Raul Sanllehi has left Arsenal

[say yes]

Yes. Confirmation in few hours.

The Football Gerbil?

Just logged in after my night out to read this and I am absolutely finished. What a sport. What a club. Good night.

 

[Rex Stone]

We were in the CL then. Desperate times, desperate measures. Wenger led us out of the places and things got tough and **** got a bit wild.

Don’t get how this is a reason for sacking one of the best scouts in world football and going full sleaze?

Even two years out of the CL we managed to sign Aubameyang and Leno. Total myth that we weren’t able to get top players anymore.

 

[GDeep™]

Pretty certain Partey will be signed. Regardless if we make quality additions this window but people continue to go back to the glory day transfer windows of making top 4 its so contradictory.

Every window we have had under any management in recent times has ended up with a poor signing or two, sometimes more under previous management.

To attack those who are in charge now for poor signings without praising them for the good signings is pure ignorance. It shows you have an agenda and simply love to moan.

We praise the current regime for Arteta, Pepe, Tierney etc. What more do you want?

We have finished 8th though, which for Arsenal is simply a disgrace.

 

[HairSprayGooners]

We praise the current regime for Arteta, Pepe, Tierney etc. What more do you want?

We have finished 8th though, which for Arsenal is simply a disgrace.

It is a disgrace, but not just one person is culpable.

 

[GDeep™]

It is a disgrace, but not just one person is culpable.

The head of football/DoF/or a manager who is in total control, always get the heat.

When we missed out on the CL, Wenger got sacked.

 

[Jury]

Don’t get how this is a reason for sacking one of the best scouts in world football and going full sleaze?

Even two years out of the CL we managed to sign Aubameyang and Leno. Total myth that we weren’t able to get top players anymore.

Not the best examples tbh. Auba turned out great but was he really that sought after when he was available? And Leno...?

 

[Rex Stone]

Not the best examples tbh. Auba turned out great but was he really that sought after when he was available? And Leno...?

Aubameyang had been banging in the goals in the Bundesliga and CL for years. He was clearly a top striker.

Muddying the waters to say it was dodgy deals with agents or nothing else. Clearly more nuanced than that.

 

[morpho]

So people actually think bribes are ok?! Corruption is one of the biggest threat to the world and has ruined football, for one.
How the values to this club has burned to dust after Wenger left...

So I guess the same people think uefa/fifa does a good enough job with the cost control regulations?

 

[squallman]

Aubameyang had been banging in the goals in the Bundesliga and CL for years. He was clearly a top striker.

Muddying the waters to say it was dodgy deals with agents or nothing else. Clearly more nuanced than that.

Forget it mate, some of our fans love to bash the club and act like we couldn't even attract a player from league two.

If players cared about history and trophies a club has recently won then PSG, City and Chelsea would all still be languishing in midtable.

Players care about where a club is going in the immediate future. All you have to do is convince them that the club is going places, pay them the money like the mercenaries they are and you're good to go.

 

[GDeep™]

Did Mislintat sign Leno?

 

[RunTheTrap]

So people actually think bribes are ok?! Corruption is one of the biggest threat to the world and has ruined football, for one.
How the values to this club has burned to dust after Wenger left...

So I guess the same people think uefa/fifa does a good enough job with the cost control regulations?

I completely agree with you.
Personally, I don't think football fans care much about human rights as much as we think we do. If you really want to get into the ethics of football it becomes a slippery slope. I think for the most part, we as football fans, accept some terrible things because we love the sport so much that we don't want it compromised. Everyone and their dog knew Sepp Blatter was up to no good but not enough took enough notice to care. The amount of money involved in football could help improve the lives of millions across the world. Ate billionaires a good thing in football? These are questions and statements that I don't think we'll get an answer for because most of us don't care.

 

[scytheavatar]

Pretty certain Partey will be signed. Regardless if we make quality additions this window but people continue to go back to the glory day transfer windows of making top 4 its so contradictory.

Every window we have had under any management in recent times has ended up with a poor signing or two, sometimes more under previous management.

To attack those who are in charge now for poor signings without praising them for the good signings is pure ignorance. It shows you have an agenda and simply love to moan.

The good signings we made are too little too late; one Tierney and one Martinelli signed a season is far too little to makeup the difference between us and the top PL teams. Fans also exaggerate the quality of our good signings, let's not pretend for example that Tierney is on the level of Monreal.

 

[Makingtrax]

We were in the CL then. Desperate times, desperate measures. Wenger led us out of the places and things got tough and **** got a bit wild.

Wenger was forced out of those places under extreme duress. Lets not pretend otherwise bro.

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

Did Mislintat sign Leno?

Leno probably put us back a few years. Such bad GK signings in Cech and Leno from Sven.

 

[Oxeki]

People will always find a reason to cry.

What if we pay little millions just to sign Pepe. Chelsea and city have been doing it for years but everyone has been praising them for showing ambition but we do the same and our fans lose their shít.

To get the best talent, we have to scratch some backs and grease a few palms. It's how the game is played. It's why we didn't get Kante, because Wenger didn't want to pay some dodgy intermediaries. But Chelsea did and they got a league title for it.

 

[Oxeki]

Man Utd have always over paid, under Ferguson they were paying the biggest prices in the world.

That's not true, is it?

Fergie regularly opted out of a lot of deals because he didn't want to grease the fingers of certain 'intermediaries'

The hazard transfer and the Lucas Moura(before he went to PSG) transfer come to mind.

When he was there united only paid the going rate for players, but once he left united started to overpay.

 

[Riou]

Glad he hasn't been sacked...

 

[MikelHadADream]

All this hysteria because of an absolute nothing article on ESPN and a bloke on twitter called the football gerbil

 

[scytheavatar]

People will always find a reason to cry.

What if we pay little millions just to sign Pepe. Chelsea and city have been doing it for years but everyone has been praising them for showing ambition but we do the same and our fans lose their shít.

To get the best talent, we have to scratch some backs and grease a few palms. It's how the game is played. It's why we didn't get Kante, because Wenger didn't want to pay some dodgy intermediaries. But Chelsea did and they got a league title for it.

See problem is we are not Chelsea or City. We have limited funds and we cannot become a better team than Chelsea or City by spending our way to the "best talent". We need to be smart with how we use our money or else we are closer to becoming Leeds Utd than we would be to a title run.

 

[kash2]

Glad he hasn't been sacked...

Pepe overpaid. Tierney injured. Luiz on a free. Martinelli unproven yet. Saliba didn't play. Ceballos on loan.
Came 8th