Two More Signings – Is That It For Arsenal?
Aug 30th, 2016 by 'holic
The last ‘first day back to work after the bank holiday‘ of the year. I’m not sure I have spent many in the past smiling throughout. Whilst they were hardly unexpected the signings of Lucas Perez and Shkodran Mustafi were finally confirmed on Arsenal.com and these two players will fill obvious gaps in the squad.
I cannot recall having seen the attacker we have snapped up from Deportivo La Coruna for around ยฃ17m but I like what I have read from those who have. His most important role at Arsenal will be to provide competition for Olivier Giroud as leader of the attack. So adaptable is he though that he might well find himself playing on the left hand side of the French international. He has a good assist record as well as having enjoyed his best ever return of seventeen goalsย last season.
At 27 he is an improving player who has been on target in big matches. There is likely to be a period of transition for him but I doubt it will take too long for the likes of Mesut Ozil, Santi Cazorla, and Granit Xhaka to learn where he likes to receive the ball. With Danny Welbeck set to return in the new year we may well have got real options for the front line for the first time in a number of years.
When you see Chelsea scrambling around looking for a central defender or two in the last twenty-four hours of the transfer window you may understand what good work we have done to secure a World Cup winning German international for considerably less than the price of a John Stones. We were an injury to Laurent Koscielny or Rob Holding away from having to field a full-back or a youth team defender in the Premier League.
Mustafi will have Per Mertesacker and Mesut Ozil to ease him into the squad and the form of Holding and Koscielny means he too will have a little time to adjust to the pace and physicality of the Premier League (and what does that say about young Holding, by the way). The fact that we knew he was coming allowed the club to offer Calum Chambers a season on loan at a club where he could get regular football and develop further. I thought he was improving as a central defender and expect he will prove it at Middlesbrough and return, possibly to replace Mertesacker next summer?
Talk of loans brings up the somewhat surprising news that Jack Wilshere too has been offered the chance of a year away from the club. I understand totally the thinking behind it. Jack has to prove he can spend most of a season fit and play regularly to a high standard in a tough league. He may want to having lost his place in Sam Allardyce’s England squad. However we have invested hugely in getting him to be the player he is today, and while he might not figure as a first choice in the midfield we have put together in recent years we have so many injuries in that area that he will most certainly get opportunities, should he stay, to push his claims for a regular berth again. He has the quality. Has he got the durability?
Should Jack find himself temporarily elsewhere would we still be in the market for a last-day signing? Perhaps not in the congested central midfield spots, but maybe a wide player? We are still unclear who should fill these roles. With Joel Campbell gone, and further talk of a departure for Serge Gnabry, this is the likeliest area for any further acquisition. Or is it? Theo Walcott, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Alexis, Alex Iwobi, Jeff Reine-Adelaide, and cover from Lucas Perez, Santi Cazorla, and Aaron Ramsey. Arsene may feel, with some justification, that we have sufficient strength in depth there.
He will also know it is now potentially his Achilles heel.
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171 Responses to “Two More Signings – Is That It For Arsenal?”
Cheeky No 1?
we seem like a team now
seem
seam
sweet mother o fuck
we deserve it
cheers ‘hol
howdy ned
hope yer both well
In the pink, cba. Yourself, too, I trust.
If I was Jack, I would go abroad to a league where the technical standard was high but the physical demands are less punishing than in the Premiership. He needs a season of regular, injury-free football to build himself back up.
having a strange one meself
crazy behaviour when ye least expect it
*despairs*
Stay positive, cba. Think Xhaka to Perez to back to the net; Ozil to Sanchez to back of the net.
Hello cba ๐
Forgive my smile. Every time you acknowledge Ned I find myself crying out ‘Seagoon!’ ‘Bloodknock!’
*You have to be a certain age…
unfortunately
am not in the land of the moooooooooooooooooooooo cow
in the big city today
so dunno what’s gonna happen
That’s why you’re Goonerholic, Guv’nor.
herself went do lally
Indeed Ned. Where did that ‘holic come from? That was my post…
My stalker hasn’t the wit to use that moniker. ๐
Why is NBN in upper case,and cba in lower case, ??
Is that just in case. ??
i was born in the 60s
I’ve checked
and yes i qualify
over the wire
so you pensioners better stop
picking on me with yer oul nonsense
ned -do you remember all that stuff
m’lud – do you remember etc yada
ya 50s turnips
clive
hiya honey
how’s it hangin’ ?
I’m a Swede, not a turnip ๐
You know what they say about the ’60s, cba; if you can remember them you can’t have been there.
*rotates teeth*
And I had you as an ex-Beetnik. I’ll get my coat…
He’s fallen in the waaaterrrrr…
Rachel Riley should stay on Countdown (and the 8 Out of 10 Cats version) and stay off the football. Controversial?
17 hurdy gurdy
18 wha ?
have they all gone ?
.
now ,
let’s begin
Interesting interviews with the 2 new boys on the Arse website.
Perez says there was early contact from the Arse when the transfer window opened,which puts the lie to those on here who convinced themselves he was a panic buy.
That does not mean he was first choice in the pecking order,but what do we know about the internal workings at the Arse anyway.
He also intimated his preference was to play as Striker,but can play anywhere across the front if need be.
He is very quick,so Alexis will have another body to help him when pressing defenders high up the pitch,something old slow coach is incapable of.
Mustafi in his interview,says he is a very aggressive player,likes to get stuck in,polar opposite of Per,but in the Arsene tradition of ball playing central defenders,,he likes to use the ball when in possession,rather than just hoof it anywhere.
I do not believe AW would shell out 35 big ones for this bloke,to have him sitting on the bench.
I think Kos can look forward to forming a new partnership at the centre of our defence.
oops
turns out 50s all along
fuck off youngsters !
he’s a big ol boy , 54
hard as fuck
broad as a beam
Spirits rising and elbows bending just the way I like it ah ha.
Evening irish eyes are smiling,
long time since i have been called Honey.
A little known fact is that i am very fond of the Irish.
Back in the day when i was a callow youth,i was driving my first car,
[ an old rust bucket to be sure ] it was pouring with rain.
As i was driving along i suddenly noticed a lone tyre bouncing down the road ahead of me.
it took me a few seconds to realize it was one of mine.!!
i managed to stop the car at the side of the road,and retrieve the runaway tyre,but had no fucking idea how to re attach it.
After about 10 mins of sitting in the pouring rain like a stunned mullet,a car pulls up behind me,and a geezer gets out and asks me if all is okay.
I explain the situation to him,and without further ado he opens his boots,digs out a bag of tools and a wheel brace,and proceeds to somehow reattach my wheel..
By now of course,we are both like drowned rats,but he insists on following me to the nearest Garage to make sure i got there safely.
He wouldn’t take a penny for his troubles,but he did write his name and address on a piece of paper,and said in a lovely lilting Irish accent,
something i have never forgotten to this day,
” If you are ever over holidaying in the land of the leprechauns,look me up and you can buy me a beer. ”
Lovely lovely fella.
Another little know fact is that i was deflowered by a lovely young Irish vixen one Saturday afternoon in the service lift at Woolies at Golders Green.
I went out and played a blinder for the Ramblers the next day. !!
‘hol
yer arsehole filter ?
i got through no bother
Interesting times, Guvna, interesting times.
Mustafi, along with Sanchez, is the joint second highest signing we’ve made in the clubs history accordingly to Sky Sports. To think Wenger has spent north of 30m on both a CB and a DCM is quite extraordinary.
I think a very salient point about our 3 new signings has been how their individual circumstances have shaped them. Mustafi and Xhaka were immigrants. Mustafi & Perez had to tour Europe before eventually finding form with their clubs. They are all aggressive, possessed dominant leadership traits at their last clubs and have earned their stripes in getting moves to the Arsenal. The profiles of these players are entirely different to the ones who were given everything at such young ages and who have failed to deliver on their promise and still remain at the club. I think the 3 new signings will play in the first 11 and the bar will be raised even higher to those who wish to make this team. And that can only be for the greater good.
upgrade ?
Interesting, Joe,
and George Graham always said buy players who are on the way up – never in the way down.
Some paralells with the youngsters given everything too soon and those who have had to fight for it.
With Jack going on loan (and I really hope he eventually comes good with us), Jenks injured with knee and apparently shoulder knack, Gibbs in the reserves, Ramsey in and out of the treatment room for months at the time, The Ox still struggling for form, and Theo – well, let’s just hooe his improved start to the season is a sign of things to come – it seems as though the Great British experiment is all but over.
A tougher, hungrier breed is needed – and seems to be arriving.
cba,
you have to be an arsehole to get caught by the arsehole filter! ๐
Trev,
I think everyone wants to see a genuine talent like Jack blossom in the way it ought to. But its worrying considering his fitness and you’d hope he doesn’t become a story ala Diaby & Rosicky, players who had genuine world class talent as well. I think Ned’s point is relevant in this context because if he went abroad, he could play at a higher level of technical and tactical football with less propensity of getting poleaxed during a game. However I imagine that will never happen given that he has young children.
I really don’t think Rambo works as an 8 until he becomes more disciplined in getting back. Usually he’s only interested in going forward and almost plays as a second striker at times. Against the better teams, Cazorla is a better option in midfield imo. I think Xhaka – Cazorla – Ozil is the best midfield combo we have. These players won’t concede possession easily.
I think Gibbo is a very decent 2nd choice full back. And unlike others, I really feel Oxlade will become a top player if he learns to enjoy his football a bit more. So Walcott apart, there’s good reasons to remain optimistic about the British core. And if you throw in the new signings along with Sanchez, Ozil, Cech & Co then I feel we have every reason to feel optimistic and excited about the new season.
giroud|perez/theo/chuba (welbeck)
sanchez/iwobi
theo|ox|perez
ozil/(ramsey)
cazorla/jack/the jeff
xhaka/elnenny/coq
nacho/gibbs
koz/gabriel
mustafi/per/holding
hector/debuchy
cech/ospina
| means either one in the position depending, / means first/second choice (out injured). that’s 27 players including the injured two, not counting yaya sanogo or the corporal (still injured, him).
that’s a good squad, with a glaring weakness (no real backup for ozil if ramsey is injured and cazorla is alongside his position), if you will, in midfield. fortunately, with the sheer numbers in midfield, we can mix and match, but not to the best effect. if iwobi, the jeff, and chuba can step up, xhaka, mustafi and perez live up to their billing, and ramsey and welbeck come back healthy, we might even have a great squad. i think it does indicate jack needs to stay, given the number of games he will get with others out on sicknote.
i held me knees out and everything
better filter upgrade ?
?
(I will without doubt enjoy another game at The Arsenal and like the nervous unsocial aggravating cunt that I am probably just say a quick stout buying hello to yerself into the bargain to complete the set )
It’ll cheer me up anyway , ya big tart ?
Is that why they call it the ‘service’ lift, Clive? ๐
You can never have too much Rachel Riley, Cynic. I’d take her to Clive’s Woolies any day.
Sad about Jack, I saw him as one of that rare breed – the one-club man. At this stage of his career he should have been the automatic partner of Xhaka in midfield. If he does stay injury free (big IF), and gets a full season of game time, perhaps he will be ready to supplant the ageing Santi.
Still room for one more, imo. Griezmann would fill the RW position nicely, while simultaneously allowing us to ease several players off the payroll. Or we could stick with Theo, wish him well, and get off his back.
There you go, Clive/Trev, my sole reference to himself in this round. A bottle of HP18 on the bar for anyone prepared to toast Theo’s continued health and prosperity. ๐
Chris, I’ll join you in that toast! And Griezmann would be tits, but ain’t happening. Hence the toast ๐
Cheers H! I’m coming to the scummers game – September 10th. Hopefully see you then.
CANT
FUCKING
WAIT.
Up the Arse!
Clive@28: Woolies in the Golders Green Road had a dedicated lift for such services?
This may bring back come memories:
https://forgottenlondonwoolworths.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/p1000592.jpg
Though not what it was.
I am reminded of the Brian Clough line that it wasnโt the sex before a game that tired out his players, it was being up all night looking for it.
Holic did I get ‘moderated’ yesterday? My comment was meant as a light-hearted joke, I never have been a troll and never will be!
Anyway, happy transfer deadline day everyone. I can’t remember feeling this calm at this point of the season for a good few years. There’s a sense of the gaps in the squad being resolved, deficiencies that have been there for maybe three seasons (other more attentive holics may well put me right on that score).
Will we challenge for the title? Probably not but it now feels like we will definitely be a bother to the favourites!
Hello Porco. No ‘moderation’ here, and you are not caught in the spam filter either. It will remain one of life’s mysteries.
Esso, nooooooooooo, I’m missing that one! ๐
Let me know the next one you are up for. Have a great day.
I reckon we’ll be challenging, Porco, although there must be a better way of going about it than having our leading scorer on holiday for the first 3 games (so far) and giving our main rivals 5 points start.
Or maybe Holic, I started writing it and forgot to submit (highly likely especially when surrounded by females competing for my attention).
Chris, why not eh. The media are already falling over themselves for the prize of most sycophantic outlet towards Jose and Pep, it would be hilarious if we crept up on them through the back door and gave them a real scare from February to May.
Clive @28
I spent quite a bit of time around Golders Green in the early 70’s.
I used to bowl in the ten-pin league around the corner in Finchley Rd. and spent far too much time in both the Bull & Bush and Jack Straw’s Castle.
I don’t remember the Woolies there – unlucky for me it now seems!
UTA.
What a choice for Wilshere, Bournemouth or Palace.
“And would sir like to be eaten alive by alligators or pulled limb from limb by a team of horses?”
As I thought TH14 and DB10 have pulled out the legends game this Saturday.
Thierry Henry and Dennis Bergkamp have pulled out of the Arsenal Legends match set to take place at the Emirates next month. Itโs supposedly down to coaching duties.
I wonder how many of the crowd paid just to see one or both of these two. We certainly did. Shame and slightly underhand as they are still using their names on the websites.
Source is a blog (Dailycannon.com) but I’ve seen it in several places.
Never mind, you’ve always got someone like Brian Sparrow to cheer on.
As Henry is working for Belgium in an international week, I think he has a valid sick note from mother. Dunno about Dennis though.
Indeed. There is a conspiracy theory working round the away fans that it’s Henry’s punishment to Wenger for not letting him do the U18 job and work for Sky but I think you have it right.
People love a conspiracy but I reckon conspiracy theories are all a conspiracy to make people think mundane things are important, so they can sneak really important stuff out there and everyone goes, “Pffft, nuclear war? It’s all a media lie!”, even as their granny is cooking along nicely at 1000 degrees before their own melting eyes.
Or something.
We should not be selling Gnabry but sending him out on loan if anything. If he goes go out on loan and play regularly, he could then improve on his form.
We do not want to loan out too many players though, as this will just weaken our squad when it comes to rotation and injuries.
I’m sure the club will get it right.
His deal is up though and if he’s going to renew, selling is best
NOT going to renew
Yeah, also if we loan him out and his form dips, it could be back to square one, next season.
Cashing in now does seem to make business sense, all round on second thoughts and removing the emotions.
Hopefully Jack will get a full season and come back a fit, lean grilling machine, Opps wrong Metaphor, A fit and Healthy Jack Wilshere is a major major plus for club and country so fingers crossed for him – My guess is a season of football before coming back to his spiritual home and taking Cazorlas place next to Xhaki, No spring chicken is our Spanish maestro, Would be a pretty seamless switch in terms of style to so wouldn’t really effect the teams dynamics,
As for Goonersince54 @ 28,
Smiles followed by laughter, top post !
By the way anyone know what become of Catalan haven’t seen him post in yonks !?
Dr C is on secondment.
Any more information, and we’d have to kill you. ?
They never expect the Spanish Inquisition.
Typical NHS HR Department response @60.
Noosa@48,
If you came into Golders Green from the direction of the Whitestone Pond, and went straight across the junction, Wolies was way down the end of the shops, on the right-hand side. I was living in Temple Fortune through the 60s and early 70s, and Woolworth’s was the second-to last buiding in the parade of shops, with the library to its left, as visible on the link posted above.
I don’t think the lift was doing service there when I was around, more’s the pity.
COYG
Now Im even more confused do we have a case of changed monikers :-/ Or has Catalan been kidnapped, and is being kept in a box without access to his medicine cabinet ? The possibilities are endless ๐
Hopefully Jack will get a full season and come back a fit, lean grilling machine
And if he doesn’t, hopfully we can at least swap him for one
http://ak1.ostkcdn.com/images/products/3/MLB10316745.jpg
The monks have found a picture of Woolies in the Golders Green Road when it was still Woolies and around the time Clive would have been receiving service:
http://www.francisfrith.com/golders-green/golders-green-high-street-c1960_g271013
I am sure those awnings are bouncing up and down a bit.
Noosa, The picture is taken looking south and you can see that the store is north (Brent Bridge-side) of the bridge that takes the Tube across Golders Green Road.
the mighty feelgood
?
where’s santa fe ?
The answer to the question, “How big is Ndong?” may be about to come to light.
http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/37235209
now me heads there or thereabouts
saw an ad
celtic – the musical
sweet mother of god
must be potential in it cba, or it never would have been funded for staging or for a marketing campaign. pure economics.
have you ever heard of minnesota – the musical? good reason why not!
unless i can figure out a way to write sweet mother of god into it as the female lead. ๐
Wilshere set to join Bournemouth after Roma deal falls through…stay tuned!
Having to deal with a very sulky countryman junior over Jack – he’s not happy! Even getting tix for Nottingham Forest haven’t cheered him up!
Countryman. Wilshere is apparently set to undergo a medical with the Cherries so he surely has no chance of passing one of those. Which should cheer up Countryman junior no end. ๐
There’s something fundamentally obnoxious about this transfer sagas.
Buy – sell, sell – buy…It’s bloody Wall Street out there.
Undisclosed freeeeeedom!
Bournemouth really. How’s he going to learn anything there? Unless he fancies being a Championship player.
These sagas…
Jack is a big disappointment but I guess he’s just a small time nitwit.
He’s never coming back.
Pangloss & Ned,
Thanks for the above – the photo suggests that Woolies was only a two storey building so there must have been a lot of up and down going on in the lift.
UTA.
https://t.co/jEn5OyT21Z
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Apparently, Arsene’s mad at Roma for their attitude when approached for Manila’s. It seems rejected their offer outright even though they had agreed a deal in principle with Jack Wilshere.
Not lack of ambition on the lads part.
Manolas even.
Ah well, little Jackie Paper can get used to working under Eddie Howe and will be his first choice besty mate when Howe takes over from Wenger next summer ๐
Noosa/Pangloss/Ned
That picture brings back memories Ned.
I was there in the mid 60’s until i was transferred to the big Woolies in Kilburn at the end of the decade,promoted from Stockroom Manager to Junior Floorman.
I spent 5 happy years there in my youth,starting as a stockroom boy in 65.
The service lift was from the stockroom upstairs down to the ground floor.
It had one of those concertina internal gates,and you only had to open it an inch or 2 for it to stop.
It was then immobile until that inner gate was closed again.
If you timed it right,you could stop it exactly halfway between the 2 floors,so nobody could see or hear anything through the solid brick inner walls.
I was also sexually pleasured in the self same lift,and at the back of the Stockroom itself, on a regular basis,by a very attractive blonde lady who worked on the Cosmetic counter.
That went on for quite a while,until perchance one day i saw her with her husband,a 6ft 4 block of black granite,that fair shriveled my nuts on the spot.!!
But i had some great times there,and being the swinging sixties,there was no shortage of female companions for a youngster in his teenage years.
Hampstead,just up the road,had a team in our Sunday morning Comp,and our boys used to drink in the pubs up there.
Again being the 60’s,a lot of TV celebrities used to live around there,and were often seen in the local pubs,surrounded by adoring local ladies of course.!!
Your home address young man?
So the window at last slams shut. I will be honest and say that our 3 main signings I knew nothing about until they were linked with us. When you include the signing of Cech, I’m pleased that we have at last decided to strengthen the spine of the side.
I’m guessing the signing of Mustafi means that the plan is to partner him in the centre with Kos. I will look forward to seeing that pairing. It does make you wonder why they gave the armband to Per. Hopefully Granit will continue to find his feet and will turn into the player we have been after for 10 years.
Perez is again a gamble. I’m not sure what the plans are for him but I would like to see him get some game time ASAP. I would also like to see him feature with Ollie G and not just as an alternative.
Then we have the exits of the day. I don’t blame Gnabry for wanting to leave and I genuinely hope that this is the beginning of the end of Operation Next Best Thing. I have never got why we would waste so much time and effort on so many NBT’s when the first team was so desperate for upgrades. Gnabry has never really had a chance and was not going to really get one. A decent Olympics put him in the shop window and there you have it.
I’m glad Calum Chambers has gone out on loan. Another unnecessary signing in my opinion and a young man whose career has stalled since joining us. The next season will tell everyone if he actually has the ability to make it at the top level.
Then we have Plastic Jack. A young man 6/7 years ago with the world at his feet. A host of injuries combined with some poor personal decisions and he now plays for a year at Bournemouth. Personally I would have rather seen him go abroad but we will just have to see what happens. I would suggest that it’s one big kick up the arse for Jack.
We still have hundreds of millions still in the vaults. I’m just glad we did not waste ยฃ60 million on Sissko and Luiz??? It’s a funny old world.
Clive, love your pick and mix in the lift story.
Clive, The man sounds like he could have shriveled the nuts of more than a few. But it sounds like you and the cosmetics lady knew your way around the back of the store as it were. ๐
Noosa@78, from what Clive says at 83, that lift spent a lot of time going nowhere.
Clive, I can’t imagine any Hampstead team having the bottle for the Ramblers, even the Heathens.
If AW was sufficiently irritated at Roma to block Wilshere’s potential loan there, how come Woj was able to go back?
@84
As of today i am of no fixed abode. !
@85
Howdy Steve hope the brood are all well.
I think we are in for an interesting few weeks once the Intl break is over.
I am on record as saying that Ollie G is a bench player at best,if we are going to play the high pressing game.
That i believe is why we have bought Perez.
Granit and Mustafi are certain regular starters for me at 35 odd million each.
@86
Jesus he was a big bad looking fella,but once she put her hand on it,he quite faded from my mind. !!
@87
Hampstead and Colindale were the 2 easy beats in our comp Ned,so we never had to resort to too much physical violence to beat them.
The Bombers of Burnt Oak were always public enemy No 1,
Like Arse V Spuds now,but with much more homicidal behaviour.!!!
Clearly whatever she put her hand on must have been more to her liking, Clive. You can have too much of a good thing I’m told.
A number of impressive offers for my services were received during the transfer window (including one from a certain Golders Green blonde), but all were declined and I will continue to ply my trade with Goonerholic for the foreseeable.
#84 … He’s been spotted lurking in the old Golders Green Woolies building re-living memories in the service lift, alas now in a diy sense.
Chris, you make 91 sound like you and holic are trapped in a lift somewhere…
Hmmm. I’m sure ‘holic would be great company if trapped in a lift together, but on balance I think Clive’s blonde would be more interesting. Assuming Clive’s deflowering was a recent event of course and she wasn’t past her use-by date.
H. Gutted. No idea at present when will next be in attendance after scummers. It may be some time. Triste la guerre.
Does anyone know if Mustafi got injured on international duty last night?
I’m getting memes from Scousers and Mancs!
He played a full 90 mins for Germany last night KGT.
No talk of any injury.
Thanks Clive.
Bloody idiots must be jealous of our transfer dealings!
Wilshere almost failed his medical yesterday. By being unexpectedly 100% fit.
*tees it up*
For himself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0z_arXZ8nM
good man yerself , clive
?
Anglo-Irish relations
fuck round table peace negotiations
hump in a lift
i salute you , sir
UP THE RAMBLERS !
nice ton cynic
bit jealous
This particular round of paper, scissors, rock is done and dusted.
Bournemouth have gone for the paper of Jack Wilshere while Arsenal have gone for the rock of Granit Xhaka. Not sure how everybody else feels about it but the Premier League in my opinion is not too kind to paper. Theo next?
UP THE RAMBLERS????
That’s how she liked it.
?
awww now steve
how crude ๐
ye’ve let yerself down
ye’ve let ‘holic down
and there was me
painting a beautiful innocent picture
of clive goin at it like a randy whippet
and you cheapen it
shame on you Mr T
jeez
i’m crayoning some mental images here
that’ll take some time to fade
oy vey
Banging like a barn door in a gale, CBA
Up and down in that Woolies lift? Fair play to the man. I’m surprised he had any energy left to turn out for The Ramblers on a Sunday morning??
?
we also had Wellworth’s supermarkets here
more ammunition for trev’s pun scatter gun
were he around
It hurts to see him in any other color than ours. Jack is our boy. Loan deal and a full season may help him but I would rather have had him here and fight for his place. Yes sentimental about him but then he was or should I say is the hope of being our legend. Logic makes me think he does not fit into the plans and his off-field activities may have made him go further behind the pecking order. If he does come back next season, the only place is to replace santi.
We have addressed almost all issues towards the squad. Yes a lewandowski would have been brilliant but we cant have it all, can we. If the squad stays fit and we have a consistent run, we should be there and there abouts. Now fit is the key word in this context.
Damn the international break, need to wait another 10 days before the saints come and for us to see Mustafi and Perez.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TyCaxxDcds
Hijack, bye Jack.
Hi Jack, Bye Jack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsflEWIf4tg
Knick-knack Paddy Whack
Give a Jack a loan
This old man said – fuck off to Bournemouth you flakey cunt
he’ll break his big toe
the door way in
pull a hammy
fer new shirt hold up shot
that song at 110 is shite
sorry
shite
but as steve “the vulgar” T says
what do i know ?
esso@111, even got the cig right…
LJW joins the line of nicotine addicts shown the door, sooner or later, by AW.
Esso @113
Truly old school
Need more of that on the pitch.
cigarettes are bad for you
silly stupid habit
does nowt cept rob yer pocket
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfZD93EdDkU
two drags and a toblerone from death the lotta ye
cba@120 it robs your lungs, too, and your heart. any athlete who smokes during his or her prime is stupid to do so, full stop. not back in the day, mind, they didn’t know and were told it was good for you. but with today’s knowledge? stupid.
where’s the toblerone, then?
@122
keep up
The International Olympic Committee rescinds medals awarded to Russian athletes at the 2008 Games, due to drug violations. Is that not to say the IOC has changed its policy and is now against drug use? I wouldn’t count on it.
Love smoking! Yeah.
Ever since the 5th millennium.
Well, not me, but people…humans…men.
Inhaaaaale….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXMt4I6pGZ4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhC1gKBLtOA
Vinay@109: If the squad stays fit and we have a consistent runโฆ
Havenโt we been saying that for years.
In my athletic days, Scruz, the only reason we crouched down at the beginning of a race was to stub out our cigars. ๐
And did someone say Toblerone?
https://youtu.be/e8q4XRt6pKg
Billy Connolly on Toblerone
https://youtu.be/GT65nIU6fhc
ah come on now it’s getting ridiculous
huffin an puffin oul duffers
hurtling down the wing
spilling not a drop o liquor
double pie double mash
made meself hungry now
spicey vinegar !
fuck
fuckin fuck ye english bastards
wi yer delicious grub
the empire is gone !
(reward offered for pie and mash not yet found in my letterbox)
yer all shooting one another
Ch5 tells me so
Ollie scores another one for France. Wonder if AW will let him do that for Arsenal or if he will cite a need to rest him due to today’s exertions.
ye got any pies , 8ball ?
i’m good for it
i am
i know channel 4
old school innit
so i was trying to understand how mustafi fits into the german team (right now he’s starting, but will he once boateng and hummels are fighting fit?). and noticed that our own mesut รถzil, now that lu-lu-lu and the pig climber are retired, is the senior on the team in caps (80). mรผeller has 78.
congratulations, mesut!
john stalker awnings an ting
holy fuck
silly wee spanners wi guns on this show
ridiculous made up convoluted accents
.
.
.
it’s the end of the world
it’s the internet
it’s ‘holics bar
so at least we’re shielded from cuntitudery
i suspect the world can’t self level
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcPiip-xkyw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_4SjqZcJ8c
?
love o maisie
silly second yella
that oi tripe yer listening to
exactly that
an da sparra are shite too
wi the made up oul shite
d’ye remember gary bushell
aggravating motormouth gonad
.
if yer 11
sorry
and
more to the point
WHERE’S YER PARENTS
that’s something bushell could get his IQ into
the feckless twat
pie
random other pie in case ye prefer it cba
further to the rachel riley discussion
“riley”
as she puts up the numbers
one after another
and her arse slowly hoves into view
i am reminded that these thoughts are natural
and to be embraced
and no amount of right-on-ery can stop em
or her fabulous ti. . . . . !
See what you mean cba having google imaged the indeed delectable Rachel Riley.
and when all you fuckin herberts
start talking to one another
and write the ultimate Arsenal book
please can i be one of the quotes
on the inside cover
I PROMISE I WILL BE BOTH HONEST AND KINBUTD AND LIE
typical anti irish agenda with that spellosion
I PROMISE I WILL BE BOTH HONEST AND KIND AND LIE
fuckin shifty bollocks
where the fuck is everybody
all this place needs is a headstone and some flowers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yz5jvR9_Jo
cba-a-thon then?
nope
g’night
Lay off Ms Riley, cba, she’s mine I tell ya, ALL MINE. Especially the a and ts….
No wonder parasite agents are keen to convince players to move … anywhere basically, just so long as they keep moving. http://en.as.com/en/2016/09/01/football/1472732078_996123.html
#156 reminds me of the great Tony Hancock when he claimed “I’ve led a good, clean, honest, boring life”.
Rachel Riley, for those still in ignorance… http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/rachel-riley-countdown-crush
Chris, On the subject of beautiful women I seem to recall you had a soft spot for Ana Ivanovic, unsurprisingly enough. Apparently, she married Schweinsteiger in the interim.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/tennis/us-open-2016/Ivanovic-not-ready-to-join-husband-Schweinsteiger-in-retirement/articleshow/53940420.cms
There’s something about a beautiful, fit woman all hot and sweaty from strenuous exercise, that I find irresistible, bt8. But there’s nothing ‘soft’ about it, trust me. ๐
Good luck Bastian, I can think of worse ways to spend my retirement…
This attraction to young women is beginning to worry me, bt8. Especially as the number of young women I find appealing grows exponentially with every year, so that having a pulse is fast becoming the principal criteria. By ‘young’, of course, I mean under 40 (I wouldn’t want anyone to get the wrong idea!) with 28 the ideal age in my fantasies.
this thread of conversation is unseemly
i wish to distance myself from it
Allardyce as England manager
Wilshere to Bournmouth
cba as guardian of moral rectitude
The world’s gone mad
COYG
I have just finished the second volume of Danny Baker’s autobiography. Baker is not everyone’s cup of tea but if you want a really good chuckle, you could do much worse than give them a go.
End of literary review.
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