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01 May 2019 04:16:36
Hey Ed002 I hope you're well? I'm sure you've said on many occasions that monreal will leave and that it's time for him to move on, but I read that we are "desperate for him to sign a new contract to avoid losing him for nothing" is this nonsense or has our stance changed, thanks.
{Ed002's Note - Yes my expectation is that Monreal will leave and certainly Real Sociedad are willing to take him on. I am not really hip to contract discussions and would need to ask, but unless Arsenal wish to keep him there is no impetus for him to sign a new deal if Arsenal want to then sell him at a profit. If Arsenal start looking to treat players in such a way, then it will become harder to recruit players.}
1.) 01 May 2019 14:50:43
Thanks for the info Ed 😊.
2.) 02 May 2019 08:13:54
There were reports at the end of last season that the club were looking to acquire a left back, so it comes as no surprise that we are still looking at left backs, such as Tagliafico at Ajax. As far as Monreal goes, he will be 34 in February and has always lacked the pace needed for a top modern full/ wing back. He can fill in at CB as we have seen, which is a plus.
With players leaving this summer, such as Cech and Ramsey, others underperforming, simply not good enough or do not fit into Emery's methods, I believe that with a limited budget, particularly if we fail to qualify for nest season's CL, we may have to retain certain players, even if they are not ideal. Amongst these may fall Monreal.
We clearly need a CB, a wide attacking player and a creative mdfield player. With the reported £40m budget, I cannot see more than 3 signings, hence Monreal may have to be retained, assuming he wants to stay.
12 Jul 2018 12:09:53
Seri to Fulham seems like a massive coup for them!
18 Jun 2018 06:27:01
Good morning eds, any news on adil?
{Ed002's Note - I am not aware of anything new.}
1.) 18 Jun 2018 09:08:41
OK thanks mate.
01 Feb 2018 23:42:15
all the info i have seem on the length of ozil, mikhi and aubas contracts seems to be 3 and a half years, is this right? it seems mad to only tie down your record signing and the player you have broken your wage structure for to reasonably short contracts, we will have to give them massive pay rises again in 2 years or risk going through the same thing as we have this year all over again. especially as ozil knows how to play it to a tee.
1.) 02 Feb 2018 01:32:51
I think age might have a factor they are all approaching 30 so makes sense.
2.) 02 Feb 2018 14:52:01
Clubs are giving shorter deals as the wages have risen to such high figures and in the cases of Ozil, Mkhitaryan and Aubameyang they will be entering their 30's during the term of their deals. The thing that makes no sense is the absurdly transfer fees paid for players that only have 3 and a half year deals. So Aubameyang will cost a combined total of around £87m in wages and transfer fee, for only 3 and a half years.
03 Jun 2017 22:56:57
"Juventus have agreed a deal with Arsenal to sign Wojciech Szczesny for €16m (£14m) . He is seen as the long-term heir to Gianluigi Buffon. (Sky in Italy) " interesting if true, i haven't seen much of him in italy anyone know if he's improved alot? if he has we need a replacement for cech in the not to distant future so that could be a mistake.
1.) 05 Jun 2017 01:00:01
Szczesny has improved massively at Roma and Ospina looks to be off. I reckon Wenger will try to keep Szczesny as understudy to Cech in the league and play him in Europe/ domestic comps, and look to replace Petr after the end of next season (just my guess) .
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25 Jan 2025 20:41:39
Even sky have called it out:
Arsenal beat Wolves 1-0, but Myles Lewis-Skelly's first-half red card for clipping Matt Doherty dominated the headlines. Here are five issues we have found with Michael Oliver and VAR's decision:
One - you don't see red cards for that. "He's 70 yards from his own goal, " said Tim Sherwood. That is the starting point. How can it be serious foul play on the edge of Wolves' box?
And if it is serious foul play for the contact on Lewis-Skelly, then he has split seconds to make that challenge. How can the 18-year-old have intended that? More common sense was needed.
1.) 25 Jan 2025 22:02:07
Pressed post too soon ?
Two - VAR gave it. The serious foul play call was checked and confirmed by VAR Darren England. See above for the common-sense point to an official who had replays, slow-motions and time to fully assess it.
Three - Joao Gomes' challenge was arguably worse. How the Wolves midfielder got a yellow for a seemingly higher, more aggressive and more dangerous challenge and Lewis-Skelly got his marching orders is simply baffling. The consistency did not even last half a match.
Four - Michael Oliver doesn't like to "impact games negatively by overreacting" apparently. That's what PGMOL chief Howard Webb said last season when Mateo Kovacic avoided a red card for Man City at Arsenal. Did he need to send Lewis-Skelly off there?
Five - More freak dismissals for Arsenal - Declan Rice and Leandro Trossard were both sent off for kicking the ball away - but have we seen any since? Joao Pedro's penalty at Brighton despite William Saliba seemingly getting the ball. Arsenal are getting freak decisions this season and it seems to be heavily weighted against them - so it is little wonder their fans are becoming increasingly frustrated.
2.) 25 Jan 2025 22:43:55
Hi Eden I don't think age can be a consideration 18 or 28 it's not a red card offence for me.
The ref has got it badly wrong and if the FA overturn the card no long term damage is done considering we got 3pts.
3.) 25 Jan 2025 23:56:29
Stats before todays game which make you wonder
Oliver has only refereed Liverpool more than he has Arsenal (57 v 54) , but has flashed 96 yellows at Arsenal players to 83 given to Liverpool.
Astonishingly, he has sent off seven Arsenal players during those games – more than any other side he has been in charge of – and only one Liverpool.
He has never sent off a Manchester City player, despite refereeing them 50 times.
Var was just as bad if not worse than him today.
4.) 26 Jan 2025 02:07:48
Liverpool fan here and we too agree that it was a ridiculous red card. Not the last man, in his own half, two covering arsenal defenders, and nothing malicious in the tackle. At best, it's a yellow. Hopefully it gets overturned.
As much as we want to be ahead of you this season, fairness is still fairness and all fans should come together to call out these kind of wrong calls and lobby for higher refereeing standards.
5.) 26 Jan 2025 10:36:38
Thanks Dracred, appreciate your input ?.
6.) 26 Jan 2025 11:55:52
Hi Dracred, in so many case's the ref's are enforcing the rules made by the FA but they are not doing so consistently across the board and this is where the problem lays most of the time, but not yesterday, that was a yellow card all day long.
With Rice and Trossard sendings offs earlier in the season they kicked the ball away, admittedly not very far especially in Rice's case but how far is to far and how far is not far enough to warrant a red card? It's extremely difficult for refs to be right in the eye's of the public and enforce the FA rules at the same time, so I have sympathy on those two card's.
Var is absolutely useless in this area especially because it doesn't use common sense that is required to see difference between the crime committed the punishment handed out, I think you need a panel of 3 ex players who have recent lived experience at Premier league level who genuinely know and understand all the tricks of the trade and can rationally and calmly make the call on such incidents with the insight refs Var and fans simply don't have.
Obviously the 3 ex players identities would need to be kept secret given the amount of crazy people who have access to social media and would doubtless target them and their families no matter what decisions they made but in my opinion we have to take away all the pressure and the power to make sensibly decisions on an extremely consistent basis away from the refs shoulders alone. Var should be capable of doing off sides and such but lived understanding of the game is clearly beyond their capabilities.
7.) 26 Jan 2025 17:40:19
Yeah, var should definitely be independent, they're just judging themselves at the minute.
Also the rule that they have to make an on field decision is stupid, if they didn't see it, just say I didn't see it clearly what can vary see? Because seemingly they just make a call even if they haven't properly seen it, var shrugs and goes yeah, you could see it that way and won't overturn it unless it's really really obviously wrong.
In rugby the ref says this is what I saw, the TMO says what they're seeing, they talk it through, everyone hears the reasoning and I don't think there's many complaints.
There's no transparency in why decisions are made in football. Just that was the correct decision today, the exact same thing might be different next week, but that will also be correct and if a manager complains, they get fined.
8.) 26 Jan 2025 19:58:17
Liverpool fan here too, we were chatting about this on the live chat and then after too - never a red card. Pure ridiculous, on the edge of the opposition 18 yard box so hardly goal scoring opportunity, he caught him, it happens - free kick, yellow card at worst - crazy it was a straight red
Crazier still VAR didn't tell him to go and look at it
Endo was took out in our match, truy an awful challenge. Their player got a yellow but honestly if you put those 2 clips together and ask what was the red and what was the yellow, there's not a soul would pick it as it was actually officiated, just a crazy red card that - Sherwood 100% right too.
9.) 26 Jan 2025 20:11:37
Hi Bill two different officials make two completely different decisions, I think that's life mate. What is needed in my opinion is one informed panel that rules on all controversial decisions, I guess a little bit like Tenis where each manager gets two challenges per game on ref and Var decisions.
10.) 26 Jan 2025 21:41:11
I've had a rethink.
I now think each club should have 7 challenges per season where the manager can ask for an independent panel to over rule var and the ref if they genuinely believe an injustice has been done, once each club has used its challenges for the season that's it.
I think this would limit the amount times over emotional managers complain about every decision that goes against their team but would give them the opportunity to question where they were genuinely convinced an injustice had happened. The managers would rely on their players to be honest with them so they didn't waste their challenges when a player knows full well he's blagging and trying to con the ref's but would allow incidents at both Liverpool and Arsenal yesterday to be rectified if the club had challenges left.
I think this would work well for everyone players, manager and refs and var too because if a manager chose not to use a challenge then they could hardly rant and rave throughout the post match interview as the obvious question would be " why didn't you use a challenge if your so convinced ".
Obviously the idea can be improved but something needs to change.
11.) 29 Jan 2025 12:10:15
Aye gunner62 that seems to be the issue though doesn't it, different officials making different decisions
As I said above, watching the Liverpool game we saw Endo just taken out. That looked brutal, yellow card thankfully he was ok but took a knee right in the jaw. Now you put that clip together with the Arsenal one and tell people one is yellow, one is red and ask them to pick and there ain't nobody picking the Arsenal one as the more dangerous of the two.
Though, maybe the PGMOL are just taking the p*ss out of us all - see they have included the kick to the ribs from Doku on MacAllister in their high and dangerous challenges discussion lol but fail to mention that the referee (Oliver) and the 2 VAR refs both agreed there was nothing in it and no penalty was given yet is the poster now for dangerous high tackles - couldn't make this up!
14 Jan 2025 16:32:16
Sharpie, I thought you might enjoy this guy's take on tuchel:
1.) 14 Jan 2025 19:12:32
Oh dear.
2.) 15 Jan 2025 08:24:17
?? He's not happy is he? Strangely, after watching all of that, I still don't know why he doesn't want a foreign manager. Is it because he doesn't want to work overtime? haha.
21 Dec 2024 00:00:57
Not arsenal related, but just what on earth is wrong with referees?
Ipswich’s Liam Delap is suspended for tomorrow’s game following Matheus Cunha’s assault on an Ipswich staff member. Delap was not involved in the altercation.
Delap was booked in the tunnel following Town's last minute win at Wolves last weekend - his fifth yellow of the campaign - meaning he will serve a one-game suspension this weekend.
"I spoke to the referee after the press conference and he said that there's a rule that if there's a fracas on the pitch then somebody from both teams has to be booked. Somebody else will have to check that up to see if it's true or not, but I'll take him at face value on that, " explained McKenna.
"I've watched back the incident, I was in and around it at the time, and I don't see anything particular untoward from our players. But Liam got booked within that. "
1.) 21 Dec 2024 09:32:52
IF true, which I'm not at all sure it is, then it's a crazy rule and ne needs addressing. If anyone is going to be singled out it should be the manager as they are responsible for controlling their players behaviour.
2.) 21 Dec 2024 17:50:38
Yeah, seems like a bloody stupid rule, I agree, how can it be fair to punish both teams even if only one is at fault.
It seems too stupid to be true, but McKenna would get in trouble and not really gain anything if he just made up the ref told him that, or the ref would get in trouble if he just made that rule up to tell McKenna.
16 Oct 2024
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Arsenal Player Sightings page entitled, Szcz?sny treating playing for Barca the same as Sunday league, couple of pints and a fag and I'm ready to go.
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18 Jul 2024 19:59:04
Anyone seen that video of Nuno Tavares and his dogs? To put it mildly, that guy is really, really weird.
1.) 18 Jul 2024 23:52:22
My dog licks my face, but that clip is hella weird! I wish I hadn't googled it. Should have just taken you at your word about him being a weirdo!
#edenkilledmybuzz #COYG.
2.) 19 Jul 2024 03:00:40
Sooo creepy, time to ship him out.
25 Mar 2025 23:39:07
I forgot there was more! ?
"I remember Angel coming up and saying, ‘An offer from Manchester United has come in. Maybe we will be a little more financially secure’. But we fought about it, ” she told Los Angeles de la Manana.
“I told him, not a chance, he could go on his own. ‘No, come on. Let’s go’, he replied.
“There was a lot of money involved, and afterwards, the Spanish were calling us peseteros (people only interested in money) . And they were right! If you are working for a company and the competition comes along and offers to pay you double, you take it! ”
“I didn’t want to go to Manchester because at that moment in time, I was friends with Gianinna Maradona, who was married to [Sergio] Aguero, and we flew from Madrid to his house in Manchester to pay him a visit for two or three days when Angel had a few days off at Real Madrid, ” she said.
“It was horrible! All of it was horrible, we went to the house and we were like. ‘See you later guys, we’re out of here’. When we left, I said to him, ‘Go to any country – except England’. Anyway, one year later and there we were in England and it was horrible, a sh*thole. ”
“You’re walking down the street and you don’t know if they’re going to kill you or what, ” she added. “The food’s disgusting. All the girls are all dolled up to the nines, perfectly made-up and there’s me with my hair in a bun and with no make-up on. ”.
25 Mar 2025 23:12:26
Argentinian? She probably felt the same as Di Maria's misses
"Manchester is the WORST. Everything is horrible in Manchester. ” ?⬇️ “We lived in Madrid and Ángel played for the best club in the world. We were good, perfect weather, great food. and suddenly this proposal from Manchester came. "
31 Aug 2024 13:15:09
Yes, many thanks! Very much appreciated!
{Ed002's Note - You are welcome.}
31 Aug 2024 00:01:01
Seems like a very good deal, still think we're a bit short if injuries crop up, but fingers crossed.
Chelsea are weird, ship out Sterling just to sign Sancho.
23 Aug 2024 20:58:08
I think it's a great move, he needs to be playing to get his confidence back and couldn't ask for a better place than somewhere he's familiar.
He's barely going to play here to build any confidence or rhythm here.
Nwaneri may even have gone above him in terms of who would get any available minutes for a run out.
Hopefully it goes well for him.
25 Apr 2025 11:05:19
Hopefully both of them lose to Bodo/ Glimt that will be funniest imo.
25 Apr 2025 11:03:50
Hopefully they both do well Bill. It's getting depressing when you've witnessed a player's whole career and still remember them as a 16 year old breaking through and now they're a manager!
24 Apr 2025 20:09:05
Is he? I thought I saw there were talks over an extension. I want him gone personally.
24 Apr 2025 20:04:19
Jack Vs Aaron last game of the season.
17 Apr 2025 16:09:18
I was glad it was Saliba and not Kiwior who made the mistake. Saliba has lots of credit in the bank so it's pretty easy to forgive him, Kiwior would have got slaughtered. Hopefully do Saliba good too, a not very costly reality check so he's not so casual again.