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Abu · **#299961**

AmericanGooner wrote:

warrior wrote:

Yaya Sanogo departs

Arsenal have released 24-year old French forward Yaya Sanogo from the club. He becomes player number 7 to leave the club this season.

Why didn't we give him some of that Sanchez money to stay? Wenger out!!

LOL

Bernard1 · **#299962**

bromley gooner wrote:

Bernard wrote:

I take next to no interest in the Tour de France or other cycling events. The only cyclists I could name are Eddie Mercx from long ago (not sure if that was how his name was spelled as I didn't look it up before doing the post), Bradley Wiggins and some bloke called Lance (was it Armstrong) who was later found to have been taking performance enhancing drugs which tarnished his reputation. I assume there must be some bloke called Froome, but it was only reading your post that alerted me to him.

Yet why in some years does the route cover areas outside France? I'm sure there was a year not that long ago where bits of it were in England, or is that the only example of it not being wholly in France?

EDIT: Apparently one year a stage of it was in Holland as well.

Morning Bernard. Yes, a bloke called Chris Froome is riding for team Sky. He has won 3 of the last 4 tours, an event that is the pinnacle for road cycling. I must say I am surprised you haven't even heard of him.
I very much enjoy the sport, which once you understand what's going on (it took me a while) can be very compelling. Actually, aside from the football and the more interesting cricket contests, it's probably my favourite sport viewing.

So am I if he's won three of the last four. Suppose it just shows how I mentally switch off immediately I hear anything to do with cycling mentioned.

So what's the issue with parts of the tour sometimes being in countries other than France?

Lincoln gooner · **#299963**

Bernard wrote:

So am I if he's won three of the last four. Suppose it just shows how I mentally switch off immediately I hear anything to do with cycling mentioned.

So what's the issue with parts of the tour sometimes being in countries other than France?

I don't know how that started, but the Tour has visited most of the countries neighbouring France, usually only for 1 or 2 stages over a 3 week race. Being a professional sport, I presume that it's good for publicity, with the sport being very popular across continental Europe.

Wilts-Gooner · **#299964**

Sounds like Lacazette is happening then.

Good signing in addition to Sanchez.

Poor signing if he is to replace Sanchez.

Daz · **#299965**

Darren wrote:

Wilts-Gooner wrote:

Can't wait for the Kroenke out planes next season, far more interesting than anything that happens on the field.

:7laughter:

Dunno about you but I still quite enjoy going, watching the team and having a laugh with those around me. Always a good day out and the day it stops being that is when I'll stop going.

Noted post number for about five months into season when your zen-off with Hoy comes to a sharp end.

Anyway listen. guys, I really get it. You're just too calm and sensible to wet the bed over a football team and it's not - you're quite correct - like living under siege in Aleppo. Some people take the whole thing a bit far and are embarrassing. Perhaps they should try a bit of sudoku, make a few lists about long-gone players, some gentle puns involving types of cheese, and express their lust for big bosomed stars of the screen. It might get the blood pressure down I agree.

Doesn't alter the fact Wenger's an arrogant stubborn egotistical d******* and the board are an absolute bunch of incompetent *%^@.

Daz · **#299966**

Peter Stilton.

AmericanGooner · **#299967**

Well, seems we have our striker. A few years too late but at least its a significant buy for a much needed position. If we get the winger and LB, and manage to keep Bellerin, we're going to have a squad that has skill and a shed load of pace down the flanks.

bubblechris · **#299968**

AmericanGooner wrote:

Well, seems we have our striker. A few years too late but at least its a significant buy for a much needed position. If we get the winger and LB, and manage to keep Bellerin, we're going to have a squad that has skill and a shed load of pace down the flanks.

Are you psychic? Any links?

Hazuki · **#299969**

bubblechris wrote:

AmericanGooner wrote:

Well, seems we have our striker. A few years too late but at least its a significant buy for a much needed position. If we get the winger and LB, and manage to keep Bellerin, we're going to have a squad that has skill and a shed load of pace down the flanks.

Are you psychic? Any links?

http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/40438547

Bernard1 · **#299970**

bubblechris wrote:

AmericanGooner wrote:

Well, seems we have our striker. A few years too late but at least its a significant buy for a much needed position. If we get the winger and LB, and manage to keep Bellerin, we're going to have a squad that has skill and a shed load of pace down the flanks.

Are you psychic? Any links?

Isn't the bloke from Schalke a left back, or LB as American called the position?

Bernard1 · **#299971**

Daz wrote:

Peter Stilton.

Tony Edams?

bubblechris · **#299972**

Hazuki wrote:

bubblechris wrote:

Are you psychic? Any links?

http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/40438547

As I thought, more regurgitated bolloxs..........

Hazuki · **#299973**

bubblechris wrote:

Hazuki wrote:

http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/40438547

As I thought, more regurgitated bolloxs..........

Ornstein is as reliable as they come when it comes to confirming transfers that are nearly done. He rarely breaks any stories early, but if he's saying it's close it probably is close.

bubblechris · **#299974**

Hazuki wrote:

bubblechris wrote:

As I thought, more regurgitated bolloxs..........

Ornstein is as reliable as they come when it comes to confirming transfers that are nearly done. He rarely breaks any stories early, but if he's saying it's close it probably is close.

I'd love that to be true....................

warrior · **#299975**

Arsenal have released 19-year old Swedish defender Kristopher Da Graca from the club.
He becomes player number 8 to leave the club this season.

Lincoln gooner · **#299976**

Bernard wrote:

Daz wrote:

Peter Stilton.

Tony Edams?

Emmental Eboue?

Darren · **#299977**

Daz wrote:

Darren wrote:

Dunno about you but I still quite enjoy going, watching the team and having a laugh with those around me. Always a good day out and the day it stops being that is when I'll stop going.

Noted post number for about five months into season when your zen-off with Hoy comes to a sharp end.

Anyway listen. guys, I really get it. You're just too calm and sensible to wet the bed over a football team and it's not - you're quite correct - like living under siege in Aleppo. Some people take the whole thing a bit far and are embarrassing. Perhaps they should try a bit of sudoku, make a few lists about long-gone players, some gentle puns involving types of cheese, and express their lust for big bosomed stars of the screen. It might get the blood pressure down I agree.

Doesn't alter the fact Wenger's an arrogant stubborn egotistical d******* and the board are an absolute bunch of incompetent *%^@.

I absolutely will change my stance on this as soon as we lose a game.

bubblechris · **#299978**

warrior wrote:

Arsenal have released 19-year old Swedish defender Kristopher Da Graca from the club.
He becomes player number 8 to leave the club this season.

Dragging the bottom of the barrel aren't you?

Should we be interested in anyone that wasn't in last years squad or like Sanogo used to be?

Has the tea lady left?

Bernard1 · **#299979**

bromley gooner wrote:

Bernard wrote:

Tony Edams?

Emmental Eboue?

Gouda Strachan?

EDIT: Sage Diaby?

Lincoln gooner · **#299980**

Bernard wrote:

bromley gooner wrote:

Emmental Eboue?

Gouda Strachan?

EDIT: Sage Diaby?

'Monterey Jack' Wilshere?

Lincoln gooner · **#299981**

bubblechris wrote:

warrior wrote:

Arsenal have released 19-year old Swedish defender Kristopher Da Graca from the club.
He becomes player number 8 to leave the club this season.

Dragging the bottom of the barrel aren't you?

Should we be interested in anyone that wasn't in last years squad or like Sanogo used to be?

Has the tea lady left?

You can be a right miserable sod bubblechris. Lighten up. Now where are your cheese-based footballers to give us a bit of entertainment?

old man of hoy · **#299982**

Daz wrote:

Peter Stilton.

Camembert Trautmann

old man of hoy · **#299983**

Darren wrote:

Daz wrote:

Noted post number for about five months into season when your zen-off with Hoy comes to a sharp end.

Anyway listen. guys, I really get it. You're just too calm and sensible to wet the bed over a football team and it's not - you're quite correct - like living under siege in Aleppo. Some people take the whole thing a bit far and are embarrassing. Perhaps they should try a bit of sudoku, make a few lists about long-gone players, some gentle puns involving types of cheese, and express their lust for big bosomed stars of the screen. It might get the blood pressure down I agree.

Doesn't alter the fact Wenger's an arrogant stubborn egotistical d******* and the board are an absolute bunch of incompetent *%^@.

I absolutely will change my stance on this as soon as we lose a game.

Why wait until then? Best to get into the negative swing of things well before any games are played. It sets you up nicely for the season ahead and the awful predictability of underperforming in the league against small-time, under-spending clubs like Chelsea, United, City, Liverpool and Spurs. An early exit from FA Cup-Half Empty competition will feel all that much better too.

Decaf · **#299984**

old man of hoy wrote:

Daz wrote:

Peter Stilton.

Camembert Trautmann

Diego marscapone?
Duncan Gruyere?
Freddie Limberger

Shall I go on?

Decaf · **#299985**

bubblechris wrote:

AmericanGooner wrote:

Well, seems we have our striker. A few years too late but at least its a significant buy for a much needed position. If we get the winger and LB, and manage to keep Bellerin, we're going to have a squad that has skill and a shed load of pace down the flanks.

Are you psychic? Any links?

I doubt there are many link, sensory or esp.

old man of hoy · **#299986**

Decaf wrote:

old man of hoy wrote:

Camembert Trautmann

Diego marscapone?
Duncan Gruyere?
Freddie Limberger

Shall I go on?

Santi Camborzola

Hazuki · **#299987**

Brien Laudrup?

Bernard1 · **#299988**

Le Saint-Raymond Parlour?

old man of hoy · **#299989**

Hazuki wrote:

Brien Laudrup?

Wish he'd joined us when we were at Highbrie...

Hazuki · **#299990**

old man of hoy wrote:

Hazuki wrote:

Brien Laudrup?

Wish he'd joined us when we were at Highbrie...

I can't believe Wenger didn't sign N'golo Comté before he went to Leicester.

Bernard1 · **#299991**

Hazuki wrote:

old man of hoy wrote:

Wish he'd joined us when we were at Highbrie...

I can't believe Wenger didn't sign N'golo Comté before he went to Leicester.

An even bigger miss was the Chelsea legend Gianfranco Gorgonzola.

goonerguru · **#299992**

Who could ever forget Geoff Seriously Strong.

Zed · **#299993**

What....no Mozzarella or Cheddar?

:1laughter:

kiwipete · **#299994**

bromley gooner wrote:

Good morning all. So the transfer window opens today - and I'm sick of it already.
But also today one of my favourite sporting events, the Tour de France begins, so I'll be settling down to 3 weeks of that and hoping that when it ends we've done some significant business.

Gidday Brom ... I like the Tour de France ..... the scenery is great

and it's somehow nice sitting back in the comfort of a lounge chair with a coffee and a muffin watching a bunch of guys straining ligaments , lungs etc etc as they make their way up the foothills of the Pyrenees .

Transfer window Lacezette will join tomorrow , next week , next month , next year .... we had the same last year with Benzema .

Lincoln gooner · **#299995**

kiwipete wrote:

Gidday Brom ... I like the Tour de France ..... the scenery is great

and it's somehow nice sitting back in the comfort of a lounge chair with a coffee and a muffin watching a bunch of guys straining ligaments , lungs etc etc as they make their way up the foothills of the Pyrenees .

Gidday Kiwi. Agreed, love the mountain stages when these blokes really have to push to the limit. I also enjoy these survival type programmes where someone is freezing their nuts off in the arctic or alternatively fending off enormous insects in some godforsaken jungle with 100% humidity. Watching other people suffer (when it's their choice of course) is always entertaining.
Bernard, just to keep you up to date, today the Tour de France is leaving Germany and heading for Belgium :icon_mrgreen1:

old man of hoy · **#299996**

Gaz from Oz wrote:

Hoy will not be available for comment for the rest of the weekend because I expect he will be at the Messi wedding. Then next week upon his return he will be busy with the submission regarding my knighthood...

I can see you now at the Palace, badly bib and tuckered, Sir Les Patterson style, telling Liz and Phil they are too old for the job and asking for an update on their KPIs and Business Plan.

Gaz from Oz · **#299997**

old man of hoy wrote:

Gaz from Oz wrote:

Hoy will not be available for comment for the rest of the weekend because I expect he will be at the Messi wedding. Then next week upon his return he will be busy with the submission regarding my knighthood...

I can see you now at the Palace, badly bib and tuckered, Sir Les Patterson style, telling Liz and Phil they are too old for the job and asking for an update on their KPIs and Business Plan.

You are now starting to share the dream. I knew I would get through if I persisted. It has not gone unnoticed by me that you refer to them as Liz and Phil - I smell a family connection here. Cousins or second cousins or just close friends. Or did you meet them at the fox hunt - Sir Chipps is that you?

bubblechris · **#299998**

"Arsenal tell Alexis Sanchez he will not be joining Manchester City as Arsene Wenger refuses to sell stars to rivals

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... z4leq44pmf

Choice 1 AW sticks to his guns and refuses to sell Sanchez. We lose £50million and Sanchez sits out the early games.

Choice 2 AW is forced to sell Sanchez and AW leaves the club in protest.

What would you prefer?

Bernard1 · **#299999**

bromley gooner wrote:

Gidday Kiwi. Agreed, love the mountain stages when these blokes really have to push to the limit. I also enjoy these survival type programmes where someone is freezing their nuts off in the arctic or alternatively fending off enormous insects in some godforsaken jungle with 100% humidity. Watching other people suffer (when it's their choice of course) is always entertaining.
Bernard, just to keep you up to date, today the Tour de France is leaving Germany and heading for Belgium :icon_mrgreen1:

If it's leaving Germany the quality of the tracks will fall. Let's hope we beat Chile later today to make up for it. Talking of Chile, I didn't know they had stages of the Tour de France in South America. I know the Amazon jungle doesn't extend to Chile, but when does it go to South America so the bike riders can spend their time "fending off enormous insects in some godforsaken jungle with 100% humidity." The only jungle I've heard of in France is the Calais jungle, which was simply a name given to a migrant camp there.

EDIT: Actually I've just had a brilliant idea. Move the whole bike ride to Germany and call it the 'Reise von Deutschland'. The uphill bit could be done in the Alps instead of the Pyrenees. Add a bit of class to it.

Bernard1 · **#300000**

bubblechris wrote:

"Arsenal tell Alexis Sanchez he will not be joining Manchester City as Arsene Wenger refuses to sell stars to rivals

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... z4leq44pmf

Choice 1 AW sticks to his guns and refuses to sell Sanchez. We lose £50million and Sanchez sits out the early games.

Choice 2 AW is forced to sell Sanchez and AW leaves the club in protest.

What would you prefer?

Number 2. Losing £50m so he can join City next summer on a free transfer looks pure idiocy to me especially, unless something quite astonishing happens, as I doubt we'll win the Premier League whether Sanchez stays or goes. I'd say that even if Wenger doesn't leave the club in protest, although that would be an added bonus.

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