So ,Arsene Wenger is proven right once again – nothing new there says you ?
Last season the malcontents took umbridge when AW said, when discussing how LCFC were able to sign the likes of Mahrez and Kante, despite the big clubs having the exact same scouting info on both players, that a section of Arsenal fans would react negatively if AFC bought a player for £400k, that they did not want to see an unknown signed.
The malcontents told us this was bollocks, yet look at the reaction of the malcontents to the signing of Takuma Asano.
Not only is there negative hysteria from them, its xenophobic, and in some cases downright racist. We also have the brainless soundbite that its a “commercial” signing, or a “shirt sales” signing.
One of the most laughable reasons (should that not be excuses, as I know they like to use that term, when it suits them), for their over the top reaction to this signing, is that it is “all Arsenal FC’s fault”, as they should know better than to announce his signing when Utd have announced Mkhitaryan and Zlatan. They say AFC should have waited till we had a big name(money) signing done and slip in the news about Asano, with it.
So to compound their initial attacks on both AFC and Asano, they have totally disrespected the player again.
Does Takuma Asano not deserve respect, is he not a full International, is he not likely to be playing at the Olympics, did he not have up to 200 scouts running the rule over him at the Toulon U21 tournament in the summer, is he not a big star in his home country, is he not young player of the year in his homeland(their Dele Alli per say, but without the hype)?
Does he not deserve the chance in his last couple of game for them, to say goodbye to his club, their fans, his team mates?
Arsenal announced the deal, cos the story had broken in Japan, Asano was already getting asked lots of questions about it, and he had admitted the move was happening, he even said that the only thing to be decided was if he would join up directly with AFC, or go on loan to get used to European football.
A post stolen from the comments section by eduardo792
Positively Arsenal 
Blaise Matuidi is reported to be in england to tie up a transfer, as he is a Raiola player, its likely its to man utd
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afcstuff @afcstuff 2h2 hours ago
Mesut Özil is the only German player to score in all of the last 4 major tournaments. [WC 10′ & 14′, Euro 12′ & 16′]
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Tom Gordon@GoonerGordo
Asano is going to face a lot of abuse for no reason, so good luck to the guy. Hope he has a good career with us.
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first of the senior squad returned to training today, and our first pre-season game is v Lens on the 22nd,
the reserves(u21’s or is that now u23’s), play Boreham wood on Saturday week, the 16th
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I am saying this out loud because I don’t want it to happen. I want to be totally effing wrong. I won’t Wenger to prove the hacks pundits and ungrateful Gooners (me included) 100% wrong. Maybe by saying aloud I will jinx it and then won’t I look stupid.
I egging hope so.
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dex you clearly don’t need any of that to happen to look stupid, you have already achieved it.
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So winning the transfer derby is now the mark of good management, eh?. It is shocking how many longstanding gooners have no idea or have conveniently forgotten that Arsenal Football Club have historically been opposed to engage in cheque-book management. As far back as 1925-26, prior to the arrival of Henry Chapman, the job description was pretty clear:
Arsenal Football Club is open to receive applications for the position of TEAM MANAGER. He must be experienced and possess the highest qualifications for the post, both as to ability and personal character. Gentlemen whose sole ability to build up a good side depends on the payment of heavy and exhorbitant [sic] transfer fees need not apply.
Nothing has changed to date even with the arrival of Arsene.
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I remember watching people lose their grip on the hero shit frothing down the chin eyes swivelling the works because Tottenham had just spent some farking moolah on a player called Soldado. Oh yeah and Paulinhio as well. The CM in question had just been outclassed by the 19 year old chamberlain, showcasing more skills and talent and effort back then then anyone has ever seen from the likes of Alli or Sterling. We’ve seen that pattern before!
Nevermind that AFC don’t do business with super agents. Since before AW became manager (please refer to GG), this information or it’s avoidance is how one can differentiate the deliberately disingenious wankers pardon me from those who are simply unwell.
Of course according to those who’ve “had enuff of Venga and want my club, my up and under football and my country back” Chamberlain is now classed as “deadwood” which is dead classy.
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Did the lock to the PA door got picked? Where’s the key masters?
Arsenal fans reacting so negatively to this signing are a damn embarrassment. PG tweeted this earlier:
@Blackburngeorge
I long for the days when Kos was “an accident waiting to happen” Ozil was “lazy” and Monreal “a liability”. Good judges our fans you know?
Now we have comments like this:
“The manager will barely last the season out at best.
He is simply stuck in a rut of his own making. We’ll probably sign the Dutch rat and Sylvain Distain and that will be it.”
Do this pseudo expert fans cum fortune tellers ever learn – you were wrong last season, you were wrong before that and you’ll pretend you didn’t spew this nonsense next season when the “North London power shift” is exposed yet again as “commercial” tactics to direct online traffic to sites of the über bloggers. I digress.
Great post Eddie.
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Au revoir indeed. Make it so. (Andy>)
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BOOM Shotta with the headshot.
And there was little old me that thought that AFC were against bungs from the eighties onwards. Little do I know.
my thought for the evening yesterday as I watched the French Lump otherwise also known as Big Sexy and much maligned by the unwell do what much hyped players could not do, because he is a better footballer, my thought was the following:
Giroud, title winning Giroud, cost less then half of what King Kenny splashed out for Andy Carroll several years ago. How can you not laugh! It’s properly funny. Even funnier when people attempt to deny the real ity in football, the understanding that AFC operate in a different market one that is about half the rate of the super agent jamboree haha! ManUre are screwed: of they’re selling mata then they’re offloading a player we’ve all seen and respected up close who again is simply a better footballer then their new signing (it’s best player in the spring match against Utd and Gazprom’s too when they visited N5 with Mata, every time…)
I wish Kenny well in his retirement.
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‘Scuse the typos beggin’ yet pardons
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< typos and bleedin' autocorrect
Where can one go to join an a4 paper protest of a few dozen people against the iniquities of autocorrect and spellcheck on smart phones?
How does one go about making a complete arsenal of oneself?
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how the malcontents view players by nationality/race/colour
1. white English
2. black English
3. white European
4. black European
5. white South American
6. black South American
7. white rest of UK and Irish
8. black rest of UK and Irish
9. black African
10. white African
11. white N. America/Australia/New Zealand
12. black N. America/Australia/New Zealand
13 Asian/Oriental
14. English Asian/Oriental – well they would rate them 14th, if there was any about to rate
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Chelsea, Manchester City and United, Liverpool, Everton et al, all have new managers.
New managers have to set up their own teams, which means hiring a few players!
In other words, transfers are the current, craze.
The national press hire scribblers to encourage idiots to drool over phantom transfers.
Dexter, is a refugee from that former site, where the owner is clueless on how to run a company, never mind a football club. There are a number of Arsenal sites, that encourage the hapless to follow the “lunatics”.
Check out – Belfast Celtic.
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reports that Jon Toral is joining La Liga side Granada on a season long lone. If true I think that is him finished at Arsenal.
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So, Mikel has soon fixed himself up, with a new job!
In the Financial Report for 2016/2017, Mikel Arteta’s salary for June 2016 + loyalty bonus, will be part of the Wages total. This will also include Flamini and Little Mozart and any discarded juniors.
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Eduardo, it might be too soon to judge. Let’s see how he does on loan first.
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I shall do the weeding in the morning as I am just indoors and knackered.
I somehow doubt anyone will be lieing awake as a result of young Dex’s earlier insights.
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passenal, i say toral would be finished at afc cos he only has a year left on his contract, and also if we were looking to get him ready for BPL we would not be sending him on loan to spain, after his very good season with brum, i’d say we would have been able to find him a bpl loan if we wanted.
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chelski manure city pool and the spuds also lost to Leicester, a side who we beat twice and who reached a reasonable amount of points for a title winning side, so any of this losing to shitty Leicester lark is bollocks.
Our awful season see us finish second a position bettered by only 13 seasons in our history.
This was achieved by a squad that wasn’t improved on ( because you can’t count Cech and integrated youth players apparently) from a the squad finishing lower the season before.
Surely you would have expected us to finish lower meaning second was a better than expected year.
You see you can’t have it both ways either the squad was an improvement and so the season was poor or the squad was lacking and so the season was an over achievement.
The problem is when criticising Arsene dex, you have fallen into the same trap as many before you, by all means suggest something he has done wrong and stick with that but don’t lay the world at his feet and say it’s all your fault because you end up arguing with yourself.
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There is nothing worse than a reformed smoker. Seems like Dex has qiit.
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so we can rule out lacazette or lukaku joining arsenal
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/1390299/arsenal-boss-arsene-wenger-holds-talks-with-talented-strike-duo-alexandre-lacazette-and-romelu-lukaku/?CMP=spklr-_-Editorial-_-TWITTER-_-TheSunFootball-_-20160704-_-Football-_-508693171
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Dexter is upset….
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Sorry to see that Dex has gone rogue.
This stuff I don’t get.
We just signed Xhaka, don’t people forget, and what of El Neney? just because he isn’t at the Euros does not make him a poor player all of a sudden. And there is Coq too.
Have people forgotten about Iwobi and The Jeff? When people say Arsenal didn’t sign strikers for 4 years, that is Boris and Farage levels of bullshitting, what were Alexis and Welbeck? Giroud is now showing the form we here knew he had in him. Arsenal players are ripping it up at the Euro’s, Jack would have shown more too – if he wasn’t dealing with muppets alongside him in midfield and a manager who believes in space monkeys.
Our Midfielder list for the season looks exciting Coq-ElNel_Xhaka, Santi-Ramsey-Wilshere-Ox, Iwobi-Jeff-Gnabry-Joel. I’ll count Ozil and Alexis as forwards from now on.
Why should Arsenal get mickey’d about by certain big clubs and players with big egos for another summer? If players think there is more money elsewhere – they’re probably right, but ask them afterwards if it was a good career move they might think again. (ask the Dutch Skunk).
Even still Arsenal cannot buy every rated player in world football, this is not a computer game. Financial Fair Play got busted – probably because UEFA was (only was?) run by crooks and had to many vested interests against it. Arsenal can be blown out of the water of fees and wages by clubs with a feckless attitude to money and players, or do our loudmouth superfans want to start paying £2,000 for their season tickets to show some more ‘Ambishoon’?
Yes, Arsenal did come up short last season, which was frustrating and heart-breaking, but there were many reasons – and most can’t be put at the doorstep of the manager, even if we were party to the knowledge behind what the real reasons might be, and we are not.
Finally – a shout out to some of the Arsenal old boys at EURO 16: Sanga and Djourou have been excellent for their countries.
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Toral will play a far higher standard of technical football in Spain.
There is no point sending him to the likes of Tony Pulis.
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Coming 2nd last season can be seen as a step forward.
Finishing with 70 points and a low goal scored tally can be seen as a step backwards.
Absoltely certain that AW did not envisage a season with so little time for Welbeck, and none at all from Jack Wilshere. Nevermind the continuous levels of GBH inflicted on our players under the nose of PGMOL – e.g. the attacks upon Santi and Alexis.
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In Arsenal’s history – even going back to the Chapman era, the club have not been afraid to spend big (Make a statement, show some ambition, yah yah yah) when it really mattered.
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I am dubious about the “we must sign a striker” malarkey – I think the midfield must score more goals.
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I made the following point on twitter but it gained little traction. (Maybe PA will be a bit more receptive.)
United’s reported heavy outlay on Mikhitaryan smacks of a similar splash on DiMaria which ended in tears. ADM was the 2nd or 3rd option at Madrid and was expected to become a Ronaldoesque leadman at United. Mikhitaryan was definitely option #2 at BVB and arguably #3 behind Reus. While the transfer fee may seem modest by United’s spendthrift history, a reported salary of £12 million p.a. and a signing-on bonus of £8 million surely makes him among the highest paid signalling he is expected to lead them back to champions league at minimum. As we all know from the movies, it is one thing to be the best supporting actor, its quite another to be the main man.
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Very good point, Shotta.
Utd have no more replaced Roy Keane than Arsenal have Viera, but at least AW has sub-divided Paddy’s skill set amongst several other midfielders.
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so has le groan published an article today owning up to their article yesterday being a whole load of hysterical nonsense and in fact opportunistic bullshite for the malcontents to lap up. Now I’m only going on what I’m told was the gist or basis of their woeful nonsense yesterday, namely that – Wenger who is on £8M a year, is so greedy that he is still away in France doing media work at the Euro finals, while the great and the good joe say and pep were at work in manchester taking training sessions, like all good mangers do. and so it was showing AW to be greedy, and to not care about his job at AFC as much as joe say and pep care about their new clubs –
well its true that the first batch of arsenal players returned to pre-season training yesterday, I have no idea if Wenger did, but as usual at Arsenal, the first day of pre-season was all medical stuff, and gym work, no training session. That was today, and Arsenal.com have put up pictures of it, and I’m sure le groan is shocked to see AW in many of the pictures. Now I would not put it past that shower of cunts at le groan to actually try and claim it was their article yesterday that forced Arsene to come back to England and take the training session today, never mind the fact that he has never missed training sessions for media work, not even when he was at the World Cup in Brazil, so why would he miss any and him only an hour away in France.
Mertesacker, Chambers, Gabriel, Monreal, Gibbs, Elneny, Iwobi, Reine-Adelaide, Akpom, Coquelin, Walcott, Gnabry, Malen, Sheaf, Macey, Martinez, Bielik, and Zelalem are the guys I could see in the pictures, one other guy was in it, not sure if it was willock or nelson
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NELSON, MCGUANE AND BIELIK TRAIN WITH ARSENAL FIRST-TEAM AS PRE-SEASON GETS UNDERWAY
by jeorge bird
Arsenal held their maiden first-team training session of pre-season today, with several senior players in attendance.
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain played a full part after recovering from injury, whilst Mathieu Debuchy, Per Mertesacker, Gabriel, Nacho Monreal, Mohamed Elneny, Theo Walcott, Alex Iwobi, Francis Coquelin, Yaya Sanogo, Kieran Gibbs, Calum Chambers, Serge Gnabry and Chuba Akpom were all involved.
In addition some talented youngsters also participated, with Krystian Bielik being selected to train with the first-team, along with Marcus McGuane and Reiss Nelson.
Jeff Reine-Adelaide, meanwhile, trained wearing number 20, suggesting that he has been promoted to the first-team squad.
Carl Jenkinson and Danny Welbeck are absent with long-term injuries.
Petr Cech, Hector Bellerin, Laurent Koscielny, Jack Wilshere, Mesut Ozil, Wojciech Szczesny, Aaron Ramsey, David Ospina, Joel Campbell, Alexis Sanchez, Olivier Giroud and Granit Xhaka weren’t present as a consequence of their participation in international tournaments this summer. New signing Takuma Asano is with the Japan U23 squad preparing for the Olympic Games.
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there is a rumor that Jon Toral has signed a new contract with AFC, before he goes off on loan to La Liga side Granada
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I bet matt law did not say this to joe say at his presser today when he claimed he had developed 49 youth players to the first team
Matt Law @Matt_Law_DT 8h8 hours ago
Giving players debuts is not youth development
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ha ha ha, joe says development list
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the brother of Kelechi Nwakali, the 18 year old nigerian who is joining Arsenal, was badly beaten up and robbed, and is said to be critically ill.
http://www.allnigeriasoccer.com/read_news.php?nid=19650#.V3t_Q757YXI.twitter
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a question for those on twitter, has the option to view a conversation been taken away
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Mick McCarthy has said Ipswich want to take Ainsley Maitland-Niles on a season loan, again this season.
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Arsènic @Lexus7Sanchez 6m6 minutes ago
Telegraph | Arsène used covering France Vs the Republic of Ireland in Lyon as an opportunity to meet Lacaz reps. #afc
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Get French Football @GFFN 3m3 minutes ago
Olivier Giroud a slight doubt for the match vs Germany as he is suffering from knee trouble. Didn’t train with the squad today. (RMC)
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https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2016/jul/05/jose-mourinho-right-one-manchester-united
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Shotts,
The outgoing Dortmund player has had two recent trips to n5 and he’s never impressed in the same way Mata has. It’s not easy to acknowledge good football from a Gazprom or Utd player but when it comes to Mata it’s been a fair reflection on a few occasions. Hopefully the specialist is going to repeat a previous mistake. He can’t help I can he, feeding from the same deep trough as that stable of Mendezian mules, let’s hope history repeats itself.
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Yup. It was Sanogo who grabbed the goals and headlines last time we saw Mkhitaryan
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I could’ve been an agent. Of D**M(s).
I should’ve been rich.
I could’ve been a playa.
I still want to be famous.
Now I just write a blog.
And troll fools into slagging off France’s best and most effective striker.
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Vardy did not exactly impress at the euros eh? Perhaps his dives not being rewarded with pelanties affected his game? Perchance?
Walcott’s scored a better goal in that tournament coming off the bench. Hodgson forgot that strike and indulged Greg Dyke’s anointed saviour of English football Harry Kane taking all corners and free kicks. Under instruction from the FA? The mind boggles. Walcott has shown himself to be a better take of FKs and corners then Kane etc. just how in the blazes did he end up taking all the kicks? no wonder England played crap half the squad must have been pissing themselves.
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If Harry Kane was the answer then what was the question?
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I think the Armenian is a good player – has a dash similar to Freddie Ljunberg that gets him onto the end of goalscoring chances around the box that will help any team he plays for. 40 goals in three seasons in Dortmund and 136 appearances ( according to the stats) is a good return. 44 in 104 games at Shaktar even better.
He will however have to be a hell of a player to make much difference in the red half of Manchester.
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