As we're unlikely to see terraces again at football, this is the virtual equivalent where you can chat to your hearts content about all football matters and, obviously, Arsenal in particular. This forum encourages all Gooners to visit and contribute so please keep it respectful, clean and topical.
Is Arseblog Irish? I seem to recall one of the more well known bloggers being Irish.
What it is with a lot of the bloggers and podcasters…and the fan boy types on this forum (most of whom have been unsurprisingly absent for a while)…is that they have a misplaced sense of loyalty. They see everything through red and white spectacles, which distorts their ability for objective analysis and think any criticism is tantamount to treachery.
They can’t disassociate support for the Club from whichever half wit happens to be in the manager’s chair. It’s a fatal mistake and is what led to so many being behind Wenger for literally years, when it was obvious to many of us that he was killing the Club. We are facing the same situation with Arteta and I’ve no doubt they’ll continue to back him even though he’s got fuck all credit in the bank.
The Club comes first for me and everything else is just noise. If a manager is winning trophies, or leading us in a positive direction, then that’s great. If not, then he should be gone. No one is bigger than the Club and I’ve been desperate for us to be top dog in English football all my life and it guts me that we’ve never seen a sustained period where that’s been the case. I’m perfectly prepared to give a manager a fair crack of the whip…let’s say 5 years and 800m spent…but then I expect a return and loyalty to an underperforming manager is disloyalty to the Club in my book.
Spurs have decided to trigger Morgan Gibbs-White's £60m clause, as @mcgrathmike called. Gibbs-White has already agreed to the move and is expected to undergo a medical on Friday.
£115m spend in two days after Mohammed Kudus deal also agreed.
As much as I like to stick the boot into the club I think a lot of the hold up over the Gykores deal is down to the agreement his agent (supposedly) made with the club last summer which outlined the release clause.
There’s a gap between what the club thinks it is and what the player was told it was, why should we make up the difference here?
Fuck that. He’s not turning up for pre season training tomorrow, the club aren’t in a position of strength here. I’m not in the camp of “sure just pay the extra 5/10 million or whatever”. No chance. Sweat the c.unts to get the best deal possible.
Player wants away, player only wants to join one club. Why the fuck should we pay a premium in that circumstance?
Same happened us with Cesc, he wanted to go and only wanted to go to one club which tanked his real value.
Speculation today in one of the rags is that gyokeres has a Plan B and that if he doesnt sign for us he is willing to go on loan to another european club - we are not his be all and end all, and need to either close the deal or walk away, but bickering over whether £5m is guaranteed or in add on's is very small time imo
Is Arseblog Irish? I seem to recall one of the more well known bloggers being Irish.
What it is with a lot of the bloggers and podcasters…and the fan boy types on this forum (most of whom have been unsurprisingly absent for a while)…is that they have a misplaced sense of loyalty. They see everything through red and white spectacles, which distorts their ability for objective analysis and think any criticism is tantamount to treachery.
They can’t disassociate support for the Club from whichever half wit happens to be in the manager’s chair. It’s a fatal mistake and is what led to so many being behind Wenger for literally years, when it was obvious to many of us that he was killing the Club. We are facing the same situation with Arteta and I’ve no doubt they’ll continue to back him even though he’s got fuck all credit in the bank.
The Club comes first for me and everything else is just noise. If a manager is winning trophies, or leading us in a positive direction, then that’s great. If not, then he should be gone. No one is bigger than the Club and I’ve been desperate for us to be top dog in English football all my life and it guts me that we’ve never seen a sustained period where that’s been the case. I’m perfectly prepared to give a manager a fair crack of the whip…let’s say 5 years and 800m spent…but then I expect a return and loyalty to an underperforming manager is disloyalty to the Club in my book.
I don't post much on this fucking thread as there is more shit being thrown around than the village farmer on muck spreading day
But I have to say, what the actual fuck is going on with our transfer strategy?
My suspicion is that Diet Pep wants far too much influence in the decision making process. And, I reckon it's the reason that Edu left the club. In fact it has all the hallmarks of Wenger 2 wanting control over everything
Diet Pep should be identifying positions of need, Bertha should give him a shortlist and then when Diet Pep has made a choice, Bertha should go and get the deal done, at least that should be his job. But I think Diet Pep is being deliberately obtuse especially where a striker is concerned.
As many of our esteemed posters have pointed out, I don't think Diet Pep actually wants a striker. All this talk of wide players or attacking midfielders will deflect away from the pressing need. All the prevarication over a few million quid for a striker suggests that they are hoping for the deal to fall through. And we've heard the soundbites before about how hard we tried to sign so and so.
And that's before we get on to the issue of contract extensions for the players we need to keep, otherwise they will get tapped up and walk for a pittance.
I love the transfer window
Oooooh! Nick Nack... You know all those Long words make me Woozy !
The World and His Fucking Dog! Knew we needed a Striker Above and Before Any Other Position and The World and His Fucking Dog also knew that Any club we approached with regards buying a Striker from them already had us by the Short & Curlies from the start and would obviously be Jacking the Price up. So why fuck about and try and play hard ball when they hold all the Aces (ie: The Player).
We should Prioritise Our Biggest Need First Before Any Others... A Striker... Just Pay What They're asking and sell off some of our Deadwood (and we all know there's plenty to be got rid of!) to get some money coming in...
THEN Once we've addressed the Striker issue, go and see what other Positions were in need of up-grading or back-up...and see who we might be able to Afford. But Only AFTER We have Bought a Striker...
FFS! Anyone with half a fucking brain can see the logic in prioritising what needs to be addressed. Either Berta is not what many claimed or thought him to be, or Arteta is sticking his fucking over-sized oar in and making things more difficult than they ever needed to be.
Madueke reminds me of that fucking tosser Gervinho ....
Is Arseblog Irish? I seem to recall one of the more well known bloggers being Irish.
What it is with a lot of the bloggers and podcasters…and the fan boy types on this forum (most of whom have been unsurprisingly absent for a while)…is that they have a misplaced sense of loyalty. They see everything through red and white spectacles, which distorts their ability for objective analysis and think any criticism is tantamount to treachery.
They can’t disassociate support for the Club from whichever half wit happens to be in the manager’s chair. It’s a fatal mistake and is what led to so many being behind Wenger for literally years, when it was obvious to many of us that he was killing the Club. We are facing the same situation with Arteta and I’ve no doubt they’ll continue to back him even though he’s got fuck all credit in the bank.
The Club comes first for me and everything else is just noise. If a manager is winning trophies, or leading us in a positive direction, then that’s great. If not, then he should be gone. No one is bigger than the Club and I’ve been desperate for us to be top dog in English football all my life and it guts me that we’ve never seen a sustained period where that’s been the case. I’m perfectly prepared to give a manager a fair crack of the whip…let’s say 5 years and 800m spent…but then I expect a return and loyalty to an underperforming manager is disloyalty to the Club in my book.
Apologies for the vent.
Yes sadly he is - he is a dub but sounds more upper or middle class than your average "howya dub" To listen to the dick talking you would think rugby should be more up his street than mixing with us commoners
I too lost all respect for arseblog and legrove for their blind defence of the senile french cock - I get that we are all more aware of events that occur in our own lifetime, but this club was massive long before wenger came along and was successful too, but cocks like these two behaved like the club would be nothing without the old fool and blindly defended him despite every bad decision he was making. We see a repeat of this shit now - people stupidly talking about how the cone boy turned this club around as though we were nowhere and nothing before he came along, even though we had finished 5th a few months beforehand I remember GG who did actually lead the club from real darkness and back into the light, and that was a proper turnaround of our club and why he will always be my number 1
Btw not for one nano second do I believe that we wont overpay for the chav reject - they bought him for £20m and he hasnt been a success (hence why they are selling him) so anything more than £18m is overpaying on him imo
As much as I like to stick the boot into the club I think a lot of the hold up over the Gykores deal is down to the agreement his agent (supposedly) made with the club last summer which outlined the release clause.
There’s a gap between what the club thinks it is and what the player was told it was, why should we make up the difference here?
Fuck that. He’s not turning up for pre season training tomorrow, the club aren’t in a position of strength here. I’m not in the camp of “sure just pay the extra 5/10 million or whatever”. No chance. Sweat the c.unts to get the best deal possible.
Player wants away, player only wants to join one club. Why the fuck should we pay a premium in that circumstance?
Same happened us with Cesc, he wanted to go and only wanted to go to one club which tanked his real value.
Speculation today in one of the rags is that gyokeres has a Plan B and that if he doesnt sign for us he is willing to go on loan to another european club - we are not his be all and end all, and need to either close the deal or walk away, but bickering over whether £5m is guaranteed or in add on's is very small time imo
Romano repeating today that Gykores has told Sporting 2 things -
1. He ain’t turning up there ever again
2. He only wants to join us.
That puts us in the driving seat. Accept the offer that Sporting agreed with his agent last summer (just because the geezer who struck that deal has now fucked off to cheaty doesn’t void the deal).
We shouldn’t pay a penny above that number, fuck them. They’ve a want a way player, the longer this drags on with him refusing to turn up the more his value tanks.
Is Arseblog Irish? I seem to recall one of the more well known bloggers being Irish.
What it is with a lot of the bloggers and podcasters…and the fan boy types on this forum (most of whom have been unsurprisingly absent for a while)…is that they have a misplaced sense of loyalty. They see everything through red and white spectacles, which distorts their ability for objective analysis and think any criticism is tantamount to treachery.
They can’t disassociate support for the Club from whichever half wit happens to be in the manager’s chair. It’s a fatal mistake and is what led to so many being behind Wenger for literally years, when it was obvious to many of us that he was killing the Club. We are facing the same situation with Arteta and I’ve no doubt they’ll continue to back him even though he’s got fuck all credit in the bank.
The Club comes first for me and everything else is just noise. If a manager is winning trophies, or leading us in a positive direction, then that’s great. If not, then he should be gone. No one is bigger than the Club and I’ve been desperate for us to be top dog in English football all my life and it guts me that we’ve never seen a sustained period where that’s been the case. I’m perfectly prepared to give a manager a fair crack of the whip…let’s say 5 years and 800m spent…but then I expect a return and loyalty to an underperforming manager is disloyalty to the Club in my book.
Apologies for the vent.
Yes sadly he is - he is a dub but sounds more upper or middle class than your average "howya dub" To listen to the dick talking you would think rugby should be more up his street than mixing with us commoners
I too lost all respect for arseblog and legrove for their blind defence of the senile french cock - I get that we are all more aware of events that occur in our own lifetime, but this club was massive long before wenger came along and was successful too, but cocks like these two behaved like the club would be nothing without the old fool and blindly defended him despite every bad decision he was making. We see a repeat of this shit now - people stupidly talking about how the cone boy turned this club around as though we were nowhere and nothing before he came along, even though we had finished 5th a few months beforehand I remember GG who did actually lead the club from real darkness and back into the light, and that was a proper turnaround of our club and why he will always be my number 1
Btw not for one nano second do I believe that we wont overpay for the chav reject - they bought him for £20m and he hasnt been a success (hence why they are selling him) so anything more than £18m is overpaying on him imo
The arseblog twat from memory has an account on here, im nearly sure theres a post somewhere where he felt the need to deny he was getting backhanders from the club.
He was firmly in the “he’s earned the right to say when he leaves camp” and then as time went on the backtracking started.
The worst thing about Arseblog is a lot of fans treat him and his sycophantic cast as minor celebrities rather than the 2 bit glorified low rank amateur Wordpress merchants that they are.
Is Arseblog Irish? I seem to recall one of the more well known bloggers being Irish.
What it is with a lot of the bloggers and podcasters…and the fan boy types on this forum (most of whom have been unsurprisingly absent for a while)…is that they have a misplaced sense of loyalty. They see everything through red and white spectacles, which distorts their ability for objective analysis and think any criticism is tantamount to treachery.
They can’t disassociate support for the Club from whichever half wit happens to be in the manager’s chair. It’s a fatal mistake and is what led to so many being behind Wenger for literally years, when it was obvious to many of us that he was killing the Club. We are facing the same situation with Arteta and I’ve no doubt they’ll continue to back him even though he’s got fuck all credit in the bank.
The Club comes first for me and everything else is just noise. If a manager is winning trophies, or leading us in a positive direction, then that’s great. If not, then he should be gone. No one is bigger than the Club and I’ve been desperate for us to be top dog in English football all my life and it guts me that we’ve never seen a sustained period where that’s been the case. I’m perfectly prepared to give a manager a fair crack of the whip…let’s say 5 years and 800m spent…but then I expect a return and loyalty to an underperforming manager is disloyalty to the Club in my book.
Apologies for the vent.
Le grove is to be sure. Although now us based i think....awooga....super fan alert...fits right in with the septics stupid positivity about everything...no idea on arseblog
Is Arseblog Irish? I seem to recall one of the more well known bloggers being Irish.
What it is with a lot of the bloggers and podcasters…and the fan boy types on this forum (most of whom have been unsurprisingly absent for a while)…is that they have a misplaced sense of loyalty. They see everything through red and white spectacles, which distorts their ability for objective analysis and think any criticism is tantamount to treachery.
They can’t disassociate support for the Club from whichever half wit happens to be in the manager’s chair. It’s a fatal mistake and is what led to so many being behind Wenger for literally years, when it was obvious to many of us that he was killing the Club. We are facing the same situation with Arteta and I’ve no doubt they’ll continue to back him even though he’s got fuck all credit in the bank.
The Club comes first for me and everything else is just noise. If a manager is winning trophies, or leading us in a positive direction, then that’s great. If not, then he should be gone. No one is bigger than the Club and I’ve been desperate for us to be top dog in English football all my life and it guts me that we’ve never seen a sustained period where that’s been the case. I’m perfectly prepared to give a manager a fair crack of the whip…let’s say 5 years and 800m spent…but then I expect a return and loyalty to an underperforming manager is disloyalty to the Club in my book.
Apologies for the vent.
hold on your saw the dominance in the 30s though I assume
Spurs have decided to trigger Morgan Gibbs-White's £60m clause, as @mcgrathmike called. Gibbs-White has already agreed to the move and is expected to undergo a medical on Friday.
£115m spend in two days after Mohammed Kudus deal also agreed.
What is this witch craft
There signing mid table players imho just like solanke
Wouldn't want us to touch either with a barge pole.
Is Arseblog Irish? I seem to recall one of the more well known bloggers being Irish.
What it is with a lot of the bloggers and podcasters…and the fan boy types on this forum (most of whom have been unsurprisingly absent for a while)…is that they have a misplaced sense of loyalty. They see everything through red and white spectacles, which distorts their ability for objective analysis and think any criticism is tantamount to treachery.
They can’t disassociate support for the Club from whichever half wit happens to be in the manager’s chair. It’s a fatal mistake and is what led to so many being behind Wenger for literally years, when it was obvious to many of us that he was killing the Club. We are facing the same situation with Arteta and I’ve no doubt they’ll continue to back him even though he’s got fuck all credit in the bank.
The Club comes first for me and everything else is just noise. If a manager is winning trophies, or leading us in a positive direction, then that’s great. If not, then he should be gone. No one is bigger than the Club and I’ve been desperate for us to be top dog in English football all my life and it guts me that we’ve never seen a sustained period where that’s been the case. I’m perfectly prepared to give a manager a fair crack of the whip…let’s say 5 years and 800m spent…but then I expect a return and loyalty to an underperforming manager is disloyalty to the Club in my book.
Apologies for the vent.
Yes sadly he is - he is a dub but sounds more upper or middle class than your average "howya dub" To listen to the dick talking you would think rugby should be more up his street than mixing with us commoners
I too lost all respect for arseblog and legrove for their blind defence of the senile french cock - I get that we are all more aware of events that occur in our own lifetime, but this club was massive long before wenger came along and was successful too, but cocks like these two behaved like the club would be nothing without the old fool and blindly defended him despite every bad decision he was making. We see a repeat of this shit now - people stupidly talking about how the cone boy turned this club around as though we were nowhere and nothing before he came along, even though we had finished 5th a few months beforehand I remember GG who did actually lead the club from real darkness and back into the light, and that was a proper turnaround of our club and why he will always be my number 1
Btw not for one nano second do I believe that we wont overpay for the chav reject - they bought him for £20m and he hasnt been a success (hence why they are selling him) so anything more than £18m is overpaying on him imo
I have a pair of dubs...deck shoes...does that make me upper Irish?!?
How the heck has this total and utter catastrophe of a transfer window managed to get even worse with spurs TOTALLY humiliating us by signing 3 players in 3 days
And all we get is the left over trash from Chelsea
Not a single proper signing in 3 years. And the 23 year drought of a real trophy set to Continue
HOT TAKEArsenal won’t spend more than £25m on Madueke.
Chelsea needs to raise £60 million before they can register their new players for the UCL.
They don’t have many assets to sell right now. Arsenal know they’re in a bind. Berta has agreed terms with the player, put it into the media that the player wants out, and… waited.
There’s simply no way a club haggling over payment plans (Eze / Gyökeres), or spending more on overall fees so they can pay in installments (Zubimendi), would overpay a club desperate to shift bodies to be ready for next season.
Arsenal won’t pay £50m. They won’t pay £40m. I suspect the opening bid will be £25m with add-ons. The club has to be creative to build out the squad beyond the core buys requested. Chelsea are leaking the higher bid to save face. People need to calm down on the fee venting. Suspect this deal will drag out until the end of the window. Stay calm, everything will be ok.
Le Grove blog
I’ve never been one to read blog sites like Le Grove and Arseblog….I know it would be bad for my blood pressure….so only really come across their bullshit when you fellas put something on here.
What amazes me is how sure they always are about their own speculative opinions. You’d think that after years of defending the Old Fraud and telling us success was just around the corner, until that position became totally indefensible, that they might have learned a lesson.
But no, they dream up some contrived bollocks, dress it up like fact and preach to the plebs as though they’re on a superior, all knowing plane.
I met some of these jokers at the anti Kroenke protest organising group and while it would be unfair to damn all of them, there are some proper clowns amongst them. They genuinely think they know better than the ordinary supporters, but I have my doubts if they’ve ever kicked a ball. Many are middle class, fan boy types.
We had one of those Toady Fuckers on here till Yesterday and the inevitable Ban Hammer fell!
Spurs have decided to trigger Morgan Gibbs-White's £60m clause, as @mcgrathmike called. Gibbs-White has already agreed to the move and is expected to undergo a medical on Friday.
I remember GG who did actually lead the club from real darkness and back into the light, and that was a proper turnaround of our club and why he will always be my number 1 
Arsenal won’t spend more than £25m on Madueke.