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Centenary Boys Hold The Gunners, Until Penalties Go Our Way

Jul 31st, 2019 by 'holic

The Arsenal visited Angers this evening to help celebrate the French club’s centenary at the Stade Raymond Kopa. The presence of Jeff Reine-Adelaide in the host’s line-up added to the interest. A young Gunners team included only one new signing at kick-off, Gabriel Martinelli.

After a slow start we fell behind after unlucky 13 minutes had passed when El Melali was played in behind Zech Medley and he rounded Emiliano Martinez before slotting the ball into an empty net.

It took us until the 25th minute of a tedious half to attempt a response but Reiss Nelson pulled his effort wide of the target. Medley, enduring a torrid time, picked up a yellow card nine minutes before the break. Angers were denied a second goal from the resulting free-kick by the flag of the assistant referee.

We almost levelled with a Martinelli header from a Shkodran Mustafi cross but the ball slid agonisingly and narrowly past the far post. The young Brazilian then broke up an attack at the other end although was adjudged to have fouled Reine-Adelaide. The shrill blast of the referee’s whistle to end the half was welcome.

Not surprisingly we made changes after the break. Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Granit Xhaka, Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Dominic Thompson, and Joe Willock came on for Calum Chambers, Medley, Nacho Monreal, Tyreece John-Jules, and Robbie Burton. The impact was almost immediate. Nelson snapped up the equaliser within five minutes of the restart after an Eddie Nketiah shot was blocked.

The Jeff looked to restore Angers’ lead against his former club with an impressive run but his finish was over the target. How he would have enjoyed that if he had found the finish. He tried again but once more the finish did not match the run.

Just past the hour we strengthened further, sending on Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang for Matteo Guendouzi and Nketiah. Those changes heralded us taking control of the match at long last, but could we muster a winner from somewhere? Martinelli looked set but the bouncing ball in the box wouldn’t come down for him quickly enough. Then Aubameyang slid a Xhaka set piece wide. We were getting closer.

Aubameyang put Nelson’s miskick in from an offside position. What a shame the young midfielder had not put a great opportunity on target himself. That would have been ok. He looked to have picked up a knock and was replaced by James Olayinka. Another wonderful move ended with Aubameyang volleying over. This was a different match from from the half that had preceded it.

Maitland-Niles can consider himself unfortunate to collect a yellow card as the final whistle approached. On or two of the Angers lads had looked to be suffering inner ear infections all night. Aubameyang drove his next effort off target. We were going to have to settle for the draw with only nine seconds added on.

Maitland-Niles, Willock, Xhaka, and Aubameyang all scored in the ensuing penalty shootout before Kanga fired high over the target. Mkhitaryan, however, followed suit when a goal would have clinched it. The Jeff saw his effort saved by Martinez and that was that. A strange end to a strange evening.

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101 Responses to “Centenary Boys Hold The Gunners, Until Penalties Go Our Way”

  1. on 31 Jul 2019 at 8:31 pm1TTG

    And we win the shootout!
    No thanks to Mkhitaryan though.

  2. on 31 Jul 2019 at 8:52 pm2Goonerholic

    The shootout took everyone by surprise, including those in the crowd who had started to leave en masse.

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  4. on 31 Jul 2019 at 9:47 pm4iBtM

    I’m close to Angers and had considered driving down for this game. A fine dinner and an excellent Goonerholic report appear to have been the correct Plan B. I’m pleased to see the youngsters getting a lot of game time.

  5. on 31 Jul 2019 at 9:58 pm5bathgooner

    I didn’t see the game but I’m pleased that theyoungsters got another run-out and that we managed to win. Your report suggests that we managed to control the second half which is positive though for me the most positive sign is your deft turn of phrase, ‘suffering inner ear infections all night’ which indicates that you’re nicely match-fit and ready for the start of the new season about which I’m beginning to feel quite optimistic.

    Beers all round this fine establishment.

  6. on 01 Aug 2019 at 12:03 am6Cynic

    I’m close to Angers

    Have a cup of tea and a fag and calm yerself.

    🙂

  7. on 01 Aug 2019 at 1:43 am7OsakaMatt

    Thanks for the report Guvnor.
    I haven’t seen the game but
    it sounds like a typical pre-
    season friendly.

    I hope Kola and Ozil will play
    again soon – I understand the
    club’s action and think it’s
    right but…..I’d also like them
    to be fit for the start of the
    season because that’s better
    for me me me 🙂

  8. on 01 Aug 2019 at 10:16 am8TTG

    Ned will be on top of this much more than I am but I believe we can only accommodate two more non-homegrown players as it stands. Tierney would, I believe, count as non-homegrown .
    This would alter if we were to sell or loan any of Koscielny, Mavropanos, Mustafi, Elneny etc . Two of those four are likely to leave imo. Looking at his underwhelming contributions and his salary I’m not fussed if we parted company with Mkhitaryan. His awful penalty reminded me of McGoldrick at Sampdoria for older fans. That is in orbit close to the Hubble Space Station, the only time McGoldrick reached the stratosphere from my recollection.

  9. on 01 Aug 2019 at 11:53 am9Cynic

    We’ve apparently sold Asano for a million. Another of Wenger’s pointless signings who leaves without playing a game.

    I wonder how much he cost us in fees and wages?

  10. on 01 Aug 2019 at 12:20 pm10North Bank Ned

    Tierney is indeed non-homegrown, TTG. Born in the Isle of Mann and raised in Scotland, where he played his academy football with Celtic. You have to have spent at least three years before the age of twenty-one at an English or Welsh club to count as homegrown under the Premier League rules.

    The quota is applied to non-homegrown players rather than homegrown. A club can have a maximum of 17 non-homegrown players in their registered EPL squad of 25

  11. on 01 Aug 2019 at 12:32 pm11North Bank Ned

    The monks count 15 non-homegrown players in the first team squad at this point:

    Leno
    Sokratis
    Koscielny
    Mustafi
    Monreal
    Maprovanos
    Kolasinac
    Elneny
    Mkhitaryan
    Ceballos
    Ozil
    Torriera
    Xhaka
    Lacazette
    Aubameyang

    So room for two more, assuming none of the above are sold.

  12. on 01 Aug 2019 at 12:35 pm12North Bank Ned

    Home grown:

    Martinez
    Macey
    Bellerin
    Holding
    Jenkinson
    Chambers
    Maitland-Niles
    Iwobi

    Guendouzi like ESR, Nelson and the other youngsters promoted to the first team are out of the calculation as a club can have an unlimited number of U-21s in its EPL squad.

  13. on 01 Aug 2019 at 12:41 pm13OsakaMatt

    So if no one goes out then
    we can still accommodate
    Pépé and Tierney.

    I noticed UE said he was
    still talking to Kos about the
    current situation which makes
    me think the discussion with
    Rennes is not going well.

    I guess that means the
    manoeuvring around the
    CB spots with Kos, Mus and
    a possible loan for Mavro
    will go on until the wire.

  14. on 01 Aug 2019 at 2:11 pm14Countryman100

    Yet again, an away game has been moved to a Monday night with no trains to get home afterwards. This time it’s Sheffield Utd in October.

    They just don’t give a monkey’s about the match going fan do they?

  15. on 01 Aug 2019 at 2:56 pm15Countryman100

    Newcastle Away, Sunday 2pm trains £100
    Liverpool Away, Saturday 5.30 no trains
    Watford Away, Sunday 4.30 no problem
    Man United Away, Monday 8pm no trains
    Sheff United Away, Monday 8pm no trains

    Cheers @SkySports @btsport @premierleague

  16. on 01 Aug 2019 at 4:41 pm16Bergkamptoes

    Pepe confirmed…
    Now for those defenders please

  17. on 01 Aug 2019 at 4:43 pm17TTG

    Welcome officially Pépé !

  18. on 01 Aug 2019 at 4:55 pm18scruzgooner

    wowowowowowowow.

    we’re gonna win games 5-4 all day long.

    now, sadly, kozzer out, less so mustafi, bring in tierney and a 1-year centerback, and off we go. if mo and mikhi go, and we get something decent for them, even better.

  19. on 01 Aug 2019 at 5:00 pm19OsakaMatt

    Yes, welcome to Pépé, with Laca
    and Auba we really are a threat
    to anyone 🙂

  20. on 01 Aug 2019 at 5:16 pm20bt8

    Welcome Pépé to the Arsenal.

    (Still waiting for the defensive master plan to kick into action but I can handle a few 5-4 wins so long as they don’t turn into 5-6 losses which is actually a slightly unpredictable matter.

  21. on 01 Aug 2019 at 5:21 pm21Countryman100

    Centre halves and full backs are for cowards!

    Zaha is next.

    We’re going to play an innovative 4-0-6 formation.

  22. on 01 Aug 2019 at 5:58 pm22Cynic

    Zaha is next.

    Funnily enough I have been thinking that this might be The Plan, but was too scared to post the thought as it looked like it may earn me a few pelters. 🙂

  23. on 01 Aug 2019 at 6:11 pm23ksn

    Emery thinks just like Countryman 100 @21! Exciting times ahead. We will concede 50 plus goals this season too and that could screw our chances of making top four but we will enjoy the ride. Hope we get in Tierney and Rugani through to bolster our defence. Great transfer window so far.

  24. on 01 Aug 2019 at 7:08 pm24bathgooner

    Having had serious concerns with our senior off-field team at the end of last season, I have to doff my hat to Josh and his executives for pulling off this deal with Pepe. That’s superb work.

    If we can sign a decent CB and Ceballos effectively fills the gap left by Rambo I now believe that we could challenge for second place.I don’t think Tierney signing/not signing changes the equation significantly.

    Unfortunately I think Shitteh remain well ahead in quality and depth of quality and Rodri is a great addition.

    However Pool have bought no-one decent, possibly shot their financial wad last season and are still paying for it and probably won’t have the luck with injuries to key players they had last season.

    Manure are struggling to offload dead wood and convince good people to join them and they have Bilbo Baggins as manager.

    The Chavs have their transfer ban and have lost their best player by far. The Marshdwellers have made a good signing but they are Spudz and will almost certainly spud things up.

    I know we look over our shoulder at Wolves, Leicester and Everton but I do think we have significantly strengthened if we can just sort out the final piece of the jigsaw. CB

    I do believe we might have a good season.

    Neck out time:

    Prediction
    1 Shitteh
    2 Arsenal
    3 Pool
    4 Marshdwellers
    5 Chavs
    6 Wolves
    7 Manure
    8 Lesta
    9 Everton

  25. on 01 Aug 2019 at 7:30 pm25OsakaMatt

    That is neck out stuff sir.
    I thought I was optimistic
    thinking we’d be third.

    But agree a decent CB
    is the key piece now.

  26. on 01 Aug 2019 at 9:33 pm26arsenicDaemon

    With Pepe in the mix we can just play 5-1-1-3

    Auba Laca Pepe
    Özil
    Ceballos/Torreira
    Kola/Xhaka Holding Socratis Mustafi Belle/Niles
    Leno

  27. on 01 Aug 2019 at 10:58 pm27arsenal goonerholic

    Hello Goonerholic
    I need to apologize . My father didn’t sanction any of this but we were all struggling. It’s my fault . We were told the worst. He was mortified when he heard my mother had talked to everyone because he’s a private person and telling the world he has a tube up his cock is what he pointed out . So it’s my fault he told me because he said use the list after you plant me in the ground cos he said he knew a person who disappeared when he was talking to him and he didn’t want to disappear like that . But he did say bury me first to my mother and really she didn’t deserve it . So . He’s still really unwell he had been keeping stuff from everybody before but I think after tonight no more messages here anymore

  28. on 02 Aug 2019 at 12:00 am28Arsenal goonerholic

    I’m Declan by the way

  29. on 02 Aug 2019 at 12:08 am29Arsenal goonerholic

    our Ciaran and Liam have messaged here too

    the tablet is the remote control for the telly sometimes

  30. on 02 Aug 2019 at 12:33 am30scruzgooner

    declan, ciaran, liam… so glad you’re letting us know what’s up with the old bastard. he’s important here. can i ask, do you mean “no more messages here” from him, or from you three (or four or five, or whatever)? i hope the latter, only insofar as it would mean your dad was coming back on his own todd.

    thank you for sharing him with us. tell him i’m going to steal in and drink all his treacle stout if he doesn’t get better.

  31. on 02 Aug 2019 at 12:48 pm31Cynic

    Thoughts are with all the cbas. Stay strong and send the old bugger back to us when he’s fit and ready for more mayhem.

  32. on 02 Aug 2019 at 2:50 pm32HenryNorrisDialSquare

    Don’t look back in Angers, I heard them say… ;-p

  33. on 02 Aug 2019 at 2:51 pm33HenryNorrisDialSquare

    What’s all this about Khedira and Rugani then?

  34. on 02 Aug 2019 at 3:45 pm34Biscuitbum

    Been reading various uninformed newspaper articles and items on the radio that repeat the theme of ‘how dare Arsenal sign someone like Pepe when they need defenders’. Despite the fact that we are making moves in that direction, I can definitely detect anti-Arsenal sour grapes.

    This guy is potentially lethal, will have full backs shitting themselves, and will hopefully give the finger to biased idiots like Joe Cole who are predicting Arsenal slipping out of the top six.

  35. on 02 Aug 2019 at 4:23 pm35bt8

    *Prepares to watch fullbacks shitting themselves.*

    Wonders if they will allow multi angle slow motion shots.

  36. on 02 Aug 2019 at 5:02 pm36Cynic

    Like those moody crowd shots they love so much in UEFA competitions?

    First commentator to use the phrase “poetry in motion” gets a slap.

  37. on 02 Aug 2019 at 8:01 pm37Goonerholic

    cba, whatever is happening we all hope you make a full recovery and can rejoin us soon. Your unique style is both loved and missed, as are you.

  38. on 02 Aug 2019 at 8:30 pm38Tapera Doma

    I have a stupid question to all who are informed. Why do we not sign players like Maguire when he was still with Hull City? I think the same thing happened when Cahill was signed by Chelsea from Bolton back some years ago. Why can’t we spot some of this talent? Are we that short sighted?

  39. on 02 Aug 2019 at 8:48 pm39Cynic

    We had a manager who would rather sign players who were never going to play for us, like Asano, Park, Wellington… Joel Campbell… and lots more, than scout the English leagues properly.

  40. on 02 Aug 2019 at 8:55 pm40Tapera Doma

    #39, I wonder who that manager was?

  41. on 02 Aug 2019 at 9:26 pm41Steve T

    Tapera and Cynic.

    Both harsh. We tried to sign Cahill. Made an offer and it was rejected. Fat Sam ridiculed the amount called it derisory. When they eventually sold him to the chavs he went for less than our offer.

    The Maguire question can be labelled at any club. Same with Van Dijk. Same with any other player that went for effectively peanuts and then made good. I don’t remember a big transfer battle amongst the top clubs when Van Dijk or Maguire we’re bought?

    I agree that AW may not have covered himself in glory with some of his later day dealings in the transfer market. However, to use your words Tapera, it would be very short sighted to suggest that he can’t spot a player from many of his other acquisitions?

  42. on 02 Aug 2019 at 9:39 pm42Tapera Doma

    That brings up another question for me. Are any of the players that Leicester might sign to replace Maguire NOT good enough for us? & that wud be James Tarkowski (Burnley) or Lewis Dunk (Brighton). I wonder.

  43. on 02 Aug 2019 at 9:50 pm43Biscuitbum

    We tried to sign Cahill, but evidently not hard enough. We were linked with Van Dijk when he was at Celtic, but Wenger had a blind spot when it came to defenders just as he had with keepers.

  44. on 02 Aug 2019 at 11:26 pm44Steve T

    Tapera. What do you think? Would you be happy if we signed Tarkowski or Dunk? Do you think they are good enough? Would you be happy if we shelled out silly money for either?

    Biscuit. Who bought him from Celtic? Lots and lots of bigger clubs with blind spots i’m guessing then???

    If you gents have any of that wonderful hindsight left then please share some of it around?

  45. on 02 Aug 2019 at 11:55 pm45Tapera Doma

    @ #44. Steve T, it all depends on how much teams pay for players like Dunk & Tarkowski.
    Leicester only paid 17M for Maguire in 2017. A 17M bust, if it turns out to be one will palatable in my humble opinion.

    Where is Sanongo and Squillaci. We miss their services.

    https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/harry-maguire-man-united-transfer-3090587

  46. on 03 Aug 2019 at 12:00 am46OsakaMatt

    Fat Sam said a lot of things, mostly
    bollocks. And he spat his chewing
    gum out onto our sacred grass.
    Completely off the point but I just
    wanted to say it.

  47. on 03 Aug 2019 at 12:10 am47OsakaMatt

    But to stay on point. AW
    bought some players who
    worked out brilliantly and
    some players who didn’t
    work out at all – just like
    any other manager really.
    Why focus on the ones
    that didn’t work out?

  48. on 03 Aug 2019 at 12:13 am48Steve T

    Tapera. Those splinters must be agony?

    You asked if the likes of Tarkowski or Dunk were good enough? I’m asking you what you think? Do you think they are good enough? If you don’t, it’s even less of a debate than I thought?

    With your hindsight we could have completely followed the Leicester route and bought Kante, Drinkwater, Mahrez and Maguire when they were all available. We could then have bagged 4 decent players and still made £125 million profit when we sold them?

    There again, if your auntie had bollocks, she would be your uncle.

  49. on 03 Aug 2019 at 12:20 am49Steve T

    Matt gets it. Both with AW and transfers along with his assessment of the odious creature that is Fat Sam.

  50. on 03 Aug 2019 at 12:39 am50Cynic

    Why focus on the ones
    that didn’t work out?

    There were far more flops than massive successes and at times it seemed we were signing some fucking terrible shite just to tick a nationality box. I remember him saying something completely stupid about wanting to sign an Asian player because Asia deserved it. It seemed at the time that anyone Asian would do and I’ve long wondered if there was some sort of ulterior motive behind all these relatively expensive players who had no chance of getting a work permit and went out on loan for the duration of their time here.

  51. on 03 Aug 2019 at 12:47 am51Cynic

    Flogging Bielik to Derby for ten million is decent business.

  52. on 03 Aug 2019 at 1:31 am52ecg

    MLS news headline:

    Rapids match to go ahead despite plague in area

    Apparently Kroenke is attending the Colorado Rapids match this evening.

  53. on 03 Aug 2019 at 3:42 am53North Bank Ned

    What the Guv’nor said about cba @37.

    Hang in there, big man. We all want you back here fighting fit.

  54. on 03 Aug 2019 at 5:36 am54OsakaMatt

    Best of luck to Bielik at Derby.
    Agree with Cynic that it was
    good to get some cash for
    Bielik.

    Seems to be a CB day so my
    tuppence worth is……
    I wouldn’t want Tarkowski or Dunk
    personally and I think 80m for
    Maguire is insane. Manure have
    spent 130m strengthening their
    defence, hopefully that will
    work as well as buying Smalling
    and Jones did.

    I am starting to reconsider my
    opposition to a 1 year contract
    for the ageing donkey Cahill if
    we really can’t find anyone better.
    I hope Raul can pull something
    out of his hat as CB is a big gap
    for us just now.

  55. on 03 Aug 2019 at 6:29 am55Steve Vallins

    We signed a Japanese player can’t remember his name ( Inanochi ) wasn’t for shirt sales and promotion of the Arsenal’s global frachise

  56. on 03 Aug 2019 at 8:04 am56Cynic

    Inamoto, who never played a minute but paraded around Highbury with the Premier League trophy, looked half decent at the World Cup and then got sold to the first team that offered us a bean.

    I’d like someone to look in to our transfer business during the Wenger era, because there were so many questionable deals that had zero benefit whatsoever for the club.

  57. on 03 Aug 2019 at 8:40 am57Steve Vallins

    Strange how George Graham was the only manager to be banned for transfer dealings , because lots of ex managers not in jobs anymore or who have died had done rather a lot of transfer deals with no come backs .
    Maybe a bit more clever in their dealings ?

  58. on 03 Aug 2019 at 9:27 am58TTG

    In fairness to Wenger he was largely brilliant in the market when he first arrived. He identified Vieira and Garde when he arrived. Vieira was sensational, Garde average but he cane in a free. He signed Anelka for £500k and sold him fo4 forty times that ( signing Henry) . He brought in, during his first close season- Overmars ( massive success, sold for megabucks), Petit ( ditto) , Grimaldi ( cost buttons, did a job ) , Boa Morte- didn’t come off but fee recouped on sale and now a scout for us , Mendes- cost nothing did nothing and Chris Wreh who scored some vital goals and cost very little. He was way ahead of the market then.
    People caught up with him and passed him. Leicester identified seams of talent and Arsene didn’t innovate in his contacts or methods which got overtaken . But we always had duds and every club does – Malz, Bischoff, Muntasser etc.
    But the golden nuggets in tge early days are too often forgotten. Wenger’s Problem was not realising that the market and the opposition had changed and altering his methods.

  59. on 03 Aug 2019 at 9:30 am59OsakaMatt

    @55,56,57

    There is not a single shred of
    evidence that AW personally
    benefitted financially from any
    transfer dealings during his
    time at Arsenal.

    Inamoto played professionally
    – still does I think – for a number
    of clubs in England, Germany,
    Turkey and Japan. He was an
    established international who
    wasn’t quite good enough for
    a top level PL club.
    Happens all the time with signings
    at any top level club.

  60. on 03 Aug 2019 at 9:35 am60OsakaMatt

    Apologies- my previous mail
    was meant to reply @55,56
    but not @57

    @57 yes, GG was scapegoated
    unfairly as you say. Sadly, he
    was guilty as sin too.

  61. on 03 Aug 2019 at 11:37 am61Steve T

    Cynic. I think you must have a very short memory. I do agree that we have bought far too many “next best things” (a phrase that I brought to the bar by the way) but very few cost big bucks. Inamoto was never going to be a risk. His price was quickly realised with shirt sales back home. The biggest blip cane when we ended up buying Mustafi, Xhaka and Perez for a combined £80 million. How much of that was down to AW and how much was down to Gazidis we will never know

    You can add several other names to the list provided by TTG. Freddie, Pires, Gilberto, Sol, Kolo, Lauren, Cesc, Ramsey, Santi, Mad Jens, Edu, RvP, the list is endless.

    We want to question AW’s signings and in the same breath suggest we should be looking at Tarkowski or Dunk??? Really?

  62. on 03 Aug 2019 at 1:21 pm62bt8

    Can Declan play on the centre of defense? If he has half the wits of his Dad the oppo would have no hope on the mental side of the game?

  63. on 03 Aug 2019 at 4:41 pm63Trev

    Reportedly the scene at the training ground every Thursday lunchtime when Junechi (?) Inamoto was here, went thus –

    Japanese Reporter, of which there were always many –

    “Mr Wenger, will Inamoto be playing this weekend ?”

    Mr Wenger – “No.”

    Japanese reporters shuffle out and return in hope the following Thursday.

    I heard he was brought in completely over Arsene’s head and was a fairly obvious attempt to corner the Japanese football shirt market – which, in fairness, it did reasonably well.

  64. on 03 Aug 2019 at 6:23 pm64North Bank Ned

    Junichi Inamoto is now 39. Since January this year has occasionally been playing (four league games out of 18) as a defensive midfielder for SC Sagimahara in the third tier of the J-League.

    It appears that in his one season with us (2001-02) he was on loan from Gamba Osaka. He appeared in four games: two sub appearances in the Champions League, for a total of 20 minutes; and two League Cup games, both of which he started but neither of which he completed. He never made even the bench for the Premier League team. But he did play a combined 66 Premiership games for Fulham and West Brom, scoring four goals, and 43 Bundesliga games for Eintracht Frankfurt. He won 82 international caps for Japan, playing in the 2002, 2006 and 2010 World Cup finals.

  65. on 03 Aug 2019 at 7:19 pm65bt8

    In case you missed it, the second division season has begun.

    Stoke City 1 QPR 2

    Ha Ha Ha!

  66. on 03 Aug 2019 at 7:33 pm66Cynic

    Rob Holding is back in action, which is good to hear.

  67. on 03 Aug 2019 at 7:39 pm67bt8

    Good news about Holding.

    Maybe the problem is we have been trying to sell Mustafi and Xhaka to football clubs. Have we tried roller derby clubs?

  68. on 03 Aug 2019 at 10:21 pm68Biscuitbum

    As I’ve said before, the experienced, albeit ageing Cahill, wouldn’t be a bad shout on a one year contract, but he’s probably going to Burnley. i forget who it is we have been linked with on a two year loan, but that is too long.

  69. on 03 Aug 2019 at 11:00 pm69TTG

    One of the entertaining things about the window has been the element of surprise and the logic of the purchases so far but we face the last five days needing at least one centre back and ideally a left back. Tierney appears to be on the agenda although I’m far from convinced anyone really knows where that one is. We’ve been on the verge of upping our bid almost perpetually throughout the window without actually seeming to do so. This boy is by all accounts a great player but is about as fit currently as Jimmy Anderson and we won’t see him in red and white until mid- October I would have thought. We must have a decent centre back and I guess that a plan is in place which isn’t Rugani. I would have thought Cahill made sense and we could still beat Burnley to him . The Coutinho story makes no sense at all so will probably happen !

  70. on 04 Aug 2019 at 1:51 am70Tapera Doma

    Steve T on 48.
    I take strong offense to this “There again, if your auntie had bollocks, she would be your uncle.”

    I really don’t appreciate your language.

  71. on 04 Aug 2019 at 3:03 am71OsakaMatt

    @64
    Ned,
    A tip of the hat to the
    industrious monks 🙂

  72. on 04 Aug 2019 at 3:07 am72OsakaMatt

    Good news on Rob – hope
    there is no reaction and he’s
    back ASAP.
    But even so he’ll need a few
    games to get up to speed.

  73. on 04 Aug 2019 at 3:14 am73bt8

    As long as we sell them to clubs outside the Prem we have until September 2 to sell players M and X.

  74. on 04 Aug 2019 at 5:26 am74OsakaMatt

    yes, Kos too bt8 as I guess
    his destination is France.

    I’m pondering over whether
    another half season of Mus
    is better than getting Cahill.

  75. on 04 Aug 2019 at 7:47 am75TTG

    OM
    I think Cahill every time.
    He’s by no means perfect but he comes without the baggage Old Mustafi carries with him. In Raul we trust ( I hope)

  76. on 04 Aug 2019 at 8:30 am76Steve T

    Tapera@70. If that is genuinely the case then you might want to ask yourself if football is the game for you? If it still is then I’m still genuinely interested to know what your thoughts are re Tarkowski and Dunk?

    I also think that Cahill for a season would be a sensible acquisition. If he is out of contract then we can sign him at anytime and it doesn’t have to be before the Friday deadline. I would take him ahead of Mustafi.

  77. on 04 Aug 2019 at 10:04 am77Cynic

    It’s the 21st Century, Steve, your auntie no longer has to have bollocks to be your uncle, she just has to identify as uncle and the job’s done 🙂

  78. on 04 Aug 2019 at 10:43 am78Auntie

    I would like to remind some of
    the ahem gentlemen of this
    fine establishment that it is a
    public bar and not a pubic bar.

    No further mention of my
    unmentionables would be
    greatly appreciated.

  79. on 04 Aug 2019 at 11:47 am79Trev

    Cynic, Steve,

    Your auntie declaring as, or becoming your uncle in a season of transition, seems to be not unexpected.

  80. on 04 Aug 2019 at 2:18 pm80North Bank Ned

    Perhaps we should instead buy the left-back Celtic acquired from Rapid Vienna in the summer as cover/competition for the injury-wracked Tierney, Boli Bolingoli-Mbombo, for the great name if nothing else.

  81. on 04 Aug 2019 at 2:45 pm81Trev

    Ned, is that definitely a name ? Sounds like backing vocals ?

  82. on 04 Aug 2019 at 6:52 pm82bt8

    Inamoto is 39? Never would have expected him to make it that far seeing as riding in a sidecar with the Green Hornet is a bit of a dicey way to get around.

  83. on 04 Aug 2019 at 7:01 pm83bt8

    Unless he was riding as Robin on the bat cycle

  84. on 04 Aug 2019 at 7:06 pm84bt8

    “We do desperately need a central defender but they are offering Coutinho at a rock bottom price so let’s just forget our calamitous defensive situation and dish the money to Barcelona.”

  85. on 04 Aug 2019 at 7:16 pm85bt8

    In someone else’s voice not mine.

  86. on 04 Aug 2019 at 7:48 pm86ksn

    What a goal by Auba! Fed by Özil, Auba took it beautifully.

  87. on 04 Aug 2019 at 7:54 pm87Steve T

    Cynic@77.

    Genius. Very well put. Can’t believe I had been that stupid

    ?

  88. on 04 Aug 2019 at 8:40 pm88Steve T

    AMN with a worldie at the Camp Nou.

  89. on 04 Aug 2019 at 8:43 pm89ksn

    Careless back pass by AMN for own goal. We just can’t defend for 90 mins.

  90. on 04 Aug 2019 at 8:56 pm90Steve T

    Ken.

    I’m impressed. I would have swapped your 90 minutes for 30 seconds.

  91. on 04 Aug 2019 at 9:02 pm91ksn

    Undone by a simple lob into the box and Suarez scored. Need of the hour (decade) is to buy a good defender.

  92. on 05 Aug 2019 at 12:44 pm92Steve T

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TIlpyeal10M

    For all those gender of undecideds and for those with delicate ears.

    Also for cba and family. Keep fighting big man and get back in here soon. You would be horrified at some of the shenanigans that have gone on in your absence.

  93. on 05 Aug 2019 at 8:33 pm93Steve T

    Right, that’s it. Lethargy can do one. I’m going go the century.

    Am I ashamed? No. I’m going cba style

  94. on 05 Aug 2019 at 8:34 pm94Steve T

    But that’s unethical???

  95. on 05 Aug 2019 at 8:35 pm95Steve T

    Is it heck as like???

  96. on 05 Aug 2019 at 8:37 pm96Steve T

    On a train. Bit of 9 below.

    “More to do when I was 7”

  97. on 05 Aug 2019 at 8:39 pm97Steve T

    If you know?

    You know.

  98. on 05 Aug 2019 at 8:40 pm98Steve T

    And not a farm animal is sight!!

  99. on 05 Aug 2019 at 8:42 pm99Steve T

    Bath Spa.

    Quick scoop Bath????

  100. on 05 Aug 2019 at 8:43 pm100Steve T

    And there you have it. The century, cba style

    What a load of BOLLOCKS

  101. on 06 Aug 2019 at 12:04 am101Steve T

    65 hours remaining. I’d go for Tarkowski and Dunk

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