Hello Positives.
In this podcast there are 4 us us talking rubbish instead of the normal 2. I put up my best defence for “the process” and keeping Arteta, although I was hardly convincing.
Pedantic George.
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Ed, as far as Morata is concerned I thought that would only happen if Juve got another striker in e.g.Auba.
Anyway I’ve just listened to the podcast in full “better late than never” as the terrace chant says and I have to say I was impressed again my only small criticism was Mills was given enough air time
Having seen previous guest appearances by Georges dog I was particularly impressed by several walk on parts by Georges Mrs
I agree the original plan of bringing in experience failed and the way we have replaced the experience we did have has been a.financial disaster (and so far a playing one to) The second plan to go with youth again was a gamble and again seems madness as we are buying youth players on bigger fees and wages than the youth players we already had.
Project youth is buying youth and waste the money spent on the academy.
I also agree with the panels assessment of a final league position of between 6th and 8th although one important factor is the two games against Wolves, if they do better out of the two games ninth could be on the cards as a worst case scenario.
There are other teams capable of good runs towards the end of the season such as Villa, Leicester and even possibly Brighton although I expect to finish above all three.
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Apparently Aubas deal is now in serious doubt because of the finances surrounding the deal.
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Nikolaj Moller has joined Den Bosch on loan for the rest of the season.
Tim Akinola has joined Dundee United on loan for the rest of the season.
Jordi Osei-Tutu has joined Rotherham on loan until the end of the season.
Ryan Ablebiosu has gone to Crewe on loan
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How many poor result till arteta uses the excuse of smallest squad in EPL to go along with his tried and trusted youngest squad excuse I say excuse cos these things have not been some unfortunate accident but by design and by choice
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Arsenal u18 forward Amani Richards to join Leicester on a permanent deal
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the aubameyang to barca deal is a real yoyo one, its on, its off, its on again.
well journos now reporting its back on with medical planned shortly
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so lets assume for arguments sake, that the PEA deal to Barca goes ahead, that would leave Arsenal with 20 players who have played EPL football for us, for our remaining 17 games this season. Clubs are allowed 25 players over the age of 21, as far as I know our 20 only includes 18 over the age of 21, with ESR and Saka under the cut off point. So we have handicapped ourselves 7 players as things stand.
our 20 players
Goalkeepers: Ramsdale, Leno
Defenders: Tomi, Cedric, Holding, White, Gabriel, Tierney, Tavares
Midfielders: Partey, Xhaka, Lokonga, Elneny
Forwards: ESR, Odegaard, Martinelli, Pepe, Saka
Strikers: Laca, Nketiah
as for the youths, Arteta didn’t trust them enough to give them game time in our 2 cup exits, so even if he has to name some of them in our match day 20 when experienced players out injured or suspended, it doesn’t look like he will be keen to give them some game time.
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Police cars revolving light EXCLUSIVE: Barcelona have verbal agreement with Arsenal (subject to contract) to sign Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang on 6 months + 1 year deal that, if completed, will bring his #AFC career to an end. Medical to take place tonight @TheAthleticUK
#FCBarcelona
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Arsenal have signed Colorado Rapids defender Auston Levi-Jesaiah Trusty (born August 12, 1998), he will stay on loan with them for rest of season and join us on July 17th
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COMMERCE CITY, Colo. — The Colorado Rapids have reached an agreement with English Premier League side Arsenal FC for the transfer of defender Auston Trusty, the club announced today. Trusty will remain with the Rapids on loan before departing for Europe on July 17.
“Auston is coming off an exceptional season in 2021 in which he played a vital role in helping us finish atop the Western Conference for the first time in our history,” said Pádraig Smith, Colorado Rapids Executive VP & General Manager. “We remain committed to bringing through the top young players from Colorado and across the United States and to providing them with a platform to flourish, achieve success in MLS and earn the chance to make a move to Europe. Auston’s outstanding performances caught the eye of several European clubs over the past 12 months and we are privileged to be part of an organization with the reach and scale of KSE that allows us to help a player of Auston’s potential further his development and career aspirations in Europe.”
Trusty, 23, was a mainstay on the Rapids back line in his second season in Colorado. The six-foot-three center back led all Rapids outfield players in 2021 with 2,970 minutes across 33 matches during the regular season, as well as playing all 90 minutes in the club’s Western Conference Semifinal in the Audi 2021 MLS Cup Playoffs. He scored one goal and added three assists in 2021 and was named the Rapids’ Defender of the Year. Following the 2021 campaign, Trusty was called into the U.S. Men’s National Team’s January training camp in Arizona ahead of their upcoming FIFA World Cup Qualifying matches.
A native of Media, Pennsylvania, Trusty originally joined the Rapids in November 2019 via trade from Philadelphia Union where he spent four seasons after signing a Homegrown Player contract in 2016. Trusty made his MLS debut in 2018, and at 20 years old, became the youngest player in league history to play every minute across a full 34-game season that year.
Trusty becomes the third Rapids player to transfer to a European club over the past year, after Sam Vines completed a move to Royal Antwerp FC in the Belgian first division in August and Cole Bassett joined Feyenoord Rotterdam in the Dutch Eredivisie on loan earlier this month.
TRANSACTION: Colorado Rapids transfer defender Auston Trusty to Arsenal FC and re-acquire him on a six-month loan on January 31, 2022.
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so its now Trusty the process
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Aubas deal done, the media knows shit again
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Arsenal have announced the Trusty signing, but say he will go on loan in Europe next season.
Trusty signs for club but remains on loan
Arsenal Media 31 Jan 2022
Auston Trusty
Defender Auston Trusty has joined the club in a permanent transfer from Colorado Rapids but will remain with the MLS side on loan.
The USA under-20 international joined Colorado Rapids from Philadelphia Union in November 2019. He has made 41 appearances, notably helping the Rapids finish top of the Western Conference in the 2021 MLS regular season.
Trusty, 23, will stay with the Colorado Rapids until at least the end of the Premier League season in May. The intention then is to loan him in Europe for the 2022/23 season to further progress his development.
The transfer is subject to the completion of regulatory processes.
Copyright 2022 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.
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We have three hours to sign a striker and seeing as the media at no point said the Auba deal would be permanent we know they know fuck all.
Many of our transfers come out of the blue
Trust me I am Ian The Know.
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media now reporting that AFC have let Aubameyang go on a free transfer. Our favorite form of sale it seems
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Aaron Ramsey is joining Glasgow Rangers from Juventus
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Really surprised about Aaron to Rangers because I thought lots of PL clubs would be interested in him
I know a couple of injuries has hampered his progress but his first seasons were pretty impressive.
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liverpool have agreed a deal for 19 year old Fulham player Fabio Carvalho
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Forwards: ESR, Odegaard, Martinelli, Pepe, Saka
Strikers: Laca, Nketiah
Does anybody see us scoring 17 goals in our last 17 games?
Partey, Xhaka, Lokonga, Elneny
No disrespect but i cant see this midfield creating 17 chances
And if chance creation is coming from the forwards I cant see them creating 17 goals between them, maybe Odegaard and Saka can create a few chances but the team is not setup to create chances, more setup to stop the op from playing.
I can see us creating and scoring more than 17 goals only if our philosophy changes and the manager is not arteta.
How is getting rid of Auba with no replacement helping?
at this point I would go all out to try get Krusty from springfield to manage the team.
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well it seems Arteta and Arsenal are banking on very few injuries or suspensions in our remaining games. 20 senior players for 17 games is bare bones. No room for injuries, suspensions or even lack of form.
I’ve already seen some of the stupid bloggers change their stance on getting CL, at Christmas we were well in the mix, in fact in command of our own destiny, the dropping and exiling of Aubameyang was a master stroke, it would propel us to top 4. Now its all “we knew before the season started the squad was not good enough to get top 4” and “we all knew even top 6 was going to be tough for this squad”. Such utter shite. God damn they hounded out a man who had given them some of the best days of their lives, cos he was only winning FAC and getting regular CL football, only to now be cheerleaders for a man that got us one fac but has seen us fail to get europe for the first time in quarter of a century with back to back 8th place finishes, and now looking like we need lots of things to go our way to get any better than 8th again. Crazy world
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Just a little run down on some of the 20 players left in our squad
Goalkeepers: Ramsdale, Leno
Defenders: Tomi, Cedric, Holding, White, Gabriel, Tierney, Tavares
Midfielders: Partey, Xhaka, Lokonga, Elneny
Forwards: ESR, Odegaard, Martinelli, Pepe, Saka
Strikers: Laca, Nketiah
it seems we are signing Matt Turner in the summer as back up keeper so Leno very likely off in the summer.
Elneny, Lacazette and Nketiah out of contract, so could all go for free.
if that happens it would only leave Xhaka and Holding from Wenger’s time here, and Tierney from Emery’s. It might be a completely Arteta squad much sooner than many imagined. Maybe then he will be judged as he should be now.
Only disclaimer on this is, I’m not at all sure who or how many of our older loan players will still be under contract at AFC come summer, I know some like Mavropanos, Guendouzi, Torreira have purchase options or obligations in their loan deals, but others like AMN and Bellerin might not. But either way its clear they are not wanted.
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by the way in our 21 EPL games so far this season we have used 25 players, 24 separate starters, and now we have only 20 of those players left here for our final 17 EPL games
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Crystal Palace have signed former Arsenal U18 striker Luke Plange, from Derby County, and loaned him back for the rest of the season. He scored for Derby in their last game. He has in recent weeks been a regular in the first team, after impressing for their U23’s earlier in the season.
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“damn they hounded out a man who had given them some of the best days of their lives”
That was Arsenals Golden Age and some people moaned and belittled the time rather than enjoy the ride and possible once in a lifetime sustained period of success.
I can not relate with their views and find them small minded. They have left a very bitter taste for me
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17 year old forward Amani Richards has left Arsenal for Leicester city in a permanent deal, oddly he only signed a professional deal with Arsenal in November, after joining us last season from Chelsea
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Niles is a better midfielder/footballer then any of the Tottenham midfielders bar their new singing from Juve.
Auba, Niles & Chambers.
Better footballers then those left to cover for them as squad players at the club.
After a promising December there goes the “progress”
As Shotta says the mismanagement is endemic. The inability to manage Big players with egos as big as Arteta’s is now a joke.
Joshy Bwoyyyyy has been signing lesser footballers for bigger bucks since he forced AW out the door. There’s the equation. A simple one.
We can do the maths.
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Auba was brilliant, his movement and awareness of where the ball was going to end up were world class. However whether it’s Mikel’s style or Auba reaching the end of his career his last two seasons have been poor especially his approach play and
as a team player big Oli was better.
The big problem here is succession planning so even your big players you sell at the right time and get the maximum from them on the pitch until you need to get the maximum for them financially, to do this you also have to factor in the maximum for the players career as well and that way they will give you their all until the end even when they know they are being sold and you will be seen as
“the Employer of choice” (Arsene was known for this remember Sami Nasri last few games)
In this area Mikel and Edu are absolute fuckwits even if you are a trust the process fan you have to admit this
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As for the squad it is very flexible and so we can’t really say we only have two strikers when both Martinelli and Pepe can play there and of course big Bob.
I know the loan window has not closed but at the moment both Patino and the recalled Azeez are available to back up the main for with Azeez further along his development than the much lauded Charlie.
Seven defenders should be enough as they are interchangeable especially if we needed to play with a three.
The problem is obviously numbers and injuries and suspensions in one area could be a disaster and I don’t think Mikel is equipped like Arsene to plug the gaps (remember 2006 using 7 different left backs).
17 games is not a lot but with four games not yet squeezed into the program (all really hard games by the way) some weeks will be very demanding and this is where the squad will be tested.
As I am quite often wrong I have reviewed my final ARSENAL placing several times, I started with eighth went up to sixth but have now downgraded to eighth again on the proviso we do better than Wolves in the two head to heads.
We have had a big spending window and then a big selling window if we don’t have European football next season you can forget about players like Isak turning up when if they continue to develop they will have.much better offers and it’s down the road it will be even more sickening.
Remember under Arsene the spuds used to give players taxi fair to come and sign for us it would be a disaster if the reverse started to happen.
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I can’t believe the notion being put forward by so many bloggers and twitter accounts that we’re supposed to believe every player who Arteta doesn’t want to work with anymore is somehow of bad character and a trouble maker.
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seen this headline “Arsenal Have Sold £194 Million Worth Of Players For Free”
first couple years of Wenger’s reign he built a new world class training facility, won us some trophies and made everyone proud to be a gooner.
contrast and compare peoples.
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“we’re supposed to believe every player who Arteta doesn’t want to work with anymore is somehow of bad character and a trouble maker.”
I do not know how arteta keeps getting favorable press coverage, it is one of the recent wonders of this century. Blaggers are all full of shit too but how he keeps getting positive press coverage is a mystery to me.
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Fucking cheek Barca have put a 100 million euro buy out clause on a player we give them for nothing and has taken a massive wage drop.
Football is indeed crazy and at the moment we seem to be at the front of the asylum.
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Ed, I was thinking about what you was saying about players left from Arsene’s time. I think it’s important to remember that Saka, ESR and Martinelli were all Arsene’s players and seeing the way they come into the side it would be difficult to credit Mikel for them.
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Eddy
It is almost as if these sad bad blaggers who spent year’s slagging off the best football coach they will ever see who spent the last three years slagging off the best midfielder at the club calling for such quality to be hounded out the club to replaced by Sanllehi signings etc do not know or care anything about Football but sure they know how to edit a podcast and how to make a few squid from a few clicks. They are nothing more then PR lickspittles for the Kronke’s, if we are being fair, based upon their record, going back a decade (plenty of objective data!).
The club’s reserves have been replaced by “debt” and these chancers were recorded and observed to be cheering on the butchers in order to scrape up their pound of flesh. What a shower they are!
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Great servants of the club have been desperate to leave in recent seasons flipping the club the bird on their way out the door.
But this was a necessary change in culture, according to billy the sad bad blagger.
I guess that mantra makes sense if Harry Redknapp’s Range Rover interviews were more important to you then watching a footballer who can control and pass a football.
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ian you will find Martinelli was signed after Wenger’s time, and my point on wenger and emery players was those that played first team under either of them. And apart from those on loan, we have very few left. A secondary point on the subject is, when all of those players are gone, and its an entirely Arteta squad, will we at last see the excuses evaporate
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Ed, yeah I understood a very good point you made however I think it’s important Mikel doesn’t get credit for things he hasn’t done.
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https://twitter.com/i/status/1488654763931615238
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Lyon want to sign Lacazette in the summer on a Bosman.
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Ed, I also thought although Arsene left in 2018 and Gabriel didn’t join until 2019 the deal was done in principle and it was understood he would join us when he was 18.
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to match last seasons 61pts arsenal in our next 17 games will have to pick up just 25pts from the possible 51pts, that should not be beyond us
but we need 22 goals from the 17 games to match last seasons meager 55 goals, can concede 14 to match the 39 let in last season.
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not sure about that ian, the only player we signed after he left that I think had agreed to join us before he left was Leno.
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Arsenal u23’s v Chelsea u23’s on Friday is live on arsenal.com, kick off 7pm
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Football España
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The bottom five of the Premier League spent twice as much as the whole of La Liga during the January transfer window according to @TomAllnuttAFP
. They also outspent the whole of Serie A and spent three times as much as both the Bundesliga and Ligue 1.
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Winger Chido Obi signs Arsenal scholarship deal ahead of next season
by jeorge bird
Arsenal U16s winger Chido Obi has signed a scholarship deal with the club ahead of next season.
The Denmark youth international has produced some impressive performances for Arsenal at U16 level this season.
Obi joins defender Josh Nichols in having secured a scholarship deal for next campaign.
Goalkeepers Alexei Rojas Fedorushchenko and Brian Okonkwo will also hope to be part of the scholarship intake along with Omari Benjamin, Luis Brown, Seb Ferdinand and Michal Rosiak.
Other players in contention include Kamarni Ryan, Romari Forde, Stanley Skipper, Ismael Kabia, Harrison Dudziak, Coby Small, Louie Copley and Noah Cooper. Defender Max Jolliffe was recently on trial at West Ham United but wasn’t offered a deal.
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I see the PL are trying to make us feel like we’re still in Europe by announcing yet another game to be played on a Thursday night, the rearranged fixture with Wolves will now be on 24th of February sandwiched between Brentford and Watford.
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so guys do any of yee think Aubameyang would have been treated the way he was, if he had been scoring on a regular basis. I think there was not a chance he would have been dumped if he had been scoring, and that is why I think its laughable the amount of praise Arteta is getting for treating him they way he has.
Something I mentioned of twitter today, imagine Graham or Wenger treated his players this way for a few incidents of breaking rules, the likes of Adams, Bould, Parlour, Richardson, Merson and many many more would have been drummed out of the club, as members of the Tuesday Club they broke so many rules, several of them turned up for training and even matches drunk, not to mention drug taking and seeing as we are talking captains, what would Arteta have done with an imprisoned Captain, oh lord it don’t bare thinking about
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our squad list
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Good point ed.
Cannot remember Graham or Wenger being petty, vindictive and a right prick to their players even though their players probably did a lot worse. Tuesday club, Ian Wright constantly late, Adebayor and Bentdner, Fabregas and Van P behaviour before they left etc.
Even mourhino is not this petty, small minded, egotistical and at least mourhino is a better coach with better tactics and has a bigger personality than this wet sock of guy.
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I don’t think Richards inclusion is an be administration error, I think they just wanted to put as many names down as possible.
To be honest I was surprised my name wasn’t included.
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