26 Jun 2021 20:45:41
Funny how some were happy with our winter window clearing out players - well looks like we received no money for Ozil and we paid all his wages per FB president, we have a solid negotiating team 😂 😂 and a great PR team if we are saying it's good 😂😂 - shambolic how the club is run if true.


1.) 26 Jun 2021
26 Jun 2021 22:33:40
Sy4 mate, I have always said that Edu is a horrible technical director. When everyone was raving about the partey deal, I was asking what special thing Edu did. What was impressive about waiting for a team to lower their asking price and then triggering the release clause on deadline day anyway?


2.) 26 Jun 2021
26 Jun 2021 22:39:07
Credit where its due tho he has tied down. tierney, saka, martenelli, balogun and Smith rowe (almost) to long term deals. Something we've struggled to do for a long time.

The whole ozil saga was odd. Seems like we just wanted him gone.


3.) 26 Jun 2021
26 Jun 2021 22:42:03
This was all known information. we paid every player off to leave in January.
Ozil
Sokratis
Mustafi.


4.) 27 Jun 2021
27 Jun 2021 07:20:20
Especially with the Ozil situation the long term benefits outweigh the cost.


5.) 27 Jun 2021
27 Jun 2021 10:19:46
Firstly let me make it clear I am not a fan of Edu, Ed002 has said he is a massive part of our poor background staff and has made us look idiots I think the phrase was when dealing with a French club. He is also too entwined with Kia Joorabchian but he is in the job. I agree Edu is "horrible" but in the last few days we have been labelled shambolic incompetent and ridiculous! For a long time we have had a first team that we couldn`t sell because their wages were too high and they weren`t good enough. It takes time as were in a state regarding the first team ie Mustafi Xhaka Ozil Sokratis etc etc . Over a short time we now have young talent tied down to long term contracts talents like Tierney Saka Partey Martinelli ( come on Emile ) who other teams would buy in a heartbeat and others who aren`t first teamers like AMN and Willock we can sell and for much more than we paid for them. We aren`t perfect - who is - but we ain`t Spurs who can`t attract the sacked Wolves manager who is 12th choice! I for one see a new attitude to the type of player we have want and are allegedly after. Possibly a waste of funds if we only have £50 mill to spend but White English and 23 and if Ed001 says he`s very good that`s fine by me. But money aside the right type of player. It will take time to get rid of the players we all want shot of but it isn`t Football Manager but it is nice to have players other teams covet . Just don`t understand the ridiculous incompetent shambolic comments! Not surprised in the least we paid Ozil off! And don`t care how it happened £45 mill for Partey a very good deal in today`s market. Pretty sure we are looking to strengthen the positions we all can see need it COYG PS whether it happens or not but 4 CB of White Saliba Gabriel Holding in that order will do for me with Mari as backup.


6.) 27 Jun 2021
27 Jun 2021 20:37:05
Evening Sussex - just out of interest… do you think Tierney was a difficult negotiation? Do you think the Ozil deal was good or PEA at 300k per week or whatever it is. Was the Willian deal good?
I’m not sure ESR signing is down to Edu but rather the amount of cash we will throw at him Vs offers on table. He’s been with us a while so if Edu can’t sort that we have problems.

We’ve got a few players running contracts down and some u23 U18s getting twitchy.

Signing Saliba and not playing him.

Loaning Kola out with no LB cover

On Partey we paid out his buy out clause - what’s great about that? We pissed off a club we may want to engage with

Loaning Cedric when injured

They did well with Balogun but there sounds like a talented player is off to Brentford. We wanted the young man who went to Vills.

I don’t see anything other than a shambles - there are some silver linings but not sure it took a genius to get us those.


7.) 27 Jun 2021
27 Jun 2021 21:57:09
Sy, do you cut and paste posts?


8.) 27 Jun 2021
27 Jun 2021 22:50:01
Evening Sy! Here goes! Don`t care if Tierney was a difficult negotiation or not we got a £25 mill future captain worth at least double that if Chilwell is worth £50mill. Don`t care if Partey easy or not as I said a very good buy. Ozil and Willian were I agree a shambles. PEA I`d sign again and think you are being disingenuous by not giving credit regarding the successes of Saka Martinelli and that we are just chucking money at ESR! Also a silver lining is Pepe is starting to look useful and I called him a Shocker earlier this season so what do I know . Who is running their contracts down? Laca - think he wants to go and we want him to go no problem. ( shame as I rate him ) As it happened didn`t Cedric cover KT but MA preferred Xhaka even though Cedric was fit? That was a strange one verging on the shambles. I love a silver lining and see tons with our squad and as bad as we were last season we finished well and had PEA done what he did the previous two seasons we would have breezed top four. His mother being ill and malaria didn`t help - don`t give up on him just yet. I have advocated Saliba to start but for some reason he isn`t fancied but he is still our player and a good buy. Hope we use him. I`m sure you have looked at the squad but surely with those being moved on and let`s say we bought Aouar Bissouma and White plus cover at right and left back ( could argue a first team right back ) then surely surely you can see an improvement on the squad from last year? It`s much more fun I find in life looking on the positive side it`s too easy to constantly find the negatives no doubt claiming to be a realist and us positive fans being fantasists . We want the same thing just see it differently but you seem to think I think the sun shines out of Edu. Read my post it doesn`t but I see positives as far as personnel and potential personnel on the pitch which far outweigh the Ozil/ Willian shambles in my humble opinion. No doubt we will find out next season which is one I for one can`t wait for and that hasn`t always been the case recently. Remember 2nd best team in the league since Christmas! Yes a stat but nonetheless true and third best defense all season - not a total shambles in my opinion definitely something to work with. We won`t be champions but I`d wager we challenge top four and will get behind the boys to do so COYG.


9.) 27 Jun 2021
27 Jun 2021 23:47:04
Thanks for the banter Sussex - the shambles I was referring to was Edu in my post which I think we agree on. I also agree Partey is a great player and can’t wait to see the real Partey next season. Pepe has stepped up and doing well now - not sure he’s worth what we paid or we could have invested better but he’s stepped up, I thank Freddie for Saka and Edu for Martinelli ( Arteta needs to play him) while ESR is a breath of fresh air. PEA is a risk as I said on my other long post but he’s good if Arteta can manage him and play a style of play to use his pace.
However a club that think it’s in the elite bucket, messes around Saliba, makes scouts redundant then hires scouts, treats our mascot as it did, gets fully into bed with that scout and generally has no direction is shambolic. I was just highlighting that we couldn’t even get 15% of Ozil’s wages paid which is pathetic while I’m sure we were all happy that we got his wage off our books. anyway - hope you have a great week.


10.) 28 Jun 2021
27 Jun 2021 23:27:40
Cut and paste posts - from where Mal? Don’t get your point.


11.) 28 Jun 2021
28 Jun 2021 00:07:48
Yep you too Sy going to be a great week if we can beat ze Germans and who knows what we could do o with the draw opening up! Probably lose on penalties to Germany! Don’t sweat the small stuff though! Enjoy each 90 mins and move on FOYS.