Lemar also in!

Latest news I've seen news saying we put in a 3rd bid and but the Sun says he will sign. Not sure what the exact news is but it seems we are serious and think we will get him. I like him a lot. A wee bit more than Mahrez as I've noted earlier. A bit more pace and power than Mahrez. But I'd love to have either.

The question is has AW learnt his lesson and is now a new man. Will anything be any different on Friday 11th August?

Will we all be thinking wow what a team or will we all be wondering when we're going to lose our first game and what will then follow?

Interesting times ahead.......................

Really? Like City have been tigers over the last few seasons! Its nothing to do with fight, but all about money. Give him his reputed demand of 400k a week and see how he'll kiss that Arsenal badge.

Paddy Power here, borrowing Bernard's computer. I've just made a note never to employ Decaf as one of my odds-setters.

One things for sure we should be top of the league after we thrash Leicester on the opening day of the season.

I'm unsure how sure it is we'll thrash Leicester. I'd be happy with a one goal win.

Indeed. His wage demands were too much for Bayern. If it was about anything apart from.money he would be with them now.

Me too. In the Premier League the idea that we should thrash anybody is fanciful.

I thought England might need a 400 lead to be certain of the win, but it quite literally turned out easier than that. Although most of the good fortune went to Root's team, South Africa were well short. And they weren't even playing with ze handbrake on.

City probably need him more than we do, so maybe they will cough up the appalling salary and a juicy transfer fee. I hope so anyway.

Alrighty then....

Stick to the dominoes in the church hall , high stakes poker is never going to be your forte .

I reckon there is a bit of wriggle room , they haven't quite got us over the barrel .

Talks stall and we have Sanchez for another year not ideal ; but Citee with the biggest budget in the world are also going nowhere if they don't strengthen so their need to buy is on a par with our need to offload .

They offer 50 ...we say 80 ...and settle for 58 .... think of it with that extra 8 million we can search for a replacement for Sanogo .

Yes, for 8 mil we could even get the young French midfield maestro, Ouesta Monet.

I'm not THAT bothered about Sanchez. He's been great for us but I don't love him and find him quite annoying sometimes - there is something about the downward turn of his mouth that I find unprepossessing as well as that habit of scrunching up his shorts at free-kicks. Hoy is right - choosing City over Bayern tells you everything about his ambition which is largely to put as many pesos in his account before returning to a comfortable retirement as an icon in Chile like Zamorano and Salas before him. They come. They go. Only players I would be sad to see leave now are Ramsey, Iwobi, and Giroud - and the latter only because it makes me and my son laugh when Mrs Daz says "oh look there's Olivier Giroud" when she sees him on TV during games.

Funny. how nobody is discussing Özil!

Quinton de Kock should surely be flying Sopwith Camels over Flanders - he seems to have jumped eras.

Thats an interesting observation. Mesut finished the season quite badly and it seems funny how everyone is talking about sanchez but not Özil leaving. He's a funny player Özil, i don't know wether he's overhyped or over rated or under appreciated. He will always have an element who does like him.

I think he will sign a new contract and if he doesn't i'm not really fussed if he went. If sanchez doesn't go this summer i think he could sign a new contract during the season. Hell be 30 not this December but one after and next summer he won't be getting 4 year 300k a week contract offers then if he's about to turn 30

Hearing really good things about the young Lithuanian Spünkit Awåe but I think Chelsea might be in for him.

Chelsea's new German signing is an Arsenal fan. I was quite impressed with Rudiger when he played in the Confederations Cup.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/ ... l-10741310

you know Johnny Boy's views on cricket and with him in mind I watched half an hour of gaelic football this morning ...... quite good viewing can't help thinking it would be better if they had a few rules .

Yes if somebody really wanted to spoil John's birthday a present of a book of cricket poems would probably do the trick.

It is hard not to let the sillier side of my mind get the better of me over that name. Must have been a trial for him at school - almost as uncomfortable as playing Moeen on a bunsen.

Yes, once again Wenger has failed miserably in the transfer market. Even if he signs the Brazilian prodigy Sheeton Leggs, as is being widely rumoured, that will not compensate for letting Chelski get to Spunkit first.

Is that the same Rudiger who collapsed in mortal agony in the penalty area after Hernandez tickled his belly?

Not sure I understand what you're getting at. It can't be an insinuation that he was acting, as Germans don't do that. The conclusive proof for that being Michael Caine, the greatest actor in the history of the world, was born in Rotherhithe which isn't in Germany.

Yes I watched that as well - pleased to see the Wicks sneak past the Meaths by a slender 6.2 x 39 (x = sin y) against 9 (6.2 π)

Sets up a grand auld final against The Burrens - I'm just after packing a rasher sandwich and my she-wee for the train.

Indeed. You should be on the Sky Sports coverage to explain it to your fellow Saxons, Daz.

More importantly, Cork won the Munster Hurling Championship yesterday.

Young Sheeton is apparently desperate to play for Guardiola (or as he's sometimes known: plus image rights) so I could see Wenger making a sneaky move for the emerging Vilnius striker Noend Produkt.

Neutrals are describing it as a huge múscraige of justice...

Although strictly speaking I'm not all THAT Saxon as my great-aunts discovered to their chagrin when they tried to do a family tree for my gran's 80th in search of some blue blood...

You're a bit of a Celt so, I take it?

There were some "travellers" a few of whom ended up on the gibbet and also jews. All in all not what they wanted although I was quite pleased at the time as it enhanced my cosmopolitan pretensions. On my dad's side though it was solid northern grit although I think they made their way to Lancashire from Wales originally.

Luckily I don't really care about any of these ethnofictions. For me it is usually better to look at whether somebody is a *%^@ or not than where their grandparents are from.

Unless obviously it is about the number of foreign imports in domestic sport where I become a blood-and-soil Nazi.

Very happy for you personally. Wish nothing but the best for you there. How is it coming back? Noticeable changes or pretty much the same?

The Graham legacy? Even though he managed Sperz, most on here I know and I would say all, because I can't remember anyone saying a bad word about Graham. Maybe they have but I don't recall. I think Graham's place in Arsenal history depends on what generation you are. If you were old enough to be there for the '89 title, etc. then he's firmly a legendary manager. If you weren't, then I'm guessing he's remembered a little less fondly. How much? Not sure, but not as much as those that were there in '89, '91, Cup Winners Cup.

http://www.gunnerstown.com/arsenal/2017 ... is-legacy/

Hodd, is Joe Willock one of yours?
http://www.football.london/arsenal-fc/p ... e-13309391