018 15:13:55
Our club captain who came out and said he didn’t want to play football again after carling cup loss👏👏 and still picked up his wages I hope this mentality stops now Wenger gone he was signed past his best to start with.

07 May 2018 15:14:20
Nice article in the independent to remind us of the type of man we have retained in our backroom staff so our values remain

A giant on and off the pitch


Some days he will empty his bowels half a dozen times before kick-off. After an evening game, he will often struggle to sleep until 5am. For Mertesacker, professional football has been a treadmill of sickness and anxiety, sleepless nights and aching limbs.

So why did he put himself through it all? For one reason alone: the unmatchable drug of winning, the greatest legal high known to man. A player whose own father, a bank manager and amateur football coach, once told him would never make it as a professional ended up lifting the FA Cup at Wembley, the World Cup in Brazil and winning more than 100 international caps. Not bad for a defender whose unseemly gait and lumbering pace often evokes Tommy Docherty’s much-quoted assessment of Alf Ramsey, that he had seen milk turn faster.

He did it the simple way, but never the easiest. “Win your headers, win your duels, play the simple pass, ” he said in a video message to his younger self for the Arsenal website. Above all, play for the team. Mertesacker may not have been the world’s greatest centre-half, but no dressing room was weaker for his presence. During the last World Cup, his national team-mates pinpointed an angry television interview after a scrappy 2-1 win over Algeria - an outburst Mertesacker admitted was partly calculated - as the moment when they felt strong and united enough to triumph.

According to Rafa Honigstein’s book Das Reboot, when the interview was replayed in cinemas as part of the Germany’s World Cup film, it was greeted with wild applause. Yet the very next game, Mertesacker was demoted to the bench as Joachim Low sought greater mobility at the back. In the brutal lunchtime heat of Rio de Janeiro, Mertesacker appointed himself water-distributor, throwing bottles to his team-mates from the sidelines.


Yet Mertesacker was never under any illusions that being good at football made you a better person. And so perhaps the most impressive thing about him was the parallel life he built for himself, one in which he was determined to be worldly, compassionate and generous. “How you perform on a football pitch, ” he said, “doesn’t tell anyone anything about what you are like as a human being. ”

And so while he was trying to find his peak as an athlete, Mertesacker was also trying to become a model citizen. Perhaps he always had it in him, from the moment he refused national service on the basis of his pacifism (as well as his height, which he argued made him too big to fit in a tank or a submarine) . Instead, he spent 18 months working in a mental hospital with the severely disabled, an experience that never truly left him. Only a couple of months ago, when a group of Arsenal fans with Downs Syndrome were invited to the Emirates for the Watford game, it was Mertesacker who gave up his time to receive them, sign autographs and pose for photographs.

07 May 2018 15:54:14
Why am I struggling to find any cohesion between these words and what I've seen with my own eyes.
Sorry but sometimes it's better to tell a full story and admit the less glorious bits if you want the other bits to be taken seriously.
To this day I've never heard a single word of explanation or apology for some of the stuff that was hard to believe we were seeing from Mertesacker.
If you want people to get over them bits then surely you have to adress them rather just pretend they didn't happen and try to sweep them under yhe carpet.

07 May 2018 16:37:13
I would expect that behaviour from anyone of our players or any professional footballer who have had the world at there feet earning bucket loads, I found it quite embarrassing there yesterday and whilst he and Wenger deserved a good send off once again the fans get nothing from the club not even a free programme! Let’s not ferget this is our worst season in 22 years and who is going manager us of any real Calibur without a huge contract and open check book hope I’m wrong but that’s not Arsenal’s way 🙈.

07 May 2018 08:41:14
Congratulations to Neil Warnock on breaking the most promotions record with Cardiff yesterday, his sides are not easy on the eye and when it comes to the premier league Neil looks to be out of his depth but when it comes to getting a team promoted he is definitely top dog without needing a kings ransom to do it either.
Horses for courses, if you want promotion Neil's the boy, if it's premier league survival your after look no further than Tony pulis and if you want to win the premier league it's self, who ya going to call? ;-)

07 May 2018 08:50:20
batman - he’s loaded and a super hero.

07 May 2018 08:58:10
Sorry to disagree but wouldn’t congratulate that bloke no matter what he did, the football anti christ just loves to get his players to kick lumps out of better sides.

Pep Guardiola, Antonio Conte or Claudio Raneiri I guess. 😉.

07 May 2018 08:59:43
And if memory serves me right from Gotham City not Germany:-)

07 May 2018 10:39:11
I think we need an experienced manager who will use youth mixed with experience, bite with skill, pressing with composure and pace with a level headed approach - let’s not throw Vieira into a Moyes situation. Let’s get Ancelotti to get us to where we are and let Vieira get some more experience - then bring in the beast and hopefully the best!

07 May 2018 09:54:04
Entertaining and kicks ass - surely sky bet will have him as favourite soon.

07 May 2018 12:48:32
Like him or loathe him, he is a manager who squeezes every drop out of a team. Never spent or had loadsa money but had succuss at his level on a consistant basis. 8 promotions is pretty good, is it four to the prem?

07 May 2018 16:11:45
Big Sam us the man to keep you up.

07 May 2018 05:27:56
Fabulous farewell to the Emirates for Wenger. The change over the 22 years at the club has been immense: New training ground, new stadium, 3 Premier titles, 7 FA Cups, 7 Community Shields, other finals including a CL final. Wenger will leave the club in good shape for the next manger, who will hopfully be the right choice to press on and bridge te gap between us and the world's top teams.
It was a pleasing and fitting result against Burnley. The odd thing this season has been the difference between our home and away form.
I am excited about the future and look forward to see who we select as manager. I cannot think of one outstanding candidate. Should it be a well established experienced manager? Should it be an up and coming manager? Should it be an inexperienced manger or a coach who hasn't managed?
As we enter the last week of Wengers long tenure at the club, I have a hunch we already have a manager in place. Is it Buvac? Ancelotti? Or someone else?

07 May 2018 07:32:57
I have no strong feelings on a manager, but would really like a manager that plays with flair - the Arsenal way.

07 May 2018 08:28:37
Like you Rooster I've not really got a manager who I favour above any of the other candidates and yes I'd like us to play with flair but the most important thing for me is we become hard to beat again.
Being competitive in every game whether it's City or United away or Wolves or Cardiff at home I just want to go into every game not expecting to get battered, to watch each game on the edge of my seat not from behind the couch any more :-) .
Ideally I would like a manager who thinks the community shield is something you get when you join the local neighbourhood watch group.

07 May 2018 08:54:23
A young Wenger - powerful teams that out ran, fought and played teams. A manager who understands the club and fans so it ensures the players understand what it means to wear the cannon.