Özil, Xhaka and Mustafi

We need to move those 3 on before we truly progress. Their fees and wages have stifled our progress over the last few years and until we get the albatross that is them off our shoulders I can’t see us being competitive again.

Their weekly cost is close to 600k a week, is the output of their performances justifying that cost.

Not on your nelly

With current state of affairs in America resembling a 3rd world Junta regime. This is what the first hand witness account is probably going to sound like if it ever happens.

"a loss, a loss, my kingdom for a Liverpool loss"
If Richard III was a gooner.

Cruising around the news outlets before I adjourn to the shed and create some engineering masterpiece .

85% of all Everton revenue goes on salaries ...how gross ...no wonder so many clubs are struggling to make ends meet .

Oxford University has banned clapping because it could cause anxiety

........ any applause must be made by sign language " Jazz hands " ...can't wait for that to arrive at the Emirates

To be honest my anxiety levels go up seeing these two when I make a post.

I'll be the biggest 'appy 'Ammer supporter for one day.

Hopefully the first of at least 2 or 3 signings this window. One can hope.
https://metro.co.uk/2020/01/29/arsenal- ... wsnow-feed

You have your head up your ass as usual.

All three are assets and have greatly improved under Arteta. We need them now and need to replace them before talking about getting rid

Wtf is wrong with you, Muppet?

Oh don't think I can't see through your sneaky plan Brom ....... you and G7 are trying to push my anxiety levels off the scale so I quit the forum .

Seriously mate. It’s not even fun anymore, it’s like tormenting a toddler or kitten or something

Mustafi, remains a liability and is gifting goals all over the place. Where the *%^@ is your brain

Özil as far as I’m aware still hasnt created or contributed a single goal or assist since Arteta joined. It was refreshing to watch willock try to run at that opposing box on Monday, something Özil doesn’t do.

Xhaka, Arteta has improved Xhaka by telling him he’s not allowed in the final third because he’s too much of a liability. You won’t get anywhere near a title winning side with a bog average player like that in your squad. End of.


Anyway nevermind all that! managed to get all the foreigners out of the country yet ? how’s that going for you ?

You're embarrassing yourself.

Hardly, If i did I’d only be enjoying your esteemed company then also

Today in 1983 Match gave you the chance to win a week of training with Uncle Bob.

https://www.arsenal.com/

We finally get a CB in this window .......... about time too

Best of luck to Pablo Mari.

yess get in

Just ordered my new Pablo Mari away shirt to go along with my Denis Suarez and Dani Ceballos ones.

I see Suarez is at Celta Vigo now. I was wondering what had happened to him after he left us.

Loan with an option to buy for £8m - looks like Raul and Edu got their way.

Aren’t they running the place? I would have thought the reason they are employed is to get their way? Who’s way is the alternative?

I would think a lot of our transfer future rides on the success of Pépé. If he bombs good luck convincing anyone to spend big for quite a while and loan to buy punts will be the preferred option for the next few windows.

To add to your prized collection of Xhaka, Özil & Mustafi?

i'm a bit optimistic about this transfer because Arteta has a wee bit of history with the player when Arteta was at City. Plus we are desperate.

How Mustafi is still an Arsenal player is astounding. His injury saved him. The guy has 9 lives.

I think had Ramsey still been with us he'd shine under Arteta's system. Too bad.

Sky now reporting that we have made a late bid to sign left back Cédric Soares from Southampton.

Ornstein saying £5m loan fee and pole position to sign once he’s a free agent in the summer.
For 4 months worth of player I’d have thought the £5m could be put to better use.
What loan fee are we extracting from clubs when we loan them our players? £5m is huge. Apparently Inter only paid £1m for the same player at the same stage last season.

He provides cover, great, but £5m!!!

The alternative was the Flamengo way which was surely a permanent transfer or a loan with obligation to buy.

Surely it’s not a loan. That doesn’t make sense. For 6 months ? Plus his wages !

Why would saints insist on a loan if they know he’s out of contract.

Financially we are all over the place at Arsenal these days. Özil and Mustafi take 450 grand a week, do nothing yet the club can’t afford to sign a back up right back.

Ah, so he’s a right back. Sky have altered the reporting here. I had been wondering why we were going for another left back.

Meanwhile Southampton have taken another right back on loan from Tottenham, presumably to fill the gap. And presumably not for £5m.

Ah, i see. I misunderstood. Apologies. There’s a lot of talk at the moment about how Sanlehi has taken control and the dealing with super agents and such.

The numbers don’t quite seem to stack up do they? If it was 5m inclusive of wages...? Still a bit odd. He can play both full back slots so will provide real cover and hopefully quality, but honestly I’d never even heard of him! And of course he’s injured at the moment, out for 3 weeks

What?!

Like Tierney then? I guess that the winter break will help then if it is really 3 weeks.

Yes that Tierney 3 weeks was totally inaccurate & then of course it turns out he really is injury prone. So do you think he will get on the park at all for the rest of the loan period or is he just the same type of dud.

It is a bizarre signing.

Probably around 7 million in fee and wages for a 6 month loan for a player who’s injured for 3 weeks who even some saints fans were unsure about.

Is Maitland Niles that bad a back up right back?

Who’s the guys agent. Another mate of sanelhi

It seems to ignore that if he impresses he’ll go to another club as a free agent

The signing of Mari and the speculation around the Saints player got me musing today on the days when transfers were a much less frequent occurrence.

As a kid, every summer I would scan the back pages of the papers for news of a signing. And it was usually just the signing; very little pre-speculation. Supermac for the princely and exact sum of £333,333. I can't remember if was 33p as well. But I did buy the wrist sweatbands.

These days the number of comings and goings at a football club must be murder for the commissionaire and the tea ladies. Not to mention security.

Ah, nostalgia is a wonderful, if slightly foggy thing.

With Sanllehi allegedly being so strongly linked to agents, if Raul wasn’t so strongly moralistic one could possibly suspect he was earning a few extra bob on the deal.

Oh well, at least that’s made impossible by Sanllehi being such a trustworthy sort of chap.

I do wonder about this. It’s what was being suggested when Mslintat left that after Gazidis went the model changed from a strong scouting strategy to essentially relying on Sanelhi and his contacts from his boardroom days at Barcelona. Ie a dictator model based on acquisition of power. All favours and back slaps

In my day to day business I see Sanelhi types all the time. Here today gone tomorrow and never have to deal with the consequences. He wasn’t my favourite but i prefer a gazidis type who at least seemed to want to run a decent ship.

I get the impression all the new lot like Edu, Sanelhi and Vinai are just easy stooges for Kroenke not to run the club properly.

Here you go. Feb. Winter break explained. There will still be matches played, but they'll be split over the break time.

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Maybe the contract includes an option to buy that if exercised, would knock £5-7m off a pre-agreed purchase price. Or £7m is the maximum possible amount based on how many times he plays and Arsenal hitting top 4. What I'd be certain of is that whoever is reporting that figure, has no clue what the clauses might be with regard to payment.

Whether it's this guy or another, we probably need another RB anyway. Maitland-Niles could be viewed as a longer term backup for Pépé should he get injured. Rather than what happens usually when we push an attacking midfielder or wrong-footed spare striker to the right as a replacement. Not that I've seen much evidence to suggest Niles can perform there but thought that was his favoured position before becoming a backup for Bellerin.

P.s. I always had a problem with Wenger's failed experiments of pushing unused Attacking Midfielders out to the right of a front 3 so would prefer we have like-for-like replacements.

My annual anxiety about our unbeaten season wasn't so crazy after all.