So Arsenal will only win based on the Brighton team that turns up!!!!Retro Gunner wrote: ↑Fri Aug 30, 2024 11:37 pmUncle Arsene must be delighted. This has been a real throwback, the definitive stereotype of a Wenger style transfer window and his protege has done him proud.
Cards on the table, I’ve never been an Arteta man, he shouldn’t have got the job in the first place and I can’t warm to the bloke. I would have sacked him at the end of the 2021/22 season, but I was happy to admit that he’d improved us in the last couple of seasons and got us into a position where we needed only a couple of key players to be able to properly compete at the top level.
First and foremost we all knew that we needed a quality, goal scoring striker, the type we’ve been missing for too long. Many of us also knew that Arteta wasn’t going to buy that CF. He plays with one up front and no way was he going to buy a bloke and sit Havertz and Jesus on the bench. We have have a manager that genuinely seems to think that Havertz is the answer up front. The German will be the rock on which Cone Boy flounders and sinks.
So, no striker, but typically painful, drawn out, mind numbing sagas to get Calafiori (can’t see where or how often he’ll play, which will cause him to get pissed off) and Merino, who was a “meh” signing for me and has now broken his fucking shoulder!
We sell ESR, an absolute fan favourite (but you need to be a Cone Boy favourite), yet still have Partey and Zinchenko stinking the place out. At least we’ve got shot of Eddie, Ramsdale and Nelson.
So a disappointing, Wengeresque window, failing to address the clear requirement for a CF, but just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, up pops the Sterling story and we all knew it was gonna happen. This has done me. I’m way beyond fucking furious. Once again we’re within touching distance of being a top side and we sign yet another Chelsea fucking cast off. Our ridiculing of us signing the dross they don’t want has reached parody levels, but I can’t fucking believe that we’ve self harmed in exactly the same way again!
I have the resigned contemptuous feeling that I had during the Fraud’s last 10 yrs and signing Sterling, even on loan, has killed any enthusiasm I had. As others have said, Cone Boy has nowhere to hide now. He’s been royally backed by the owner, this is his team and his faith in Havertz and Jesus, plus the refusal to add a quality CF is going haunt him and he deserves all he gets.
I’m sick of this club always failing to take the final step and I’m sick of a manager that plays favourites and buys cast offs who he knows. It’s evidence that he’s a weak manager, but who tries to give a tough guy impression.
I’m uncertain about the Brighton game, because it always depends which Brighton turn up, but if they have a good day we will struggle. I’m expecting the scum to beat us comfortably…2-0, or 3-1….and the pressure will build on Cone Boy.
Sterling!!’
Give your head a shake.
Fucking clowns supporting this club now
Arsenal sign Raheem Sterling from Chelsea. 29yo winger completes medical + exits #CFC on season-long loan. Deal sheet provided extension until 1am UK to finalise #DeadlineDay transfer. Everything done in time; England int’l an #AFC player @TheAthleticFC
