Wizards Enjoy Aus
Jul 16th, 2017 by 'holic
Once again I am indebted to our very own Sydney Red who saw his team for the second time in 48 hours and now after the feast faces famine until the Gunners make the journey down under again. I’m sure after this hugely successful leg of the pre-season tour it will not be anywhere near forty years before we make the trip again. Thank you SR for your excellent reports. Next time you come over to see the Gunners there will be a cool one waiting on the bar for you.
A bit of a chillier night in Sydney about 9 degrees c. Still it did not deter another bumper crowd of 83,000 entering the stadium to see the mighty gunners. A few more vocal WSW supporters but still max 4,000, the rest gooners of all shapes, ages. There were huge queues for the FA cup photo and merchandise stalls again. Gooners from Western Australia, Melbourne, Queensland South Australia had all made the trip to Sydney.
Pre match festivities were the same as Thursday night. A huge cheer went up as both teams strode to the centre. The Arsenal team had more of a EPL look about it including Ospina in goal for the first half. He had little to do in the first half as Arsenal again took the game to the hosts.
The WSW were a lot more physical than Sydney fc on Thursday and a few crunching tackles went it. Not always with malice more too slow to see what the Arsenal player was going to do. We had a mad WSW fan a few seats in front of us who kept all around in laughter as he clapped every tackle by his team, and to be fair also cheered Arsenal with same very Aussie phrases.
Iwobi was very impressive, with mazy runs. Lacazette had a couple of early runs, but to be honest drifted out of the game a bit. Giroud was everywhere, looking an international player one minute and then a pub player the next. He was certainly causing the WSW defence problems and received a few tough tackles along the way.
In the 33rd minutes Nacho raced up the left and crossed for Giroud to flick the ball into the net. Much jubilation and singing of 1-0 to the Arsenal. It was no more that the Frenchman had deserved for his efforts up to this point.
We had only a few minutes to wait until Nacho against was the provider with a long 30 yard pass for Ramsey to latch on to on the edge of the box and chip over the WSW goalkeeper who had decided to come and stand in no man’s land, or as we Aussies say “go walkabout’’. A very nice goal to see, very simple but hard to achieve. 2-0 to the Arsenal rang around the ground, apart from the pocket of WSW fans behind the goal who were continuing to jump, sing, clap no matter what was going on.
A couple of corners ensued and from one the ball came out to Elneny who had been looking good in defence alongside Kosh. Elneny smacked the ball back into the area it hit a WSW player and went into the net. 3-0 at half time. Half time entertainment consisted of kids penalty shoots outs against gunnersaurus. I think the suit restricts him!. Romford Pele, who seems to be having a great time down under, appeared trying to master Aussie slang.
Gunnersaurus auditioning for Petr Cech’s job
The same Arsenal team came out for the second half except Martinez in goal. The second half started a bit slower and WSW came back into the game. They got a free kick in the area, and eleven Arsenal players stood on the line. The first kick went into the wall ,but WSW then scored from the rebound. This seemed to spur the Gunners on until the 65th minute when for the second match running 10 players went off and 10 came on. All received a standing ovation and the match started again.
For the first fifteen minutes the game drifted a bit with Arsenal having lots of ball but not doing much. Then it livened up with Elneny hitting the cross bar, Ozil who looked very sharp hit the post from great free kick. The goalie made a terrIfic save from Walcott, who does tend to telegraph his shots beforehand. Nketiah looked quick and was assisted in by Nelson and Willock in keeping the game alive.
Ozil hits the post with a peach of a free-kick.
The game ended to loud cheers and that was it…all over. What had I learned from the two games?
The Aussie teams are tryers, lack in top flight skills, but make it hard for you.
Arsenal seem to have a good squad.
The young players need to be given a go.
Giroud should stay.
Lacazette is very fast.
Ozil is a different level.
BFG is a natural leader and represents the club very well.
Arsenal are a class act both on and off the pitch.
You in the uk are very lucky to be able to go to the games every week.
Hopefully it not another 40 years before the Gunners come to Australia. I believe they have been very very surprised by the reception here.
Two crowds of 80,000 plus. Indeed yesterday was a record for the venue, beating the crowd for England’s rugby union World Cup triumph in the same stadium.
20,000 at the fan day on Friday.
Thank you Sydney, and thank you Arsenal.
And from me, one last time, thank you Sydney Red. It’s as if we were there. (If only!)
95 Responses to “Wizards Enjoy Aus”
1st! Thanks for those two excellent reports. They are very much appreciated, especially by people like me, I think, who are yet to see Arsenal in the flesh. it gives us hope that there’s still a huge chance we will see our beloved go ones in the flesh soon.
One of my favourite things about this particular trip has been the outpouring of appreciation and love for the class with which we, the club and everyone associated with her, have conducted ourselves on this trip.
May I add my thanks Sydney Red. Although I know your good city it is some time since I have been there. It’s a bit surreal imagining a crowd so many miles away split so clearly in favour of Arsenal.
I’ve not seen any of this game except for their rather weird goal from an indirect free kick (sort of). Wenger always used to be against these trips but the sheer commercial benefit is very clear for all to see. I’m really glad our Aussie fans had a chance to see the team live. It brings your support to life.
(Yet) Another Alexis interview had appeared now claiming he wants out. I’m very dubious about overseas articles and quotes as they are notoriously inaccurate and misleading but this guy is becoming a pain. Good as he is- and he had some shockers last year too- I’d ship him out if we can find a young replacement. Apparently he is a very difficult guy in the dressing room and can be very off with his team- mates.
Replacements ( I’m hoping we can sign Lemar anyway) – Forsberg, Mahrez, Martial , Coman, Asensio Zaha might all do a job but he won’t be easy to replace despite the baggage
great write up syd red
though one small quibble
what food was had ?
a la mighty c100
Son had calamari (squid) and chips
I had beef burger and chips washed down with a asahi (jap) beer
If ale is wants away – let him go
We need players who want to bleed for the arsenal
Should read alexia
Sorry
Too tired tonight
Might be the merlot
thanks (thank you)
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Big week for Arsenal fans down under documented with great aplomb by Sydney Red. Many thanks to you mate.
Thanks for the excellent report SR. Delighted our antipodes fans got the opportunity to see the team in the flesh. Sounds like each played to type.
Sounds like the Alexis saga is reaching it’s interesting phase.
Sydney, read and enjoyed ENORMOUSeLY, ta again…
(Und squid & chips you say … Up the Aussies!)
Squid & chips at the match, eh? Can’t see the Arsenal doing that anytime soon, more’s the pity.
Squid and Chips – legends of Arsenal Fan TV
Alternatively, the majority shareholder and chairman of The Arsenal
Good on yer fella ,Sydney Red.
Couple of excellent reports.
I almost wished I`d lived in Aussie for the last 30 years ,just to enjoy those long awaited occasion(bit like London buses)s.
2 excellent reads Red.
Thoroughly enjoyable.
You could give the paid writers for the SMH and the Tele a run for their money.!!
Fine read, again, SR. We saw the same game (except again I didn’t see it, only some highlights). You are spot on with your judgements.
You’ve done it again, SR, like I hardly missed not crossing the Tasman to be there. I look forward to your next come 2057 while celebrating my 115th. 🙁
As for Alexis I share the view that we don’t need a player who prefers to be elsewhere, particularly if as reported he’s a pain in the dressing room to boot. Just so long as we get the equivalent transfer fee mooted for players of similar quality. I’d hate to see him leave for less than £50mil, which is what we’d have to pay for his replacement.
…..and great pictures, SR. Cheers. ?
Not sure of the economics of loaning out Chesney for two years and then selling him for 10 m Euros. That’s peanuts! Jordan Pickford went for £30 million . The price is low because he’s in the last year of his contract but we’ve only saved about £6 million on his salary over the last two years. Another sloppy piece of business by our transfer handlers.
I wish the lad well as Buffon’s understudy
The latest reports say we have left Aus and landed in China. Whirlwind tour or what?
TTG. As Buffon will turn 40 at the end of January how likely is SZCZ to remain his understudy for long?
TTG@18: We seem to have got in the order of £1.1 million in loan fees from Roma over the two year Szczesny was there, with the two clubs splitting his wages. Fair market value now would be about £15 million, in my book, so the £8.7 million fee the Guardian is reporting seems low, and especially as we were reported to have agreed a £14 million fee with Roma at one point.
Brace yourselves for another round of tabloid headlines about Arsenal losing another wunderkind. Academy player Dan Crowley has signed for Eredivisie side Willem II.
fuck ye can have some right fuckin strange days
i blame the sun
I don’t read the Sun, mate. I recommend you change your paper. ?
BBC photo caption:
“King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and Queen Maxima were present at the match in Utrecht”
The unclear writing in the caption leaves me asking the question,
Does Queen Maxima represent a country?
Oh well.
Queen Maxima is an Argentinian, a financier and the first Dutch queen consort to have been born outside Europe, if that is on any help, bt8b. He father has some dodgy history: he was as a cabinet minister in the junta.
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has lost another young star in Dan Crowley
The Sun delivers.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/4034720/arsenal-transfer-news-dan-crowley-signs-willem-ii/
What bath said @25.
@ 23 – Is that a cue?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2frAPi1Pv8
There appears to be a fire sale going on in our squad. Clearly we want to be free of wages for the likes of Debuchy and Jenkinson and there are strong indications that the Jeff is going to France permanently. I have to say i saw him play live about five times and he was never the player we saw in the Emirates Cup just after he arrived, in fact I thought he stood out as our worst player in the EFL Cup last year but a mate who was at Southampton for the Cup tie said he was outstanding .
Our squad is overloaded with relatively average, overpaid players and poor recruitment in recent seasons is coming back to bite us on the bum but it is sad to see longstanding players like Gibbs who has served the club pretty well leave .
Nobody except Everton seems very happy with this window so far and I find the prices and wages bordering on the obscene but if we want we know the going rates. Not sure how sustainable this is but we have been hoarding cash in recent seasons so we are better placed than most . The big question is a moral one. At some stage the money involved with its associated compromises with the corporate world, TV and the Internet will start to make us all uncomfortable. That process has long started with me.
But I do want to see world class players turning out for us and am hopeful that we will emerge with an exciting squad.
Market forces TTG.
As long as Sky are prepared to pay ever more obscene money for the EPL rights,the Clubs will benefit with increased shedloads of moolah as well.
The Clubs in turn in their desperation to compete at the top level,will pay ever increasing fees to sign players.
What seems excessive now,will be chump change in 5 yrs time.
Ned, Thanks for the Maxima scoop. A more interesting personal history than I expected.
Nice Summary Aussie Syd! Salut till next pre-season down under! ?
So; Comrade Arsene Wenger has finally, once again after 13 years of stubborn communism, cottoned-on back on to how modern football remuneration works with respect to its salaries! Halle-feckin-lujah!
Be prepared, Comrade Wenger, to give each of your three or four, “still key and proven” world class players (i.e. Sanchez, Ozil, Koscienly & Cech) exactly what they want to keep them at our club (i.e. £200-£400k per week), and then use them to draw in a new and very competent supporting cast, with the attraction of playing alongside these worldies, to sign up! You must be cogently aware by now that it’s going to cost you shit loads more to replace them if you naively let them go, if you’ve not already figured that out by now on your own?! Give all of your “competent others” that you want to keep, the more modest weekly wages (£30-£100) to enjoy the ride of the upcoming success and global domination in world club football! It’s not all that difficult really is it Arsene?! Dump the deadwood and free up the £50,000-£100,000 per week extra for Alexis, Ozil, Lemar and Mbappe. Lacazette and Kolasnic are fit for purpose. Keep Callum Chambers but let Jack go. They’re not worldies.
UTAAD&AN!
AFCOF!
Keep Callum cause he can play in a back three with no bother. He’ll be worse a nice few pennies in a year or three!
? He’ll be “worth” a nice few pennies in a year or three!
Dennis only knows what Mbappe will cost next year, unless he cocks up majorly in the interim. Or cops an Arsenal type ‘3 weeks’ injury.
If AW wants him NOW is the time to offer mega bucks. What a team we’d have then!
A key part of the market forces of football is the willingness of consumers — you and me — to pay ever rising prices to watch games on TV. In the UK, that has proved to be the case so far, and as a result the TV rights have gone up to £5 billion from £304 million in 1992. However, there are some warning signs — no more than that — that consumers are starting to feel they have dug into their pockets deep enough. The relentless rise in viewing figures is starting to plateau. In the US, the National Football League — a pioneer of televised sport — has started to see a drop-off in ratings (and the ESPN sports cable channel is losing 3 million subscribers a year). On both sides of the Atlantic there are probably a combination of reasons for that: cost, availability of illegal streams, an austerity-era backlash against the player salaries the TV rights are generating and changing ideas about cable TV services. At some point the bubble will burst for the Premiership and the pin is the moment when the cost of broadcasting rights exceed broadcasting revenue. That may not be far away.
One more decent buy and Alexis may rethink the need to leave.
Never buy the Sun.
Chris @38, I really hope you are correct but sadly I think the ship has sailed – the lad has made his decision and were he to sign an extension after all this time, I would be astonished. The same logic also applies to the others who have yet to extend: Ozil and AOC. Next summer will be Armageddon if all three walk away. In purely financial terms (are there any others for a sensible club without a Sugar Daddy, you may ask?) that cannot be allowed to happen. Being entirely unromantic about it, perishable assets must be realised before they perish.
At least PSG’s alleged interest this morning would give Arsenal a more acceptable selling option for Sanchez than Shitteh.
Informative article on Premier League TV viewing.
http://en.calcioefinanza.com/2017/02/01/premier-league-viewing-figures-continue-fall-alarming-rate/
Two other data points: Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board data suggests watching (legitimately) on streaming devices accounts for the equivalent of 5% of the TV audience (which is what is counter in the stats used in the article above); and a BBC study suggests a third of UK fans watch at least a couple of illegal streams a month, with the share rising to two-thirds for younger viewers.
All in all in the UK, you can expect a crackdown on illegal streams and the Premier League tailoring kick-off times for overseas markets to keep the broadcasters’ honeypot flowing over.
any crackdown , ned
doomed to failure
a game of whack-a-mole
a few have had the shits
and shut up shop
thank god for moles with smarts
and when did baths joke about the sun
turn into – don t buy the sun !
“cba in SUN BUYING SHOCKA”
s’like thunder T thinking
my heart belonged to eddie mcgoldrick
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deary me ?
i blame the sun
Woj having a medical at Juve. Bargain buy at £10 million, if that number is true.
http://www.juventus.com/en/news/news/2017/szczesny-undergoes-juve-medical.php
I am all for the axe effect by Arsene. It finally has dawned upon him that a lot of these over rated over hyped players never realized their potential or the lack of it. If we are letting go of a lot and get a fewer yet better ones, no one will complain.
Talking of which, is Arsene again doing the same mistakes of loading all dices on getting lemar? if it does not happen then we may have left it too late for even a maharez. Lemar should have happened by now and if it is not, then move on please for we again will wait till the last day of august to conclude our business. We need a cm to replace santi, a left winger to replace the departing alexis( hoping not), a cb to manage when the famous Achilles of kos comes to fore or when Mustafi goes missing. If ox does leave, we probably will be left with theo and maybe iwobi on that flank but left flank we hardly have if sanchez does leave.
GK i am not sure. I am fine with woj leaving but wasnt ospina also supposed to be going? if not, we do not need to add on or else can we look at another GK who can be told will be the number 1 next season onwards.
Bayern tomorrow and it will reflect a tougher test and true colors of the squad. time to hit the ground running boys. COYG.
Sell OX, Ozil and Sanchez and you have the best part of £120m to put in the bank, and that’s without the saving on extortionate salaries currently being paid AND the potential saving in undeserved pay rises.
yup
it’s the sun
or
maybe i should take a long hard look in the mirror
best not to drink any express-o with your morning paper either
About to record an ABW podcast special on the Youth team with Jeorge Bird. Looking forward to it.
bt8b@50: That’s the sort of pun Trev would just have mail-ed in.
Plenty to talk about, Guv’nor. Quite the summer clear-out at the Academy:
Marc Bola —> Bristol Rovers (loan)
Dan Cowley —> Willem II (undisclosed)
Glen Kamara —> Dundee (free)
Kaylen Hinds —> Wolfsburg (undisclosed)
Stefan O’Connor —> Newcastle (released)
Chris Willock —> Benfica (undisclosed)
Takuma Asano —> Stuttgart (loan)
Yaya Sanogo (released)
Kris Da Graca (released)
Thanks Sydney – another excellent report.
As for newspaper puns, I can make my own up, Ned, quite independent of bt8 ? …..
as you will now have observered.
cba’s long hard look in the mirror was the star turn for me, making up for ’42’ where his form dipped with the whackamole comment.
You can ‘ave a cardo’ for that one, cba. Yellow, naturally ?
Mail-ordered express-o? Certainly not a recipe for hot coffee. 😉
“No president has suffered such low ratings at this early stage in their tenure since such polling began in 1945.”
[President shall remain unnamed. Brief political interlude ends.]
We never get value from sale of even our good players. It is unbelievable that we have agreed to sell Woj to Juve for £10 m which is really cheap compared to £30 m paid by Everton for Pickford. Must be another case of not renewing his contract on time. There are rumors of Crystal Palace bidding £16 m for Chambers when his defensive partner Gibson at Middlesborough is said to be worth £30 m. We are really poor of getting decent money for our players.
We must sell Sanchez, Ozil and Ox if they have not renewed their contracts by mid August, instead of letting go of them on a free next year. If all three refuse to move on this year we would be looking at a loss in excess of £100 m. In any other club heads would have rolled for such mismanagement but at Arsenal we reward them with contract extension. Not surprising complacency has crept in.
ksn@58: I know we live in a time of inflated transfer values, but £30 million for Gibson is a ridiculous number. Chambers would be worth £45 million-£50 million on a comparative fair market value basis — which is equally ridiculous.
Only two British centre backs have sold for more than £30 million, Stones (£47.5 million) and Ferdinand (£30 million). Sixteen million for Chambers would at least be a fee grounded in some sort of reality of his financial value.
I agree with you that Woj at £10 million, if that is confirmed as the fee, is a giveaway. He is worth at least half as much again as that. What is more baffling is that we had reportedly agreed a fee of around £15 million with Roma.
We also often forget how few of the mega deals spoken of in the press actually get done. Only 13 £30 million-plus deals across the whole of Europe have been signed, done and dusted so far this transfer window.
To your main point, our sale prices may say more about how many overpaid young players we have on our books whose salaries we need to shed than it does it about our negotiating chops over transfer fees.
…than it does about our negotiating chops over transfer fees.
I am all for decisive action in the transfer market but it is a game of Chess or more accurately, Dominoes. Lemar needs to be allowed to go and Monaco want to have a team next season. Getting him away is not a simple process and Monaco hold most of the cards.
I’m afraid we as fans often reduce these deals to a simplistic process. They are anything but with agents, image rights and so many other things to be taken care of.
Where I do agree is that our fire sale seems to have the objective of shedding amounts from our payroll even if we get negligible amounts in. It makes us a soft touch as sellers. That needs a tougher approach. There has obviously been a big rethink about financial strategy at the club. Let’s hope it works better than the hoarding of gold we saw previously
Fantastic stuff Sydney Red – really enjoyed the reports, especially as I didn’t get to see the games.
Thanks for the shout out cba – glad you enjoy my culinary reports from the away games! Best of last year, the curry in Nottingham after the Forest game. Currently in Corfu on holiday and surviving on a taverna diet of fresh grilled fish, souvlaki and yes, the odd calamari and chips like in Sydney! The Mythos beer slipping down well too.
From today’s reports (mainly Wenger in China) seems certain that we will have the treat of Sanchez, Ozil, and Lacazette all playing together next season. The financial sense is that if we get CL next year, we replace a £50m hole in the accounts, plus it knocks on to the sponsorship deals (Puma deal up for renewal in 2019). This could be a very exciting season!
Looks like plenty of tickets left for the Charity Shield – my first game the following Friday vs Leicester. Still lots of comings and goings as commented on above still to come – but looks very sure to me that Sanchez stays.
Interesting table in here from she wore a yellow ribbon. If all the players listed are sold we make £100m in transfer fees and also save £32m per year in salaries.
https://shewore.com/2017/07/19/arsenal-set-to-raise-over-130-million-in-player-sales/
Personally, I don’t think we can believe a word Wenger or the club tells us after recent years. I’m amazed most have decided Sanchez is staying. Countryman, I see your logic, but this is a club that doesn’t do £ 50 million holes. I also wonder, privately, deep down, does Wenger actually enjoy having Sanchez around the place after the curfuffles, rants and benchings of last season ? Wenger might say he’s staying for his last year and running down his contract but what kind of mood will Sanchez be in if he’s still on 140k a year (instead of double or nearly treble that elsewhere) playing Europey League. He won’t be a happy bunny or a good influence, at all. Nah, I’m not buying this. I also prefer to listen to what the players are saying themselves pre-season in their coded comments and both Sanchez and Giroud sound like they’re offsky. Sanchez can’t take the chance we won’t re-enter CL. Ox’s situation is worrying too and if we just add Lemar (5 ft 7, 58kgs…yes 58 kgs !) I worry we’re left very lightweight in midfield and up front. The game has got way more physical and direct and we’ve seen Barca struggle of late. How many times have we seen Sanchez smashing into teams and rallying the troops, Giroud clearing up at set-pieces against us or Ox carrying the ball well with his great physical strength. The only hardman we’re getting in is Jens ! With five at the back and Xhaka sitting, we could be an attacking four of Ozil, Ramsay, Lacazette and Lemar. One gust of wind at the Hawthorns or somewhere and they’ll be blown straight off the park as they come out the tunnel. As for the clearout ; Jenks, JW, Debuchy, Sanogo…these guys should have been cleared out years ago. Calling Cynic, can you out-cynic me here or am I just a miserable old git ? COYG.
A text from my brother informs me that the Bookies have Lemar
at 7/2 on to join the Arse,and 5/2 against to stay at Monaco.
Given they are not known for their generosity,what do they know that we don’t . ??
Clive@65,
If you believe that Lemar will only leave Monaco for Arsenal (and nowhere else), you can indeed back staying @ 5/2 and going to Arsenal @ 5/11. Backing both outcomes gives an “underround” of approximately 25% if you prorate your stack accordingly. Good luck with getting enough on to make it worthwhile, though!
Watching Bayern v arsenal from Shanghai
Live on to
Looks like a walloping coming for the gunners
Opposition a couple of steps up from sydney
Munich very quick going forward
Arsenal have a couple of chances
Holding on a bit
NDN, we do pay ridiculously high wages to average performers making it impossible to shift them as no one else is willing to match their wages. The latest case in point is Debuchy’s move to Nice falling through as they are unable to come anywhere near his wage demands. We are stuck with him for two (?) more years. I don’t think we will be able to shift any of the unwanted players unless we partly pay their wages even after their transfer or reduce the price. Our wage policy needs a revisit to change it from Wenger’s socialistic ‘everyone gets more or less the same wage’ to one based on performance.
Overall, the league too must consider adopting a pay cap.
Debuchy could audition for the part of Gunnersaurus.
In any case, has the current Gunnersaurus been performing up to par?
Maybe there should be a Mrs. Gunnersaurus.
Baby Gunnersaurus-lings?
Not sure where Debuchy would be involved in this though. He could write his own job description.
The irony with Debuchy was Sagna had to leave to make room for him because, at the time, Wenger was being downright stingey about moving Bac up from 40k a week despite his great loyalty and battling qualities. Mind you Deboosh was ahead of Sagna for France then and maybe that bum steer has guided Wenger to favour Lacazette on the French bench to the handsome centre forward incumbent, one Ollie Giroud (I know…Griezmann can be argued to be our new man’s rival). To me, a lot of this feels like Wenger is bloody furious about ponying up nutty transfer fees, so he’s damned well going to hang on to his flattish salary structure. Depending on Ozil and assuming Sanchez leaves this will have the advantage of leaving him better paid than all his players, which is completely unheard of at top clubs these days. Like it or not, player power is a reality. Iwobi, get in there ! 1-1.
Get In Iwobi!!
😀
Any of our Chinese regulars up for writing a match report?
If not, here is a start beginning with key vocabulary from Wikipedia:
踢足球 : to play football
足球队 : football team
足球赛 : football game
Arsenal 1 Bayern Munich 1
Beating the Germans on penalties- whatever next?!
ksn@69: You are right about the wages and that was sort of my point. We have to discount our sale prices so the total cost to any purchaser is affordable for them. A £70K-a-week wage works out at a capital value of around £3.5 million, so that much has to come off for each year of the new contract to make it a wash for the buying club.
TTG@61: The complexity of deal making is a point you cannot state too often.
Cor ! The complexity of deal making, eh ?
Deal making is damned complex, innit ?!
and on the dot.con we have the Chinese tea drinking ceremony but who has the best tea drinking technique between HFB, Kos and Elneny? Clearly not HFB who gulped his tea unceremoniously. 🙁
Half the team now in Shanghai with the squits. Not a happy scenario for them or the Chelsea game coming up. Dodgy Egg fried rice?
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Leakyzette is all i have
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Trev@80 and 81: Tsk. Tsk.
More of those Arsenal-schooled ‘keepers AW was talking about are on the move. Sunderland has sold Don Vito Mannone to Reading for £2 million.
And the BBC are quoting £10 million as the price we got for Woj.
Krautrock anyone?
Nein or Neu!
Arsenal food hit by squad poisoning
Read about an unlikely triumph and win tickets to the Sunday of the Emirates Cup. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Looks like we are clearing the decks for at least one more major signing, though personally I would like to see us retain Calum Chambers. The Mirror, has detailed the other Arsenal stars who were definitely staying put but were subsequently sold, but surely this summer is totally different. £50m for Sanchez equals one season’s money from CL for which he could be instrumental to our qualification campaign.
The key might be Thomas Lemar. I believe this guy could be a superstar in a couple of years, when £80m spent now will look very cheap, and we will be looking on as he is sold to one of the big boys for £120m+.