“And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled ’till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.” ― Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
24 days to…the closing of the window.
Everything about the transfer window reminds me of the commercialization of Christmas:
• The countdown.
• The massive price inflation. This window last year’s 30 million pound player is now 40 million (25%), 20 million is now 30 million (50%), 10 million is 20 million(100%). It’s evident from those percentages that, like Christmas, the higher margin is on lower end product. Always the poor pay more, eh.
• The wall-to-wall media hype allied with the selling of massive amounts of expensive advertizing best exemplified by that 24-hour Jim White-SkySport frenzy on deadline day.
• The widescale brainwashing of football fans into believing that the only way owners and managers can show their love for the fans is by engaging in massive transfer spending. Arsenal fans are arguably under the most psychological pressure because Papa Wenger and Uncle Ivan refuse to join the madness, avoid the pressure to keep up with the Jones, by hardly ever spending a fortune during the summer transfer window.
Predictably Arsenal’s twitterati and the big bloggers are up in arms, defaming the club’s greatest ever manager for refusing to bend to the pressure to spend for spending sake. Many are like children at Christmas who can’t understand why Momma and Poppa refuse to buy them the most expensive plaything.
https://twitter.com/triplec1988/status/761578406119149568
The BBC tactic is to wheel out out an ex-player to attack the club’s transfer spending:
“The board and Wenger have let Arsenal fans down again”.
Brutal from Chris Sutton.
But a fair assessment…?https://t.co/TdBqtZLdkA
— BBC 5 live Sport (@5liveSport) August 1, 2016
On transfer inflation one tweeter dismissed the club’s prudence.
Benteke €46.5m
Firmino €41m
Son €30mOff the top of my head but ~€50m for Mahrez is overpriced?
— Doug Nichols (@TheTXI) August 1, 2016
This fellow has seemingly given up:
It’s become painfully clear that nobody has any clue what the hell The Arsenal are doing as far as transfers.
— Brian (@GunnerFaithful) July 29, 2016
One podcaster puts the boot in:
Surely Asano & Holding aren’t being counted as signings? For me we’ve signed Xhaka and thats it, and that’s not good enough @Arsenal
— Gimli (@GoonerGimli) July 19, 2016
To be fair not all of Arsenal twitter have given in to the pressure.
Wenger is an absolute fraud. How he bought Rob Holding for 2mill when Stones is going for 50mill is nothing but FRAUDULENT. 😂😂😂
— IslingtonGoonerAFC (@Born_a_gooner) August 1, 2016
We stayed in the CL despite financial difficulties since 04, been steadily improving last 3 seasons – 4,3,2 (2FA cups too). Why the moaning?
— Sahan Mendis (@theredandwhite1) July 30, 2016
Xhaka 34M in a market where Higuain goes for 75M. Don’t come at my boy Weng ever again.
— Tosí (@OzilAssist) July 29, 2016
” Wenger’s main summer signing each year since 2012 has been; Santi Cazorla, Mesut Ozil, Alexis Sanchez and Petr Cech.
All remain key men”
— Common Tater (@RancidPotato) July 21, 2016
As usual it is the data which has the final say. Most of you readers are familiar with my mantra:
“Unlike the media [and Twitter], which thrives on emotion, in the silent statistical world, there are no headlines. There are no narratives. No excuses. No hope and no despair. Just data.”
I did my research and not surprisingly, it is Arsenal’s prudence and Arsene’s discipline in the transfer market which stands out like a shining light.
| Nett Spend 92/03 – 13/14 | Purchased Gross | Sold | Nett | Per Season |
| Manchester City | £1,145,480,000 | £316,903,000 | £828,577,000 | £33,143,080 |
| Chelsea | £1,195,199,000 | £484,125,000 | £711,074,000 | £28,442,960 |
| Manchester United | £922,950,000 | £435,490,000 | £487,460,000 | £19,498,400 |
| Liverpool | £917,805,000 | £539,300,000 | £378,505,000 | £15,140,200 |
| Middlesbrough | £237,910,000 | £57,680,000 | £180,230,000 | £7,209,200 |
| Arsenal | £587,365,000 | £407,674,000 | £179,691,000 | £7,187,640 |
| Tottenham | £686,700,000 | £525,167,500 | £161,532,500 | £6,461,300 |
| Sunderland | £327,745,000 | £170,580,000 | £157,165,000 | £6,286,600 |
| Stoke City | £149,065,000 | £47,630,000 | £101,435,000 | £4,057,400 |
| Crystal Palace | £156,760,000 | £59,990,000 | £96,770,000 | £3,870,800 |
| Everton | £349,045,500 | £254,586,000 | £94,459,500 | £3,778,380 |
| West Bromwich Albion | £178,650,000 | £86,376,501 | £92,273,499 | £3,690,940 |
| West Ham | £303,282,000 | £216,782,000 | £86,500,000 | £3,460,000 |
| Hull City | £108,445,000 | £57,680,000 | £50,765,000 | £2,030,600 |
| AFC Bournemouth | £78,085,000 | £28,595,000 | £49,490,000 | £1,979,600 |
| Leicester City | £123,895,000 | £94,195,000 | £29,700,000 | £1,188,000 |
| Watford | £89,345,000 | £60,000,000 | £29,345,000 | £1,173,800 |
| Swansea City | £99,427,500 | £87,560,000 | £11,867,500 | £474,700 |
| Southampton | £279,687,500 | £280,845,000 | -£1,157,500 | -£46,300 |
| Burnley | £53,300,000 | £87,560,000 | -£34,260,000 | -£1,370,400 |
Publicly available data on transfer spending demonstrate in no uncertain fashion that despite the billions spent by City and Chelsea with United and Liverpool breathing down their necks, none have had sustainable to success, unlike Arsenal. City came 4th last year and had to ditch their manager. Chelsea came 8th and has had three managers since last season. United continue to show ambition at a mouth-watering cost. None other than Fabio Capello was forced to remark:
‘They have spent €500million (£424m) in three years to win the FA Cup and twice they did not qualify for the Champions League,
‘Money is not always enough’.
Despite Liverpool’s willingness to spend whatever the market charged for average players (something Arseblog would no doubt approve) they have never won the Premier League in its 24 years of existence. This appetite for the transfer market doesn’t seem to have changed under Herr Klopp.
What was astonishing to me was how per season transfer spending club by Middlesborough exceeded Arsenal’s during the period under reference. This is the classic yo-yo club which enjoys a spell in the Prem only to be relegated to the Championship. I nearly fell out of my seat when it hit me that they have spent the last 10 years trying to get promoted.
What the data above ignores are the clubs whose owners spent lavishly, like Santa Claus, temporarily endearing themselves to the fans, only to conveniently fall out of sight out of mind to the bloggers and tweeters who demonize Wenger for not “showing ambition”. One such club is Aston Villa who between 92/93-13/14 were not afraid to spend.
| Purchased Gross | Sold | Nett | Per Season |
| $401,890,000.00 | $228,575,000.00 | $173,315,000.00 | $7,290,600.00 |
Despite their per season average spending also exceeding Arsenal’s, last campaign Villa was finally relegated to the Championship after two-three years of flirting with disaster. American billionaire owner Randy Lerner has had to sell out to the Chinese, after a reported 50% hit to his net worth. One wonders what he now thinks of the advice of the mainstream media and his many spendthrift managers who demanded he spend big every transfer window to strengthen the squad.
In closing let me remind you of something Arsene said about transfers recently:
“I buy players that I feel can strengthen our team. Today, you have to be very strong inside the club when you are responsible, not to just buy to buy.
“There is always a wave of opinions, and people are better informed today than all the players. They always tell you to buy but when you ask who to buy, they become much shorter, because if you look at the market in Europe there is a lot of money available, but not many players that really strengthen the teams.
“And if you look at who is spending the most in Europe, they are not the teams that won the leagues. The global investment of all the clubs around us didn’t stop Leicester winning the league. So we have to focus on our quality, and try to strengthen our team.
“If you analyse well our season, we finished top of the top-four. We lost maximum points against the teams between five and nine. Maybe the games we were expected to win, we did, but against teams like Southampton and Swansea, we dropped too many points.
“On the other hand, we had a good defensive record, overall, but we can still strengthen that. And we were a bit short of goals scored. We didn’t convert enough chances we created. We created the most in the league but our finishing was not as good as the season before.
“You say we should have won the league, but Leicester lost only three games during the season and won the league. You have to respect their performance. It’s not the name that wins the league, it’s the quality of the performances.”
I would advise well thinking fans to heed the words and deeds of Arsene and just like at Christmas, avoid the hype and psychological pressure. As most of us try teach our kids, in the words of Dr Seuss:
What if Christmas….doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.”
Positively Arsenal 
92 minutes – navas fires over from 8 yards out
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The Arsenal commentator was worried but the chance fell to Navas COYG
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93 minutes – gabriel looks badly hurt, studs caught in the ground, ref calls for a stretcher. gabriel looks to be in serious pain. its a bad one.
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Yikes looks like Gabriel is down
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Oh no, hope it’s not the season of the injured centre back!
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santi seems to indicate that its gabriels achilles or his ankle. Gabriel still in serious pain, Bielik ready to come on.
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gabriel having his lower leg put in a splint type device. it is a very serious looking injury. When the fuck will our bad luck with injuries change.
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Wenger has come out on the pitch to gabriel
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bielik on
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ft; 3-2
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Another good run out from the lads who all worked hard. Xhaka best in first 45, Chambo and Theo shone in the second. And Cech by far the superior keeper. Bad luck about Gabby but one of those things. I suggest Laurent gets a couple of early nights this week. His holiday is over.
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I’m not sure Arsene will risk him Andy – better to have him fit for the long-term than rushed back for the short-term
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BELLERIN CHAMBERS MONREAL GIBBS – BACK 4
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He had Per working away on his fitness throughout the close season (after his month of holiday) Pass. And that lasted all of 70 minutes.
Seems to me it’s a bit of a lottery. I find it hard to believe Kosc has wrecked his physique since the end of the Euros to the extent he is incapable of turning out. As ever though we shall see.
I wonder whether Elneny might do as a temporary centre back ? Big enough at least.
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Another excellent display… by Shotta and another good workout for the lads. We should have been 4-0 up before city scored but if you don’t take your chances as they say. Kevin Campbell seemed to suggest it was because we didnt sign a striker, completely failing to notice all four chances were missed by midfielders, Ox (2) Le Coq (1) and Rambo (1). The second half we looked more comfortable in possession and started to dominate. Good to see Theo looking lively and Iwobi and Chuba still oozing confidence. Just praying Gabs is a short term injury and he’s back soon. Overall very poisitive again.
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Who knows Andy, there are options, but I’m glad I’m not the one who has to make a tough call. The WOBS will be filling the airwaves with faux outrage no doubt!
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Wenger said Koscielny is back in training tomorrow, but he does not know if he will be ready to start v lfc.
bellerin holding chambers monreal with xhaka and elneny in front of them will do for me, with kos on the bench
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‘I’M VERY PLEASED WITH OUR PERFORMANCE’
Arsène Wenger discussed the transfer market and his team’s performance after Arsenal beat Manchester City 3-2 in their final pre-season friendly.
Here’s what the boss said:
on the game…
I felt it was a game of intensity where both teams put a big effort in. We played quite well. We were 1-0 down, came back and always looked dangerous going forward. I’m very pleased with our performance and the spirit we have shown.
on whether he will look for defenders in the transfer market…
I’ve said many times that we are in the market. Of course it’s not an easy market for us. Let’s hope we have good news from Gabriel. Laurent Koscielny is back in training [on Monday] but he might be short for next week. If Gabriel is out, Per Mertesacker is out and Koscielny not ready – that’s a lot of players.
on the injury taking the gloss off victory…
We could see that we have played together for a while now, so there’s a good fluidity and understanding in our game and reading of each other. I felt our transition from defence to attack was good, defending was good for the most part and physically we look ready.
on the referee playing extended time…
We always ask to not play injury time in friendly games. He did it. I have no special issue with it.
Copyright 2016 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to http://www.arsenal.com as the source
Read more at http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/20160807/-i-m-very-pleased-with-our-performance-#OK6yWpg2v8bLpv2k.99
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Mattias Karén @MattiasKaren 1h1 hour ago
Wenger on Gabriel: “It’s certainly an ankle sprain.” But no details on how serious.
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Gnabry scored again tonight for Germany in the olympics. its currently 2-2 with half an hour to play
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pep plays a midfielder at cb and its genius, but if wenger does the same or plays a full back at cb, its cos he can’t assemble a squad
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WENGER’S UPDATE ON GABRIEL INJURY
Arsène Wenger discussed Gabriel’s injury after the defender was forced off in Arsenal’s final pre-season friendly before the new Premier League season.
Read on to find out what the manager said:
on Gabriel…
We have not even made a diagnosis in the medical room with our doctors or physios yet. I can’t tell you more. He’s in pain. Let’s hope the pain is not a sign of bad news. The only thing we have to know now is how big the damage is with his ligament.
on it happening two minutes into injury time…
I’ve never seen an intelligent accident, they always look stupid. We have to take that. He played the ball 100 per cent and I think he rolled his ankle, but I don’t know how it happened. It’s part of our game.
on Gabriel being out next week…
Yes. We are very short [in defence].
on losing another centre back…
Maybe he was a bit tired, I don’t know. Was his coordination a bit weaker, I don’t know. Was he locked in the grass with his studs… I have to speak to him. He’s just come out of a medical room and he’s not in a better state because he couldn’t even talk on the pitch
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on whether he will fly home with the team…
I think so, yes. Certainly on crutches.
on whether he will have a scan on Monday…
I don’t think he’ll have a scan tonight because we come back at midnight. I don’t think so.
Copyright 2016 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to http://www.arsenal.com as the source
Read more at http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/20160807/wenger-s-update-on-gabriel-injury?#SHcyDcPP6vQBjXSP.99
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Guess an extra few million added onto the prices of Mustafi, Johnny Evans or A.N.Other.
Or……Cometh the hour, Cometh the man ……..Callum Chambers?
On another note, not a great start to the season for the man many WOBs and their blogs wanted to replace Wenger……Owen Coyle…….
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Not much of a day for Pep if you think about it Mandy. We shall see what sort of manager he really is in a few months. Like Owen Coyle he can only work with the players he has got, and Guardiola has never, ever had the poor quality of players he inherited at the Etihad. I imagine Hart might get one more chance after today.
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FT: germany u23 3-3 south korea u23
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HT: arsenal 0-1 man city
pep showing what a real manger can do, wenger outdated and has assembled a weak team and squad
FT: arsenal 3-2 man city
its only a friendly, we beat city in previous pre-seasons and still finished below them.
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Germany will need to beat fiji by better than 5-1 to progress, fiji have lost 5-1 and 8-0 in their two games.
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Akpom scored a goal in each of the four pre-season games he played in, he is raw, a bit over eager at times, his finishing is not smooth yet, but he is goal hungry, he might not give us Giroud’s link play, he is more of a Welbeck type, but he looks like he would score a lot of goals for us.
theo looked so much happier and at ease back out on the right side/
elneny has had a great pre-season, and he will be very unlucky if he is not in the starting team for lfc game.
Chambers, Holding and Bielik have all impressed during pre-season, I think the only issue is that having two of the three as our starting cb’s would mean a major lack of experience. anyone of them with kos alongside them and I don’t see an issue. problem is kos is very unlikely to be available to start v lfc.
xhaka is looking like wenger has done it again, a top signing under the radar.
Iwobi looks bigger than last season, he started pre-season slowly but has really got up to pace in last two games. looks like he now wants goals.
ox and theo both done some great things in pre-season, and coquelin has been full of energy and bite
santi, alexis and ramsey all lacking match sharpness, but all quality enough to overcome that.
cech, bellerin and monreal look a shoe in for starting spots.
as things stand I’d think the team v lfc might just be
cech
bellerin holding chambers monreal
xhaka elneny
ox santi iwobi
alexis
subs
ospina, koscielny, gibbs, coquelin, theo, ramsey, akpom
with giroud and ozil also possible bench men, with akpom and gibbs missing out.
of course the two or three signings we make tomorrow would alter the team/squad selection somewhat.
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Gnabry scored two goals tonight for germany, to earn them a 3-3 draw, the second was two minutes into stoppage time
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seemingly mancini has left inter milan and is set to be replaced by frank de boer
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Ian – I have no idea why you are ending up in the spam bin. George gave you full access to this place a long time. A greater mind will have to resolve. Andrew Nic?
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Very good piece Shotta, fascinating figures, to boot.
I thought Arsenal looked very strong yesterday. We were sharp and despite new faces, generally looked as though we’d been playing together as a cohesive unit for many moons. Cohesion will be the biggest challenge facing United, City, Chelsea and Liverpool, despite their spending. A decent start to the season could put us in pole position by the autumn though I see no reason why Leicester and Spurs shouldn’t be up there as well.
Issues caused by Gabriel’s injury aside, I’d have no problem if AFC’s chequebook stayed closed for the rest of the summer. Maybe a little ‘madness’ in January could catch everyone by surprise. Suspect once the transfer dominoes fall towards the end of this window we may see some movement inwards but hard to imagine many available newcomers that would strengthen the current side.
Thanks Shotta, and roll on Liverpool.
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I shall have a look Ian – not at my desk today so probably later
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Superb piece by our Shotta,
That prize twonk Chris Sutton sitting there arrogantly pontificating that he “worries” about Arsenal just says so much for me. Talking is cheap, especially when you make no preparation to support your opinions. As Michael Gove once said “the British people are fed of experts”….
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Gove was (sadly) correct. One glance at social media clearly illustrates the fact. People don’t want to study the facts, listen to those who know they want to be HEARD.
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Always a pleasure to be here. I always find time to read all the posts and comments but wouldn’t bother leaving any comment because my mind would have been spoken more eloquently than I would have.
It’s so painful that some people are actually blaming Arsene for keeping Gabriel on last night when I was actually applauding him for doing same. It makes me realise Arsene can never win in any situation with these “super fans/bloggers”. As much as I’ll want us to sign anyone that can improve the team, I believe with a little luck on the injury front, we have a massive chance of challenging and winning the title with what we have.
I appreciate you all for being able to stay sane in this insane arsenal world. I hope I’ll be able to meet with some of us someday when I’m in the UK.
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Superb Shotta.
I’ll thrust this down certain peeps mailboxes. They can read it whilst on a replacement bus service.
I thought Andy “get in” piss-pot Talkbolox wasn’t working for ITV anymore?
Great post of BBC bias, edu.
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To be fair lorde the self-texting Experts of the selfie era with whom we are blessed with passed the threshold of sanity long ago, probably around about the time they tried to take credit for the Ozil transfer before branding him a lazy good for nothing Hunnic Tartar Terrorist leading the hordes and stealing a living before having to revise that opinion (again) after he won a World Cup etc…
Beyond satire.
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Lovely post Shotta and thanks for the bits of the Grinch which were great. Something intangible meaning more than yet another acquisition? A hard message to get across, espccially so to the literal-minded. I like the way so many are suggesting that Arsene is getting left behind and no longer gets modern football, whereas i feel that he is going to places as yet unthought by so many of the big clubs. We shall see, but silly friendly though it was the second half against Viking gave a real sense of a swarm of young talent ready to peak. Not all of those genuinely exciting youngsters will make the grade of course, but more than people might expect (or hope) quite possibly will. And again, only a friendly I know but yesterday I thought I saw something I hadn’t really seen before from us and that was a really dynamic and speedy forward press, and a consequent harrying of the City defence and midfield that at times seemed likely to overrun them completely. It was sad to see Gabriel hurt and in such distress, and I suspect the tears were as much of frustration as of pain.
And, whisper it quietly, we seem to have got our Theo back. Perhaps he will never be our main striker, or indeed our starting right-winger, but he is exactly the player we need if we are to show ambition and dare to challenge for the title. Or to put it another way, if he played for City (and scored 16 goals,often coming on for the final 25 minutes or starting up top when Aguerro needed a rotational rest) to help them to the Premiership how would the media and the Arsenal fans then regard him?
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I got into a very pleasant conversation with the racing tipster Ian Carnaby the other day, and the way these things do the talk turned to football. He’s a Saints fan, writes intelligently about the game and helps people to a few quid with occasional football advice. He suggested Spurs were a decent bet for the title this year, given last season’s form and the acquisition of Waynama. He felt they could possibly open up quite a lead before some of the other clubs had really got going, and were over-priced at 10-1 with Billy Hill. “So if they’re going to win, where will The Arsenal end up, given they always finish above Tottenham?” I asked? No Vegemite sandwich unfortunately, but he certainly smiled.
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Shotts
I quick glance at the arseblagger’s content this morning:
1) Arsenal are negligent as two out of three senior CBs go down with injury in preseason.
Barely a whimper on the actual football there was more text and description of the match in FH’s comment above.
Not a squeak on City’s struggles at CB, £100M spent on rubbish like Mangala and Ottomendi what would Pep give to have Chambers or even Holding (Fernando wouldn’t have lasted the 90 in this friendly without two yellows) in his squad.
If Arsenal are negilgent what does hat make City? Or Utd who spent £75M in one window on three LBs? Blimey.
Second article attacking the club for Gnabry making the personal decision to go on loan to WBA last season, attacking the club for not forcing the player/slave to act as desired.
This second article tells the reader more about the blog then anything relative to the football. What are they talking/writing about?
What can you say. It’s remarkable. If anyone out there can defend this coverage as balanced rational or even vaguely reasonable I’d like to see them try!
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The absolute best criticism of my post on twitter was a character who said the data is “blinkered”:
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Our Steww was so taken aback, he had to draw on the wisdom of Homer Simpson:
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Unfortunately, this is the state of our world today; in sports, politics and economics. The MSM and social media are deadly afraid of cold, hard facts. If they can’t conceal the data, they misrepresent, distort and twist. If that doesn’t work they then shoot the messenger.
Thanks for all your kind comments to date Positivistas.
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Fins: Arseblog and his sidekick Gunnerblog, who once ran one of the worst anti-Wenger blogs until he was surpassed by LeGrove, deserve nothing but our contempt. They are clickwhores who have both sold out to the mainstream media. ESPN FC anyone?
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that Asano guy who does not count as a signing, scored again for Japan at the olympics, he got their first goal as they came back from 2-0 to get a 2-2 draw with colombia
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brazil were booed off again at the end of their 0-0 with iraq, second 0-0 for them
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finsbury its the same all across arsenal blog world, highbury house has a load of drivel about our need for 2 CB’s. HH whose motto is “where its ok to disagree”, but should read “where its ok to disagree, as long as you don’t disagree”, I got banned from it merely for pointing out factual mistakes. They had done a soundbite piece on arsenal transfer dealings, you know the usual stuff, we don’t sign players in january, we don’t sign players early, we do all our business on the last day of the window, sort of thing, and when I put forward the data showing exactly when and who we signed, low and behold I was banned. Was informed the reason was “it was my attitude”, and if I was “willing to alter it” they would kindly lift the ban.
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just read the arseblog piece, what a load of bullshit. laughable that the best the can come up to prove wenger’s negligence is “we’ve had two weeks” to sign someone since per got injured, and “why was gabriel playing the full 90”,
added in contradiction of us playing well in attack and elneny having a fine game, but it was wrong that elneny was the outlet for our defense and wrong to have players joining the attack, then to complete the article add in the lie that wenger said theo would not play wide right this season.
tell me can it be said that a blog containing such rubbish, could be described as negligent, surely it has a duty to its readers to provide some substance, truth, facts, or is its only duty to get more clicks, regardless of what bull it takes to achieve it. there is clicks in misery, clicks in being sensational, clicks in attacking arsenal and arsene.
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I am convinced that if I was a Scarfist and my mission was #WengerOut I would come up with something more interesting and fresher than the endlessly recycled whining that dominates the dark side.
I assume their lack of creativity may be a consequence of their mild mental health condition, dysphoria, which can lead to reduced cognitive performance and a concreteness of thought in additional to low mood and irritability.
Admittedly some of them suffer from the ‘flogging a dead horse syndrome’ this time of year in trying to blog day after day with zero to actually say – but I shall name no names.
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For those of you think it is all fun and donuts on this blog I thought I would share a particularly crude example of the trash that is posted on here and the door policy ensures never sees the light of day. Usually it just is atomised but so bizarre was this it was worth sharing, as you might a particularly gruesome picture you chanced upon.
“Wenger won’t spend money. Because he doesn’t know how. 20 years at the club and the highest he spend is 42.5 million. Wenger thinks he Wil get all the money when he leaves. The hole world knows Arsenal need a proper striker. Except the brain dead Manager. And Walcot isint even a good winger. But now he is a good striker. And unicorns are real. Now I heard everything. Arsenal Wil not finish in the top 6 next season. Hopefully it’s the end of the useless Wenger.”
To think some half wit went to all the trouble to write that.
Extraordinary.
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