Sunday Tittle Tattle And We Share Six Goals At The Wood
Jul 7th, 2019 by 'holic
Refreshed and tanned it is apt for me to recap on a week away, Arsenal style. I had hoped that things would have picked up on the week preceding it when precious little happened. Welcome to yet another Gunners close season.
After a quiet weekend we launched a shiny new kit on Monday. I have to say I have been swept along with the tide of joy about the return to Adidas. Quite apart from the great new strip I hope we are all to put the doubled sponsorship package to good use this summer. Yeah, I know…
I’m not sure I understand the furore that surrounded our £40 million bid for Wilf Zaha, in instalments dammit! Who would offer a transfer fee in instalments, for goodness sake, apart from every club and every deal known to man. Apart from when we signed Sol Campbell of course, when we offered the entire zero pounds and zero pence, up front in order to seal the deal.
We did, however, announce a shiny new signing. Gabriel (yes, another Gabriel) Martinelli joined us from Ituano in Brazil. Will the eighteen year old slot straight into the first team set-up, or get a grounding in U-23 football first? At this point we know not, other than the fact that given our reported financial situation we should see some young talent given the opportunity in the senior side in the coming months. The young Brazilian not surprisingly enthused about the move. Good luck lad.
“It is a dream since I was a child and also my family’s dream for me to be playing in Europe and playing for a big team like Arsenal. I am going to take this opportunity.”
Another young player was taking his development to the next stage by agreeing a season-long loan deal just down the road from me at Swindon Town. Daniel Ballard skippered the Gunners in Premier League 2 last season and earned a call-up to the Northern Ireland senior international squad. Hopefully I will get to see him at close quarters in the season to come before he returns to oust Sokratis Papastathopoulos from the first team.
Celtic’s signing of a left-back prompted the inevitable speculation about our reported bid for Kieran Tierney. Allegedly our initial £25 million offer isn’t acceptable to the Glasgow club. It’s far from certain that the young man is worth even that given his experience to date.
It wasn’t all about arrivals, potential or otherwise. David Ospina completed his move to Napoli so we have added a few pennies to the available funds. Whilst he never commanded the utmost confidence Ospina provided experienced cover for Petr Cech and lest we forget was in goal for our 2017 FA Cup Final win over Chelsea. Imagine beating them in a Final! Let’s hope David is able to nail down a regular starting berth at the Italian club. Good luck to the Columbian.
Back to incoming rumours, and the latest forward to be linked with us is Lucas Vasquez of Real Madrid. If this means we are considering releasing one of the current attacking pairing then someone, please reconsider that strategy. It’s almost as insane an idea as, say, buying William Saliba from St Etienne and loaning him back to the French club for next season. Really?
Finally the pre-season fixtures kicked off with the U23s match against their host club, Boreham Wood, in the Saturday sunshine. Two down in fifteen minutes, it’s fair to say we did not start on the front foot against the National League club. Close to half-time Matt Smith reduced the arrears, but the gap was back to two goals before the whistle blew thanks to a fine strike by Adam McDonnell.
It’s perhaps over-egging the pudding to say we needed a second-half response in the first friendly of the summer, but happily that is what we produced. Supersub Tyreece John-Jules levelled things with a low drive and a smart penalty kick after seeing his first attempt of the half cleared off the line.
Coming up, another week of intense speculation, and hopefully a shiny new signing, or heaven forbid, two. Might we also see further migration from the club, perhaps in the direction of Selhurst Park? We shall see.
Have a great Sunday, ‘holics.
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OK Holic, I’ll have a cold one and get some prawns on the barbie to get things started. 20 degrees in Noosa today – I hate Winter.
UTA.
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Much as I love the new shirts, there’s no way on this Earth I’ll pay £65 for a football shirt. Or any other article of clothing, including shoes.
Fuck that.
Great post ‘holic you are back in style, on song, and it is clear as day your holidays did you a trick or two.
Cynic. How about a pair of pre-owned socks for half the price? Washing could be part of the bargain.
If they’re the 94/95 hooped Nike socks, I’ll be up for it. I need a new pair or two… Mine are still ok but gone in the fetlock. A bit.
herself says there’s a bra she’s been trying to offload for ages iffin yer interested cynic
she’s a busty woman is Mary
so it’d be less of a clothing item
more an air bnb opportunity
throw in a pair of her drawers
and
the lesser Arsenal community
could shelter from the elements rightly
should they be rightly staked out
6 and/or 7
are lies
it’s like the last time
i shot a few people
nobody believed me
there’s a humming noise
in here i said
oh no
‘drunk again are we?’
the patronizing return was
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei2wuyP-XPE&app=desktop
@8 as well, cba?
she’s her own woman
is my Mary
ned
Glad to hear you are tanned, rested and ready, Guv’nor. Trust that means you are back to 100%.
Juxtaposition of the possessive determiners noted, cba.
honestly
it’s like there’s a heritage there
generations of arsehole s
thinking somehow cos they’re Irish
everything falls from their internet pen
is worthy of consideration
how do these mickey mousers sleep ?
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poorly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkfXv-BJuLY&app=desktop
had you spoken earlier ned
you would have resided on the top shelf
along with the Caledonian twosome
another unbelievably clever cunt
.
‘holic has done good work here
Trouble in monkdom:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-48854460
oh
right
*summons Eric Morecambe*
ARSENAL !!!!!!!!
you’ll be grand , sunshine
worse comes to the worst
i can organise a shipment
and send ye beer over too
Great you’re back Holic. Hope it was a good’un. I was in Scotland They have some great clouds there. Don’t need sun with that scenery in the Cairngorms .
Interesting quote from Bouldy after yesterday’s game
‘ I’m really enjoying being back out on the grass and coaching, so I’m really happy.‘
What was the last few years all about then, What a waste of a good Arsenal man. Let’s hope we don’t waste Freddie !
The amount of transfer baloney is mind boggling! Theres no chance were interested in Vasquez, like we ain’t in for his Real team mate Ceballos either. All Madrid centric transfer rumours fed to their mates in the press so they can let clubs know whose available for transfer.
I think the media doom and gloom is a bit previous given how the window is actually closed yet, but I reserve the right to go ape shit crackers if we’ve failed to sort our squad by the time the window has closed.
100% dexter my friend
baloney
well said
baloney
my only revenge
here
is i run the music
(i did provide all the gargle too – i really like doing that cos it’s one of the reasons i started homebrew ing years ago
Cheapness )
But my stout and wines various are really really good . It’s not like people are fighting with one another in the car here
“You better say Mr Arsed’s nettle wine is delicious or you’re fuckin walkin home with a face recently detrimentally altered”
no Scottish people today
so i’ll have to make fun of meself
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i may be some time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDHczbgGgHY&app=desktop
what ?
WHAT ??
ye listen to a record ONCE
fuck off
FUCK OFF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=027ZJX5XVjs
I detest most Twitter , Instagram bollocks etc but I hear Mustafi has removed all references to Arsenal from his account. Could we be that lucky that he is finally off ?
And Zaha has asked to fly home to England to sort out his future !
Unfortunately you are wrongly informed. I just looked at his Twatter account and it’s wall to wall Arsenal
Cynic
It is his Instagram account and apparently he ha# removed tge fact that he plays for us
According to one report we are in for Frazer again while getting set to announce Vasquez this week! It’s all recycled BS. It makes sense to buy Saliba even if it’s for next season, as the lad is only 18 and likely to be out of our price range next summer. We are rumoured to have submitted another lowball bid, probably only marginally better than the previous one, and we will probably read that another club has stepped in and done a deal. Same with Tierney, who is the left back we desperately need, but are messing about for the sake of £5m.
We are becoming such a laughing stock that nobody takes our bids seriously, and we are in danger of bringing in another collection of near-geriatrics in the last week of the window.
BTW in case anyone hasn’t noticed:- Colorado Rapids – same points as the bottom club but having played a game more!
Welcome back Guvnor.
Completely agree that Zaha
is not worth 80m of anyone’s
money.
I’ll be interested to hear about
young Ballard’s progress,
hopefully he’ll be a mainstay in
the Swindon rearguard this
season.
It is his Instagram account and apparently he ha# removed tge fact that he plays for us
Well the first photo on that is him in our training kit but not being a follower of anyone on any social media, I dunno if that’s normal. Having almost no Arsenal I mean.
Mustafi gone puts us in the same spot we have been for some long and dreadful time now.
Apparently.
Oh. By the way, where is my cod and chips?
Welcome back Mr Well Holicdayed !
“Tierney is the left back we desperately need ….”
Is he ? A very lightweight looking player who spent a large chunk of last season injured.
I thought we were trying to get rid of them.
What we are desperate for is for Mr Arsed, if he please can be, to get a crate of his home brew up to Josh’s office and wheedle the combination to the Password Draw out of him. Mind you, that might well be IN the Password Draw.
That should give him access to dad’s banking App and that seems to be the only way we are getting any new players this window.
Even our new Head of Recruitment hasn’t joined yet and we’re halfway through the thing now. Still, without that combination he won’t be recruiting anyone anyway. Except, of course, the one player we have signed, but we’ve already got rid of him back to France !
What mess ? ?
Three goals conceded to a fifth tier club that just about managed to avoid relegation to the 6th tier last season. Are we setting a precedent or just not being serious, as per usual?
You’re right about Tierney. He’s an injury prone lightweight, so lets just leave him for Napoli to pick up. We’d be better off sticking with Nacho, and Kolasinac as back up. No lightweights there!
Saliba deal seems to have been agreed, including the season long loan back to St. Etienne and delayed payment. Could be good. But only if it works out like pretty much everything else in life.
The club is being mismanaged by a combination of capitalist carpet baggers shmozzing scum bags and corporate chancers…
Emery will lose patience soon enough and I wouldn’t blame him.
Just play the kids Unai…
We need at least half a back 4, a winger and a midfielder and yet, theres no sign of any of the quality additions.
It’s a good hob the new season is months away innit!!
We haven’t even signed
Tierney, Saliba and Zaha
yet and I’ve already heard
more than enough !
We could line up next
season with
Emi
Jenks, Mus, Calum, Kola
Mkhi, Elneny, Xhaka, Iwobi
Plus 2 forwards I’m happy with
Course, I know that’s highly
unlikely and just a sign of my
own impatience and/or
frustration
But I wish to Dennis that we
would get on with it
And I should add I don’t mind
Calum as a squad player but
as DM cover and not as a CB
Even if Saliba is going to be for
next season we should still sell
Mustafi and buy a CB.
Kos, Papa & Holding is not enough
for the season and too risky anyway.
I get the idea that we were
only a point off the Top 4
last season but I don’t agree
that it means we only need
to make a few tweaks.
But it’s good to see that
Nketiah and Willock are moving
up the squad numbers, although
it’s a stretch I will take it to
mean they are more integral to
the squad this season
If we do sell Xhaka and Elneny
our CM options would be
Torreira, Guen, AMN, Willock
and Calum.
Would that be good enough?
Not a lot of PL experience or
attacking threat in that quintet.
But bags of promise, a lot of
energy, tackling, speed and
some quick feet
To continue waffling – we
definitely need a wide player.
In an ideal world I’d like
two more, as we are lacking
on both wings.
But possibly two would check
Nelson’s progress plus we’re
skint somehow.
Fraser before Zaha for me
but either would help.
Also I’d like the club to clarify
the situation with Kos & Nacho.
I suppose UE will do that in pre-
season – if he even knows.
I wonder what he’s being told
sometimes.
Anyway, a tip of the hat and
it’s off out for some Tuesday
night drinking ?
Matt@47,
We could also do with a goalkeeper and a defence!
It looks like those uppity American women upped a bit too much for Dutch satisfaction. Congratulations and bouquets where they are due, and especially for the most uppity final e is silent Megan Rapinoe who took the tournament by the horns as it (they) were.
At least if we sign Fraser he won’t be able to torment us twice a season for Bournemouth. Anything good he did for us would be like icing on the Scottish shortcake biscuit.
Welcome back Edu.
Lots of Invincible DNA flooding back into the club .
I have very high hopes of Willock. I thought he did phenomenally in Baku in difficult circumstances . I’d be happy if we could unload Xhaka and Mustafi. Ecstatic if Mkhi joins them
The replay of the match at Boreham Wood just starting on Premier Sports 2 now. I will finally get to see it. ?
The head of recruitment has been sighted scouting bats in hell and reports there are some elusive wingers in those parts.
Unverified report I should say. With a name like Boreham Wood I imagine their head of recruitment might be looking hopefully at a few termites…
Welcome back Edu indeed Edu
@51
Completely agree Mick. I have
no faith in Emi as back up and
we must find a CB
@54
Well certainly I’ll welcome back
Edu. I liked him as a player but
the description of him as a real
Arsenal man by the club is a
stretch. He isn’t to me and the
appointment is about 5 months
too late. Grumpity grump grump
Bullet train to Fukuoka.
You are welcome.
Nice place Fukuoka, great food 🙂
Now, I’ve had my coffee and feel a bit
more human…..
It’s good Edu is in place, and I like that
we have him working with Per, Freddie
and Bouldy. Hopefully, they can get
a higher number of young players coming
through and fill some of the gaps in the
senior squad for UE every season.
Not sure how much impact he can have
in the last few weeks of the window this time
round but I will live in hope.
Hell is a small town in Norway.
Ornstein says Saliba move from Sainte-Etienne is close, which should mean it is a done deal. One for the future though as the 18-year old will be staying put on loan for a season at least.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/48920561
But Japan’s best food is your way, OM. You can’t eat better in the country than in the Kansai.
That’s what the local Osakans
always tell me Ned 🙂
Good news that Saliba may finally
be done – with him, Rob and Mavro
we’ve now got 3 high potential
young CBs.
I heard that Hector is a month ahead
of schedule in his recovery and is
targeting Villa on 22nd September
for his return. Good news too, we’ve
missed him on the right.
Seems Eriksen can’t find
another club, has to stay
a poor little spud.
Funny how poor the grapevine on transfers is fuelled by the media.
Someone sent me a picture yesterday of Huss Fahmy and the club Doctor at London Colney yesterday . Apparently Saliba was already there for a medical.
Yet a lot of the press is claiming Saliba is flying in today . I suspect he is signed, sealed and delivered already. Not that we will see him for a while.
I hope Edu is familiar with the term ‘ pig’s breakfast ‘
The icing on the Scottish shortbread biscuit is no more bt8. Someone left that cake out in the rain, and I don’t think we’ll have that recipe again 🙁
I hope Edu is familiar with the term ‘ pig’s breakfast ‘
He had about four years playing with the likes of Stepanovs and Cygan, so he’s more than familiar.
Oh no, iBtM,
oh nooooooooo.
Running one step ahead, Trev, as we follow in the dance.
Cygan was a good defender, just no way suited to our high line, given his lack pace. He was part of a very good defence in spain before he joined us.
Hes definitely been scape goated unfairly.
iBtM, Ned,
Do you recall those yellow cotton shirts ?
Cos we got that recipe again – Adidas are back and looking good ??
ya buncha big girl’s blouses
?
cotton tinted glasses trev
cotton ?
cotton , is it ?
COTTON ?
send the cunts out in duffel coats
.
lazy rich bad haircutted bastards
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WHY I OUGHTTA !
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next we’ll be descending the fa cup bus
in matching gownless evening straps
.
get a grip fellas
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for the
love
of
god
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GET A GRIP !
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wallopers !
ye don’t wanny be
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FOCUS !
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FOCUS
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Thin strap tank tops formerly the girlfriends doncha know
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and no
this isn’t gonna end
with
a hilarious
“oh but a do like the new kit”
aside
well
THANK YOU VERY MUCH 8ball
whole world could see
a man actively involved
in wearing out his welcome
and
you saunter in
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well
CONGRATULATIONS
fella
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enjoy yer new blouse
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ye see ‘holic
this is the problem
people come here in good faith
and
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.
to be honest
flabber totally gasted
you encourage this shite
Sweet mother of god if I were the British people I would Brexit from Churchill’s famous “special relationship” with the American people until the latter get rid of the dictator
.
i’m sure i’ll learn to love again
but
big man
it ain’t gonna be easy
well 8ball
isn’t facilitating
my adjournment to the fainting chair
is he ?
see 82
Adjournment?
.
there simply aren’t enough
dirty looks and TUTS
in the world
.
Q. How many people do you need to make up a critical mass of drinkers?
A. Is cba involves?
Involved, should be.
there aren’t
.
.
“they come over here”
“they take our big green hats”
“they pester me at me front bastardin door about ancestor cunts nobody gives a monkey’s flyin fuckin tit about”
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.
and
other stuff like that
Fashion industry glitterati every one
“hey , my names McLaughlin . Do you mind if i ask you is your name McLaughlin . I’ve done some research and it lead me here ”
.
“No it’s not ”
.
“Any chance I could wear you down within a minute and force you to put up with me and fuckin elmer fudd here and Whaddya know the rest of the fuddettes ………
Pardon lord my excesses and shortcomings
And my one too manys and not enoughs
And my sudden catholic interludes
fuckin big softy me
apart from the REALLY arrogant ones
oh there have been altercations !
Holy Fuck there have
.
normally
the nice ones
i make them some soda bread
and bullshit to the heavens
hoping they’ll take it as gospel
and spread it among
the 14th generation paddys they belong to
but
the entitled loud ones
oh my
arrogant beyond belief
thankfully
they are in the minority
and indeed lucky
to make it 100 yds in their USS Betterthanyou hats
so
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ARSENAL
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how far along have we got with that ?
Don’t mind if I (or you) do
8ball
no better man
proud to bullshit with you
?
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I’m on the rampage this evening. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
cba interviews to be the Arsenal kit man.
Yes I have a number of innovative ideas and the first one is to send the players, cunts should have said, out in duffel coats.
Red and white ones, presumably?