The silence is deafening. No media headlines, none of the uber bloggers beating the drum. Nobody seems to know that in the Premier League:
- Arsenal are unbeaten in the last 13.
- Arsenal are unbeaten at Home in the last 6.
- Arsenal are unbeaten Away in the last 7.
Nothing to see here? So it would seem if one relied on the Mainstream Media for significant, accurate football information. Not surprisingly a quick Google search for the dominant headlines relating to Arsenal FC revealed the usual putrid menu of mindless transfer rumour, sensationalism, conjecture and downright lies dressed up as news by supposedly responsible newspapers and websites.
According to The Telegraph:
Arsenal willing to sell Mesut Ozil if he does not lower wage demands
The click-baiting Metro is not to be outdone:
Arsenal fans lose the plot as Alexis Sanchez is linked with Chelsea
The Mirror faithfully reflects The Telegraph:
Arsenal willing to listen to offers for Mesut Ozil?
Any of us with a modicum of common-sense and knowledge of how these players were persuaded by Arsene Wenger to join AFC will readily dismiss these headlines and stories as “fake news” peddled by the very Establishment media which is now hypocritically branding alternative non-mainstream sources as fake. This is something we Arsenal supporters are all too familiar with, having experienced ten years of them serving up the vilest calumnies and misrepresentations about Wenger and the Board during the post-Highbury years; woefully failing to explain to the public the importance of the club’s leadership giving emphasis to paying for a new stadium while competing with sugar-daddy clubs spending obscene amounts of outside money to buy their way to a title.
I can confirm that there was absolutely no headline from Google News highlighting the club’s 13 games unbeaten run. Yet if Arsenal was a heavyweight boxer there would be headlines screaming that this was an up and coming champion. This is another reminder that sensationalism sells, at least in the short run.
But PA readers who follow my data-oriented analysis of the club’s progress and prospects are aware that establishing and maintaining a streak is one of the most important predictors of a title –winning team and certainly this has been the case of Arsenal under Arsene Wenger. I have only done three blogs on the subject (first, second and third), giving new meaning to the old adage that “repetition is the mother of learning”. Some of my findings:
In their pomp at at Highbury, during Arsene’s winning years, the club would go on some statistically significant winning streaks, i.e. they were substantially above the mean averages in Wins. The 2001-02 season, in particular, Arsenal went on a rampage of 13 Wins out of 16 games which was marred by only 2 draws and 1 loss.
In contrast to Highbury, the Emirates has been characterized by:
…. the Club’s inability to achieve an above-average run of Wins, of similar magnitude to 10, 13 and 9 which characterized the title-winning years of 1997-98, 2001-02 and 2003-04 respectively.
I concluded two months ago from the recent streak that the barren years at the Emirates was coming to an end:
Now that Arsene/Arsenal is able to consistently spend on top-top quality players as well as patiently develop those coming through the academy, only the rabid anti-Wenger WOBs and weak-willed fans, who allow themselves to become victims of groundless doom-mongering by the media, would bet against Wenger at least regaining the ground lost over the past ten-years.
Two weeks later, when the club achieved an 8-game winning streak, I further opined:
Despite years of wilful misinformation by the mainstream media and so-called Arsenal bloggers, in their desire to have Arsene Wenger sacked, the primary reason why the club faded over the stretch was not having sufficient resources to build a squad with the requisite quality and depth, given the priority of having to pay for a new stadium.
Confirming it now had the resources to address a recurring deficiency, the club last summer made one of its largest ever splurges in the transfer market, acquiring a £35 million central defender who is a starter on the world-cup winning German national team, a £34 million midfielder from a highly rated champions-league level club, a £12 million pound striker who was among the top-11 in La Liga in 2015-16 and, best of all, a £2 million young central defender who can be called on to help out with the first-eleven at any time.
The fact that Arsenal, in last Tuesday’s decisive champions league match with Basel, could have six regular starters sitting on the bench yet win so decisively, provides the clearest possible evidence that the club has both quantity and quality resources to withstand the usual spate of injuries that in recent years have destroyed any real run at the title in the second-half of the season.
There will be the usual weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth in the media and blogs as the Orcs from Stoke roll into the Emirates this Saturday. While football is a notorious enemy of complacency and hubris, given how Wenger was able to rotate the squad and keep bodies and minds healthy and sharp, anything less than a victory for the Gunners would count as a massive surprise.
In the mean time, let the mainstream media continue to ignore and downplay the club’s current form and sucker witless punters into believing their porkies that Ozil and Sanchez are heading for a big payday in China. Let’s revel in the Rodney Dangerfield role of no respect.
Positively Arsenal 
Ooh that’s good although it’s no surprise that blog could have, in the main, been written anytime in the last ten years.
The fact that we had to call this blog Positively ARSENAL emphasises the fact we are like positive salmon swimming against a heavy stream of negative shite.
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Very rational and enjoyable. Thanks Shotta
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The Ozil Sanchez talk isn’t going to stop, so we have to try ignore it and not give the press the victory of agitating us.
As for what’ll happen it seems pretty simple : if they demand we match what they could get anywhere else (bar China), it’s very unlikely we’ll agree; if they want a significant pay rise yet less than they can get elsewhere, we should be able to work it out.
I’ll be able to accept it, with much difficulty admittedly, so long as we hold them to their contracts. That’ll mean another year with a good crack at major trophies, plus the chance they can be persuaded to sign on again. An extra year to prepare, as well.
Most importantly, the 100 million or so we might get this summer is not worth badly undermining your chances for the following season. Champ league alone must be about 40 million, league position another 10. Transfer market being what it is, the remainder would leave you struggling badly to use the income to match what would be lost for a year in quality.
So lets try enjoy this good time, and not let the media gimps disturb us.
Lets also hope Chelsea’s winning streak ends soon or, failing that, we stay close behind them all the while.
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Andrew, that would have made a great blog for tomorrow morning?
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Excellent Shotts and my apologies for posting and rushing earlier. Your command of the figures is, as ever, awesome.
Let me share with you a further interesting factlet concerning the “Champions elect” Chelsea, or at least according to the media this weeks ” Champions elect”. That they have played an unchanged starting lie up for the last eight games.
Now in these days of large squads, of player ‘fatigue’, of it taking but a little muscular tweak for a player to withdraw from a game that is remarkable.
Chels admittedly have the comparative advantage of having no Euro competition and even the League Cup saw them bounced out early by the Ammers. Even so ………!
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That is what I thought George ! excellent piece from Andrew, meaty but light too.
(The lad can still do it – doesn’t matter what all the critics say)
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On a purely personal note IF anyone knows of a spare ticket going for the Stoke game let me know – Number One son has been promised a trip to the Ems by his doting father but the old fool still has no ticket for the lad.
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Okay chaps, I’ll pull it and re-publish tomorrow – very kind of you!
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Where did Andrew’s comment go? It was thought-provoking.
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He has withdrawn it and it will be published with appropriate fanfare tomorrow Shotts
We are turning into a 24/7 rolling news and comment blog
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I’m here, I’m always here. Lurking …………in the cyber shadows.
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Hector Bellerin in training
TEAM NEWS: BELLERIN, WELBECK, PER, SANTI
Arsène Wenger has revealed the latest team news ahead of Saturday’s Premier League clash with Stoke City at Emirates Stadium.
He provided updates on Hector Bellerin, Danny Welbeck, Per Mertesacker and Santi Cazorla.
on team news…
From Tuesday night we have no injuries, I hope. Everyone looks to have recovered well. Coming back into the squad, we have Coquelin who was of course suspended and maybe Bellerin who has a test today.
on Danny Welbeck and Per Mertesacker…
They are recovering well but they are a few weeks away from joining in again.
on Santi Cazorla’s surgery…
It’s a difficult way to say the surgery is ‘perfect’, but you can say it was needed and it went well. Afterwards we have to see how he recovers.
Read more at http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/20161208/team-news-bellerin-welbeck-per-santi#iXvtLkzwd6EZfYme.99
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wenger on ozil and alexis contracts https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CzJdmbCUcAAdPdQ.jpg
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the stats are even better than the article suggests, we have not lost a bpl game away since man utd 3-2 back in Feb – a full 13 away games ago. which in fact was our only away league defeat in the year 2016, so far.
we have lost 2 home games in 2016, lfc this season, and chelsea in january.
so if my maths is correct we have lost a total of 3 league games in 2016, from 33 games.
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@shotta_gooner you are naughty your articles on Arsenal speak to me like not many others can the standard is so high. Your politics not so much lets not get into that, a man who is not affected by outside noise looks at raw data can comes to emotionless fact based conclusions I am not sure there maybe someone can point me the direction who can do it better. So why follow someone who deals in nonsense rhetoric talk of cleaning swamps then at the first chance they you are knee deep in the swamp like swamp Tony the swamp thing. I digress Shotta love your work I am a fan, when people who I am a fan of do or say stuff I disagree with I can’t hold myself, if you weren’t so good I would just ignore you.
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so wenger says this about ozil and alexis contracts
but an arsenal blog reports it as
wenger says he would rather ozil and alexis leave on free transfers
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I was promised a crisis,
where is my crisis
I demand my crisis.
Wenger out.
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WE WANT OUR CRISIS BACK
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I think I’m beginning to see a pattern with your articles here. A lot of hyperbole mixed with some factual information, while also intertwined with some loose facts for a bigger effect.
In your last piece you described the US presidential elections as normal as can be – they were not.
This is not a political forum so I won’t bore anyone with facts but suffice to say there were over 800 polling places eliminated from democratic districts by republican lead state governments between 2012 -2016 for obvious reasons.
The fact that you are oblivious to this sort of information sugests you should perhaps stay away from writing ” fact based ” political opinion pieces.
You also had the transfermarkt Arsenal value at £323m compared to United’s £578m for a bigger effect I suppose, when the latest numbers are closer to €500m and €550m respectively.
Also ,Arsenal didn’t do anything transfer wise last Summer that they couldn’t have done two Summers ago from the financial point of view.
They chose to spend only £10m because they had deemed their midfield of Arteta, Flaimini and Rosicky to be a sufficient cover for Cazorla/ Coquelin – it wasn’t.
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See ya Tom.
Make is so No 1.
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One interesting topic over the next few weeks among the great Arsenal horde of grubby Scarfists is the transfer window.
Having given Wenger their finger wagging advice window after window about who to sign and which deadwood to expel, for how much and when, only to have it ignored I sense it may be a difficult few weeks coming up.
I would not rule out a judicious acquisition of some ( currently unidentified) player but I think we are just about fully stocked.
Enough keepers ? ✔️
Defenders left ✔️, right side ✔️, centre backs ✔️
Midfielders – defensive plenty, attacking yep, wingers ✔️
Which just leaves Strikers ?? Surely not – Sanchez, Giroud, Perez and Dany all fighting over one spot.
I do not see where the transfer hysteria is going to get its spark from.
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“finger wagging advice window after window”
synchronicity = meaningful coincidence
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“It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.”
I know – I stole it
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Shotta,
A post of quality and it held my attention. Thank you.
I say that, even tho some of you may have noticed that I repeatedly type out the mantra that I could not give the proverbial rat’s ass-hole for other people’s disrespectful guesswork about the outcome of Arsenal’s private and personal discussions with our players.
The above is perhaps a cop-out in the eyes of some, and perhaps it is, but ignoring these tedious and tendentious comments stops me from becoming angry, and allowing these comments from getting under my skin.
Anyway, I have you, Shotta, to say all that is necessary, and much better than I would anyway, so it is a zero sum game from my perspective. (lol)
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Hi anicoll,
I like your one line responses, particularly the one about the poor memory – in line with above comment I could have simply followed your excellent lead and said ‘my happiness is nothing more than being healthy and having a bad memory for disrespectful comments’. (lol)
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“I do not see where the transfer hysteria is going to get its spark from.”
There won’t be any transfer hysteria because Arsenal have as complete a squad as they have had in a long time.
Just to be clear, while I thought not strengthening beyond the keeper position in 2014-15 was a mistake, I supported the club in their decisions.
It’s their money and they can spend it or not as they see fit, but to say Arsenal spent big this last Summer because of their new found riches – as some have suggested – is simply wrong.
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Anicoll, I thought you might have hit us with ‘I am having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time — I think I have forgotten this before’.
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Yes Tom, we had all that money to spend prior to to the kit deal and the stadium naming rights being renegotiated last year. And that diabolical dictator and notorius scrooge Arsene Wenger thought he could get by on a wing and a prayer with Arteta and Flamini being the core of his midfield.
Heard that before. Old wine, new wine bottles. Yawn.
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Shotta gooner
Perhaps you’ve missed my 4:48 post.
Whether Arsenal spend a £100m or nothing at all I’m perfectly fine with their decision and I will continue supporting them unequivocally . I just don’t understand how being
” positive” about the club and keeping the facts straight is sometimes somehow mutually exclusive for some.
It seems Trump isn’t the only one who dislikes being fact- checked 🙂
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Bad news that Dan Crowley has once again had a loan spell cut short. While the official reason is he wasn’t getting enough games, it is worrying considering how we got him in the first place causing villa no end of problems.
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Arsenal’s third round FA Cup tie against Preston North end will take place on Saturday January 7th at Deepdale.
The game will kick off at 5.30pm and will also be live on BT Sport 2. It comes in the middle of hectic festive period, with the Gunners facing Crystal Palace at home on Sunday January 1st, and then Bournemouth away on Tuesday January 3rd.
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Tom: Clearly you have a problem with my politics not the facts. Fine. My posts are shaped by my world view which is rabidly opposed to non-factual, emotional bilge which is being spilled by mainstream media and political hacks who perpetually manipulate us to act contrary to our best interests. That is how many seemingly liberal, well-meaning bloggers joined with the media, Le Grove and other rabid WOBs who wanted Wenger-out because he wouldn’t wantonly spend the owner’s money to buy a title when he knew the priority was paying for a grand new stadium which would make Arsenal stronger in the long run. They have been peddling this “fake news” for years. I am happy to be guilty for updating the range of anlytical and literary tools in my toolbox to expose them.
Who the cap fit, let them wear it.
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Not only did the end-of-an-eraists want Wenger-out, justifying it with emotional nonsense. If they had their way, like United we would have Jose Murinho, “a modern manager who knows how to spend big on new players and to play defensive title-winning football”, at the helm of our football club.
I expect Tom to describe this as hyperbole as part of an ad hominem attack, absent any objection to the facts I stated.
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Haha, Rodney Dangerfield….one of my favorite lines….
“You don’t know my wife. I took her to dog show……she won”
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Osman @OsmanZtheGooner 6h6 hours ago
Massive difference between the 2 by the media. One already qualified at the time (Arsenal) and Spurs winning to make Europa. #Bias
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Georgakos: Bug-eyed Rodney Dangerfield was the one of the best. He made a profitable career leveraging that “no respect” meme.
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Jose showing how it’s done – ten minutes away from the last 32 of the Europa League
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Shotta, Tom seems to like splitting hairs?
Crowley, the consensus seems to be, Appleton (my way, or the high way) and a young player, whose attitude is wrong?
According to the Oxford Mail, typical banter – Oh dear….if Oxford are a Prius then Swindon are a clapped out old pedal bike.
Now this – Firstly it was only 2 seasons, I was a Steward on The London Road pass gate for the first season. Oxford Utd stayed up that first season due to beating Arsenal at the end of the season, Arsenal had nothing to play for and played worse than Oxford Blackbirds in that match. In fact Tony Adams in his biography hinted at a brown envelope being left in their changing room by Robert Maxwell before kick off.
Real supporters, lol!
…………………………………………………..
How not to run a football club – Preston North End – Turnover £5,944,000, Staff Costs alone £7,599,000).
Season tickets – 6,072 real supporters in season 2014/2015.
How does the club exist, an Isle of Man supporter!
The Arsenal will receive 45% of nothing, from the cup-tie attendance!
A different world, in football terms.
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Anyone that supported the manager during the End of an Era was apparently incapable of critiquing the club, and anyone who could read the record left by Hilary Clinton is and was apparently a Deplorable racist (ha ha ha) flag waving supporter of the strange dude with the strange fake hair.
As Shotts once wrote:
“Counter factual gibberish”
(I might have added the ‘gibberish’ bit)
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Considering how brutally divisive the US elections (and indeed Brexit) was, I think it will be better to keep politics out of this site. We are all here because we want to positively support our beloved club, it will be sad for acrimony to set in because of politics that has nothing to do with the Positively Arsenal.
My politics is at 180 degrees from Shotta’s but I like his type of Arsenal support. Let’s limit the articles and conversations to the latter please.
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Shotta gooner
“Tom: Clearly you have a problem with my politics not the facts. ”
Absolutely not. I couldn’t care less what your political leanings are and whether you think Trump was a suitable presidential candidate.
Stating , however, that this election was just like every other one before for 200 years or so ignores facts you claim to care so much about.
Never mind the “Citizens United” ruling, or the voter ID laws and cutback on early voting days and hours courtesy of the Supreme Court gutting the Voting Rigths Act, but perhaps being upset by the elimination of up to 40 % polling places in predominately democratic precincts in key swing states goes a bit beyond being
” dangerously narcissistic to expect our needs and desires to be always satisfied” – something you said in your piece.
I suppose standing in line for up to six hours on a Tuesday to cast a vote for a candidate one doesn’t necessarily feel so entusiastic about is just one of those small “disappointments” minority voters should expect these days.
Also I find very funny that you would complain about the main stream media in relation to an election in which there was an unprecedented amount of lies being spread by pretty much everyone else but the main stream media, Fox News excluded of course.
But back to Arsenal .
“Confirming it now had the resources to address a recurring defeciency, the club last summer made one of its largest ever splurges in the transfer market…” – you said.
Arsenal cash balance in the last five years:
31/05/2011 – £160.2m
30/11/2011 – £ 115.2m
31/05/2014 – £207.9m
30/11/2014 – £161.5m
31/05/2015 – £228.2m
30/11/2015 – £159.4m
31/05/2016 – £226.4m
A reasonable person might look at these number and conclude that Arsenal’s new spending power isn’t so new after all.
And there’s also that small matter of your misrepresentation of Arsenal and Man U transfermarkt evaluation almost by half, which might suggest you yourself are a bit loose with facts which is a bit strange for someone who accuses others of doing just that.
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Nice one Shotts,Arsene’s gonna earn his corn rotating this squad up to mid January and keeping everyone happy at the same time,lets not forget Danny,Hec & our captain are close to fitness,exciting times. I think both Ozil & Alexis will stay by the way,certainly if our manager does.
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reports that Dan Crowley who had his loan at Oxford cancelled, is on trial with Dutch club Go Ahead Eagles, with a view to a 5 month loan deal.
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what a whinge bag Patrick Vieira has become, oh woe is me, he has morphed into Yosser Hughes, gizza job, I could do that
Get French Football @GFFN 4h4 hours ago
Patrick Vieira on coaching: “I spent 9 years at Arsenal. I would’ve liked for the door to be open to me & to have received a call.” (RMC)
Get French Football
@GFFN
Patrick Vieira on working with the national team: “I think that the French Football Federation maybe lost my phone number.” (RMC)
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‘WE MUST ALWAYS TAKE CARE OF OUR VALUES’
Arsène Wenger says it is important for us to “take care of our values” when negotiating new deals with first-team players.
A number of stars, including Alexis and Mesut Ozil, will only have a year remaining on their contracts in the summer, and the manager revealed how he will approach any talks that take place.
“Arsenal is a big club,” Wenger said. “It is not one or two players who will make the difference to the club. The importance is that we are today in a financial position that is strong, that was not the case before.
“That means as well we are in a position where we can plan our future, and do what we want to do. What is important is always to take care of the values of the club, and the identity of the club, and not to depend too much on one or two players. The history of Arsenal is bigger than that.
“In every single club, at some stage, they have lost big players. Or they had big players without knowing. Or things like that happened everywhere. Every club is full of regrets and full of decisions. What matters is the globality of the decisions.
“The self-esteem is linked with the values that the club stands for,” the manager added. “Of course, the self-esteem, or the identity that the press has of the club, is not exactly the same that you have inside the club.
“You could say the ‘prestige’, more than the self-esteem, is linked with the players. But I think it is more down to the consistency of the quality, or the way the team plays football.”
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/20161208/-we-must-always-take-care-of-our-values-#ZpSkAhyMSsKK0hxY.99
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Arsenal news: Arsene Wenger in talks with 10 players over new contracts
Sanchez and Ozil are top of the list
Jack Pitt-Brooke @jackpittbrooke 16 minutes ago0 comments
The Independent Online
Sanchez and Ozil both want more money than Arsenal are offering Getty
Arsenal are in contract negotiations with 10 players as Arsene Wenger tries to secure the future of his squad.
While the Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil sagas rumble on, Wenger is also set to offer a new deal to Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and five other players whose contracts expire in 2018. Santi Cazorla and Per Mertesacker, in their final years, will have options triggered for next season.
Wenger is facing the prospect of losing his two best players as Sanchez and Ozil demand record new contracts to stay at the Emirates. They both have 18 months left on their Arsenal deals and Wenger insisted at his press conference on Thursday morning that he would not sell them next summer, even if new deals could not be agreed.
Arsenal are no closer to agreeing new contracts with those two and there will have to be serious compromise to reach a deal, especially now that Sanchez has been offered three times his current salary to move to China. Wenger was reluctant to go into details on those two cases but did not sound enthusiastic, saying that the interests of the club had to come before those of any players.
“Arsenal is a big club, it is not one or two players who will make the difference to the club,” Wenger said. “What is important is always to take care of the values of the club, and the identity of the club, and not to depend too much on one or two players. The history of Arsenal is bigger than that.”
Wenger has to look to the long-term, and that means trying to safeguard the futures of Arsenal players beyond their most famous pair. Two senior players, Cazorla and Mertesacker, have contracts which expire at the end of the season but the club are keen to retain both of them.
Cazorla remains one of their most important midfielders even though he turns 32 next week. He had ankle surgery on Thursday and will not return to the first team until February or March. “We start [talking] as well,” Wenger said of his contract, “and we will extend certainly with Santi Cazorla.” The club will exercise an option that will keep him at Arsenal for another year.
That option would take Cazorla up until 2018, and the club are considering doing the same in the case of Mertesacker. There are another six players whose contracts expire at the end of next season, less high profile than Ozil and Sanchez, and Arsenal are now starting to speak to them too.
Top of the list is Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who Arsenal would have sold in the summer, but who has played his way back into Wenger’s plans with some strong performances recently. Wenger confirmed that the club have started speaking to Oxlade-Chamberlain about a new deal, as well as a few others.
“We work as well on Olivier Giroud, Jack Wilshere and on many players,” Wenger said. “There are six or seven cases at the moment but that is the usual case, it is every year like that. That explains to you why we have a lot of work to do but you are only interested in two cases!” Kieran Gibbs, Mathieu Debuchy and Wojciech Szczesny also have another 18 months left on their deals and while the club have initiated talks with them, the players may yet choose to run their deals down to earn lucrative contracts elsewhere
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Tom: You are are setting up strawmen to attack me as a substitute for a serious discussion of the facts.
(1) You claim to not care for my politics but then attack me for making a factual observation that the recent US elections were normal and customary. From all reports, no competent legal body in the the US has ruled the elections were contrary to law despite all the wild, childish post-election protests by the losers. Its like fans protesting the loss of a football game that they were supposed to win, trying to get a replay despite it being a one-off officiated by a qualified FIFA ref. Ignore the facts at further risk to your mental health.
(2) You take the now discredited tactic of the AST and others of throwing up Arsenal’s maximum cash balances at a point in the year as proof the club had bundles of cash available to spend without any regard to budgeted expenses and cash reserves ring fenced per the loan agreements with the club’s creditors. Our resident financial guru, Notoverthehill, is more qualified to disabuse you of the evident delusions you seem to have on this matter.
(3) I could not help but detect the smug satisfaction you felt because you may have found one error in the hundreds of data elements I have published in recent months. According to you the “small matter” of my misrepresentation of Arsenal and Man U transfermarkt evaluation almost by half. This is an attack without an ounce of supporting information. In the absence of anything specific I will treat this as groundless and non-specific.
Sorry Tom. If this is the best you can do, you are a lightweight who is uncomfortable with the facts. There is a harsh truth in life which many of us fail to learn: “You’re entitled to your own opinions; You’re not entitled to your own facts.”
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Sad that Tom is now polluting this Blog as well as Untold.
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its sad that he is so naive to appear to believe all cash is available for transfers, I thought that missnomer had long gone. Even then there was a few missing seasons in his list I dont know why.
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Thanks for the blog Shotta.
Not interested in the sterile argument in the comments though.
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