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 
CONFIRMED: ARSENAL YOUNGSTERS TO BE INVOLVED IN FOOTBALL LEAGUE TROPHY
by jeorge bird
It has been confirmed that Arsenal’s academy will be involved in the Football League Trophy this season.
The re-formatted competition will enable the club’s youngsters to test themselves against senior players from League One and League Two, with teams initially taking part in group fixtures before the knockout rounds begin.
The group stages of the competition will be regionalised, and invited clubs, such as Arsenal, must field at least six U21 players in each game.
The competition commences next month, culminating in the final at Wembley in April.
This is a fantastic opportunity for Arsenal’s starlets to experience the demands of first-team football , which is sure to benefit them in the future.
Several other major academies will be participating, including Manchester United and Chelsea.
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JB™ @gunnerpunner 10m10 minutes ago
The majority of the text in the Chilcot Report was left-aligned. The rest was centred.
Just like the Iraq war, none of it was justified.
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its been confirmed that Asano has been included in the Japan squad for the Olympics.
it looks like Iwobi won’t be going with Nigeria, as he and AFC want him to concentrate on him establishing himself in the Arsenal team.
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Andrew if the Third Party Specialist manages to keep his new singing alongside Mata (in order to get the best out of him) then we will know that he has learnt a little from his previous and recent bungtastic errors. Which we all enjoyed. Hopefully he hasn’t!
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I see Celtic have completed their installation of a safe standing area in their ground. Of course this has led to the malcontents attacking Arsenal for not having a safe standing area. Never mind that the law in England prohibits any such safe standing area.
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I already get the sense of rumbling discontent in Salford Fins – “Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man’s hand.”
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so joe say told the press yesterday that rooney would be in attack this season, well with zlatan joining, where will that leave rashford, maybe that is why the agents friend was so keen to brag about his impressive record of promoting youth to the first team, 49 he told the press, but then e mailed a list of 55, rashford should be comforted with the news that out of the 55, a full total of 9 of them actually played more than 90 minutes for joe say, rashford is a talented kid, so surely he can be confident he can be number 10 in the list of talented youths to play a full game for a joe say team. Well that is if Raiola does not have more expensive signings for his friend to buy from him
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“Hindsight is not a strategy. Everyone’s hindsight is better than the most acute foresight.”
Nothing specifically to do with football but I like that.
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Who said that Andy. I want to pretend it was me !
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Professor Vernon Bogdanor – I am sure he would not mind
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To twitter I go then.
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AFCPressWatch© @AFCPressWatch 53m53 minutes ago
Ismaël Bennacer has decided to play for Algeria. The @LesVerts have submitted an application to FIFA on his behalf.
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Double Exit @double_canister 32m32 minutes ago
Many Arsenal fans have concluded that since AFC have not consulted them personally over who to buy this summer, the club are getting no one.
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Checking on the Arsenal Scouting network, I found this:-
May 3, 2016 at 1:15 pm
I am taofeek from nigerian.I am good at tackling,.marking,and defencive.I wan to play at all cost 4 my club arsenal.call me 08058773321,07058773321.
and this:-
paul burns
December 17, 2015 at 5:12 pm
Do you have scouts in Ireland.my son plays goalkeeper our local under 12 side and has this year been picked to play for the county,he is a very talented young man.
Wake up, Eddy!
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wales on the ropes here, 2-0
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Good first half from Wales but cracked at HT – decent goal from that cheating ponce followed by a lucky deflection by Nani
1-0 was do-able 2-0 a steep hill
Portugal are crap however so the game far from over
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Poor Wales, no Ramsey, no party it seems. Is Bale still on the pitch?
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Such a shame that Portugal managed to squeak their way to an undeserved final place
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Violent Gabriel @GabrielKillYou 16m16 minutes ago
Wales without Ramsey is like England with Delle Alli.
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@ Eddy. LOL.. I had to read that twice.
Haha… England WITH DELE ALLI. lol
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Wales had an exceptional Euros but will still go home a bit irritated they did not make the final.
Every one of them should be massively proud of producing a team performance over 5 games far better than their individual effort.
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thats true anicol, but they could have done so much better if they had signed a world class striker and a top central defender, no excuses
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Ramsey returns in time for the start of the season (I think) woo hoo!
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True Eddy
#ColemanOut
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Wales were always going to suffer without POTTTD (player of the tournament to date), couldn’t bear to watch the game but i saw the closing ten and heard Craig Bellemy plunditting afterwards and his first comment to his audience to summarise the match was:
We might have understated the impact Ramsey (or any other Arsenal footballer) has had.
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arsenal finally confirm friendly game with Lens
http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/20160707/pre-season-match-in-lens-confirmed?
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seemingly Ramsey has said he expects that he, Ozil, Koscielny and Giroud will all miss the start of the season.
They are likely to get 4 weeks off before returning to training, and without getting pre-season games, it might take them a while to get fully match fit. Of course they all might get game time for the reserves.
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Tim Stillman @Stillberto 3h3 hours ago
The first two Friday night games see Southampton fans travelling to Manchester and Liverpool fans travelling to Chelsea. Zero. Fucks. Given.
the away fans should boycott the games
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seemingly Ramsey will be back in AFC training on Monday 1st of August, as will the losing players out of tonight’s semi final, while the winners will be back on Monday 8th of August
we have friendly games on the 5th and 7th of august
our first bpl game in on the 14th
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Jeorge Bird @jeorgebird 1m1 minute ago
Chiori Johnson trained with the first-team today.
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SAMchez COYG @smeagol_11 10m10 minutes ago
It’s funny how media outlets report Arsenal bidding for players and fans say it’s bullshit but when it’s another team bidding it’s true
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It has to be the Germans
(Doesn’t it ?)
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Reports in France that Arsenal are interested in versatile Lille Left Back, Djibril Sidibé. He can also play Right Back, Right Midfield & Left Midfield.
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Ryan Tomes @RyanTomes 1h1 hour ago
I’m going to find it so hard watching Germany/France later. I’d be both happy & gutted at either resu
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if Arsenal do sign Sidibe, watch it being spun as a panic signing or cheap option by Wenger, it will be that he wanted Rodrigues, but dithered till his buy out clause lapsed, and so AW then went for a cheap French league player, who nobody knows.
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Matt Spiro@mattspiro
Griezmann pulls away from the warm up to shake hands with the pitchside @beinsports_FR team Wenger, Pires and Abidal. Looks very relaxed
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G-Rude @Ozil_Ultra 55m55 minutes ago
A racist being rightfully removed from their Arsenal membership for being racist is somehow blaming Wenger for it all. WOBs are disturbed
the blackscarfists are up in arms over it, ha ha ha
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modern pundits
“Ozil is no Kante”
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Haha that must explain why Kante was dropped for Sissoko!
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Brady, Giles and Dunphy are in meltdown over Kante not being in the France team, none of them can find any reason for it. Even when they said Sissoko give a far more attacking side to the team. To listen to the 3 of them, you would think none of them had ever seen Matudi play, or know that he plays DM, and that its him who is keeping Kante out, not the Arsenal loving newcastle man.
Brady’s refusal to back up Ozil, is putting him down my list of Arsenal greats, LB was on his back in the last game, and now lets Dunphy talks shit about him.
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malcontents in meltdown, cos Wenger is doing pundit work at the semi final tonight, he should be back in london taking a training session, its what a modern manager would do.
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James Olley @JamesOlley 3m3 minutes ago
As has been reported elsewhere, #afc are not entering into EFL Trophy next season.
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some great build up play there from France, the shot lacked power
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muller with a poor shot
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“malcontents in meltdown, cos Wenger is doing pundit work at the semi final tonight, he should be back in london taking a training session, its what a modern manager would do.”
Interesting observation eduardo, does the highly modern josay ever do punditry? I’m not sure anyone would be interested in anything he has to say about the game since he only knows one way to play, i.e. buy the expensive bus, park the expensive bus, use all the gamesmanship in the world to cheat your way to a goal, rinse and repeat ad nauseum.
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lloris with a good save
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Each goalkeeper has made a good save now. I’m glad to see both teams trying to play football and trying to win, not playing it safe.
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pogba is poor at this passing lark
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Mark Gonnella @MarkG_Arsenal 3h3 hours ago
@darrenmichael This was brought to our attention by @kickitout. We do not tolerate discriminatory language or behaviour.#ArsenalforEveryone
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that should have been a penalty to Germany
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